Few months ago Stuart Hunt from Imagine Publishing contacting me regarding my copy of Punch Out Special for the Famicom (better known as Gold Punch Out). He wanted to know if I wanted to be interviewed for the Collector’s Corner feature in GamesTM, and sister magazine to the absolutely amazing Retro Gamer. Stuart sent me [...]
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It’s-a-me… in a magazine!!!
Posted in Art of Collecting on April 30, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Chasing Carts: All Zelda CIB (Update #6)
Posted in Art of Collecting, Featured Article, finds, tagged all zelda cib, chasing carts, deadly gets, finds, lunchbox, the legend of zelda, twilight princess gamecube, wii, zelda on April 26, 2012 | 3 Comments »
This is a reoccurring feature here were I provide updates in my quest to own all of the Zelda games complete-in-box. Play catch up on my progress by checking out my flagship entry, the first update, the second update, the third update, the fourth update , and the fifth update. I am pretty pumped about this latest Zelda [...]
Maniac Mansion (Famicom)
Posted in Art of Collecting, tagged adventure games, cart, Famicom, jaleco, lucasarts, lucasfilm games, maniac mansion, nintendo on March 7, 2012 | 7 Comments »
In North America every single licensed NES game looked the same; same cart, same label shape, same grey color. This was not the case in Japan, were the licensing policies of Nintendo of Japan where much less strict. Publishers were not required to have their carts manufactured by Nintendo, so they were free to to vary their [...]
Bandai Chrono Trigger Keychains
Posted in Art of Collecting, Reviews, tagged chrono, chrono trigger, collectable, keychains, review, sqaure on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I recently came into a bit of a windfall when I sold an Ebay score for 20 times what I paid. I spent an entire day trying to decide exactly what from my long and storied Ebay watch list I would finally move on, and in the end I decided to bolster my already impressive Chrono Trigger [...]
Famicom Disk Pirates
Posted in Art of Collecting, Featured Article on February 16, 2012 | 4 Comments »
In my humble estimation, the only thing greater than Famicom pirate cartridges, with their colourful casings, strange shapes and stranger games, are Famicom Disk System pirate disks. The Famicom Disk System (primer here) was Nintendo’s first dabble in over-writeable storage media. Being essentially over-writeable floppy discs. In fact, Nintendo even encouraged this practice with its disk kiosks, set up [...]
Chasing Carts: All Zelda CIB (Update #5)
Posted in Art of Collecting, Featured Article, finds, tagged 3d, 3ds, collection, gane boy advance, GBA, nes, nintendo, ocarina of time, skyward sword, snes, super nintendo, the legend of zeldaq, wii, zelda on January 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This is a reoccurring feature here were I provide updates in my quest to own all of the Zelda games complete-in-box. Play catch up on my progress by checking out my flagship entry, the first update, the second update, the third update, and the fourth update . If you are among my most faithful readers, than you already [...]
FUNstation 3!
Posted in Art of Collecting, finds, Reviews, tagged famiclone, Famicom, family computer, funstation, funstation 3, nintendo, pirate, xoomstation on August 13, 2011 | 9 Comments »
I just got this in the mail (via Hong Kong Post, naturally). The box may say Xoomstation, but don`t be fooled- the console itself is of course a FUNstation. A FUNstation 3, no less (the caps are mine). Now, I must declare upfront that this does not, as the box claims, have “unsurpassed 64-bit graphics [...]
Persona!
Posted in Art of Collecting, finds, tagged japan, persona, playstation, ps1, revelations: persona, rpg, shin megami tensei, smt, sony on July 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I recently received a copy of the original Japanese PlayStation version of the first Persona game. I am such a huge fan of the series and the artwork associated with it that I am dedicating an entire post to this one game, and high resolution pictures there-of. Deal with it. I have been steadily increasing [...]
Nintendo Power Score!
Posted in Art of Collecting, finds, tagged deadly gets, finds, magazine, mags, nintendo, nintendo power, np on July 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I was browsing my local online classified site this past Saturday when I came across an ad for 71 issues of Nintendo Power. My interest piqued, I clicked on the the ad to find out more. The magazines listed were a complete set of Nintendo Power issues (minus 3 missing issues) from 2001 to January [...]
Famicom Time
Posted in Art of Collecting, Featured Article, tagged a/v famicom, antarctic adventure, collection, Famicom, family computer, japan, konami, nes, nes advantage, nintendo, punch out gold, punch out special, recca, retro on July 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I recently had some *gasp* free time, and I thought the best way to fill it would be to pull all my beloved Famicom games out and put in and play each and everyone, if only for a minute. I sat down and played for a good solid three hours… something I haven’t done with [...]
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