Yes, it is that time of year again- the time when famed Japanese game shop Meteor releases the finalist for their annual My Famicase Exhibition. Artists from around Japanese create labels for made-up Famicom games and stick them onto real Famicom carts, and the best of the best are displayed at the Meteor store. I [...]
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FAMICASE 2012
Posted in Featured Article, tagged cart, famicase, famicase 2012, Famicom, family computer, import, japan, labels, meteor, nintendo on May 3, 2012 | 2 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 [...]
Ring of Fire: How Secret of Mana Perfected the Action RPG
Posted in Featured Article, tagged action rpg, rpg, secret of mana, seiken densetsu, seiken densetsu 3, snes, square, super nintendo on February 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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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 [...]
Which Final Fantasy is Best? *Update*
Posted in Featured Article, Lists, tagged best, final fantasy, square on February 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »
It’s high time I updated one of the most scrutinized posts I have published since I started writing this blog over 4 years ago… There has been only one new release in the Final Fantasy series since the original publishing date (in the main series, that is. We don’t speak of the MMOs around these parts and [...]
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 [...]
Game Boy Screen Replacement
Posted in Featured Article, tagged dmg, dmg-01, dmg01, game boy, Gameboy, new screen, nintendo, repair, screen, screen replacement on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As you may well recall, I picked up an original Game Boy DMG-01 at a thrift store for $5.99 a few weeks ago. Not bad, not too bad at all. In fact, the only downside to the deal was the screen on the Game Boy was shit. Back in 1989 when the Game Boy was [...]
Hard Games: The Good, the Bad, and the Broken
Posted in Featured Article, tagged 8-bit, capcom, castlevania, contra, difficult, expert video games, hard games, konami, mega man, nes, ninja gaiden on January 11, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Nintendo games are hard. It’s a fact. Pictured: hard fucking games A lot of old Nintendo games are, as a matter of principal, really hard… but let’s be honest here. Video games these days for the most part are moronically easy. There are exceptions to this rule, but the rule remains. Challenging video games are a dying [...]
MSX Computer: One of the Deadlier Gets
Posted in Featured Article, finds, tagged anartic adventure, bubble bobble, cf 1200, Dragon Quest, encounter rate, gradius, gradius 2, msx, national on December 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I have wanted an MSX computer for quite some time. The MSX was a computer standard, popularized in Japan and Europe and developed jointly by Microsoft and ASCII Corporation. The standard was implemented and machines were created by such Japanese companies as Sony, Panasonic, and National to name a few. The platform mainly sold as [...]
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