I was killing some time on my lunch hour last week, rummaging through a local secondhand store, when I stumbled across a couple pretty awesome finds. First up,I snapped up the Game Boy pictured above for a measly $6. Not bad. As I was examining the condition of the Game Boy (in great shape, by the way. screen is a [...]
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Game Boy / Tetris Thrift Store Gets
Posted in finds, tagged deadly gets, finds, game boy, Gameboy, gets, handheld, nes, nintendo, tetris on January 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
DS Hoarding!
Posted in finds, tagged 9 doors, 9 hours, 9 persons, 999, contact, DS, hotel dusk, infinite space, nine, nintendo, radiant historia, room 215, rpg, sands of destruction, Sega, shin megami tensei, smt, sqaure, sqaure-enix, strange journey, the world ends with you on July 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Recently, I have started to stockpile DS games, mostly RPGs, while it is still possible to find them at decent prices. With each passing month, even games for relatively recent systems such as the PS2 and Gamecube steadily climb in price as they begin to disappear from retail stores and GameStops alike. With each passing [...]
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 [...]
Deadly Gets! July 2011!
Posted in finds, tagged atlus, darkseed, devil children, eswat, giger, march of the black queen, ogre battle, ogre battle march of the black queen, ogre tactics, pc, quest for glory, radiant historia, shin megami tensei, sierra, smt, snes, sonic, sonic chaos, star ocean, super nintendo on July 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I have quite a bit of stuff to go through, so this will be just the first of any “finds” type posts over the next week or two. Let us begin! I found this copy of Darkseed in a local junk store. It set me back a whole $3.99. I nearly paid up to $30 [...]
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 [...]
Mega Man!
Posted in Art of Collecting, Featured Article, finds, tagged 64, archie, capcom, keiji inafune, legends, mega man, mega man 64, mega mix, megaman, megamix, nes, nintendo, nintendo 64, playstation, rock man, rockman, super nintendo, x on June 7, 2011 | 11 Comments »
I have been getting quite a bit of Mega Man stuff lately without even realizing it, so i decided to make this a catch all finds/collection post. Now, I do not have the most extensive or impressive Mega Man collection, but it has never really been about collecting Mega Man games to me. The joy [...]
Hanafuda Fever!
Posted in Art of Collecting, finds, tagged club nintendo, Famicom, hanafuda, mario, nes, nintendo on June 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Pursuant to my earlier post which saw me searching my house for Club Nintendo registration cards, I received my Club Nintendo gift in the mail today! Say hello to 800 coins worth of Nintendo centric glory; the limited edition Club Nintendo Hanafuda cards. What are Hanafuda cards, you ask? Translated, the name means flower cards. [...]
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