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 »
Recent Finds and Deadly Gets!
Posted in finds, tagged controllers, finds, jackal, konami, mario bros., monster in my pocket, nes, nintendo, playstation, power blade, ps1, snes, super nintendo, thermos on April 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I have been hitting the local thrift stores quite a bit lately, which I tend to do more when the weather is more climate. We have had an amazingly warm and early spring for my neck of the woods, and I have been finding some pretty great stuff in the wild. See for yourself! This [...]
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 [...]
Hyperkin SupaBoy
Posted in Reviews, tagged clone, hyperkin, nintendo, portable, snes, supaboy, super nes, super nintendo on February 28, 2012 | 8 Comments »
I have been waiting to get my hands on one of these things since I first saw it demoed at E3 last year. The portable Super Nintendo has long been a dream of mine, and many other video game fans. Sure, there was that FC-16, but from most accounts I saw it was kind of [...]
Don’t Look Back in Anger: Metroid II
Posted in Reviews, tagged game boy, Gameboy, metroid, metroid 2, nintendo, return of samus, Reviews on February 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
As a kid I never actually own a Game Boy. I was one of the “turncoats” who went straight from the NES to the SEGA Genesis in Sonic the Hedgehog’s brilliant blue wake. That is not to say that I didn’t ever play any Game Boy games at the time. I had this good friend [...]
Deadly Gets! February Edition!
Posted in finds, tagged 25th anniversary, arkanoid, cybernator, deadly gets, dragon slayer, Famicom, family computer, finds, frankenstein, ikki, legacy of the wizard, nes, nintendo, parodius, parodius da, snes, star trek, super mario bros., super nes, super nintendo, the monster returns, twin bee, twin bee 3 on February 2, 2012 | 5 Comments »
This is a collection of gets from the past few weeks mostly. I have been getting a lot of crazy good deals lately… I didn’t spend more than $5 on any one of these games… so I am ready to call that a victory. We begin with my old mistress, the Famicom; Ikki is a [...]
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 [...]
NES Finds and Deadly Gets!
Posted in finds, tagged console, deadly gets, devja vu, finds, gaime, gets, kirby, kirby's adventure, mega man, mega man 3, megaman, nes, nintendo, nintendo entertainment system, retro, uninvited, video games on January 17, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I have been off of collecting for the NES for a few years now, mainly because there aren’t that many games left for the console that I feel I desperately need, and I only have about 100 carts. There are still a couple titles I am actively seeking, however, and I do occasionally switch out a loose [...]
Free Games are Great
Posted in finds, tagged finds, free, game cube, gamecube, gcn, gets, mario kart, nintendo, video games on January 13, 2012 | 5 Comments »
This past Monday I was killing some downtime at work by checking the video game section of my local online classified site, when I saw an ad called “Free Gamecube and Games”. Naturally, I was hesitant, as 4 out of every 5 ads I answer on classified websites never seem to go anywhere. However, having nothing better [...]
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