I have been on a big Super Nintendo kick over the last few months. I have always loved the SNES, but I have mostly been in it for the RPGs, so to speak. I have resolved to start filling in the gaps in my collection and I must say is that it’s going very well [...]
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Deadly SNES Gets!
Posted in finds, tagged nintendo, snes, super nintendo, konami, finds, x men, capcom, Hudson Soft, deadly gets, gets, r-type, star wars, super star wars, super empire strikes back, super return of the jedi, thq, jvc, super ghouls 'n ghosts, contra III: the alien wars, indiana jones greatest adventures, star trek, adventure island on January 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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 »
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 [...]
The Legend of Zelda Special Edition 3DS
Posted in Featured Article, Reviews, tagged 3ds, DS, game boy, Gameboy, handheld, nintendo, ocarina of time, portable, special edition, zelda on December 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Santa was very good to me this year… and the Santa I am referring to here happens to be my beautiful wife. Yes, my young and lovely better-half got me one of the best Christmas presents I could have conceivably received; the Legend of Zelda Special Edition 3DS console. Let me begin by saying that [...]
Have a Fami-Fami Christmas! 2011 Edition!
Posted in Featured Article, tagged 3d, 3d hot rally, 3d system, 8-bit, christmas, Famicom, family computer, glasses, highway star, import, japan, japanese, konami, lcd, liquid crystal, nintendo, rad racer, shutter on December 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Well hello there, good friends! It is that time of year again; where a young man’s thoughts turn to trimming the Christmas tree and import video games! Ever since this blog started 4 years ago I have been getting a lot of Famicom related stuff in the month of December, culminating in last year’s epic 12 Days [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Super Mario Bros. 2 is a hard game
Posted in Reviews, tagged disk system, Famicom, family computer, mario, nes, nintendo, super mario bros. 2 on July 13, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Having recently sat down and watched a marathon of Game Center CX, I found that the Super Mario Bros. 2 episode was stuck in my mind. It’s been a while since I sat down and gave the disk system version of Mario 2 a good thorough play-through. Was it really as hard as Shinya Arina [...]
Metroid II is a great game
Posted in Featured Article, Reviews, tagged action, game boy, gb, metroid, nes, nintendo, return of samus, review on July 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Metroid II The Return of Samus, the lone Game Boy entry of the storied sci-fi Nintendo franchise takes a lot of flack. People just do not seem to like it all that much. It has been referred to as an inferior sequel and even blamed for the lack of a NES follow-up. Even Jeremy Parish, [...]
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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