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I would pay $70 for Chrono Trigger if I had to. It is just that good. Although the risky thing about buying SNES games these days is that the battery can be kind of dicey. Though I guess thats no big deal if you know how to replace them. Still, don't rely on just Amazon for pricing. I've found that sellers on Amazon tend to charge higher prices than elsewhere.

Halo Halo 2 Read Fall of Reach Halo 3 In that order more or less if you want a full appreciation of the original trilogy's story. I have yet to play Reach so I have no idea how much it incorporates from the book but Halo 3 had tons of references to the book that were probably nonsensical to people who didn't read it.

Oh man, if you liked the first one, definitely give the second one a shot. It is cheap now and way better than the first game. Saint's Row 2 is basically everything I hoped Grand Theft Auto IV would be. I wish they'd talk about some gameplay features or something though. Pictures are nice (and its good to know that Gat is coming back) but I want the details man, the details. Esp. on character creation and gangs. I'm hoping both are more in-depth than in Saint's Row 2.

Man I thought the local place I went to was overpriced. I will pay more for a game locally for the convenience of no shipping costs and to have it and play it right then but I'm usually fairly cautious about it. That is a little out of my price range though. Still, I'd drop $10 on Star Tropics.

Man you could probably write a hypothetical dissertation on how that would have changed the home video game industry. Nintendo didn't just push out a good system and respectable first party titles, it also revolutionized the way that business was done within the industry in order to control the flow of games in order to protect against what happened to the video game industry in the early 80s. Though I suppose Sega might have been able to step in and lead the pack so to speak. Still, given the missteps they ended up making, who knows? Just out of curiosity I looked at my five favorite titles (JP Release dates) River City Ransom (1989) The Legend of Zelda (1986) Final Fantasy (1987) Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988) Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1987) I think overall, I would have still been really happy with it as while the platforming and fighting games wouldn't quite have the depth that RCR and SMB 3 had, there would still be a lot of really interesting stuff available. In particular I love action/adventure hybrids like Simon's Quest and I'd definitely keep my system hooked up to play stuff like that. Big difference though I don't think I would have had an NES as a kid, I probably would have ended up going back and picking it up later maybe. I dunno though, Nintendo is basically solely responsible for the life-long love of games that I've developed so if they weren't in the picture, who knows? I might not even be much of a gamer.

Haha, oh wow. I really love some of the PS3 exclusives but I do all my online console gaming on the 360 and with this business going down, I'm not planning on changing that policy, unless its to do some private games some time. Hopefully Sony can figure something out. I'm so torn on this. On one end, I am definitely a believer in that once you buy some hardware you should be able to OWN that hardware but on the other end, I want an online community that is relatively free of hacks and will continue to fight to keep hacking off of the online experience. I wonder if they can start running PSN as a subscription only service and if that would help at all. I mean even if you can unban your console and pay for a new account subscription, how much money are you willing to spend in order to hack?

Gyromite without ROB, yes! I loved Gyromite as a kid but I was a little young for the NES TBH (born 3 months before it came out heh) so I never even knew ROB existed until I got older and had the Internet to set me straight. I used to plug in two controllers so I could work my way through the main game mode. TBH though I do prefer the later games that evolved from SMB. The NES is ~great~ for platformers, maybe the best system out there for that kind of game because there were many, many good platformers. I do have to say though, one of the reasons I like the NES so much is that there is such a convergence of ideas on the system. On one end you've got some really great arcade titles, like the ones you mentioned, and on the other end you've got stuff like Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior III. Later systems don't really have that since arcade ports started dying out as the types of games in arcades changed and many of the classic style games weren't being made anymore. Also the fighting game craze that swept the 16-bit era. I like Mortal Kombat, but man, people really went crazy over fighters in the 90s

Well if you have some contacts in Japan, you can probably get old PCE stuff pretty cheap. To get it from US/European sellers you're basically looking for people who have imported and people always want more money for imported goods. @HatefulGravey - when I first started looking at the Turbografx, it was highly recommended to me to just go and get a TurboDuo because the CD unit was so hard to find. Down the road I might end up just doing that but for now there are plenty of HuCard games I want to try out so I can wait.

Really? That sounds great. My first priority is pretty much going to be to get the multitap and controller so that my friends and I can play Bomberman the right proper way instead of on my Wii @Eltigro Dang. I wish I would have kept such good care of my old consoles that I've had since that far back.

What a coincidence, I just received a TG-16 today myself. So far I've really been digging the controller. It is basically what I wanted the NES Max to be all those years ago. The fact that so many components were sold as add-ons is frustrating though. Wondering now how much luck I'm going to have finding the accessories I need w/out a console. Oh well.

Purchased a Turbografx-16 and some games. The transaction was smooth and the shipping was excellent. I really appreciated the various offers on shipping. It made things very easy for me. Thanks for the great transaction Lendorien!

Not so strange. One of the gimmicks Tiger tried with the Game.com was licensing the rights to popular games and creating "ports" of them for the Game.com. For instance, there is a version of Resident Evil 2 on the Game.com

Honestly, I think they just assumed everyone would import AC/DC to the main game so they just threw the "game" together so they could do that Wal-Mart exclusive nonsense. See, I like what Rock Band does because instead of coming out with a new game every six months, they just all do DLC. And it was never about trying to play guitar like it was a "real" instrument, its just about having fun and enjoying the music. Its a great party game. Its ok solo, but nothing to write home about. And GH:A makes me rage. Its actually the only GH game I own (though I have a huge Rock Band collection). Disappointing amount of songs, disappointing track list from the band, just disappointing everything. It isn't a party game and by the time it came out, it wasn't a new or exciting experience. It was like AC/DC Rock Band without the ability to import songs to the better game.

Hooraay, no more exclusive song nonsense! Please now, can I have more Aerosmith on Rock Band?

You know I put in a new pin set on my NES and for some reason I can only get Adventure Island to play if I press it down, but for my other games I have to leave it up. Can't explain it, but just glad my NES works.

I've never looked for games out of state but I have driven to a couple other cities in AZ before outside of Phoenix (where I'm at) to look for games. Generally I have really good luck, even just stopping in a Gamestop. Maybe its because those places aren't the big city and they have a harder time moving product?

I don't have a problem buying stuff I already own (that is I don't do it) though I do have extra copies of things since I've bot lots before. Once I get started on something though, I have this urge to "complete" it. The bug hasn't caught me with trying to collect whole libraries, but I will get obsessed with different franchises and try to collect all the titles in a franchise. I'm also a stickler for having "original releases" if possible.

I don't like how they changed scoring and added that "hold a piece" thing in newer versions of Tetris. I don't know when they added that but any version before they did is ok in my book. Probably logged the most hours onto Gameboy Tetris though.

Yeeessss. I've been getting very ansy. They've said that they have been working on it but there has been almost no information on the game itself. They said they were gonna preview it at E3 last year, then at one of the fall shows, and never did for either. Saints Row 2 is one of my favorite games of this generation and I played it so much that I basically have the whole game memorized now. I'm very excited for the third one, especially since it is rumored to take place in a different city.

It depends on the game/genre/etc. For RPGs, I'm always disappointed if its less than 30 hours, though one of my favorites (SaGa Frontier) is made up of several scenarios that can be beaten in under 3 hours if you know what you are doing. For FPSes I usually want at least 10 hours (but prefer more). Still I can't say 10 hours is the limit on all types of games as I'm a big fan of old survival horror games like Resident Evil which may have 3:30 hours tops (though I suppose that is if you know what you are doing, since a first run can take many hours to beat). I think my favorite types of games are ones with high re playability, generous distractions, and the potential for speed-running once the game is learned. The aforementioned Resident Evil series is good at this, so even though it is short I don't mind very much.

I've played games HEAVILY on my LCD TV. Don't think I've done 12 hour Oblivion sessions, but I have done 8 hour Oblivion sessions. I've easily played 12 hour sessions of Persona 3 and 4. I do get some ghosting from time to time but I've never had any permanent burn in. I even have a generic TV from some Wal-Mart house brand manufacturer before they started stocking real TVs. It works just fine. I do have a stuck pixel, but I don't know as that is from the video games.

I have a soft spot in my heart for the 32X. These days it is easy to collect for and several of the games are quite good. The affordability of the thing is a plus too, though sometimes it is hard to find one intact. I know I had to buy cables from a cable maker to get mine running. Fortunately Sega didn't use proprietary ports so it was easy to get a replacement component. From a business standpoint I can understand why the 32X failed: cost, lack of support, and lack of timeliness. It sure was an interesting idea though! And Nintendo eventually figured out a way to do it right with their expansion pack for the N64. I really treasure my CD 32X collection though. The CD 32X Night Trap is pretty great.

There's a lot of good stuff on the DS/PSP. A lot of Japanese developers have been focusing on handhelds this generation as opposed to console titles. I thought some of Square's console stuff was decent. I enjoyed both FF13 and Star Ocean 4 though I guess both are kind of an acquired taste since I know a lot of people that didn't like either one.

After playing Fatal Frame II, no game will ever scare me again

Hardware deluge IMO was a significant contributing factor. Sega had this same problem with the CD/32X/Saturn all coming out in a relatively small window. Atari had it even worse with their 8-bit computers, the 5200, the 7800, the XE all coming out at once, largely all playing the same (or similar) games and with the home consoles poorly marketed. The fact that they were able to last so long is probably a testament to the quality of the 2600, its relative low cost in its late life, and its plethora of enjoyable games. Still, in their defense it was a different time and even into the 90s, people were experimenting to see what would and would not work. Oh and Tramiel of course, but I'll leave that to others