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    Have you ever regretted selling an item from your collection?

    in Classic Console Discussion

    Posted

    My mom just didnt think I would ever use it again because I was moved out and away from home, and when she asked my little brother he told her that all he needed was the N64

     

    I had no idea that the system would be collectable today, if that was the case I would have never thrown away all the boxes and woud have handled the instructions and games with care

     

    I mean I remember friend Dustin offering to trade me 30+ 2600 games for Mike Tysons Punch Out, which I declined

     

    I understand why my mom did it, she watched us move on from system to system and as soon as the new one was hooked up the old one was boxed up and put away

     

    So in her mind as long as the family had the latest system all the rest of the stuff was useless

     

    She thought she was doing the right thing, I dont blame her now

     

    It was easier to not blame her after I had bought back every system and game I owned (and the ones my friends owned and I wanted)

     

    But I still just have that nostalgic feeling about how cool it would be to have all my original stuff

    Is the 5200 such a "SUPER" System?

    in Atari 5200

    Posted

    It's especially silly all these years later, when one can easily afford to buy and enjoy both the 5200 and the ColecoVision, instead of drawing lines in the sand and making the choice between them into a dramatic "either-or" proposition.

     

    You said it perfectly

     

    I own both systems and I love them both

     

    I play my 5200 more just because I love the ports of my favorite arcade games growing up like...

     

    Robotron

    Joust

    Pacman

    Berzerk

    Defender

    Missile Command

    Centipede

     

    I have a Trackball controller that works great and makes playing Missile Command and Centipede feel so much closer to the arcade

     

    My two favorite 5200 games by far is Robotron and Berzerk

     

    Berzerk is so hard on the 5200 yet so mch fun, and I love the difficulty select on Robotron

     

    I dont play my ColecoVision that much but thats because my arcade didnt have the less common arcade ports that the CV put out

     

    I love Pepper II and Ladybug, I even like Venture

     

    I just didnt grow up with those games so there is no nostalgic value in them for me

     

    Thats why the 5200 gets more use, but I would not want to be with out either system in my collection

    Have you ever regretted selling an item from your collection?

    in Classic Console Discussion

    Posted

    My mom gave away (to her poor friend who had like 10 kids) the following systems/games

     

    My 2600 with about 25 or so games

     

    My 7800 with 2 games (we had a 7800 for a month before my mom bought us an NES)

     

    My NES with about 50+ games

     

    My SNES with about 20+ games

     

    I had the 2600, 7800 and NES all boxed up with all the games and stored in my parents attic while the SNES was still hooked up in my room when I moved out with my girlfriend in 1996

     

    So my mom felt bad as her friend with the 10 kids could not afford to buy any system for her kids, so my mom said hey I have a bunch of systems and games that are not being used they are just up in the attic lets give it all to your kids!

     

    I learned later that she asked my little brother if there was anything he wanted to keep and he said no because he had the N64 hooked up in the living room

     

    So not only did my mom give them all the older systems she had my bro go in my old room and unhook the SNES for her to take to her friends kids

     

    Fast forward to the year 2000, my girlfriend (now wife) had moved up to Seattle and I started to get the craving to play all my old treasured games, I couldnt wait to visit my parents and brothers and dig up in the attic and get down all of my stuff

     

    Well I called my mom and was talking about my plans to hook them all up in Seattle when she dropped a bombshell on me

     

    I was furious, I couldnt believe it, and it made me even more mad when my mom told me how happy the kids were to get all my stuff!

     

    I have bought back everything I owned and everything I wanted to own and then some, but it would have been so awesome to have my original systems

     

    I forgave my mom, it only took me about 10 years to do it

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    Which is the toughest of The Big Three?

    in Classic Console Discussion

    Posted

    Throwing the controller in anger...do kids even do that anymore? Or kicking the system?...I had a buddy back in the day who couldn't really play NES after a while, "anger management" wouldn't allow it. Dude kicked his NES more than your average bear. I was always kinda shocked and pissed when he did it, but that NES kept tickin'. I guess if you try that on a PS3 you'd break the thing. I was witnessing 'entitled kid syndrome' back then...I had to wait about 3 years past that before I got my own NES, so I was always treating the machines nicely. That was the first time I ever saw the blink screen, after a furious outburst after losing a match in Pro Wrestling...lol.

     

    No matter how pissed I got at a game (Gaiden qualified many times) I never took it out on the equipment...I just cursed my lack of skills, lol.

     

    I never have thrown a controller in my life, its a saying we used to have in reference to the kids that did throw the controller in anger (my little brother being one of them lol)

     

    When I would beat my brother in Street Fighter 2 over and over again he would punch me in the arm, throw the controller and then turn the SNES off and take the controllers out and try to go hide them lol

     

    I would be laughing the entire time

    The Top 5 Items In Your Collection

    in Classic Console Discussion

    Posted · Edited by AlvinKarpis

    1. Space Harrier 3D for the SMS: Its not super rare, but I played it back in the day with the 3D glasses at my friends house and being a huge Space Harrier fan/player back then I fell in love with it. Im glad I found a mint condition complete copy and own it today

     

    2. Micheal Jackson Moonwalker Genesis: Again its rare but not super rare, the reason I love this game is because I owned it back in the day and played it to death

     

    3. Boxed mint 4 port Atari 5200: I own 2 5200s and use my 2 port to play games while my 4 port sits in the original box in mint condition complete with everything

     

    4. Sega Master System: It was the system I loved back in the 80s but didnt own, I spent so much time at my friends house playing his SMS while all he ever wanted to do was go to my house and play my NES

     

    5. Tower of Doom/ Thunder Castle for Intellevision: The first rare games I ever found in the wild. I paid $2.00 each for the games and had a huge smile on my face while walking out of the game store

    Which is the toughest of The Big Three?

    in Classic Console Discussion

    Posted

    I could beat Mike Tyson back in the 80s and can still beat him today, I always had more trouble with Super Macho Man and his spin punch, but once the timing was down I was all over him

     

    I also wouldnt say beating Tyson is easy, it took me 20 or so trys back in the day before I beat him, today it isnt hard but thats because I know whats coming

     

    G&G used to piss me off so bad, I never beat it because I gave up after making it through and then realizing you had to do it again

     

    Battletoads was for sure a controller throwing game, I used to get so pissed and playing with one of my brothers (both of whom where good gamers) and hitting each other on accident

     

    After a while we would get so pissed at the game we would hit each other on purpose

     

    However all three of those games were fun to play, Punch Out was always a blast

     

    The games I hated that I couldnt beat where the games that where not fun and confusing and impossible!

     

    Goonies 2 and Friday The 13th caused me more grief then any other games ever

    Really good games?

    in Sega Genesis

    Posted

    Some of my other favorites are

     

    NHL 94 (one of the best sports games ever)

    NBA Jam TE

    Mortal Kombat

    Hard Drivin (I know tons of people think this game sucks but the replays are hilarous!)

    Sonic 1

    Golden Axe

    Altered Beast

    Revenge of Shinobi

     

     

    I love most of the early games, my friend had a SMS and I was always playing it at his house and he had a ton of games

     

    So when I got a Genesis the first games I got for the system were the Genesis versions (or sequels) to the original SMS games like Space Harrier, Outrun, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Altered Beast and so on

     

    You cant go wrong with the early games

    Best (and Worst) Video Game Endings?

    in Classic Console Discussion

    Posted

    Karnov on the NES. After all that hell you go through, it just gives you "Congratulations. The End". Really? No, really?..

     

    LMAO!

     

    I beat Karnov back in the 80s and my friend Joe was helping me along and pumping me up the whole game

     

    When the ending came and was just "Congratulations. The End" we just looked at each other and busted out laughing, I had busted my ass trying to beat Karnov for a long time and I was so exhausted mentally when I finally did beat it that instead of getting pissed off at being jipped out of a real ending all I could do was laugh

    Hooking it all up...

    in Intellivision / Aquarius

    Posted

    Here is what I do

     

    I have an old Panasonic TV in my home office, it has no RCA inputs, which is perfect for how I have it set up

     

    I have my GameCube and my Wii hooked up to my 62 inch Rear Projection TV in my living room and those are played by my children 99% of the time, which was my plan the whole time :)

     

    In my office I have my NES hooked up and keep the NES adapter screwed on to my TV at all times, then at the other end I have Coax adapter screwed on

     

    Then I have the following systems set up on my desks and stands all around my TV

     

    Atari 5200

    ColecoVision

    Intellivision

    Sega Master System

    Sega Genesis

    NES

     

    So every system runs through my NES adapter, I just use one RCA cable that can reach every system, when I want to play a system I unplug it from the system I was playing last and then plug it into the system I want to play next

     

    The 5200 has its own cable built in to the system, so I just unplug the RCA cable from the NES adapter and then plug the 5200 into that directly

     

    My 2600 is displayed on the other side of my office on a shelf, the reason being is that I dont have enough room for it around my TV and its so much easier to plug in my Expansion Modual to my ColecoVision and play my 2600 games on my CV

     

    I know that some people might think thats wrong, but for me my CV always comes in with a crystal clear picture, and the 2600 games just look beautiful running off the expansion port

     

    Its so much easier then moving a system out and then moving the 2600 in to play

     

    With my set up it only takes seconds to change systems

     

    I also have a power strip that I have my systems with small plugs like my 5200 and INTV plugged in at the top, then I have a NES/SMS/Genesis AC adapter combo that I use (which is cheap to buy and an awesome thing for my set up, not only do I not have to switch those systems but I can save all of the original AC adapters which are getting harder to find as time goes on)

     

    I only have to take that AC adapter out when I want to play my ColecoVision

     

    My SNES and N64 are both in my desk under my TV, I dont play those systems as much, but when I do I just hook them up out in my living room

     

    I love my set up and it works perfectly for me and my classic gaming needs

    Microsurgeon

    in Intellivision / Aquarius

    Posted

    Wow! I had no idea that was a multiplatform game, either. And the TI! Pretty impressive. I'd love to see a screenshot for comparison.

     

    The TI version. I have it. It seems OK, but I didn't play it for too long. I have the INTV one too, but don't remember how it compares offhand.

     

    post-16769-0-28723100-1326660212_thumb.pngpost-16769-0-97701600-1326660213_thumb.png

     

    Thats awesome!

     

    I love the "ICU" screen in the bottom right

    Best (and Worst) Looking Consoles?

    in Classic Console Discussion

    Posted

     

     

    Worst = Sega Genesis with Addons

     

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    I agree the model 2 Genesis looks horrible, and with all the add on's I am for sure not a fan

     

    However I think the original Sega Genesis model 1 (came packed with Altered Beast) the one that says "High Definition Graphics" across the top looks awesome

     

    I think my Sega Master System looks better, but for sure having my SMS and original Genesis sitting side by side is a thing of beauty

    Most overrated games in your opinion

    in Classic Console Discussion

    Posted

    I am pretty sure this topic has been made before, but I don't want to resurrect some 7 year old topic, now.

     

    Personally, I think the most overrated game is Space Harrier on the SMS. I really love Space Harrier as an arcade game (probably in my Top 10 favorite games of all time, even), but people just love to praise that weak port. Admit it, it sucks, and you know it!

     

     

    I love Space Harrier on the SMS

     

    I play it all the time

     

    What I dont understand is how it is overrated? Almost every review I have seen of SH on the SMS says it is a horrible game that is un-playable

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    Really good games?

    in Sega Genesis

    Posted

    My two favorite games for the Genesis by far are

     

    Space Harrier II and Out Run

     

    I love Space Harrier and Out Run on the Master System, and these two versions for the Genesis are just amazing

     

    They are must have games

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