Picked up a few good ones today:

Banjo-Kazooie
Jet Force Gemini
Dr. Mario 64
Spider-Man
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M.
NBA Hangtime

Delighted about getting Banjo. Jet Force Gemini is apparently quite good, too.

102/296

Jet force Gemini is a fantastic game, you get around to playing it?

Jet force Gemini is a fantastic game, you get around to playing it?

i've had my hands full lately, so nah, but i'll be sure to check it out eventually

Recent pick ups:

PS1:
-Spider-man
-Tonka Space Station
-Toy Story 2

N64:
-The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (CE)
-Pokemon Snap
-Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire

PS3:
-Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle (reaquired)

Lately I've been trying to pick up small, fun games more than heavy hitters. Sometimes I forget that licensed stuff can actually be pretty good.

Quote from: 🍁 Aria 🔮 on June 03, 2020, 05:19:30 PM

-The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (CE)

would CE be with or without the holographic label?

With! The box also says "collector's edition". I believe it's the least "collectory" ce I've ever owned.

Quote from: 🍁 Aria 🔮 on June 03, 2020, 05:44:35 PM

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Quote from: 🍁 Aria 🔮 on June 03, 2020, 05:19:30 PM

-The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (CE)

would CE be with or without the holographic label?

With! The box also says "collector's edition". I believe it's the least "collectory" ce I've ever owned.

cool, that's the one i have too, then

do you think you'll actually play it this time? 🤔

It's on the backburner for now. I have a lot of shorter games I'm rotating through right now, trying to get some completions under my belt before I jump into something more taxing.

While I find the time limit mechanic to be a novel idea to incentivize players to action, it also frustrates me for those same reasons. It's not really a criticism or anything, it's just a personal barrier to truly getting into the gameplay loop for any longer period of time.

Quote from: 🍁 Aria 🔮 on June 03, 2020, 05:58:59 PM

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Quote from: 🍁 Aria 🔮 on June 03, 2020, 05:44:35 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on June 03, 2020, 05:31:07 PM

Quote from: 🍁 Aria 🔮 on June 03, 2020, 05:19:30 PM

-The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (CE)

would CE be with or without the holographic label?

With! The box also says "collector's edition". I believe it's the least "collectory" ce I've ever owned.

cool, that's the one i have too, then

do you think you'll actually play it this time? 🤔

It's on the backburner for now. I have a lot of shorter games I'm rotating through right now, trying to get some completions under my belt before I jump into something more taxing.

While I find the time limit mechanic to be a novel idea to incentivize players to action, it also frustrates me for those same reasons. It's not really a criticism or anything, it's just a personal barrier to truly getting into the gameplay loop for any longer period of time.

yeah, that's understandable—although the mechanic becomes significantly more manageable once you learn the inverted song of time, you still can't really afford to dick around too much, which can be stressful (exclusively eustress for me, though)

what else are you playing

Celeste, Ori and the Blind Forest, and I'm attempting to finish up the content in Pokemon Shield before the expansion comes out. Valorant is finally out now though so I've been putting a lot of hours into that recently.

NES:
-Castlevania (seems like a good entry to speed running, only real tech is damage boosting)

critical hits can be tricky, since i think you only have one frame to do it—but yeah, CV1 is extremely satisfying to blaze through once you learn how

Four Swords has been a bug up my ass for a while—it's the only canon zelda i haven't played, since there's no single player option for the GBA version

More titles:

N64:
-Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber

PS1:
-Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen (mint condition, still has original receipt and class chart)

GC:
-Eternal Darkness (mint, with mint strategy guide)

Quote from: 🍁 Aria 🔮 on June 14, 2020, 08:35:50 AM

N64:
-Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber

ugh jelly, i think this one goes for a lot

I nabbed the cart for $65. CIB is so hard to find recently that I don't find it to be worth the cost hike.

Quote from: 🍁 Aria 🔮 on June 14, 2020, 12:16:31 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on June 14, 2020, 08:44:46 AM

Quote from: 🍁 Aria 🔮 on June 14, 2020, 08:35:50 AM

N64:
-Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber

ugh jelly, i think this one goes for a lot

I nabbed the cart for $65. CIB is so hard to find recently that I don't find it to be worth the cost hike.

yeah, i feel like N64 carts in particular are only just now becoming cool to collect, or something, because none of them were that pricey a year ago

i'm glad to have gotten a pretty good headstart, at least, even if i don't have anything super valuable in my collection

kinda sad that the "dream" right now is getting some random fucking bowling game for less than $300

F-Zero was a $25ish game before April. It's now over $40. It's insane how much worse most N64 hits are. Super Mario 64 shouldn't be $50 cart only.

If I get Mickey's Speedway USA next time around

you know

I feel like I have this somewhere in my house

cartridge only but like...

lmao finna put it up on CL for trade for a case of beer

They also had AeroGauge, Mickey's Speedway USA, Mike Piazza's Strike Zone, MRC: Multi-Racing Championship, Off Road Challenge, Ridge Racer 64, Rugrats: Scavenger Hunt, and Wheel of Fortune, but I had to pass these up for now, since I was going over-budget and didn't wanna starve today. Had I caved in, though, I'd officially have over 50% of the N64 library.

Forgot to update earlier, but I did end up picking up all these the other day, meaning that I'm now officially in possession of over half the N64 library. Pretty cool. Conker's Bad Fur Day is the most valuable cartridge in my collection, going for about $90 loose. I'm still looking out for Banjo-Tooie, Castlevania (not Legacy of Darkness, which is ironically the rarer game), and the first Turok. Mischief Makers, Harvest Moon 64, Pro Skater 3, and the Snowboard Kids games would be nice to pick up as well, but besides that, I don't think I have very much else to collect as far as "must-haves" go.

Jono tells me No Mercy is the best wrestling game for the system, which is funny, because it's probably the only one I haven't found yet. What a bitch.

Currently, of the games I still need to find, only thirty of them go for $30+ loose. Those games are listed below:

ClayFighter: Sculptor's Cut                 $535.53
Super Bowling                               $350.44
Stunt Racer                                 $247.32
Worms Armageddon                            $190.52
Bomberman 64: Second Attack                 $186.05

Goemon's Great Adventure                    $ 86.25
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine      $ 72.51
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon              $ 67.50
Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber    $ 67.33
Snowboard Kids 2                            $ 56.64
Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals        $ 53.93
Daikatana                                   $ 51.98
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3                    $ 51.47
Duck Dodgers                                $ 50.00
NFL Blitz Special Edition                   $ 49.94
Harvest Moon 64                             $ 49.39
Carmageddon                                 $ 47.88
PGA European Tour                           $ 46.02
Snowboard Kids                              $ 42.85
Earthworm Jim 3D                            $ 42.44
Starshot: Space Circus Fever                $ 39.97
Hydro Thunder                               $ 39.00
Banjo-Tooie                                 $ 38.91
Road Rash                                   $ 34.03
Chameleon Twist 2                           $ 34.00
Mortal Kombat Trilogy                       $ 32.64
Cruis'n Exotica                             $ 32.24
Resident Evil 2                             $ 31.72
Mischief Makers                             $ 31.24
WWF No Mercy                                $ 30.75

I think I'll survive if I never own anything in the top 5 here.

If you have any of these in your collection, go get yourself a pretty penny with it (or give them to me lmao).

do you play all the games you collect? or just have them for the sake of having them

yeah, the end goal of this is actually to play/beat every single one so i can make a big-ass youtube video where i rank them all

i've always held that the N64 is the worst nintendo machine as far as games go, so this would be a fun way to test that theory, and it would give me an excuse to praise majora's mask to the high heavens

A new retro game shop opened up, so I was able to pick up some more N64:

Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 2
BattleTanx: Global Assault
ECW Hardcore Revolution
Madden Football 64
NBA In The Zone '98
NBA Live 2000
Triple Play 2000
WCW Backstage Assault

Nothing spectacular, but I do have every single Madden on the system now, so... There's that. They also had Resident Evil 2, Starcraft, and WWF No Mercy on display, but they were asking a bit too much for those, and I was already going way over budget. Had I bought No Mercy, I would have every single wrestling game for the system. Looking back, I kinda wish I had just bought it, but whatever. Maybe it'll still be there the next time I visit.

161/297 (54%)

Also bought a whole bunch of 8 and 16-bit shovelware with nothing "good" to speak of, with the exception of Mega Man X, which I'm currently playing right now.

I officially own over half the official NES library at this point, which is pretty exciting, but I still have a ton of important gaps to fill.