I should use Nintendo Power covers for some posts to keep it different from just all Ads. It also works for when I can't find an ad for any of the six games or whatever. Anyway I'm going to do something a bit different for the time and tell you beautiful scamps a story. This is the story of how I got back into the ol' NES. It was 1996 and I was eleven years of age and I was excited for the Christmas of this year. This was the year the NINTENDO 64 was to come out. It was going to be AMAZING and FANTASTICAL and all of those things. I remember getting the N64 and Mario 64 (what a shit thing for Nintendo to do at that era and not package that game with the system. Jerks) and that was my big gift for that year. I remember waiting anxiously for my cousin to come down so he could hook up the N64. My parents who my sister and I probably woke up way too early did not feel like hooking up the Nintendo and I guess they were too worried that I would break the TV or the console. Waiting for him to come was still the longest feeling hour or whatever of my life. Like it was agonizing. I HAD to play Mario 64. HAD TOO. My cousin and his family finally showed up (which looking back on it was so weird that they did that as we usually went to THEIR house, wild how you realize how weird something is when you look back on it) and he hooked it up and one of the greatest disappointments in my short life happened. I wasn't really enjoying Mario 64. This got me thinking about all the SNES games I enjoyed and even the Genesis games I got to play and then I ended up thinking of the earliest games I had played in my life which were the NES games. I suddenly wanted a NES again. I wanted to play Mega Man 2 and Adventure Island again. I needed this to happen. The "friend" I mentioned in other posts had a NES (my original NES was fed cheese by my Sister and uh it wasn't working after that. I am still pissed about that JESSICA.)
Anyway this story is so long that It's gonna take two paragraphs to really get through. The thing is I wanted his NES and MY games (I am not going to say I gave those games away willingly. I am sure he bullied me into giving them to him. I literally have one positive memory with this person. This kid literally did whatever he could to do awful things to every single person he could. If there's a text book defintation of what Anti-Social actually is it was this kid. Literally knowing him was what made me the person I am today. All of my shitty, shitty mental problems go back to him. It's weirdly nice to have this SAFE SPACE (oh no) to talk about these things. I uh will get back to the NES stuff. He wanted $100 for the NES (and the games I am sure he bullied me out of. I would have probably given them all to many other kids I knew instead, or maybe even sold them if none were interested in 1993 or whenever my sister shoved a lot of cheese into my NES. She thought it was hungry. IT'S NOT A LIVING THING JESSICA. Anyway it might have been a weirdly high amount of money then (seriously I get the feeling that if I had offered $25 to any other person they would have jumped on it. I don't even think he really cared that much about the money, I seriously think he liked to watch me squirm as he knew I wanted this stuff.) However my mother was not for it in any way. If I wanted this I would have to save up every nickel and dime I wanted for it. However this was not going to be the end of the story. In fact we apparently need a third paragraph. Holy moly. I promise I will get to some reviews.
Anyway something happened that I do not want to get into that just pushed me over the edge and I stopped spending time with this kid at all. However my mother had finally found someone who had a NES and several horrendous video games. I mean they had Super Mario Brothers and Snow Brothers and GHOSTBUSTERS AND X-MEN. I know portnoyd will go LOL SNOW BROTHERS IS BAD I HATE IT AND YOU SHOULD TOO but seriously compared to the other two Non-Mario games it is a fucking masterpiece. Like those were the four games (and Duck Hunt) that I had for a good amount of time. Like I am seriously amazed I decided to stick with the ol' NES when what I had was fucking X-Men and Ghostbusters. (Sorry to spoil those reviews for you.) I also still find it fucking hysterical (and really annoying) that Snow Brothers was one of the games I got. It shows how little people cared about NES games in the late 1990s. Anyway, I then found out people online were talking about the NES (I had found out about emulation and would play NES games on the computer. Had I not fount NESticle and seen how many actually fun NES games were out there I can guarentee to you that I would not have become a collector because fucking X-Men would have driven me to have thrown the damn NES out the window and been done with it. Anyway, I found people who I still talk to this day. About NES. You'd think by this point I'd have gone to play newer game systems because really at this point I somehow beat X-Men for the NES. You'd think I'd had have my fill of the NES, but nope. Still talking about that silly grey old box. I guess if I went through all this to get it I was REALLY going to have my fill with it. Anyway, let's get to the six game reviews. Sadly this barf of paragraphs is what will be really what will be talked about by port because wow this group of games are not great.
Now we get to an actual game, one of two that I actually really want to talk about. Seriously there's a reason I wrote those four paragraphs, it's about two games out of the six that are really worth discussing. This is the best turn based RPG on the NES. It is really the only one I feel that actually has held up in any way. I remember getting a copy of this (for I think $5) at some random old flea market. I also remember playing it and beating Garland and literally I guess believing I beat it or something because I no joke got rid of it. I had played stuff like Chrono Trigger at this time but I guessed an RPG on the NES was just really really short. Anyway I traded it away to someone in the OLD NES SCENE who lived in the same province as I did. I think I got Castlevania 2 for it. I then bought another copy and realized there was a lot more to this game than I thought, or I actually found out where to go (I ended up finding the Nintendo Power #17 that is pictured way above War and Peace II up there and I had a ball just playing through it and just really enjoying this game. I feel it holds up very well and I like it. I also like that they called it Final Fantasy because this game really was Square's final attempt to make a hit game. Rad Racer didn't really do it. Kings Knight is uh, we will get to that when we get to it, but this game really was a hit and a series with Final in the title really became HUGE. I think there are like 15 games in this franchise now and who knows how many spin offs? It's very funny to me.
So, remember when I talked about I think Big Bird Hide and Speek and I was like this is a well made well thought out game if you are below the age of six. It set out what you wanted they wanted to do and was well done for pre schoolers/kindergarten age kids. The second you got into the first grade you were like "no I'll play Ninja Turtles instead". There is nothing here for an adult, but I still do not feel right calling this game a piece of hot shit garbage trash poop because it was intended for very small children who were below the age of six whenever this game came out. I cannot say if these would be good for small children today or if they would enjoy them because small children today get really into Ipads and watching shitty videos on Ipads and play shitty games. I really would be the ogre dad that would not let a child today have an Ipad and I did not want to be the IM ANGRY THAT CHILDREN ARE DIFFERENT THAN I WAS A CHILDREN but I don't think it works very well. No matter the quality of the actual tv shows I watched as children were I felt like I learned something or they had some kind of narrative that worked well. I also feel the video games, even the simple ass arcade games at least gave me some kind of hand-eye coordination. Ipad stuff just feels so wrong to me. I don't know why I bothered to bring that up but Jesus Christ it's fucking Fisher Price. What the hell were you expecting? There's only so much any human being can say about fucking Fisher Price.
Most people will say Mega Man II is the best sequel on the NES because of how much it improves on Mega Man. However I disagree. Mega Man II is an improvement on Mega Man but Mega Man is still pretty good. Fire N Ice is however the best sequel on the NES. Fire N Ice improves on Solomon's Key so much better. The game's character controls so much better and faster and honestly the puzzles you do just work SO much better in this game. I guess people just forget about Solomon's Key or that this game is a sequel to Solomon's Key because this is a OMG RARE!!!! RARE!!!! THIS IS A RARE GAME AND I HAVE TO TALK ABOUT ITS RARITY AND NOT HOW ITS ACTUALLY WELL MADE AND FUN AND A GREAT SEQUEL! Well, I'm going to piss on Youtubers who just seem to pick up collector stuff so that they can be a success on YouTube instead of actually really being into this crap and say this game was found by me IN NEWFOUNDLAND. In FACT I am pretty sure I RAN ACROSS SEVERAL COPIES OF THIS GAME IN NEWFOUNDLAND. The second something is found in Newfoundland it no longer can be considered Rare, just Uncommon. Sorry, YouTube jerks I used to watch before I realized none of them really seem to care that much about this stuff but being POPULAR YOUTUBE GUYS instead. Good lord this is one hell of a saucy post that portnoyd will have a lot to comment on. I guess I owned him a large comment over the Scream post where I'm sure he hasn't even seen a single one of those movies.
Hey cool. Yet another "This is a game that exists" kinda game. The worst kind of game to talk about for this thing. This game just feels like they put in the bare minimum. I even like a bunch of Codemasters/Camerica stuff. It is an over the top shooter game. You have to go find survivors and bring them back to a ship. The controls are really stiff and weird which is really the worst part of this game. However I cannot get angry at this game. It's like getting angry at a bowl of oatmeal and not even fancy oatmeal. Like the oatmeal your great great great great granpa ate in like 1821 or whenever the fuck your great great great great grandpa was alive. This game doesn't really do anything all that well but other than the controls its not that awful either. I guess the change to front facing scene when you save the survivor and you have to shoot some planes trying to kill him and you. It's just something you've seen done better in retro games. It's a game that exists and you forget does even exist. That's all I can say about Fire Hawk.
Oh good another game that I really have nothing to say about. I am pretty sure I played this game but I honest to God could be wrong because It's just another TOP GUN STYLE GAME (apparently based on a movie that has Danny Glover, Tom Sizemore, Willem Dafoe and Roseanna Arquette in it, yet I don't believe I had heard of it and I know of like 2402 weirdo B-movies that came out in the same year!) This was based on the book that the movie was based on. Or based on the movie that the book was a basis for. I don't know and I don't care. There is ONE game that is like this that I really want to give a good honest try too and I'll mention it when I get to it. I just find the rest of these games to be the most boring shit imaginable. Watching every single Casper cartoon is a more exicting prospect then ever playing any of these games. I do not know what it is but I just go into ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZ mode whenever any of these games come up and this one is no different.
Good Games: 111
Bad Games: 81
Okay Games: 29
Games that Might be Better If I weren't an Impatient Child: 3
First off, your sister feeding cheese into your NES is the greatest scene story ever. LEGITIMATE QUESTION: are you older or is she older? If she's younger, it makes sense she feeds cheese into a NES. If she's older, uh, why is she feeding a NES cheese. Also it is kind of adorable if she was younger and feeding the NES cheese. That's a cute thing to do even if it did break the NES. You have to wonder if that NES is still out there, with or without cheese.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I liked Mario 64, JERK. But to be fair, over the years, the amount of N64 that I actually want to play again keeps dropping. Now it's like 15 games out of 300. Oops. But yeah, they should have packed it in. Obviously everyone is going to buy it, just charge $60 more, no one cares. It launched with Pilotwings 64, a game I adore but cannot defend. I remember I preordered my N64 at BABBAGES and I was the #2 preorder and they got.. 2 in. Go me.
Claw, do not feel bad about talking about shitty gerbage in your life. That shitty gerbage is no longer in your life and that's a good thing. You could be like me and have kept a whole circle of shitty gerbage "friends" in your life for 20 years! That's literally what happened to me. At least with this jerk, he was out of your life a lot sooner. Although you don't want to talk about what happened to finally break it off, it's a good thing it did. I will spare you the details of me breaking off from my shitty gerbage but it's not worth mentioning.
I am certain this asshole continued to be an asshole even to this day (assuming a bus hasn't mercifully made him into a pancake) and anyone in his orbit knows this. People who are actual real jerks cannot hide this and people know it.
I cannot deny Snow Bros is better than X-Men and Ghostbusters. There is no reality where I can say it isn't and not be clearly lying. Fuck you claw for backing me into a corner. Early 90s were the best because wait 10 years or even 5 and people would be wanting like $50 for that Snow Bros, which now they want literally almost $300. I do look forward to you getting to the mid Ss for the ALL OUT WAR we will have over your reviewing this total piece of shit.
My path to the NES scene was similar to yours. My memory sucks but I remember a few things: in high school, buying a lot of NES games off AMERICAN ON-LINE classified. My mom took me to the post office and I sent a MONEY ORDER for it and we didn't get RIPPED OFF. I could not for the life of me tell you what games were in the lot. NO CLUE AT ALL. Do I still have some of them or even all of them? Quite possibly. I think I paid, or more likely, my mom paid $40 shipped. And that was for anywhere from 15-30 games. Again, DONT REMEMBER.
Then in college, I discovered Funcoland. I probably only had 60 games at that point and then I realized I only had 60 games at that point. And Funco was selling NES games for <$5 each, as a poor college student, this was amazing. That opened things up to the collecting community as well as the NES scene. The NES scene came first though, while I collected basically on my own, using the mighty Mike Etler's list as a guide and browsing NES FATTY |tsr's website. Funny enough, I was probably less than 45 minutes from Etler's store in college and never went there. Fun fact: he's still alive, reopened his store and still smokes like a chimney. His real passion these days is live music. I am 46 and he is 56 (which blows my fucking mind that he opened his game store when was 21) and if I see live music, I sit in a chair. He's in the fucking MOSH PIT. He goes on band cruises. He's seen Coheed and Cambria 22 times. When Mike Etler does something, he does it HARD. Also I met |tsr and I love to tell people and he was a silent mountain. If you ever find him, bring up his NES site and start ranting about it and enjoy seeing a very large man want to jump out of his skin.
There are SIXTEEN games in the "mainline" (I fucking HATE this term) FF series. The sad part of FF16 is not a JRPG. It's literally Devil May Cry. If you don't know what that is, it's a 3D hack and slash game. Yeah. Totally gone and wasted is the FF series. The only positive is FFXIV which is the second online one is honestly the best ultimate FF game, even though it's a MMORPG. No, seriously, it has every class imaginable, fuckton of shit to do and all the best parts of what people love about FF wrapped up in an interface and game system that is easy to use and rewarding. The best part is it's FFXIV.2 because holy fuck, I played the first iteration of FFXIV and it was complete dogshit. The UI was quite possibly one of the worst I've ever experienced and all I remember about it was my party getting annhilated by a level 1 frog in a river. Yeah.
ReplyDeleteI like FF1. I recently played through the Pixel Remasters and did 1 first and it was good and fun. I realized a lot about it. Namely, it is genuinely good and fun. Two, the game tells you absolutely nothing about where to go. Ok maybe a little, but you will be wandering constantly. However like you said, that's why we have Nintendo Power #17. The remaster was the first time I ever played the game start to finish. Back in the day, I rented it and I started it, beat Garland like you did and never got anywhere else ALSO I loaded the save on it and was the Tiamat tower where I couldn't even get to him because I didn't know how the game really worked and got obliterated by normal enemies. Meanwhile, I boosted XP on the Remaster and autobattled the entire game except the last boss. If you play the Remasters, maybe set the boosts to 2x not 4x.
I have never played Perfect Fit because my copy is sealed. I don't think I ever need to play it.
It says on the box for ages 3 to 8 but as you said, there's a zero percent chance an 8 year old will even turn this on. It's really for ages 2 to 4 because after that, gimme SMB1 and Zelda 1 but there is value in these basic, basic things for kids under 5. My kids had tablets at a young age and the games they played were simple like this and/or were basic things like with drawing and what not. The little kid offerings on ipad shit are actually fairly decent. But they ain't NES. Fun fact: I tried getting my son to play SMB1 when he was 3. He did not get anywhere. So games like this do have a place. However, today, where it's only jerks slabbing Fisher Price games and seeing how much more than they can pay than someone else and bragging about it, these games have no value, monetarily or gameplay. Relics of the time or something.
On the subject of our childhood vs theirs, having 2 kids who are now 11 and 13 (wtf, my daughter is now the age when you got back into NES, what in the actual fuck we are old and we're going to die of old age soon fuck fuck fuck), the offerings for kids are pretty comparable, just technology has changed. There are some good ass cartoons for every age tier that work like the cartoons we had when we were young. They still try and sell you toys and merch, but they do have GI Joe PSA value to them. Looking back at what my kids watched, there's a bunch I would gladly show my kids if having to do it again. But first, an aside.
Let's talk about Curious George. Excellent show and funny for adults in that while George himself was a little kid essentially, EVERY SINGLE OTHER PERSON ON THE SHOW WAS A FUCKING MORON EXCEPT THE DOG. I am serious. Watch a bunch of episodes and it'll be clear. It's a Brain/Gadget situation without any mortal danger.
As the kids got older, we found ourselves enjoying the same shows they did. What does that tell you. Don't answer that. Gravity Falls and Big City Greens were two very good ones. Gloria. Gloria. Gloria. Gloria. Gloria.
ReplyDeleteThere were a bunch of transitional shows that were good too like Teen Titans Go (seriously, I've watched half of the 400 episodes ON MY OWN and it's basically Adult Swim for kids). Same goes for Gumball and Uncle Grandpa.
Paw Patrol is dogshit though. Fuck that show with a meat hammer.
What were we talking about again? Oh right, NES. HMMMM why aren't you doing it by true alphabetical order, clawzy? Is it because you should be playing FISHER PRICE I CAN REMEMBER because YOU CAN'T REMEMBER. C WAT EYE DID THAR
Anyway, Fire and Ice is very good and fun. ANOTHER FUN FACT: My mother in law had NES games of her own, one of which was Fire and Ice. However, what's not good and fun is SASSING SOLOMON'S KEY. Oh man, the S NES games are going to be a bloodbath between you and me. The JERKS, WRONGS and KERKS are going to be thrown out like candy.
But yes, this is a good game and a good sequel. I want to say I played this a bit before we moved away from New Jersey. Yes, I did. I got about a third of the way through. It is more true puzzle game than action puzzle like the first game though. I agree it's uncommon at best and the funny thing is it was $50 for a LONG TIME when a lot of NES games were like $10 and it took forever to get expense. My guess is it never got the hype that it deserved, which tells you everything you need to know about dumb ass collectors because they should value the quality of this game like Little Samson.
Claw, stick to NES. THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING YOU COULD SAY ABOUT THE MINIMAL AMOUNT OF GAMEPLAY IN FIREHOUSE RESCUE.
But I will comment on what you said instead. And I have to say is WELL FUCKING SAID. I know you said a lot more words than that but it's all fucking true and it does not need any more expansion or reply to that. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
However I will yell at you online for liking Snow Bros. But that's fine because I respect your wrong opinion and your tendency to be very wrong about good and bad NES games.
I will say this about Harry Potter. They are doing a Harry Potter TV series on HBO. Why? Because keep fucking that corpse of things people like with Scream VII and Phase 89 of the Marvel movies. But the reason I bring it up is, and I don't know if you know Harry Potter at all, they cast a black guy as Professor Snape. Before THE INTERNET JUMPS ON ME FOR BEING RACIST, do a google image search for HARRY POTTER SNAPE BOOK and then Paapa Essiedu who is the actor they cast.
Try and tell me that this guy is right for Snape. NOT SKIN COLOR BUT RIGHT FOR HIM. Snape is pasty white, miserable shithead. Paapa Essiedu is a sexy black dude NO HOMO. Try and tell me how this is good casting. Alan Rickman played (RIP) dour shitheads and Snape is a dour shithead. I do not see how this black dude fits the role. It's like if they cats Channing Tatum in the role.
Anyway, I better get a quality review for I CAN REMEMBER. Oh wait now I get it, you are not alphabetizing them by Fisher Price LIKE GOOD PEOPLE LIKE ME DO and just by the subtitle. So I will get I CAN REMEMBER in the I's or I will make you remember. And the joke is officially dead.
I played Firehawk a few years ago and it is not a bad title. I guess as long as you get away from Dizzy and Bignose, good things happen with Codemasters. Maybe. It could have used a little more depth, because it's very thin and arcade-y. But it definitely is not a bad game.
And finally, I have never played Flight of the Intruder. Or I tried it for the bounty and noped out. I will look it up right now and see if I have. No I don't think I have. It looks like a cross between Top Gun and After Burner but not as good as either. That's very Mindscape alright.
And there you go. I have written over 2,200 words for this reply, which is only 400 less than this very post. I hope it is sufficient lol. I should make it longer to eclipse your post length but the only thing I can say is I want more details about JESSICA LAKE-KAUFFMAN stuffing CHEESE into a NES.
ReplyDeletemy sister was born in 1990 and she is five years younger than I am. I do not know when or even what kind of cheese she shoved into my nintendo. Just thats how it went out. I like to think that NES is out there somewhere but it's probably got crushed into a little cube that was crushed into something else and is now a part of some bathtub in a landfill somewhere. Hell it wouldn't fucking surprise me if my SHITHEAD "FRIEND" somehow convinced me and my parents that the NES didn't work anymore and just took it and my games. That's how he got my damn games. I seriously do not know how he did! I don't even remember my parents liking him!
ReplyDeleteTalking about rough shit and let's just be honest every moment (except the one positive moment) with this kid was rough. However since I don't know if I want to talk about him very much more ongoing or whatever so I will tell you the one positive moment involving him: I had a teacher, of French, in Fifth grade. I had clearly checked out of everything related to school at this point and did what I had to do as quick as possible. Like my parents would literally do several big things for me. My dad and my sister made a bridge out of popsicle sticks while I dunno played Tiny Toon Adventures Busters Hidden Treasure on the Sega Genesis. I did this because most kids either didn't want to be around me because of my "friend" or because I was a fucking weird little gremlin of a child (don't be surprised by this in any manner) Anyway this teacher had the worst hair trigger easily angered temperament ever (even my old mans was better!) and would say "Stop giving me sauce" whenever he thought we were being disrespectful. So I tell my friend to go "MMM Sauce, what kind"
because well this child would literally do anything to bother someone. He did it and TO THIS DAY. Almost 30 fucking years later I have NOT seen a human being get angrier than that teacher was at that moment. It was literally a cartoon moment seeing how red his face was. It was amazing.
I did play more Mario 64. I mean I just couldn't let a Christmas present go. I don't hate Mario 64 I just feel a lot of the game just isn't that great. I do have nostalgia for some games on the N64 like Snowboard Kids and Goldeneye. I'm sure both of those games are now at a "no fuck you" price. Of course I've gotten so bothered and annoyed that more than $5 on anything is a fuck you no price. Also I played Zelda 64 and I just felt like I had my fill of the game by the time Link becomes and adult and I never beat it and I really don't think I ever will.
I seriously remember sending Money Orders because of eBay. to buy Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers and my less than 30 dollar Darkwing Duck. I know most people would wish for riches if they got a Genie, like right off the bat but unless something happens between now and when I find a genie my first wish is "this stuff and by this stuff i mean literally anything collectable that's also nostaligic" goes back to dirt cheap prices. Try to get rich off anything else you shits.
The fact that Mike Etler is 56 and just feeling like doing his video game store again is kind of amazing. I use his list for this stuff so blame him for putting I Can Remember where he put it. It's a very wild how just a list, a random internet list can be so nostalgic to me but this list is that. I also love that he is apparently the guy that's like I dunno Chuck Norris who can do amazing "wtf Mike what are you doing" things into old age. I hope to see him mosh pit way into his 80s. Also I kinda want to scare tsr now. It's very rare you get to see what a silent mountain looks like when he's scared shitless.
There are like two reasons where you should be like "Yeah I think this thing has finally reached it's absolute end point and we should quit despite the fact it is making money hand over fist and we cannot quit it" is when you literally change the entire game's style and what the game is sixteen games in. People expect an RPG of some kind and you clearly have no more RPG ideas that fit within the Final Fantasy world. It would be nice if one of these long running things just left and died. Oh and the second reason is the when you do the literally same script like Bewitched did and no I won't quit on that. Long running stuff is great but sometimes leaving the world wanting more is beautiful too you know.
ReplyDeleteThey seriously, SERIOUSLY were hoping for way too much when they put from 3 to 8 on the game cartridge. Seriously the only way any child playing these games over the age of 5 is that they are developing mentally wrong. I'm not trying to be funny here that is the only reason any child would give up on like who knows how many more interesting to play games.
I guess I should mention that I don't know about what actual narrative shows my nieces watch but they give up SO EASILY for YouTube Kids. I guess that's what I'm really against, these weird, cheap, thrown together videos that I just don't see what they get out of them. They don't seem to be entertaining or enlightening. Plus when they don't get their ipad time they get very grumpy. I do like that you are a fan of Teen Titans Go. SECRET DC LOVER!!!!!
I'm just most of the time I don't really get that angry when they change race or anything, however I will say you are correct about this. Snape literally looks like a ghoulish ghoul thats still somehow human. That's not someone that can be played by this weirdly beautiful black man. I think at this point I'd just wish for all this stuff to stop production if only to ruin the good time complete dickheads who complain about it to an insane degree (and actually get legit racist in doing so. I don't think it's automatically racist to be like "I want this thing to stay as true to the original as it can" but holy shit have these guys made it racist as they can.). I guess that would be wish #2. If you are going to make things, make new things, even sorta kinda new things. I'd take things that are kinda ripping off other things at this point!
ReplyDeleteI think I will end this with two comments. I think that beyond the politics and all that shit is just how without internet moderation, how many people are willing to just be as crappy as possible. It's really sad.
I also jumped ahead to Flight of the Intruder and will have to do FIST OF THE NORTH STAR in the next post but it somehow works to tie up this post so well.
Ok then stuffing cheese into a NES like she's feeding it as adorable. To be fair, with the lid open, it looks like a mouth and you kept putting games in there... can't fault a toddler honestly. And seriously, I like this story more than your shithead. Which is obvious but like, there's little we truly remember about being single digit age when we're this old. You are very likely remembering it correctly because honestly, you would not remember it if it didn't happen because it's so wonderfully ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteOn the subject of your parents not liking shithead, we unfortunately have that situation with both our kids now. My son has a friend, we will call him O who is on the spectrum and unfortunately he's on the part of the spectrum that makes him kind of a twat. The good thing is he is homeschooled and they only met through scouts which O quit, But he can be beligerent to my kid and I don't like. Meanwhile, my daughter has S who is kind of a wrecking ball, made worse because her dad died unexpectedly back in September which is fucking freaky because he was 5 years older than me. She was honestly ok then this past week she tells my daughter that Santa isn't real. Come on don't do that. So my wife and I scrambled to cover it. Like, she's 11, the Santa thing is on its last legs (the boy already knows) but don't do that to another kid.
Why am I telling you all this? I guess you're telling us all your personal stuff, I should too and not to mention you're not alone in how you feel about your personal shit. You can talk about anything as much as you can. Between all the claw memes and me arguing with you, we're still friends, you know?
But that fucking story with the teacher and the sauce line is fucking gold, lol.
Fair enough, I misinterrepted your comment about Mario 64 but I agree with you on Zelda 64. I played it a few years ago and I went "That's it?". The world is honestly pretty fucking empty. You turn adult, revisit some places, go to like 2 new ones and then you're done. I probably will play it once more in my life and that'll be it. I don't blame you for not finishing it. Also it was the start of LINK IS FUCKING ANNOYING mode from Nintendo. I rememebr playing the GBA port of Zelda III and they added all of his annoying SNNERP and YEEERRRZZ sounds to it and I played the game with the sound off.
To answer your question, neither BOND as the cool kids call it is like $25. But Snowboard Kids is $60 and the second one is about the same. And of course, the boxes for both could pay rent for a month. Of course. I wish prices would crash but it looks like even though the same diseases that killed comics and cards are prevalent in game collecting, something is keeping it from crashing into the ground. I don't get it. I have harped on a collecting crash but I have given up because it doesn't seem like it'll happen. After the 2020 surge, it should have but didn't. I don't know. I would support your genie wish 100% even though it would collapse the value of my stuff. I don't care, these things were made to be played.
The Mike Elter thing gets crazier (full disclosure, I went to his store in October and talked with him for FIVE HOURS, just like old times when he knew him 20 years ago). He is still the NJ warehouse manager for PC Richards & Son which as Damien will tell you is a more or less mom and pop furniture and appliance store. He does the store on weekends and some evenings. I wish I could say I could be that not lazy. It was sparked because he still had 25,000 items unsold from his run of the original store (not unique items, but 25,000 pieces as he put it). He now has 10,000 items in the store and the other 15k is between his basement, garage and storage locker.
Where did he get all this stuff? Clearance and closeout. He shows me a box of THE CROW TRADING CARDS. Yes, the 90s Crow. He had 30 boxes of the cards he bought for $2 a box in the 90s. He put one box out and has already made back the money he laid out at $4 a pack. HE STILL HAS 28 MORE BOXES. No imagine that with even more stuff. When I got there, he was pricing Neo Geo AVS console games that he had dug out earlier in the week. Casually like 15 of them. He has an ungodly amount of stuff. He would just suck up whatever was rock bottom cheap and stash it.
ReplyDeleteHis list was part of us coming together. It was our checklist for our hobby. He is the patron saint of NES. That's all there is to it. And I almost didn't believe him about the concerts but here's his reddit account:
https://www.reddit.com/user/R5A9
I don't know if links will get blocked out in comments or not but his username is R5A9 if it does and you want to google it. The username is from Star Wars (like R2D2), if you keep going way down his comments, he made it for some Star Wars trading game he did with his kids. Also random fun fact, he has 1 son and a boy & girl twins. Both twins work for Audible, the audiobook company. Random!
I mean maybe |tsr is different now, it was 20 years ago, which is clearly where my brain is stuck but odds on, he's exactly the same. You know. (If you got that reference... you may remember Mt St Gifford's final update on his NES site).
Yes exactly on Final Fantasy. Not to mention there's 3 billion other FF games out there. Like, give it a rest. I know they are working on 17 and I am sure it will be disappointing. I doubt I'll even play it.
Yeah, like, is there any kid that still plays with Fisher Price stuff, any Fisher Price stuff after 5? They clearly were getting greedy trying to rope in a parent with an older kid. Imagine getting that shit for Xmas when you wanted Contra. OOPS.
For what it's worth, when we take tech away from the kids, they get better and nicer, especially my SASSY daughter. Your nieces are too young but they will get to the point where no tech time is a very good thing.
Hey. Teen Titans Go is parody of DC as far as I'm concerned. Now if it was the original angsty Teen Titans, you'd have a point, JERK.
Ok I have to cut this short unfortunately because I have go out of the house (I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS), but I will get to your new NES post later.
But no seriously, the NESSICA LAKE (see what I did there) CHEESE STORY is wonderful. I love it.
ReplyDeleteI think I would use Fisher Price toys as like bad guys within a bigger game of toys because i couldn't find anything else but a fisher price game at the age of 8 would have caused me to look at my parents like they had fucked a goat right in front of me.
ReplyDeletei like the stan lee bits in the teen titans Go to the movies movie.
I LOVE CAMEOS.
Yeah, older stuff had a place as you got older. Kids for little kids were outgrown and gone.
ReplyDeleteLol the movie is kind of insane. There's so much of the show which is the right level of goofy. Batman and Commissioner Gordon show up and just watch cable TV and that's like 6 entire episodes of that.