I kinda don't want to go back to just small openings just yet, so I wanted to post a image of a Nintendo Power cover that had FLINTSTONES for the NES on it. You'd think they would rate a mention on the cover but nope. Neither did any of the other games I will be talking about today so I have to go with this poster from Nintendo Power, which lets me do my literal favorite thing is complain about the shit sucking fuckers who want to nickel and dime every single thing related to nostaliga. I mean I've kinda grown to hate seeing posters on walls because of shitty YouTubers, but here's the real deal. This guy took the poster out to sell it. He even admits it in the damn ebay listing I got this image from. So he can probably sell the magazine later. I'm amazed how much that annoyed me and how I had to mention it. Seriously if I somehow get the power to do so all of this stuff, even shit like fucking Stadium Events and Amazing Fantasy 15 will be at the give me twenty bucks for the whole lot price point. Like these guys wouldn't be able to say anything else. It would be amazing.
Anyway, I feel like talking about Nintendo Power and Video game magazines and I don't really care to make an entire post about them. So I will do it here because IT IS MY BLOG AND I CAN WRITE ALMOST 2,000 WORDS ON WHATEVER THE JESUS FUCKING HELL I WANT. Anyway I never had a subscription to Nintendo Power and I never ever saw any issues when they first came out. Seriously, not a single one, UNTIL issue 100. I remember buying that and letting a kid named Frankie borrow it and yep, I never saw it again. issue 100 is probably the point I would quit collecting Nintendo Powers if it were you know possible. I'm sorry but unless I become a millionaire of some sort would I start spending the prices people want for these magazines. I seriously, do not believe the first issue is now OMG RARE. I just cannot do it. I mean I never had the first isuse but I did have an issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly that talked about Yoshi's Story and that's interesting to me for two reasons. It involves what just might be the most god damn insulting moment of my life that didn't involve Mr. Shithead. Another kid, one of the cool kids. At least I thought he was cool, literally said WHILE I WAS THERE how he was going to get me to let me borrow his magazine and he was just oging to keep it because it had Resident Evil 2 things in it. Yeah, I was a weird kid. Yeah I was in SPECIAL ED but Jesus fucking Harold Christ I deserved at least enough respect for you to not TALK ABOUT HOW YOU WERE GOING TO STEAL MY MAGAZINE IN EAR SHOT. Oh and how Yoshi's Story was so easy and disappointing. You do not need a magazine to beat that game. Hell you do not even need a fucking pulse of any kind. It's really sad.
Anyway I once got like thirty-forty Nintendo Powers for so cheap that it made it worth it to get them all. I don't remember where or when but I just had to have them at that point. I do remember reading them all so much they got torn to shit and I have maybe three of them left. I don't know if I can say I have three. I loved reading them over and over again. It was so cool. NES/SNES era Nintendo Powers. I might actually want to collect Nintendo Power. Not today. I got some Nintendo Powers recently as in a like a year or so ago and I just realized after buying all of them for $10 EACH that one of them had no back cover. Amazing what time does. Now we can finally review some NES games. I promise next time it will be a very short opening.
I made a mistake within the last post in this blog post series. The last game was supposed to be this and not Flight of the Intruder but for whatever reason that game fits better for that post so I'm going to keep it. It's not like I'm going to forget a game. If any games get dropped or forgotten I will go back to them like I will for the Power Pad games. You will see way too many NES reviews. Anyway this is not a very good game but it was made between 1985 and 1987. I mean okay this game was finally brought over in 1989 but it's really a 1987 release and I cannot get to angry at a game that was made that early. For the most part. I'm not going to be too happy with most of the NES Black Box sports games. Anyway this game is probably going to end up in the bad category because it's not good but a lot of people get angry at this game and I really can't. This game has not very good graphics, not very good sound. It can be either really really hard or incredibly easy. It feels like the game's enemies and bosses can either be trapped and beaten easily or they will trap and beat you easily. Anyway you are better off watching the anime or reading the manga instead of playing this game. I know they made a ton of sequels and I never bothered to play any of them.
They made a surprisingly amount of Retro games based around Hanna Barbera things but most of the games made for the NES, SNES and Genesis were made around three properties. The Flintstones, The Jetsons and Scooby Doo. I have mentioned before how I was never a really big fan of two of those shows. They were just kinda bland and this is coming from someone who watched a lot of Hanna Barbera and look upon them fondly. I was never a fan of the Flintstones. It was on the list of "Whatever" Shows. Ones you'd go "whatever" and watch. I don't remember a lot about the Flintstones. However I really like the video game platformer games based around the Flintstones. I really remember playing and renting the SNES game a LOT and think it's still pretty good. I mean addmitetly I have a huge wild ass boner for platformer games in general, regardless of what license you put on it. This is a simple fun game game made by Taito. The game looks like the cartoon. the music is good. and I like how they even put in mini games and everything. I just like platformers and I think this is a well made one.
Yes, it's another rare game. Yes you know what that means because I will always do this until I am done with every game (I am also thinking about putting in Europe only games too but who knows how old I will be when I am done) and that's complain about how most of these games are not that rare. First off I do not believe this game was a blockbuster only rental thing at this point. For two reasons. Yeah Flintstone had some marquee value in 1994, definitely more than it has now but not enough for Blockbuster to go HOLY SHIT YES WE NEED THIS AND ONLY US. The second reason is look at that date for the games release. 1994 was the final year that licensed games were released for the NES. In 1994 they put out 11 Licensed games and 1 Unlicnesed game (at least according to some website I just found) and no Blockbuster isn't screaming NO ONE OF THESE LAST GAMES MUST BE OURS. I could MAYBE see if the entire internet was saying the SNES Taito Flintstones game was blockbuster only but I will never believe, unless GOD HIMSELF FLIES DOWN FROM THE FUCKING HEAVENS AND TELLS ME HIMSELF that Flintstones Surprise at Dinosaur Peak was a Blockbuster exclusive. Nintendoage can kiss my ass on that one. Also the price for most copies of this game come out to over 1,000 dollars. One entire fucking grand for a old ass Video game based on an even older ass cartoon series. Seriously you can't spend that money as a normal person. Sorry you are now rich if you can spend that on ONE VIDEO GAME. Like I don't know what my mother would think if I somehow spent that on ONE THING even if I did save up for it. I would never spend this much for a NES game because I hate to break it to the people who want to somehow make this their investment for money making. These games will end up being plastic coasters that will not work. Finally I have finished bitching about shit heads who have ruined collecting everything because they don't want to learn how the fucking god damn stock market works like a fucking actual adult who does investing of things and now I can talk about this game. If you like the original game and I do then this is a new group of levels and characters to play and fight. This game is a bit harder than the original and the last stage is a bitch. I like the inclusion of being to play as Barney as he moves differently than Fred and I just think everything like music, play control, level design, mini games and everything you want in a platformer to be r eally done well in this game. It's not worth over one thousand dollars and people who invest into video games, comics and all kinds of stupid nerd shit should get run over by a sherman tank. Fuck you all you all.
You might be wondering why I put both of these games here and I'm doing ot for one reason and one reason only. I legit forget which of these games is which. They are very similar. One of them is the sequel to the other and I forget which is which. I think Flying Dragon is the original and the sequel is Flying Warriors. I think Flying Dragon was mostly a platformer with a few one on one fights and Flying Warriors was the one with mostly one on one fights. I remember both of them being pretty alright, yeah I spent $10 at the flea market and got two NES games and if I had spent a penny more I would be disappointed. They were literally $5 at the Flea Market good. Just the barest minimum of Good, not okay, not bad. Just barely getting to that Good level. I just remember being like yeah I enjoy playing these games but for whatever reason I don't care enough to put in the time to actually beat them. I really should but who knows. I just put them both here because there's just enough to discuss with both of these very similar games and they are both good enough for one paragraph. Sorry not sorry.
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a few posts ago I talked about Ferrari Grand Prix and was actually talking about this game. I got them mixed up. This is a game where you build your car up and changes shit. I really should have noticed something was up when I saw that Ferrari was made by Acclaim and not Seta who made like 5 games for the NES and I don't know if they even did make any more for the Game boy or the SNES. They were like yeah this video game making thing is not for us and just went off to do something else. I really do not know. Anyway this is actually a review of Ferrari Grand Prix which is..........fine. It is clearly one of the racing games they want you to put effort into figuring out how it moves and not just Rad Racer where you plug it in and just race to the end of the stage in the time allotted. I just much prefer the Rad Racer style. Will I one day fix this mistake and put the reviews where they are supposed to be, maybe but that day will not be today because I am EHHHHHHHHHHHH TOO LAZY.
Another six games down. SEVERAL HUNDRED LEFT TO GO. Anyway here are the rankings of Good, Bad, Okay and WHATEVER THE HELL ELSE
Good Games:115
Bad Games: 82
Okay Games: 29
Impatient baby might be whatever: 3
I still wholy support your devalue wish. Putting it to comics and cards would be even more hilarious. Especially cards. A card that came out 2 years ago that the card company stapled a piece of a game worn jersey to went for like $2 million dollars. Because they made one of them. 2 years ago. That's not "rare" that's manufactured to be rare. Fuck you. Do they know that cards have become no different than a lottery? It's so dumb.
ReplyDeleteAlso, that's some penny pinching to cut out a poster than sell the magazine. People are desperate.
You want to know what's sad? I could stand in front of my game collection and rant like these retards and get views because apparently spending money on games makes people look at you. Fuck that. Pinning a NP poster to your wall for the same reason is pathetic.
By some miracle, my parents were on top of things and I got the last 2-3 issues of NINTENDO FUN CLUB in the mail so we had a NP sub from the get-go. If you were older like me, you'd probably have #1 too. To your point, the first one is DIRT COMMON. Nintendo printed like a Bible's worth of them because, you know, it greatly helped sell their games. The problem, as it always is these days, is slab shops that were already equipped for print things and now they slab NP #1 for profit. Please get your wish, seriously.
People suck, dude. And shitty people have shitty kids like that kid you mentioned. It's why there's no hope for humanity. Crap people still are allowed to have crappy kids and the cycle repeats endlessly. Add in the selfish/egotistical nature of humans and well... that's why we're here away from everyone else. I have tried to keep myself retracted from the populace. It's not easy but I can say my life is a lot less stressful this way. When I say get off social media, this is part of it. I have a LinkedIn account for work and LinkedIn is a fucking joke anyway. Otherwise, I have no accounts and only follow links from people I know for jokes and other stupid shit. I really suggest you do the same.
So I've had Yoshi's Story for 20 years. I don't remember buying it but it's been there. As I've whittled games down, I kept it because hey, first party Nintendo and Yoshi. So recently I got rid of a bunch of games (actually just removed from the gameroom and now sitting in totes because I want to trade them for stuff I want and selling stuff to people gives me hives) and I looked at Yoshi's Story and was like "let's try it". And I did. And I beat the first world in like 6 minutes. Not like the first level, but the first entire world. We talked about Fisher Price games and this is how the Fisher Price games should have been. I'm getting rid of it.
Nintendo Powers were so good. A MICROCOSM of actually helpful information and new game information that masked that the magazine was one big ad so well. We have a full set which was largely built on my wife collecting them all and then maintaining a subscription past the N64 era until it stopped being made. We even let it lapse for like 2 issues but it was ok because no one cared about NP during the WiiU era so they weren't much more than retail. Here's a fun thing to try that will make your nose bleed: type into eBay "nintendo power eon ticket". I apologize in advance.
I will be honest, I am not paying attention to what games are being reviewed. If you miss one, unless it's like part of a series like Fisher Price, I'll probably miss it. It's ok but it's appreciated to go back if you do.
ReplyDeleteI am in the camp of Fist of the North Star is bad, but like, not terrible. It's really cool that it didn't get the Dragon Power treatment and holds to the O MAI WA MOU SHINDEIRU it's based on. Fun fact: we got Fist of the North Star II instead of I. One is even worse but kind of funny bad. I suggest you give it a try.
The only one of those STEVE HARRA and JOE BOB BOBERA shows I liked was Jetsons. I think Fred Flintstone just turned me off as being just a douchebag, and Scooby Doo never really set in for me. I did watch a good amount of Jetsons even though the whole concept bugs me now. 60s futurism is laughably bad. Like, yeah now it's like 5 years from when the Jetsons happened but everything was that fart smelling vibe the 60s had. I don't really like the 60s era pop culture at all. 70s just seems like everything was dirty and then the 80s blended the two and ran with it.
And then there's Flintstones 2. You are very correct about the Blockbuster thing. Do not ask me how the logic you dropped evaded people like NA shitheads. My guess is they had copies and wanted the value to keep up. To add to what you said, stuff like Ren & Stimpy Fire Dogs and Clayfighter Tournament Edition said ON THE BOX, Blockbuster Exclusive. So tell me how Flintstones 2 is exclusive. Also, the value of both of those SNES games is FLAT AS FUCK. So why does anyone care that Flintstones 2 is exclusive when rental exclusive doesn't matter for shit? It's all so stupid. A better argument would be to say the late Taito releases (this, Samson, Power Blade 2, Jetsons, etc) are harder to find (NOT RARE) than a portion of the NES library. I could buy that. But no, this rental thing will not die. Another fun fact: show me where a normal human could have bought a Color Dreams game. I will bet A BRAZILLION DOLLARS that every collector who played one of their games in the early 90s RENTED IT.
You see clawzy, the only problem with bringing up all this dumb collector shit is even though I am a collector through and through, is I side with the gamer side of things and am sick of this collector shit now. I saw the light and saw it a decade ago. Will these people ever? I doubt it. Anyway, I apologize for filling my GREAT COMMENTS with collector rants but I can't help myself and this stops me from posting on reddit telling all of these people how dumb they are and getting banned and making yet another burner account lol.
I have never been able to get into either Flintstones game. I don't know why. They never hooked me. I should try again.
Culture Brain games had a very specific vibe to them. These two, Scherezade, Kung Fu Heroes/Little Ninja Bros, even Baseball Simulator 1.000 all basically run on the same engine and they must have had one graphics and sound guy who did everything. I look back on them fondly as I have Little Ninja Bros and played it entirely too much. To be honest, I don't think I've played either Flying game, but I do remember the 1v1 combats and the unreleased Fighting Simulator which was entirely for sure 1v1 fights.
Not being racing fans and preferring games like GALAXY 5000 and not RARE CRAP like RC Pro Am (I kid... maybe, you'll find out in the Rs), all of these games look alike. I definitely played this and Ferrari and they are both fine. I prefer this one tbh.
The devalue wish would help me too. I mean, hell I'd probably collect the NES games and SNES games again even though I HAVE a everdrive and no room to put them anywhere. when the prices were anywhere from "take this garbage out of my house please thank you" to at BEST like what 300 bucks for Stadium Events? I mean 300 bucks was not something you wanted to spend on any old ass game but it's WAY more doable for people than having to sell a car to own a damn copy.
ReplyDeleteI want to collect old toys. I've always wanted a Teddy Ruxpin because I would watch reruns of the show as a kid. I want Transformers because I would watch reruns of it as a kid and probably had only like three of them. I've always wanted a talking Freddy Krueger doll because the fact these movies also ended up targeting children will never not be hilarious to me. seriously.
The company literally manufacturing that card so it will be rare literally makes me want to shit blood. like an entire blood vessel or something, which really cannot be good for someone.
I ended up subscribing to some guys because at the moment collecting in Newfoundland is like I dunno trying to turn a potato into solid gold. Not possible. I mean watching guys buy this stuff and sell it and collect it via youtube was something until i started realizing things. that they clearly want YouTube to be their job and I mean who the fuck wouldn't want that to be your job? I mean if you can get to one of those levels where you don't really have people shitting down your ass over something you said and have a decent following of people you can stand to be around who throw money at you. Shit that's a great fucking job!
My problem is that this shit went from fun to annoying. One guy and his friends go to the flea market in California like every week. Seeing this place makes me jealous. However recently it seems he buys stuff not for his own collection but to sell. And he even talks about how he's buying this stuff to sell. and I'm like FUCKING HELL DUDE FUCK YOU LEAVE THAT SHIT THERE FOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS IT. The fact he leaves stuff that I want to own also annoys the hell out of me. Fuck.
I really think those came from a subscription because Nintendo Power NEVER showed up in stores for sale UNTIL issue 100. Then it showed up like regularly, however I believe I did get a subscription for a little while. I really do not remember why I wanted a subscription or got one in the N64 era.
ReplyDeleteI just love that I wanted to be seen as cool as a kid so I just sat there and took it. I wish I had grabbed the magazine, ripped out the resident evil 2 pages and THREW THEM IN THE FUCKING GARBAGE. The things that would happen if I was given a do-over in life. Holy hot hannah.
Social media is so, so bad. I really do think it does some kind of Lord of the Flies thing with peoples heads. Thinking they are invincible or there are now no laws or anything. I don't want to get rid of Facebook as there are people there I've known for 20 years plus im still connected to accounts of people who have died and I'd lose that without Facebook, but I'm going to be a lot less active on it. Twitter has to go and I'm really whittling down my YouTube memberships. Anything that will make me go "OH FUCK YOU" is something I don't want or need at the moment.
I got Yoshi's Story when it came out because I loved and still love Yoshi's Island. I played so fucking much Yoshi's Island. Yoshi's Story was one of THE biggest disappointments of my gaming life.
Nintendo Power had such a cool vibe to it way into the N64 era. Yeah it was a commercial for Nintendo stuff put out by Nintendo but they still cared enough and knew they had to put effort into it to get us to buy said game. And they did have good information to help you through those games at least sometimes.
I should have known that Eon ticket was a pokemon thing. I say this as someone who was into Pokemon in the late 90s and all that and still have fondness for it for that era. Hardcore Pokemon fans are fucking crazy and somehow have more money than God.
I've been racking my brain back and forth trying to find out why I have a weird bit of fondness for Fist of the North Star and I think the fact they brought this thing that at the time might have only been known by the nerds other nerds didn't interact with in the comic shops of the 1980s would know about. When ANIME and MANGA and JAPAN weren't like SUPER HUGE they still decided that yeah we don't really need to fix a single thing about this ANIME VIDEO GAME ABOUT PUNCHING DUDES UNTIL THEY EXPLODE and we can just send it out as is. Something weirdly beautiful about that.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what it was but I never really liked the Flintstones or the Jetsons but yeah I did watch them. I mean shit there were times in the 1990s when the only thing you felt like doing was watching TV and even TV you didn't like. I actually really like 60s things, I guess it's because of my parents being children/teens during that era and just wanting to share it with me. I like 1960s pop culture way more than todays pop culture.....which is just 85% of what was pop culture during the latter half of the 20th century and some new things. Weird.
I will never get how that lie got told and then believed and then I realized yeah it's about the money. I am a collector too and if I somehow had the room or more importantly the money/ability to find this stuff hoo boy my house would literally look worse than the worst house in Hoarders. NO THERAPIST LADY YOU CAN'T TAKE AWAY MY BEWITCHED BARBIES. GO TO HELL.
Strange how The Jetsons took place in 2030. I always like to see when the FUTURE DATES of things pass. It's amazing to go yeah they were totally fucking off there! I like the Looney Tunes I think 60s Futurism cartoons when they are just being sarcastic assholes about the future.
Just people seeing these things as a investment and I'm like "Bro, learn how stocks work like an actual adult. Stop fucking around with people's fun because 20 years from now it might make you some money"
I think there's something about the Culture Brain feel that I like even though I think most of those games are at best GOOD and at worst ANNOYING. Electro Brain is the better Brain company.
I can't wait to review Galaxy 5000 and RC Pro Am.
Yes, I paid $325 for a loose Stadium Events and a complete Dragon Warrior III. That's semi-reasonable for the hardest to find game. The game is legitimately hard to find so there's a case for it. $1,000 for Flintstones 2 that you could buy at any time of day at any day of the week is not.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I would collect more than what I have my eye on but I have all this crap already. I would fully support you buying games again though.
I still want to get some stupid money and win a prototype of a completely unreleased anywhere game. Like Ultimate Journey. I would play it a little and I would send it to you to keep as your own. Not to dump, not to sell but just for you. It would be the universe righting itself just a tiny bit that you having a NES game no one else has and can play when you want in your NES. No one puffing their chest about releasing the ROM, no one selling it for thousands over and over again, no one taking the ROM and selling physical copies for $100 and no jackass putting it in a plastic slab. It'd be like having Gradius or Hoops. "Oh yeah, I have this copy of Ultimate Journey in my stack of games, whatever".
Why would I do this? BECAUSE YOU WOULD APPRECIATE IT. Not appreciate me giving it to you (I would expect nothing more than a THANKS, JERK) but you would appreciate the game itself. "It'd go to a loving home" as goofy as that sounds.
I'm all for collecting toys but I wish I could let myself go enough to play with old toys so it feels like a waste. I dunno, getting old is stupid and that magic is lost. But something like that Freddy doll is awesome and even on the shelf, it's worth it lol.
I don't know man, it's like that Cypress Hill song Rock Superstar "it's a fun job but it's still a job". You have to crap out content to keep people's short ass attention. You know how we always said we'd help with making UNKIE CLAW a superstar? Well literally part of that was me writing you outlines and scripts. Anyone on YT who has the ability to freestyle videos several times a week without planning beforehand is already famous in the real world. Actual talent is rare on Youtube.
That's the way things have turned with thrifts and fleas. It's a bloodbath. People will grab anything they can flip. eBay was always around but once smartphones became able to tell someone if an item is worth anything, it was over. I remember going to a flea when we lived in NJ and there was a stack of worthless GB games. I looked at them, knew from looking at them that the price wasn't worth it (even though I didn't have most of them, also you can't read this) and walked away. On the way out, I saw a GRANDMA ON HER PHONE looking up each game.
A lot of what we lived through and enjoyed is gone. Look at Damien, he got a VHS copy of Jaws and some power bricks at a thrift recently. Finding stuff people don't care about and won't charge hundreds for is hard.
Regret is a thing, clawzy. There was this movie called Paycheck a decade or so ago. It was about a guy who did consulting work and then erased the memory of doing the work for reasons. I want that tech just to erase all the stupid things I've done because I will be trying to go sleep and look at the time, it's time to remember that time I did something embarrassing, like embarrassing enough that I don't want to even mention them here. And the stuff I wish I did and didn't? Could fill the Bible. You're not alone at least.
Yoshi's Island was so good.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good step with your social media. It'd be nice if someone made like, a Craigslist bare bones social media site just for keeping connected with people. No ads, not trying to sell you stuff, no ALGORITHM. Just being able to message back and forth. It'd be nice.
Haha yeah, I didn't preface it with pokemon but there you go. Talk about something that is ruined worse than game collecting. I just want to buy my kids cards because they both like pokemon and I literally have the hood rat next door waiting outside Target to scalp cards. This is actually true when that hood rat (literally got money because he was in a car accident and sued... sigh) lived next door to me 3 years ago. Fun times!
Anyone into anime in the 80s was cooler than we will ever be. Talk about ahead of the curve. I guess thats who North Star was for. I am glad as well that they didn't tweak it.
This is true - I definitely watched a lot of TV that was just like, there. But I can't say I look back on it fondly. My parents were kind of detached so that could be the difference.
At least your house would be full of collectibles instead of garbage. The Mrs used to watch Hoarders reality TV shows and these people didn't collect shit, they collected... uh... shit. Like actual garbage. You'd be fine and your house would be GOOD AND FUN.
I'll be honest, did the Jetsons take place in 2030? *checks* It's actually 2062 (makes sense, 100 years after HAMMERSMITH BANANA AND JOHN DEERE BABA made the show). Oops. I guess I am actually making your blog worse now. My bad. At least Looney Tunes had the right attitude unlike DUSTIN HARRA AND FRANKEL BABABA.
The sad part is these dopes "investing" will drop games like a bad habit if your wish came true. You'd never see them again. WHICH IS WHY IT MUST HAPPEN. The only hope imo is making a game reproduction operation that creates 100% PERFECT replicas of expensive sealed games. The sad part is I know how this can be done for NES (the equipment to seal the games, the specifications for the cardboard and coloring, etc) but it would also be very illegals.
I will respectfully decline that Electro Brain is better than Culture Brain. CITE EXAMPLES OF SUCH OR AGREE WITH ME.
I like Galaxy 5000, jerk. BE NICE.
Is it just me or is Dragon Warrior just less wanted by these new collectors? I just don't hear much from these guys or anything. I remember III and IV always being a OH WOW YOU GOT THAT GAME response from MY FINDS FOR APRIL 8TH 2002 on NESescity. Remember that shit? Just sharing that you got some games.
ReplyDeleteYeah, $325 is something that's legit accessible for people who aren't SUPER ULTRA RICH. I just can't see myself going "Yeah, I'll blow this entire ONE GRAND on this one video game"
If I somehow got a NES GAME PROTOTYPE of some unreleased video game I would literally put up a random video of it on youtube and NEVER comment on it again. Just freak the shit out of people. It would be hilarious, of course I'd probably at one point want to just dump it. I kinda hate the weirdos that just hold on to this shit forever, but I'd have to watch the OH MY GOD WE COULD MAKE MONEY ON THIS people squirm.
Oh I would totally play with the shit. Lol, can't say I really care if people get angry that I'm enjoying my Teddy Ruxpin or TALKING Freddy Krueger.
I remember that we had a flea market in the mall going ALL the way back to the 1990s. People would have all kinds of stuff for sale all over the place. I would go there just about EVERY week. People would sell things from NES games to comic books to vhs tapes to just anything they wanted out of their house. It was so awesome. Collecting stuff here has not been the same since the whole thing was stopped because I dunno the Mall wanted to do something in the night time on Sunday, which I don't think they did anything with.
It's sad when you now see a random old person selling things and they aren't at "oh this was a guide for this stuff made in 1993" price but a "oh i saw it went for this on eBay" price. Sad.
that idea of the barest bones just "chat with this person" craigslist would be nice.
ReplyDeleteYouTube also seems like a hellish job too. I mean say a single solitary remotely positive thing about I dunno some New Star Wars thing and you'd have like 9200 freaks yelling at you like you spent 50 minutes talking about how much you love Hitler and Stalin. I would love to turn THE FINAL EPISODE into a YouTube show but I just know if I were like "Transformers G1" ended on a poor note I'd get yelled at so bad.
Scalpers of just about anything are completely shitty douchebags who really should fuck off to center of the Sun. Pokemon Scalpers are somehow even worse. Just let the big smelly adults and the little children enjoy their pocket monsters you dickheads.
I actually watched a pretty well researched video on guys who got MANGA big in America. It was an insane decades long thing but holy shit talk about literally finding a diamond mine after working for it for almost 5 decades. Yeah, some of that stuff goes back to the 1970s. It's insane.
The Flintstones and The Jetsons might have been "yeah whatever I guess I'm watching this" tv for me BUT it's kinda hard to forget the names of those shows because Jesus Christ they were still incredibly popular in the 1990s. How weirdly connected at least pop culture from the latter half of the 20th century was is kind of amazing. whatever pop culture comes out now just plops around and then gets forgotten two months later.
I would love if someone did that. Just ruined it all so that you literally had to check the authenticity of fucking Hoops and Silent Service.
Did Electro Brain do Stanley, not to uh ruin the review that will happen of that sometime soon I hope but I think that's a better game than all Culture Brain movies.
No you are completely correct, for whatever reason, they don't have the hype and luster that Final Fantasy does... and we only got 1 of those here. They dropped the ball and didn't put 4 through 6 on the SNES, which would have gone a long way. Also changing the name back to Dragon Quest for the PS1 game also didn't help since Dragon is so overused as a game name.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it was accessible to me ... and my credit cards. No one under the age of 25 should be allowed to have a credit card. It ook many years to be responsible enough to have them and I will very much leave it at that lol.
That's the problem. Before, I'd be gung ho, DUMP IT! But as you said, now I see how many scumbags are creeping around waiting to make a buck on this game that hasn't seen the light of day that now I agree with the Japanese collectors who are waiting to buy unreleased games just so white people can't get them (this literally happened with a game called Magical Kid Indy. It was on Yahoo Japan and white people swarmed on it and a Japanese collector threw down cash and said NOT YOURS, specifically posting somewhere on a Japanese site that we will never see the game again. But you having the game would be good in my book.
I can't fault you if you are playing with toys. Everyone has their "toys", they play with them just the same.
Yeah, the fleas of old are mostly gone except in like, rural areas. NO FLEAS TO BE FOUND. Now it's like you said, people selling stuff at eBay prices. Or pallets of Chinese crap lol.
You will never see a YT person with any sort of follower count ever reply to a comment and what you said is exactly why. They basically make content, throw it out there and pray it keeps THE LIKES FAVORITES SUBSCRIBES coming. It's the kind of pipe dream that we had about making NES games, but we didn't realize we'd need to learn 6502 ASM and that was a little ahead of our pre-teen brains.
Yeah dude, one time I was at Target and I was just getting some food or something and some poor worker was opening cases of pokemon cards and putting them out and he had BARRIERS AROUND THE AISLE while he did it and not only that, there were like six MAN CHILDREN SCALPERS waiting for him to finish. I didn't hang around but I had to imagine these six douchebags started hitting each other once this poor bastard finished.
I don't even know why Flintstones/Jetsons were popular. Because they were on and there was no internet? Unlike some of the stuff I tried to show my kids, with mixed results, my parents definitely didn't me at all into watching anything. Yeah, it was no Internet. And like, no modern Internet. Shows like Jetsons could still get traction in 2003. Now? Not a fucking chance.
I have thought about the fake sealed operation way too much. It was originally seeded in buying several thousand fake expensive tier NES games and just seeding the country with them. Send them to people I know and tell them to drop them off at thrifts. Make it so any copy of the game was suspect. Then NA shitheads really ruined things and then it moved to fake sealed games. There is literally nothing stopping anyone from setting up a fake sealed game operation. Nothing from the NES days was unique - it was all bog standard printed cardboard and shrinkwrap. Nintendo was just trying to sell games that someone couldn't easily pry open the box and steal the game (which is why they moved off sticker seals very quickly).
The equipment they used is still around, the materials are readily available and as long as you match the weight and weight distribution, no one at these grading shitholes will be the wiser. And that's the key - you could seed the market with this stuff and since they never fucking open anything, and the grading companies hire lemmings who run a checklist and don't actually understand what they're looking at, you could run so many copies through and if they even realize, it'd be too late.
Since it's essentially fraud, you'd have to be careful but as we've talked about, people are so desperate to turn a buck that you can casually seed them like my bootleg cart idea. Just take a stack and drop them off at Goodwill, repeat. People will take care of the rest - from selling the sealed games to even worse people slabbing them to passing them around and muddying the trail of where they came from so not even the FBI would ever find you.
ReplyDeleteWhich would lead to bombing social media with all the slab IDs of every single game you ran through announcing they're fake and saying that this is only HALF of them, which would make EVERYTHING suspect. That would collapse things almost instantly.
It's a wonderful dream.
I do not agree that Stanley is better than most Culture Brain games. I've never been able to get into it. Sorry Damien.
I'm with the Japanese - white people really do ruin everything.
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