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Congratulations, all!
I'm in luck; I've been playing a lot of Joust on my 7800 recently. I'm not very good at the game, but I enjoy it quite a bit.
- Sabertooth and Justin
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33725. I did better during the video that I couldn’t get to work but whatever.
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I filmed a gameplay video but I had some difficulties with it and it ended up being junk. So I’ll have to try again.
- socrates63 and Sabertooth
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7 minutes ago, Justin said:
Wrecking Crew on NES is a game I've known of for decades. I didn't own one until I began collecting in the 1990s, but I never had the manual. I've spoken of this recently in High Score Squad. What's the deal with Wrecking Crew? Is that supposed to be Mario? /seinfeldvoice I never understood what I was supposed to be doing, or why he couldn't jump. It wasn't until I forced myself to do a High Score Squad Challenge on it that I realized it's not a Mario platformer so much as it's a puzzle game, and then I grew to really love Wrecking Crew. Very much.
We in the Wrecking Crew fan club are always happy to welcome new recruits. Welcome to the club, man.
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This. This is my greatest achievement. The ring isn’t cracked.
- Rocker67 and nosweargamer
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Last month, I decided to start keeping a journal/diary again, the first time in almost two years. So much crap has happened in my life since then, and we're living history at the moment with the pandemic and stuff, plus a lot of the personal stuff that's been happening, so I decided to update it. It's nice to have a record of it all. I'll probably need it to remember who I was when I inevitably get early-onset dementia from my incredibly unhealthy diet soda addiction.
But anyways, I've always been a huge retro gaming fan. I thought that I'd let you all take a peek inside my gaming life as a preteen. I won't be sharing any of the super personal stuff here, just a few of the gaming-centered topics. I might add more of them later, who even knows. Please feel free to comment on these if you wish!
February 1st, 2016. A then eleven-year-old HDN writes:
"This year, 'Metroid'... [is] turning 30, like 'Super Mario Bros.' did last year. What are they going to do for the series? Here's what: 'Metroid Prime Federation Force', that's what. I've seen the trailers, and here's what it is:
"'Metroid Prime Federation Force' is a 3D MULTIPLAYER game. First of all, METROID and MULTIPLAYER don't go together. For thirty years, Metroid has been about being alone on an unexplored planet. And the games have NEVER been straightforward, even the platforming ones. They are all so adventurous.
"Another thing about Federation Force is that it is NOT adventurous, or at least from what it looks like on the trailer. It appears to be a shoot-'em-up type of game. I hope with all my heart that this is a spin-off, like "Metroid Prime Pinball" for the Nintendo DS. It probably is."
I remember this! Federation Force, what a fricking joke. I remember being so pissed off that just the year before Mario's 30th was this massive deal, and we Metroid fans got this joke of a game after years of silence after Other M bombed. I didn't know at the time, but a new 2D Metroid (the first to be released after I was born in 2005) was right around the corner.
July 7th, 2016. An eleven-year-old HDN writes:
"Today I went to the Seymour [Wisconsin] museum with Papa. There is an arcade exhibit there for all of July. You can play some of the games there for free! The guy who owns the games is named Mr. Czech. He is very nice, and he has a lot of rare games. He has a prototype "Bubbles" from the creator's office, and "Death Race", which only has 30-40 units in existence."
That arcade museum exhibit was really cool for a younger me. For those wondering, "Papa" is what I've always called my grandfather. This refers to a certain "Mr. Czech" character. I did a bit 'o research, and I came up with a certain Bradley Czech, a semi-local collector of arcade machines who has shown off his collection at various museums in the general area. I'm quite skeptical of that Death Race statistic, though. Not sure how accurate that is.
This article here even mentions that Bubbles machine (which I stuck between the red rope things to play. DON'T TELL!) and Professor Pac-Man (which I didn't recall but I'm not doubting it was there). https://wisconsinlife.org/story/video-arcade-game-collector-aims-for-museums/
July 8th, 2016. An eleven-year-old HDN writes:
"At the museum yesterday, I saw Mr. Czech fixing a game called "Major Havoc". I knew that I had it on the XBOX, but I had never played it. So when I got home, I played it. And it's a good thing I did.
"It's so cool! First, you see a cutscene with a guy fllying in space. Then, you see a screen showing what [you're] going to fight and where you are on the map. Then, you fight swarms of [aliens][guarding] a planet. After that, you land your ship a docking platform. Finally, you traverse a maze and detonate a bomb! Then, ESCAPE! Rinse & repeat [until] you beat the game. What's more, there's a "Breakout" minigame!"
Oh, Major Havoc. I love this game, and it's cool to find a concrete date on when I first played what is now one of my all-time favorite arcade titles, even if this account has many spelling and grammatical errors that needed correction.
Later in the day, I was pretty much the only person left in the arcade exhibit besides Czech. So I kind of got a bit of a private tour. He showed me around and talked about all these things. Many of the things I had already known about even at the time (like vector graphics and the histories and what have you), and he accurately pinned the blame on YouTube. But I did learn about some new things, like Death Race for instance.
It's strange seeing how I've evolved as a person so much since 2015, not just in video games but in general. There have been experiences in my life that have changed me. New people in my life who have helped shape me. A bit of self-realization, a better understanding of who I am as a person. New interests found and old interests lost. A journey from a life as a friendless, loser ten-year-old to a decently outgoing and social Sophomore with plenty of friends from all over the place with all sorts of different interests and backgrounds. I've learned so much more about the world.
But not everything changed. I'm still incredibly nerdy, but I've learned to embrace it. I'm still a pretty emotional dude. I still like doing a lot of the same things I liked then, like going places and looking at birds and the like. I still hate my mom, probably moreso now. I'm still a fatass. I'm not a completely different person than I was back in 2015-17, but I've changed. I've become much more comfortable in my own skin.
Wow, this got a bit deeper than I intended. Let's go back to talking about video games. I love sharing my personal history with others, so PLEASE let me know if you'd like to hear more from past Harry. I'm sure he wouldn't mind.
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I love, love, love Q*Bert. It's one of my all-time favorite 2600 games. I sure hope I'll get around to it. It's been pretty hectic around here.
Why haven't I had time to play? Well, let me tell you about it all:
- Sabertooth, socrates63, TrekMD and 2 others
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I’m hoping to build up my NES collection for my retro New Year’s resolution. Thanks for the giveaway as always, @nosweargamer.
As for my normal resolution, well... there is somebody. I hope to gain the courage to ask her out this year, virus permitting. Don’t tell anybody, though.
- socrates63, AtariSphinx, RickR and 3 others
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Thanks @Justin. Love this game.
- socrates63 and Justin
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Welcome to my channel! I have been taking the time to convert it into a gaming channel.
In this episode of our new Let’s Play series, Molly (my sister) and I play some Super Mario Brothers 3 on the NES! Stay tuned for future SMB3 episodes and new games we play! I plan to bring in new guests as well in the future, as well as do full-blown video game reviews (like Space Invaders)!
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Last score. 110,459.
- AtariSphinx, Justin, ZilchSr and 3 others
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New decor courtesy of @socrates63. The man knows me well!
These are from Retro Gamer’s Loft, and they’re awesome! There’s another DK3 one not pictured.
- RickR, MaximumRD, socrates63 and 1 other
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Attack of the Timelord!
Magnavox Odyssey 2
Difficulty: 1
High Score: 569
November 16, 2020- nosweargamer and Justin
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Sorry that you were treated so poorly and taken advantage of, @Willie!. You’re a good dude. Take care.
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1 hour ago, CrossBow said:
You are looking for something like this, but I think console5 has been out of stock on them for awhile.
https://console5.com/store/famicom-to-nes-cartridge-converter-adapter-60-to-72-pin.html
Yes! Something like that is what I was describing to @RickR how it would work in the front-loader. See how it has that little ribbon thing to pull it out of the system?
Well, while we're all here let's talk about our NES collections! Also known as the collection I'm the most embarassed by. I only have 21 games for it. Why this one? I only have 24 7800 games, and I'm pretty proud of what I have there so far. I'm decently content with my 22 game N64 collection, even though most of those games are pretty crappy. I don't even really mind my eight-game Game Boy Advance collection. I don't know why I feel this collection of mine is pitiful. Perhaps its because NES collecting has always been so big and I seem to be the weirdo with only a couple of games. Not that I don't like my games, quite the contrary. I'm pretty happy with the games I do have and I think they are a lot of fun. Any self-respecting NES collector should get Lode Runner for example.
I think I should make my new year's resolution "get more NES games". I'm looking out for more black box titles, Kid Icarus, Super Marios 2 and 3, Yo! Noid, and of course the Famicom adapter.
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This reminds me of this thing I found a few months ago that I drew in second grade. This was shortly after I first saw what is now my Atari 2600. I tried hooking it up when my dad was over at his cousin's house to no avail. Now I know it was because the TV I tried to connect it to used UHF screw terminals rather than VHF, so it wouldn't work. I know this was very soon after I first saw the system as I completely forgot about some of these things' existence until I saw the thing for a second time last March when it was dropped off here at my house, like the Gemstick and Power Stick.
These were things I saw with the Atari systems there on that day, mixed in with a few other things that I enjoyed playing on the Atari 2600 emulator. I'll label them here:
From top left to bottom right:
- "[Atari Fuji symbol] Lives"
- Star Raiders overlay on Video Touch Pad
- Video Olympics mock screenshot
- Blocky Fuji Symbol
- Night Driver mock screenshot
- Coleco Donkey Kong cartridge
- Gemstick
- Tapeworm mock screenshot
- Pac-Man mock screenshot
- TV/Computer RF switchbox
- Power Stick
- ET sprite that is crossed out
- Driving Controller
- 4-Switch Woody
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Just now, RickR said:
This also makes me think a bit more about the adapter. How would one use the adapter with a standard NES? The cart (with adapter) would somehow have to slip into the cradle correctly and then pushed down into place. Seems like the newer top-loader NES would be needed to make that work. Or am I missing something?
The top loader would certainly make things easier, that's for sure. However, there is a way to do it. I saw one of these once where it was basically the lower portion of an NES cart. Inside was an adapter, and you just attached a Famicom game to it. To pull it out, it used one of those ribbon things you see attached to collector's edition books and bibles and things as a bookmark to pull the whole mechanism out of the console. Pretty ingenious.
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Well, nothing to see here folks. Not a Famicom adapter in sight around here. Guess I'll have to go find one then.
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1 minute ago, RickR said:
It would be nice to find one. The famicom is cool, but it plays on some crazy channel on USA TV's (like 92 or something) that a lot of TV's have trouble with doesn't it?
Yes. I think it's channel 95.
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Recently I've noticed something. There are many Famicom games that look interesting to me that never got released in the United States. Games like Nuts and Milk, Dig Dug, The Tower of Druaga, Devil World, and more. Obviously, being a filthy American, I can't play these games unless I emulate them. So, I'm going to go hunting for the elusive Famicom-to-NES adapter.
For those not "in the know": the early prints of certain NES launch titles contain nothing more than Famicom boards inside of an NES shell. The NES actually has more pins on its cartridges than the Famicom, so Nintendo made some official adapters for the boards. These adapters are most commonly attributed to the Robot Series games Gyromite and Stack-Up, but can be found in a few other titles as well. The most common giveaways that you have a Famicom-to-NES adapter inside your cartridge are:
- It's an early black-box title. Black-box titles are the ones you see parodied so often, with the black border, the pixel art, the off-skew title, and the series label. Games like Excitebike, Wrecking Crew, Duck Hunt, and Gyromite to name a few examples. The adapters are only found in the earlier examples are black box games, not games like Donkey Kong, Volleyball, or Slalom.
- It has 5 screws. The older NES releases have five screws on the back instead of the usual three. They also don't have a clip on the spine of the cartridge, rather a smooth surface. A five-screw game isn't a dead giveaway that your game has an adapter inside, but it certainly helps you narrow it down a bit.
- It weighs more than a standard NES game. A non-adapter cartridge typically weighs around 3.5 ounces, while one with it inside weighs around 4.5 ounces. A good comparison is that an adapter cart weighs about as much as two standard Atari 2600 cartridges. Not exactly, but close enough.
- In the case of Gyromite, the label. As mentioned previously, the black box labels have a series printed in the corner. Gyromite is part of the Robot Series, which has a purple icon. If you find a Gyromite cartridge with a deep-purple Robot Series icon on it, you almost definitely have a Famicom adapter on your hands. The lighter purple cartridge does not.
For more information, check out this link. Some things are inaccurate (I'm about 95% certain that Baseball never got an adapter inside of it as it was one of the few games at launch that was actually localized, but who knows), but you'll get the idea of it. https://theoldschoolgamevault.com/blog/articles/1053-the-elusive-nes-famicom-adapter
So yes, I'm going to go hunting. I have a few NES games that may qualify already in my pitifully small collection that I'll further investigate later. If I don't have one in there (which is most likely the case), I'll have to go out in the world looking for one. Game Trade, the store I frequent for my retro gaming fix, has a decent selection of imported Famicom games that I'll be able to enjoy should I find one. Then again, there's always the option to get a Famicom, but what's the fun in that?
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16 minutes ago, socrates63 said:
That's a good way to go, Harry. Collecting CIB games is a sickness. I started out with wanting just one CIB game -- the 2600 Pac-Man, the game that left a scar in my childhood video gaming memory. And then I got bit by the bug, so being content without boxes is 👍👍
I can see how that could happen. When I first started collecting many years ago, I felt like in-box games were a complete waste of money. When I got the 2600 and noticed that many CIB games cost the same amount as their loose counterparts, I was pretty excited. Now I’m seeing things. “Oh, x is only a few more dollars in the box than loose,” I find myself thinking more often nowadays. “It’s worth the few extra dollars to look nice on a shelf.” But then, thankfully, I get a hold of and stop myself. So far, I haven’t gotten any games CIB that cost me any more than if I were to buy it loose.
Oh yeah, I should make note of the one exception. Discs. I need a case for those. I mean, come on.
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24 minutes ago, ZilchSr said:
One of the things I enjoy doing is revealing tactics so that even first-time players can observe and achieve success by utilizing them. I appreciate the "fun" aspect of the Squad Challenge, thus, the intentional tilting of remaining balls at around the 55-minute mark, rather than continuing for multiple hours. I save the multiple-hours long games for the "take it seriously sites". It would be a thrill for me if a few people or more were able to take what's here and use it to experience the excitement of their first time rolling the score, if not multiple times 😉
You mean this isn't taking it seriously? What the hell, dude? I can barely crack 100k on this setting.
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