Are You Kidding Me?

Another crazy Craiglist add for a "very rare" NES game. No low ballers, please. I did check Amazon and sure enough they are selling a copy for $699 http://amzn.com/B00004SVNS. It must be sealed and graded, but still it seems a little excessive.

Flea Market Season Is Open

Iron Man made out like a bandit today.

Wolff's Outdoor Flea Market officially opened up today. Besides being a little windy the day turned out to be a really nice. Lots of vendors selling odds and ends. Not the best day for retro video game hunting though. I was only able to find two things I was willing to shell out for. Other than that there where a couple of resellers with over priced games.

Boxed Ghosts 'N Goblins $5 & Original Game Genie Box $1

Midwest Gaming Classic

So another Midwest Gaming Classic has come and gone. This was my second year going. I had a great time and got to play a bunch of fun games I wouldn't normally get a chance to check out. This year there were quite a few pinball machines. Seemed like a lot more than last year. I haven't played much pinball but whenever I get a chance to I tend not to pass it up. There are a couple of pins that I have always wanted to play, one such pin is Tales From The Crypt. I was a big fan of the TV show growing up. Even though I was rubbish at it I still had fun playing.

Aside from the arcade and pinball games I spent most of my time at the show in the museum area. This year they took over a few hotel rooms and filled them with different genres. 

The import room was probably my favorite. I played some Famicom game with a little Jason dude, lots of fun. In the general museum area they had the standard consoles setup and a couple of uncommon ones.

Phillips CDI

Neo Geo AES

So heading into MGC I had planned to focus on building up my Dreamcast and Sega Saturn collection, but I just couldn't find anything I wanted for a reasonable price, especially Saturn games. I really can't believe how expensive they are with most decent titles being price at $20 + dollars. I wish I could find them a little cheaper. I guess I'll have to keep looking. I might have struck out on the DC & Saturn, but that was diffidently not the case for the NES, Genesis, & the N64. I didn't find anything rare, just games that had sentimental value or seemed interesting.

Finally I have Goldeneye

Light gun game! 

Dynamite Headdy, another great game by Treasure.

 MGC 2013 was a blast. Met some cool people and gamed a lot. I can't wait until next year.

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Retro Pick Ups

Took a trip down to HPB today in order to take advantage of some coupons. I picked up Tiny Toon Adventures on the NES. I remember playing this one when I was a kid. Not sure if I rented it or if I owned it, either way I recall liking it. Also picked up a DVD for a buck, Hey Vern, It's Ernest! A short lived Saturday morning TV show starring the one and only Ernest P. Worrell. Anytime Ernest would come on the TV my siblings and I would be glued to it. We loved Ernest movies. I still watch Ernest Scared Stupid almost every Halloween. I played the DVD for my kid on the ride home and was really happy to see them laugh at Ernest and all his different characters. 

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Retro Pick Ups

Hello everybody, and happy holidays. I got some cool retro video game pick ups to share.

Mega Man X and Battleclash

Zombies Ate My Neighbors

Gotcha! and Kirby's Adventure

Mighty Bombjack

Sega Genesis on the Super Nintendo!

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Retro Video Game Pick Ups

So today my oldest son and I went game hunting at a few of the local Flea Markets. I picked up two Nintendo games Pac-Man and Sky Shark. I'm interested in digging into Sky Shark which I guess is a vertical shoot em' up. I love shmups so hopefully this it's a fun one. Pac-Man has always been one of those games I could play and have a good time even though I'm not to good at it. Not much else I can say about Pac-Man except that it's Pac-Man on the NES. 

Also picked up two PlayStation one games Die Hard Trilogy and Tekken II. I owned both of these games when I was a kid but like all my old games back in the day I ended up (regretfull now) trading them in. Anyways, we played the crap out of Tekken II when I was a kid (love this game). I was excited to add it back into my collection. Although it didn't come with the original case and manual I was more then happy to play the $1 the lady wanted for it. I can't remember much about Die Hard Trilogy except that I used to like it and thought it was fun. I guess we will see how it has held up compared to my memories of the game. All in all it was a pretty nice day. I ended up seeing a lot of cool things and I met some nice folks. 

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Retro Pick Ups

I took advantage of a Black Friday sale my local game store. Here's what I got:

Chip N' Dale Rescue Rangers, Mach Rider

Darius Twin, Eek The Cat, Super Castlevania 4, Super Metroid

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The Night I Took Castlevania Down

It was a darker than black fall night with a chill in the air that you could  feel deep in your bones. I sat in my dimly lit game room battling the minions of an ancient evil in Castlevania for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Each and every ghoul I took down sharpened my whipping skills into a divine like perfection that I would eventually need to win the night. I marched stage by stage until I finally made it to the dark one himself, Dracula. It was a hard fought battle that required all my cunning and strength, but in the end I was able to come out on top. Dracula was defeated just as a new day dawned, and I could now say that I have beaten Castlevania.

I set a goal to beat Castlevania earlier this month in honor of the Halloween season. It feels great knowing that I was able to complete the challenge. Like I said before in a previous post, Castlevania was one of the games I had missed out on growing up. I never played a game in the franchise until a couple of weeks back when I started my run at the original. I'm looking forward to seeing what the other games bring to the table because I had a blast playing this one. I've heard the second game is bad because of the changes to some of the play mechanics, but I have always liked to keep an open mind about things until I have experienced them for myself. 

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Retro Finds

Hey retro dudes and dudettes. This weekend I checked out a couple of new places in my area that I heard may sell retro games. The places ended up having a ton of retro stuff. One place even had a nice import section. Unfortunately most of the merch was way over priced. Even with the prices being a little out of line I was still able to find a few things that were more in my price range to add to my collection. 

Sub Terrania

Ninja Gaiden 2 (damanged label but I'll fix that) and Bubble Bobble

Not a perfect label reproduction but at least I can read it now. 

Robocop Vs. Terminator and Wrestle Mania

Now for what I'm not sure is a nice find or not, a TRS-80 color in the box with a couple of games. I am not really into the older computer gaming stuff especially something as old as the TRS-80, but for whatever reason I decided to grab it.

The box says it all

Bustout, Space Assault, Chess.

Maybe I'll learn some Basic...