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  1. I have been a fan of the Angry Video Game Nerd for years now, and thru his Youtube channel I found PatTheNESPunk, due to the cross over with the Nintendo World Championships AVGN episode.

    I haven't seen the CUPodcast clip yet. But it's funny that you mention, that is exactly how I stumbled upon Pat The NES Punk. Hopefully we get more people on here. The more people on here, means a better chance of getting scans we don't have and better preservation numbers.

    Congrats Retromags! :D

  2. We never really got into Halloween, it just wasn't a thing, here. On candies, though, I never really liked the ones you unwrap, and there's still some paper stuck on in, and it just won't come off, so you have to just eat it with the paper.

    Haha! Yes!! I found that it was mostly gum that did that to me. :)

  3. I was just at a retro show last Saturday and one vendor had a bunch of Amiibos on sale 3 for 20, ended getting Wii Fit Trainer, Dr. Mario & Kirby. 

    Nice! I see a lot of European and Japanese Amiibos, going for cheap prices. Were they the North American versions?

  4. That sounds kind of cool.  Were the comic Turtles in black and white?  I wonder how much of the audience for the new show is even aware of the previous incarnations?

    It is black and white, with the exception of the turtles that entered the dimension. They called the dimension the "Primary Turtle Reality". I believe (like Transformers), there will be some super fans that like everything TMNT related, kids of parents who grew up with comic and TV series will have told them about it. If the casual fan is watching, they got a little hint about what came before with this episode. It is pretty cool, and better than anything Bay could have ever done with it. :)

    I've linked the episode, it's called Trans-Dimensional Turtles

  5. LOL,  I hate those too, but I also feel the same way about the original movies and cartoon.  They make me have to curl up with a collection of the original Mirage comics to get my mind straight again...

    So many incarnations of the Turtles...I guess everyone has their own favorites.

    I never had access to the comics as a kid, so the cartoon was my first exposure to the Turtles. I do like the comics, and would love to have some originals, some day.

    I watched one episode of the new Nickelodeon TMNT, my wife was flipping through the guide and stopped on it because she knows I'm a fan of the original. I was just about to explain that to her, and funny enough, it was a cross-dimensional episode where they'd jump into different Turtles universe, one was the original comic, and the other two was the 80's and 90's cartoon. :)

  6. I recommend F-Zero GX for gamecube, F-Zero GP legend for gameboy advance, and F-Zero Climax, also for gameboy advance.  F-Zero Climax is an import title, but the menus and narration are entirely in english;  It's the only F-Zero game with a track editor!

    You must like F-Zero. :D

  7. People sell them on ebay, sometimes for rediculous prices.

    The demos that go for ridiculous prices are usually the demos that came with games (mostly Capcom and Squaresoft). The Demo that came with Tron Bonne, comes to mind.

  8. Should have bought some Apple stock back in 2000.

    Google would have been a better stock to pick up, after you sold your Yahoo shares at their peak.

     

    I bought a whole bunch of Sonic 3 copies because the save chip kept failing.  It's possible to replace the chip, but that requires soldering above my current skill level.

    Until a few weeks ago, I have never seen a save fail or batter die.

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    Old people candy, tootsie rolls and liquorice 

    Black licorice is the worst! One of a very short list of candy that i won't eat. Bleh!!

     

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    They hurt my teeth and never went down right.

    Lol.

    Did you know that you can make batteries out of pennies made after 1982? You just need a little bit of vinegar, some cardboard, and wire, or aluminum foil.

  10. No, most games were shorter back then.

    Yeah, but man, they were hard as f__k!

     

    I did... but now I tend to prefer buying games that didn't have save batteries.  Replacing all of those dead batteries is a lot of work.

    Have you replaced a battery before? I've got a Zelda DX that needs a battery. I've got a few thousand games in my collection and have seen a ton of doubles in my day, and this is the first time in 25 years of collecting, that I've seen it.

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    You can't deny that Hollywood has been running out of ideas since the late 90's early 2000's.  Everything is being rebooted or recreated or it's part of the Marvel Universe.  

    All the Marvel movies lose money at the box office because the movies are expensive to make and not enough people see them in the theater.  The Meta game to the Marvel Universe is the merchandising.  Milk glasses, Bluray boxsets, comics, Incredible Hulk Butt-Plugs and Halloween costumes.

     

    For the most part I like reboots but I don't like Ghostbusters.

    It's sad when I look up all the remakes worked on right now and the good looking ones out number the originals 3 to one.  I have a few that look very interesting.

    They're filming the new It just up the road from my mother and father-in-law's place. My sister-in-law took a picture of the house. Looks pretty creepy! That list of movies being reboot, looks good, I didn't more than half were getting a reboot.

     

    Now your getting it.  I misjudged Marvel movies though.  I never took interest in them and wrote them off as most other movies.  I could see myself one day when the price of 4K Oled TV's and AMD releases their performance chips in 2017 that I will enjoy  some of visual data I can pull from these movies.

     

    CG's as much as I hate seeing Ninja Turtles 1991 turned into a computer graphics movie, they do scale well when produced from scratch by alot of talent with a Novelist for a writer and an impressive amount of computer power at their disposal.

    I started watching the new Turtles movies, saw Megan Fox, got sick to my stomach, and the anxiety of seeing the poorly designed Turtles came back and I had to shut it off. It took me two original movies and four seasons, to put it out of my mind again. :(

     

    I saw the movie.  It was... well... bad.

     

    It seemed pretty clear to me that someone who actually cared about Ghostbusters wrote a first draft of the script, which was then edited by someone who wanted to make it a Spongebob cartoon, subjected to studio-mandated edits, and then directed by a guy who simply didn't care.  There was potential, but not much is left after all that whole process.

    There is talk of an animated movie or a series again. I forget what they were going to call it "Ecto-something-or-other", (was a pretty lame name), but it would be awesome to have the original cast, with Dave Coulier as Lorenzo Music, back.

  12. Every NES ROM in existence (thousands of them - NTSC, PAL, and JP) combined don't even fill half of a single CD-ROM.

    I love how more prototypes are making their way into the hands of people who can preserve games. Some home-brew games are so good! You'll never have a complete set, because of these. I'm doing my best to get a CIB NTSC/U NES collection I think I just passed 60%, it's still a long way to go, but I see a faint light off in the distance. :)

    I've been looking through my old Nintendo Power mags just after I got back home in March, I've noticed so many games that weren't released for the console that it was advertised to be on, or just nixed, completely. I've been wanting to get my hands on a reproduction copy of California Raisins: The Grape Escape, for some time now, but don't have the money. Man, Capcom made some great games back in their hay days. :)

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    This is a really good point, actually.  Samhain, if you become a fan of the original trilogy, you would be MUCH better off skipping the prequels and instead reading the Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn:

    1. Heir To the Empire

    2. Dark Force Rising

    3. The Last Command

     

    Most of the Star Wars novels I've read are merely...OK, but these three are excellent and really capture the spirit of the original films.  You can even get them in unabridged form on audio (20th Anniversary edition), and the narrator does an outstanding job with the voices.  Unfortunately they're no longer canon, as stuff in Ep VII contradicts them, but it doesn't change the fact that they're absolutely worth reading/listening to.

    I've got a buddy who has all of the novels. I'll send him a text and ask him to bring those three up with him, when he comes to town for a visit.

     

    No, someone uploaded our files there without our permission.  A few days ago there was a flurry of attention brought about when somebody reported on it and then hundreds of other sites copy/pasted the story.  This brought it to the attention of Nintendo's legal department, which forced archive.org to remove the issues from their site.

    I'm glad that got squashed.

    Have any of you tried the Metroid 2 remake? It's very well done, I've been playing that the last few days (which explains my small absence the last week or so), we had a massive storm 152mm in less than two hours, I don't even know what the total was. I have a ramp to the deck in the front yard, and a drain pipe that runs underneath, turns out that was plugged, and water pooled by the house and couldn't escape quick enough through the weeping tile, and a part of my video game room got soaked. I didn't lose anything, because I my wife noticed it an hour after I checked it. Man, the amount of time moving stuff to a safe area, sucking the water out, and waiting for the carpet to dry, then putting it all back together.... I would have been pretty upset if I'd lost some of my harder to find NES and SNES boxes, manuals and carts. :/

    It's good to be back, and dry. :)

  14. Famitsu is pretty much the most influential gaming mag in the world.  It's published weekly in Japan (over 250 pages each week).  It's been in publication since 1986 and was the main influence on the design of Nintendo Power.  EGM's 4-person review crew was also copied from Famitsu.  We have nine issues of Famitsu available in our download section, including a scan of a reduced-size reprint of issue #1.

    I'll have a look through one in the morning and find a little bir more about them. I see that Nintendo Power has been put up on Archive.org recently. Did you guys have a hand in any of that?

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    The main difference is the sheer quantity of information.  US mags are practically non-existent at this point, but the halcyon days of 300-page EGMs are long past and most mags barely crack 100 pages.  Then you take a look at Famitsu, which manages to put out more than 1000 pages per month.  It's crazy.

     

    I honestly don't read current Japanese mags, though.  They look great, but Japan is mostly into cookie-cutter JRPGs that just don't interest me anymore.  I feel that Japan used to innovate and set the pace for the entire industry, but their influence is lessening year by year as western developers are picking up the torch and creating better and more interesting games while Japan just makes more of the same.

     

    There are so many ads in NA game magazines!! Famitsu? I've never heard of it. Shows how sheltered of a life I've lived in small northern community, Canada. A thousand plus pages, that's quite a feat! I'd like to thumb through one of those, one of these days. How far does printing date back? Expensive? Would be neat to have an issue #1, to show all of my gaming friends, and my son when he's old enough to (hopefully) appreciate it.

    Man, yeah. Those JRPGs, all the characters are the same. Teen-aged kids in some kind of magic school for gifted brats. I can't really pinpoint when this started to happen. My wife really enjoys them, and I'll sit down and watch her play, but I miss the Chrono Triggers, the Breath of Fires, the Lunars, Vagrant Story, the Wild Arms, the Star Oceans, the actual fantasy Final Fantasys. I could go on an on.

     

    We celebrated our first year anniversary tonight, and I picked up the remastered Odin Sphere and the new Star Ocean for my wife. I'm looking forward to that one. :)

    To stay on topic, I beat the original Zelda, not too long ago.

  16. I only started scanning this February, so haven't done too terribly much (the gallery is another story, though lol).  Most of the mags in the Japanese section are mine.  Japanese mags are all I have access to at the moment!

     

    And, uh...I've been playing The Witcher: Enhanced Edition on my PC.  Looking forward to playing the sequels as well.

     

    There, you see?  Relevant to the topic again. :)

    Lol.

    How do the Japanese video game magazines compare to North American? The artwork must be pretty amazing. Reviews a little more harsh? I really want to learn Japanese. I've been meaning to and actually started when I was in University but slowly stopped and I don't remember much. My intention was to pick up all the Famicom and Super Famicom RPGs that never made it this far. I don't really want to resort to a reproduction translation, but if I don't get on it soon, I may have to. :(

    I've been playing a lot of Mario Kart 8, lately. Trying to 3-Star 200CC.

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