Retro Gaming - The Bear and Badger

davyK

Its tempting to trade in - especially when GC games seem to hold their value. Not sure that's been the case more recently but the better games are still pricey to pick up now.

Diluted Dante

Moot_Geeza wrote:

hylian_elf wrote:

Latest issue of Retro Gamer magazine has such a picture! I get that mag sometimes, they often show collections. Crazy people that collect the full PAL release of a console etc. Crazy.

Yeah, that picture made me wonder how he managed to retrieve a game from the back wall - he'd just filled the room up from back to front.Â It made a great photo, but sometimes you'd just fancy playing Psycho Fox, surely?

Psycho Fox is a cracking game. Would love another game with those characters and level style, rather than another Decap Attack style sequel.

Elmlea

Davy, I saw your comment that these were all photos taken for insurance. Â How did that work? Â Are they just bundled in under your contents insurance, or are they specifically listed? Â Did you have to value them?

davyK

Elmlea wrote:

Davy, I saw your comment that these were all photos taken for insurance. Â How did that work? Â Are they just bundled in under your contents insurance, or are they specifically listed? Â Did you have to value them?

I have the games collection as an item on the contents policy (have a couple of hundred DVDs as well - spot a pattern forming?) - can't remember how much I have them insured for (Â£2.5-3K if I average it out at Â£4 a game + all the consoles and a SHITLOAD of peripherals) - but looking at how much more I now have (not to mention a couple of hundred PS2 and Wii games) I probably need to revisit that.

Wii - 90
PS2 - 85
SNES - 80
Gamecube - 80
Saturn - 73
Dreamcast - 68
PS1 - 54
N64 - 52
Megadrive - 33
Atari 2600 - 17
Atari 7800 - 11
2 dedicated pong consoles, 2 chess computers, a backgammon computer , a star chess console and partridge in a pear tree.

I have a second GC and DC and I've even got a Nuon DVD player I got to try Tempest 3000 but the fecking thing has no controller ports!!! The connections are on the mother board so it can be modified (articles are on the web showing this)

hylian_elf

No Xbox, eh? I only ever had 6 or 7 games on that.Â

I had a few hundred DVDs too. I'm now down to maybe a hundred, if that. Most are Criterion Collection R1 DVDs. I have all the Kurosawa films and lots of Ozu too. Love those Jap films.Â

I have fewer games than you, but some of them are worth a fair few bucks. I should insure them!

davyK

Nothing this gen - though I have got Play TV and remote for the PS3!!!

I'd like to get an oldBox with some of the better games (Outrun Coast to Coast is supposedly better than the PS2 version for example but wasn't Halo on PAL a 50Hz hack job? Not that I'd be interested mind you)

The 360 is where it's at for shmups at present but there's not much else it has to offer I'm into. Not really into FPS or sports franchises - I look at the shelves in shops and there is little those platforms have to offer me. Like the look of the Ico/Shadow remake and the XBL arcade looks nice too (Pac Champ Edition etc.) A PS3 will probably replace my V+ box soon and a 360 will no doubt be bought for the shmups CAVE are pushing out.

Like the sound of those Criterion releases,,,you insure those too as some are probably out of print - and Battle Garegga is a Â£90+ game so you should at least tot up the value of the premium items.

Mouldywarp

Davy, did you have the first Goemon game for the N64 or just the sequel? I liked the sequel, multi-player was bonkers, but the original is just great. I know some don't rate it but I adored it. So weird. The bad guys master plan was to put on a musical. Amazing collection btw.

davyK

Never played the first one on the N64 - it just looked like a Mario 64 wannabe - but it seems I was mistaken as I've heard good stuff about it. The only other Goemon game I've played was the one that got a PAL release on SNES which totally blew me away at the time.

Mouldywarp

Mechanically it is just a Mario 64 wannabe with some Zelda-ish elements thrown in, not that that's a bad thing. I would still rate it as a game if it were just that, but it's so much more simplyÂ becauseÂ it's bonkers. None of it really makes any sense - some people hated it because of that but I found it wonderful. Depends howÂ muchÂ you take to Japanese weirdness.

Raiziel

POWER TO THE HIGHEST LIMIT, SUPER PUNCH!

Mouldywarp

"I am machinery, I am a metal being!"

This just made my day!

hylian_elf

I have the SFC Goemon games. Numbers 3 and 4 are unplayable in Jap. 2 was fine.Â

Have the first one on N64, haven't played it much after the battery pack died. Need to get the second one.

mk64

has anyone played or even got any of the old old advance wars games? there was at least one before the gba version. I'm a AW whore so would be interested to know more if anyone else knows.

also davy, i've got C2C on my 360, its fucking immense. Anyone who doesn't like outrun 2 can just die.

optimark_prime

I think they were only released in Japan, MK.

They weren't called 'Advance' wars though, it was Famicon Wars etc though.

optimark_prime

My games shelves....

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Mouldywarp

I'm loving the fishing controller

Moot_Geeza

Quackshot and Toejam & Earl 2 FTW.

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Moot_Geeza

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Billy

Awesome pics folks

Billy

Sadly not mine any longer, but my pride and joy was an old JAMMA cabinet -

Ignore the weird 6 button layout, I changed that to a more sensible one.

I had 2 Jamma boards - Super Streetfighter 2 X (CPS2), Final Crash (Final Fight bootleg).

Then a Neo Geo 4 slot with Waku Waku 7, Puzzle Bobble, Metal Slug, Samurai Shodown and a few others.

And a little known Sony/Capcom motherboard that ran boards like Tech Romancer, Strider Hiryu and Streetfighter EX2.

Wish I still had it, beat the shit out of any console for having mates over a few beers.

Diluted Dante

I need one of those in my life

davyK

Splendid all round - my highlights - fishing controller (boxed!), boxed Samba (is that TWO of em?) and that cabinet....one day.

There's something about seeing a rack of Dreamcast games that says indulgence - more so than any other platform.

davyK

forgot about these for gamecube...

mk64

whats that taito perpheral?

Also first thing i thought when i saw that sf2 cab was BUTTON LAYOUT!! lol, glad you changed it.

also nice pics guys

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Looks like a train controller.

Billy

I think the cab originally had an old SNK layout but someone botched some more buttons in there, I just ripped it out and put a SF2 layout in.

optimark_prime

XTC_NRG_4_DARKRAVER wrote:

Looks like a train controller.

@mk64 too,

Yes, it's Densha de Go 2, a Japanese train driving simulator.

optimark_prime

davyK wrote:

Splendid all round - my highlights - fishing controller (boxed!), boxed Samba (is that TWO of em?) and that cabinet....one day.

There's something about seeing a rack of Dreamcast games that says indulgence - more so than any other platform.

Yep, I've got Samba de Amigo, and Samba de Amigo 2000 (Japanese).

RaginScotsman

I've got PDF's of 2 Retro Gamer eMags. Sort of "best of" books. Worth downloading if you've got a tablet to read them on.

http://www.filedropper.com/retrobookemag
http://www.filedropper.com/retrobookvol2emag

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