NES/Famicom Appreciation Thread
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Beat TMNT 3: the Manhattan Project. Easily the best TMNT game on the system. The 2nd game is pretty good but a little too easy except for the ridiculously long post-hit invincibility enemies have. It still seems like the special attack (Hit A&B at the same time) comes out whenever it wants to and it's pretty much worthless here; only useful if you're going to cheese a boss and tank damage. But I did like it and it's nice to close a chapter on another game I could never beat as a kid.
I just did youtube playthroughs of them with no specials used, and honestly, the 3rd game is easier than the 2nd game without specials, the 2nd game is really hard without specials, lol.
Link? Took me a while to figure out Krang's pattern. And the game is incredibly stingy when it comes to energy pickups.
The biggest thing I hate about the 2nd game is the extremely long post-hit invincibility enemies have. If you hit an enemy, you're forced to back off or they'll just walk up behind you for a cheap hit.
My TMNT2 Playthrough
My TMNT3 Playthrough
That's what I hate about the 2nd game as well. Game would be much better without that.
RadarScope1
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Picked up a copy of the new Retro Gamer with the Greatest NES Games cover. The list is almost all easy picks but I like having copies of stuff like this. I'd forgotten how damn expensive those nice UK magazines are here in the US.
First I've heard of this. Looks rad. How much was it? I see it's sold out right now.
Got my copy of Star Versus in the mail today
Oh man can't wait to jam out on this.
First I've heard of this. Looks rad. How much was it? I see it's sold out right now.
IrishNinja
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yeah, few weird choices in that list, few good ones too. can't stress enough, if you're gonna pick it up on the regular, it's cheaper to sub to Retro Gamer with the discount code!
antisoulless
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I duno if you've ever been to this site or if it's been posted.
But this helped me a bunch
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/nintendo/best-undiscovered-nintendo-nes-games
But this helped me a bunch
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/nintendo/best-undiscovered-nintendo-nes-games
I think it was 35. Not 100% sure.
RadarScope1
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Yep, been re-visiting this list lately. I used to be a regular on the Racketboy forums before I discovered GAF, and I actually wrote the NES 101 article on that site.
IrishNinja
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^for real? i fuckin love Racketboy; their site's so useful...like, hidden gems is cool, price stuff is obviously out of date but the guides written in their forums are fuckin' thorough. great community as well.
antisoulless
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Yeah their lists are the best.
RadarScope1
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http://www.racketboy.com/retro/nintendo/nes/nintendo-famicom-nes-101-a-beginners-guide
Yup, my handle is there at the top. (I should say, I wrote most of that but not all. And that blog linked there is long since dead.) I wish I would have stuc around the community there. I really only have time/space in my life to obsess over one forum though...
Yup, my handle is there at the top. (I should say, I wrote most of that but not all. And that blog linked there is long since dead.) I wish I would have stuc around the community there. I really only have time/space in my life to obsess over one forum though...
Nice man!
Charles Brandon
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thirty-five dollars? Wat
Huggers
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This is awesome. Loads of stuff I wouldn't have thought to pick up
Just looked it up. It was 40 + shipping so it was like 51 or so total. Why would this be surprising to you?
D.Lo
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My brand new FDS games! Exciting Baseball and Exciting Basket (which is a version of Double Dribble - except with awesome FDS music while the game is on, and the USA anthem removed and dunk animations removed)
Now I have the complete Exiting Sports game set on FDS (plus the non-Exciting series Hockey and Tennis) Basketball and Hockey made it to the west, but the excellent Soccer didn't (my favourite 8-bit sports game, so good) and Baseball, Billiards and Tennis are solid too. Better than any other games of those sports at that time for sure.
Sealed
Now I have the complete Exiting Sports game set on FDS (plus the non-Exciting series Hockey and Tennis) Basketball and Hockey made it to the west, but the excellent Soccer didn't (my favourite 8-bit sports game, so good) and Baseball, Billiards and Tennis are solid too. Better than any other games of those sports at that time for sure.
There's also Exciting Boxing on Famicom cart, but I'll likely never get that, since it goes for hundreds of dollars complete due to coming with a blow-up punching bag controller...
RadarScope1
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D.Lo, I love your passion for Konami collecting. More and more you guys are swaying me to get into FDS ... I just don't think I can take it with my re-invigorated interest in NES CIB collecting having cleaned out my gaming budget right now.
I hope to have some time soon to snap and post pics of my haul from the last six weeks. It's been fun!
Yeah, $40 is a fine price. Many repros are sold for $20-$40 so that's a solid price for a new home brew game -- if it's a good game. Give us impressions soon!
I hope to have some time soon to snap and post pics of my haul from the last six weeks. It's been fun!
Yeah, $40 is a fine price. Many repros are sold for $20-$40 so that's a solid price for a new home brew game -- if it's a good game. Give us impressions soon!
Can do. I'll be having people over this weekend so either Sunday or Monday I'll be able to post up about it.
Charles Brandon
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I thought that was the price for the copy of retrogamer!
D.Lo
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Ha, thanks. Been a 20 year project. FDS is basically done, Famicom is going to cost a lot more.
Yea that's how I read it as well lol
RadarScope1
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Speaking of Racketboy, it really has been a while since I've truly looked closely at the prices listed in some of the articles and ... damn. $90 for Little Samson as recently as 2010? Holy hell.
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/nintendo/nes/the-rarest-and-most-valuable-nes-games
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/nintendo/nes/the-rarest-and-most-valuable-nes-games
asker
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This man knows what's up. The soundtrack is amazing as well.
Respect someone played the game. I played it near '95 for the first time, back then I was only 8, but I was totally amazed!
asker
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I actually own a physical copy for the Famicom but with the english translation flashed onto it. It's freakin' amazing and criminally unknown!
That feeling when the rivaling team's goalkeeper shows up to heckle you during practice. Are there any other sports games with a story line?
Totally! Still listening to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP92CvkfnR0&list=PL921EA5BBB4F1BDDC
asker
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Nice playlist! Kojiro Hyuga's Theme gives me chills.
sixteen-bit
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The head of Brave Wave Productions really liked the Captain Tsubasa Famicom game as a youth. Supposedly the series was popular in the middle east.
To think, if it wasn't for the hot tunes in that game, we might not have those hot new Keiji Yamagishi beats.
To think, if it wasn't for the hot tunes in that game, we might not have those hot new Keiji Yamagishi beats.
entremet
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MLiG did a cool Super Mario Brothers 3 video, going over the manual and inserts of the US and Japanese versions.
Beautiful full color manuals. Man, those are really missed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFK6wQEVDVM
Beautiful full color manuals. Man, those are really missed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFK6wQEVDVM
Geezus, my heart literally skipped a beat when I saw that Tron Bonne game.
SuperGamer
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I always preferred the Sega Master System, but have enjoyed the NES/Famicom too.
RadarScope1
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CIB black box games Nos. 11, 12, 13 and 14 for me. Rad Racer with original 3D glasses.
The whole family:
I think it would be pretty nifty to have CIB copies of every officially released version of Super Mario Bros. I would have quite a few more to go should I ever decide to do that, but at I do have these at least.
The whole family:
I think it would be pretty nifty to have CIB copies of every officially released version of Super Mario Bros. I would have quite a few more to go should I ever decide to do that, but at I do have these at least.
theSlacker
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That doesn't look like a black box to me.
sixteen-bit
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maybe it's sun-faded
IrishNinja
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El Pescado
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I have Japanese copies of Final Fantasy 1, 2, and 3. How do I go about getting the English version flashed in to those carts?
I already can't wait. They've become my most played systems over the past year. There's something about quick arcade style action and design simplicity that has captured my attention.
IrishNinja
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well, in my view? simplicity + arcade time gameplay now represents something unique that you rarely see in modern games: a level of precision and risk/reward stressed over game length padding/making the player feel like they're reached a skill level they're not due etc etc that kinda shines in our current era. as someone who constantly digs through the crates, it's painfully obvious how much design philosophy shifted around the 32-bit era....and not as a negative, again if you're down for the former, it just kinda shines as a result
D.Lo
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I think it was mostly intact in that era. I've been playing some N64 and have the same (wanted) frustrated feelings falling off a huge climb in a 3D platfomer due to one careless move as I do in Mega Man.
Though the era did introduce the irritating two hours of hand holding crap.
IrishNinja
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right right, exactly my point
im saying, like HG101 points at castlevania SOTN and talks about the big shift towards longer single player campaigns with RPG/etc replay/grindy focus, and thereby larger mass appeal vs say something short that rewarded mastering its skill set
32-bit era is what i consider the peak and shift of that design philosophy, i'm saying. everytime we've seen it since - let's say, the Souls series - it's been considered niche vs default, is my point...for better or worse
im saying, like HG101 points at castlevania SOTN and talks about the big shift towards longer single player campaigns with RPG/etc replay/grindy focus, and thereby larger mass appeal vs say something short that rewarded mastering its skill set
32-bit era is what i consider the peak and shift of that design philosophy, i'm saying. everytime we've seen it since - let's say, the Souls series - it's been considered niche vs default, is my point...for better or worse
StAidan
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After taking a year off from NES acquisitions, I went crazy this month and made it a little closer to my 100-game goal:
Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth is currently factory sealed, although I'll be rectifying that before too long. I like to open a brand new NES game occasionally, it sends me back to the Christmases of my youth.
Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth is currently factory sealed, although I'll be rectifying that before too long. I like to open a brand new NES game occasionally, it sends me back to the Christmases of my youth.