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I wouldn't worry about battery life... I have a Zelda Game & Watch and DK3 Micro Vs System. They don't turn off either. Cheap dollar store LR44s last around 6 months... brand name versions I've had last a year+! They gave a faded image by the last month of life, but at the right angle, still playable!

Most of my friend got their NES in 87/88 and every one of them had that blinking light problem by 90/91. It was then that we heard through word of mouth that by wiggling the cart around, blowing the dust out, or just slipping it in far enough to click down would help alleviate the issues. Nobody blew in their cartridges before then, but the systems (rather pin connectors) STILL crapped out.

Good Old Games (GOG) is an AWESOME site. When you wanna play the latest games, use Steam. But for everything else... use GOG! Not having to be signed into a server/frontend program, having a completely safe install file thats yours to store/preserve anyway you want, and old classic games come with ALL the trimmings that were in the box... PDF, sure, but still you have everything you need (and DON'T need!) to play the game. For example, I'm a huge Leisure Suit Larry fan, so when I got the Greatest Hit and Misses set I had all the phony brochures and flyers and whatnot printed on proper stock by a printer... so nice.

I like that it has the 6 Button Genny model controllers... beyond that, yet ANOTHER emulation box... Competition IS a good thing, theoretically it should lead to "perfect" emulation and then some with ehnancements, by one company trying to out do another, but is this ACTUALLY happening? I ask, not sarcastically, because I've never used one and aren't really interested in them, but I CAN see their purpose, and no doubt one day these will be our best option for classic gaming..

Thats true I guess, like any pieceof art, not EVERYONE is going to like it, are they? I just feel like "If you have nothing nice to say..." but then I also feel thats a terrible saying, because you're limiting someone's right to speech!

Are people ragging on this to purely be curmudgeons? Its like walking up to the guy that wrote the lords prayer on the head of nail and saying, "You know, a piece of paper and pencil would have been easier!" Or the guy that carved the Statue of Liberty into a grain of rice, and stating that the real one is huge and made of copper! Who you trying to impress with that??? Someone had an idea and said to themself, "Yeah, I bet I could do that!" and they did! And as an art piece it's cool and ironic. Instead of playing a video game through a cart and on a system you're playing through a system and on a cart!

I bought LoZ: The Wind Waker back when it was new and probably sunk a total of... 3 hours? max into it. I even bought the Official Strategy Guide thinking that would encourage me to play it through... but I never did. My Neice is a big Zelda fan, she had already beaten it once playing my copy at my mother's (her grandmother's) house and always talked about how she loved that game, so I gave her both the Guide (with fold out Map) and Game itself to her last year. She'll enjoy/appreciate it then I ever did!

Amazing. As far as technolgy and kitsch go, this is the perfect amalgamation. Not a single; wow, thats cool,.. or wow,.. thats neat,.. all anyone has to say is negativity... Thats the internet though isn't it?

Can't believe I forgot about the Virtua Cops! Add those to my favs list! Also I had a lot of fun with T2: The Arcade Game (though it's not technically a light gun game, but, you know) both in the Arcades and at home on the Genny with a Menacer. Even with that dodgy cross hair that would shake all over the place I still managed to get good enough to Destroy Cyberdyne AND keep that Helicopter off the Van.

I have a fond memeory of my uncle beating Safari Hunt on the Master System, but I wouldn't call it a "Favorite"! Some of my faves that come to mind though? Gangster Town (SMS) Rambo III (SMS) (Possibely my favorite light gun game ever... 50% nostalgia there though) House of The Dead 2 (Arcade/Dreamcast)

I think you misunderstand a little. No doubt games by Codemasters and Tengen were REAL companies making REAL games, many of them good. And yes, their games were legal for sale, not pirates of other peoples work; What I mean about trying to complete an "official" set is, it gives you a reasonable goal. Once you say you want EVERY game or whatever you've opened a box to which there may be no bottom. It can just keep going and going.... you'll NEVER have a complete set. They only just recently found another NES game that has never been dumped before. Lets say you DID own every licensed and unlicensed and even Pirate cart ever, you'd claim you had a full set, but you didn't, because you didn't even know this one existed to get it. And exactly... with ATari there were no Official Games besides Atari's own, which DOES cut out a lot of the great titles, but it gets iffy where you draw the line, sure if you trying to complete a set you're gonna want all of Activision's and Parker Brothers games, but do you REALLY want every game Panada made? Maybe, maybe not... But hey, in the end we all collect whatever it is we want to collect.

Panesian, Tengen and Codemasters all made unlicensed games for the NES. Some of Tengen's were licensed I believe... but not many. Not saying they made bad games, but they were not "Official Nintendo GamePaks". Action 52 is also unlicensed, however SMB/Duck Hunt and such ARE officially "Nintendo GamePaks". Collecting "Official" games makes it more likely to complete a "Set". Because we KNOW whats in circulation, what HAS been made and released to the public. I used Stamp Collecting as a parallel, you could also think of sports cards or whatever. If you want a set of EVERY Wayne Gretzky hockey card ever printed you'd better stick to "Official" hockey cards.... cause hell, "I" could have printed up my own cards for as prizes in local Fan Club contest; and they would technically BE Hockey Cards in that they would be a card, on cardstock, with a shot of the person on one side and detailed info on the back... good luck "completing" your collection of EVERY Wayne Gretzky hockey card, cause there are 3 different cards that "I" made and you wont get, because these were cards I made back when he still played for the Oilers and it's VERY unlikely all 3 have survived since then. Thats the way I feel about Atari, even aside from games like Extra Terrestrials or Air Raid... you have SMALL companies who made crap games or ported PAL games and released them in VERY limited amounts in very select areas... AND, who knows? Just like Canada had a VERY limited run of Extra Terrestrials, it's possible that some guy in Germany did a similar thing, only we haven't FOUND that game yet... and may never if they've all been since destroyed by time and consequence.

You're not secretly Mike Kennedy are you? What you say IS a cool idea, maybe not profitable, but cool... ...but why call it a COLECO tabletop if your playing MK, SFII, Metal Slug, etc?

I find the tricky thing about collecting an "official complete set" is that... there was no officiating (is that a word?) Take the NES... you can have a "complete set", but not counting pirates or unlicensed games. Thats the kind of complete set I go for. Atari didn't "License" games.... any one could make them... pirates seem to be pretty fair game too... I mean back in the day Zellers (which used to be a Canadian version of Wal-Mart back in the day) had their own pirates of SO many games. And when a country-wide (country the size of Canada, not Monaco) chain is selling them, not just some questionable store down on 82nd street, there must have been some legality behind it. When it comes to Atari I base my collecting around games I genuinely enjoy, or, for the sake of "stamp-collecting" mindset, I may go for a complete set of a certain publisher.

It truely is Kickass and all, and my comment isn't meant to put it down, but... for icons they included a Star and even Toadstool's Crown.... but no mushroom??? and whats that 'diamond' block??? As I say, it's awesome, my favorite thing is that the whole button is designed AS a "mario block/box" with the corner rivets.... but some of it's design choices strike me odd...

Having known about them for a while (at the time) I tried them on Nesticle (who remembers THAT old goodie?!) I liked 2 MUCH better than 1... and 3 had some problems... the emulation wasn't perfected yet. But my only real experience with the series was Castlevania: Circle of the Moon on GBA. I never hear ANYTHING about that game... ever... it's like it just flew completely under the radar with stealth cloaking and whatever else would making something undetectable... Is there something AWFUL about this game that I never realized? Something people are afraid to talk about even? Was it so godly that like the Ark it just melted the face of average players? All I know is: I never see reviews for it, it being listed as a favorite (or worst for that matter)... nothing, just nothing. I bought that and Super Mario Advance when I got my GBA, and I enjoyed it a lot. I'll admit I never beat it. Could never beat the final boss. I had about 92% percent complete, figured I search out some more health and magic power ups and maybe some more cards or equipment, hoping to be powerful enough to finally beat him... but I eventually got sidetracked with other games, and never beat it! Still got my original save file though! One of these days...

Found another dead one... Cosmic Ark. The Color Version is just a Jpeg. The B&W Version does link to a manual.

That made me me laugh out loud? Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love For Sail Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude South Park: Stick of Truth Deadpool Maybe some more... all I can think of right now.

Is there no manual for Frontline (by coleco)? The cover is there, but it's not a link.... just a jpeg.

I'm game!

So am I. I want the game system to hold and load carts into, but I don't want to worry about leaky capacitors and blurry/faded screen of 25 year old electronic innards. As 3 game gears have taught me. I have one that only stay on for 5 minutes at the most if you let it rest for a week, 1 that has no sound, and one that I usually have to flick the power off and on for 30 seconds before it finally stay on long enough to make it to a title screen. Then she's good to go... unless I take a week or so off without playing it... Anyone with a good modded Game Gear looking to make money, PM me. By modded I mean AT LEAST replaced capacitors, but hey, why not go all the way and make sure I get a decent new screen with it, right?

Man, emulation problems aside... Midway Arcade Treasures 1, 2, and 3 were what made me realize modern day gaming was just NOTfor me. I enjoyed Metroid Prime, and LOZ: The Wind Waker.... and Resident Evil 4, even though that was the ENDITALL button of one of the greatest game series ever.... that's neither here nor there... but over all.... I was spending WAY more time playing these 3 arcade collections. I lived in a small town at the time, and had subscribed to Nintendo Power just to get the Zelda Bonus Disc that had the NES and N64 games on it, and I remember seeing an ad for these games, and being so glad that I COULD buy them when I saw them in stores in my area ... one at a time as they came out here I got each one. It was a great time in console gaming for me, hard to believe it is so far away aready!! I love these collections, even with the occasional flaw here and there. They showed me how what I loved in gaming was just going away.... newer and newer games kept getting farther and farther away from what these games were about. The GCN was the last console I ever, and probably WILL, ever buy... Its ironic. These games were FINALLY playable in their arcade glory on home systems.... but players DIDN'T seem to want to play these games anymore...

Problem with Sonic R was that it was BOTH a racing game AND a 3-D platformer... at the same time... somehow... Which REALLY is the way a Sonic game SHOULD be. It had 3D platforming elements of exploration, but mixed with Sonic's gameplay style style of speed ruling overall. In THEORY it should have worked... but... didn't... At least not in my eyes... THIS should have been when Sega realized having Sonic tear through a game level as fast as he could was a cool gimmick, but not something to build a multidecade franchise out of. But then again, Sonic games keep selling, so what do I know??

My god dude. #1. It's 2016... and you seem to like retro gaming... why do people STILL INSIST on stretching a 4:3 image to 16:9 ?!?!?! #2. It's an NES... of course it looks like shyte

Thats was a crappy Haiku