Koopa64

Good thing I only ever dream about released games/systems, otherwise I'd end up being more depressed in the mornings. Most recent thing I recall dreaming about was a NEO-GEO with Baseball Stars 2, bunch of other games and absolutely loving the crap out of the thing. Woke up empty handed like the rest of you guys...

I thought European carts were the same as American ones, while Japanese Mega Drive carts were shaped more like 32X carts. >.>

*Sees N64DD stuff* YOU LUCKY BASTARD! Nuice collection man, but you really need to buy more games for the commoner consoles (I.E. NES, SNES, Genesis).

It sickens me how EarthBound 64 just fell into oblivion... That game would have been Nintendo's answer to FF7 if it was released around that game's release. It would have moved N64s and been highly acclaimed along the lines of OoT and SM64... Oh well...

Hi. I figured I might as well post my game room. Everybody else seems to be doing it. UPDATE Mon Oct 5, 2009: Just refreshing these pics. I finally got around to taking new pics. I've added a different TV, moved the old one to the right, a new 5.1 surround sound system (amp can be seen to the left, some spare consoles ominously added to the shelf on the far left. The pic count is now 23 pics, quite an improvement over a measly 3 huh? UPDATE Mon Oct 25, 2010: Time for the annual refresh! Actually I never meant for it to take a whole year to take new pictures, but I had tons of stuff to do at the time. I ended up forgetting this thread. Please excuse the sub-par quality of the images, it was already dark out when I took these images and I was in a bit of a hurry. If it doesn't take me another year to take more pics, I'll try and take pics during the day and with more time to spare. The image count as of now is 38, including recycled pictures. Someday I hope to take pictures of my cart only games... UPDATE Wen Oct 27, 2010: Just re-shot some pictures and added a new one. ^An entire pic of the entertainment center. ^An overall shot of that corner of the room. ^Spare consoles, magazines and strategy guides go here. Most of my loose cartridge containers are kept here. You probably can't see them, but I have two Game Gear carry cases here. One hold my Game Gear collection of course, the other keeps most of my Game Boy/Color stuff. I will post interior pics of those cases farther down. Oh yeah, AV and power cables and adapters go in the boxes to the left of the wooden shelf. I really need to find a better place to put all that stuff... ^A close-up of the amp. ^Genesis does what Nintendon't. UPDATE: Re-freshed the pic. ^The centerpiece TV. The sound system and the large majority of my consoles are connected to this TV. Picture isn't that great considering the picture is kinda lacking in brightness and seems "dirty" at times. Considering replacing it with a bigger TV from upstairs which has much better picture and video inputs. UPDATE: Took a new picture. ^Not much has changed here. Just the addition of a 360 + Wii on top and the 7800 has been moved to the bottom shelf. ^Still a very nice TV. It's picture is surprisingly sharp for an RF-only TV. Given it is Halloween time, I decided to leave Haunted House running. Man is it nice to have some fun 2600 games to play. Thanks SpendToMuchOnAtari! ^Mostly just Nintendo controllers. ^If two Zappers aren't enough, I can always break out the Menacer... The rest of the cables are just extension cords (very useful in my setup) and a weird 2-button (w/autofire)and D-Pad controller with a DB-15 plug. Like on the Atari 5200 and NEO-GEO. UPDATE: Nothing resides in that compartment anymore because stuff kept falling behind when it was closed. The Menacer is now kept next to the 7800. ^My very nice Atari 7800. As you can see I've been playing Haunted House. Very fun! ^A nice convenient place to put the DVD player. But why a DVD player next to a PS2? Because the PS2 can't read a damn thing nowadays. It's only useful for playing PS2 and PS1 games. UPDATE: Hardly anything has changed with this part of the room, so I re-used the old pic. Only thing different is there are N64 controllers taking up the vacant space. ^This is where the rest of my Genesis games are. Ones without cases. Carts that have cases go on the shelf. Except for Aladdin, the box's hinge is shot. <_< Lotsa' controllers too. UPDATE: I couldn't get a good picture without turning on the flash, so I just left it. Only thing different is there are more Genesis cartridges. ^I keep my Dreamcast/PS1 games here. Sorry for the dark pic. ^A full view of the two shelves I currently use to hold most of my game boxes. These shelves are directly opposite to where the TVs and consoles are. There's a nice long couch underneath the shelf. UPDATE: Just re-freshed the old image. Biggest difference here is the games take up 3 shelves, not 2. ^Part 2 of the previous image. The shelf spans too much wall space to capture in one shot. ^Just some system boxes and the end of that shelf. ^The most notable thing in this pic is the PC boxes. Mostly LucasArts games. Can't go wrong there! ^This part of the shelf hasn't changed one bit. Except maybe that copy of Corpse Killer on 32X CD. This is a re-shot image. ^This is somewhat different. Not by much though. ^Again, hardly a difference. ^Some more GameCube games, but in general not much change... ^Some good GBA stuff. For what it matters, those stuffed toys are a Nintendo-licensed Green Koopa Troopa and a hand crotchet Hairy Bulborb and Wollywog, both from Pikmin/Pikmin 2. ^Lots of nice SMS games. The only one without a manual is Pro Wrestling. ^Genesis games. Not much has been added here since last update... ^Some more Genesis games, but more importantly my 32X games. I've added quite a few new 32X games since last time! There are more in the next picture. ^Lotsa' 32X games! It's definitely one of my favorite systems. Especially to collect for. ^SNES and N64 boxes. ^Xbox 360 games. ^Original Xbox games. Lots of good ones I'd like to add! ^Xbox demo discs and Wii games. Metroid Prime 3 and NPC Pikmin are still minty sealed. ^A few more Wii games and some PS2 games. A few more PS2 games and a couple of random items. The case for the Nintendo e-Reader and a Japanese (yes?) GBA SP 2 box. ^This box hasn't really changed much over the years. My newer NES additions reside on the shelf. UPDATE: Yep, this box really hasn't changed much over the years! Or at least, last year. ^And this is what resides inside my Kirby's Adventure box... ^Bonus! This is my secondary PC desk, with my Windows 2000 PC and iMac G3.

He did destroy a 32X unit in his 32X review, though I'm not sure if it was working or not.

For a while I thought the 2600 was a 4-Bit system, simply due to it's graphics. Later on I learned that it had an 8-Bit CPU like the NES. But taking graphics into account, I still have trouble accepting it as an 8-Bit system...

Super Bowling last I checked, was an N64 game. Unless you're thinking of a different Super Bowling....

You mean "there weren't that many sold". EarthBound didn't sell very well when it was released. I think it sold around 140,000 copies.

For a while I thought Pitfall was called Adventure... >.< Anybody else?

I've seen a few over at the market place on the www.neo-geo.com forums. I don't know if XRGB units are system specific but you might find what you're looking for there. =/

Funnily enough, I've been reading one of Atari Age's "Beginner's Guide to the 2600". Mostly on how the 2600 is designed, in terms of how the 6507 (I think) and TIA work together to produce a picture on the screen, how that picture is displayed and the limitations and memory locations of the 6507. It isn't entirely alien to me as I can grasp most of what's described in it. But what I like is just knowing how it works, it feels... Liberating.

Wow, that Mega Man demo kicks some serious ass! I trust the enhanced music and graphics are thanks to the extra RAM? Because I highly doubt that game would run on a bare 2600. BTW, there's no shoot button, right? There's only one button on the 2600 and the spacebar makes Mega Man jump. *Sigh*, I really hate emulators... >_<

I don't see those "octopus" power bars very often. Not to mention they are usually pretty expensive. I don't remember if the ones I saw had the power switches on them or not... I don't think they did.

Anything like that which has an external brick or wart should ideally be plugged into a power strip that is switched off when not in use. Huh? How's that suppose to work if I have more than two AC Adapters? I can only fit two of those wall warts (lol XD) onto one power strip. The cable network in my game set-up is too complicated to bother re-arranging it so that all the AC Adapters feed off a power supply. I don't think they pull enough electricity to make a significant dent in the ol' family power bill though. =/

One time I bought a copy of Sub-Terrania and Revenge of Shinobi for Genesis. Shinobi's cartridge label was peeling and ST had a square of the plastic on the front cut out (yeah, confused me too). I didn't notice either of these problems until much later. Problem here is there were a few other copies of these two games. How on earth did I end up with the worst condition copies of these two games out of the available ones?? D:

One thing I hate about Puyo Puyo is how repetitive it is. Crazy Climber explained it perfectly. Having to just set up some boring combo chain doesn't sound like a lot of fun. Now Panel De Pon (Tetris Attack in the US), THAT game was something awesome. It finally made chains and combos easy to do but challenging to do quickly under a lot of pressure.

I'm gonna blow you ALL away with MY collection total! ... ... TWO! Can anybody beat that? /Obvious sarcasm, just trying to make a joke =/

I thought it was funny in how redundant it was. XD

The NEO-GEO originally sold for $650. It came with the system, one joystick and a copy of Magician Lord (IIRC).

The only pic I found funny was the CTRL+ALT+DEL gamepad for Microsoft Windows. The rest of them were ho-hum boring lame...

Holy crap! Dracula X in box? Super Mario RPG in box?

I have a feeling that most of the NES haters here grew up/live in Europe or Australia. Yep, even the game markets were backwards in those countries compared to North America.

Is the Astrocade really that rare? I thought it was a little uncommon but not borderline rare.