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Good for you for doing your research before jumping in! It can get rather confusing. If you plan to go the CD route, which you should, you should go with a TurboDuo or the PCE Duo-R. The US Duo will likely need capacitors replaced - mine were bad when I got my system, so I took care of it first thing and it's been a joy ever since. Head on over to pcenginefx.com and you'll find all the info you need to get set up. Enjoy!

Another vote here for Megamania. I still play it a lot! Kaboom! would be a close second. Keystone Kapers, Seaquest and Beamrider are great too. Starmaster I could just never get into. We played it a lot, and yes, we read the manual but there just wasn't enough there graphics-wise or gameplay-wise to inspire me. Imo Activision did much better games. Dragster is also at the bottom of my list, though we did play that a lot too.

Wow, what a find! Tell us nosey folks how much you sold it for! Edit: my rarest is either Tooth Protectors or Spider Maze

Yea, not trying to derail this thread but MJ did write most of his songs afaik. Bit of trivia: I recently read that he is the uncredited writer of Do The Bartman from The Simpsons Sing the Blues album. I just acquired a copy of Moonwalker myself a few days ago, but haven't gotten to play it yet. I'll do that tonight to see which version I have. Very interesting thread! I really wish I had my original version 1 of Revenge of Shinobi. Why oh why did I sell all my games in college years ago???

I'll throw my hat in the ring too. Here are my 10 favorites, though I'm probably forgetting some: 1. Gauntlet 2. SF II 3. Pengo 4. Golden Axe 5. Magician Lord 6. Q*bert 7. Smash TV 8. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 9. Yie-Ar Kung Fu 10. Centipede runner up: Galaga

Yea, "cheap" is getting harder to define when it comes to Saturn. I'd recommend Tempest 2000 also. I don't think it's too expensive. Of course, the Jaguar version is really the best!

I beat NES Ninja Gaiden and Ghosts N Goblins bitd, and I do get proud when I read kids talk about how hard and near impossible it is now. Yea, it was hard and many controllers were thrown, but it's what we had and we played the hell out of them. Even now when I play NG and get to those last levels, it's all still there: where to jump, where to pause, when to attack, which pickups to avoid, etc. The hardest modern game I've beaten would probably be Resident Evil 5 on PS3. Playing through on hard (trying to attain platinum) was very tough in a few spots, specifically the big ogre boss fight and the fight with Wesker. I've given up on trophy hunting since then, and I just don't know how some of those guys earn platinums on a lot of these really hard games. I guess I don't have the patience of these 20-somethings skipping college classes to play games anymore!

I assume they were applied by hand - my guess is someone screwed up initially and they kept applying them upside down to keep them consistent. It really gets under my skin!

If Albert can make high-quality, professional looking labels available, that would be great! He is more than welcome to use the label templates I came up with and add to them if he likes. Though certainly improvements can be made (longer label for instance), I feel like I've done all I can. I had a very bad experience with mrbigreddog a few years back, who sold me an incomplete set of N64 labels (for something like $100). They were incredible quality, but when I realized some were missing, he ignored my messages and never made good on the set. Left a very bad taste in my mouth, which is why I put these out there for free. Delmoko wrote me a while back asking to buy a set of 5200 labels, saying he doesn't have a printer. When I explained I'm not selling them, but can easily be printed with all the instructions in the post, he said he was going to print some after all. I guess he took me not selling them as "well then I will." When I asked him to please remove his eBay listing, he said he is trying to recoup costs - which I understand, so offer them to AA members like I said in the first post. He said I "already put the information out there" which I take to mean "screw you, too bad." So Delmoko, you have joined mrbigreddog on my shitlist.

Even a small profit is still profit. In addition, he never asked my permission to sell them on eBay.

Very interesting. I didn't realize that Delmoko was selling label sheets on eBay for profit. I just wrote him, requesting that he take the listing down. I made these labels to share with the community for free. I personally would love some higher quality labels myself. I'm eager to see if you can make it happen Albert! And to see how well your test stickers stuck. Unfortunately, I don't have the means or skill to make silver labels, though I'll happily share my Photoshop files with anyone who can. As far as homebrews and prototypes, I don't own any (so didn't include them) and imo, it would always be incomplete since new homebrews will always be coming out.

I have to disagree with the majority of you saying the market will crash. Though I personally wish that would be the case (allowing all of us to own and play games we want), we're seeing the exact opposite. Perhaps the market for 2600 carts is pretty stable, but generally EVERYTHING video game related (and especially Nintendo/Mario) is going up, up, up. Even in 200 years, after all of us are gone, video games will still be around and sought after. Sure, retro games will be considered "antiques" but like books, comics and art, video games have become an integral part of our society, so unless interest in video games dies out, we will only see prices for physical carts and discs go up. The fact that all these "smartphone kids" buy their games digitally is only going to make physical items even more collectable once they get to be our age. Has anyone seen what the limited PS4 release Retro City Rampage DX is selling for (just came out last month)? Or amiibos? For the record: my 10-year-old stepson loves old games, in particular my Colecovision and NES. He also watched the documentary Video Games: The Movie on Netflix by himself. The interest is there.

I'd certainly love my trak-ball modified too, and hope you'll consider taking mine for treatment if it all works out a nicely as it sounds! Make no mistake, I'd be using the hell out of it. I currently have Wico adaptors and joysticks, and they work well enough. Since the idea of the bulit-into-the-trak-ball solution came up, I can't help thinking how nice it would be. Having the digital controller would breathe new life into my 5200 gaming, and would look nice and clean doing so. I generally prefer everything unmodified or if modified, as original looking as possible. (For instance, Yurkie modded my NES for RGB, but I mentioned I didn't really care for the knob used for pallette switch and when we spoke over the phone, he agreed he didn't like it much either and after that used a concealed switch underneath.) I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for your trak-ball thread

Apologies - I should have watched your video first. Along with the other pics, I see it's nowhere near as big or bulky as I'd thought. Still, I'm eager to see what kind of trak-ball solution you come up with. It would be nice to have it all official looking. I do admit I'm not a huge fan of the knobs, would silders be a possibility? Don't mean to sound like a detractor though. Awesome work! We need this!

I have a dirty E.T. cartridge that was buried in a landfill. Someone told me it's rare. I think I got a good deal for only $200, right? heh jk I do have a few rares, but nothing as insanely rare as some of you. O2: Power Lords CIB 2600: Tooth Protectors is probably my rarest (also have single-ender Spike's Peak, is it really that rare (R9)?) 5200: Bounty Bob Strikes Back Colecovision: Wiz Math Vectrex: Polar Rescue SMS: James Buster Douglas Knockout Boxing (missing manual) NES: Panic Restaurant - purchased for $5 at a game store many years ago SNES: Aero Fighters - found for $6 at a local book store about 2 years ago (my luckiest find!) TG: The Dynastic Hero Sega CD: Keio Flying Squadron PS3: Aquanaut's Holiday Chinese/English edition

I love the trak ball idea also! As desperate as I am to have some kind of Redemption-type adaptor, these pictured above seem overly bulky. Eagerly awaiting to see what you come up with

Very nice collection Darrin9999! I'm just a few games shy of a complete boxed US collection myself. I love the O2. It was the first game console we had, even before Atari. And I remember when I was about 7 making a "game catalog", modeled after the O2 catalog, for an imaginary console I called the Game Room. I still love the box art and fonts, and imo most of the games are still a blast to play today. Sadly, like probably a lot of us, I don't give it as much time as I should though.

This mod, along with upcoming Intellivision and Atari RGB mods, is great news! But darnit, now I have to send my CV back to you Yurkie! Do you plan to do the Intv mod also?

I agree that 2600 Pac-Man was piss poor, it still got a lot of play. Back then, everyone in my huge extended family had a 2600 and Pac-Man, and though we were all pretty disappointed, it was still Pac-Man! In retrospect, yea it still kind of sucks but it is unique among the many ports.

Perfect transaction with BL. Great guy, shipped really quick and even threw in a thank you card. Thanks man!

I've been curious about it, but haven't really gone out of my way to read up on it either. Nintendo is not known for putting out crap, so I was planning on getting it sooner or later but if it's as fun as you say, maybe sooner.

Thanks for posting this! Gonna order a copy tonight, and I don't even own a PS4 yet.

Bought a few O2 games and everything arrived in great shape. Excellent transaction, great guy. Thanks!

My vote goes to Warlords. Even now, after all this time, gaming just does not get any better than 4p Warlords. For 1p only, Kaboom! gets my vote.

I count both single-enders and double-enders as 1 cart each. Artillery Duel 1 cart Spike's Peak 1 cart Artillery Duel/Spike's Peak double-ender 1 cart So 3 carts total. The Harmony would count as 1 cart even though it can play tons of different games.