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It's either filler or one of those slimy scalpers since they send their stuff to Amazon to ship out so they get priority with the PRIME check.

They are NOAC that was found out by someone who tore one open after it hit the stores a couple weeks back. Centipede is the AF1 ROM with some tweaks to it. QBert is the NES game with the on screen nes controller with a nerd load screen removed and other title tweaks. Frogger, not sure where that one will come from but Asteroids was on that same AF1 unit. It's odd but I wonder why their Centipede is in a white shell as the retail unit is black.

How reasonable are you on that NGPC? I kept seeing it but didn't want to piss off the seller throwing a lowball. You do realize new ones don't go for anything near $250. I think you're basing it off that solitary one that had all the added stuff new as well. That DC-NGPC link cable goes for like $30(I see the new one did $20 oddly but there are a few used up to $35.) It also came with 18 games for that $300 price tag. I actually feel sorry for that guy, he didn't know what he had because he had Megaman in there which is an over $100 game loose as is Evolution in english (EU release) and Unitron is also over $100 new too. http://www.ebay.com/itm/NeoGeo-Pocket-Color-Launch-Edition-Silver-Handheld-System-with-Games-etc-/322374988845?hash=item4b0f0bf42d:g:qe4AAOSwo4pYZsTn I'd love to buy that off you but you'd have to come off that current value a lot.

Found at a goodwill today for my wife an 18w Ott Lamp. I know probably few if any here have any idea what the hell it is, but it's a craft light with special bulbs meant for natural lighting you can't get from other products. It's a tall lamp meant to bend over your project as you sit at a table or just lap in a chair. They retail for $180 still today as it's a popular model. I paid $12. She made out today I got nothing but a $2 wii nunchuk I needed to replace a jacked up stick on another I use on my computer at times for fun. I'm going to double down at another flea market tomorrow, may get lucky or not who knows.

I agree with both of you. On principle that was my big exact train of thought on the Gameboy when it came out and I got it for Christmas that year (89) is that it was a portable NES. But then I noticed that some games started to up the bar beyond. Super Mario Land 2 with a 'Super' Mario using a monochrome sprite body of the SNES character which threw me for a loop. You had other games especially from more established console makers who really tried to squeeze insanity out of that little screen. While Mega Man mirroed well the NES, others like Gargoyle's Quest really upped the bar until later the sequel appeared on the NES and it was modeled like the GB but in color. Yet you look at Konami and it was all over the board. I'd argue as fine as it was TMNT1 was more of a downgrade over the NES in gameplay quality and visuals and Castlevania in part was a mix of better and worse (1 and 2) but then you squeeze into Nemesis that one was an upgrade outside of the ship sprite...and the rarer to find sequel Gradius the Interstellar Assault was pure eye candy that said I want nothing to do with looking like a NES game. Gameboy was all over the board, but if you put a decent effort in you'd match NES quality on its better to best days, yet when someone really dug into it, perhaps got a perfectionist streak going it would exceed it in every way. Sometimes things would approach a low to no color SNES level of basic end style with that Mario sprite or Legend of Zelda Links Awakening (DX or not.) Gameboy is something I've had a lot of experience with both in ownership of a few 100 titles over time, but also abusing the hell out of emulators to really explore in the 90s and earlier 00s. And it slacked Pokemon Red/Yellow aside until the GBC days which were downright insane.

There's another obvious angle. Insurance against a dead one in the box. If it's toast, contact the store and let them put one to the side for you when a replacement comes in. It's paid for and busted, or if you're less patient, call NOA and get a swap under warranty.

That's good to know it's right. The one that always irked me but I held onto it was the GBA release. It's on the nose basically with the DOS game all six episodes and hidden stages too. But the (for the time) infinitely known poor house cheapskates that were BAM! Entertainment didn't want to pay for a larger chip, so the gutted the music and left the sounds only to get it to market. Pretty unforgivable and lame but if you can get around the loss it's a fantastic comfy conversion to enjoy and it's cheap ($10~) these days.

That's because Nintendo told various outlets around that more would be arriving anytime. Check amazon, best buy, etc anyone who puts up a 'coming soon' date and I can't remember if it was this month or next but a large supply are due given it's not just one store throwing it up there. The scalpers are getting desperate because once people can pick them up easily they'll have no margins left. Best to dump the stuff and make $30 now than lose $20 in fees later.

The Bridge Company confirmed finally by displaying proto(finished?) units behind glass of arcade mini's #5 and #6 We're getting Frogger and Astroids!

I know it could be a bit of a stretch, but isn't google kind of already in it a bit anyway? They are Android basically. They have that whole line of Nexus tablets and phones which have good guts for quality Android gaming (and emulation, and so on.) Also wouldn't they get some cut of the action from all their deals with micro console/storefront makers such as Nvidia Shield (double dip since it's google play) and Amazon as well? They don't really develop the games, but they are the firmware(OS) and hardware (nexus) creators so they do call the shots to a point and have some controls as it is already.

I don't think they'd bother because they lack some key stuff. An interested base in a MS strictly setup handheld. The largest mobile market (Japan/Asia in general) hates them and mostly refuses to buy their consoles as it is. And it would also kind of be screwing themselves since they already have a marketplace as it is with every single Windows Phone/Tablet so they'd be fighting against themselves for market share which would just be stupid.

I've not read into where the person who wrote this found this nugget of info but if in fact it's real (probably is I would think) Nintendo finally extracted it's greedy head from its ass in relation to how their Nintendo accounts work. Reports would have it be that the Switch (and Nintendo on the whole) is moving towards Nintendo ACCOUNTS now for all your files, and **NOT** tying your purchases strictly to just one system alone. IF this is in fact true this opens the doors to behave just like Sony where you could cross buy stuff to work over multiple formats if the developer so wishes it, and you could also if your system eats it buy another, login/pass and download your goodies again without calling NOA to beg them for the permission to get your paid licenses back.

Randomly going to just throw out some stuff, people can go find videos if they need to. - Panic Bomber - Magical Drop 2 or 3 - Wetrix - Puzzle de Pon - Money Idol Exchanger - Zookeeper Most of that are MVS(Neo Geo) arcade games, though the bottom started as a successful flash game gone onto Nintendo DS, and the top one was ported all over including to the Virtual Boy and the TG16 CD format.

I'd agree, but yes I used to be able to kill that game on the stock lives you were given back in the 90s when I was HUGE into buying second hand NES games (1995 and after.) All those games I said I rolled I really did and without using continues for those which are like arcade style games. The bigger stuff like the Zelda's, Metroid, Kid Icarus, too many deaths to remember so it's a sliding scale of accomplishment I guess. I imagine if I applied myself I could still do it but as life is I have no way to find that many consistent hours each day to re-learn all that stuff down to some kind of gamer science to pull it off once more.

I'd love to see how this works out, but in all fairness I just got out of all things (other than Dreamcast) Sega wise and the last of my Genesis games are being picked off on ebay currently. Otherwise, if this is so honest to right by the old DOS original I would have thrown some some green for it.

Agreed. I've been trying to move in that direction too. Both with games and food after I got really sick Dec 2015 (lost 20+lbs the hard way.) I keep far less crap on both shelves, games and pantry. I still have some around, but it's in moderation and it's slowly moving its way out too for better more bite sized things to enjoy. Perhaps it's why I'm digging so much my Neo Geo off and on since I got it last May. Quarter dropping arcade fun can be had in 5minutes or an hour or so with no regrets. For the times I can go longer, that's what a nice portable or my laptop are good for since you can still also double down on time burning with a TV or music on at the same time multi-tasking.

I'd find a way to do the swap or as he said above, ditch it and get one that isn't junky.

Yes it is, and that's why earlier I said for a larger box, USPS sucks use Fedex as UPS charges more than them, they're more abusive of boxes, and they're assholes because if you pay for 5 day shipping and it gets to them (destination side) in time to deliver on day 4 they won't which is just petty so I won't buy or sell from/to someone using UPS as brown is full of sh... I also value it the same, if a game is worth $20 or better personally I will sell it alone unless you have other circumstances where a bundle lumps it higher than a split up sale (like the turtles trilogy.) I though will include sleeves with games and have noticed in some cases it does add value, maybe not always more money in the long run, but it adds the value of my copy of a game moving before some one else with a same quality same price same shipping cost item that's naked without one. I've found getting rid of my Game Gear games lately those with dust clips (and this I've noticed on Gameboy too) sell better/faster. Not always, but a bit better. In general though when it does come to extras I never have a wall of memory cards, and I just hold onto stuff like that for when I find a system, then I make a total players bundle so people don't have to go fishing elsewhere. I find it helps move my console/handheld bundles faster and for a little more money than without. People are inherently cheap and lazy, but more lazy than cheap. So if you can have say a NES, a controller, the rf, power, and the smb/dh cart and get $50 more power to you. I'll throw one together with the usually missing 2nd controller, a/v cable, and maybe +3 $1-5 NES titles and I may get $10 more or $20 more, but I don't end up sitting on it long and that works fine by me.

I'm one of the bidders on that who capped out at $100. I'm not finished with it, but no need to run up the flagpole yet. Also I'm concerned why someone would sell them as a broken lot and throw that out there as untested. That's so easily contested in an ebay refund setup but makes me nervous. He may not be aware but I can read all the labels on that. Kizuna Encounter, Shock Troopers, 2 copies of League Bowling, Art of Combat, and yeah Captain Tomaday. he has a 2nd one up with almost all fighters which has Samurai Shodown 2 and 4 also FF Special and FF3 in it. There's another lot ending tomorrow that has viewpoint in it and ASO2 which are on my list but I'm not rich and don't have much funds. I have to be able to pay for a preordered Switch and 3 games I ticked off so I have my limits unless some people on here, racketboy or ebay go on a buying spree to perk up my paypal with ebay/forum sales. I have the 161in1 so it really matters not to me if I got Andro Dunos or Capn Tomaday first, they're both on it and don't malfunction in some form (usually audio) like others do or have jacked up difficulty settings either. Strikers is on that cart with jacked up difficulty, game played far easier(not that it's easy, just not rampant suicidal level8) on default #4 so it was enjoyable for me. I'm not entirely sure if this will work, but this google drive link is a file I've been chipping away at with the names of games I would like eventually and yes I do realize a few are just dreams as I'm not insane to pay the going rate on Super Dodgeball or Twinkle Star Sprites as a couple examples. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WTdEz9BDf1e2aWXrBUPunHuHa53wG51yvIc292S0jno/edit?usp=drive_web

Agreed it could not have cost them probably but another dollar or two to double that to 64GB. You'd still get a good bit of complaining but it would be certainly less justified given the future prospect of later editions with expanded internal space much like the updates in PS3/4 hard drives.

I have, can't do it now, same for much of any of the others on there but in the 80s and 90s I could roll that entire list including in some cases the arcade versions of them too like GnG and Karnov for example. I'm so passive about playing these days I never put a huge effort into it unless I'm really drawn into a game which is not all that common so I just play to have fun, not to master and own that game hardcore.

You are in no way alone in your care for Andro Dunos. I really do need to pick it up, but I haven't seen one on a private forum for awhile and the ebay trolls are trying to ask like $200 on a $100 cart so I refuse to be their pigeon, their mark to be ripped off. I never knew the game over the years even existed but last May/June I found it on that 161in1 cart and I do go back to it, one of the few I do as it's fun. It's like a fun bastard child of Gradius/KOnami shooters mixed with a touch of R-Type style as well yet not so nauseatingly hard and cheap. It's on a shorter list of things I'd like to snap up. Problem is circumstance dictates what I'll make a run for and so far Strikers 1945 Plus among another came first. While I'm at it, I'd also love to snap up that twinbee wannabe clone of sorts Captain Tomaday as that one is a blast too.

I see where you're going with it, but would someone really be all that limited? I'd argue probably not. Unless someone is so bloody loaded with cash, no kids or perhaps even a wife bugging them...free hours every day to just blow their wad, time and effort on video games there are some real limits already there. Sure back in the 80s and 90s, we didn't have a 100000 games to choose from or anything near that. We have so much choice now even if you're 12 or 42 you can easily narrow in to just a system or two, or a generation and have more crap to find, buy, and truly appreciate and explore in your few free hours each day or few days. Also is it really even possible to be as you said cutting yourself off? Short of being some kind of luddite odds are someone has a tablet, phone, or computer that can play games. Even if you were a staunch 2600 or NES guy and poo poo anything later than the mid 80s 8bit stuff, odds are you'll find a handful of something fun to piddle time and money on with other capable devices too.

My advice to you is doing that small lots. Value? There's a good way to do this or two. The good way -- Bundle one game of ok value ($10-20) with a bunch of $5 and less value junk with the console as it will help it move as people get variety to start. Then anything that's $10-20 in value make a few small bundles and anything say $50+ sell one at a time to get the most in vs acceptable loss. The other -- just throw it all into one lot, and price it out using the lowest selling value (short of battered garbage) and then being a lot, slice off 1/3 of the cumulative value. Just to help yourself and others, if someone here has a specific request and a price can be agreed upon then go for it as it'll be less hassle later with ebay abuse/fees or being royally screwed by some locally collector or worse 2nd hand shop that'll smile giving you 10-20% of the value. If you do split things, I'm into Dreamcast and all things Gameboy and I have nothing against a common if it's fun and I lack it.

I haven't in a long many years, but when I was hammering the hell out of NES games in the 80s, 90s, and lesser beyond there were a lot and probably more than I can remember. :\ Here's some though, may update this if I remember more. - Ghosts n Goblins - Battletoads - Ninja Gaiden (all 3) - Mega Man 1-5 (never had 6 then) - Zelda I & II - Contra - Super C - Bubble Bobble 2 - Gradius - Castlevania (all 3) - Life Force - Gargoyle's Quest II - TMNT 1 - Fester's Quest - Mike Tyson's Punch Out - Batman - Who Framed Roger Rabbit (yes it's goofy but it's nasty especially late game) - 1942 and 43 - Metroid - Kid Icarus - Ikari Warriors - Commando - Karnov - Shadowgate - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom I don't recall ever taking down Battle of Olympus but only got that in the last 10 years and I was kind of over being abused for fun. Same can be said for Contra Force and that one I did fairly well like.