New MAME competition: interest check

[New MAME competition: interest check]

I’ve never done one, gamed competitively or expect to even be good, but I’ve just finished a project and would like to have an excuse to use it. I’d consider joining.

[What were your initials?]

I use GIZ. Only tagged three machines of note, and none that impressively. But I hit ladybug in our pizza joint, Donkey Kong and Nibbler in a local arcade. I wanted top the nibbler cab, but somebody was dang good in front of me.

[What did you buy today?.........]

Ammonia is a great cleaner but it's also corrosive. Might not matter a whole lot with some plastics though.

To my knowledge, Pine-Sol does not have ammonia in it.

At any rate, I figured since I just used it on my vinyl flooring it was a pretty safe bet to use on the outside of the controllers. I probably should do a post on how I do my "clean-up" details. Thanks for the warning at any rate!

[What did you buy today?.........]

I saved a couple CX40 controllers from a landfill destination. They were even going to toss 8 games too. I had no idea they would wind up being the nicest controllers Ive seen. The cord ends looked like they have never been plugged in, the side of the button didnt even have a scratch on it. The second one cleaned up just as well. I felt good about this. I switched up my cleaning method and I think Ill stick with it from now on. Pine Sol. It takes so little of it to clean and man did these things shine when I was done. No residue afterwards either.

[SOLD:Sega Saturn: --> Help me pay off debt sale! (or a simple MAME machine)]

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[bfstats]

Flawless transaction! Fairly priced, packed and shipped well (at his own expense) and very well communicated. From the first message to the box on my doorstep, bfstats wants nothing but satisfaction. He got mine.

[RJ]

Another great transaction! He went out of his way for just six games shipped to me. Even threw in a very nice freebie for me. Top notch guy!

[RJ]

Such a great guy to work with! Courteous, quick and communicates perfectly. His stuff is clean, exactly as described and shipped well (packing and on time)

I keep trying to find more excuses to deal with him!

[captmorgandrinker]

The captain of atari cart trading. Phenomenal shipping, super packing and perfect communication. I would love to do more business with him!

[Are single player games going to die?]

I've never played an online game. I seek out video games to avoid people, not to interact with real people. I can guarantee I am not the p1 audience that modern designers are catering to. I'm playing goat simulator and pac-man championship edition. I'd rather show off scores on a leader board than interact. I also can't fathom watching someone live streaming their playing a game. I'm old apparently.

[How Many Atari 2600 Consoles Do You Currently Own?]

2 4switch woodies

1 jr. Short rainbow

1 7800

1 colecovision w/converter

1 intellivision w/game changer

My jr makes all the rest of them look ugly on screen.

It may be a cheap turd, but it sure looks pretty on the screen. In all fairness, the 7800 is hooked to a plasma, so it may not get a fair shake.

[Which systems/collections do you take most seriously?]

I went with pure numbers on this, because I feel like I could justify all (well, most) of them.

1- 2600

The first video game I ever played, Video Olympics with my cousin. He had pitfall, but I wasn't old enough to appreciate it, but we got really competitive with Pong. I was 7 or 8 he was about 5 years older than me, and he got so mad at me. I still remember him getting his mouth washed out with soap a few times. I'm currently a little over 200 into the collection, and it's getting harder to hunt for.

2- With about half of my 2600 collection is the N.E.S. This is where I cut my teeth with the whole neighborhood gang. We would do weekend marathons of super mario, zelda, castlevania and whatever we else we could rent. I can't believe how much money my folks shelled out for this stuff. We were as broke as anyone could be and not starve or lose the house, but I never had time to see it or know it. We had quite a few "power outages" that my friends didn't have. Mom worked her tail off in a meat packing plant, dad was a trucker and all I ever had to worry about were my shoes and video games. They were magicians at painting rosy pictures. When the world is as big as your living room, a bank repoing three beaters in a few years (as you later learn) is just normal maintenance. My mom was one heck of mario master, by the way...

3- ColecoVision

Probably my favorite without any sentimental ties for a console. It's got such an arsenal of great arcade ports. If the controllers were a little more friendly it would more mileage.

(4)- Wii U

It's just such an orphan system that I have to adopt it. I think it's got a great library (especially when you figure in backward compatibility). It's somewhat inexpensive to collect for the best thing is, my kid is really good at a lot of games and he likes most of the games I don't, which is good because one of us will play about anything we can find. It is optical though...

[Keeping track of your high scores]

I didn't see anyone mention the VG Collection Tracker app yet. I use it for inventory and for high scores and completed games as well.

The way I do it is to snap a pic of the screen or just scribble it down and then just jot it down to the app.

It depends on what game I'm playing. Speedy games like Fast Food and Yar's Revenge tend to lock me into scribbles more than not.

[The State of Our Collections]

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Is a very good post. Very introspective even if those particular rules won't fit my "strategy". Seems like I gravitate more now to the systems that cater to my personality.

Atari 2600: My short attention span, easy gameplay, difficult to master.

N64: For the racing games.

NES: For the puzzle games, the platformers and the variety.

Sega: For my shmup cravings.

Colecovision: It's just timeless to me. Inexpensive, and those arcade ports!!!

It took me collecting to gain the insight to see what consoles excel at what and how that relates to me and my personality.

My Xbox one is a 4k Netflix player that I play cupbhead and Mortal Kombat on.

[What are your top 10 NES games?]

 

These are some great lists. I'm not good at coming up with top-10 stuff, but let me say some here mentioned Popeye, Contra and Castlevania II. Definitely great games. Someone also mentioned Monster Party. Agreed, and let me throw in another supernatural one -- Ghoul School.

Let me mention a couple rarities that are fun: The Blues Brothers and The Search for Dr. Stanley Livingston.

Someone mentioned Shadowgate. How about Tombs and Treasures?

Also, one of my favorites: Back to the Future. Love this one, with the street scenes and the challenge sequences (blocking the hearts is especially tough).

I think Friday the 13th is a cool game, but as with many Nintendo Entertainment System games, the frustration level was uncalled for.

Popeye on the nes has the speed, but misses some of the movements and/or movement accuracy the colecovision and the arcade had. I think the colors are too saturated too. Having said that, it's probably my favorite port of it, but I do love my coleco...

[What are your top 10 NES games?]

Adventure Island

Excitebike

Felix the Cat

Fire 'n Ice

Gun Nac

Popeye

Rainbow Islands

R.C. Pro-Am

SMB (insert number here) I love them all.

The Legend of Zelda

 

My close followers that had to get edited to ten...

 

Adventures of Lolo

Bubble Bobble

Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers

Contra

Dig Dug

DuckTales

Kid Icarus

Krusty's Fun house

Mega man (3)

Solomon's Key

Tetris

Tiny Toon Adventures

[Gamestop bringing back older consoles.]

I never look at their website. It just seems, well... icky.

I frequent several others but theirs just doesn't work.

[Gamestop bringing back older consoles.]

Hoshi, to that end, the dude behind the counter told me they were buying stuff, so of course I asked how they checked them out and he said n64s and other a/v inputs only get visual inspections. Not very reassuring to a buyer, but oh what that must mean to a dishonest seller. I'm sure they expect to get a few burns here and there, but when they just start buying cases, that's going to ruin someone's day.

[Gamestop bringing back older consoles.]

Anybody else see that game stop is buying/selling older consoles again?

I saw my local one was selling a gamecube with one controller, Super Mario Party 7 and paper mario for 120. They also had an N64 bundle that was pretty steep too.

Not sure how to feel about this. Is the retro stuff coming back this well, or is modern stuff that bad?

I certainly don't love any of the modern stuff like the old ones, but I also like buying twenty games at a time to play instead of 60 bucks a pop or higher for a new game. Has anybody else seen this?

[Atari Flashback Portable 2016 vs 2017. any thoughts?]

Halo 2600 still won't run on it.

I found another one that won't, but I can't remember what it was.

[Top 100 2600 games of all time]

1. Spider Fighter

2. Fast Food

3. Dig Dug

4. Pitfall!

5. Coconuts

6. H.E.R.O.

7. Yar's Revenge

8. Centipede

9. Galaxian

10.Pac-Man

 

Homebrews are limited to what I've played...

1. Wall Jump Ninja

2. Halo 2600

[5200 colecovision sg 1000 cassette vision nes intellivision 2600 ti-99 c64]

Pm'ed.

[For Sale- Lots of Atari 2600 loose games]

Just got my games today! Everything was exactly as described and well packed. Looking forward to getting some more games as the dust settles around our family stuff. Thanks, Captain!

[For Sale- Lots of Atari 2600 loose games]

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[AtariAge Xbox Live Club]

Heavens no! I have a fairly substantial collection, but no starpath or any other tape peripherals. Price and rarity not withstanding, there is a patience problem there as well. I had to load a program for a (long ago) job once. I was thrilled I was paid by the hour. I also don't miss much from dos boxes.