Guess who's getting their NES repaired? That'd be me. I got these off of Ebay last Friday and they finally arrived today. The check-out experience for this paticular seller was terrible, and their "free" shipping turned into paying for shipping when I was paying. Either way, it ended up being the same price as most the other auctions on Ebay that did offer free shipping.
So two of the connectors are for me (getting mine fixed and acquiring another system) and the rest go to the person fixing them for me. They are supposed to be new, they look new to me, but I'll let my repairman be the judge of that. As long as they work. No more sticking dirty games in my system ever again! That's what broke mine the last time..
Is the game ALREADY in my mailbox? According to tracking number 9101148008600308069543 is has been proccessed at the local sort facility since yesterday. An update as soon I can get home to check my mail!
*** UPDATE **** I got TWO games in the mail! Yaaay! Obviously they need some cleaning and have not been tested yet, but didn't want the suspense to kill anyone... :)
The 8 Eyes game was horribly dirty, but it cleaned up very well. I actually had some trouble getting it to work on my Yobo, but I got it to work! I was worried it was going to end up being one of those games that wouldn't work on the Yobo. Golgo 13 gave me no trouble. The store, Play N Trade, has Mega Man 6 for $15. I might have to go back and buy it if the one I'm watching ends tonight at more than that. We'll see.
I have a few games coming in the mail that I've already talked about here. Looks like my attempt to pass 110 games this weekend has been a success.
I ended up getting home in time to put in my winning bid for Castelian. No one else had bid on it anyway, but I still won. The price guide has its worth at $7.63, and I won the title for $4.90 ($1.95 + 2.95 shipping). Unfortunately I missed the few lots that I was watching, but they ended up going for pretty high so it wasn't a loss.
I also purchased a lot of NES edge connectors so I can get my NES fixed as well as acquire another system. The way I had to check out from this paticular seller on eBay was awkward so lets hope I'm not becoming a victim of identity theft. I'm sure it's okay because I did ultimately check out from PayPal, but it was still weird going through more screens than I normally have to in order to check out. I also ended up paying for shipping even though the original listing said that shipping was free. Oh well.
I should also be getting a few other games to add to my list, so lets hope I beat 110 games by the end of this weekend!
This is an auction I saved on Google Calendar thinking that it would get too expensive to bid on. This game, on average according to VideoGamePriceGuides.Com, goes for about $15.48. I sniped the auction I had my eye on, winning it for.... $1.80 + $4.00 shipping! I saved about $10! Pretty exciting stuff! Slowly but surely I will build up my Capcom collection, not that I'm really focusing on any publisher in particular.
I don't know how many people out there have played this game before, but it's the one and only original Game Boy game I own and I'm pretty sure it's the first one I've owned as well. Thankfully I can play it on my TV with the Super Game Boy for the SNES, so it makes it a bit easier to see it. Put up the black background, pick a color scheme that doesn't make you want to puke, and there you go.
There isn't much to this game. You start off playing as Stimpy trying to save Ren from the outside of the ship because you accidentally locked him out of it. After you get Ren, you release him (AGAIN) and he travels to a alien planet and you have to try to make your way through it. This is as far as I've gotten, but the manual describes level three as "Our heroes have been sucked into the incredible Flusher of Worlds. Cadet Stimpy scans the bizarre planet to locate his missing commander." and level four as: "Safe from interplanetary sewage, Commander Hoek and Cadet Stimpy head for the Asteroid City Trailer Park. On their descent, however, they drift apart. Commander Hoek must now make his way through the alien urban sprawl and find his lost companion."
There are a few items that you collect along the way. You have four hits before you lose a life. Your life meter is pieces of Toast, and you collect them to fill up your life meter. You also collect cans of Powdered Toast (which would only make sense if you've seen the show). If you collect three, then you are able to play the Muddy Mudskipper mini-game, which is a little coin-toss game. If you get two out of three you get invisibility for x-amount of time. Three out of three gives it to you for even longer. There is also extra lives which is a picture of the opposite characters head (so if you're Stimpy, you'll get a Ren head).
The control of the characters are kind of spotty. You move like normal. You can jump different heights depending on how hard you hit the jump button. But Stimpy definitely is a better character to play as, and you don't get a choice as to who you play. Stimpy shoots hairballs to attack enemies, which makes it a long distance attack. You can also jump and shoot at the same time even though doing that causes Stimpy to stutter in mid jump. Ren, on the other hand, only has a lame slap (the manual calls it a Karate Chop, but it looks like a slap to me). You have to be almost on top of the stupid enemy to hit them, which means you're probably going to lose a piece of toast. You can't slap in mid-air, which is really a pain when you're going through the second level. Ren also looks kinda goofy when he's jumping, but it has nothing to do with anything.
Anyway, this game is such a pain in the butt. In my youth I was never able to pass the first level because I had no idea how to pass it. There is so much random stuff going on and it doesn't make much sense as to what you're supposed to go and where you're supposed to go. Another thing that I don't understand is why when you move on to another part of a level, you change directions on which way you start. You may be going from left to right (like any normal game does), but then it will decide to switch it up and then you're going right to left on the next screen without warning. And if you aren't careful you might get hit by an eyeball or robot or whatever else comes your way.
Now that I'm a bit older and have more patience, I can actually get through the first level, even though it still can be a pain. There are so many pieces of toast, but there is just so much coming after you that you still have to be careful. I can get through part of the second level, but it isn't really clear on what your supposed to do. I just figured out today that you can actually fall down certain holes without dying, but others you can't. There's also logs that you're supposed to jump on to get across large crevices while avoiding (sigh) flying dead turkeys, but if you don't land on them JUST RIGHT, you fall and die. Usually I get pretty frustrated and turn off the game after my first game over.
So here's a video of the first level that I found on Youtube (and it's actually the ONLY video I can find out there, which sucks because this cuts out parts of the level that apparently they suck at too). Watch the madness, and maybe someday I'll record my own game play.
I did a "buy it now" for this title for a whopping $5. I got a tracking number today.. (http://www.fedex.com/Tracking?action=track&tracknumbers=290350124706) and it's coming Fedex. I have never had an item from eBay come Fedex. I don't know how well that's going to work considering I live in an apartment complex. Will they deliver to the office if I'm not home? Will they make me pick it up somewhere? Will they leave it on my porch to be stolen? I suppose those questions will be answered once I get the package.
EDIT: So after looking at the email more closely, there is no tracking number, and GMAIL was attempting to make my item number a tracking number. I'm a dork..
MY CURRENT RECORD: 254,900!!! Suck on that, Christopher J Jedrzejek!!! Just you wait, I'm gonna shit all over your stupid score!!!
Thanks to the person who showed me how to group, even though I didn't do exactly how you showed on the second stage, I still managed to make it work! This ended up being the furthest I have ever gotten in this game, and man does it get freakin' hard! The food goes all fast and are just waiting to bite you in the ass...
This was in my mailbox yesterday, but I only checked it this morning. It came with a coupon for 15% off my next order before October 15th. Too bad I probably wont be ordering any games before then, or else that would be pretty cool.
Why'd they have to put that stupid sticker on there? At least I didn't have a repeat of this morning, jacking up some label. It was easy to get off, thank goodness. In fact, the game really didn't need any cleaning at all. It's in great shape. Plays great too. I've never played this game before and it's a lot of fun.
This is what 103 (excluding the ones on the top of the shelf) NES games looks like. The dust covers make it uneven when you stack them on top. Not sure what I'm gonna do about that, considering I wanted all my games to have them eventually.
This is what happens when a price tag is on top of another label... and you aren't careful taking it off. Looks like Battleship is going to need a replacement back..
Porkchop doesn't like the Wii remote sleeve either. He wants to eat it.
That's right, I finally won a copy. And guess how much I paid for it? A whopping $8.50 with shipping! It was $6.13 plus $2.38 shipping. Not too shabby, considering the game is worth around $16 average on eBay.
Looks like I might start collecting SNES games along with NES games. I haven't gotten any more yet since Mario Paint, but I'm going to as soon as I get paid again. Gotta have money to buy games!
