OMG it's Gauntlet!

Such an epic opening!

In all honesty, I'm not very good at this game. I never have been. I love the music in this game. There are a few different songs in this came that all sound very neat. Even the music when you're close to dying is awesome! But I'm not very good at just running around avoid (or just running into) enemies. I always want to kill everything in sight but that's not how you're supposed to play this game.

But I digress, it's still a good game. I remember trying to play this in the arcade and sucking at it as well. I love to watch this game played as a stream. I like watching live streams of games. It's been awhile.

My Thriftstore Stuff

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Footclan, Qix, Unreal Tournament, and a NES controller. I walked away with all this stuff and only paid about $7 for it. How did this happen?

I don't know, really. The Game Boy games were supposed to be $4.99 a piece, but somehow I got them at half price each, so I paid $4.99 for both. Unreal Tournament was $1.99 but I got it for $0.99. Last but not least, the NES controller was $0.99 but I got it for $0.50. I don't know, maybe everything was half off today. Who knows.

What am I going to do with an extra copy of Qix? I guess I'll have to throw it away...

The thrift store I went to had all sorts of systems too. N64, 2 Super Nintendos, 2 PlayStations, XBox, 1st and 2nd generation Sega Genesis, and a Gamecube.  The Super Nintendos were $8.99 if I recall correctly, but they were very yellow. I didn't check the prices of the rest, but I didn't need any of them! Maybe someday I'll buy a Gamecube just to say I own one, but not now.

I was going to go to another thrift store, but I ended up turning in the wrong direction and didn't feel like turning around again. I miss doing this on Fridays.

Unreal Tournament is a game that I used to play when I was younger. I was alright at it. I don't know how to describe it other than compare it to other games. It's like Quake. Old school, I know. You just run around and shoot people. No story to it really. You play until everyone is dead from what I recall. If my computer can't handle running this game, I have a serious problem. :(

How to clean a Game Boy game

I have never opened a Game Boy game before, and since I just won a lot of a few titles, I figured it needed to be attempted.

Step One: Completely remove the screw from the back. Unfortunately it does not work like the NES where you can unscrew it all the way but leave the screw in. If you don't take it all the way out, you can't continue.

Step Two: Turn the game over and push the top panel downwards as pictured above. Then you will lift the top of the game off.

Step Three: Clean as you would your NES with a pink eraser. As you can see, this game does not require any cleaning as it looks like it's never been used. Thankfully pretty much all the Game Boy games I got were like that.

As you can see, you do not need to turn it over and clean the other side like a NES game as there are no pins on the other side.

Step Four: Put the game back together, and you're complete!

So above are the games I won from ebay. It includes NES Play Action Football, Battletoads, Duck Tales, Godzilla, Gargoyles Quest, Mega Man: Dr. Wiley's Revenge, and Tetris. I paid a little less than $15.00 for the bunch including shipping. I have played Mega Man: Dr. Wiley's Revenge as a kid and I'm pretty sure most people who ever played a Game Boy has played Tetris on it. The rest of the games I have never played before. I looked at Godzilla only because I've seen a revew of it, but that's it! They all are in really nice condition. Time to play them all!

Marker trick?

In an effort to never have an issue with dirty games again, I'm going through each game that I haven't gotten recently and making sure it's clean. I came across this game, Codename: Viper. Poor poor cartridge with writing on it. I've gone over this thing at least four times and it still isn't off yet. It is getting lighter each time, but geez! I haven't had this much trouble with writing in quite awhile.

Whoever "Latham" is, I want to smack them. Why write your name in permanent marker on a NES game?! Why couldn't you just use a sticker or something? I shake my fist at you!

Super Mario Land 2

This game has been conqured. Unfortunately I couldn't take a picture of the last screen because I was playing on the SP and it was impossible to get a clear picture. I played it off and on today from the start and it took me forever to get through the last stage (Wario's castle). I found myself doing that stupid spin attack when I wasn't trying to and it ended up killing me off a lot. Thankfully I had gone into the 999 coin pipe and won myself 50 extra lives, so dying a billion times didn't matter.

It's funny how many memories this game brings back to me. When I was younger, my brother and I used to pass this game back and forth and we probably beat it a bunch of times. I remember when we used to record our daily lives on cassette tape and this was the theme of one of those tapes. The music, us getting mad at the game, ect, was all in that tape. Good times.

So there you have it, one more game I've finally beaten. Who knows what will be next.

Pac Man & SP

These are my goodies for the day. Pac-Man arrived in the mail today and it has minor wear on the label. I picked up this Advance SP for $30 from a game store. I've been told that it's worth more, but Ebay has prices for this all over the place. I saw one for only $10, but it still had a few days before it ended. Either way, I think it's cool and I'm glad to have it. I just need to get myself a charger for it since the store didn't have one and my DS lite charger doesn't fit it. I hear that if I had the original DS it would work... Oh well.

Review of Tiny Toon Adventures

Yes, I have talked about this game before, but not in detail. The story beind the game is that Montana Max has kidnapped Babs Bunny and Buster Bunny decides to rescue her. There are 6 different stages with three sub-stages in each (except 5 and probably 6 which are only one stage each). Before the start of each main stage, you get to pick a character from the three below:

Plucky Duck, Dizzy Devil, and Furball (I remembered all but Furball). Shirley the Loon tells you to pick a character and they will help you on your way. Each character has their own advantages.

Plucky Duck flies, kinda like the princess from Super Mario Bros. 2. I use this character for all the stages except three and six. Being able to fly, especially on stage five, is very helpful.

Furball can climb up walls, which is very helpful when you're about to fall down a crack. I use this character on stage three to climb up all the trees as shown above.

Dizzy Devil spins around for a brief period of time, killing anything in sight. The only time I find this character useful is in stage six. Mind you, I have never beaten this game, but in stage six there are a ton of spikes to go through and I can't imagine using any other character to get through them.

This game overall is fairly simple. Stage four gives me some trouble and I cannot pass stage six, but the rest of the stages I can breeze through without trouble. In fact, at the end of stage one I can be maxed out on lives (which unfortunately is only nine, but the game has unlimited continues). I have attempted to beat this game on several occasions, but stage six gets me so angry that I can only continue so many times before I throw my controller.

The second part of each stage you have to go up against Elmyra. All you need to do is avoid touching her and wait for the exit to appear. You run around different platforms and such, with each time you going against her getting more difficult. They are pretty easy though.

I came across this bonus stage once when dying on Elmyra's stage on accident. I have only seen it this one time  and did not pass it. You have to jump on those Storm Trooper looking guys to jump on the Darth Vader looking Montana Max (which is conventiently names Duck Vader). I'm not too sure what happens if you beat this, but according to Wikipedia you will gain three lives, which would be useless if you already have the maximum amount of lives.

Through most of the stages you can collect carrots. During the stages you can find a random door that will take you a "bonus" stage. If you enter that door with multiples of thirty carrots on hand, Hampton will give you an extra life.

And yes, I have seen this screen waaaay too many times thanks to stage six being ridiculously hard for me. Someday I will pass this game, but for now it needs to go on the shelf before I destroy it, literally.

$2 Pac Man?

That's right. Buy it now for $1 with $1 shipping. Isn't that an incredible price? Too bad I wasn't the one who found it.

It was said to be shipped today, so hopefully I will see it by the end of the week or beginning of next week. Should this count towards my NES collection even though it's an unlicensed Tengen game? It's not on my game list since it's not a licensed game, but who knows. I'll have fun playing it anyway.