MGS3 in HD is so pretty btw >:3
_{still have yet to try out the others... should probably get on that}

Pffft I'm not gonna play the others till I'm done with 3. After that I'll probably play peace walker since it will be new to me. _{I'll probably play the MSX games in-between since it will take for ever to get to it! D:}

Hmmmm... Maybe I need to spend less time on Metal Gear, and more time on MGS3 ogling The Boss & Eva in HD!

Hilarious stuff there, is it true what they say about French woman? The best thing about the Wii for me was that it got me thinking about Nintendo in apositively fantastic starman light again. My first game with Nintendo after a long hiatus was Metroid Prime 3 and "I was like this is amazing, why did I ever ditch Nintendo? I need to play Super Metroid again after this!” From there the Nintendo * juju* just began to grow like a beanstalk in Super Mario Bros.

I actually liked the original Dead Space though I admit I was still in awe of HD gaming when it came out. At the time it was new, fresh, and cool. I never got around to Dead Space 2, I might snag that up on a super clean out sale along with Mortal Kombat if that ever gets to $30 or less. As for Resident Evil 5 I was so looking forward too and is the only game I have ever bought at a midnight launch and overall I thought it was OK. To me it was just another 3rd person action game. The DLC Lost in Nightmares was pretty cool though. So, I can handle dual analog for a game but then I need to mix in some excellent retro 2D platforming or Wii motion action to break up the monotony. Like you I am keeping it retro with some modern games on Nintendo consoles mixed in. Life is too short to play video games all the time so it’s time for me to figure out my priorities. It’s like a video game jungle sometimes it make wonder how I keep from going under.

Contra III is a good time, so many cool touches and things like riding motorcycles and jumping from missile to missile that can only be done on the SNES. The whole overhead R and L scrolling stages add a whole other beast to the Contra carnage. But dude, the game takes place in 2636 or something like so by then there is not lush Amazon forest and tranquil cascading waterfalls left. Never played Contra 4 obviously since I am DSles but I beat Super C for the first time on the wife’s older 18” CRT TV 2 nights ago! All I got to say is Super C, I know it’s not a Top Wave Fave, looked absolutely beautiful. The colors popped at me like I was kariting on Rainbow Road.

Waveboy, OldGamesOnly, Retro_on_theGo: Ok fine, so I am the weird one because I will change a game out before I beat it. I don’t like having a game floating around “unbeat” haunting me like Freddy Kreuger though. It’s terrible.

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Sounds So Super Stealthy Snakealicious, I will put in on my Christmas list!

I got this and though I dont really think GBA is really "retro" I am still going to post in this particular latest video game purchase thread. After all it has the original Castlevania style "C," and not the crescent moon version dreamed up by Dracula himself during one of his all night all you can eat pork chop washed down with human blood Transylvanian rave's with all his favorite Succubus's. I have put about 30 minutes into it so far during my lunch break (because that is the only time I play portable video games) and I must say I will certainly be looking forward to my lunch hour even more for awhile! It makes me wish I had the headphone dangly thing for my GBA SP so I can go vampire hunting with all its Castlevania signature audio style maximized to the fullest.

Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for the PS3.
I've got a lot of Genesis games to catch up on since I missed out XD (although I've played Sonics 1-3&K, Dynamite Headdy, Gunstar Heroes,Comix Zone, Earthworm Jim 1, MUSHA Aleste, and the first Streets of Rage and highly enjoyed those games

I bought a few games on my 3DS: Super Star Wars and Super Return of the Jedi, Wordtris, Roger Rabbit GB, Legendary Wings and Superman Genesis.

...I just opened ebay on the Web Broswer.
(no, I don't think I'd actually shop that way again.)

Xbox is retro now? What the-

An XBOX purchase in a retro forum? Now that just depresses me more than if LJN got the rights to Develop Mega Man 11.
Get these kids and their X-Mcdoodles outa' here! lol

Anyways, when it comes to Retro purchses, I'm going CIB for every next purchase baby.
It makes me regret not doing this earlier since most of my NES games are cartridge-only It's just so awesome having that killer funky colorful, striking and fun 80's box art on display rather than having a cartridge with it's teeny little shrimpy label for you to only see.

@Ryno
I totaly here you about life being too short to play videoames all of time. It's all about balance, too much of anything is a 'bad dudes' bad thing. And Rynozord, I can definitly relate to this enormous massive VideoGame jungle that we kind of live and breathe in Mondo Gecko-style. I feel like it's not quite as much anymore considering i ditched playing PS3 games, so there's nothing to keep up as far as that's CoCoa puff concerned. But as far as modern Nintendo goes....There's the Wii, WiiWare, Wii VC games, then there's the 3DS, 3DS VC games and 3DS Classics. yikes!

I can barely keep up as it is, but it's all about going at it at your own Proto man-pace. I feel like I'm a lot more pickier with modern games in this day age. Not only because I'd rather spend my cash on retro games, but because of the time that i'd have to put into them....There's nothing worse than wasting your money and time on a crappy game. lol (Cough! Ju-on: The Grudge cough! That so called Halloween treat turned into an almost unplayable Napoleon Bonafrog of a nightmare!) Anyways! Yet when I game, I usually game no more than 2 hours. 3 is pushing it max and nothing beyond that.

Balance is the Shadow-gate 'key' bud, but you already know that! People who devote their lives, hours and days to videogames are missing out on many other things.....Like um, collecting more retro games! haha. Nah, but i guess in the end all that really matters is your happyness, friends and family, people who love you in your life and just doing what your love! ....Like working on this god forsaken Turtle Pie Time machine. I've almost created an 80's vortex by using a couple of retro-Light Brights, Some Left over radioactive E.T & NES Cereal and Johnny 5's giant Robo wiener. I'm almost there!

Anyways! I'm pretty pumped for my next couple of retro purchases i'll be snaging towards pay day. I really want to start up a CIB Nintendo collection. I'm still kicking myself that most of my retro-buys were cartridge only. Looks like I'll have a few extra doubles hehe. And you know, part of me misses my 32" Sony CRT SDTV....Hell, i'd still be happy with a TUBE TV, it just takes me back i guess to a time where everything was just too awesome. But, a 50" 1080p 3D HDTV will be a must for Wii U games hehe.

So random, yet so awesome

Now if you'll excuse the Wavester I've got some Donkey kong to play for the Game Boy.

Just ordered a couple loose GB carts: Donkey Kong GB: Dixie to Dinky, the Japanese GBC version of Donkey Kong Land III (since let's be honest, if Nintendo releases DKL3 on VC (likely), there's a 99% chance it'll be the monochrome version) and Taito Variety Pack (as the name implies, it's a legal multi-cart. Bubble Bobble, Chase HQ, Elevator Action and Sagaia/Darius II).

@WaveBoy: Nothing like video games to help provide some perspective on life, eh? Like you said it’s all about balance, you don’t want to be one of the goobers who play video games all the time and misses out the things in life that actually matter. That’s a lonely unsatisfying life there waiting for you if you make video games a Godzilla size chunk of your life. Your family, wife/girlfriend, and friends do not really give a rip about how many games you have beat or how many “achievements and trophies” you have. Sure it makes good discussion here but outside of checking in here while at work I try not to spend my additional “free time” on video game websites. Actually, I try not to spend too much time on the Web in general. Remember back in the day back when people actually spent time with other people in person? Alright, I better nip this in the Fire Flower bud now… Haha…

Yeah, I am at peace with finding out to how to control the mass influx of video gameage out there in this Super Mario World. WaveDude, not to get all sappy like a maple tree but you helped me with it! Dr. Wave, you can bill my insurance. Haha My main focus is collecting retro games specifically NES & SNES with a Back to the Future sprinkling of Genesis and Atari 2600 down the road. My Gamboy Advance SP will keep me busy for lunch breaks until I retire and I am sticking with Nintendo consoles for the rest of my Turtles in Time here on this amazing planet.

Hurry up with that 80’s Vortex. I am definitely looking forward to some fresh Nintendo Cereal System and I want to buy 2 copies of the ultra groovy original Mega Man. Best of luck to you in your CIB Nintendo collection! The writing that comes on the back of the boxes and in the manuals is just so cool along with the bodacious artwork. I love the wild and crazy stuff that they did back then, like with Karnov for example, they used pictures of the arcade game on the back of the NES box and they actually say something like “actual shots are of the arcade version.” WTF? Haha…

I got some more SNES goods.

First, this is an "upgrade" purchase. You may be thinking, Ryno already bought that. True I did, but I didn't originally get it with the awesome map and Top Secrets: Messages from Sahasrahla. Plus this manual and box are in better condition.

I have never played Secret of Mana. Actually, I missed out on a lot of the cool Action-RPG SNES games, so I want to make sure to collect them with their maps and guides and everything. A Link to the Past is one of my favorite games so I am sure I will like this one.

I just got Secret of Evermore in the mail today complete with poster and map and I have question for those who collect and can remember the good ol' SNES days (maybe KingMike or oldgamesonly). Did the NA "white tray" ever change during the SNES era to the one in the picture below or was it always the same style and that is just the wrong one?

@Ryno
thats a good question and yer white tray is probably legit, theres several snes games that use them.
there not as common though.

Why so worried Ryno? The white tray is fine judging from that picture.
Man, how much did all that cost? I haven't bought anything retro in months. I know I said nothing till Mario Kart 7, but I can't believe I kept that promise! XD

@Ryno I do want your Zelda package!

@Ryno: Nice purchase as usual buddy boy, you make me jealous.

To answer your question about the white tray I believe different companies used different styles of the white tray. Some of my SNES games came in trays that were completely solid all the way around and the game sat in the middle spot while others had what looked like the top part missing like yours that came with Secret of Evermore there. I think it was a move so that they used less packaging or something I am not really sure why they had different designs.

@Retro_on_theGo: For me I want to collect NES and SNES games as close to original as possible even down to the correct tray. Warnings and Nintendo Power ads not so important but all the other inserts I want. I know the best way to do this would be to buy new and sealed which most of the time is more than I want to pay. Plus, I still want to play the games and read through the manuals and look at the posters. How much did it all cost? Well, that depends on which/how much you are talking about here.

Thanks man, I will sell it you for $100! haha...