New to the board!

[kungfukid]

Hey, thanks for the warm welcome guys! To try and take the points some of you have made, yeah The SMS is by a long long way my biggest collection (Around 260 individual games plus variations as well as most major console packages, almost all available accessories, magazines from back in the day etc. and my pride and joy - the rarest game in existance for the system - Smurfs 2 / Les Shtroumpf Autour Du Monde - of which less than 30 copies are known to exist worldwide), I'm a member of the Forums at sega8bit.com and smspower.org although the sega8bit ones are by far better so I contribute there a lot more regularly. There are so many underrated games for the system and you guys have mentioned quite a few of them.

As for the NES, I probably have around 80 games, so it's quite a small collection but then it's never been my main focus so I don't increase it as regularly as I could - still am always interested though and am a member over at NESworld.

I'm relatively new to PCE collecting, although that said I did a lot of research before I started collecting for it because with my SMS collection having grown to the size it has there isn't really that much for me to get for it any more, so I wanted to fnid something else to really get my teeth into! I really had a choice between focussing on the NES more or choosing something different and I went with the PCE after taking my time to get to know the system. I love the design aspect of so many of the games, and the split of Hu Card and CD games is great! I especially like the Duo console, a really unique and great piece of hardware.

Anyway, thanks again for the welcome!

[GUTS]

Man I love the Master System, when I was a little kid I probably put hundreds of hours into Phantasy Star and could never find the real last boss.  Then one day I was at the library getting some Conan books and I found one of those old code books done by Zach Meston, inside he showed where in the last dungeon to find Dark Force.  That day ruled.

[termis]

Yeah, that last dungeon on Phantasy Star was BRUTAL - if you meant Lassic's dungeon, that is... Dark Force's (or was it "Falz" for SMS version...) was just tricky in that you had to use magic to find the door, but other than that, it was nothing compared to Lassic's, IIRC.

I think I tried drawing my own map, but with all the traps, it didn't take long before you were completely lost again.  Then I recall going to some kid's house, and he had the map that he supposedly got from Sega hotline themselves (but I recall it was rather crude hand-drawn & photocopied), and finally getting to Lassic.  Goddamn, that had to be one of the hardest dungeons in all of video game kind.

[kungfukid]

There's a pretty big consensus that Phantasy Star is one of the best games for the system, quite interesting that it's not that rare (ie there are always 4 or 5 copies on ebay at any one time) but it regularly fetches between £20 - £30 ($45 - $67), quite a lot when the average sms game goes for around £3! That said, the most I paid for a game was £180 for Smurfs 2 (around $375)!

[Dark Fact]

They are all great games! I'm just surprised you didn't mention Ys: the vanished omens there!!!

I can't believe I forgot about SMS Ys! I'm almost too ashamed to have this avatar now!