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Re: So, what kind of TG collector are you?
« Reply #15 on: April 29, 2008, 05:41:24 AM »
At least a case & manual, just so I can stack them away nicely.  Couldn't care less for them being in mint condition, or having boxes for TG16 games and spine cards for PCE games.  In fact, I'd hate to have boxes, as I'd hate to throw the box away now, but they're not going to stack along nicely against the other CD jewel cases.

I'll sell off shitty games that I know I won't play.  I only "collect" in a sense of the word that I'll still keep the games I finished off playing and won't be playing again any time soon (i.e. RPGs).

As far as Japanese vs. US editions, I also prefer the US version in most cases, except in cases where 1) there's something censored / missing in the US version, 2) price premium for the US version is beyond what's reasonable, 3) if the natural setting seems more "uniquely Japanese" (KC/KC over JJ & Jeff, though rule 1 applies for that game as well)

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Re: So, what kind of TG collector are you?
« Reply #16 on: April 29, 2008, 07:11:30 AM »
I buy decent to awesome games as long as there are in their onginal cases and have manuals. Unless it is a US TG-16 game that never had a jewel case because those certain games with their cardboard boxes would cost like $100.  :shock:

I avoid crap games like Yo Bro like AIDS.

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Re: So, what kind of TG collector are you?
« Reply #17 on: April 29, 2008, 07:21:12 AM »
Sounds like there are a lot more 'I just want to play the game' types over here. Atariage is a bit different. Lots of 'it has to be sealed in the box' people. It's kind of interesting how different consoles attract different crowds. I think it's kind of a compliment that most of the TG/PCE folks are more interesting in PLAYING their games than having them sit on the shelf. In all honesty, I love my Atari stuff, but a large part of the library is crap (and the reason for the big crash of '83).

I'm really looking forward to getting into the PCE. There see to be so many great games I've never played.
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Re: So, what kind of TG collector are you?
« Reply #18 on: April 29, 2008, 08:48:02 AM »
These days I'm more likely to keep a "bad" game around rather than sell it and get $10 or whatever.  Just a word of advice for the brand newbie:  it's kind of fun to pop in something silly and mess with it for a day after you've been playing Gate of Thunder or a heavy RPG. These are TG16 games - there is SOMETHING cool/fun in almost every one.
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Re: So, what kind of TG collector are you?
« Reply #19 on: April 29, 2008, 08:48:26 AM »
I avoid crap games like Yo Bro like AIDS.

Dang! That's harsh!


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Re: So, what kind of TG collector are you?
« Reply #20 on: April 29, 2008, 10:05:03 AM »
Dang! That's harsh!

Indeed; at least it's more entertaining that Falcon or Timeball (shudder).
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Re: So, what kind of TG collector are you?
« Reply #21 on: April 29, 2008, 01:34:27 PM »
I'm sort of a hoarder. I almost never sell anything from my collection.

When I first started collecting, I was almost exclusively interested in just playing the game - I didn't care about boxes or manuals or the condition the cart was in, so long as it ran.

then I got into SMS collecting. Because Sega is awesome, and made durable game cases, the cost difference between a complete game and a loose cart was small. Therefore, I picked up a lot of complete games. At first, I kinda hid the boxes in the closet and kept the loose carts out, but then I started to appreciate the paraphenalia - the manuals, the box itself, the included posters...

Since then, I've been seeking out complete stuff more often, though I'm still not finicky about condition. I recently bought a NES game that was complete, with a name written on the cart itself. I don't mind; in fact, it kind of adds to the collectability. Someone once cared enough about this game to put their name on it, and there will never be another signed NES cart like it ;)
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Re: So, what kind of TG collector are you?
« Reply #22 on: April 29, 2008, 02:01:28 PM »
I am more of a "Most of my tg-16/cd/duo games are from my childhood and I still own them in their complete glory." I love my games and would never sell any of them, from Keith Courage to Dynastic Hero and everything in between. Most of the games have seen a lot of play and are still in very nice condition, although some of the boxes got a little crushed from storage. I am now picking up games that we rented back in the day, but couldn't find them for sale anywhere. So far all I lack of those rented games is Bloody Wolf, Cratermaze, Blazing Lazers, and J.J. and Jeff, and of those four the only one we really wanted to buy badly was Bloody Wolf. By the time the cd games were around all we had to go by were the descriptions in the TZD catalog we had (no one sold them, let alone rented them anymore where I lived), so we had to pick carefully and hope the game we bought was awesome. Luckily we made some great choices in games. The only absolute turds were Gunboat (uggh...) and maybe Double Dungeons, although I don't hate Double dungeons near as much as, well just about everyone else who's played it.

On a side note I love how the reason my parents didn't allow us to buy or play Devil's Crush, was for the fact that "Devil" was in the title!!! Yet they had no problem whatsoever with Splatterhouse, which by the way gave me nightmares as a kid. That final boss almost made me crap myself every time I saw it.

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Re: So, what kind of TG collector are you?
« Reply #23 on: April 29, 2008, 04:35:25 PM »
Dang! That's harsh!

Indeed; at least it's more entertaining that Falcon or Timeball (shudder).
Goddam Timeball is a good game.

GODDAM :). When will you folks give Timeball some love? :)
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Re: So, what kind of TG collector are you?
« Reply #24 on: April 29, 2008, 04:55:39 PM »
Dang! That's harsh!

Indeed; at least it's more entertaining that Falcon or Timeball (shudder).
Goddam Timeball is a good game.

GODDAM :). When will you folks give Timeball some love? :)

God thanks for ruining a perfectly fine night, I had forgotten that steaming pile of garbage existed. You know how I just told you Splatterhouse gave me nightmares as a kid?

Well then here's an equation for you: Amount of crap that Splatterhouse scared out of me * 10000^(n * k) < The amount of chunks Timeball blow, where n is the amount of stupidity that George Bush Jr. contains and k is the size of Oprah Winfrey's ass between diets

So no just, no. I like Double Dungeons or even Drop off indefinitely more so than Timeball. All I could think of when I played it was Nelson saying "What the hell is this" in response to that old black and white movie Skinner showed the children on the Simpsons when everyone gets snowed in the school on Christmas and about how much I wanted to kill the bastards responsible for making it.

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Re: So, what kind of TG collector are you?
« Reply #25 on: April 29, 2008, 05:11:47 PM »
What's wrong with Timeball? It's a fine puzzle game. I love the music. It's a game much better suited to the TE/GT IMO, though.

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Re: So, what kind of TG collector are you?
« Reply #26 on: April 29, 2008, 05:16:13 PM »
Dang! That's harsh!

Indeed; at least it's more entertaining that Falcon or Timeball (shudder).
Goddam Timeball is a good game.

GODDAM :). When will you folks give Timeball some love? :)

God thanks for ruining a perfectly fine night, I had forgotten that steaming pile of garbage existed. You know how I just told you Splatterhouse gave me nightmares as a kid?

Well then here's an equation for you: Amount of crap that Splatterhouse scared out of me * 10000^(n * k) < The amount of chunks Timeball blow, where n is the amount of stupidity that George Bush Jr. contains and k is the size of Oprah Winfrey's ass between diets

So no just, no. I like Double Dungeons or even Drop off indefinitely more so than Timeball. All I could think of when I played it was Nelson saying "What the hell is this" in response to that old black and white movie Skinner showed the children on the Simpsons when everyone gets snowed in the school on Christmas and about how much I wanted to kill the bastards responsible for making it.
Ok, Ok, at least we agree on one thing: Double Dungeons is a fun game, especially with 2  players. :)

I'm serious.

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Re: So, what kind of TG collector are you?
« Reply #27 on: April 29, 2008, 05:20:15 PM »
I'll be honest, it's boring as hell, no way around it. Though I haven't played in years, so maybe it was just a case of didn't take the time to sit down and try to play it for more than 5 minutes. I'll go back and try it out to see if there's something I'm missing. I don't remember the music and I normally love the tg16's chip music so it must not have been that memorable.

Off to give it another chance...

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Re: So, what kind of TG collector are you?
« Reply #28 on: April 29, 2008, 05:22:48 PM »
It's a good puzzler that gets insanely hard as you progress. I suppose if mind puzzles aren't your thing.... But for what it is, it's a fine game. I dunno.

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Re: So, what kind of TG collector are you?
« Reply #29 on: April 29, 2008, 05:37:33 PM »
Arggghh!!!! The horror! I just got through playing Timeball again on ME and my statement still stands. Ugh, never again! and I even like most puzzle games. I will say that it is more playable that Gunboat though, that game truly deserves the What the Hell award of the Millennium, truly the worst TG16 game of them all.

Oh and Drop Off or Drop Rock whatever it is called, isn't as bad as people say at least IMO. Sure it's still a crappy game, but not, oh say, apocalyptic video game market crashing bad. Seriously I wanna know what makes Drop Off so bad or worse than Timeball? To me it's just a poorly executed arkanoid/breakout type game.