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It makes me a bit lonesome looking at this pile though, as it's gonna be a rare occasion this get's dragged out and played. Almost nobody I know here is remotely aware of this shit.
Also - I'm now wishing I put down for a copy of Kraut Buster now I see people getting their copies. That's gonna be expensive.
I have been wanting one of these for a whiiiiiile.
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Thanks man, I've been holding off playing these on my Everdrive until I found the originals.
Nice scores brotha! Like to have that Runark.
I bought Runark quite some time ago but it was shipped to my UK address. Totally forgot I even bought it until we had family visit and it was hand delivered
Still looking for MD Captain Lang myself
You know what I am still looking for...?
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Yeah man, it's not easy tracking down some of the later releases for a reasonable price. That does surprise me to hear though. There's usually a handful up on eBay.
Not yet but I will this weekend. I should have gotten that copy from you...
Just buying games I'm interested in playing. I don't think I can bring myself to pay the asking prices for many of the rare Japanese releases where the US version costs $20.
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The rest of the shooter I bought showed up today. I couldn't bring myself to pay the price for AeroFighters complete on SNES right now, and I've heard great things about the TwinBee games and Cotton. I have fond childhood memories of playing Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa!, so when I saw that you can play as Upa in Parodious...that's really all I needed to be convinced.
I've wanted to replace my Super Gameboy with a 2 for a while now because of the clock speed issue, and having the com. port is a nice bonus.
The rest of the shooter I bought showed up today. I couldn't bring myself to pay the price for AeroFighters complete on SNES right now, and I've heard great things about the TwinBee games and Cotton. I have fond childhood memories of playing Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa!, so when I saw that you can play as Upa in Parodious...that's really all I needed to be convinced.
I've wanted to replace my Super Gameboy with a 2 for a while now because of the clock speed issue, and having the com. port is a nice bonus.
Dude Aero Fighters on the SNES is one of those games that totally shocked me spiking in price... Pure insanity.
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Can you harken back to time when it was priced low?
It's price inflated just like all of other titles that have been tagged as "rare" over the years.
I find titles like Space Megaforce far more shocking in regards to price changes. Sure it doesn't go for much compared to aero fighters but for years it was a $10 game. Then it became a $40 game, then over night $100 plus.
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Even though I haven't bought much games online recently, it still pains to see my competition scoops!
How did you ever get the chance to play Bio Miracle at such a young age? Did you maybe try it out as a bootleg or labelled as Baby Mario?
I sold my cart because the top of the label had bad residue/peeling issues and sadly never replaced it...
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Even though I haven't bought much games online recently, it still pains to see my competition scoops!
How did you ever get the chance to play Bio Miracle at such a young age? Did you maybe try it out as a bootleg or labelled as Baby Mario?
I sold my cart because the top of the label had bad residue/peeling issues and sadly never replaced it...
The rental store where I grew up carried imports, along with TG-16 games, neither of which were available at other places (and this was a small town, so it was even more surprising). My Mom rented it for me one day, and I fell in love with the game, so she offered to buy the famicom cart from the store owner. These days, my sister has the cart with her NES games, and I have the Disk System version.
On a side note, I just 1cc'd my first shooter in Parodious; Upa didn't let me down!
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Unlike most of the other "rare" SNES games like Earthbound, Aero Fighters is actually pretty rare.
Meh, I rented Aero Fighters several times as a kid from different rental stores. I don't really think it's all that rare either... Prices on everything spiked out of nowhere really after like... 2011. A CIB copy of it costs far more than the AES cart now... I had no idea until I started rebuilding my collection a few years back that everything reached such ridiculous levels as of late, especially for SNES; on average any decent loose game costs at least $50, with most of the better titles costing $150-200. Earthbound was a weird one too, I had multiple CIB copies of that in my past which I remember selling for like $30-50 back in the day and I had to pay like $180 just to buy just my loose cart a few years or so back. Best Buy used to be littered with them!
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Wolfchild has this strange endearing charm to me; I guess it just exudes the 90's. Even though the controls are a bit sloppy, happy to have picked this up!
Also, Sparkster cost me an arm and a leg... Since when did that title become expensive?
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Wolfchild has this strange endearing charm to me; I guess it just exudes the 90's. Even though the controls are a bit sloppy, happy to have picked this up!
Also, Sparkster cost me an arm and a leg... Since when did that title become expensive?
Genesis games cib have gone up considerably in the last two years. At least it’s a good game so there’s that.
Yea man, Sparkster is great. I don't get all the hate it gets!
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Sparkster's tweaked flying mechanic, level design and music are top notch, for me it's the best part of the series. RKA was too episodic in structure, as levels consisted of short sequences strung together -- still a very good game, though. The SNES outing was an absolutely boring rehash with inferior sound.
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Wolfchild has this strange endearing charm to me; I guess it just exudes the 90's. Even though the controls are a bit sloppy, happy to have picked this up!
Also, Sparkster cost me an arm and a leg... Since when did that title become expensive?
I'd say "at least Rocket Knight Adventures is still cheap" but that just means it only doubled in value in the last few years instead of quadrupling.
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That's the thing with Aero Fighters, really only rental places that got everything had them, you never saw them at retail. Earthbound was common as fuck though, for years the stores couldn't get rid of them. It's probably actually much more common than most of the Square RPGs that sell for considerably less.
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It's taken a long time to find a nice copy of Vandal Hearts II that isn't just disc only, but a seller in Canada had a brand new copy for a reasonable price , so I've finally been able to scratch that itch.
Some idea with Grind Stormer; it's been difficult to find a clean copy that has the manual, but I managed to finally get this shooter complete a few days ago. I don't hear about this game too much surprisingly...?
Some idea with Grind Stormer; it's been difficult to find a clean copy that has the manual, but I managed to finally get this shooter complete a few days ago. I don't hear about this game too much surprisingly...?
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You've certainly heard about the run of copies that have faulty boards and die mid-game right?
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Oh! No, that's news to me. Thanks for the PSA ASID!
A lot of Tengen Genesis boards die. It's due to poor quality PCB's on some runs, supposedly. If yours ever breaks, there are tons of tutorials on how to repair these releases. There are a list of donor PCB's you can use that have the same layout but aren't sourced by Tengen; all you do is swap the rom chip to the donor board.
I know one that people commonly use is that Mickey learning game. I just bought Dragon's Fury, another Tengen release; hoping it doesn't arrive dead. haha
Recent pickups of mine:
Red Zone
Dragon's Fury
Shining in the Darkness
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A good friend of mine and I bought at the same time SNES Aero Fighters for $20 at Tower Records back in 1992. Still have it, as does my friend.