Do u think your Elite

Like myself, a lot of us think we're Elite at a certain game or games. I thought this about my high score on Gradius. Then I found TwinGalaxies.com ! All of a sudden, my 194,200, didn't seem so Elite anymore :( The guy that holds the world record, has 8,000,000 ? Mind blowing, isn't it ? I had to dust off my game genie and see this for myself !
When I finished the game, I had 2.5 million. So, this means the guy beat the game four times in a row ? When I started playing the game a second time ,I quickly figured out that it gets harder every time and I didn't waste my time trying to get the 8 million ! If u ever wanna give yourself a good reason to bust out that game or games, head over to TwinGalaxies.com And see what ya got ?

DuckTales 8.5

Another classic platformer from Capcom and from the same guys that made Mega Man ! It really feels like MM but a bit different. A lot of the charters from the show, make an appearance and the music and sound are amazing ! If you have never played this game, Do it !

Graphics:8.5
Sound:8.5
Gameplay:8.5
Replay Value/Game Length:8.5
Vs/Final:8.5

Overall:8.5

PAC-MAN Tengen 7.6

An arcade game made in 1980 and is considered a land mark in video game history ! 1 of only 3 games on display at the Smithsonian and one of the longest running games in the golden era of video games !

Graphics:5.5
Sound:5.5
Gameplay:9
Replay Value/Game Length:9
Vs/Final:9

Overall:7.6

Guerrilla War 7.9

As far as I can remember, this was one of the best Run & Gun NES games ! Super fast gameplay and smooth controls ! Pretty easy but insanely fun. SNK did well with this release but the Arcade version was amazing :)

Graphics:6
Sound:6
Gameplay:9.5
Replay Value/Game Length:9
Vs/Final:9

Overall:7.9

Life Force 8.7

This is the best of the best ! I remember this being one of my fav games and now I know why. When I started replaying Gradius, I had though, how can a shmup get any better ? This is how ! Not much else I can say. Go play Life Force !

Graphics:7.5
Sound:8
Gameplay:9.5
Replay Value/Game Length:9
Vs/Final:9.5

Overall:8.7

Alpha Mission 7

Pretty much the worst shmup game I have played yet ! When I was a kid, I had Gradius and Life Force. Then my cousin had Alpha Mission and even then I hated it ! I played it for maybe 15 mins and couldn't take it anymore ! Maybe if I hadn't replayed Gradius & Life Force first, this game would have gotten more of a shot but...

Graphics:6.5
Sound:7.5
Gameplay:7
Replay Value/Game Length:7
Vs/Final:7

Overall:7

Gradius 8.5

Gradius is by far the greatest scrolling shooter series ever ! I have tried a few others like Alpha Mission and Gradius is far better than all of them ! Originally released as an arcade game in 1985, and later ported to other platforms. Such as the Commodore 64 and the NES. In 1990 Gradius was released for Game Boy, under the name Nemesis. Then in 1998 It was released for the Game Boy Color, as Gradius again.It was included on the Konami Game Boy Collection Vol.1

Graphics:7.5
Sound:8
Gameplay:9
Replay Value/Game Length:9
Vs/Final:9

Overall:8.5

Pinball 7.6

I really love Pinball games and I am really picky with them. This is Pinball, Nintendo style. I think they did a good job with this game, considering that it came out in 1985 as 1 of 18 NES
Launch titles. Pinball was originally a Nintendo Arcade game in 1984 and was also a unlockable mini game in Doubutsu No Mari(N64) & Animal Crossing(Game Cube) All in all I think this was a great game for its time and from what I hear (ausretrogamer) It's the best Pinball game for NES ! I also love how they slipped Mario into the game ;)

Graphics:5.5
Sound:5.5
Gameplay:9
Replay Value/Game Length:9
Vs/Final:9

Overall:7.6

Final Fantasy 8.2

This Is The Game That Started Console RPG's ! It is also one of my favorite NES games !! I had the Nintendo Power Strategy Guide and this game was still super hard, to a ten year old gamer, in 1990. I'm pretty much half way through the game and I can't believe how much I have missed this. Even when I was a kid, I couldn't beat it. I had to go to my cousin Yackers house and he drew me maps on my Nintendo Power maps and I finally figured it out and beat it ! Thxs Yacker

Graphics:7.5
Sound:8
Gameplay:8.5
Replay Value/Game Length:8.5
Final:8.5

Overall:8.2

Dragon Warrior 7.4

I can remember playing the hell out of this and loving it. Then came along Final Fantasy and I never touched a Dragon Warrior again ! So, I started trying to replay it and only lasted about
20 mins. I couldn't take it ! For a game that only came out 1 year before FF, this sucks ! I am gonna buy the other Dragon Warriors, to see if they got any better ? When I was at the Flea Market, everyone was selling this for $20. I'm really glad that I found it for $5 I understand that DW is the game that started console RPG's and I respect that but it was FF that's started all RPG's for me ! I really hope this series gets better, which I'm sure it will :) I think there is another 3 titles on NES.

Graphics:7
Sound:7.5
Gameplay:7.5
Replay Value/Game Length:7.4
Final:7.5

Overall:7.4

Coffee Table Doubles As Functional NES Controller

The world needs more luxurious gaming furniture and less of those gaudy leather gamer chairs with built-in speakers.

Gaming decor goes to the next level with this coffee table that actually works as a fully functional Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) controller. Talented woodworker Charles Lushear sells the massive controller table on Etsy for $3,500 (plus shipping). The exotic item's 42 inches long, 18.25 inches wide, and 18 inches high, and you might want to seek permission from your significant other before purchasing it.I truly admire how accurate the table appears compared with the original NES controller. Lushear assembled the coffee table with "maple, mahogany, and walnut with dovetail joinery and mid-century modern legs," according to the description. The glass top removes easily for gameplay, and it features a retractable cord so nobody trips up after a marathon Mario session.

Mike Tysons Punch Out & Pac-Man(Tengen)

Yesterday I got a call from a friend and he told me he knew a girl that had some games. Last night I received a call from here. She named all the games she had and there was only two that I wanted. She said she wanted $20 for both games. I see Punch Out go for as much as $40 and Pac-Man for $25.
I'm also not sure why this Tengen game is gray ? I thought they were all black ? Can someone help me out here ? So, another good way to score cheap
Games, word of mouth !

Retro Week-End Warriors

I am putting together a NES gaming week-end, every week-end ! There will be a list of games that we play and will expand with time. All names and scores will be kept on the blog. Anyone that is interested E mail me @ willsweetin69@me.com or Get at me on Twitter BULLY_DOGG

The Game List Is:

PAC-MAN
Bubble Bobble
Life Force/Salamander
Tetris
Dr.Mario
Gradius
BurgerTime
Pinball
Mike Tyson's Punch Out
Rad Racer

Big Day At The Flea Markets

Before we started the day, we thought we had three Flea Markets in our city.
When we woke up this morning, we quickly found out, we only had two :(
So, we headed to the largest one first.
I was a bit scared that I wasn't gonna
Find anything, because I have never
Done any game shopping at a Flea Market before. I'm not gonna lie, I didn't
think I was gonna find any thing :( As soon as we stepped in the place, the first thing I see is a Video Game booth.
I head on over, for further inspection and find out they are asking more fore games, than the Retro Game Shops.
It took a lot for me to walk away from this boot but I knew I could always come back. We started walking around the market and within two minutes, we found two more booths but way larger :) Prices at the first booth were similar
to the earlier booth we checked out, maybe a bit better. Tons of stuff and rare games but way too expensive.
We Proceed to move on to the next booth and the first thing I notice, is how cheap his prices are :) The game I always look for to base prices on is Duck Tales 2 & Chip n Dale 2. He had both for $65 each. The cheapest I have seen them in stores is for $80 each. As I start to realize how cheap his prices
are, I wonder if my heckling skills are up for the challenge ? The man who ran the booth, came on over and I could tell he was a super nice dude.
We got talking and I told him that I'm after the 670. The man proceeds to tell me he's got the 670 three times ? Two
For his personal collection and one that
He sells and restocks. He also said he's got a stupid amount of SNES games. Stock for years I guess ? I start
Ripping through games seeing some really good stuff, when Tyler comes charging over, pretty much red in the face :) And says that he found Tengen
Tetris. My mind started racing, thinking about how cheap I might be able to score this for. I thought with his really good prices, that he would want around $30. Pull out the game from the stack and see a $20 tag on it :) A game that I had been seeing everywhere, for a crazy price was Dragon Warrior. All the
Booths were asking $20. I got it and Rad Racer and Utopia SNES for $20.
Then I got Mega Man 5, which he had market for $40 for $25. Both Tengen Tetris and Mega Man 5 were $40 ? WTF :) I also picked up Life Force, Pinball and Alpha Mission for $20. I also grabbed two NES MAX controllers,
which I had never seen before ? He also gave me 15 NES & 15 SNES dust
protectors. I see them things go for at least $1 each on E Bay. I guess for $75
I did pretty good :)

Tetris Tengen 7.5

As some of u may know, I'm the biggest Tetris fan ! I thought this was gonna be a sick game but....It's got really cool game modes, vs ect... I found the graphics, gameplay and sound, not as good as the regular version ! I'm gonna give it another try but.... I'm pretty disappointed !

Graphics:5.5
Sound:7.5
Gameplay:7.5
Replay Value/Game Length:8
Vs/Final:9

Overall:7.6

Mega Man 2 8.4

As far as I can remember, this was the best game of the series, for NES. It wasn't the hardest game but fun as hell. Heat Man was the only difficult lvl for me. I was gonna wait until I had the complete series before I started but....
I can't wait to move on to part 3 & 4 and need to find part 1 , 5 , 6. This is deff a top game for me and I rated it higher than Mario.

Graphics:8
Sound:8
Gameplay:9
Replay Value/Game Length:8.5
Vs/Final:8.5

Overall:8.4

NES Collection Fetching Thousands On eBay

What's the price of nostalgia? Well, it runs to the tune of over ten thousand dollars and largely resembles a pile of 670 NES cartridges. eBay Canada user, sonyabscott, is auctioning off an instant NES collection consisting of the system itself, all the known accessories and every single licensed, North American NES game (despite the auction's claim of "every game ever made"). At the time of writing, the auction has 82 bids and stands at $15,300.

Purchasing 670 games on the Wii's Virtual Console service would amount to $3350, though that would likely be accompanied by years of waiting and a strange desire by Nintendo to release the likes of Casino Kid and Fisher Price: I Can Remember. If you want to empty your lungs into physical NES cartridges (especially 670 of them), you'd best smash open that piggy bank and start bidding.

IndianJones and the Last Crusade [Ubisoft] [Taito]

What was with Indiana Jones and the NES? It seems that he had two games for each of his movies with an identical name. There is a Taito version of Last Crusade also which is more common. Truthfully, we're not sure if this is just a different publishing company name on the game or not, as these two even look alike... but if you want the rare one, this is the one to get! The Ubisoft
copy will run u for $35ish and the Taito
Copy is about $12. The Ubisoft game is almost worth three times as much ?

Nintendo 3.8mm Gamebit Security Tool

Tool opens NES, SNES, N64, and some original Gameboy games (cartridges) and more for easy access for cleaning and repair. This new slimmer version is easier to use in narrow screw wells and is a higher quality metal that does not round out like some others.

$4.99 + Shipping

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Dr.Mario NES 8

I thought Tetris was my favorite puzzle game But I guess not ? My mom had this game and I didn't like it as a kid. Things sure have changed ! It is a very
competitive game and has a 2 player Vs mode :) The music is great and kinnda Mario sounding. This is deff a top pick for me !

Graphics:6
Sound:8.5
Gameplay:8.5
Replay Value/Game Length:8.5
Vs/Final:8.5

Overall:8