Good thing I had my twitter feed to fall back on or I would have forgotten 3 of the games I had recently acquired. On June 4th I made my way around to a few pawn shops in town and picked up 3 games at one location: Blue Marlin, Image Fight, and Golf Power (as if I needed another golf game). Then just tonight I made a return visit to my new found contact (a fellow NES collector) and traded him some NES and SNES accessories for 9 games. Most I already had, but I managed to replace some of my damaged label carts with better copies and added 2 new games: Spy vs. Spy and Golgo 13.
The stand out for me from this lot is Spy vs. Spy. I have many fond memories of camp-outs as a kid (tenting in the back yard, etc.) and reading Cracked and Mad magazines with friends from the neighborhood. The Spy vs. Spy comics always cracked us up (no put intended). Like all good things the written works tend to spawn movies or games and Spy vs. Spy was no exception. My first introduction to the game was on a friend's commodore 64. I think what I loved most was the split screen shenanigans and hilarity that came from trying to outwit your opponent with bombs and booby traps. I have yet to play through the NES version, but I hope it lives up to my memories of it from way back when.
These additions bring my collection perilously close to 50% overall... which is a bittersweet realization. To have come so far and to, at the same time, realize I have so far to go. Games are going to become harder to come by and more costly from here on out and as a by product I imagine my entries may become fewer and farther between.
For this reason I am trying to pick up some doubles along the way in the hopes that I might be able to sell, trade or barter my way to some missing titles in the weeks, months and years to come.
NES cartridge total: 411
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