NES update: July 20th, 2014

Another 10 days has gone by since my last post and I'm happy to say I've reached another mini-milestone with my collection.  With the additions from the Sunday Flea Market today, my visit last week, (and a package slated to arrive tomorrow or Tuesday) I have reached 425 game carts!

The box of goodies from Game Gavel dot com will contain the following:  Dance Aerobics, The Last Ninja, Thunderbirds, and the Untouchables.  Last Sunday (July 13th) I picked up 3 new titles from the 'ol F.M. including:   The Little Mermaid, Bad News Baseball, and one of my all-time favorites Rush n' Attack and today I picked up Magic of Scheherazade and another gem:  Willow.

Have I mentioned yet how fortunate I feel to have continued to acquire new games at an alarming rate? That is 9 games in about as many days.  A special shout out to my wife, Missy, for putting up with my 8bit obsession.

NES Pickups - July 10th, 2014

Last night I got an email from a recent contact I made who is a nes collector/seller.  You'll remember me mentioning him in previous posts as the guy who lives right around the corner from me.  Anyway... Shayne emailed me to let me know he had made a huge trade that landed him with 60 new titles and asked if I wanted the first look at them before he posted them for sale.   My eyes were as big as saucers as I replied that I would love to have a look at the games tomorrow.

I made arrangements to go by his place after 5 pm to take a look at his recent findings and brought along a few of my doubles in the event that he might want to trade.  Unfortunately this trip would be a tad bittersweet.  He had a lot of new games to peruse but, after close inspection with both my mental list and my Ipod app, I concluded that I had all but two of them:  Magic Darts, and Infiltrator.   Long story short I traded him for a pair of my doubles straight across (game for game) and so adding those two new titles to my collection cost me nothing out of pocket today!  The additions of Magic Darts and Infiltrator brings my collection total to:  417 games and 50.61% of the overall collection.  With the exception of some label damage on M.D. the games look pretty clean overall.

As sad as it was that he only acquired two new games (out of the 60 new ones he had) that I was lacking, it is somewhat fulfilling to realize that my collection is beginning to reach a stage where finding new games (without the help of Ebay) is becoming more scarce.

NES pickups - July 2nd, 2014

Got a package in the mail today from Game Gavel Dot Com in it was the following:

The package consisted of 3 carts and 2 manuals:   World Games, Muppets Adventure, 8 Eyes, and manuals for The Karate Kid, and Galaga.  As bad as the game is, it was still rewarding to add the Muppets Adventure game to my library. I played through this game a little bit on my M.A.M.E. machine as a preview and came to the conclusion that this is not really a game for playability but rather a game for collectibility. As for the others,  I had not played World games on the NES, but I played it a lot on the Commodore 64. It was always entertaining in the weightlifting competition to watch the facial expressions of the competitors.  The last game, 8 eyes, looks like the spawn of many like-minded games of the time; most notably Castlevania.

This was my first experience buying from Gamegavel.com and I must say it was flawless.  The seller (Dennis) of FND Collectibles was courteous and professional.  It was such wonderful experience compared to the last few auctions I won from Ebay.

A week or so back (against my better judgement) I added the Game Genie in my collector app and that put me at exactly 50% of the collection.  With these 3 additions I am at 50.36% my cartridge total is:  414