Well first off this was definitely one of the best weeks I've had so far in my collecting history. On Monday night I took my 2nd mini road trip in as many weeks to a neighboring city to visit a collector who found an ad I'd placed. He sold me a lot that contained 12 games. See picture below:
Even though the condition of a few of the games was less than perfect it was still a rush to add RC Pro-am II, and Batman Returns to my stable. Other standouts from the lot were: Adventure Island 2, Tale Spin and Little Nemo.
I was still coming down from that when, Tuesday morning, I got a package from the US (off of ebay) that contained several games w/instructions. Included in the lot was Street Fighter 2010, WURM, Demon Sword and Mig 29. I always get excited about Camerica games (maybe I just like shiny things).
The rest of the week was pretty quiet. Made my usual trip to the flea market on Sunday and picked up: Karate Champ, Sky Shark, Captain Skyhawk, Duck Hunt and Super spike V-Ball. It occurred to me while buying the last two that Nintendo were pioneers in the field commonly used by movie distributors, mainly, let's take a game and package and re-package it as many ways as we can. This way the hardcore collectors will have no choice but to buy them. I've seen this used by magazine editors who put 3 or 4 different people on their covers for the same issue and of course I've got I don't know how many Critereon collection, Director's cuts, extended cuts, Theatrical cuts, etc. I think for Starwars Alone I probably have 5 different box sets between VHS and DVD. The reason I bring this up is I purchased Duck Hunt and Superspike V-Ball. Both games I have on other carts: I have duckhunt on the Dual cart (supermario bros./duck hunt) as well as the trio cart for the powerpad edition (smb, duckhunt, world class track meet). I have World class track meet on it's own and SMB on it's own too. Don't even get me started on the 3 screw /5 screw variations. Same holds true for Superspike V-ball. I had this game previously on a cart with Nintendo World cup. In fact today I had to hold myself back from buying (uggggh) another copy of Bases Loaded because the spine sticker was different. The one I have says Jaleco in a scripted font and the one I saw today had Jaleco in a straight (bigger font) like on my copy of city connection. it's all a little bit excessive Nintendo! Anyway rant over. Let's check my score:
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Player One Score: 288
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