Jolt Country

Market price for Tempest 2000 on the Atari Jaguar is $35. This is insane.

Along the same lines, I decided to get a SNES game for Mel's nephew. For his birthday.

I pulled the trigger on a bare cart, Super Ghouls n' Ghosts, for $25 off eBay. $25 for a goddamn SNES cartridge.

Well, this is fine and it will be nice for him to have something there that we can both enjoy.

Try the NES game "Little Samson." Or "The Flintstones: Surprise at Dinosaur Peak".

$25 for a NES game is NOTHING.

Well, this is a Super Nintendo game. Or did you mean that after all?

I do consider myself lucky for getting out of it for just $25.

The Jaguar is one of those niche systems that really only collectors enjoy, so only collectors buy and sell games for it. I think even the cheap games go for $10 or so and anything with any name recognition like Tempest or California Games goes for much more. The Lynx is a great example of how being the better system (it was released just months after Nintendo's Game Boy) doesn't make you the winning system.

35$ doesn't seem all that bad for Tempest 2000 or Aliens Vs Predator for Jaguar (the only 2 games I ever wanted but never owned). People are paying 45-50 for Japanese Bionic Commando, Castlevania 3 or Lagrange Point on the Famicom!

And I'd try to get Super GnG for closer to 20$ but hey, I guess it's worth 25$. Unless you come from another planet, you'll never beat it anyway. HARD AS BALLS.

That's why you buy an SD or USB adapter and put all the games that ever existed on it.

Or simply use an emulator. Gee, get with the times.

Yes, of course, but the target audience here is a 9 year old. I'm not quite ready to give him a SNES flash cart that has every single game ever made on it. If I dole the games out correctly, I can get him SNES cartridges as presents until he's 47 years old.

I like the look and feel of the real thing, and lately old video game collecting has replaced comic book collecting completely. Don't get me wrong though, I still want a thumbdrive loader thing for TurboGrafx-16 one day. And an everdrive for the C64 Flack gave me.

But icj man, you bought Super Ghouls N Ghosts for a 9 year old? You know he's gonna rage and start throwing shit when he can't get past the first stage after 50 tries, right?

Jizaboz wrote:But icj man, you bought Super Ghouls N Ghosts for a 9 year old? You know he's gonna rage and start throwing shit when he can't get past the first stage after 50 tries, right?

Yes, but I can, so I'll look like ... look like...

(spends a half-hour on the Internet trying to decide who the best video game player in the world is for my analogy)

... Erm... I'll look like Fred Savage in The Wizard to hi--

(cuts his own power cord to the computer and hangs himself with it.)

I think the most likely scenario is for that kid to think that you're too cheap to spend the $60 for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3.

You don't have to beat Call of Duty twice to get the ending, Robb.

That whole "if you build it, they will come" thing is bullshit.

I drug out my Atari 2600 a couple of years ago and hooked it up to a television upstairs. Nobody took the bait.

Next, I started playing games on it with the volume turned up real loud. Still, they ignored me.

After promising to buy Mason a PlayStation game, I got him to play Atari 2600 games with me for 12 minutes. Then he left and bought some digital PlayStation games using my credit card and emailed me the receipt.

Next I am planning on leaving a trail of cartridges a'la E.T. from the kids' rooms to the Atari with money and/or snacks attached to them. That'll at least get them to show up. Come for the rewards, stay for the Donkey Kong, Jr.!

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Atari doesn't work these days. The games look like absolute crap.

NES works fine. People can tell what the stuff on the screen is supposed to be.

I took my kids to a local arcade last night and gave them $10 each. This arcade has 50 pinball machines and a long row of classic arcade games.

My daughter spent $10 on Deal or No Deal and my son spent his money on a basketball hoop game. Between the two of them they won enough tickets for a pair of Chinese finger cuffs, two pieces of Laffy Taffy, and one SpongeBob finger puppet.

Today's youth is dead to me.

Flack wrote:I took my kids to a local arcade last night and gave them $10 each. This arcade has 50 pinball machines and a long row of classic arcade games.

Was this Cactus Jack's??

Between the two of them they won enough tickets for a pair of Chinese finger cuffs, two pieces of Laffy Taffy, and one SpongeBob finger puppet.

HOT.

Yeah. One of my podcast listeners was driving through town and was looking to play some pinball so we met him up there. They have between 50-55 machines on the floor now and one one (Wizard of Oz) was out of order.