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Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: Ninja Spirit on March 02, 2006, 12:35:16 PM
If this is considered spamming, go ahead and delete the thread. I'm gonna mention it this one time and that's it.

But anyone who enjoys talking about Famicom, Super Famicom, G&W etc as much as the PC Engine/Turbo stuff, there's a new forum called "Famicom World" that just opened up yesterday.

http://superfamifreak.14.forumer.com/
Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: Keranu on March 02, 2006, 01:13:19 PM
Well I love talking about that kind of stuff, but I prefer to talk about it with us obscured gamers here :D .
Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: GUTS on March 02, 2006, 04:45:42 PM
Yeah a forum full of Nintendo fans doesn't sound very appealing, haha.  That awesome video someone posted of those two dipshits doing "Game Life" or something was what I had pictured everytime I hear someone say how much the DS kicks the PSPs ass.
Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: Keranu on March 03, 2006, 12:49:56 PM
GUTS, that was Xiphas that posted that on Famiconsumer :D . That show was great.
Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: GUTS on March 03, 2006, 12:55:46 PM
Yeah that was rad, even UK:R did an update about it, haha.
Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: FM-77 on March 04, 2006, 03:04:59 AM
WOW! Superfamifreak! The guy from the former The Gaming Forum* -- I love him!  :wink:


* Rest in peace, buddy.
Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: TR0N on March 04, 2006, 06:56:47 PM
Quote from: "Seldane"
WOW! Superfamifreak! The guy from the former The Gaming Forum* -- I love him!  :wink:


* Rest in peace, buddy.

Realy here i thought he just hangout at neo-geo.com  :wink:
Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: Superfamifreak on March 05, 2006, 04:04:20 AM
Quote from: "GUTS"
Yeah a forum full of Nintendo fans doesn't sound very appealing, haha.


Actually most of us there hjave many different systems. I myself have:

Super Famicom
Custom painted region free SNES
Neo Geo
PS2
GBA
Modded Mega Drive
Master System

and many other members, like myself also love the PC Engine.

Also, the site is aimed at the import/retro gamer, not the Madden obsessed current gamers.
Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: Ninja Spirit on March 05, 2006, 04:53:08 AM
Superfamifreak is omnipresent  8)

Oh don't forget FPS and Grand Theft Auto gamers as well.

I swear it's sad to live with the fact that you can't throw a fruitful conversation about retro/import gaming in public anymore.
Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: GUTS on March 05, 2006, 03:42:06 PM
Where are you from Ninja Spirit?  Old school gaming is huge around Portland in Oregon, it seems like everytime I'm in a gamestop or EB there are people asking where to find old NES and SNES games.  All the pawn shops and small game stores have jacked the prices up on all the hot games so you can't find good deals anywhere anymore, hell even the goodwills around here have caught on and raised the prices on some stuff.
Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: TR0N on March 05, 2006, 04:37:09 PM
Quote from: "Superfamifreak"
Quote from: "GUTS"
Yeah a forum full of Nintendo fans doesn't sound very appealing, haha.


Actually most of us there have many different systems. I myself have:

Super Famicom
Custom painted region free SNES
Neo Geo
PS2
GBA
Modded Mega Drive
Master System

and many other members, like myself also love the PC Engine.

Also, the site is aimed at the import/retro gamer, not the Madden obsessed current gamers.


FIXED!

Wink,wink nudge,nudge know i what mean!?
Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: Ninja Spirit on March 05, 2006, 06:31:44 PM
Quote from: "GUTS"
Where are you from Ninja Spirit?  Old school gaming is huge around Portland in Oregon, it seems like everytime I'm in a gamestop or EB there are people asking where to find old NES and SNES games.  All the pawn shops and small game stores have jacked the prices up on all the hot games so you can't find good deals anywhere anymore, hell even the goodwills around here have caught on and raised the prices on some stuff.


Where I'm from is under my avatar  :wink:

Retro gaming runs dry these days around here.  

>All the Gamestops and EB's, what's considered old school is PS1.

>I have NEVER seen a Game Crazy anywhere in Virginia.

>The flea markets (or swap meets as you West Coasters call them) are usually Mexicans selling sealed GBA, PS2, XBox, and Gamecube games that people don't care about. I used to hit there every weekend tracking down master system stuff.

But after all these points are said and done and that I'm collecting Japanese now, I just don't give a damn anymore. Opening that long awaited for package with that beautiful game case feels like Christmas (in fact better than Christmas) compared to coming home with dust ridden NES games.

Speaking from what I've seen, it's to the point where in my hometown, if the I hear the words "Turbo Duo" or "Sega Saturn" pass someone's lip in a conversation, we automatically become friends right on the spot. Where I live I feel people like that are far and few between.
Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: Keranu on March 05, 2006, 07:08:37 PM
My Gamestops carry quite a few NES and some SNES games, and only a very small handfull of Genesis games (EA sports games at that, yack), but no one ever buys them and no one around here in the south Chicago subburbs talks about old gaming really. It's all about dat PS2 and X-Box around here, yo.
Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: Ninja Spirit on March 06, 2006, 01:55:58 AM
Hahaha I know exactly whatcha mean. Those customers, I've seen em all.

>Guys with their pants hanging halfway off their ass going "Ay yo you got that football yo?" without even specifying what football game it is.

>Anal soccer moms over game ratings.

What's really disturbing is the good selection of retro games that kept you coming back again and again get shrunk down to just 20 cent sports games.
Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: akamichi on March 06, 2006, 03:04:14 AM
I consider myself lucky.  I can usually find a place that has some old games.  Usually not in the best condition, but sometimes I get lucky and find a game I've wanted in mint condition.  I'd say most of the fun for me is looking for the games themselves.  That doesn't happen as much as before unfortunately.

Also, going to Akihabara once in a while helps too.  You can find pretty much any retro game there.  :)
Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: TJ on March 06, 2006, 04:34:48 PM
Quote from: "GUTS"
Where are you from Ninja Spirit?  Old school gaming is huge around Portland in Oregon, it seems like everytime I'm in a gamestop or EB there are people asking where to find old NES and SNES games.


I'm seriously considering moving to Portland! I have friends out there, and I'm visiting this summer in the hopes of finding a job so I can move in the fall. And I'll tell ya, 50% of the reason I wanna move to PDX can be summed up in two words: Ground Kontrol. :D
Title: Heads Up For Fans of Japanese Nintendo Stuff
Post by: GUTS on March 06, 2006, 07:18:46 PM
Yeah man Portland is a pretty nice town as far as big cities go, you'll dig it.  I actually live in Salem, about 45 minutes away, but I'm up there all the time.