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I been wanted to do this series for along time and partly due to many back log of other projects but I wanted to test the water with this first of many back story on each of my own history on video gaming and to start off with the very first video game system I ever purchase was the Nintendo Entertainment System and it's back story.
Picture this. New York City, it's Saturday morning November 23rd 1985 it's my birthday I turn 13 and my mother woke me up to take me to a Woolworth's store on 14th street Union Square and there I finally getting NES as I saved up for month after seeing that first Nintendo NES TV ad with ROB the Robot.
At the time I saved up over $250 the most I ever had as a kid from birthday money, allowances and can recycling (5 cents per can in NYC) and so my mom and I was in the store as she was talking to the store manager I was at the NES kiosk and the very first NES game I ever played was Excitebike I knew I already payed the full NES Deluxe Set with Rob and two games but as I was playing I can both my mother and the manager taking to each other in spanish the store manager was piling all of the first 15 released games for the NES at first assumed that I was going to only pick one maybe two games for my system but at the last min my other brought all 15 that day and I was shocked and ecstatic that she done this to this day I never knew how much she's spend on each games but I'm too afraid to fine out anyway.
After we got out of the store we walk around the corner and ate at Blimpies on northwest corner of 14th Street and 1st Avenue in New York City (think of Subway before it was a thing) and as we sat down I ask my other can I open one of the games she only allowed me to open only one and it was Super Mario Bros. To this day I still have that game and the system and here's the photo of the first 18 games for the NES that sold in NYC.
Duck Hunt (included with console)
Gyromite (included with console)
10-Yard Fight
Baseball
Clu Clu Land
Excitebike
Golf
Hogan’s Alley
Ice Climber
Kung Fu
Mach Rider
Pinball
Stack-Up
Super Mario Bros
Tennis
Wild Gunman
Wrecking Crew
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Picture this. New York City, it's Saturday morning November 23rd 1985 it's my birthday I turn 13 and my mother woke me up to take me to a Woolworth's store on 14th street Union Square and there I finally getting NES as I saved up for month after seeing that first Nintendo NES TV ad with ROB the Robot.
At the time I saved up over $250 the most I ever had as a kid from birthday money, allowances and can recycling (5 cents per can in NYC) and so my mom and I was in the store as she was talking to the store manager I was at the NES kiosk and the very first NES game I ever played was Excitebike I knew I already payed the full NES Deluxe Set with Rob and two games but as I was playing I can both my mother and the manager taking to each other in spanish the store manager was piling all of the first 15 released games for the NES at first assumed that I was going to only pick one maybe two games for my system but at the last min my other brought all 15 that day and I was shocked and ecstatic that she done this to this day I never knew how much she's spend on each games but I'm too afraid to fine out anyway.
After we got out of the store we walk around the corner and ate at Blimpies on northwest corner of 14th Street and 1st Avenue in New York City (think of Subway before it was a thing) and as we sat down I ask my other can I open one of the games she only allowed me to open only one and it was Super Mario Bros. To this day I still have that game and the system and here's the photo of the first 18 games for the NES that sold in NYC.
Duck Hunt (included with console)
Gyromite (included with console)
10-Yard Fight
Baseball
Clu Clu Land
Excitebike
Golf
Hogan’s Alley
Ice Climber
Kung Fu
Mach Rider
Pinball
Stack-Up
Super Mario Bros
Tennis
Wild Gunman
Wrecking Crew
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At least you could afford the NES and Mario and Duck Hunt and all those classics. My family were poor and we couldn't afford any proper gaming systems. All we had was those cheap plug in and play TV game systems with built in games, such as Atari 2600 games like Pitfall.
And now we got emulation for a million-billion games. Fantastic option for a game of, say, Little Samson...and with just a few seconds on e-bay, it let me see this figure for a real copy. "$4,560.48" OUTRAGEOUS. (And it really is a great NES game. Unlike Color a Dinosaur, going for $2,184.00.)
Wild Gunman & Hogan's Alley are very simple games. Classics, in themselves. But, I'd hardly pay more then a couple dollars for each. As that's about the entertainment value you can expect to get out of them.
Mach Rider is...erm...interesting. Perhaps, not as good as Rad Racer. Though, it's 3D world building option adds some value. Hope for $5.
Fair warning on Gumshoe. While it's a very unique game and something that hasn't been (very) repeated in all of gaming history, it is way too long for a light gun game and will...I repeat, WILL kill your trigger finger. (Besides, it was released with a random game killing bug. Happens in the last stage and I can't tell what triggers it.) Probably is up in value, as I bet it sold far less copies then the other light gun games.
Wrecking Crew is a true classic. I've even recommended it to a couple streamers, whom agreed with me after playing it through. Also has a stage building tool. (Just don't expect to save those masterpieces. Nintendo never released the American disk drive the load/save options worked with.)
Mach Rider is...erm...interesting. Perhaps, not as good as Rad Racer. Though, it's 3D world building option adds some value. Hope for $5.
Fair warning on Gumshoe. While it's a very unique game and something that hasn't been (very) repeated in all of gaming history, it is way too long for a light gun game and will...I repeat, WILL kill your trigger finger. (Besides, it was released with a random game killing bug. Happens in the last stage and I can't tell what triggers it.) Probably is up in value, as I bet it sold far less copies then the other light gun games.
Wrecking Crew is a true classic. I've even recommended it to a couple streamers, whom agreed with me after playing it through. Also has a stage building tool. (Just don't expect to save those masterpieces. Nintendo never released the American disk drive the load/save options worked with.)
That is a very good point. And, I passed on saying it, as in the back of my mind, I kind of figured that everyone already knew about the HD delay issue.
However, I bet that most people do not know that there has been a project in the works that WILL make the light gun work with a modern flat screen. *Breathes in heavily.* It only works for Duck Hunt. And it's expected to cost hundreds. ...hundreds. To play Duck Hunt. When people literally set tube TV's out on the curb side. For free. IDK...
Also, I bet that most people don't know that there is another NES game that uses the light gun AND WILL work with modern monitors. It's an interesting home brew, party game. Centers around the game named Russian Roulette. A dark subject matter for the notion of fun, indeed. ( https://youtu.be/vEEjVduJ0Kg ) It's hard to believe this thing even exists.
Good ole Game Genie. Grants so many wishes...including the ability to avoid the NES flashing screen of death.
However, I bet that most people do not know that there has been a project in the works that WILL make the light gun work with a modern flat screen. *Breathes in heavily.* It only works for Duck Hunt. And it's expected to cost hundreds. ...hundreds. To play Duck Hunt. When people literally set tube TV's out on the curb side. For free. IDK...
Also, I bet that most people don't know that there is another NES game that uses the light gun AND WILL work with modern monitors. It's an interesting home brew, party game. Centers around the game named Russian Roulette. A dark subject matter for the notion of fun, indeed. ( https://youtu.be/vEEjVduJ0Kg ) It's hard to believe this thing even exists.
Good ole Game Genie. Grants so many wishes...including the ability to avoid the NES flashing screen of death.
While the old computer is quite an iconic piece, (Still retain my whole set...plus boxes.) I'm thrilled to see that there's a real retro version that's just now hitting the European market. (And soon, American shores.) It's suppose to emulate with almost no lag time and has a real, working keyboard. Which is a vast improvement over the retro printed shell thing that came out over a year ago.
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