Well, if you don't have any luck, I could see if my friend still has his old SNES, with Super Metroid and a bunch of other games (I think StarFox, F-Zero, and a few others) and offer to buy/trade it from him.
and then sell it to you, as I don't have the space for it.
I always find nostalgia is better than what you're nostalgic about... I think you're a tad older than me so maybe it's different for you, but I know that whenever I remember an old game as being awesome and amazing and I play it again 7 years later, I'm almost always bored or frustrated after the first 5 minutes... take Goonies 2 for instance. probably my favorite NES game of all time. I played it again recently, and I was like, oh man, do I really have the patience to pound my fist on 5 walls in like 100 rooms all over again? At least punching old ladies to hear them say "Ouch! what do you do?" never got old...
Such a thing is very common with Nostalgia. However, there are still a few gems out there that even now stand the test of time.
A personal example for me would be Atari 2600 games. My first memory in life is playing Pitfall, that's the absolute earliest thing I remember. So needless to say that one is very dear to my heart. Yet when I go back and play it, its still fun to this day. I wish I could say the same about other classic 2600 games...
Most NES & SNES games are the same way too. However there are some that do stand out as exceptional. Super Metroid & A Link To The Past are perhaps the biggest examples, as I play through these games again about every 6 months or so, and they're always great. Its games like these that are making me want to get a SNES. Not because I think I'll play all of the hundreds of titles there are out there, but because I know there's a half dozen out there that I know I will.
<!--QuoteBegin--Infinitum+Nov 30 2003, 12:29 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Infinitum @ Nov 30 2003, 12:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Nothing beats the originals. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I beat my NES to death once...It stopped working 4 months ago after I kicked it...somehow it resurrected itself and is now in the possession of my sister (she wanted to play Dr. Mario).
Super Mario Bros. 3 and Mega Man 1-6 and Zelda are all awesome. Except, for the last 6 years or so, whenever you play SMB3 on my NES it quits out on you after about 15 minutes and freezes/resets/makes weird buzzing noises and does weird stuff/power light starts flashing and you get a black screen. Tried Mega Man 3 and 4 a couple days ago, and they work perfectly fine...Maybe my NES is haunted...or scarred from the abuse over the ages...
Which brings me to how hard it is to get a cartridge to work on mine. First I have to blow on the cartridge (blow the dust off the metal plate thing), if that doesn't make it work, you blow out the nintendo itself in the same fashion. Continue for 3-5 minutes. If it still doesn't work, you 'drop' your fist on the nintendo and that usually makes it work....Of course, I discovered kicking it doesn't have quite the same effect...
Hooray for antique video game system purchasing...the stores around here still sell them pretty cheap I think.
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and then sell it to you, as I don't have the space for it.
If any of you bidsnipe me I'll !kb you forever! :P
A personal example for me would be Atari 2600 games. My first memory in life is playing Pitfall, that's the absolute earliest thing I remember. So needless to say that one is very dear to my heart. Yet when I go back and play it, its still fun to this day. I wish I could say the same about other classic 2600 games...
Most NES & SNES games are the same way too. However there are some that do stand out as exceptional. Super Metroid & A Link To The Past are perhaps the biggest examples, as I play through these games again about every 6 months or so, and they're always great. Its games like these that are making me want to get a SNES. Not because I think I'll play all of the hundreds of titles there are out there, but because I know there's a half dozen out there that I know I will.
I think it's a good idea.
I beat my NES to death once...It stopped working 4 months ago after I kicked it...somehow it resurrected itself and is now in the possession of my sister (she wanted to play Dr. Mario).
Super Mario Bros. 3 and Mega Man 1-6 and Zelda are all awesome. Except, for the last 6 years or so, whenever you play SMB3 on my NES it quits out on you after about 15 minutes and freezes/resets/makes weird buzzing noises and does weird stuff/power light starts flashing and you get a black screen. Tried Mega Man 3 and 4 a couple days ago, and they work perfectly fine...Maybe my NES is haunted...or scarred from the abuse over the ages...
Which brings me to how hard it is to get a cartridge to work on mine. First I have to blow on the cartridge (blow the dust off the metal plate thing), if that doesn't make it work, you blow out the nintendo itself in the same fashion. Continue for 3-5 minutes. If it still doesn't work, you 'drop' your fist on the nintendo and that usually makes it work....Of course, I discovered kicking it doesn't have quite the same effect...
Hooray for antique video game system purchasing...the stores around here still sell them pretty cheap I think.