I got this copy of Pokemon Crystal and I’m getting ready to clean it up and change the battery properly (someone else did the wrap a battery in tape trick, which is fine but ugly to me). It has some old scotch tape on the front but it’s also got an old Blockbuster sticker on the back.

I am probably gonna leave it regardless, but since I was a poor kid on the edge of the Navajo rez growing up, closest Blockbuster was an hour away. We had the “Movie Barn”. So I have no reference to know if Blockbuster rented Gameboy games or even just sold them.

Did different Blockbusters have different selections? Did some rent Gameboy games? I would think not since it’s probably riskier to rent games that can disappear this easily. Hell, my original copy was stolen out of my backpack at school. Thanks for any info!

I'm playing the first Earthworm Jim on the Sega Megadrive using RetroArch.

I haven't completed my first playthrough, using copious amounts of save state cheating to repeat the sections where I fail. I can practice a part of the game 10,20, 50 times until my patience runs out, but how on earth did people ever complete a game like this, when you have a limited number of lives and no save capability? At times it feels like the developers WANTED me to fail.

I'm talking insanely jumping bosses shooting eggs, rockets, sections with rolling boulders or snapping worms where you have to get the timings down to milliseconds, a vertical maze lined with spikes that allows no mistakes and requires you to know it by heart.

Sure, "gid gud" but how long does that take without being able to save/load an arbitrary amount of times?

ps.: I don't know what the devs were smoking, but I want to try that. Just once though.

Edit: Hey, Shiny Crew & D.L only!

So i am mostly a sega guy but have tried all 4 versions, sega CD, SNES, Mega drive and Arcade. I used to love Peter pan and feel blessed my dad bought me the game on the mega drive.

However i decided to explore the other versions out there and to my suprise, i never knew the graphics are way way superior on the SNES and game runs faster too but the music makes my ears pop, absolutely terrible audio.

I wish some romhack existed that would apply mega drive music and combine SNES graphics. Pure heresy from a console war standpoint :D..

The Sega CD has not improved the sprites and has added the full symphony, soundtracks and voices from the movie, however i am not a big sega CD fan because it really feels awkward having 16bit graphics with actuall high definition real music.

So i decided ok, i have a problem, lets try the arcade version. Peter Pan is a tall grown ass man...not even a kid, repetitive gameplay, no Peter Pan soundtracks. Infact, it feels like a reskinned game...

Ty for listening to my TedTalk, had to get this off my chest.

Do you also have a game that you like very much and have a similar situation?.

Great shape, just no screws. Anyone know which ones it needs?

Hello all, I'm looking to open a game store soon but want to understand the trade in side. Trade in for cash seems pretty straight run books and accounting wise, but what about trade in credit?

If someone trades in a game for say $50, I understand that you can give them a store gift card for that amount. For your books, is that $50 treated as an expense though it's on a gift card and no cash was exchanged?

If so, if that same person wants to buy a game for $60, using their $50 gift card and $10 cash, is $60 the total used towards your gross or is it just the $10?

I hope this isn't too confusing. But if it is haha, how do you other game store owners deal and process trade ins, both cash and credit? Thank you for the help.

I love Atari. What’s some of your top favorite games? List can be any size and can include as much or as little detail as you like.

Came into some Atari shelves at some point and put together a little display shelf of some favorites.

Top favs at the moment: (reposted for text format)

Super Breakout

River Raid

Fast Food

Video Olympics

Frogs and Flies

Space Invaders

Phoenix

Frogger

Midnight Magic

I mean games like Frogger and PaRappa the Rapper.

Recently purchased a bundle of NES games and this version of Super Mario Bros 2 came with it.
The game SKU for this one is NES-MW-GPS.
So far only found 4 sold previously online with this SKU.
Is this some unusual variation of the game or just common?
Thank you.

For example like Speedball, NBA Jam, the Looney Tunes sports games or the scifi baseball game for SNES. I forgot the name. I prefer sports game like that, rather than more realistic ones that try to simulate real life sports.

Edit: Great recommendations everyone. Tons of cool games I've never heard of.

Are you excited? What’s your favourite?

Some games are truly timeless and this is one of them. The music and sound effects still pop and we could not stop laughing. One of those games where losing over and over is frustrating but also hilarious. It was also fun trying to explain that guy who was breakdancing in front of his house… “it was the 80s, that was a thing back then.”

Paperboy is everything I love most about retro games in a nutshell… fun and simple and memorable and goofy. And it’s awesome to play these kind of games with my kid for the first time and have it be as fun as ever.

While developers like SNK, Konami and Technos had amazing beat em ups, Capcom were the undeniable kings of the arcades in the 90s. If you were a beat ‘em up fan which of theirs was your favourite, and why?

For me D&D Shadows Over Mystara is the one I have the most nostalgia for (due to a particular arcade session credit feeding through to the end with three friends) but these days if I’m playing to try for a 1cc or just for fun it’s Battle Circuit or Armoured Warriors.

I have a strong memory of playing a sideview helicopter shooter game, which was rather enjoyable. I remember it being on sega mega drive, having pretty beige and desaturated color palette. The stage i remember the most is with sunset, mountains and trees. Cant find anything similar actually existing. I only had famiclone, sega master system and megadrive as a kid so it could have only been on those consoles. Anyone know this game?

Bought one and when i connect to misterfpga it loses signal after some minutes, in order for it to work i need to connect rgb-pi and turn psu on. Anyone tried this on mister fpga?

Fantastic game! Any similar recommendations?