Time for another update from me!
Despite telling my friend repeatedly that he did
not need to pay me anything for the
Mario & Wario cart label I put together for him, he sent me $45
. I was expecting like $15 tops.
There was a game I'd been debating buying for a while, and now that I suddenly had the exact amount I needed for it (before shipping) thrown at me, I took the plunge:
Mr. Gimmick!
It's my first repro cart, and will be my only one for a while, but it's fairly well regarded (spoiler:
#1 on satoshimatrix's top 100 NES/Famicom games), so it seemed like a good use of the unexpected money.
Next, I bought 17 more of
those $1 clearance DS games, and traded them and the 3 PS2 games in at my local shop that deals in retro games and got...
SMB2 with the box and manual (no foam block, but whatever), City Connection with box and manual (rental stickers on manual and cart, but whatever), a third party N64 Memory Pak (I needed another one of these), and a manual for Ninja Gaiden II (which the shop owner threw in for free, since I'm a regular customer
)
Of course, I already had SMB2, so I took my cart in (which wasn't quite in as good of shape as the one I got in that box), as well as a spare Gameboy Tetris I had laying around and got...
Kirby's Dream Course! I used to rent the heck out of this back in the day, but never owned a copy... until now!
Finally, I was watching eBay lots and managed to grab...
A Gamegear lot with:
The system. Speaker doesn't work and screen only sort of works (have to tilt it and even then there's some ugly... columning? Not sure how to describe it), but that's better than the last one I bought. Time to play Frankenstein!
AC Adapter (my batteries are saved!). Also the box.
System manual (stained, unfortunately)
Carrying bag... so.... 90's.
Jeopardy! in the box with the manual, clamshell, even the plastic bag. There's a sticker on the front of the box, but whatever.
Sonic the Hedgehog, with clamshell
Sonic Triple Trouble, with manual and clamshell
Jungle Book
Star Wars
Which was $35 after shipping.
That'll probably be it from me for a while. I'm going to try to limit myself to one game purchase next month: Kirby's Dream Collection.
