[Operation Game Collection/Let's Play] Computer Games on Consoles, Construction Sets, and Themed Malarkey PT 2.

ITS TIME TO CHOOSE MY FATE DEAR READERS!

Yes last post was but the start of a silly idea.  You the reader get to first choose what theme I am going to play, then we will have another vote of what game(s) to do.

Last time I showed you three of the themes.

Computer Games on Consoles, Construction Sets, Some Barely Talked About Niche Games.

That is but three choices.  I have a few more for your consideration!

Rufus' Computer Games on Systems He Doesn't Own or the Machine Doesn't Work
This one will make me go through some C64, Tandy Color Computer, TI 99 4A, MSX, Amiga, and Atari ST games.  I don't have working machines for any of them except an Amiga 500 that may have a faulty disk drive or just every disk is faulty.  (Ignore non computer titles in the photos.)

Atari 8 Bit Computers Experience  That is a LOT of Atari!
I have a ton of Atari 8 bit software.  Like gobs of it.

  Ok I have given y'all five fine options of a retro computing bent to torment or tickle me.  Reasons for me to not only idiotically add more to these collections (I uhh.. just got a C64 game in today I have wanted since 1988-9.), but to put some proper time and effort into the bastards.

  Let's face it: when your collection gets large enough and your time gets more limited you both become picky at what to play and paralyzed at what to play.  You become a lazy snob griping about every little game interface issue or you get the electronic games version of Analysis Paralysis where you have so many choices you just can't decide AT ALL.  As kids unless a game was a completely unplayable war crime (LJN NES X MEN) you were gonna spend a lot of time at a game and would even give the most obnoxious games plenty of your attention as it might be your only game for a weekend rental or a gift or a borrowed game.  Or even your own allowance.  You made do with what you had.  Sometimes you would get stuck but a magazine or a book or a friend would give you the little push you needed to GET DOWN WIT YO BAD SELF and then the bad game became a personal favorite.

  So you folks now get to kick me in the ass and force me to play stuff and not just be a big whiny emo baby who stops playing a game that dares not have WASD for a first person title, or who won't bother to read the manual and figure out idiotic ass 80s game interfaces.

  This is what you vote on.  To start you get a vote.  For those reading this blog or a select forum or Discord group online you are the special ones who get to help me pick a theme.  The Let's Plays themselves will also be voted on in a Something Awful thread devoted to Casual Let's Plays as this is going to be depending on what actual theme is selected.  But those nitty gritty details can wait until sometime Sunday the 6th 2019.  Provided I get enough votes to show there is any interest in even continuing this little experiment.  (In case of a tie I get to break it.  Otherwise it is all on YOU fine folks as to what I am gonna be playing.)

  My game time in 2019 is now partially in the hands of the Internet.  Let's see what happens!

[Operation Game Collection] Star Wars the Video/Computer Games!

  It has been a bit but my Star Wars gaming collection continues!  Where it was intended to be the X Wing Miniatures game given the utter insult of 2nd edition and their blatant money grab hose job removed all desire I have to play that game or anything else FFG makes.

  So instead I will cover the electronic games of the Warsing and the Starsing!

 Most of the Nintendo and really older console/microcomputer titles.  Sadly I couldn't find my silly fun little Amiga sound chip that came in the Star Wars box.  It played a tiny snippet of the Star Wars theme.  I actually preordered Rebel Strike just for the bonus disk even though it and the other two Atari arcade SW games are on the main title disk.  Sadly they don't control the best as getting the old arcade flight yoke controls working in any form of home system has been really iffy.    Lots of these games do have a theme.  BEING TOO DAMNED HARD.  Rogue Leader, the 32x SW Arcade (there are like multiple SW arcade games.  Atari and two Sega at least.), and most of the Super NES titles are all brutally tough.

 The first of the Atari 800 SW Atari Arcade ports that was done fully sprite type based where the later Domark ones ala the Amiga title above attempted vector styled looks.  But had numerous inaccuracies in them.  The Starfighter game is why I bought a Playstation 2.  Both of them are great and that PSP Battlefront game had a good solo campaign for what it was.  

 The non SW Disney Infinity figures I have.  Hidden completely there are Nick Fury, Elsa from Frozen, and Donald Duck.  Plus Judy Hopps.  I have never actually played Infinity outside a little bit on the PC port without the nifty base to bring your dudes into the game easily.

 The Xbox/360 titles I own and the actual SW Infinity figures.  Most of my Infinity stuff was bought at a super cheap price and mostly just because I wanted little cool statues that looked neat.  The two KOTOR games are amazing and possibly my favorite RPGs of that era.  Jedi Outcast might be the weakest of the SW FPS games though.

 Where the real magic begins, the computer games including the beloved but stupidly unfairly difficult X Wing combat sim series.  The bottom two things are kinda just multimedia bits nobody would really need these days thanks to Wookiepedia and Youtube.  At the time it was lots of cool info and even the cut scenes from the original Star Wars involving Biggs and stuff.

 More Lego Star Wars because I seemingly have most of that series.  And the infamous mistake that was the Star Wars Galaxies MMORPG.  I did play some recently on a fan server and it was a good bit of fun honestly.  But the people I was playing with more or less left super quick again even though it was free.

And the FPS and RTS section.  If you want to laugh I bought that Empire at War expansion thinking I owned the main game but apparently I do not and merely had Force Commander.  Searching for the main title I could swear I had caused me to clean the hell out of my kitchen/dining/computer room and still not find it.  A search of my upload images on new game pickups also failed to show the original so either I am losing my mind or I just misplaced it in a hell of a silly spot.  Some of these games do require fan patches to work on modern systems.  Is it worth it?  Well for Republic Commando it kind of is.  And Galactic Battlegrounds is more or less Age of Empires II which is a fantastic game.

Yeah not the most exciting of collection posts but its Star Wars games I can play which is good because I can't get people to play Star Wars RPGs, especially not the good one.  (D6)

[Operation Game Collection] Retrogames Collection Update 2018: Pre Crash Consoles

EDITED ON 9 JULY TO ADD IN COLECOVISION.  BECAUSE I FORGOT.

 Yes it has been a while since my last post nobody really cared about.  But I am busy and yall get what you pay for.  (Nothing.)  But I am still collecting here and there when I find things and they are cheap.  Or I am just bored and drive 30-60 minutes each direction to a retrogame shop for the hell of it or because it is damn hot outside and my car has AC.  (I may have working ACs in my house but pulling them out, putting them in a window that fits, sealing them, and then finding a plug it can sit in and not cause a fuse to blow is too much work.  And I save on my electric bill while building character.

  But one thing I am finding out is my old way of listing my owned games and showing off my collection is both inefficient and a pain in the ass.  If I try to just show the spines of my boxed titles and the titles on cartridges that are nice enough to list what is on them I can fit a TON more in a smaller image.  Then throw the images on my Android phone not being used as a phone in a gallery titled COLLECTION PHOTOS and I have a handy mostly easy to use reference of what idiotic nonsense I don't really have the time, money, or space for.  So I don't rebuy games but don't miss one in wondering if I already own it.  Or have to carry around print out checklists or the like.

  So I share with all of you my images of my dorky buys and get to see what I have, reorganize them to not be some near unfindable mess, clean em up where needed, and make my collection of silliness more user friendly.

(And then uhh... want to buy MORE OF IT thanks to these things.  Yay.  On the upside I am very good about bills and stuff.  I don't really have any debts to speak of and am a cheap SOB.)

HOW THIS IS GONNA GO DOWN
I am going to show the images of my collection and then talk a little about 3-5 games I am sort of hunting for the platform in question.  Simple eh?  They are certainly not the only games I want but some of them.

Let us start with the first major game console anybody cared about and my first, the Atari 2600:

(As always click the image for larger, and don't complain about my mediocre photography.)

 My boxed titles and my titles with manuals.

 My loose carts, most of which I got back in the day from eBay with whatever machine I got.  (The Atari 7800.)

 Manuals I have come across for games I do not even own yet but manuals are kind of hard to come by as many kids and even adults never kept good care of their games.  And especially in the Pre Crash era you almost were required to have the damned things just to figure out how to play the damn things!

 And a sub theme I collect, Imagic.  Games I have loose, and the manuals next to them.

 Lately there has been cheap and easy ways to get the documentation for some games thanks to these Plug and Play units.  Why they have made their docs a separate book to buy I don't really know but it is nice and handy.  

And one of the games covered from the later Tramiel era of Atari.  (Also one that fits on a left and right two page spread.)  This book is a mix of manual and short history lesson on the games.  Which is kind of nice really.

Now the 3-5 Hunt:

Adventures of Tron (I had it as a kid and it was kinda fun!)

Dragonstomper (One of the first console RPGs.  It is a cassette game that requires the Starpath Supercharger device.)

Frankenstein's Monster (Its FRANKENSTEIN.  That's cool!)

Sprint Master ( It looks kind of fun and I like those sorts of old school top down racing games.)

GI Joe Cobra Strike (Always wanted it as a kid and I have the manual after all!)

Shall we continue on with the 2600's competitor the Intellivision?  Yeah we shall.

 My Imagic collection on the Inty!  I am missing 3 games and the box for Dracula to have every title they released on the platform.  See unlike 2600 people Intellivision owners seemed to care more about keeping their games boxed and complete.  Note I am not listing Imagic games in the Hunt bits below because I want them all so its kind of cheating.

It is hard to tell but that is Golf loose but complete in the top right corner with some catalogs.

Pretty much most of this collection came with my Intellivision when I got it off eBay in the late 90s/early 00s.  Otherwise there wouldn't be a lot of the sports games.  Especially since in the Pre Crash days many games required two players!  MADNESS.  NOT SHOWN:  Empire Strikes Back because it is with most of my other Star Wars videogames for yet another collection post.

The 3-5 Hunt:

Masters of the Universe: Power of He Man (I quite liked the 2600 port back in the day and it is much better here.)

Thunder Castle (I really like it on the various anthology collections I have and would like to have my own copy.)

Thin Ice (You are an ice skating penguin and its pretty good.  I love Penguins almost as much as Sharks.  Almost.)

Shark! Shark!  (See above.  Except sharks.  Its a good game already and its got Sharkies.)

Tron Deadly Discs (It is Tron and I like Tron.  Also I remember the Aquarius port was pretty good really.)

Now we move swiftly and shortly to the Atari 5200 which is like my beloved 8 bit Atari computers only with terrible and unreliable hardware on nearly every front.

 My loose carts.

My with manual and boxed ones.  Given how some games could come with overlays that almost nobody kept I cannot say they are complete with 100% certainty.  Or really CARE as many I later on replaced with their 8 bit computer cousins.  Or use owning this version as an excuse to just download the A8bit versions for my SD Card drive.  (In some cases the 5200 games got dumped and hacked back in the day to be played on the A8bits when they didn't get an actual home release.)

The 3-5 Hunt:

Adventure II (An Atari Age home brew game that looks really good.)

Jr. Pac Man (Jr Pac Man is pretty rad and again, if it doesn't have a legit port for the A8s it TOTALLY COUNTS AS ME BEING LEGITIMATELY ALLOWED TO PLAY IT RIGHT?)

Kangaroo: (See above.)

Yes the 5200 is kind of butt and a pain in the ass console.  Not a lot I want and what little I do is mostly because then Atari 8 Bit Computer.

The system I forgot to add because I don't actually own the system yet.  Plus the controller kind of sucks.  But I am a weirdo who is fine with emulation but really prefers to own the games legitimately.

Not exactly the most amazing of collections but its a somewhat uncommon system mostly made up of arcade ports and usually the more obscure ones.  But it has a good homebrew scene, albeit one that seems obsessed with porting and remaking existing games on it using a stupidly hard to get fan made system booster you have to basically spend a 100 dollars on and get on waiting lists for.  To play MSX ports and arcade games.  That you can play the legitimate arcade game of.  Yeah I don't get it either.

The 3-5 Hunt:

H.E.R.O. (The best version of one of the best Activision games.)

Antarctic Adventure (Its a game about Penguins!)

Pepper II (It is spoken about highly.)

But let us end with the 84 and then 86 BECAUSE OH CRAP NINTENDO IS KILLING US released Atari 7800 which is arguably a Pre Crash system but only sort of.  But close enough really.

Sadly the two loose carts are manual free right now but there are places to get them from besides just downloading a PDF which just isn't the same.

The 3-5 Hunt:

Alien Brigade (It looks like a pretty fun light gun game.  Apparently its pricey though.)

Bentley Bear's Crystal Quest (Another Atari Age homebrew joint.  Plus I like platformers and Crystal Castles is a personal favorite of mine.)

Midnight Mutants (Its an action adventure.  WHERE YOU HELP OUT GRANDPA MUNSTER.)

Ninja Golf (It is both videogame golf which I quite like.  Plus its hilariously stupid as they add in side scrolling Ninja antics.)

Super Circus Atari Age (Yet another Atari Age homebrew as AA tends to keep their stuff in some sort of print and it is like an improved version of the pretty fun Circus Atari from the 2600.)

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT!  All of my classic console titles I own a physical copy of collated into a nice suite of images with a fair bit of titles I am searching for.  Yeah in a lot of cases I can play these on anthologies or Plug and Plays but I like owning original copies even if I don't own the system or would much rathe just play in an emulator.  

I hope to continue this series but what to cover next?  Non PC and A8 bit computers?  8 bit portables?  NES and SMS?  (Yes my computer ANTHOLOGIES OF INTEREST is still coming.  I in fact had to move all of them off the storage tub my 5200 stuff is in to do this post.)

Anthologies of Interest: Consoles and Portables

Anthologies in our thoughts of electronic game anthologies, also known as collections or compilations are when older games are rereleased in nice usually inexpensive collection packages either on the systems they began on, or on later platforms.

  Sometimes they get bonus content, titles never released in the home or that region, or extra modes and versions.  In general these sorts of collections don't happen any more as we go more and more digital only and the modern thought of selling these same titles for 5-10 dollars a piece online as opposed to 20-30 dollars for three (the minimum number of unique games on an anthology for me to consider it as such) to sometimes nearly one hundred titles on a physical release.  Its FREE money as they basically can just resell you the same damn title every new platform generation.

  As I said in the above paragraph, I won't consider it an anthology if it doesn't have at least three titles on the disk or cartridge.  Which is another thing I am only considering.  Physical releases.  Online collections even non DRMed ones such as those that GOG.com, DotEmu, or Steam have available for purchase.  I am also mostly ignoring extra games on another game.  (Which would make another good collection post really...)

  Now to make things extra fun I will list (using Wikipedia and Mobygames as to not spend the rest of my life going through every title to see what every game is, especially in the cases where there are unlockable titles on them.  I am personally not a big fan of unlocking things but it beats paid DLC as we now have!) what titles are on each disk, and make a rundown count of how many times I have the exact same game repeated on these things.  Which will carry over to the next installment which covers computer game anthologies.  Some of these are emulations while others are ports or remakes.  Some titles had "enhanced" modes with new graphics or multiplayer options.  I generally won't talk about these modes too much unless they were released as individual games in the arcades or a home platform like the Arranged series of Namco Arcade titles.  I am making a fair attempt to keep things alphabetically arranged and using Arabic numerals over Roman along with most punctuation.  For the Arcade categories the Neo Geo will be listed separately as it was both a home and arcade platform using the same hardware.

  As one last aside (besides the usual CLICK IMAGE FOR LARGER nonsense if people really want to see my mediocre at best photos in larger size bits) I am not counting anthologies as being "Plug n Play" type devices because they will be an eventual post of their own.

Starting out with portable system collections I own, beginning with the Nintendo platform ones.  Capcom Classics Mini Mix is an honestly bare bones pack of three NES Capcom games.  Arcade Advanced is a decent port with Konami Code enhancement options for six classic Konami games though the portable screen size and GBA power means some look or run slightly lesser than their arcade original. (How they managed to make the arcade games both better and worse is a question for the ages.) Phantasy Star Collection is a mostly bare bones suite of games like the Capcom Classics is and both have issues being console games not entirely modified for the sort of portable play they were now going to be used in. The Intellivision collection has 60 games though many are renamed due to licensing issues.  Retro Atari was bought when the DS was new and I was mostly just desperate for something to play on it.  Sega CD Classics Collection is honestly the highlight here including a lot of games, many of which are even made compatible with the 3DS' 3D mode.

Arcade:  Asteroids, Breakout, Centipede, Fantasy Zone, Fantasy Zone 2, Frogger, Galaxy Force 2, Gravitar, Gyruss, Lunar Lander, Missile Command, Power Drift, Pong, Puyo Puyo 2,  Rush n Attack, Scramble, Sprint, Tempest, Thunder Blade, Time Pilot, Warlords, Yie Ar Kung Fu

Genesis: Altered Beast, Phantasy Star 2, Phantasy Star 3, Sonic the Hedgehog

Intellivision: Armor Battle, Astrosmash, Auto Racing, B-17 Bomber, Baseball, Basketball, Blow Out, Body Slam: Super Pro Wrestling, Bomb Squad, Bowling, Boxing, Brickout*, Buzz
Bombers, Checkers, Chip Shot: Super Pro Golf, Crown of Kings (AD&D), Deep Pockets:
Super Pro Pool & Billiards*, Football, Frog Bog, Hard Hat, Hockey, Horse Racing, Hover
Force, Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack, Las Vegas Roulette, Learning Fun 1 & 2, Minotaur
(AD&D Treasure of Tarmin), MotoCross, Mountain Madness: Super Pro Skiing, Night Stalker,
Pinball, Reversi, Royal Dealer, Sea Battle, Shark! Shark!, Sharp Shot, Skiing, Slam Dunk:
Super Pro Basketball, Slap Shot: Super Pro Hockey, Snafu, Space Armada, Space Battle,
Space Cadet*, Space Hawk, Space Spartans, Spiker: Super Pro Volleyball, Stadium Mud
Buggies, Star Strike, Sub Hunt, Super Pro Decathalon, Super Pro Football, Takeover, Thin Ice,
Thunder Castle, Tower of Doom, Vectron , World Championship Baseball

Master System: Fantasy Zone 2, Maze Hunter 3d, Phantasy Star

NES: Bionic Commando, Mighty Final Fight, Strider

Maybe because it was a disk based system, the PSP got a LOT of these collections.  Atari Classics Evolved is another thing like Retro Atari but more games and lots of rather tough achievements to unlock so you can get a bunch of Atari 2600 games.  Too tough.  Activision Hits is another of their basic bog standard 2600 collections, and Capcom Classics Collection is much like its' big brother console collection disks.  EA Replay is a mix of Genesis and SNES games, some of which are cut down console ports of PC classics. Gradius and Salamander Portable are most of the older Gradius/Life Force games all on a dedicated disk.  Plus save points which for some of them actually makes them playable games.  Genesis Collection is a lot like the versions they had on the PS2 era platforms.  But with some different unlockable arcade games.

Arcade: 1941: Counter Attack, Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Astro Blaster, Avengers, Battlezone, Bionic Commando, Black Tiger, Block Block, Captain Commando, Centipede, Congo Bongo, Eliminator, Gradius, Gradius 2, Gradius 3, Gradius 4, Last Duel, Legendary Wings, Life Force, Lunar Lander, Magic Sword, Mega Twins, Millipede, Missile Command, Pong, Quiz & Dragons, Salamander, Salamander 2, Section Z, Side Arms: Hyper Dyne, Space Fury, The Speed Rumbler, Street Fighter, Strider, Super Breakout, Super Zaxxon, Tempest, Three Wonders, Varth, Warlords, Xexex

Atari 2600: Adventure, Air-sea Battle, Asteroids, Battlezone, Blackjack, Bowling, Breakout, Canyon Bomber, Casino, Centipede, Circus Atari, Combat, Crystal Castles, Demons to Diamonds, Desert Falcon, Dodge 'em, Double Dunk, Flag Capture, Football, Fun With Numbers, Golf, Gravitar, Haunted House, Home Run, Human Cannonball, Math Gran Prix, Maze Craze, Millipede, Miniature Golf, Missile Command, Night Driver, Off the Wall, Outlaw, Quadrun, Radar Lock, Realsports Baseball, Realsports Football, Realsports Tennis, Sky Diver, Slot Machine, Slot Racers, Space War, Sprintmaster, Star Ship, Steeplechase, Stellar Track, Street Racer, Submarine Commander, Super Baseball, Surround, Swordquest: Earthworld, Swordquest: Fireworld, Swordquest: Waterworld, Tempest, Video Olympics, Video Pinball, Warlords, Yar's Revenge

Activision/Imagic 2600: Atlantis, Barnstorming, Beamrider, Boxing, Bridge, Checkers, Chopper Command, Cosmic Commuter, Crackpots, Decathalon, Demon Attack, Dolphin, Dragster, Enduro, Fishing Derby, Freeway, Frostbite, Grand Prix, H.E.R.O., Ice Hockey, Kabobber, Kaboom!, Keystone Kapers, Laser Blast, Megamania, Moonsweeper, Oink!, Pitfall!, Pitfall 2: Lost Caverns, Plaque Attack, Pressure Cooker, Private Eye, River Raid, River Raid 2, Robot Tank, Seaquest, Skiing, Sky Jinks, Space Shuttle, Spider Fighter, Stampede, Starmaster, Tennis, Thwocker

Genesis:  Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle, Altered Beast, Bonanza Bros, Budokan: The Martial Spirit, Columns, Comix Zone, Decap Attack, Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf, Ecco the Dolphin, Eddo: The Tides of Time, Ecco Jr, Flicky, Gain Ground, Golden Axe, Golden Axe 2, Golden Axe 3,  Haunting Starring Polterguy, Jungle Strike, Kid Chameleon, Mutant League Football, Phantasy Star 2, Phantasy Star 3: Generations of Doom, Phantasy Star 4: End of the Millennium, Ristar, Road Rash, Road Rash 2, Road Rash 3, Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi, Shinobi 3: Return of the Ninja Master, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Super Thunder Blade, Sword of Vermillion, Vectorman, Vectorman 2, Virtua Fighter 2, Virtual Pinball

MSX: Gradius 2

Playstation 1: Gradius Gaiden

SNES: B.O.B, Syndicate, Ultima 7: The Black Gate, Wing Commander, Wing Commander: The Secret Missions

However it was in the mid 90s with the Playstation and Sega Saturn that collections started actually being a thing with CDROMs being cheap, emulation starting to make ports easy to do, and an audience actually wanting some of their old favorites for themselves or their own children where these things started making a big impact.  No longer would it just be the odd compilation or bad port on the old cartridge based systems.  Now we could make use of that 500-700 megabytes of CD space! A note is that the Sega Smash Pack has a pair of PC/Dreamcast games that were on other platforms which kind of makes up for the very iffy sound on the Genesis games on the collection.

Arcade:  Dig Dug, Flicky, Galaxian, Head On, Ms. Pac-Man, Pengo, Phozon, Pole Position 2,  Raiden Fighters, Raiden Fighters 2: Operation Hell Dive, Raiden Fighters Jet, The Tower of Druaga, Up'n Down

Dreamcast: Sega Swirl, Virtua Cop 2

Genesis: Altered Beast, Columns, Golden Axe, Phantasy Star 2, The Revenge of Shinobi, Shining Force, Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage 2, Vectorman, Wrestle War

Xbox 360:  Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal, Team Fortress 2

 The original X Box was well known to home brewers as a place to turn into emulation boxes given how similar it was to PCs of the era. This meant it tended to have the best emulations of classic games compared to the Playstation 2 and Nintendo Gamecube in legitimate collections as well.  For a time this was a reason I bought the X Box versions of many collections.  Until I got lazy and didn't have my machine hooked up.  Not surprisingly many of these collections wouldn't work on the 360 machine because they then were selling a small percentage of the games on these collections for 5-10 dollars as a digital download.  

Arcade:  720, 1942, 1943, 1943 Kai, A.P.B., Arch Rivals, Battle Shark, Bionic Commando, Blaster, Bomb Jack, Bubbles, Bubble Bobble, Championship Sprint, Colony 7, Commando, Continental Circus, Cyberball 2072, Defender, Defender 2 (aka Stargate), Elevator Action, Exed Exes, Exzisus. Final Fight, Forgotten Worlds, Gauntlet, Gauntlet 2, Ghosts n Goblins, Ghouls n Ghosts, Gladiator, Great Swordsman, Gun.Smoke,  Hard Drivin, Joust, Joust 2, Jungle Hunt, Klax, Kosmik Krooz'r, Legendary Wings, Marble Madness, Mercs, Mortal Kombat 2, Mortal Kombat 3, NARC, Operation Thunderbolt, Operation Wolf, Paperboy, Phoenix, Pinball Action, Pirate Ship Higemaru, Pit-Fighter, Pleiads, Plotting, Plump Pop, Primal Rage, Rainbow Islands, Rampage, Rampage World Tour, Rampart, Rastan, Return off the Invaders, Roadblasters, Robotron 2084, Root Beer Tapper, Rygar, Satan's Hollow, Senjyo, Sinistar, Section Z, Smash TV, Solomon's Key, Son Son, Splat!, Space Gun, Space Invaders, Space Invaders Part 2, Spy Hunter, Spy Hunter 2, Star Force, Strato Fighter, Street Fighter 2,  Street Fighter 2 Champion and Hyper Fighting (cmon, they are more or less DLC for SF 2.  Super SF2 is about the only one I would genuinely say is more than just a patch file IMO.  But I will make Champ and Hyper a title.), Super Quix, Super Sprint, Swimmer, Tecmo Bowl, Tecmo Cup, The Electric Yo-yo,  The New Zealand Story, The Ninja Kids, ThunderFox, Timber, Tokio, Toobin, Total Carnage, Trojan, Tube It, Vindicators, Volfied, Vulgus, Wizard of Wor, Xenophobe, Xybots, Zoo Keeper 

SNES:  Super Ghouls n Ghosts

 The only Gamecube collection disk I have was a preorder bonus if I remember and wasn't even the only one (another Zelda disk had one of the same games and a remixed version of it) available.  Super Mario All Stars is kind of an odd duck as it is effectively a SNES cartridge title that contained four remade NES games yet did not contain the version of that cartridge that included a fifth game.  Metal Slug Anthology is a bit infamous for being incredibly picky as to what controllers it accepts.  Namco Museum Megamix contains six "Remix" games which are more or less enhanced remakes of a number of titles.  Metroid Prime Trilogy used the "New Play Control" method that were Wii releases in Japan and thus I am counting them as Wii titles.  I presume this version does not have the Gameboy Advance Lock on bits that allowed original NES Metroid to be played however.

Arcade: Bad Dudes, Bosconian, Bump n Jump, Burgertime, Cutie Q, Dig Dug, Dig Dug 2, Express Raider, Galaxian, Galaga, Gaplus, Grobda, Heavy Barrel, Joe & Mac, King & Balloon, Lock n Chase, Magical Drop 3, Mappy, Motos, New Rally-X, Pac-Man, Pac & Pal, Pac-Mania, Peter Pepper's Ice Cream Factory, Rally-X, Side Pocket, Sly Spy, Super Pac-Man, Street Hoop, SRD: Super Real Darwin, Two Crude Dudes, Wizard Fire, Xevious

Game Boy: Kirby's Dream Land, Kirby's Dream Land 2

Neo Geo MVS/AES: Metal Slug, Metal Slug 2, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4, Metal Slug 5, Metal Slug 6

NES:  Kirby's Adventure

N64: Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards

SNES: Kirby Super Star, Kirby's Dream Land 3, Super Mario All Stars (Compilation Remakes of NES Super Mario Brothers, Super Mario Brothers 2 JPN, Super Mario Brothers 2 USA, Super Mario Brothers 3.)

Wii: Gator Panic Remix, Galaga Remix, Grobda Remix, Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Pac-Motos, Pac n Roll Remix, Rally-X Remix

 Given how my Playstation 3 is a launch model that runs pretty much all PS1-3 titles I eventually even started replacing collections I already owned on the X Box on it.  Also thanks to some games being made exclusive on certain collection disks I kind of had to rebuy a couple of them here and there.  And a few I am still hunting down for a handful of games.   A note for the Intellivision collections above and below:  Many of these games had licenses and IPs attached that have since been removed.  Some games post Mattel Electronics also had "Super Pro" versions which were largely based on the original titles but with a single player mode and the odd graphics update included.  The Inty was a funny beast!

Arcade: 1941: Counter Attack, 1942, 1942: The Battle of Midway, 1943 Kai, Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Avengers, Battlezone, Bionic Commando, Black Tiger, Black Widow, Block Block, Captain Commando, Centipede, Commando, Crystal Castles, Eco Fighters, Exed Exes, Final Fight, Forgotten Worlds, Ghosts n Goblins, Ghouls n Ghosts, Gravitar, Liberator, Gun.Smoke, Knights of the Round, Last Duel, Legendary Wings, Lunar Lander, Magic Sword, Major Havoc, Mega Twins, Mercs, Millipede, Missile Command, Pirate Ship Higemaru, Pong, Quiz & Dragons, Red Baron, Section Z, Side Arms Hyper Dyne, SonSon, Space Duel, Street Fighter, Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter 2 Turbo Champion, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Strider, Super Breakout, Tempest, The King of Dragons, The Speed Rumbler, Three Wonders, Tiger Road, Trojan, Varth: Operation Thunderstorm, Vulgus, Warlords

Atari 2600: 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe, Adventure, Air-Sea Battle, Asteroids, Atari Video Cube, Backgammon, Battlezone, Blackjack, Bowling, Breakout, Canyon Bomber, Casino, Centipede, Circus Atari, Combat, Crystal Castles, Demons to Diamonds, Desert Falcon, Dodge Em, Double Dunk, Flag Capture, Football, Fun With Numbers, Golf, Gravitar, Hangman, Haunted House, Home Run, Human Cannonball, Math Grand Prix, Maze Craze, Millipede, Miniature Golf, Missile Command, Night Driver, Off the Wall, Outlaw, Quadrun, Radar Lock, Realsports Baseball, Realsports Football, Realsports Tennis, Realsports Volleyball, Sky Diver, Slot Machine, Slot Racers, Space War, Sprintmaster, Star Raiders, Star Ship, Steeplechase, Stellar Track, Street Racer, Submarine Commander, Super Baseball, Super Breakout, Super Football, Surround, Swordquest: Earthworld, Swordquest: Fireworld, Swordquest: Waterworld, Video Checkers, Video Chess, Video Olympics, Video Pinball, Warlords, Yar's Revenge

Activision/Imagic 2600: Atlantis, Barnstorming, Baseball (Pete Rose Baseball), Beamrider, Boxing, Bridge, Checkers, Chopper Command, Commando, Cosmic Commuter, Crackpots, Decathlon, Demon Attack, Dolphin, Dragster, Enduro, Fishing Derby, Frostbite, Grand Prix, H.E.R.O., Ice Hockey, Kabobber, Kaboom!, Keystone Kapers, Laser Blast, Megamania, Oink! Pitfall!, Pitfall 2: Lost Caverns, Moonsweeper, Plaque Attack, Pressure Cooker, Private Eye, River Raid, River Raid 2, Robot Tank, Seaquest, Skiing, Sky Jinks, Space Shuttle, Spider Fighter, Stampede, Starmaster, Tennis, Thwocker, Title Match Pro Wrestling, Tomcat F14

Intellivision:  Adventure (AD&D Cloudy Mountain), APBA Backgammon, Armor Battle, Astrosmash, Auto Racing, B-17 Bomber, Baseball/ All Star Major League Baseball, Basketball/Slam Dunk Super Pro Basketball (NBA Basketball), Bomb Squad, Bowling (PBA Bowling), Boxing, Buzz Bombers, Brickout, Checkers, Deep Pockets: Pool & Billiards, Demo Cartridge, Electric Company Word Fun (Crosswords, Word Hunt, Word Rockets), Electric Company Math Fun (Math Master), Factor Fun (Part of Learning Fun 1), Football Classic/Super Pro Football (NFL Football), Golf/Super Pro Golf (PGA Golf), Hockey/Super Pro Hockey (NHL Hockey), Hard Hat, Horse Racing, Hover Force, Hypnotic Lights, Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack, Las Vegas Roulette, Magic Carousel, Memory Fun (Learning Fun 2), Minotaur (AD&D Treasure of Tarmin), Motocross,  Night Stalker, Pinball, Reversi, Royal Dealer, Sea Battle, Shark! Shark!, Skiing/Super Pro Skiing (US Ski Team Skiing), Soccer (NASL Soccer), SNAFU, Space Armada, Space Battle, Space Hawk, Space Spartans, Stadium Mud Buggies, Star Strike, Sub Hunt, (Duncan's), Tennis, Thin Ice, Thunder Castle, Tower of Doom, Track & Field (Super Pro Decathlon), Triple Action, Utopia, Vectron, Volleyball (Spiker Super Pro Volleyball), Wrestling (Body Slam! Super Pro Wrestling)

Playstation: Arc the Lad, Arc the Lad 2, Arc Arena: Monster Tournament, Arc the Lad 3

SNES: Super Ghouls n Ghosts

At the time this was pretty much ALL the Mega Man games out.  Although sometimes the jump and shoot buttons seemed to have been reversed on some of the releases of this.  And like I said, the Midway stuff was mostly just to play easily over the X Box original I had put into storage at the time.

Arcade:  720, A.P.B., Arch Rivals, Badlands, Blaster, Bubbles, Championship Sprint, Cyberball 2072, Defender, Defender 2 (Stargate), Gauntlet, Gauntlet 2, Hard Drivin, Joust, Joust 2: Survival of the Fittest, Klax, Kosmik Krooz'r, Marble Madness, Mega Man: The Power Battle, Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters, Mortal Kombat 2, Mortal Kombat 3, NARC, Offroad Thunder, Paperboy, Pit-Fighter, Primal Rage, Race Drivin, Rampage, Rampage World Tour, Rampart, Roadblasters, Robotron 2084, Root Beer Tapper, San Francisco Rush the Rock: Alcatraz Edition (reprogrammed), Satan's Hollow, Sinistar, Smash TV, SPLAT!, Spy Hunter, Spy Hunter 2, S.T.U.N. Runner, Super Off Road/Super Off Road Track Pack (Ivan Ironman Stewart's Super Off Road), Super Sprint, Timber, Toobin, Total Carnage, Vindicators, Wacko, Wizard of Wor, Xenophobe, Xybots

Dreamcast: Hydro Thunder, San Francisco Rush 2049

NES: Mega Man, Mega Man 2, Mega Man 3, Mega Man 4, Mega Man 5, Mega Man 6

SNES:  Mega Man 7, Mega Man X, Mega Man X2

Playstation:  Mega Man 8, Mega Man Battle & Chase, Mega Man X3, Mega Man X4, Mega Man X5, Mega Man X6

 The two Namco Museum collections have a few must have games not on the other one.  The Sega Classics is actually a collection of formerly Japan only budget (around 25 USD a title) PS2 remakes of classic Sega games.  Oddly enough the Sonic Mega Collection Plus allows for the "Lock On" features you could do on the Genesis with some of the Sonic games when put on top of a Sonic & Knuckles cart.  Taito Legends 2 decided to make 4 games unavailable on the PS2 version and 4 games on this one unavailable on the X Box and PC versions.  Which means I now need to rebuy it on said machines if I want to play Cadash, Bubble Symphony, and Rayforce.  (Pop n Pop I could care less about.)  Note also a BUNCH of the games on Taito Legends 2 have different names.  And it gives me almost as much of a headache as the Intellivision nonsense does.  Except the Inty has an EXCUSE.

Arcade: Alpine Ski, Altered Beast, Arabian Magic, Balloon Bomber, Bonze Adventure, Bosconian, Cameltry, Chack n Pop, Cleopatra Fortune, Crazy Balloon, Darius Gaiden, Dig Dug (x2), Dig Dug Arrangement, Don Doko Don, Dragon Spirit, Dungeon Magic, Elevator Action Returns, Football Champ, Front Line, Future Spy, Galaxian (x2), Galaga (x2), Galaga Arrangement, Galaga 88, G-Darius, Gekirindan, Grid Seeker: Project Storm Hammer, Growl, Gun Frontier, Insector X, KiKi KaiKai, Kuri Kinton, Liquid Kids, Lunar Rescue, Mappy, Metal Black, Nastar Warrior, Pac-Man (x2), Pac-Man Arrangement, Ms Pac-Man (x2), Pac-Attack, Pac-Mania (x2), Puchi Charat, Pole Position (x2), Pole Position 2 (x2), Puzzle Bobble 2, Qix, Raimas, Raystorm, Rolling Thunder, Rally-X, Sky Kid, Space Invaders 95, Space Invaders DX, Super Space Invaders 91, Syvalion, Tac/Scan, The Fairyland Story, The Legend of Kage, Violence Fight, Wild Western, Xevious, Zaxxon, Zektor

Game Gear: Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Chaos, Sonic Drift, Sonic Labyrinth, Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Sonic Blast

Genesis: Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle, Altered Beast, Bonanza Bros, Columns, Comix Zone (x2), Decap Attack, Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Ecco the Dolphin, Ecco: The Tides of Time, Ecco Jr, Flicky (x2), Gain Ground, Golden Axe, Golden Axe 2, Golden Axe 3, Kid Chameleon, Phantasy Star 2, Phantasy Star 3: Generations of Doom, Phantasy Star 4: End of the Millennium, Ristar (x2), Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi, Shinobi 3: Return of the Ninja Master, Sonic the Hedgehog (x2), Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (x2), Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic 3d Blast, Sonic Spinball, Super Thunder Blade, The Ooze, Sword of Vermillion, Vectorman, Vectorman 2, Virtua Fighter 2

Playstation 2: Alien Syndrome, Bonanza Bros (Includes Tant-R), Columns, Fantasy Zone, Golden Axe, Monaco GP, Out Run, Space Harrier, Virtua Racing

 As far as I know, there was never a follow up to Arcade Classics 1 on a home system at least not in the US.  Though there was a 0 collection on the PSP in Japan that had many pre Neo Geo SNK arcade titles on it.

Neo Geo: Art of Fighting (x2), Art of Fighting 2, Art of Fighting 3: Path of the Warrior, Baseball Stars 2, Burning Fight, Fatal Fury (x2), Fatal Fury 2, Fatal Fury Special, Fatal Fury 3, King of the Monsters, Last Resort, Magician Lord, Metal Slug, Neo Turf Masters, Samurai Shodown (x2), Samurai Shodown 2, Samurai Shodown 3, Samurai Shodown 4, Samurai Shodown 5, Samurai Shodown 6, Sengoku, Shock Troopers, Super Sidekicks 3: The Next Glory, The King of Fighters 94, Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy, World Heroes (x2), World Heroes 2, World Heroes 2 Jet, World Heroes Perfect

 We end more or less in the modern day where effectively two 20 dollar collections of Atari games have the content of ONE PS2 era collection though with some rarer 2600 games and a few new control and graphics modes for the arcade titles.  Which still doesn't much make a few of these games play perfectly but it is an improvement.  Street Fighter Alpha includes a couple Remix Mode Alphas to play that I am just not gonna count really.  Capcom REALLY liked doing updated versions of their games!

Arcade: Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Black Widow, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Gravitar, Liberator, Lunar Lander, Major Havoc, Millipede, Missile Command, Pong, Red Baron, Space Duel, Sprint, Street Fighter Alpha, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Super Breakout, Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix, Tempest, Warlords

Atari 2600: 3D Tic Tac Toe, Adventure, Asgo Concentration, Air-Sea Battle, Asteroids, Backgammon, Basketball, Basic Math, Blackjack, Bowling, Breakout, Canyon Bomber, Casino, Championship Soccer, Centipede, Checkers, Chess, Circus Atari, Code Breaker, Combat, Combat 2, Crystal Castles, Demons to Diamonds, Desert Falcon, Dodge Em, Double Dunk, Fatal Run, Flag Capture, Football, Golf, Gravitar, Hangman, Haunted House, Home Run, Human Cannonball, Maze Craze, Millipede, Miniature Golf, Missile Command, Night Driver, Off the Wall, Outlaw, Quadrun, Race, Radar Lock, Realsports Baseball, Realsports Basketball, Realsports Boxing, Realsports Football, Realsports Soccer, Realsports Tennis, Realsports Volleyball, Return to Haunted House, Save Mary, Secret Quest, Sentinel, Sky Diver, Slot Machine, Slot Racers, Space War, Sprint Master, Star Raiders, Starship, Steeplechase, Stellar Track, Street Racer, Stunt Cycle, Sub Commander, Super Baseball, Super Breakout, Super Football, Surround, Swordquest: Earthworld, Swordquest: Fireworld, Swordquest: Waterworld, Tempest, Video Olympics, Video Pinball, Video Cube, Warlords, Yars' Revenge

And one I couldn't believe I almost forgot!  The Turbo Duo pack in disk containing 3 games (2 of which were basically the big system sellers of the platform), a hot new release, and a hidden game.  I am showing the disk as it basically just packaged the three instruction booklets in it.  The disk has a simple but cute animated menu to select the games but.. it wasn't really a stand alone release though previous Turbografx owners could get it with the System Card that would bring their Turbografx CD setup to Turbo Duo specifications and compatibility.  This disk and a free pack in HuChip card (effectively the TG's cartridges only in a slim card factor) made it almost worth buying the system since you got that AND Ys Book 1-2 on another CDROM giving you a new system for the same price as the Sega CD which was merely an add on with at the time mostly garbage FMV games.  Versus a massive action RPG (Ys is more one large game that was originally two cartridge games or floppy disk titles), a great arcade action platformer in Ninja Spirit, a great horizontal SHMUP in Gate of Thunder, a puzzle/multiplayer game in Bomberman, and two good to great mascot platformers in Bonk's Adventure & Revenge.  If we considered each game to be a 50 dollar or so release that meant the system was more or less FREE.  Kind of.  Ish.  What is funny is now this disk that came with every Turbo Duo system sold in the USA now goes for 60-80 dollars, making it the most expensive pack in title to the best of my knowledge!  The most common Super CDROM2 game is that pricey.  (Basically I am saying the Turbografx/PC Engine collector's market is made up of crazy people with more money than sense!)

Turbografx:  Bomberman, Bonk's Adventure, Bonk's Revenge, Gate of Thunder.

Now because I am apparently losing my mind, let us see how many games I have from each platform and count all those terrible terrible repeats. (It will make it easy for the future suffering I am an apparent glutton for.  See this series is also gonna cover arcade releases that weren't always collections but digital only, and those TV/Game thingies too.  Because I need all the games in all the ways possible I guess.  Ok... in spending time writing my lists down I have decided I don't need to suffer that much for no real reason so only the Arcade/Neo Geo stuff is getting a list with as much totals as I can do.

Arcade: 
720 x2), 1941: Counter Attack (x2), 1942 (x2), 1942: The Battle of Midway, 1943, 1943 Kai (x2), Alpine Ski, Altered Beast, A.P.B. (x2), Arabian Magic, Arch Rivals (x2), Asteroids (x4),  Asteroids Deluxe (x4), Astro Blaster, Avengers (x2), Bad Dudes, Badlands, Balloon Bomber, Battle Shark, Battlezone (x2), Bionic Commando (x3), Black Tiger (x2), Black Widow (x2), Blaster (x2), Block Block (x2), Bomb Jack, Bonze Adventure, Bosconian (x2), Breakout, Bubbles (x2), Bubble Bobble, Bump n Jump, Burgertime, Cameltry, Captain Commando (x2), Centipede (x3), Chack n Pop, Championship Sprint (x2), Cleopatra Fortune, Colony 7, Commando (x2), Congo Bongo, Continental Circus, Crazy Balloon, Crystal Castles (x3), Cutie Q, Cyberball 2072 (x2), Darius Gaiden, Defender (x2), Defender 2 (x2) (aka Stargate), Dig Dug (x4), Dig Dug 2, Dig Dug Arrangement, Don Doko Don, Dragon Spirit, Dungeon Magic, Eco Fighters, Electric Yo-yo, Elevator Action, Elevator Action Returns, Eliminator, Exed Exes (x2), Express Raider, Exzisus, Fairyland Story, Fantasy Zone, Fantasy Zone 2, Final Fight (x2), Flicky, Football Champ, Forgotten Worlds (x2), Frogger, Front Line, Future Spy, Galaxy Force 2, Galaxian (x2), Galaga (x3), Galaga Arrangement, Galaga 88, Gaplus, Gauntlet (x2), Gauntlet 2 (x2), G-Darius, Gekirindan, Ghosts n Goblins (x2), Ghouls n Ghosts (x2), Gladiator, Gradius, Gradius 2, Gradius 3, Gradius 4, Gravitar (x3), Great Swordsman, Grid Seeker: Project Storm Hammer, Grobda, Growl, Gun Frontier, Gun.Smoke (x2), Gyruss, Hard Drivin (x2), Head On, Heavy Barrel, Insector X, Joe & Mac, Joust (x2), Joust 2 (x2), Jungle Hunt, KiKi KaiKai, King & Balloon, King of Dragons, Klax (x2), Knights of the Round, Kosmik Krooz'r (x2), Kuri Kinton, Last Duel (x2), Legend of Kage, Legendary Wings (x2), Liberator (x2), Life Force, Liquid Kids, Lock n Chase, Lunar Lander (x4), Lunar Rescue, Magical Drop 3, Magic Sword, Major Havoc (x2), Mappy (x2), Marble Madness (x2), Magic Sword, Mega Man: The Power Battle, Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters, Mega Twins (x2), Metal Black, Mercs (x2), Millipede (x3), Missile Command (x3), Mortal Kombat 2 (x2), Mortal Kombat 3 (x2), Motos, NARC (x2), Nastar Warrior, New Rally-X, New Zealand Story, Ninja Kids, Offroad Thunder, Operation Thunderbolt, Operation Wolf, Pac-Man (x3), Pac-Man Arrangement, Pac & Pal, Pac-Mania (x3), Ms. Pac-Man (x3), Pac- Attack, Super Pac-Man, Paperboy (x2), Pengo,  Peter Pepper's Ice Cream Factory, Phoenix, Phozon, Pinball Action, Pirate Ship Higemaru (x2), Pit-Fighter (x2), Pleiads, Plotting, Plump Pop, Pole Position (x2), Pole Position 2 (x3), Pong (x4), Power Drift, Primal Rage (x2), Puchi Charat, Puyo Puyo 2, Puzzle Bobble ,Qix, Quiz & Dragons (x2), Race Drivin, Raiden Fighters, Raiden Fighters 2: Operation Hell Dive, Raiden Fighters Jet, Raimas, Rainbow Islands, Rally-X (x2), Rampage (x2), Rampage World Tour (x2), Rampart (x2), Rastan, Raystorm, Red Baron (x2), Return of the Invaders, Roadblasters (x2), Robotron 2084 (x2), Rolling Thunder, Root Beer Tapper (x2), Rush n Attack, Rygar, Salamander, Salamander 2, San Francisco Rush the Rock: Alcatraz Edition (reprogrammed), Satan's Hollow (x2), Scramble, Section Z (x3), Senjyo, Side Arms: Hyper Dyne (x2), Side Pocket, Sinistar (x2),Sky Kid, Sly Spy, Smash TV (x2), Solomon's Key, Son Son (x2), Space Duel (x2), Space Fury, Space Gun, Space Invaders, Space Invaders Part 2, Space Invaders 95, Space Invaders DX, Super Space Invaders 91, Speed Rumbler (x2), Splat! (x2), Sprint x2), Spy Hunter (x2), Spy Hunter 2 (x2), SRD: Super Real Darwin, Star Force, Strato Fighter, Street Fighter (x2), Street Fighter 2 (x2), Street Fighter 2 Champion and Hyper Fighting (x2) (cmon, they are more or less DLC for SF 2.  Super SF2 is about the only one I would genuinely say is more than just a patch file IMO.  But I will make Champ and Hyper a title.), Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Street Fighter Alpha, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Street Hoop, Strider (x2), S.T.U.N.
Runner, Super Breakout (x3), Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix, Super Off Road/Super Off Road Track Pack (Ivan Ironman Stewart's Super Off Road), Super Quix, Super Sprint (x2), Super Zaxxon, Swimmer, Syvalion, Tac/Scan, Tecmo Bowl, Tecmo Cup, Tempest (x3), Three Wonders (x2), Thunder Blade, ThunderFox, Tiger Road, Timber (x2), Time Pilot, Tokio, Toobin (x2), Total Carnage (x2),Tower of Druaga, Trojan (x2), Tube It,  Two Crude Dudes, Up'n Down, Varth (x2), Violence Fight, Vindicators (x2), Volfied, Vulgus (x2), Wacko, Warlords (x4), Wild Western, Wizard of Wor (x2), Wizard Fire, Xenophobe (x2), Xevious (x2), Xexex, Xybots (x2), Yie Ar Kung Fu, Zaxxon, Zektor, Zoo Keeper


Neo Geo: Art of Fighting (x2), Art of Fighting 2, Art of Fighting 3: Path of the Warrior, Baseball Stars 2, Burning Fight, Fatal Fury (x2), Fatal Fury 2, Fatal Fury Special, Fatal Fury 3, King of the Monsters, Last Resort, Magician Lord, Metal Slug (x2), Metal Slug 2, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4, Metal Slug 5, Metal Slug 6 Neo Turf Masters, Samurai Shodown (x2), Samurai Shodown 2, Samurai Shodown 3, Samurai Shodown 4, Samurai Shodown 5, Samurai Shodown 6, Sengoku, Shock Troopers, Super Sidekicks 3: The Next Glory, The King of Fighters 94, Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy, World Heroes (x2), World Heroes 2, World Heroes 2 Jet, World Heroes Perfect

WHEW!  That is a hell of a lot of games!  And I am not exactly sure the information online is correct but honestly this is already a mad project!  Sadly now some collections I might want like the SNK 0 which was a Japan only PSP release covering SNK's Pre Neo Geo arcade titles has shot up to a 200ish dollar game are not in the cards.  Other titles like the King of Fighters collection I see little need for but who knows?

NEXT TIME IT IS PC COLLECTIONS. So more repeats of Atari 2600 and Intellivision games, plus a lot of non repeaters.

SNES Collection Update

A mixture of a needed use of a sick day thanks to that iron blood testing thing they do when you give blood on a finger has lead me to have a little time to burn to do an update on my SNES collection such as it currently stands.  (The needle in the arm to remove the blood?  Eh.  The tiny quick prick to your middle finger?  OWWWWWW)

Why do these updates?  Well keeps my blog kind of active, and its good to have a photographic record of what I own both for going out and looking for new stuff and if anything bad would happen family members or insurance purposes.  A nice organized inventory helps out when it is needed the most.  Also it helps me reorganize things and clear up space as I re alphabetize and then store my useless but fun junk.  Until much like as kid me did to his closet making everything a disorganized mess again.

Click for big if you need to see them bigger.

 Oddly enough the reason I only have two of these loose SNES cart photos is because back before retro gaming and collecting got big I was snobby and mostly only wanted boxed games, or at least with manuals.  And as can sadly be seen most people never really took good care of their games.  I have seen things that would turn one's hair white.  CD/DVD based games just thrown loose on a table.  Drinks on top of electronic devices.  Games and controllers thrown about.  Horrible things.

 Zelda there came with my SNES in 1995 and can show you how I kept my stuff good.  It is clean and fancy.  Even UN Squadron I bought in early 1996 looks better than most of these carts because I take decent care of my stuff.  (I just need to dust a lot more often.)  And I have indeed actually done some light cleaning of most of these loose games.  That is how poorly people take care of their property.

 The first of my three images of my boxed games.  This sort of explains why I was also a boxed snob.  Most of my existing games in the early days of Ebay were such so why would I buy loose?  And it wasn't like there were a ton of retail stores carrying old games at that point.  SNES was in the midst of being phased out of video rental stores and the normal game shops of the time.  But I got a few choice morsels.  And thanks to a few budget reissues a couple more titles.

 Pilotwings is on top because technically it is the actual box cut up and placed into a plastic case of some kind.  It is a reasonable price.  Now if only we could get the true successor to it (Disney's STUNT ISLAND for DOS) reissued or remade.  It is everything Pilotwings wanted to be and MORE.

 The final suite of boxed games.  All three Super Star Wars games boxed.  And a sought after rarity.  And a game mostly known as a donor cartridge for reproduction and overclocking projects.

 From what I understand the Chrono Trigger cluebook is also sought after.  And while I may have gotten rid of the box my SNES came in (you can only transport so much on an airplane after all!) I still have all the paperwork in there.  Even if it isn't really needed.  The little thing at the bottom is a fancy save state/convertor cartridge.  Plug it into your SNES, plug the game in and you can save state in most spots in most SNES games.  And the design allows for Japanese Super Famicom games to be played without having to do any sort of chopping to your machine!

My controllers.  The Super Advantage because I enjoy such things as RAPID FIRE and joystick controls for my videogames, a stock pad because sometimes shoulder buttons have their use (and you know, it kinda came with the unit), and the SNES Mouse and Mouse Pad for Mario Paint, Arkanoid, Super Game Boy, and a handful of other games should I get them in the future.

Where is the SGB then?  Well I showed it in an earlier collection update covering the Game Boy but.. here it is again:

Just Some Collection Update Photos

I could get into a long long LOOOOONG rant about how silly people are being over videogames, movies, comics, toys, and other assorted bits of pop culture goofiness but it is too depressing to me right now.   I had a heck of a rough Summer so I just don't feel like it right now.  But I will share some roughly paraphrased words of wisdom from Lord Karnage himself of Classic Game Room:

Games are supposed to be FUN.  Lighten up!

Words to live by.

Anyhow, let us start with my Dragon Quest collection as it is at this moment:

Click images for bigger if you want.

 All of my main numbered DQ games!  I actually had the NES releases of 1 and 2 but traded the first in with other games to a game store towards some Genesis games (Kind of a mistake) and the second with a classmate for... Double Dragon 3.  WTF?  I think I got some money as well because the game wasn't as good and I had completed DW(now Q) 2 already and the classmate really wanted to play more of 2.  As we can see from the Game Boy Color remakes it all turned out ok!  The little Slime is from one of the Stacking Slime sets they put out in Japan 10 or so years back. The other slimes and the Golem that came with it you could do silly stacking things with it and said Slimes is in a zip baggie someplace.  (Yes kids there are even better things to put in your zip baggies besides marijuana.)

 The spinoff games mostly bought cheap as chips and some fun promotional goodies.  Sadly the Slime sticker from the 9 sheet is now on a 2007 iMac that I eventually ebayed to someone who is probably using it for dubious activities.  (Which is why I have all the data of the freshly OSX reinstalled and formatted hard disk and the machine info itself saved to a flash drive.  Never hurts to be safe with computer hardware ya know!)

A close up of the other Warrior World newsletter.  This one is sad because it mentions the superb 5th game of the series coming to the US SNES which never happened.  Again we eventually got them in a superior format in the US.  Sometime in 2017 we are reported to even get the 8th game above on the 3DS platform giving us all of the current single player Dragon Quest games on portable Nintendo platforms.

 Back in the days, Nintendo Power and other gaming magazines were the only real way to get help to complete so many games, especially those that never got clue books released.  So I have had this stapled together DW(Q)3 walkthrough waiting on the game itself until I got the Game Boy Color remake... On September 10th 2001.  Unbeknownst to me at the time I was starting on DQ 3 at the same time the tragedy of the next day was happening.  I still need to get the Nintendo Power articles and pullouts for the 1st and 2nd game sooner or later.  But I am cheap.

 The Playstation 1 cluebook of the 7th game I got last year or so cheap enough to buy, and the cluebooks for 8 and 9.  

And that is Dragon Quest as it currently is!

NOW SOME NES!

Well, for some silly reason the Nintendo faithful consider me a hater of Nintendo because I question many of their actions both past and present.  It does not mean I haven't bought and enjoyed a ton of their games.  Or generally the games other companies made for it.  Even some of the infamously bad titles on the system (most of the time licensed titles from such Childhood giftday/allowance savings ruiners as LJN, Acclaim, Bandai, and Ocean) are at least INTERESTING, especially now when you can get some of these terrible no good games for like 5 bucks or less loose.  An emulator and access to the Internet can sometimes help make these games somewhat playable!

 Most of my totally loose cartridges.  Some light gun fun, some of my collection themes (helicopters, Godzilla, computer games gone console, JAWS) and some actually good games in the mix.  I like to keep price stickers on as a reminder how much I paid for these silly things.  And in cases like Friday the 13th seeing the rental store sticker and what looks like all the effort some kid probably put into making the entire cartridge case black with permanent marker gives it charm!

 The rest of the loose cartridges, ones in a case with their maps and manuals, the Famicom version of Ultima 4 for my Ultima collection just like 3 (aka Exodus) there, the manual to the third TMNT game in spite of me having no idea what I did with the actual game, and titles for various collection themes like Batman and 2d Castlevanias.

 My four boxed games from back then and my controller of choice, the godly NES ADVANTAGE that helped and still helps me complete many a game.  And sometimes without abusing Turbo and Slow Motion features!  My one remaining NES pad I never really liked is there for the odd 2 player time, the Arkanoid Vaus controller so I can play Arkanoid right, and the original launch era Zapper for CRT shooty bang bang.

 Cluebooks and tip guides!  Always helpful in the pre Gamefaqs day!  The Official Nintendo Player's Guide was practically a must own for any NES player in the early days.  The Ultima 3 clue book is lovely and well suited for most versions of the game (and like a tenth of the price of the original Origin one that is both rare and has all it's maps done in black and white ASCII text.  Seriously.), and the Gamepro book is mostly NES titles and sometimes good in house art.  There is an excellent Phantasy Star 1 cast painting in there.  It isn't actually covered in the book but.. I appreciate it!  

 The New Games section is more or less previews of recent titles but the rest of it is full of cheats, passwords, and various bits of help to get you through the games covered.  For those who are counting the vast majority of the book is NES so that is why it is here.  

But there was a reason a one dollar (REALLY) 40 page black and white comic book was shown.  The last few pages are a guide and some maps to Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode!  Which is quite helpful, and even moreso back then.  You get a 33 page comic of Manga's most famous assassin killing some dude with an M16 from like a mile away, and a walkthrough of the game I presume this comic was released as kind of a tie in for.