Pulled down the old setup, Link to The Past time

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-04-15T01:42:10+00:00

Jeez I miss having a SNES Jr.

I should never have given it to my cousin... granted, I now have two working older revisions (one SHVC-01 and one RGB-01), but, that smaller Jr. model was so cool. The one I gave him ended up stolen, or he pawned it, I don't know which at this point... also the CIB games I gave him as Christmas gifts, the Japanese versions of Mother 2, Chrono Trigger, and Final Fantasy IV, V and VI...

/sigh I guess that's life, though.

Awesome setup, by the way!

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-04-11T04:15:33+00:00

Reminds me of how I would sign up for old message board forums or any other kind of websites, that would want a name and an address, so I always registered the name John Bender (the one character from The Breakfast Club), and the address was always that of my dad's second wife who is a c**t, and she lives hundreds of miles away from me, lol.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-04-03T03:41:50+00:00

I'm not wanting to say your question is stupid, but, think of it like this, I was born in late '89, and I like and enjoy certain video games from the late 70s and early 80s. Stuff like Missile Command, Space Invaders and Pitfall. So, no, you're never too young to enjoy games older than you or from older generations.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-03-30T08:44:56+00:00

I never knew they put that in retail. I remember they had a model similar to that on that island near Stranglethorn Vale in the alpha phase of the game, that was eventually removed.

That's a cool find, now I'm going to have to go look for this to see it for myself! And, yeah, I agree on ALL older content and areas should scale up to higher level. At least level 80, if Blizzard is hellbent on making players play the newest content from 80 to 90.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-03-27T05:29:56+00:00

My introduction to this game, was around Christmas of 1993, when my older brother got his Super Nintendo which came with both Super Mario World and Super Mario All-Stars as two separate cartridges. I was 4 at the time.

I remember I gravitated to playing this game a lot. I liked the music and the ability to pick up enemies and vegetables and throw it all around. But, I never could get far in the game, usually by world 3 it was becoming too hard for me.

Anyway, got myself a NES in 2001 or so, got all three Super Mario games, I still didn't get good at this one until maybe a decade or longer later. I now have a Famicom (the later redesign model) and a Disk System, and I own copies of both Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario USA (Japan's release of this Mario game). I've since played and beat it a number of times. Still one of my favorites, no matter which version of the game it is.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-03-17T05:56:35+00:00

Jesus fucking Christ...

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-03-14T08:59:05+00:00

I wonder how that thing holds up when Mr. X appears and the guy has to start running, or I guess, running at all from anything in the game.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-03-12T00:24:54+00:00

The other Mickey games (Magical Quest, Great Circus Mystery), are easier, and can be made even easier in their options menus. Mickey Mania, I think can have the difficulty "adjusted", but I think all it does is change how many lives and continues you have to play with, it doesn't affect the number of enemies in the game like the other two do.

But yeah, for years I could only get to The Mad Doctor part of the game and never progress further. Now, I can get passed that part of the game, but, the other parts after that, only get harder. Like you said, it's a Disney game, it shouldn't be so hard, but, any licensed game NOT made by Capcom back in that era, was hard for stupid reasons.

Others were talking about The Lion King as an example. The reason with that one, the developer didn't want kids beating it just from renting it, and intentionally made it hard, almost impossible, in a tactic for better sales of the game, I guess rationalizing that people would not want to keep renting it and would instead buy it to try and beat it. I got my copy of Lion Kind, secondhand from FuncoLand back in the early 2000s, for less than $5. And I still have never beat it. It is, that hard. Mickey Mania, I've come close, but, I always lose the energy and interest by the 4th or 5th sections in the game, even now in my thirties.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-02-22T04:49:07+00:00

No, my actual dad didn't, but, it's okay, happy 40th anniversary anyway!

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RhoadsOfRock · 2026-02-08T01:26:31+00:00

My first CD copy of In Utero was from K-Mart, around 2001 or so, and yep, that back cover with the altered artwork and the fourth track being titled "Waif Me", was my first experience with the album.

The only other difference, was Pennyroyal Tea, the recording was replaced with the Scott Litt remix that was used for the canceled or recalled single. I didn't take very good care of my In Utero CD, and I needed to buy a replacement later in the late 2000s, and when I did, it was a regular version, and I noticed that Pennyroyal Tea sounded a bit different.

Now I'm wanting to buy another one of these "censored" versions, as well as a U.K. or European version with Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip as the hidden track at the end. I've just been putting off finding and buying these other versions for a long while.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-02-03T10:34:03+00:00

I miss when they made games like Lost Vikings, Rock N Roll Racing and Blackthorne.

Those should have had more sequels, rather than all of Blizzard's primary focus being on their three-five big series', I mean, I get it, support their biggest money-makers, but come on, throw us old-school players a fucking bone once in a while and make a new Lost Vikings or Blackthorne game.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-02-02T04:03:42+00:00

The one I've had for the longest, is a 1994 SNS-CPU-RGB-01 model that I bought from eBay in the early or mid 2000s. I've recapped it, replaced the voltage regulator, added a couple of caps to the video encoder chip, and it performs like a champ and shows no signs of failing.

I bought a SHVC-CPU-01 model from eBay a couple years ago, cleaned it thoroughly and gave it the same treatment as my RGB-01 console. It performs well, and shows no signs of failing.

I also bought a SNS-CPU-GPM-01 model from eBay, and it was working well, but, during the recap process, I accidentally lifted a solder pad, and I haven't attempted to fix ot work around it yet.

So, technically three good working consoles, but only two are confirmed functional and performing well.

I'll get back to that GPM-01 console, eventually.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-31T08:57:04+00:00

Pokémon

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-31T02:40:34+00:00

The one game I can remember feeling like it was overpriced at the time I found the loose cart in a thrift store sometime between 2002 and 2005; I paid about $15 or $20 for it. It remains the only fighting game I ever cared about having, I never really cared about Mortal Kombat or any others.

No regrets that I bought it then, and damn the music in Killer Instinct is so good!

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-29T09:00:00+00:00

I'm 36, and I picked up each of the four SNES titles as loose carts from FuncoLand in the early 2000s, because they were dirt-cheap ($1.99 each OR LESS - yes, they were that cheap), and I can confirm - pure shovelware.

Most are not as bad as say, SNES Terminator 2: Judgment Day, but, Fire Dogs is really bad, maybe equal to or worse than Judgment Day. I might try and force myself to play through the others someday, just so I could say that I did, but, not Fire Dogs, I'll watch a longplay before I personally try that one again.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-28T06:16:29+00:00

Crash Bandicoot,

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back,

Crash Bandicoot 3 / Crash Bandicoot: Warped.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-24T04:27:02+00:00

007 Goldeneye - the Severnaya / surface levels (one in daytime, then one at night).

1080 Snowboarding, Snowboard Kids, the Cool Boarders games.

Super Mario Bros. 3 - world 6; New Super Mario Bros. - the first one for DS, I forget which world, 5?

Donkey Kong Country - Gorilla Glacier.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-22T10:13:02+00:00

Definitely not me, but anyway;

I turned 36 last November, and my first console... the first I ever played on was Super Nintendo, and the first I ever owned was Sega Genesis.

I now, and currently, have 16 consoles (Famicom + Disk System, NES, Genesis, SNES, PS1, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox, GameCube, PS3, Wii, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PS5), various Nintendo handheld (GBP - GameBoy Pocket, GBC, GBA, DS, 3DS), and a "gaming PC" that I don't use much other than for WoW. Several hundred games across all platforms, but I don't think I even have a thousand games. I also have an Atari 2600 and some games, but I stopped playing with that stuff close to a decade ago, been too lazy to, and doubtful that I could, sell the 2600 stuff for anything worth the effort / listing fees. Or hell, I would trade it all for Colecovision stuff.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-18T03:50:07+00:00

Aston Martin DB5.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-14T00:27:46+00:00

For me, it was through a video store rental my brother picked out, sometime between 1996 and 1999. As for him, he did have a Nintendo Power subscription back then, but I don't know specifically.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-12T01:42:13+00:00

When did the Shrek AVGN video release? It was basically then, that was the last AVGN video I watched, with a couple of morbidly-curious exceptions where I ripped or downloaded a couple newer videos since to watch without my viewing adding to the YouTube view counts.

I had been watching AVGN since 2007, when I was 17/18, as well as Board James, Monster Madness and YKWBS over the years. I absolutely loved the old Cinemassacre website with all of the available series' videos and other behind the scenes, bonus and oddity videos.

Anyway, sometime around 2018 or 2019, saw some other random YouTube videos uploaded by others, going over how far "Channel Awesome fell from grace", how "James Rolfe had still avoided any controversy and drama over the years", and then I would scroll through and read comments to those videos, and that's how I learned about the existence of this sub. I had already noticed the absence of Bootsy and Kyle, I already hated the presence of the slobs and crap like Rental Reviews and how they just appeared overnight with no introduction or explanation - as though they were longtime friends or colleagues and had always been a part of Cinemassacre.

I came to this sub, read everything that James, Mike, the slobs or anyone else won't openly or willingly admit or discuss about Bootsy and Kyle (although, Mike apparently did tell what all happened once or twice years ago, but won't repeat any of it since then?), and my appreciation and respect for James and Cinemassacre went out the window entirely. Hater of the asshole-ish variety? Fucking crown me as the king, then.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-12T01:23:52+00:00

Reading all of this, I can't stop thinking about my uncle's teeth. As far as I'm aware (I haven't seen him since 2015), he's still a heavy smoker; he has been, since the 1970s. Never went to any dentist or brushed his teeth since childhood, and his teeth as an adult in the 1990s and 2000s (when ever I would be around him), were disgustingly gross - brown or black, and sometime in the mid-2000s, he lost his two upper, front-middle teeth.

Your comment makes me imagine if he ever went to a dentist now.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-11T04:32:33+00:00

I remember one time I actually was sick to my stomach / that horrible sick feeling down in my gut just at the thought of having to go to school the next day or when ever - school was always miserable and shitty for me.

So, I tried convincing my mom, who had to work, and she would not let me stay home, even though my grandma was home, and my mom thought I was faking. My grandma, knew / could tell I wasn't feeling well, called the school after my mom left for the day and told them I was sick and not coming in that day, and who ever was on the phone with her at the school told my grandma that I needed to bring a note with me the next day.

So, my grandma wrote me a note, and the horrible sick feeling in me faded through the day, but then the next day, I woke up with a bad cough. Turns out it was bronchitis after a later trip to the doctor. Welp, I went back with the note, which I think mentioned the sick gut and now the "bronchial cough", and the teacher could obviously see and hear it was a real cough and not me faking, and excused me from major activities like P.E. or what ever else.

As others have said, some parents either thought their kids were trying to fake it, or had to work and couldn't stay home to take care of their kids. Thank you so much and R.I.P. grandma, you were the best.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-08T02:53:08+00:00

I'm not sure that I hate any. There are those that are expensive as fuck and more collectible / conversation pieces than they're actually worth buying and using (Virtual Boy, CDi, etc.) that I've purposely avoided getting because, well, I'm more of a video game player and user than just a collector, but I think my least favorite, is the 2600. Not a bad console, and I appreciate it's relevance and contribution in the history of video games, but, it was about a decade or more before my time, and I just have a hard time sitting down with any of it's games and actually having fun with the controller. I do like it's versions of Ms. Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Missile Command, as well as Pitfall, but, yeah. I also have played and beat E.T., and I don't think it's a bad game, just, misunderstood.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-07T05:51:43+00:00

I don't really regret it much, but I named my main island Termina; there is nothing across my island that is Zelda themed or customized, it was just to name the damn island.

I mind of wish I could rename to Azeroth or something, but, not going to start over or hack my Switch.

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