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TruckOSaurus on 27 November 2017
d21lewis said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Were you able to keep renting from that store? Or were they like "hey it's the dicks that changed game labels!" when you went in there next and chased you out?

Never got caught. Kept renting from there until it went out of business. I remember my cousin saying he rented something like Double Dragon 3 and when he put the cartridge in, it was Kings of the Beach Volleyball or whatever. My brother and I just laughed at our handiwork.

 

We stopped in the SNES era, though.

I'm amazed you were able to remove those stickers without tearing them.

Recently, my cousin ordered a copy of Blast Corps online and while the cartridge did show Blast Corps on it when we booted it up we hear "EA SPORTS!" and it was some crappy basketball game. We weren't happy!



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VGPolyglot on 27 November 2017
TruckOSaurus said:
d21lewis said:

Never got caught. Kept renting from there until it went out of business. I remember my cousin saying he rented something like Double Dragon 3 and when he put the cartridge in, it was Kings of the Beach Volleyball or whatever. My brother and I just laughed at our handiwork.

 

We stopped in the SNES era, though.

I'm amazed you were able to remove those stickers without tearing them.

Recently, my cousin ordered a copy of Blast Corps online and while the cartridge did show Blast Corps on it when we booted it up we hear "EA SPORTS!" and it was some crappy basketball game. We weren't happy!

I think a lot of people, rather than switching the stickers, open up the cartridge and switch the boards.



DonFerrari on 27 November 2017

I have researched for 2 weeks to find an available Thrustmaster wheel (GT27 and 29 were unavailable, so I bought the TR exclusive for GT5) then walked over 20km (10 of those carrying the over 70 pound box).
Then I had to put all that in my bag to come back to Brazil (i was on a 2 weeks training in Canada) with the paperbook of the training (over 30 pounds)... I came back with like 200 pounds of luggage (also had to open it for X-ray in customs because of all the metal on the pedal).
When I got over here I had to use an Iron Table to put the wheel because I had nowhere else to play with it.

Also when I bought my PS4 I had bought one for a friend and had 2 notebooks with me (mine and company), so I had to use 5 sliders on airport at every single check (been like 10 times opening and closing everything).

But gran turismo is worth it, and now I finally have an acceptable space to use my wheel and had like 20h of play on 2 days for GTS.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

RaptorChrist on 27 November 2017

I remember my brother and I begging for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles back when I was maybe in 8th grade. We both had Gameboy Advances, but in order to play multiplayer, we needed the special GBA-GCN link cables, so for it's time, it was kind of a hassle to get started.

Although I imagine there were families who needed one or more GBAs to add to the price of admission. I can't even imagine 4 player.



Nem on 27 November 2017

Oh... i remember being so anxious to play MK9 that because the order was late i bought it in the shop, effectively i bought the game twice.

It's also possible this can be overturned if i get a switch to play Xenoblade 2. But i'm still unsure.



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DonFerrari on 27 November 2017

Also asked for Warcraft 2 as Xmas gift even without having a capable PC (my father was promising one for centuries)... ended up finishing the whole game in the house of a friend, and had to play until a certain hour so the PC could cool down and his parent not discover when they got back home (they complained about electric bill).



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 27 November 2017
Nogamez said:
I bought a decent laptop just to play company if heroes. Was legit addicted to that game for about 7 years. Must have put in over 700 hours lol

when you put 700h on it, it doesn't make it seem like you expended to much for the game.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 27 November 2017
Zekkyou said:

I'd had my appendix out a week or so earlier, and was slowly hobbling through Tesco with my mum when the store speakers announced that they had some Wiis in stock. This was back in late 2007 when the Wii had some pretty ridiculous stock issues, and Super Mario Galaxy had just released. My mum knew i'd been really excited for SMG, and had been trying to find me a Wii for Christmas. We proceeded to ditch the trolly and enter maximum hobble speed, and got there in time to pick one up.

The Wii ended up being one of my least favourite home consoles, but i have no regrets. It's a great memory, and SMG was totally worth it

And did your surgery hold? If it did, then it was no fun =p



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

V-r0cK on 27 November 2017

Pokemon Go.

I literally had to go out and walk great lengths to play it.



DonFerrari on 27 November 2017
Yerm said:
theres this one old PC game called UB Funkeys that was one of my favorite games as a kid. but then at some point in 2011 Windows stopped supporting the drivers for the peripheral you needed to play it, so the game was rendered unplayable. anyways, on and off again for the next six years i shuffled through Windows settings, worked on 3 PCs, and tried using multiple modded torrents of the game files just to try to get the game to work again. i ended up having to set up a virtual machine to run an older version of Windows to get the game to work again.

so yeah, long story short i spent 6 years of my life trying to get a game to work.

was it worth it?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."