Housepets!

Esquire Fox

Most of the time, the boxes are worth significantly more than the games that come in them.
That's only the case for cardboard boxes though since people tend to keep the plastic boxes.
It still baffles me when I come across loose Sega Genesis games.

Esquire Fox

I've been working on giving my collection a more uniform feel by making boxes for loose cartridges. Recently, I finally gathered all the supplies I needed to make boxes for a few of my GBA games. http://imageshack.us/a/img822/9711/gbacases.jpg There is a wonderful website out there called The Cover ...

Esquire Fox

I'm waiting for Okami HD to release on the Playstation Network this Tuesday.
An excuse to sink another 30 hours into the land of Nippon with updated visuals and trophy support? Yes please!
Hopefully Capcom will see enough interest in this to green light a console sequel.

Esquire Fox

Dating is one of our silliest cultural expectations. All the effort you spend towards trying to forge a relationship with someone you just met could be better spent making friends. Good friends are open and honest with one another. You don't have to worry about many of the negative aspects of relati...

Esquire Fox

Since this is for FlintTheSquirrel, I figured I'd share it here. This is my little brother as an Emolga, in the middle of an intense NES game: Probably Ninja Gaiden... http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/6450/retrogaming.png And here's a Zorua, just because: http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/3174/bedt...

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I played that today, its good. Its also full of what appear to be foxes. Really? I've seen anthropomorphic rabbits, mice, bears, lizards, and cats, but no foxes. The designer behind this game, Dean Dodrill, once worked on the Jazz Jackrabbit series. The style shows, and so does his affinity towards...

Esquire Fox

If you have an Xbox, you need to play this right now:

Dust: An Elysian Tail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg81GcutanQ

Esquire Fox

Looks like we are about to see the rise of a new console, the Ouya. The console runs entirely on Android. The best part? It is complete open-source. You want to make a game for the console and put it on there without licensing fees? No problem. You want to mod the hardware with upgrades to memory an...

Esquire Fox

http://whurfsup.tumblr.com/post/26451705664/videogamenostalgia-atlus-sales-officially I imagine some people may be interested in that. Atlus has a reputation for having a very limited print run of many of their great games. These games often end up being among the rarest on the system. It is good t...

Esquire Fox

Okami HD for PS3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC2vSGDaj3E

That's three releases leaving gamers at a cliffhanger ending that begs for a sequel.
I don't care if you make it on PS3, Wii U, or whatever, just start on the sequel Capcom!

Esquire Fox

Speaking of PS3, one of mine just got hit with the Yellow Light of Death. It is the original 60GB model I got for $40 at the flea market that wouldn't read disks. The fix for that was simple, the fix for the YLOD is not. One or several soldering joints underneath the CPU and/or GPU on the motherboar...

Esquire Fox

I'm very excited for the Wii U. The addition of the touchscreen controller adds so many possibilities to gameplay. Not the least of which is all the local co-op possibilities. Say goodbye to split screen gaming! But with all the inevitable Nintendo releases such as new Zelda and Mario games, I'm act...

Esquire Fox

The Grey Wolverine wrote:If you have proof Mario Party cut up your thumbs, Nintendo will send you gloves to this day.

They do, and fat lot of good that does me.

Esquire Fox

That controller has caused many a sore thumb. But I can't bring myself to hate it. The best of the best could be found on the N64 and that controller was the middleman between you and adventure. Games like Banjo Kazooie, Super Mario 64, Golden Eye 007, Super Smash Brothers, Mario Party and others ba...

Esquire Fox

Update for my Playchoice 10 game lineup. I now have the following games in my cabinet: • Super Mario Brothers • Super Mario Brothers 2 • Super Mario Brothers 3 • Metroid • Rescue Rangers • Mega Man 3 • Rockin' Kats • The Goonies • Nintendo World Cup • Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!! You can see some gamep...

Esquire Fox

Meatballs!
Every meal, every day.

Esquire Fox

What is wrong with it? A lot of problems have simple fixes.
This excludes cases of having smashed your console with a hammer.
I don't know a remedy for that one.

Esquire Fox

Unlike your Xbox 360s and PS3s of today, these are highly resilient consoles

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With some cleaning and tender loving care, they'll be back in good shape.

Esquire Fox

I went to my local pawn shop today to ask about the old systems they kept in the back. The owner has known me for a while, so he said he'd sell them to me for a dollar a piece. So of course the only logical choice was to buy all 124 of them. ... Yeah, I don't even know. http://img24.imageshack.us/im...

Esquire Fox

Nintendo Playchoice 10 http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1728/playchoicekiosk.jpg The Marquee is actually red and white, but I couldn't take a good picture with the lighting. The Playchoice 10 was an arcade machine manufactured by Nintendo in the mid 1980s. Originally, the machine was intended to sh...

Esquire Fox

I don't really have any modern examples. By today's standards, a bad difficulty curve usually makes a bad game.
I've never really been one to purchase modern games without first gathering some information on the gameplay.

Esquire Fox

Yoshi's Island did have an excellent difficulty curve, not counting the extra stages. The DS sequel stayed pretty faithful to the original considering it wasn't even developed by Nintendo. Extreme difficulty isn't very common in today's games. Many modern games hold your hand all the way through, bu...

Esquire Fox

Anyone who knows me personally will know that I am a HUGE nintendork, though lately I've been getting into steam games (in paticular Team Fortress 2) more often. Dispite that, my favorite games are still nintendo ones (Yoshi's Island is and will always be the best game ever created). Also great is ...

Esquire Fox

I never did beat the original Spyro 100%. I remember being terrified of the stage with the enemies that can swallow you whole. Though I did managed to get 100% on Spyro 2, which unlocked unlimited fireball power. Lot of good that does when you've already collected everything. The Playstation console...

Esquire Fox

I always buy my current generation games, even last generation, but for things like the PS1 or even the SNES which you can't get anymore unless you buy them from a collector which costs exactly $1 billion, I use emulators. I only have a SNES one at the moment with like 6 games on it and it's actual...

Esquire Fox

Whoa, the original PS3s had backwards compatibility? O__O Whaaaaaaaaat? Not fair. There were two PS3s released during the launch in 2006; the 20GB version for $499, and the 60GB version for $599. The 20GB version was vastly inferior (no WiFi, no card reader), but both had native hardware-based PS2 ...

Esquire Fox

Today I went to the flea market and came across an original 60GB model PS3 with backwards compatibility. I asked the seller about it and he mentioned that it wouldn't read discs, but could still play downloaded games. After some bartering, I managed to walk away with it for just $45 dollars. When I ...

Esquire Fox

Sleet wrote:Is that the thing Diskun was the mascot for? The guy whose trophy was really hard to get in Super Smash Bros. Melee?

Yes, he was the mascot for the Famicom Disk System.
I believe you had to turn your language settings to Japanese for that trophy?

Esquire Fox

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/711/famicom.png I finally received my Nintendo Famicom from Japan. This is the Japan equivalent to the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It was unbelievably hard to find one without yellowing, but here it is. A lot of the original Japanese titles were very diff...

Esquire Fox

Today, I came across a copy of Final Fantasy VII with a rare misprint. Apparently some of the very early copies had a minor mistake on the back. I wasn't even aware of this until I found out about it this afternoon. http://www.rareps1games.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/-23322205845752771.jpg Notice...

Esquire Fox

Dubiousity wrote:Wow that sounds really awesome, I might get it.

Keep in mind that the creator of Terraria has stopped updating the game and has no further plans to do so.
Even so, the content that is there is well worth the money.

Esquire Fox

I could never get into WoW as much as I did other MMOs. I'm not much of a group player, so end-game PvP and Raids weren't my thing. I kept exploring and striving for rare collectables and mounts till I ran out of interest. I'm mostly just waiting for Mists of Pandaria before I start playing again. T...

Esquire Fox

I am 21 and what is this...?

It is funny. The funniest strip in a while.
Don't be afraid to flex that PG rating every now and then.

Fun times ahead no doubt.

Esquire Fox

http://tv-games.ru/images/vectrex/vectrex-logo1.png http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/4531/img0373b.jpg The Vectrex was created by Smith Engineering and released in late 1982. This console used vector graphics, from which it gets its name. There are two methods for displaying an image on a screen....

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Space Invaders http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9819/img0353yu.jpg Space Invaders was an absolute hit in Japan when it was released in 1978. So much so that it created a temporary shortage of 100 yen coins. Guinness World Records currently ranks it as the top arcade game of all time. The pixelated ...

Esquire Fox

I am immediately reminded of the time I was giving my Senior Project speech in front of the class. I had memorized the entire thing. I didn't even look at the note cards once. I paced my speech and kept a steady voice. And the whole time I was up there, the podium was vibrating as my hands shook unc...

Esquire Fox

Magnavox Odyssey http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/160/img0342eu.jpg [Link to Magnavox Odyssey Commercial] I might as well quit right now, because it doesn't get any older than this. The Magnavox Odyssey was the first home video game console ever marketed. It was released back in 1972, making it 5 y...

Esquire Fox

You can unlock it from underneath the dome, causing it to pop open. From there you can change the game, the volume, and set the 'demo timer' (can be left off). Closing the dome automatically locks it again. So what happens if you accidentally leave the key inside...? I can see my own stupidity comin...

Esquire Fox

There is a story behind it. The previous owner was contracted to do some construction work for a lady. Before the work was to be done, she gave him a call. She offered to give him a game system in place of money. "Just a game system?" "No, no. Its not like that. Just wait until you se...

Esquire Fox

Sleet wrote:Oh man that is so awesome. It reminds me of witnessing Super Mario 64 for the first time in a Best Buy.

Funny you should mention that.
The last thing this particular kiosk showcased was Super Mario 64.

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