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Wisdom Tree Kickstarter

Last year I decided to take the plunge and support a Kickstarter endeavour by Wisdom Tree (see this post), a company known for producing and distributing unlicensed games for both the NES and the Sega Genesis.  A lot of their … Continue reading

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Odds and Ends – Nintendo Stuff

With the first day of Spring come and gone, gaming-related things are slowly starting to wiggle out of the woodwork again!  Much to my delight, lots of Nintendo games and accessories have found their way to me, and we’ve even … Continue reading

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Jackpot?

There are a few games I’ve been wanting to own for a long while now but haven’t gone out of my way to find.  Most of them are rarer and don’t come up often in the flesh, and others are … Continue reading

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It Never Hurts to Ask

When I see an ad for a lot of video games go up on a classifieds site, nine times out of ten I already have at least one game in the bunch and for that reason am hesitant to buy … Continue reading

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Nintendo Stuff – Last Swap of the Year

This past weekend I made it out to a small event that wasn’t only focused on video games, but also on many other facets of Geek Culture such as card games, table top gaming, and comics.  I can’t say that … Continue reading

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Swap Day: Genesis and SNES Excitement

After the disappointments of missing out on the last two game exchange events either in part or entirely, I was determined to get out to the last long distance swap we had been planning to go to for this year.  … Continue reading

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When I was 17… I got my very first SNES…

Just under half my lifetime ago in 2002 at my very first part-time job, I had been talking to a coworker about video games (as usual.)  He was complaining about his old SNES taking up too much room in his … Continue reading

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The Swap Timing Experimentation

My boyfriend was feeling pretty crummy on Sunday.  We were supposed to wake up early and travel out of town to a game exchange event but he was not fit to travel.  I wasn’t completely heartbroken by this news because … Continue reading

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Say Hi to Tails

I’ve had one of the busiest Septembers I can remember in a long while.  I wish I could say that it has been one of the busiest with respect to finding some new (used) games, but alas… this was not … Continue reading

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Auction Spoils: Soul Blazer for SNES

There’s no nicer noise than my mailbox opening and closing when I’m waiting for something I’ve ordered to show up in the mail.  A few posts ago I mentioned winning an eBay auction for the first time in a while.  … Continue reading

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