Nick Goracke
I'm still around!?,
- Joined
- Aug 7, 2001
- Posts
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I'm a poor photographer with a poor camera. Sorry!
This new gallery, in conjunction with 8man's excellent ladder-attached-to-mahogany-bookshelf picture, inspired me to clean up the game room a bit. For the record, every lady-friend who ever stayed at this house has only seen the door, locked and key hidden! Except one, who broke in while I was at work, took pictures, printed them, and sent me a card with cut-outs of herself sitting on a mountain of games. I'll post it if I can find it.
Try your best to ignore the 30 year old couch (reupholstered 20 years ago!) that I just don't have the heart to put on the curb.
Turn to the left, and you'll see my very first arcade cabinet (Big Red, purchased locally from Gameoz, who was kind enough to load it into the back of his van and drive it to my house for free), and my Blast City intended exclusively for top-down shooters (purchased recently from BIGTIME on the forums, who's been a pleasure to deal with). I'd really like to add one more. As a friend of mine pointed out, our kids won't even know what an arcade is. That's not right! What's cooler than playing 20 year old games on tiny CRT monitors?! Some day he'll (be forced to) game on these.
Aaaaand further to the left, we have another wall full of games.
The Super Nintendo was my first game system. A majority of these games were purchased new in the early 90's. The memory that really pains me involves the game at the top. Best Buy had a stack of Earthbound on clearance for $10 dollars each. I purchased all of them (one at a time, day after day) then took them to Funcoland to resell for $14 dollars in store credit each. I thought I was pretty resourceful. Secret of Mana is probably my favorite game on the shelf, followed closely by Super Metroid, Harvest Moon, and the Lufia series.
I have some desirable boxed/complete NES series (Mega Man, Castlevania, Contra, Dragon Warrior, and Ninja Gaiden), but the only 2 games I have much connection to from that era are displayed at the top left - RBI Baseball and Legacy of the Wizard. I remember having nightmares as a child that centered around the adventure portion of Guardian Legend, so it's prominently displayed now!
I really prefer Arranged soundtracks, so I purchased Neo Geo CD games assuming a CDZ mod to make games load quickly was imminent... Oops. The Sapphire is real and my source is legit. I have provenance. I'm sure it's been greatly devalued over the years, though!
A bunch of soundtracks. Secret of Mana + is a favorite, as are many of the other Squaresoft ASTs. If anyone wants to sell me the Secret of Evermore OST, let me know. I missed a $10 BIN auction years ago, and haven't been mentally unable to check eBay for it since!
Neo Geo! My home cart collection has (regretably) shrunk greatly over the years. The story isn't worth telling. The story for how it started, however, is! In 2001, I walked in to my local Hi-Vee (grocery store chain common in the midwest) to grab a 12 pack of Diet Pepsi. The video section at the very front of the store had a bin full of factory sealed NES games for 10 dollars each. I cannot even imagine what confluence of events led to those games being there. The star purchase was Dragon Warrior IV. They were all sold to break into Neo Geo homecarts (I grew up on ports).
Strategy guides. The Lufia 1 guide took me forever to get... I remember trying (and failing) to special order for months through various book stores (after it was out of print, I'm sure)... then found sitting in a Funcoland for 50 cents. I doubt it's worth very much now, but getting it was a pretty awesome feeling when I was a kid! Plenty of other NES & SNES guides on the shelf...
If someone says they want to see a game on my projector, but does not specify which game, they get Chou Aniki for PS2. Also, if they say they want to see a game, but not something gay, they get Chou Aniki for PS2.
There was a time when I had every domestically released RPG and shooter for PlayStation (and every system that preceded it). I slimmed the collection down quite a bit to help with a down payment on the house... hopefully I still have all of the good ones!
Other than Golden Eye, I can't think of anything to add to my N64 collection. It's really sad. Shenmue II is obviously the star of this shelf! There's a Shining Force 3 special disc in there that used to be worth a bit. I got it for free when I shopped Akihabara for the first time. Was like heaven for a dorky, game-obsessed high school kid. Not so much any more.
Anime. A few of these shows are probably still worth watching...
Next up is the "theater" room. Speakers are the Paradigm Monitor 7 series, screen is home-made using Da-Lite Highpower material, projector is the Sharp XV-Z12000 Mark II, and the couch is really comfortable.
Yamaha receiver, XRGB, and console(s) are hidden in this corner out of view.
And the living room... Pioneer DVL 909 (DVD/LD combo player) and NAD C370 integrated amp are in the corner, the speakers are Audes Soul, and the subwoofer was from Av123 (who I just discovered is out of business and the founder was indicted for charity fraud by a grand jury!). The bookshelf houses fine whisky and Laserdiscs! I try not to "pollute" other rooms with visible gaming equipment or media, but the Wii and LDs didn't make it back to their home yet after recent use.
This new gallery, in conjunction with 8man's excellent ladder-attached-to-mahogany-bookshelf picture, inspired me to clean up the game room a bit. For the record, every lady-friend who ever stayed at this house has only seen the door, locked and key hidden! Except one, who broke in while I was at work, took pictures, printed them, and sent me a card with cut-outs of herself sitting on a mountain of games. I'll post it if I can find it.
Try your best to ignore the 30 year old couch (reupholstered 20 years ago!) that I just don't have the heart to put on the curb.
Turn to the left, and you'll see my very first arcade cabinet (Big Red, purchased locally from Gameoz, who was kind enough to load it into the back of his van and drive it to my house for free), and my Blast City intended exclusively for top-down shooters (purchased recently from BIGTIME on the forums, who's been a pleasure to deal with). I'd really like to add one more. As a friend of mine pointed out, our kids won't even know what an arcade is. That's not right! What's cooler than playing 20 year old games on tiny CRT monitors?! Some day he'll (be forced to) game on these.
Aaaaand further to the left, we have another wall full of games.
The Super Nintendo was my first game system. A majority of these games were purchased new in the early 90's. The memory that really pains me involves the game at the top. Best Buy had a stack of Earthbound on clearance for $10 dollars each. I purchased all of them (one at a time, day after day) then took them to Funcoland to resell for $14 dollars in store credit each. I thought I was pretty resourceful. Secret of Mana is probably my favorite game on the shelf, followed closely by Super Metroid, Harvest Moon, and the Lufia series.
I have some desirable boxed/complete NES series (Mega Man, Castlevania, Contra, Dragon Warrior, and Ninja Gaiden), but the only 2 games I have much connection to from that era are displayed at the top left - RBI Baseball and Legacy of the Wizard. I remember having nightmares as a child that centered around the adventure portion of Guardian Legend, so it's prominently displayed now!
I really prefer Arranged soundtracks, so I purchased Neo Geo CD games assuming a CDZ mod to make games load quickly was imminent... Oops. The Sapphire is real and my source is legit. I have provenance. I'm sure it's been greatly devalued over the years, though!
A bunch of soundtracks. Secret of Mana + is a favorite, as are many of the other Squaresoft ASTs. If anyone wants to sell me the Secret of Evermore OST, let me know. I missed a $10 BIN auction years ago, and haven't been mentally unable to check eBay for it since!
Neo Geo! My home cart collection has (regretably) shrunk greatly over the years. The story isn't worth telling. The story for how it started, however, is! In 2001, I walked in to my local Hi-Vee (grocery store chain common in the midwest) to grab a 12 pack of Diet Pepsi. The video section at the very front of the store had a bin full of factory sealed NES games for 10 dollars each. I cannot even imagine what confluence of events led to those games being there. The star purchase was Dragon Warrior IV. They were all sold to break into Neo Geo homecarts (I grew up on ports).
Strategy guides. The Lufia 1 guide took me forever to get... I remember trying (and failing) to special order for months through various book stores (after it was out of print, I'm sure)... then found sitting in a Funcoland for 50 cents. I doubt it's worth very much now, but getting it was a pretty awesome feeling when I was a kid! Plenty of other NES & SNES guides on the shelf...
If someone says they want to see a game on my projector, but does not specify which game, they get Chou Aniki for PS2. Also, if they say they want to see a game, but not something gay, they get Chou Aniki for PS2.
There was a time when I had every domestically released RPG and shooter for PlayStation (and every system that preceded it). I slimmed the collection down quite a bit to help with a down payment on the house... hopefully I still have all of the good ones!
Other than Golden Eye, I can't think of anything to add to my N64 collection. It's really sad. Shenmue II is obviously the star of this shelf! There's a Shining Force 3 special disc in there that used to be worth a bit. I got it for free when I shopped Akihabara for the first time. Was like heaven for a dorky, game-obsessed high school kid. Not so much any more.
Anime. A few of these shows are probably still worth watching...
Next up is the "theater" room. Speakers are the Paradigm Monitor 7 series, screen is home-made using Da-Lite Highpower material, projector is the Sharp XV-Z12000 Mark II, and the couch is really comfortable.
Yamaha receiver, XRGB, and console(s) are hidden in this corner out of view.
And the living room... Pioneer DVL 909 (DVD/LD combo player) and NAD C370 integrated amp are in the corner, the speakers are Audes Soul, and the subwoofer was from Av123 (who I just discovered is out of business and the founder was indicted for charity fraud by a grand jury!). The bookshelf houses fine whisky and Laserdiscs! I try not to "pollute" other rooms with visible gaming equipment or media, but the Wii and LDs didn't make it back to their home yet after recent use.