arch_8ngel

All of the best ones I can think of are classics: Aliens (arcade), Willow (both the arcade and NES versions were great), Little Nemo (game is more directly based on the anime than based on the comics), even Batman (NES). Later consoles had some great movie INSPIRED games, though: 007 Nightfire was a great Bond-movie-made-directly-as-a-game, and Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb was also a great stand-alone Indy adventure.

I could never make myself watch that movie after finishing the book. It maxed out my threshold for "grim".

A solid 8 for the year it was released.

It is really an ideal game for a store kiosk, IMO. Hard enough that a casual player isn't going to last long anyway, but levels are short enough that the demo timer is worth a couple of levels of progress. If Metroid had a less abusive password system it would have worked better (from a player standpoint) -- though from the STORE standpoint, I think Metroid was also "perfect" in the demo unit, since you cant get ANYWHERE with a 3 minute timer and it makes the game feel HUGE, unlike anything else on the system at the time for exploration (other than Legend of Zelda) So to go along with this topic -- any of you guys have stories of oddball places that used to sell video games? I remember buying Metroid 2 at Lowe's, of all places. (they had a dedicated video game counter and locked cabinet in the front of the store near the power tool corral)

I remember when Sears had their NES and GB kiosk. Played Metroid and Kid Icarus a few times there, as a kid. Our Toys R Us briefly had a TG-16 kiosk -- but their mainstay was the oversized GB unit, and eventually they had a Virtual Boy display unit. By the time N64 came around, I think Sears in our region was long-done with video game systems.

Let's be real -- he probably found out about this policy while on the toilet, and immediately responded on Twitter, mid-dump.

Wouldn't have thought Augusta GA was a big test market, but who knows But I think there is a chance they were distributed through Roses (along with a few other oddball toys of the era like the Willow movie toys and Legions of Power). Might have easily also been through Toys R Us. Those are really the only two options, though, aside from Kay Bee Toys since I don't think we even had Walmart yet, at that time, let alone Target or a specialty arts and crafts store like Michaels.

I'm > 90% sure it was NOT any kind of happy meal toy. My sister and I had the full sets of all of those back then, as well. (my dad was a doctor, and he'd get kid's happy meals for lunch to collect the toys to be able to give to kids that had office visits) No idea what company actually produced these, just that they AT LEAST made the Legend of Zelda set and the Muppet Babies set. Both sets had 3 pose-able characters and 3 static objects, and a generic "flip book" to stamp them in. And both were fairly major licenses to acquire -- by 1989, that was PEAK NES/Mario/Zelda, and same for Jim Henson Studios/Muppets. Only other thing I clearly remember about them was that they came in a blister pack (vacuum-form plastic packed against card). The "scarcity" wasn't what surprised me so much as NOBODY else on the site having seen them before. Usually, even for the really obscure stuff, somebody else had seen it!

Stand-alone, the stamp for Link went for $55, I think, doing an on-site auction on NA. I had the end of the auction badly timed, though :P, so hard to know what the actual ceiling might be. But I guess that might imply a complete set of them could attract $100+ (wouldn't imagine that Stalfo or Goriya would be as desirable, individually as Link, and the sword, shield, and boomerang are static stamps) A neat project might be to scan in a set of these and use a modern die-cutter to fabricate replicas on better quality stamp-rubber. (these are VERY "firm" with age) What is most incredible to me is that nobody else had ever seen them before. I guess there is the possibility it had some kind of limited release, but at the time (late 80's) this sort of thing was pretty mass-market (like coloring books, or those little color-forms vinyl sticker sets). Obviously not as popular/common as Topps cards, at the time. (though the thing I miss most about the Topps cards was that in the 80's the scratch off sections ACTUALLY WORKED -- I scratched a couple off back in 2005 when I bought a factory box of them for $8, and the scratch off material didn't function correctly at all)

Yeah, nobody had seen them before, either, when I posted this one for auction on NintendoAge. Really wish I'd had the full set together at the time -- but the Goriya and the items seem lost forever at this point (having thoroughly cleared out drawers and cabinets helping my mom pack for a move) If the buyer of the Link stamp doesn't turn up in the conversation, I'll get the Stalfo posted for auction soon.

Last spring, I found my stamp of Link while cleaning up at my parents' house, and auctioned it off in the last days of NintendoAge. Recently, in helping my mom prep for a move, I found the stamp for Stalfo. I would love to find the original buyer and help them keep the set together, so if you're reading this, let me know! (though Stalfo, is unfortunately in parts and not as well preserved as Link was) Otherwise -- has anyone else ever seen these stamps before? The original set had Link, Stalfo, Goriya, along with a sword, shield, and boomerang stamps. They came with a little notepad of paper and were intended for making "flip books". My sister had a similar set of Muppet Babies (had Kermit, Piggy, and Gonzo, I think) -- so I would assume the same company that licensed these from Nintendo and Jim Henson, probably did at least a couple other themes, as well. No idea where we bought them -- they seem like the kind of thing you might find in Michael's nowadays, but they weren't around in my area in the late 80's, so maybe they came from Roses?

Nothing quite like eating carnuba wax and sugar... Gross.

They'll keep tolerating it as long as Rush Limbaugh can keep convincing them that it is all the fault of the "radical left" and that they're fighting the good fight...

Biden had a childhood stutter, and I can pretty easily recognize most of his "odd" word choices to be ways to step around words that are about to cause a problem. Trump just talks with a 3rd grade vocabulary and the affect of a reality show TV host. (5th grade is way too generous) The level of cognitive dissonance with Trump supporters saying how awful Biden is, is just wild. This is the same crew that blurts out that you have "Trump Derangement Syndrome" if you bring any complaints against Trump for any of the MANY bad or idiotic things he has said or done, but somehow they see no issue with continuously beating a drum about how mentally unfit Joe Biden is. It's frankly pretty disturbing when I see otherwise highly intelligent people succumb to it.

In all seriousness, do you actually think that Biden is in worse health than Trump, an obese, self-avowed exercise-avoider tthat eats nothing but fast food?

Don't leave out getting to hear Rush Limbaugh say her name with a ridiculous exaggerated accent...

I dont' watch Sharktank, so i don't know the particulars -- but an app for investments that require you to be an accredited investor seems ridiculous. (and a big SEC headache waiting to happen)

Well, real estate syndicates can be completely legitimate, you just have to know what you're getting into. (and usually, you're not talking about a slice of something this small -- you're talking about using a syndicate to get access to larger commercial property, apartment complexes, or hotels, where the minimum buy-in is $50k-$100k per person)

"They" who? These same guys? Real estate syndicates (where you make an initial buy-in for a fixed portion, in a fairly illiquid way) are reasonably common. Though those at least pay rental income on your share...

Evidently you missed out on a whopping 50% management fee

The one I've seen is about since the Moderna vaccine is RNA-based, it is going to fundamentally fuck up your body's RNA in some catastrophic way...

I thought the original past-time of dentists was to self-dose nitrous oxide until you accidentally kill yourself.

It is certainly unfair to the many individuals too young to have had a hand in getting us to where we are. But we are probably getting exactly what we deserve, collectively as a country.

Yeah, but that's also about the time they're putting kids through college.

Any collector that works as a software engineer at a FAANG with a few years into their career could outspend 99% of other collectors without breaking a sweat.