the grunter

Just did an inventory on my Sega Saturn and Playstation games over the weekend, and tonight I updated the spreadsheet with the SS titles.

Almost done – Got PS/DC/3DO games to go :)

I’m so glad I wrote the article on the EA Crew edition Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit about a month ago – Since then I have had people contacting me about finding and purchasing a copy. Until now I could only say “Best of luck” to them, but then a recent commenter on my blog has informed me that he/she has put up a copy of this special edition game on eBay.

This is definitely great news, and I believe it is accurate to say that this is the first time ever that this game has shown up on eBay. Don’t miss you chance if you wish to own a rare piece of EA and Need For Speed history!

(Image from WeCollectGames.com)

Auction link here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300529579875

Roughly 9 days left at the time of putting up this post, best of luck everybody :)

The time was 1988, not long after I was given my first game console – the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES, or the “Grey Machine” back in the day). Unlike most other kids who had a Famicom, the japanese version of the NES which was sold in import game stores, my parents bought mine at a local department store that sells the “localized version” of the system which was the NES, and game cartridges are the large, palm-sized ones as opposed to the Famicom ones which are half the size.

Stuck with my “Super Mario Brothers” that came with the console for forever because I lacked skills (or “lack” rather.. things haven’t changed that much over the years), I did not get a chance to try out some of the other titles that my friends/neighbors were playing at the time because they all played on the FC, the two types of cartridges were not interchangeable (until I learned about the honeybee converter much later on). One time I was invited to a neighbor’s home to play on her FC after school, she’s playing all these crazy games that I never knew existed – Dragonball, Saint Seiya, and what’s this? A McDonalds game?

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