This is how I found out Klax becomes unplayable if your CRT has color problems that makes each tile look almost exactly the same
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Check out my high score in Giant Galaga! Know how I got on the board? By taking over someone else's game when he walked away and dying almost immediately
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So they're like Funkos, except now you can swallow them!
The one element they were missing
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A rare sign of sanity in the collectors market. Fritz Chess was once the most valuable Wii game due to how rare it was. It seems to have dropped in price now...Fragile Dreams is worth more, and it is a much better game
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Ah, this Apple II has Spy Hunter running; that's a game I put a lot of hours in. This time, I was killed by the supply truck. That never happened to me as a kid and it's supposed to be impossible. I found a new glitch
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The ancient home computer area was buzzing with the EEE-KWRRRGG-EEE-KWRRRGG of a dot matrix printer, a sound I have not heard in a long time. They even made their own Print Shop banner. I asked and was told someone still makes print ribbons somewhere
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What can you say? This was the definite winner they will never top. Also one of the best things I've seen at any PRGE
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These people make mini handhelds by ripping the guts out of full consoles and stuffing them into small shells. It's been done before, but not to this extent...look at all this
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A table full of weird off-market 80s consoles, none of which I've ever seen before
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There are TWO stickers on this one. Wonder which one is correct....eh, I know it's the more expensive one. Getting the afro binome for $1.99 would be quite something
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"Dude With a Tude" Sonic Socks -- $19.99
I wonder if he's jealous that Donkey Kong's "King of the Jungle" socks cost $5 more
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@dalecoop.bsky.social, looks like you and your son's game has already reached "unattainable collector's item" status
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I bought this game at the PRGE where its own publishers, Premium Edition, were selling it. I had no idea what it was and just got it 'cause I liked the cover art. I guess I chose wisely; it's worth more every time
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I came back to the same table later and there was a new item: a stack of Enquirers. I returned again ten minutes later and the stack had been replaced by a Richard Simmons cookbook. This is one weird table
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The Garfield by the giant Yakko vibrates when you push its nose. Make your own jokes here. These other Garfields are from that brief time in the mid-90s when PAWS was experimenting with giving him visible fur. It wasn't a good idea
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Yeah, no sooner do I buy my final thing than I come across this table full of Animaniacs stuff. Most of it was overpriced anyway, but I didn't see that little figure with the $4 sticker on it. Oh well
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It's the final day, and this is when you have to carefully inspect every single table in the entire con before making your final purchase decisions, or else you could see something you wish you'd bought instead. It happened anyway
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Last year I bought Pokémon Sun; this year I wanted to follow it up with Ultra Moon (for the sake of variety). There were several Ultra Moons, but only one Pokémon Ultra Sun that was still shrinkwrapped for just $5 more. So much for variety
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Al Kahn, former president of 4Kids, has claimed he's the one who came up with the portmanteau "Pokémon" after "Pocket Monsters" couldn't be cleared due to the Monster In My Pocket toys. I wanted to ask Gail if she could verify that. @frankcifaldi.bsky.social do you know?
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There was a Q&A period, but they never called on me. You may remember that I got to meet Gail last year; there was no meet-and-greet this year. Which meant I couldn't have the burning Pokémon question answered that only she would know.
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