Greetings from Terra...
Zagnorch Productions
in association with
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presents
SEVEN-DAY SCORE CARD:
LONE STAR NUMBER-CRUNCHING AND FANTASTIC
RISING SUN FUN WITH THE COUNTERFEIT KOOPA KIDS
Week of 14 April to 19 April 2014
This week's episode sponsored by
The Psychotic Knight Fanfic Drama Dinner Theater
Your favorite songfics performed by Mary Sue and the Yaoi Wowies every Friday night
and
McKnight's (no relation) Preposterously Panoramic
Palace of Perilously Powerful Peripherals
The gloves are off now
Take it away, guys...
Monday 14 April: Nothing to speak of vidya-wise. However, I did dig up a sizeable batch of other geekin' goodness, with Texas Instruments products dominating the lot. Products like a complete boxed TI-37 Galaxy Solar, a TI-83 Plus, and a couple small mono speakers that put out surprisingly good sound. Also discovered was a Panasonic combo mini-piano/AM radio, a Rokenbok controller pad, and a Radio Shack EC-4051 calculator.
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Tuesday 15 April Sweet f*ck all was to be had on this day.
Wednesday 16 April: This all but dead week sprung to life a little when I discovered the first TurboGrafx 16 games I've ever encountered at a thrift: CIB
Boxxy Boy and
Devil's Crush Pinball for $2.49 each. I even picked up
Keith Courage in Alpha Zones, 'cuz it's never a bad idea to have a backup copy of this ultra-rare gem.
I also discovered a couple NES 18-cart shelves for $3.29 each. Each one holds 18 sleeved NES carts. I tried to place the bare NES carts in the case slots, but they were too loose.
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Huh-huh-huh, the slots were too loose.
Then I checked to see if my full boxed carts fit in there, but they were too tight.
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Heh-heh-heh, yeah, tight slots! FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!
Sleeved carts, however, were just right.
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Ohhhh yeeaahhh *UNNNGGGH*
Rounding out the day's scores was a CIB
Frogger's Adventures: the Rescue for GameCube and a
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 cart with manual for $2.99 each.
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Thursday 17 April: Picked up my very first Japanese PS1 titles for $4.99 each, including
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Master of Monsters: Akatsuki no Kenja Tachi, and
Torneko no Daibouken 2: Fushigi no Dungeon (AKA
Torneko: The Last Hope). I also scored a platinum GBA SP for $8.99, a grab bag of PlayStation promo tchotchkes, and the greatest, most awesomest
Star Wars game of all time,
Knights of Teras Khasi for the PS1! W00T!
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Friday 18 April: Totally dead today.
Saturday 19 April: A light week ended with a nice uptick, as I nabbed a
Skylanders Swap Force Wii U starter kit at Toys-R-Us for half price. I picked it up so I'd have the regular versions of Wash Buckler, Blast Zone, and Series 3 Stealth Elf in my collection. I was also curious to try the Wii U version of the game and all the different controller schemes it supports. While I was there I also grabbed an Easter Fryno, and a Series 2 Jet-Vac. I finished my thrifting day when I hit a Goodwill that's not exactly known for good game prices, and was pleasantly surprised to discover the CIB PS1 titles
Final Fantasy VII, VIII and
IX, as well as
Resident Evil 2, for just $3.99 each.
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Oddball Score of the Week: The
Grow Your Own Monsters manual from Scholastic.
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The guy on the front cover up there looks kinda familiar, doesn't he? You don't suppose... nahhh, it's just gotta be a weird coincidence. Probably just a case of deja vu... which got progressively stronger with the turn of each page:
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Japan is presently planning another Pearl Harbor attack to avenge this outrage... and who can blame them.
Until next week,
'Late
