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I got scammed for a Nintendo 64 :/
- Thread starter MMaRsu
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Meesh
Member
Probably the best one I've ever been in personally. Feels like the ultimate gamer man-cave lol.
AGRacing
Member
I'm going to check it out this week. Thanks again.
dlbeast
Member
There is only one trader left and its down south.
Meesh
Member
Yeah, it's unfortunate but it's due to covid and such I think, but all there best stuff aggregated to the one store. They've usually got something for everyone.
dlbeast
Member
yea, i loved going to the one on Center street. I think its the only place outside Ebay ive ever seen a sealed copy of Panzeer Dragoon Saga for Saturn. I even saw psone version of Kaleidoscope import cd before they later made it concept into the psone itself . I have all the above, plus more. It was so cool seeing those things. I still am horrified every time i see a 3DO or Jaguar,lol.
Glad to see they have all the good stuff still at the other location. I have not been there, as i just learned the other day the other locations are gone. Ill have to swing by one day next week after work, and see how it looks there.
Prolly after Tuesday as the weather wants to give us a few more middle fingers of snow on Monday.
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AGRacing
Member
I checked it out today. Picked up an N64 and Starfox for my son (it's a long story - he's got a kind of fascination with the N64 and loves Starfox stuff).
Anyway - guy who owns it was there. He asked me to thank you for giving him a shout-out on Gaf! Very cool store.
Dream-Knife
Banned
Could you go into his fascination with the N64? I thought kids hated the older systems. Interesting to hear.
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
He must burn for his sin.
Maddux4164
Member
What? N64 emulation is spot on with any game Ive ever tried. Also… let’s be REAL…. That N64 controller while nostalgic is absolutely garbage in every way.
nkarafo
Member
Not in every way. It's still the best single analog stick controller for FPS games since it's the only one that lets you use the stick with the right thumb and emulate keyboard+mouse controls.
Maddux4164
Member
I’ll give ya that. For 1 stick FPS it was born and bread for such. I’ll hand you that one for sure. No controller has ever been designed as well for such purpose
Meesh
Member
It's a really sweet set up. Got a huge kick outta the E.T. display. Don't know how they found so many of those old Atari carts. There's a few nice gems, Chrono Trigger, their sticker on that find is better than mine lol. A Turbografx, Lynx, GBA Micro, they had a nice looking Saturn and Turbo Express at one time.. pretty decent Switch selection.
I bought my first, one and only Dreamcast there with Skies of Arcadia.
I actually like the videogame albums on Vynl, they once had Undertale. I can fully appreciate the couch and TV set up they have.
Lately not quite as many Snes or N64 carts for some reason... weird. But I feel like a kid in a candy store when I go, and sometimes I forget why I went or what I was looking for in the first place. Lol.
Meesh
Member
You betcha! I bought Banjo there a little while ago! Gave that to my oldest cuz he likes Smash and thought it would be fun to show him where that character started.
Cheers!!
MMaRsu
Banned
Its not craigslist
AGRacing
Member
My son has some speech issues. Some concepts are very difficult for him. One of those things tends to be he doesn't really know or care what is newer vs older on videogames. If he likes it he'll play it.
He got into Starfox because he loved the characters chatting to each other (SNES via Switch).
Once he was into Starfox he wanted to see more... and I believe at some point he saw a Starfox 64 commercial.... ever since that day he's been asking for one. I have a bunch of games but for some reason I never kept the system. I have so many others but of course he only cares about the one I don't have...
I bought 643d for his 2DS but he's looking for the original 64 experience I guess... haha
So the ones they had at the Calgary Store looked clean and nice... I bought him one. I also remembered it was the premier rumble pack game so I picked up one of those.
The other thing I was able to do for him is buy 4 discounted Starlink Switch packs for him so he could play with the spaceships.
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Dream-Knife
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Thats awesome man.
Whats wrong with the 64 controller? Everything on it feels great. Or are you one of those "three hands" people?
You use the 1.2 scheme, but with the d pad instead of the c buttons? Wow. I tried doing that but couldn't. I recently went over to 1.2 in the last year, but I have to use the c buttons and an inverted stick for some reason.
nkarafo
Member
D-pad and stick was how i started playing N64 FPS with Turok. Played every other FPS this way, thankfully all of them had input options to achieve that. This also made my transition to modern dual analog controls very smooth.
Dream-Knife
Banned
Yeah when I moved to 1.2 that method seemed like it would make sense, but my brain is wired to hold the N64 controller that one way. Also explains the inverted stick when I don't play anything else inverted.
Oddly I don't remember ever having a problem with Halo when it came out either, but as a kid I used 1.1, and that's basically dual stick but c buttons instead of a stick.