Happy Friday the 13th to everyone! May you day be filled with bad luck! Meanwhile, enjoy this classic video from the Angry Video Game Nerd. End of line.

Via Bob’s House of Video Games

There’s been a major update, in my video games collection, lately. As I was browsing through the flea market, I stopped by a video games store to see if I could get some games at cheap prices. I’ve bought Geist for GameCube. Then I came across this:

Super *freaking* Mario RPG!
This really made my day. I was looking for Super Mario RPG since years. Of course, I saw several copies for sales in specialized stores, but they prices were always from $70 to $90. I almost fell on my ass, when I saw it at $45. They must be kidding me, I was thinking. But there was no joke; they really asked for this price. At this moment, I heard a voice in my head saying “BUY IT”. Buy it, because you’ll never see it at that price for the rest of your life. Then, this is were most of my flea market money went. I only played this game once in my life, I remember renting it at a local video club and I thought it was a 3-D Mario game. Being a kid, I somehow found this game deceiving. I didn’t understand the concept of RPGs and my lack of knowledge for the English language would have probably made that game more complicated that it was to me. Little I know that this game would turn up to be one of the most-looked SNES cartridges. I guess that’s both the elements of rarity and RPG, which makes me want this game so bad. Well, I’m glad to have finally found it. Now, I’ll have to check for Final Fantasy III and Secret of Mana. By the way, for those of you wondering, the game works very fine. Finally, this will be all for today. End of line.

Do you remember when Nintendo introduced the Game Boy’s Play It Loud line? It was the beginning of a new era. We had the opportunity to choose colors other than dull grey. Personally, my parents never wanted me to have a Game Boy. In fact, they were against most gaming systems. I think that is the reason why I’ve started collecting gaming consoles. Thanks a lot, mom and dad! Well, back to the Play It Loud series. When I was in 4th grade, a kid in the classroom next to mine brought his Game Boy to school. He had the Play It Loud clear case edition. He made a real hit, because every kids in school wanted to how a clear-cased Game Boy. For the obvious reason that you could see how a Game Boy looked from the inside. Transparency was so cool at the time and it was the first and last time that I’ve seen a clear-cased Game Boy in person. A few years ago, my dad got me a red Game Boy, from the flea market. Well, it’s not clear-cased as I wished to have, but it’s a good start. Maybe, I should try to get all the colors from the series. Who knows?

Concerning the Play It Loud line, I’m looking for an ad that once appeared in Nintendo Power. In this ad, they were comparing the colors of the handhelds to food condiments such as ketchup, relish and mustard. I’m sure it has been featuring in the January 1995’s issue. If some of you have this magazine, it would be nice to look for me if it’s the right ad. I would like to see it again. Thank you. End of line.

I’ve compiled all the video games I own and made a pie chart out of it.

The most games I own is for the Atari 2600, counting thirty-seven cartridges and the less I own is for the Atari 7800, counting only one cartridge. I’ve created this chart with Open Office Calc. If you want to see the complete list of all my games titles, just go here. What should I compile next? Music? Movies? Maybe both. End of line.

This week, I’ve made new acquisitions for my gaming needs, here’s some of them:

10 Atari 2600 games for $10.
I’ve bought these ten games for only $10. It was a really great deal. I’ve got: Space Attack, Astroblast, Swordquest, Kangaroo, Dolphin, Super Breakout, River Raid, Maze Craze, Jr. Pac-Man and Star Raiders (which I already owned). It’s too bad that Super Breakout and Swordquest doesn’t properly work.

Since my friend Matt was accompanying me, he decided to get me both my birthday and Christmas gift.

My birthay gift.
I never much played Final Fantasy in my life, but I was looking forward to own a good Nintendo DS game. Nintendo has been deceiving me pretty much these past years. Final Fantasy III is the 11th DS title I own to this day.

My Christmas gift.
Receiving The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX as a (early) Christmas gift couldn’t be more great. I wanted this game since it came out, like, ten years ago. Thanks to my GameBoy Advance SP, there’s no need to buy a GameBoy Color to play this game.

Well, that was all for this week, see you later. End of line.

I turned 24, this week, on December 3. It was a crazy week, on December 2 we learned that Maya, my older sister’s 4 years old Bernese Mountain dog, has developed a very bad form of Cancer and she doesn’t have much to live. This saddened me a lot; I love that dog. Then, on December 3, as we were celebrating my birthday, my sister called to tell us that she was pregnant! I’m gonna be an aunt!! Therefore, those were bad news followed by good ones. It was a weird birthday.

Now, let’s get back to my birthday. We celebrated it with the yummiest cake ever:

Pink frosting with colored stars. Because I’m a girl, of course!
As a gift, I received something I’ve been wanting for a while: a new desk chair. Finally!

What’s on the chair?
If you’re wondering what is on the chair, it’s none other than a copy of Super Mario 64 that my uncle and aunt gave me.

I wanted this one since forever!
Actually, we used to own that game until my sister decided to take our Nintendo 64 as her complete property and store it in the back of a closet at her flat. Then, I had to buy my own gaming console and I couldn’t stop arguing with her that I should own our cartridge of Super Mario 64, but she didn’t want to give it to me. C’mon, she’s not even playing any video games. How can you own a gaming console and not using it? She’s only doing that to be selfish toward me. Well, thanks to my uncle and aunt for finding me a copy of that game. I’ll never forget their kindness.

Finally, that would be all for now. This was me updating my blog from my new desk chair. End of line.