/vr/ - Retro Games

I want a giant nintendo game for my tombstone.

There is only one game in my collection that has a name on it and that was because my dad wrote it down when I let someone borrow it to prove it was mine if they tried to do any fishy things with it. Sadly they should have kept the game because Fighting Masters is a giant turd.

I never defaced any of my collection with my name. I have, though, acquired a few games in recent years adorned with the previous owner's monicker. I've been able to remove most of them. However, some are a bit more persistent like my import copy of Mario and Wario with もりもろ だいすけ written on the back.

Yes, Daisuke, I have your game and you are never getting it back, despite your demonic contract to forever imbed the ink into the cartridge.

>>1008261
>use the super nes cleaning kit TM only

top fucking kek

I have a bunch of NES games my aunt's boss's son was giving away when he got an SNES. They're all marked with the same initials, ML.

It was nine or so games, I remember Rygar, Final Fantasy, Tiger Heli, and Tecmo Superbowl were part of them. I played the hell out of them until I got an SNES three years later. I wonder if the guy ever looks back and thinks about those games.

>>1008343
I find people who mark their games typically don't look after them and don't care about them as soon as the generation is over.

>Walk into Microplay
>Do my usual business of looking at used games
>Spot a gold Majoras Mask
>Ten bucks, not bad
>Buy it
>Arrive later at home, find something scratched in at the top (presumably with a knife)
>Dejean
Fuck you Dejean, now I have to find another working gold Majoras Mask cart. Goddamn moron could have just used a magic marker or a sharpie, but no, he had to write his stupid shit name with a knife into the cart.

>>1008380
How about you just change your name? Dejean is a pretty okay name. Probably better than the one your mom gave you

>>1008380
>not examining the cart before purchase

You have no one to blame but yourself.

>>1008374
bull fucking shit, i have games that are pristine apart from names written on them. I have CiB games with names on carts it was just something people did. Now if you're specifically referring to people who just write shit on their games for fun then i guess I could agree.

>>1008380
I have a similar situation with my N64. Fucking Cunninghams.

Obligatory.

>>1008380
OH HOW DARE HE. TOTALLY UNPLAYABLE NOW! Might as well just send it to me for proper disposal bro.

I used to write my last name in sharpie. But why even do that, if a little rubbing alcohol is all it takes?

>>1008397
Looks like we found Dejean.

>>1008290
>because my dad wrote it down when I let someone borrow it to prove it was mine if they tried to do any fishy things with it.

My mom did that with my copy of Mega Man 3, and the kid I lent it to killed himself, and I was stuck with Fester's Quest until I traded that for Little League World Series because I didn't want a cursed suicide game.

>>1008380
>not examining things before you purchase them
That's your own damn fault.

>>1008387
Microplay didn't allow me to do that and they had the carts laying down in a fashion that didn't allow me to view the top.

>>1008392
>>1008393

>>1008380
>Goddamn moron could have just used a magic marker or a sharpie, but no, he had to write his stupid shit name with a knife into the cart.
That's exactly the fucking point. Magic marker can come off/be removed, so carving your name is a much better option for those of us who don't give a shit about collectability and just want to play the game (or who just didn't care about collectibility when we were younger).

>>1008393
Oh my fucking god. I think I just woke up the entire house.

>>1008442
This. I never put my name on anything, but back then, none of us could have foreseen that decade or two later, there would be hipsters willing to shell out big bucks for these piss-common games.

>>1008453
My mom wrote my name on all my carts because I'd always trade them with friends and she didn't want me trading away the games she paid for.

We never really had a lot of spare money growing up, and I only ever had like 5 SNES games by '99.

My Kirby's Avalanche has "CD", "LH", and "SD" carved into the front. No idea what those could stand for, but it is quite interesting.

Beh.

Thanks David Clair for keeping your copy of Baseball for GameBoy in good shape. Thank you for not writing your name on the front of the cartridge. Also, I like your choice of fat blue instead of skinny black permanent marker.

>>1008471
My copy of Kirby's Avalanche belonged to somebody named Whitney. No Whitney, you'll never get it back, I paid $4 for it and it's mine.

The back of my Lynx has the guy's entire address on it which isn't too far from the thrift store I found it.

It was $3.49 with Ninja Gaiden in it.

>>1008528
Oh boy, a new rape victim.

>>1008536
Hey, it's not my address, so go ahead!

>>1008380
Do you by chance have a location of this microplay?

>>1008380
>have to find another working gold Majoras Mask cart
The gold cart is the more common one...
And it's 100% your fault for buying it.

>>1008392
That's just plain nightmare fuel. I'm so happy I have yet to come across any shit like this.

>>1008585
Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

>>1008607
That's funny I have a Microplay right down the road in League City TX.

let's be fair guys, not all of this example had to be about, "the bad"

picture related not mine, but is an example of knowing something special.

Writing on cartridges?

Animals.

>>1008607
Funny. I know someone from there.

>>1008393
It's even better that the Tiger is looking directly at the words.

Not Retro, but I got a used copy of Wind Waker, and the name Andy was written on the box, the manual, and the disc. Makes me kind of sad, he obviously loved the game if he did it, but it wound up sold anyway.

>>1008393
Every fucking time with this picture. I remember being in the original thread that was posted in, everyone just lost it.

I still want that cartridge so bad. I'd pay top dollar for it. Like $20 at least.

>>1008672
Oh fuck. it's the gift that keeps on giving!

>>1008638
Perhaps you could read it for those of us less aware?

>>1008672
Jesus shit, I never noticed that until now. I'm laughing so hard my eyes are watering.

before and after of my copy of Beast Wars Transmetals I acquired a few months ago

>>1008687
forgot pic dammit

>>1008638
>mfw my long-since-suppressed weeaboo side thinks that's kind of cool

>>1008683
they're people's names, idiot
you could read it as Mazda, Teriyaki, or Fujitsu if you wanted

>>1008418
Lol, they didn't let you examine it before paying? Assholes 1, Dumbass 0.

>>1008674

Andy's mom is selling off my friends again. that bitch

Anyone have that Hulk game that was full of graffiti and had many racial slurs on it?

I kind of like this, like carving your name in a tree. I'd go with RGB+SNES with a heart around it.

>>1008714
give those back

Does anyone have any autographed games, maybe by one of the designers or an athlete the game is named after?

I have a 2600 copy of Defender with the name Nicole written on it. It's the only game I have with a females name on it. I never remove the names from games I get. Other marks and bullshit I'll get rid of.

I also keep rental store stickers. Last week I got a free batch of NES games and I now have two games from Captain Video. I think of the rental sticks as an artifact from a bygone age.

I also like when I find notes and codes written in manuals. In the instruction manual for Ghost House there's a score book where you can write the name, date and score. The first few spots are filled out on 12/12/89. On the back of the instruction manual he also wrote in another score board for the game Hang On for 12/13/89. I started thinking. Maybe this was an early Christmas present for Jeff way back in 1989. I'll look after your precious childhood memories Jeff.

check out this asshole

>>1008743
looks freshly written
are you an asshole?

>>1008743
>scrubs off purple marker
>writes jason voorhees on Friday the 13th game for the lolz
>nobody laughs

>>1008746
YOU TELL ME

this is the only one I've got

>>1008380
'
I work with a Dejean. He's a really chill dude and we talk about vidya all the time at our shitty warehouse job, he's in his mid-late 20s so maybe! Where do you live?

>>1008760
I hate you so much right now.

>>1008760
Jesus Christ what a douche.

>>1008607

Oh, never mind.

>>1008760
ARE YOU FROM THE FUTURE?!
>inb4 timezones
>yes, I fucking know timezones

>>1008714
at least he had decent marker skills

>>1008786
>tfw marking your carts very carefully so it didn't look like shit

>>1008687
>>1008691
How'd you do this?

>>1008760
>>1008743
There's a special place in hell for you

>>1008793
Dude magic erasers are amazing. But be very careful. Do not keep on going if it does not seem like it's working right away. They are very abrasive and will smooth out your nes games like sand paper. I didn't realize this and now my copy of Who Framed Roger Rabbit has a bald spot basically. Certain permanent markers will not come off no matter what and you will just end up removing the plastic.

>>1008683
広瀬 Hirose (something partially erased)
井上敬介 Inoue Keisuke
かなだ Kanada

>>1008796
I don't understand why you guys care so much? If that retard plans on keeping them its his own problem those games will probably die before him

>>1008793
I used rubbing alcohol and q-tips. rubbing gently with light pressure at first, then gradually increasing in pressure. you have to be careful with the labels. I wouldn't use a magic eraser on the label, but the cart it would work fairly decent on, as long as you're careful. it's essentially fine grit sandpaper, so if you rub too hard, you might damage the cart/label more.

>>1008413
Fuck, that name doesn't make any damn sense. How do you even say it?

>>1008809
Yeah i guess he is pretty stupid he will probably end up putting them in freezer so they don't overheat on a hot day.

>>1008814
>>1008793

also another thing you can do is buy a cheap sports game and switch back panels if that's where the marker/damage is. it's a lot easier than trying to clean certain markers off.

>>1008698
The way that the post was worded, I thought that there was some secret message written across the set of cartridges or something, not just some moonkid's names.

>>1008821
moonchildren write on their games more than americans I think. My ratio of japanese games with names on them is way higher, I have less imports but more of them are marked up. Barely any of my games are marked at all so maybe I am some weird anomaly

I'm not even saving that picture, because I will never, ever clean the marker off. It'll make me laugh every time I see it and play the game. Really it will make the game more enjoyable for me.

>>1008760
You filth. Legit made me cringe a bit. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY

>>1008760
l o l

>>1008392
Those monsters

>Bought FF7 for 40p once in a Cash Convertors
>Never had one before so pretty excited I bought it for fucking cheap.
>Look at the discs.
>See some writing in a nice blue pen that read something I couldn't read perfectly at the time
>It's on all the discs
>The positions it is on all the discs, as well as the way it's written make me think it's a company that worked on it
>Get home show my roommate
>He says who's "Jamala"?
>I take it back from him and turns out that some guy wrote his name on all the discs.

What's even scarier, is that I think I found Jamala, when I went back in the store, some guy shouted at me and said "Did you take my fucking FF7" I replied "What?" and he just said "Nah, I don't think it was you, sorry."

This happened in May or so I haven't gone back in since

>>1009903
Soooo someone named Jamala was pissed that someone had bought a game he used to own after he sold it to a store?
Uhh
Erm
It's not yours anymore after you sell it to the store
Someone else buys it
That's how it works

>>1008808
>かなだ Kanada
No bro it's clearly Canada

>>1009951
should be カナダ if they wanted it to say "Canada"

>>1009976
I was kidding ;_;

I love this kind of shit. Like when you buy a second hand memory card and someones saves are on it.

Its really interesting, and you can tell a lot by the games people play and how they play them. Its a weird felling playing someone else's character in games with create modes though. Or maybe that's just me.

>>1008607

That Goddamn Microplay had so much cool shit in it.....then some fuckface went in and cleared them out of SNES games...even the sports ones.

Im only mad because he did it before I could.

>>1008727

My sides are in orbit. You better let off some steam Bennet.

>>1008353

>Demon Sword

mah nigga, TK

>>1009938
It sounds like someone stole it from Jamala and sold it, now he's looking for it to get it back.

>>1008760
Nice yellow, jagged fingernails you got there. I can only image how shitty the rest of your hygiene is, you filthy fuck.

I don't know why I have three games previously owned by the same guy, all I can say is he had good taste.

That last one seems to have changed owners many times.

>>1008528
Oaklander up in here? You MUST visit http://www.themade.org

Your best friend to remove those damn names left behind!!
It will work on labels too,just be careful:)

My copy of Turtles in Time has "SOS" written on the top right. I wonder what happened.

>>1008760
<3

Back when Billy Mays died, I bought this on ebay for a dollar. It supposedly has his soul captured inside.

>>1010379
Fuck that. Your garden variety dry-erase marker removes Sharpie, super-toxic-permanent-marker, and even metallic ballpoint pen ink. Scribble scrubble, wipe away. Or wipe with a damp paper towel.

>>1008769
lylat wars wtf?

thats a fake game

>>1010693
That's what it was called in Europe I believe, due to a trademark dispute involving the Starfox name with another company.

>>1010518
>Billy Mays NFL 99
>cart art
oh fuck my sides

>>1010693
Lmao

So this one has a name on it

bumping for more lolz

>>1010826
did you get it at kilimajaro?

>>1008353
>TK
Funny, I have a couple NES carts with the same initials in the same spot. Was a video-store chain thing perhaps?

I stole dozens of NES games from other kids back in elementary school. I honestly don't know why faggots kept letting me "borrow" their games.

>>1011317
Me again. Double checked my old carts just to be sure. Seems I was wrong. Was 'KM" instead, although same spot. 6 some cartridges with it on there, and I apparently owned more NES carts than I thought.

>>1010254
Because someone donated/sold them all at once, and you came by shortly after and bought them all. It would be a puzzle/wonder if you had bought them from different places.

Nunes' Super Mario Kart is somewhere in Jersey now.

>>1011335
>those earlier US SNES carts with the Japanese-style power-on lock
Man those were annoying.

I wrote my name on cartridges as a kid, so now I do it on retro games I buy as an adult too for the nostalgia.

Saw somebody post this gem in a different thread.

>>1011357
Can you smell the anal rape on it?

>>1011357
>tfw you will never get life in prison for raping little girls and spend the rest of your days playing retro video games

>>1008760
Are you holding that with your disgusting ass toe?

I initialed all my n64 carts after my "friends" stole my little brothers copy of pokemon blue

Any n64 carts with PP on top in sharpie?

>PP...bring on the lulz

My mom wrote my name on my games when I was going over to a slumber party cause she thought my friends were going to steal them. I'm sorry to the next person who inherits them.

I'm also in possession of Horta's OoT and Super Smash Bros.

>>1008760
holy fucking shit dude we were joking nicely but had to be a dick

>>1010461

It's from the future!

Any of you fags know an Adam Porter who lost a copy of River City Ransom? It's mine now.

Michael Franklin's copy of Perfect Dark

Some kid went to town on Bond's face with a red marker.

A store I was buying my n64 carts from years ago started marking the spines with the names to save shelf space.

And my copy of Lyat Wars, as Starfox64 was known in australia

>>1011653
I guess he preferred Timothy Dalton or something...

>>1011668
Goerge Lazenby 4 lyfe.

>>1011920
>>1011668
I'm a Dalton fan myself

My mom always wrote our last name, (LEWIS) typically in all caps and in black Sharpie, on all of my games as a kid. At least most of my N64 games. And then she later sold them all...
..bitch.

Anybody have any of my games? (fairly common last name but it's possible)

when i was a kid, i wrote the names of all the n64 games on the top of the cartridge because they had no fucking end labels. the only ones I didn't write on were majora's mask and tony hawks pro skater because they were colored and easy to tell. i don't do it anymore, but still, i wish i hadn't

I've certainyl got games with things written on them but the only one with a name is Teleroboxer signed by Michael Sinterniklaas aka Dean Venture.
I was at a convention and it was the only thing I had with me that could take a signature. Other than my body.
I'm not

>>1012595
It's okay, bro.
I did the same.

>>1013536
>how to make a decent game worthless

Fucking tripfags are just as stupid irl as they are online

>>1008808
Thankyou for transcribing the runes for us barbarians.

>>1012595
You improved those games. So it fucks it for collectors, but shit if it bothers you get nice labels made and place it over the writing.

I have no idea what Nintendo has against cases and labeling games well, took forever to catch on even with Sega doing it on the Genesis.

Anyone have that picture where the guy unknowingly erased Miyamoto's signature from an NES?

>>1008638
I had a similar thing on a cart I got off one of my brothers freinds. Apprently he's a reel deel colelctor but half of his japanese carts had the same kind of names one them we have in bargins stores over here on them.

I put the elbow grease in and they're clean again though!

>>1013994
Typos everywhere, sorry.

>>1014013
Who names their child Clintonville Video?

>>1014013
I did NOT beat Battletoads

>>1014045
Wait, he was lying when he said the original quote so... He did beat Battletoads, but is denying it? You humble motherfucker, Bill.

>>1011406
>I'm sorry to the next person who inherits them

Those are some awesome games, I wouldn't give them away

But in case you're thinking about getting rid of those, I don't mind *wnik wink*

>>1008392
You better hope this thread lasts to tomorrow it will so I can show you how bad my PS1 is.
I don't feel like getting out of bed just to snap a pic.

Fuck you Palo, Mario, Rvades(?), and Martha for the shit condition.

>>1015653
You can find a spare mario/duck hunt anywhere

>>1015661
I can't remember where the photo was, but there was a gaming store I went to that had 142 of those cartridges on a single shelf. Just for shits and giggles I imagine.

Permanent Marker never bothered me on my carts that I have bought.

I always get far more pissed off at unnecessary damage to the label.

>>1011384

Just go to a libtard state... you will be out in 2 years with good behavior and can settle in another neighborhood for you to corrupt an vidya game in.

>>1011357

>a game about a guy trapped indoors moving from cell to cell beating the shit out of people and learning new fighting techniques

This prisoner was going places.

I bought a Spectrum+ that had ROBART scrawled across the polystyrene in blue pencil

Saw this in the bargain bin at my local vintage stock.

I always thought people who did this were special needs or something. At least the ones I know who did were. I kept my games nice.

>>1008380
Those are incredibly common. I had 2 offers to buy one when I got mine.

>>1015749
game is section Z if you're wondering, the front is delightfully atrocious as well

>>1011406
you're name is Tiara? If you're a guy that fuckin' sucks man

>>1010008
I remember renting Paper Mario and continuing someone else's game who was closer to the end. It does feel weird, like you're not yourself when playing it.

>>1015825
Kind of like you're giving a reacharound toa ghost?

>>1015825
Kind of like you're giving a reacharound to a ghost?

>>1013994
More moonrunes.

I didn't think the japanese wrote on carts as much as the west.

>>1015732
Please tell me you bought it.

>>1014013
dat filename

I bought this copy of ET recently.
'James Avgn', what a fucking jerk

>>1008412
You post this story a lot.

>>1016325
I've actually got quite a few Super Famicom carts with names written on them.

My weaboo side tells me not to erase them, even though I scrub the fuck out of the western ones with names on them.

>>1008691
Alternatively buy a shitty sports game that actually has a grey cart and just replace the entire back.

Fucking N64 has most of the sports games with colored carts, though.

>>1011653
>A store I was buying my n64 carts from years ago started marking the spines with the names to save shelf space.
I don't understand why they didn't do it on a piece of tape or something, that's how I used to do mine before I bought a bunch of UGCs.

>>1016325
When Arino visited that huge game shop in one of the early episodes of GCCX, there were plenty of used games with names on them.

>>1016325
I was in Japan last month and all the used game shops I visited gave significant markdowns on carts with names written on the back. So.... almost every game I bought has something scribbled on it. Thank you random Japanese dudes with sharpies!

>>1011342
Holy crap I never even noticed that. Going through my collection now...

>>1016778
Oh well maybe it's not so uncommon.
I didn't get it any cheaper (because it was a freebie) but I hope whoever had it before me - probably some schoolkid. Enjoyed it.

GOD DAMMIT GRANT! Way to make a shitty game shittier!

>>1016857
>Silver Surfer
>bad

AVGN pls

>>1016868
Please, show me your walkthru.

>>1016874
>walkthrough
>Schmup

What?

>>1008760

That's hardly dedication. If you were truly dedicated you'd write on the paper.

My copy of GoldenEye has drawn-on mustache to make him look like Adolf Hitler.

:<

My Esper Dream 2 has 村本 written on the back.

>>1008760
You bastard, ruining a perfectly fine copy of Super Metroid like that...

Some japanese person named Takuya put some cool Mario stickers on my Famicom copy of SMB3.

Takuya, you are awesome guy. It's small things like these that can make a a cartridge unique.

>>1017895
Or a shitty one covered in old tattered stickers and permanent marker.

>>1017895
>Some japanese person named Takuya
No I think that's T=CP

>>1017930
lern2moonspeak

Still, they're pretty nice stickers, and probably hard to find.

>>1017943
It's トくや
Learn to read. The first character is clearly not た

>>1017954
It used to be a た.

Putting it in and out of the console erased it a little, as you can see. Also, Tokuya isn't even an actual name.

>>1017985
>Also, Tokuya isn't even an actual name.
That's because it actually says トニくわ. He must have been a foreigner.

>>1018000
トニくや

>>1018000
Yeah, sure, Mr. Japanese Expert...

>>1017954
That first character is very clearly た
I don't know why you would even attempt to contest this

>>1018092
It's actually an X that was partly scrubbed out.

>>1008760
the b8 would be even better with a copy of earthbound
>inb4 he has a copy of that too and timestamps it

>no PROPERTY OF DENNIS

Oh 4chan... I used to know you.

Here's my goddamned Link to the Past cartridge, dating back to the early '90s.

It's got a Blockbuster sticker, among other things.

>>1014274
That took a while

>>1013638
Yeah cuz Teleroboxer is worth thousands anyway. It's probably worth more now anyway because it's a celebrity signature.

>>1015783

>>1019125
Other than the sharpie, it should be fairly easy to clean. If you're careful you can get quite a bit of sharpie off as well.

I always wipe down games I get that have writing on them.

It always comes off with a little rubbing alcohol of Mr. Clean Magic Eraser.

>>1008760

>>1019747
wat?

>>1019747
Go back to /b/.

>>1019767
Gotta be careful with a magic eraser, though. They're mildly abrasive and if you rub too much/too hard it'll sandpaper the texture off of or scratch up your games.

My mom used to put a small star on the back corner of my games to make sure i returned home with the right one. When I was 15 I was going through my old things and I found all my games and saw that little star. When she did it I was so angry at her for ruining my perfect game. When I was 15 I was indifferent. I just thought the games were pretty neat. When I turned 21 and moved across the country my mother went through our old things, and gave away a lot of my stuff, except for my Super Mario World. She mailed it to me with a loving note about how she couldn't bring herself to give this game away and wanted me to have it. I called my mother and cried harder than I ever had before. I thanked her for drawing the little stars. I thanked and apologized and cried. I hope who ever had the rest of my collection appreciates those stars, appreciates what my mother did for me to ensure my individuality, to ensure that my games remained mine.

It's funny how mom's can see the important things even before they're important.

>>1019917

That's really sweet.

I d'awwed.

>>1019917
The fuck is wrong with you?

>>1019917
>>1020072
/vr/ don't stop being this cute

>>1020078

he loves his mom. don't you?

The two I've marked out are actually my older brother's. Dunno why he marked 'em, but the chewed one is Quest 64 and the other is Perfect Dark. Former's bitten so hard it's almost hard to get it in the console.
Can't even read that FF64 one. Probably some poor fucker's address.
William, I've got your Gex.
JCYS, your name must be extravagent and you still didn't even beat the first planet of Blast Corps.
What the FUCK did you do to your copy of Hexen, B?
Also, that Battle Tanx is probably the strangest one I've seen yet. Interesting way to keep them organized.

>>1020165
>Also, that Battle Tanx is probably the strangest one I've seen yet. Interesting way to keep them organized.
My cousin actually did that with his N64 carts, exact same type of label.

You may actually have my cousin's old copy of Battletanx.

>>1020176
It's not a new thing, I've seen quite a few with the dynmo lables on the side. If you have the offical, cart stackers from intendo it makes finding your games so much easier.

I don't own games with names on them, and I've cleaned lots of boxes in the past as well.

But I spotted this gem at a con some time ago.

Sage for not retro.

Goes in this thread

>>1008817
Guess the race of the kid named, Dejean.
>protip: he's not french

>Oh no, some people treat my shitty collector fetishes like valueless peices of plastic they actually are and appreciate the games themselves instead.
>The horror!

>>1008769
I'm more pissed about that pre used sticker.

>>1010008

As a kid, when I got my N64, I got it used with Goldeneye two controllers and a memory card.

All the Goldeneye saves had all the cheats unlocked.

Good times.

Only my Pokemon Stadium, which has my (family) name from preordering it.