Nine Over Ten 9/10

How did I spend my Saturday morning? I ran for half an hour, washed two cars and took up the task of cleaning up an old SNES that just arrived yesterday through the mail, having bought it via eBay. This time around, it was a much better purchase compared to the previous SNES I bought at Lelong.com.my.

What’s so interesting about this purchase is that it came with a whole bunch of seemingly original games. All seven of them came with their respective boxes and some even had intact manuals. Almost all of them have their old price tags attached, and boy were they expensive. The cheapest one I found was RM 149 (USD 42).

Anyways, doubts about whether the games were original started to surface upon greater scrutiny of the cartrdiges and boxes. One of my favourite examples would be the Mortal Kombat III cart. Take a look at the pictures and tell me if you see anything noticeably “off”:

Yup. The back of the box has the word Playstation on it. Now, who on the right frame of mind would put that word on the back of an original SNES cartridge box.

From what I garner through the interwebs, these SNES pirate carts are rare. I’ll be posting up more pics of the rest of the games but if there’s any interested party in buying these games, I’m all ears :).

The GameBoy Micro finally needed charging after weeks of all-play, no socket. The long duration I spent waiting at the Tun Husein Onn Eye Hospital today lead to two hours of solid Mother 3 play on the GBM, which caused the console to start blinking red. And before I forget, I saw Kim Ong today.

With the would-be Duracell bunny of a console charging along side the Nintendo DS, I’m actually quite console-free tonight. I really should finish reading The Other Boleyn Girl… the list of unread books sitting on the floor of my room (the book shelves are full) is getting to be quite ridiculous. Oi oi…stop blogging.

I leave you with a cat I snapped at the beach earlier this month:

The best part about Super Mario Advance 4 for the GBA isn’t really the updated version of Super Mario Bros 3, but the original Mario Bros game that comes along with it! I actually played this for an hour on the GBM before I slept last night.

There’s something addictive in these retro games.

Subject to Availability

It’s a shame however that Play-Asia only sells the English version of the game as I find the Japanese cover (below) to be more appealing,

than that its English counterpart.

Where to Get?

In any case, interested in getting a classic for your GBA? Click here for purchase details for Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3

At first I thought purchasing an old SNES was rather retro cool (check out my previous post), but there’s an even better, albeit, unofficial console out there in the market, the Super Nico Fami. This thing plays BOTH Super Famicom and Famicom games!

Check it out at Play-Asia. Click here for further details.