I’m betting L___E___T has Adblock Plus running. Since one of the pieces of the image URL is “/advertising/” it’s probably just not rendering the images. I had the same problem, but disabling it for planetvb.com and refreshing the page works like a charm. 🙂
Fantastic! Thanks for doing this again. I’ve mostly taken to lurking on here, but I was away for a while. When I came back, the first batch was already all claimed… so I resolved to check back here a bit more frequently. 🙂
Nintendo
-NES
-N64
-Game Boy Pocket (Ice Blue)
-Game Boy Color (Clear Purple)
-Game Boy Advance (Clear blue)
-Virtual Boy 🙂
-DS Lite (White)
-DSi (Black)
-Wii (White)
(Had an SNES and a Gamecube in the past, but traded or sold them)
Sega
-Genesis
-Game Gear
-Dreamcast
Sony
-PSP-2000 (White)
-PS2 Slim
-PS3 Slim 120GB
-PS3 40GB (with a busted Blu-ray drive) 🙁
Microsoft
-Xbox 360 (Currently on my 3rd, a Slim 250GB)
Oh yeah, and…
-TubroGrafx-16 (scored it at a thrift store for $2, and it works!)
I preordered from Amazon, rather than a local brick-and-mortar place. My experience preordering the Wii from Gamestop was, shall we say, less than stellar, so I’m just eliminating the hassle altogether.
I was surprised, though, to see no release-day delivery shipping option. Most gaming-related preorders on Amazon typically have it. The best I could choose was 1-day shipping.
On the other hand, when I’ve preordered certain things from Amazon in the past, it’s shown up on release day regardless of what shipping option I used (including “super saver”).
Yes, it’s a bit of a gamble if you’re dead-set on getting it on day 1, but for me, it’s outweighed by the peace of mind that you’re going to get one delivered to your doorstep at some point.
As a side note, I only preordered the hardware. I’m betting games will probably be pretty easy to come across, and very few of them have solidrelease dates yet, anyway.
Man, I haven’t seen a picture of a GBA SP in forever. Brings me back…! It was the first system I bought new, totally with my own money (no parental assistance). I was in high school when they came out.
Those were the days…
(OT: Preordered my black 3DS earlier today! I love blue – the GBA SP I bought was blue – but the shade they went for on the 3DS is just horrid.)
Only once, though… I have two treasures to go back and find.
Coincidentally, memories of being glued to the demo unit at Walmart playing this game as a kid is what sparked my interest in collecting VB things. It’s still my favorite VB game, hands down… Jack Bros. and 3D Tetris being the 2nd and 3rd, respectively.
Speaking from a collector’s point of view… it’s not about having “a” box, it’s more about preserving the original boxes these games came in. The VB is certainly getting on in years, and original game boxes in good condition are a lot harder to find than they used to be.
RidingHero wrote:
These clear acrylic protective “GBA” cases are the same size as VB cart boxes. I Have my entire collection stored in them. The seller sells them in lots of 10, 25, 50, 100 or 200.
That was sort of my point (and I’m sorry to have derailed the thread so much, but I think it’s important). You wouldn’t walk down the street and call a random stranger’s girlfriend lame to their face because you didn’t like what they were wearing. It’s fine to disagree, just do so respectfully.
Don’t harsh on peoples’ religious beliefs. People can believe in whatever they want. Calling their beliefs lame isn’t going to win you any “cool” points, or make you any friends.
DogP wrote:
Yeah… Mario’s Tennis, Mario Clash, Galactic Pinball, Teleroboxer, and Wario Land all were identical between US/JP versions.
DogP
I can speak with some experience about this. I used to have imports of both Mario’s Tennis and Teleroboxer, and the in-game text was completely in English for both, while the manuals were (of course) in Japanese. I’m guessing Nintendo just didn’t bother with localization for the first wave of VB games, since it released in the US and Japan within weeks of each other.
For those of you who are also of the “current-gen” persuasion, Sonic Adventure just came out on Xbox Live Arcade. It’s a good chance to take a glimpse at what passed for “new and revolutionary” game design and graphics in 1999… 😉
