Mr. Sensible
Pitch and Putt Duffer
The fact that it also showcases some of the best boxart from the NES era is a nice bonus, too. Would love to have a Vs. System cab to stick it onto...
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Video Game Collecting and the Death of Physical Media
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Probably the only complete collection of a particular system I'll ever do:
These are only the English language games, which Pokemon Tetris was only released in Europe and Japan, the other four games were released in America. This is a complete English language collection of the Pokemon Mini - Pokemon Puzzle Collection, Pokemon Pinball Mini, Pokemon Party Mini, and Pokemon Zany Cards are all the NA versions. These are also all three models of the hardware: the Chikorita Green, Smoochum Purple, and Wooper Blue, which is also the order of rarest to most common btw. Got a great deal on the green model, $150 for it and Pokemon Pinball Mini, which is about half the cost of just the unit itself. Pokemon Tetris wasn't cheap and isn't listed very often on eBay so I lucked out there as well - about $150 for that, CIB, which I think is far cheaper than it's worth, when and if it even shows up on eBay.
I probably won't attempt to get the remaining five Japanese games. Togepi's Great Adventure and Pichu Bros. Mini go for $200+ each, and I think Togepi may be worth like $400. I have a flash cart with English translations for all the Japanese games anyway - those two would play fine in Japanese, but the Breeder game (itself nearly $100) is unplayable in a language you can't understand. Anyway, chuffed! Go ahead and install an emulator on your device of choice and play Pokemon Tetris - it's easily the best game on the system. When you get a Tetris, you catch whatever Pokemon is silhouetted, and I enjoy trying to complete the ingame Pokedex.
These are only the English language games, which Pokemon Tetris was only released in Europe and Japan, the other four games were released in America. This is a complete English language collection of the Pokemon Mini - Pokemon Puzzle Collection, Pokemon Pinball Mini, Pokemon Party Mini, and Pokemon Zany Cards are all the NA versions. These are also all three models of the hardware: the Chikorita Green, Smoochum Purple, and Wooper Blue, which is also the order of rarest to most common btw. Got a great deal on the green model, $150 for it and Pokemon Pinball Mini, which is about half the cost of just the unit itself. Pokemon Tetris wasn't cheap and isn't listed very often on eBay so I lucked out there as well - about $150 for that, CIB, which I think is far cheaper than it's worth, when and if it even shows up on eBay.
I probably won't attempt to get the remaining five Japanese games. Togepi's Great Adventure and Pichu Bros. Mini go for $200+ each, and I think Togepi may be worth like $400. I have a flash cart with English translations for all the Japanese games anyway - those two would play fine in Japanese, but the Breeder game (itself nearly $100) is unplayable in a language you can't understand. Anyway, chuffed! Go ahead and install an emulator on your device of choice and play Pokemon Tetris - it's easily the best game on the system. When you get a Tetris, you catch whatever Pokemon is silhouetted, and I enjoy trying to complete the ingame Pokedex.
@Tegan You may want to keep an eye out for the flashcart in anticipation of getting your MIni - I would have thought it would be easier to get now that parts are becoming more readily available, but it seems even more difficult to get your hands on now than it was when I got mine (I bought the cart itself from the site I linked, but the flasher was unavailable there and I had to negotiate one off someone on the Pokemon Mini Discord who had a spare for some reason).
That, or maybe a better flashcart could be made that didn't require you to hook the cart up to a computer every time you wanted to change the game you're playing. At least saves were on the system itself and not the carts, so you wouldn't lose progress, though frustratingly there's not enough system memory to save even just the games released in the west, much less all ten games...
That, or maybe a better flashcart could be made that didn't require you to hook the cart up to a computer every time you wanted to change the game you're playing. At least saves were on the system itself and not the carts, so you wouldn't lose progress, though frustratingly there's not enough system memory to save even just the games released in the west, much less all ten games...