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Age: 27
From: Perth, Western Australia
Systems Currently Owned:
Atari 2600, Atari Lynx, 2 NES (neither work however, I could get them to work by meh), SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Color, GBA, GBA SP, 2 game Boy micros, DSi, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Wonderswan Color, X-Box 360, PSPGo and a PC.
Currently Playing:
Fallout New Vegas (360)
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX (XBLA)
Who's That Flying?! (PSPgo)
Mario & Luigi Bowsers Inside Story (DS)
Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (GBC)
Upcoming games I'm looking forward to
Okamiden
Ghost Trick
Epic Mickey
Anything on the 3DS
Hey Hey, abit more about myself I guess, I've been playing games since as long as I can recall, my first love was my C64 and have many fond memories of it such as Jumpman, Archon, Aliens, Mario bros & some weird game involving Camels. After that int he early 90's I got my first real taste of Nintendo with the Game Boy and have been hooked ever since. I'm a loyal Nintendo fanboy through and through and while I may hate them sometimes I'll always return because damit because thats just how a fanboy is meant to be. I would consider myself more of a handheld gamer then anything. I enjoy consoles and all but I just find it easier to lay back and get out my DSi or one of my various Game Boys for some awesome Handheld gaming fun.
Top 5 games of all time.
5. Kirbys Canvas Curse (DS)
4. The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening (GB)
3. The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask (N64)
2. Tetrisphere (N64)
1. Secret of Mana (SNES)
A few links
The Vookcast: An Australian Nintendo Podcast that I host for Vooks.net the oldest and best Australian Nintendo site on the net.
My Game Collection
I love my Nintendo Handhelds.
Gamer Profile
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Gamertag: flamecondor
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2009 seems to be the year of Handheld system anniversaries , we've had the 20 year birthday of the Game Boy, Wonderswan turned 10 back in March, the Atari Lynx is gonna be 20 in September and this week marks the 10 year birthday of the most awesome little Handheld system not made by Nintendo coming to the US, the Neo Geo Pocket Color.
So I'm in Australia, we never had the Neo Geo Pocket released down here, it was one of those systems like the Turbo that we only heard about in foreign Video Game mags. I never got a chance to enjoy one and I'm not sure if I would of, I was and guess I am a rather hardcore Nintendo fanboy and would not have a slice of anything non Nintendo related back then. At least I have matured enough of the last few years where I am fine with playing other stuff, anyway I digress. So yeah all I knew about the Neo Geo Pocket was that it had a crap load of Fighting games on it as well as Sonic (another reason me being the Nintendo fanboy I was to look down on it). 
Years went by and I never really paid much attention to the Neo Geo Pocket, I did kind of always want one as it looked really cool, but as time went on it faded into the background. Fast forward to a few months back when the Game Boy had its 20th birthday and I really started getting back into all things Handheld gaming (well I've always been a Handheld gamer but it was only really a few months back I realised it and embraced it), I was buying Game Boy games left and right and then I got a sudden urge to buy a Neo Geo Pocket off ebay. Found a really nice looking clear one got it off ebay 2 weeks later it arrived. 
The system feels awesome, just the right weight, I'm in love with the little dpad nub feels soo good I can see why Fighters work so well for it. I've only got Samurai Showdown 2 for it so far and I haven't played that much of it only due to the fact that I need to replace the internal battery for the system, but I've been told thats not a hard thing to do. I'm waiting on the Metal Slug games to arrive and I also just bought a massive stack of 11 games for 40 bucks US so I'm looking forward to my future of discovering all the great things about the Neo Geo Pocket. Its such an awesome little system and it would of been interesting to see how things would of played out had it been noticed for the awesome little system it is. 
Its such a shame the way everything ended up for it with SNK getting bought out and then the Pocket getting killed off in the States. So heres to you Neo Geo Pocket Color, you are a fantastic little system and really deserved more then what you got. Granted your time on this world was short but damn what a hell of a time it was.
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Living the dream since March 16, 2006
Living the dream since March 16, 2006
I picked mine up when EB Games was clearancing their whole NGPC stock. For 50 bucks I got the system and six games - Turf Master (awesome golf game), Pac-Man, Metal Slug, King of Fighters R2, Samurai Showdown 2, and Fatal Fury.
Now if I can just track down SVC Card Fighters Clash...
Oh, and a link to the blog I mentioned.
http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Cataract/dsi-i-picked-up-a-different-portable-instead--129345.phtml
Card Fighters Clash is awesome, SNK vs. Capcom is awesome.. just.. SO MANY FIGHTERS..
It is a damn shame snkPlaymore pulled the plug. From what I heard, it was doing rather good. But the playmore side wanted to focus all of its attention to pachinko machines.
Racketboy has a great article about the ngpc, along with recommended games: http://www.racketboy.com/retro/snkneo-geo/2007/10/neogeo-pocket-color-101-beginners-guide.html
Also, pro-tips:
1: Get your batteries from Ebay. You can literally get 10 CR2032's for like $2. CR2032's are common place in vidya games. NGPC, Dreamcast VMU's Saturns internal battery, etc. Load up buddy, you'll need them.
They only problem with Watch Batteries is that even though the last really long if you use them every day, if you dont turn on the device in a few weeks, they lose the charge really fast.
2: Once you get your battery, Do yourself a favor and turn on the NGPC without a cart in it.
You will be welcomed by a Calender, Alarm clock, and a horoscope!
Enjoy your system, its totally worth it.
Next you need a Wonderswan. That thing is much MUCH smaller than it looks, and its another fantastic handheld, that should have been here in the states.
Also if you want, there is a backlight mod for the ngpc, if you are feeling frisky. Mashmods doesnt have it anymore, but if you have an old GBASP lying around (it has to be pre-brighter light version), that can work. Or maybe you can have more luck than me trying to find a GBA Afterburner kit.
Anyway, HAVE FUN!
But I'd still recommend buying the system to anyone who is thinking about it, its really worth it.
And just to gloat, here is the sweet ass lot of Neo Geo games I picked up off ebay http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260441786845&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
Some freaken awesome games in there, can't wait to get my hands on SNK vs Capcom
You're totally right. It just feels great in your hands. I only have SNK vs. Capcom. It's a fun game. I'm waiting on Sonic and a few other games.
I'm really considering buying a another one, too.