WHAT IS WALMART THINKING???

So I found out about this thanks to Okchief420 on YouTube. I'll actually add the video below of his rant about this nonsense by Walmart. Anyways it appears that Walmart has jumped on the band wagon of price gouging the NES Classic. MSRP of the recently launched NES Classic is $59.99 and per his video there is a 3rd party Murloc Express selling the NES Classic through Walmart for $499.99. 

I wanted to see how legit this was this morning and pulled it up and the picture above is what I found. I guess there was a price drop over night! Lucky Day right? Only $389.99 now! I'm in the same camp as Okchief420 this is just ridiculous and can't believe Walmart would be promoting something like this on their site. From what he says in his video Walmart is expected to get more NES Classics between the 14th and 22nd of the month which makes me wonder if they are going to stick with that price or not. 

Okchief420's video:

So what do you guys think? Does this piss you off as it does me? Let us know in the comments!

Let's Play Batman Return Of The Joker

On today's Throwback Thursday Let's Play Landon and Derek play one of the last games made for the NES - Batman Return of the Joker! They face many challenges in this game, none of which more challenging than a ledge.

Game of the Week: Excitebike (NES)

Starting the middle of last year I have been on a mission to recapture some of my childhood memories. They were based around action figures and games. One of the games I just haven't found until last week was Excitebike. I was hoping to find it in a lot of games but it never turned up so I ended up buying it by itself on eBay. 

Whats so cool about Excitebike you might be asking yourself? The custom level builder! I sat back for hours creating my own custom race tracks and remember playing each one of them with pride! It was funny as soon as I popped the game in the familiar 8-bit song came on and its like hearing a song from the past that you know every word it was the same thing but with every note. 

Here is a little bit of background information on Excitebike: 

Excitebike is a motocross racing video game franchise made by Nintendo. It debuted as a game for thee Famicom in Japan in 1984 and as a launch title for the NES in 1985. It is the first game of the Excite series, succeeded by its direct sequel Excitebike 64, its spiritual successors Excite Truck and Excitebots: Trick Racing, and thee WiiWare title Excitebike: World Rally 3D Classics: Excitebike, a 3D remake of the original game, was free for a limited time to promote the launch of thee Nintendo eShop in June 2011, and has since been available for $5.99 -wiki

So if you have your old NES or a compatible system for eShop and are looking for some nostaglia give Excitebike a go. I always recommend the cart over a download or emmulated but anything will do if you can play! 

Posted by: Joe @thee.social.nerd

Retro Gaming: Pickups

This past weekend was great for adding games to my collection, granted I just started so technically I need just about everything lol. My good friend hooked me up with a bunch of great Retro Games. He wanted to give them to me for free but I couldn't let him do that, once you see these titles you'll see why.

Sega Genesis Games:
Shaq Fu
Comix Zone

Sega Dreamcast Games:
Slave Zero
Crazy Taxi 2
Vigilante 8 2nd Offense
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Capcom vs. SNK

NES Games:
Xevious
Bases Loaded
Base Wars
Jackal
Ghostbusters II
Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Double Dragon III
Ninja Gaiden
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Manhattan Project
The Legend of Zelda
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
Mega Man 4
Kirby's Adventure
Metroid

Again a huge THANK YOU to my best friend BK who hooked me up with these games. I won't lie there were still a ton of games left that hopefully I can rummage through as well!

Below are pictures of all of the games so you can see how great the condition is for each game. Other than some dust they are all minty!