pornographic | My Nintendo Dimension

You’ll have to excuse me, but I’m just coming out of surgery and I’m happy to say it was a complete success! In my last post, I had mentioned that we were expecting a special surprise to be delivered in the mail, and last Monday it arrived! This was much quicker than expected, as usually mail from the U.S. takes forever to clear customs. I’ve had instances where it’s taken five weeks to be delivered to my house. The dude I bought it from, Armageddon Potato at Nintendo Age was great at communicating with me, and completely upheld his end of the bargain. I wouldn’t hesitate to do business with him again in the future!

This is it… Cowboy Kid! Don’t be deceived by the label… I must say it looks like that of a pornographic film! This is an RPG-like game that reminds me of a wild west version of River City Ransom. You make your way around, collecting loot, upgrading weapons, and defeating enemies. It’s actually one of the more underrated games on the NES that not that many people have. I can’t blame them though as the price tag was quite high for a piece of plastic from 1992. However Armageddon Potato was willing to part with it for a reasonable price that was far from top dollar… and now it’s in the collection!

There was however a bit of a scare. When I shook the cartridge (as I often do), there was a big rattle. Something was jarred loose, and it made me sick with worry! Was the game going to make it? Only time would tell.

The worst thing was, I didn’t have the necessary tools to perform surgery on this NES cart. I needed to order a 3.8mm retro gaming screwdriver from Amazon… and somehow ended up with an Amazon Prime free trial account. But at least my baby wouldn’t have to suffer for long, as Prime customers get expedited shipping for free. It took two days for these surgical instruments to arrive, and not a moment too soon! Now as this was my first procedure, I didn’t want to practice on an expensive game like Cowboy Kid. As such, I selected a very expendable game from my collection (Wheel of Fortune) and tried out the procedure first on it. It was a success, and I felt confident. I tried it on Cowboy Kid, and I’m happy to say it was a complete success. In fact you can see in the picture above what was causing all the ruckus. A piece that helps to hold in the circuit board had been jarred loose somehow. It wasn’t a big deal, as games can survive with this being removed.

The game is all patched up, and well on it’s way to recovery in my basement! We are all relieved over here, and welcome a new healthy game to our collection.

SEGA Corner: I cam across this video and thought it was kind of funny.