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Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball, Uncharted Waters, Rad Racket Deluxe Tennis II
Santa Claus
12/25/11

Happy belated Christmas and an early Merry New Year from LGS (fancy abbreviation for my blog that no one reads)!! Hope you had a good holiday spent doing whatever it is that makes you happy. We had a good time moving into a new house and taking a play out of A Christmas Story by eating Chinese food on Christmas day.

Santa managed to find our new address and drop off 3 NES games to add to the collection shelf. Rad Racket Deluxe Tennis II is one of those funky AVE unlicensed carts - anyone ever heard of Deluxe Tennis I? Neither have I.

Uncharted Waters is a military strategy game that my feeble brain cannot understand, so it's going on the shelf for good.

I was most excited to finally get a hold of Dusty Diamond Softball. It's got a slightly different take on the usual baseball formula. You get to choose your players sandlot style before the game - and these are some funky looking kids (I think I saw Dracula in there somewhere). Each player has slightly different strengths and weaknesses that you can play around with. What's really interesting are the baseball fields themselves - strange locations such as the schoolyard complete with a set of different ground rules for each. There's no outer fence in some of the fields, so players can keep running if the ball bounces or rolls past the outfielders all the way to the buildings. It's a nice touch.

Side note - this is the final baseball game I needed. Ever wonder how many baseball games there were for the NES? Take a look:


We're just a few days away from a new year, so this is likely the last pickup before 2012. I started this blog back in April, and since that time I've added 39 games to the stockpile. There are 38 total games left to complete the full set, but only 15 of the gray licensed carts remain. That will be my goal for 2012 - to get those last 15. OK, so maybe Stadium Events will have to wait. 14 games in 12 months? Let's do this!