Transfamicom!

I'm down to the last 4 licensed and 21 unlicensed carts necessary for a 'complete' NES collection.  That's 3% of the set, which means that there's not much left to find, and what IS left is out of my cheap-ass price range.  I've been tracking one game that shall remain nameless that went for $25 a year ago, but now is listed above $100 (and not selling at that price).  A recent auction ended at $37.  I don't which are dumber, the sellers or the buyers.

So that's the main reason why I haven't had any collection news over the past month or so.  Well, that and I haven't really gone hunting at the fleas or resale shops.  AND the unhealthy number of hours I've spent watching classic '80s Transformers cartoons over the past 6 weeks.

About a week ago I checked in to Player One Video Games in Friendswood, TX and took a quick scan across their import selection.  I'm not big on collecting Japanese games - that would be opening a whole new can of worms - but one Famicom cart did catch my eye.  The notorious Transformers: Mystery of Convoy.

By all accounts the game is and overly difficult and uninspired piece of garbage.  Still...I want to play it because the Transformers are awesome.  Unfortunately, I don't have a Famicom or a converter.  Several of the older NES carts have a converter in them...but opening my extra copy of Gyromite revealed no such golden ticket.  So what I have is a display piece.  Eventually I will find a way to play it - but for now it goes on the shelf.