NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner The Bits of Yesterday is now available on Amazon Prime! http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=182361 2019-03-26T08:39:35 -05.00 Captain Maroney 30
The best part is the first 20 min, hearing about some person stories about how people got into gaming and collecting was pretty touching. After that it feels like a greatest hits of NA topics: Lots of the topics on pricing, complete sets, scummy resellers, finders keepers, and more are covered.

I would agree with what another member here said, there isn't really a central narrative and there are way too many characters to keep track of and we don't spend enough time with any of them to get too attached. It mostly just bops from topic to topic in a talking head format with a transitional skit now and then.

It does kind of lack any visual flare. I know this is a low/no budget passion so there wasn't a ton of money or graphics or b-roll, but there are way too many boring shots of just "talking head in front of shelf of games." Even when there is a chance to show something more interesting like mega collector John Hancock (or whatever his name was) and his massive collection of games, we don't see either, instead we just hear about it while staring a totally different shmuck smoking a cig on his porch. Show us, don't just tell us. A bit tighter editing would have went a long way. ]]> The Bits of Yesterday is now available on Amazon Prime! http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=182361 2018-11-30T11:43:15 -05.00 Captain Maroney 30 Dain was teasing me me showing off all those newsletters! ]]> The Bits of Yesterday is now available on Amazon Prime! http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=182361 2018-11-29T09:16:31 -05.00 Captain Maroney 30

This really made me think about the hobby and my timing of picking it up. I would say I'm probably 80% nostalgia driven (only looking of loose carts so I can play them and I grew up in the 80's with NES) and 20% pure collecting. Yes, I would love a SE but the two biggest hurdles for me right now are Gun-Nac and Samson, just because I've heard from several people that they're great games while SE is basically unplayable. The film also shed a huge light on the fact that at about 100 NA NES carts, I am WAY behind the ball. It'll be fun to take a few years to try to get the set but one thing that I really found interesting was the talk about the prices rising. Since I only started this earlier this year, the prices are the prices for me. I know a lot of you guys have been doing this forever and have seen them skyrocket but that's not the perspective of someone new. There's a part of me that wishes that the film had someone maybe a year into it just to talk about how much there is to learn about repros, 3 vs. 5 screw, etc. before you even buy just to show the gap in the learning curve between them and the real collectors. ]]> The Bits of Yesterday is now available on Amazon Prime! http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=182361 2018-07-17T15:26:51 -05.00 Captain Maroney 30 Originally posted by: Ferris Bueller

Originally posted by: TDIRunner
 
Originally posted by: Ferris Bueller
 
Originally posted by: TDIRunner
I'm a little curious if any of the collectors interviewed were members here that I talk to on a regular basis. Obviously I recognized Dain and all of the YouTube personalities, but for some of the other collectors, I don't know many people's personal names, so I wasn't sure.

I was wearing my NA hat.    


Of course now it's not fresh enough in my head to remember who that was.  


I bitch about Stadium Events, if that helps.


You shoulda been sitting on your Dragon Warrior throne!   ]]> The Bits of Yesterday is now available on Amazon Prime! http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=182361 2018-07-17T15:12:26 -05.00 Captain Maroney 30 Originally posted by: Ferris Bueller
 
Originally posted by: TDIRunner
 
Originally posted by: Ferris Bueller
 
Originally posted by: TDIRunner
I'm a little curious if any of the collectors interviewed were members here that I talk to on a regular basis. Obviously I recognized Dain and all of the YouTube personalities, but for some of the other collectors, I don't know many people's personal names, so I wasn't sure.

I was wearing my NA hat.    


Of course now it's not fresh enough in my head to remember who that was.  


I bitch about Stadium Events, if that helps. Meh.  I don't remember what I had for lunch yesterday, let alone who I watched in a documentary a month ago.    

I'll probably watch it again sometime though.  

  ]]> The Bits of Yesterday is now available on Amazon Prime! http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=182361 2018-07-17T15:10:54 -05.00 Captain Maroney 30 Originally posted by: TDIRunner
 
Originally posted by: Ferris Bueller
 
Originally posted by: TDIRunner
I'm a little curious if any of the collectors interviewed were members here that I talk to on a regular basis. Obviously I recognized Dain and all of the YouTube personalities, but for some of the other collectors, I don't know many people's personal names, so I wasn't sure.

I was wearing my NA hat.    


Of course now it's not fresh enough in my head to remember who that was.  

I bitch about Stadium Events, if that helps. ]]> The Bits of Yesterday is now available on Amazon Prime! http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=182361 2018-07-17T15:09:29 -05.00 Captain Maroney 30 Originally posted by: Ferris Bueller
 
Originally posted by: TDIRunner
I'm a little curious if any of the collectors interviewed were members here that I talk to on a regular basis. Obviously I recognized Dain and all of the YouTube personalities, but for some of the other collectors, I don't know many people's personal names, so I wasn't sure.

I was wearing my NA hat.    

Of course now it's not fresh enough in my head to remember who that was.   ]]> The Bits of Yesterday is now available on Amazon Prime! http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=182361 2018-07-17T14:30:44 -05.00 Captain Maroney 30 Originally posted by: TDIRunner
I'm a little curious if any of the collectors interviewed were members here that I talk to on a regular basis. Obviously I recognized Dain and all of the YouTube personalities, but for some of the other collectors, I don't know many people's personal names, so I wasn't sure.
I was wearing my NA hat.     ]]> The Bits of Yesterday is now available on Amazon Prime! http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=182361 2018-07-16T21:59:38 -05.00 Captain Maroney 30 Originally posted by: Captain Maroney
 
Originally posted by: Gloves

Is there any way for us in Canada to watch this? I have Prime but apparently it's simply not available to me at all.


Hmmm. Thats weird. Im unsure about this but I have heard the other users and viewers from Canada have the same issue. Let me get back to you on this!
Seems to have regional restrictions. Can't watch The New 8 Bit Hero's here either.
  ]]> The Bits of Yesterday is now available on Amazon Prime! http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=182361 2018-06-30T10:37:51 -05.00 Captain Maroney 30 Originally posted by: Loxx O)))

In the middle of it right now. No shit, the best documentary I've seen so far about the hobby.
Thanks! Be sure to give it a quick review and/ or star rating! It would be greatly appreciated!
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