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Since I watch quite a bit of Youtube I have actually thought about what would be required to record stuff a few times over the past few years, but I gave up on the idea because not only of privacy, the overloaded market of people filming that stuff, etc., but also because, how would I do it? I mean, my computers and TV are on opposite ends of the building, I do not have a laptop (only a tablet that would be useless for these purposes), and most capture devices connect to a computer. The distance is "only" a few rooms away, and I do have the router at about the midway point so cables can go both directions, but still that's way too far for any normal cables, and computer-free recording devices are relatively uncommon and have limitations. When I was looking into it I basically got to this point, looked at some capture devices, then gave up. Now I am looking into getting/building a new computer, but it'll be a desktop again for sure so it doesn't solve the problem unfortunately...
PC DD - Steam sale - so right near the end of the holiday sale (which ended earlier today), I finally get stuff... and it's a bunch of it.
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Wolfenstein: The New Order $6.59
Forward to the Sky $3.99
Insanity's Blade $0.89
BLACKHOLE: Complete Edition $3.49
Fairy Bloom Freesia + ETHER VAPOR Remaster Double Pack $5.49
Curse of the Crescent Isle DX $0.74
Taimumari Full Edition $1.37
Parallax $2.49
Super Night Riders $3.99
Paint it Back $4.79
Cities: Skylines Deluxe Edition $9.99
Shardlight Deluxe $5.69


Additionally, from Humble Bundle, I got the Sierra Bundle Strikes Back; it's only available for one more day. I paid the full $20, and for that I got all of this:
Shiftlings
Police Quest Collection
Phantasmagoria 1+2
TimeShift
Caesar 3+4
Geometry Wars 3 (this one I have for X360, but not PC)
Velocity 2X
King's Quest: The Complete Collection (this is the new game)

Additionally it came with keys for some games I already have -- King's Quest (1-7) Collection, Quest for Glory 1-5, Arcanum, and Gabriel Knight 1-3. It's all separate keys, so I'm not sure what I'll do with all the extras. Some I might redeem anyway, since those are all games I own physical copies of and mostly not digital, but I'm not sure. The price was worth it anyway though -- the complete new KQ game alone was $15 in this Steam sale, for example.
I got a few more 3DS things that are on sale. These four I got today.

3DS DD - sale
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Sssnakes - $1.50 - fun looking indie update of the classic Snake game
Karous: The Beast of Re-Eden - $3.50 - shmup with mediocre reviews, understandable for something using a Milestone shmup IP, but I want to try it anyway.
Zombie Incident - $1.30 - This is yet another indie NES-style-graphics platformer, but it does have some nice 3d layering, which is nice.
Color Zen - $3.50 - This is a pretty cool puzzle game where you try to make the whole screen one color. I was playing the demo of this one recently and really enjoying it, so it's great that it's on sale!

Also I got this other stuff recently.

X360
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Sonic Unleashed - $5, complete - I have the Wii version of this okay Sonic game (though for some reason I never mentioned that in this thread and it's also missing from my game collection database... argh, when did I get that?), but I've heard the X360 version is quite different and better, so despite some misgivings (I do not like the beat 'em up half of this game), I got it. Hopefully the 3d Sonic levels are good enough to make up for the mediocre beat 'em up half.

Also, I got something that really isn't my kind of game at all, but I've wanted to play so... it was on sale so I got this thing a few days ago. :S

X360 Digital Download - on sale
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Destiny: Legendary Edition - $18 - So why would I want to play this thing? It's grindey, wants you to replay stuff over and over, has a lot of raid and MMO components I'll never try, etc... well, I tried the demo and it did seem fun, and it's also one of the best looking 360 games I've ever seen, so... I got it. I expect to play through (some of) the story and stop there, and try none of the "keep replaying it for loot and levels" stuff people come back to it for because that's not something I care about, but the shooting, controls, and graphics are fantastic so hopefully it's worth this amount for that. (Think Diablo 2, a game I quite liked... for the bit over a week it took for me to finish it once. I didn't keep playing much longer after that though, as "keep replaying it for loot" doesn't hold my interest. And all of my attempts at the online mode ended with the characters getting deleted because I'd create them and then pretty soon afterwards stop playing for months, and Blizzard deletes them after several months of not loggin in... bah. But still, good game the first time through.)

Additionally, I got a couple of things from ebay recently.

First, I finally got a Hori EX2 gamepad for the Xbox 360/PC. It's a 360 pad with two analog sticks and six face buttons, which means it's awesome! (Six face buttons will always be my favorite...) I've wanted one ever since I first heard of it, but hadn't gotten it because the things were only sold in Japan and I hadn't wanted to pay the amounts they go for. Well, I finally did that; it cost a bit over $30, but it's a very well made, good X360 controller with, indeed, six face buttons, so it's great. Hori is usually known for making quality controllers and this one is no exception. I've used it a bit with my PC too, since it's the first time I've had a PC-compatible X360 controller with analog sticks, for games that require a 360 controller for that and don't work well with xinput-to-dinput converter software, or for when I don't want to have to go setting that up for every game since that's what you have to do... so yeah, it's really nice. I might get a second one sometime, so I can have one at the PC without needing to unhook it from the 360 first.


Additionally... well, I've got another thing to add to that "list of reasons why the PS3 OS is bad" list -- so, on the first two models of the PS3, you can watch Blu-Rays with any HD video output. But on the SuperSlim, for some random reason, Sony made it so that you can only watch Blu-Rays through HDMI, watching them on component is not allowed. Of course my TV's old and doesn't have HDMI, so I was just using component, which is just fine for games, but not movies. So, I got an HDMI to component adapter from ebay. It cost $16 shipped (you could get one for a bit less than that, but those are in China so it'd have taken forever to get here, shipping things from China seems to usually take really long for some reason. I got one from a US seller and indeed, it arrived quickly.), and I was somewhat unsure about it because I've read that they have a very mixed record of if they work or not, so I wasn't sure if I was wasting my money or not... but fortunately, it works fine! It's pretty much the same as component now, except that I can watch Blu-Ray movies; image quality seems to be about the same. The audio may be quieter, but that's not too big of an issue. The adapter came with only the box and a power supply, but I do have an HDMI cable (my main computer monitor does support HDMI, so it came with something for that) and bought a component cable locally today for $5 to connect the box to the TV since I didn't have another one so the setup didn't cost much.
Atari 2600
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Tutankham - $6, cart and manual - This is a pretty decent top-view arcade port where you adventure through tombs collecting stuff and avoiding enemies. It's a nice find, particularly with the manual.


Also, the current X360 Games with Gold title is The Cave, which I have and have played some of for the PC, but it's free so I added it to my 360 collection anyway.


In other news, since I'm planning on getting a new computer fairly soon (sometime this month or so I should start getting parts...) I am trying to spend less on other games, since that will be quite expensive...
I got a couple of games recently... but I'm also moving forward on getting a computer, looking at what parts I'd want, etc.

PS3
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Disgaea Triple Pack - $22, new - This includes all three PS3 Disgaea games on one disc: 3, 4, and D2. This is not a series I really like, as it's very grindey and I don't like that, but I have wanted to try these and this is a good price for all three, plus having it all on one disc saves space. While I got a lot of PS3 games in October and November, I've only actually gotten two since then, the other one a $1 game I got last month, so after getting a lot of stuff quickly I've cut back on PS3 buying, fortunately; I still have quite a few I haven't even started, never mind how long it'd take to finish the more interesting ones I have now... and getting these three sure doesn't help that, but they are some of the major titles that I didn't previously have but wanted to get. For probably the next biggest such title, I still need to convince myself to spend the nearly $20 that that Journey collection will cost, despite how short that game apparently is...

PC
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Stubbs the Zombie in: Rebel without a Pulse - $10, complete - This is a fairly well-regarded FPS for PC and Xbox which has some value because it hasn't been available digitally for any platform for many years now; it was once on Steam and X360 downloadable BC, but both of those were pulled years ago for some reason or other. The PC version actually sells for more than this on ebay, and the Xbox one for quite a bit more than that. So yeah, decently nice find here.

Nintendo 3DS
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Jewel Master: Cradle of Egypt 2 3D - $4, complete - This cheap match 3 game is a lot like the original DS games in the series (I have two of them), but with better graphics and a few 3d effects. These things are fun, so I got this, and yeah, it's amusing.
I never really thought of Stubbs as a FPS. It's an action game but the main focus are the weird zombie mechanics.

Make more zombies in all possible situations, or you're playing it wrong.
... So whether or not I should have, I got a bunch of stuff recently.

3DS
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Boulder Dash-XL 3D - $5, complete - This is an okay puzzle-action game. It's also on X360 XBLA (download), but this version is an actual physical release, and was pretty cheap and is in 3d too. This is an updated version of the '80s classic Boulder Dash, with lots new levels and some new mechanics. The new graphics are only okay, but the gameplay's here.

DS
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Radiant Historia - $22.50 - I've always heard this game is quite good, so I got it... and definitely paid more than it'd cost to get a copy on ebay, but ah well. I've never seen a copy of this in person for less than this, anyway.

Atari 5200
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RealSports Baseball - this was $8.50 for both of these 5200 games. They both do interesting things with the 5200 controller, using analog, the keypad, and a button for controls. The game uses the keypad and stick for pitching, and you move the stick across to simulate swinging, which is unique. I find it hard to actually get hits in this game, but it's otherwise good. It even has voice samples and says "Ball", "Strike", and such! That's pretty cool for 1983.
RealSports Tennis - This game isn't as good as the baseball game above, either in graphics, sound, options, or controls, but still it does have somewhat a interesting control scheme -- you hit a keypad key just before touching the ball and you'll hit towards that quadrant of the other side of the court. You don't need to hit the fire buttons to swing, that's automatic when you touch the ball, so other than serving you only need the stick and keypad here so the controls do work, but still having to hit keypad keys while moving around is a bit slow at times. There are also only two AI difficulties, neither one nearly as hard as the baseball ones. Still, it's an interesting effort.

NES
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Target Renegade - $6, cart only - actually Technos's first Kunio game! The formula is similar to the later titles (River City Ransom, etc.) but the graphics and gameplay don't match them of course. While I liked RCR back in the early '90s, since I started collecting classic games I have generally been not overly impressed by Technos beat 'em ups, but still they can be fun, and it's nice to see where the series started.
Bad Dudes - $5, cart only - Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president? Despite the infamous story I've always assumed I wouldn't care for this game since sidescrolling beat 'em ups are usually overly simplistic, so I'd never gotten it before, but playing it now... the graphics are actually good, and while simple it's a fun game. So yeah, it actually was worth getting.

PS2
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Portal Runner - $10, complete - For some reason I've wanted to try this game for a long time. I played a few levels, and it's janky and very low-poly, but is otherwise fun.
The King of Route 66 - $3, complete - This is kind of a followup to Sega's pretty good racing game 18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker. It's not supposed to be as good as the first one, but still, it's worth a try!

Dreamcast
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CART Flag to Flag - $3, complete

Game Boy
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Godzilla - $6, cart only - This is an interestingly weird puzzle-platformer with a mazelike world design and interesting gameplay.
Tasmania Story - $9, cart only - A somewhat uncommon single-screen platformer. You need to walk over all spaces on the screen to beat each level, which is quite tough thanks to the fast-moving enemies and your limited, slow bomb attacks...

PS3
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Odin Sphere Leifthrasir - $40, new - I know I overpaid for this versus ebay, but I actually saw this in person for the first time recently, and couldn't resist; I have never played this game before, and I know it's well thought of. As a mid 2016 release it's much easier to find for PS4 than PS3.

Game Boy Advance
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Tweety and the Magic Gems - $3, cart only

Genesis
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Toy Story - free in a B3G1 (would have been $5), cart only - I had the GB version of this as a kid and thought it was one of the worst games ever, but I've always heard that this version is a lot better, and finally convinced myself to buy it. Well... yes, the controls are good, quite unlike the GB game, and the graphics are impressive, but the levels are the same annoying things they were on the GB... ugh. Your jumping and attack are not great either, even with the responsive controls you have here. Still, at least it's an okay game on the Genesis, so I guess it was worth getting. The 3d effect that makes many tables and such look like they have depth as you move is cool.

Playstation
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Rally Cross - $6, complete - I've heard these games are decently good, and have meant to get one for quite some time. Finally did.

PSP/PS3 - Digital Download
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Breath of Fire IV - $2.40 - this is currently on sale and I've wanted the PS1 BoF games but have never seen one affordably, so it's nice to see it go on sale here.

Xbox 360 - Digital Download
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Street Fighter x Tekken - $4 - I got this back in December when it was on sale, but never mentioned it then, so I will now.
So I haven't gotten that much since that last post, and that will continue, but I did get a few things in the last few days, all for PS3.

PS3
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Trinity: Souls of Zill O'll - $5, complete - An action-RPG from Omega Force, the _____ Warriors people. It's a game in a franchise that had previously only released in Japan.

Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel - $9, complete - The third and so far last game in this series, when I saw this complete I picked it up even though I don't have the second game (for PS2). I think each is a stand-alone story though, so that should be okay. This is a very anime series with some bad parts to it, but the first one was okay. This... well, the name is ridiculous, but I don't know about the gameplay yet.

PS3 PSN
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One Piece: Unlimited World Red - $5 - This game is on sale this week. The game is an okay beat 'em up with RPG elements. I'm hardly a big series fan, but for an anime-license game this one's alright, if repetitive and simple. It does have a physical release but wouldn't be worth the cost that version goes for, but for $5 it might be worth it.

PS Minis (PS3/PSP/Vita PSN)
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Echoes - $1 - This is actually a somewhat interesting top-down game, somewhat Pac-Man-ish I guess... except your opponents are your own ghosts of where you were moving earlier in the level. It's short, as the price suggests, but gets hard so I haven't finished it yet.

Block - $1.50 - This one's not so good; it's a nice-looking, but somewhat boring, Arkanoid-style block breaking game. No gamepad game in this genr3e is going to be good as one with a paddle or mouse, but I'm sure you could make it more exciting than this... ah well, I like the genre (Breakout is kind of broing, but I love Arkanoid!) so I wanted to try it.
Game Gear
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Chicago Syndicate - $7, cart only. Yes, I paid $7 for a pretty bad game on a system I don't like much... mostly because it is kind of interesting for some weird gameplay elements and for being a spinoff of Eternal Champions. Oh, and this is actually a good price -- the game costs more than this on ebay, sadly enough.
I got a few things on Steam recently.

PC DD
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Dead or Alive 5: Last Round - $20, on sale. This game was on sale recently, and after some thought I ended up getting it even though I already have it for X360. This version has some limitations, but it has three things the 360 version doesn't: more people playing it online (few have played the 360 one for some time now), better graphics, and the most recent two DLC characters, who aren't available on the PS3/360 version of the game. And I do like DOA's fighting engine, so I ended up deciding to get it. Even with a 560 the game runs very well at my monitor's full resolution (1920x1200) and the High settings, which is great.

Final Fantasy Type-0 HD - $15, on sale - This is a 64-bit-OS-only game I've wanted to play, and it's half off now so I got it.


Additionally, and more importantly, there is a bundle right now on Humble Bundle called the Humble Freedom Bundle. It's a charity-only bundle to benefit the ACLU and several other good causes, so it's pretty much an anti-Trump bundle and that's great... but just as great are the list of games! For $30, and you have to pay $30 to get the games and there are not multiple tiers, you get a long list of games, headlined with some of the better indie games of the past few years such as The Witness, Invisible Inc, Nuclear Throne, and Stardew Valley. The Witness is a game I've definitely wanted to play so that's the big one here (and its lowest sale price is $20 on its own, so far!), but Nuclear Throne also is something I'm interested in, and I am sure that some of the many other games will be good too.

In addition to games, the bundle also includes a few music albums and e-books. I'm not sure if I care about any of them, but it's mostly games. I do have some of these games already, but more than enough are things I don't have to easily make this very worth it. (Oh, one game, Subnautica, was in the bundle but they have run out of keys so it's unavailable now. I removed it from the list below, but people who bought early did get it.)

Here's the full list of stuff in the bundle:

Games:

2064: Read Only Memories
7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat
A Virus Named TOM
AI War: Fleet Command
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Ellipsis
Girls Like Robots
Guacamelee!
Hit Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora Deluxe
Human Resource Machine
Invisible, Inc.
Mini Metro
Monster Loves You!
Mushroom 11
Ninja Pizza Girl
No Time to Explain Remastered
Nuclear Throne
Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Overgrowth
Retro Game Crunch
Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball
ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS
Secrets of Rætikon
Song of the Deep
Spirits
Sproggiwood
Stardew Valley
Streamline
Super Hexagon - I have this already, so I have an extra key for it now
Super Meat Boy - I have this already, so I have an extra key for it now
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
The Stanley Parable - I have this already, so I have an extra key for it now
The Swapper - I have this already, so I have an extra key for it now
The Witness
Thirty Flights of Loving
Tower of Guns
VVVVVV - I have this already, so I have an extra key for it now
Waking Mars - I have this already, so I have an extra key for it now
World of Goo - I have this already, so I have an extra key for it now
Guns of Icarus Online
Q.U.B.E.: Director's Cut - I have this already, so I have an extra key for it now
Rituals
Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble
TIMEframe
JumpJet Rex
Potatoman Seeks the Troof
Ballistick
GRAV (Early Access)
Team Indie
Luna's Wandering Stars
Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken
Chroma Squad - I have this already, so I have an extra key for it now
Shütshimi
Beat Hazard Ultra
Dusty Revenge: Co-Op Edition
Hand of Fate
Super Galaxy Squadron EX
System Shock Enhanced Edition & System Shock 2 Pack


Books/Music Albums/Other:

Information Doesn't Want to be Free (audiobook)
Walkaway: Chapter One Preview (audiobook)
R in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (e-book)
A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff (e-book)
The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy: Practical Tips for Staying Safe Online (e-book)
Any Empire (e-book)
The Boys Vol. 1: The Name of the Game (e-comic book)
Hands-On Intro to Game Programming (e-book)
Color Sky (music album)
Double Fine Adventure (film series about the making of Broken Age)
You mentioned this bundle in the wrong thread. Not that it doesn't have anything to do with your personal game collection, but if you actually want anyone here to see it and the more important "donate to the ACLU" part of it, you should probably put it in that political thread instead.
Good idea, so I mentioned it.

So... I got something today. I don't know if it's actually something worth having, but it is interesting and I've very rarely used one before, and I was offered a decent price (well under the high sticker), so... I got it.

SNES - Super Scope. Yeah, I got a Super Scope. For $40, I got the light gun itself with its scope and armrest attachments, the Super Scope's fairly large box (just the box though, no foam inserts), a LttP/early SNES games poster, the Super Scope sensor you put over the TV, and a Super Scope 6 cartridge. So yeah, it came with pretty much everything other than the foam that goes in the box and the manual. It's a decent but not amazing price for a boxed Super Scope.

Additionally, I got another Super Scope game, Battle Clash for $5 (cart only). Years ago I got a few games that work with the Super Scope but don't require it, Terminator 2: The Arcade Game, TinStar, and Lamborghini American Challenge (it's a little bonus game thing in this one), but not games that require the Super Scope. The store had Battle Clash so I got it, but I guess now I'll be looking for X Zone and Yoshi's Safari... and any others, if there are some (I forget offhand).

What do I think of this thing? Well, of the few people I knew with a SNES back during the system's life, none had the Super Scope. I've used one once before for a few minutes last year, and maybe in a store sometime back then, but that's it... and it's easy to see why, with how iffy this thing is! That it runs on six AA batteries (that apparently do not last long) is bad enough, but the fire button location is the worst. The "bazooka" concept just does not work well versus a conventional light gun, and the fire button being on the top of the thing is a pretty uncomfortable location. Sure, on your shoulder, looking through the scope, you can be reasonably accurate, but still, this is not a great light gun. But some SNES games require the thing, so I've finally got one. If all of the SNES light gun style games worked with the gamepad and mouse too I probably wouldn't bother, but they don't.

(On that note, I still need to get a Kinect for my X360 someday... it may not be good, but I WOULD at least like to play Fable: The Journey, if nothing else.)
I got a Super Scope as a present years ago when it was new. I've had the thing long enough to form some solid opinions on it First off, as with the Zapper it's very accurate, but it only works on CRT screens or those occasional weird TVs that use CRT timing on some other display (good luck finding any of those these days). The issue is the thing is far too big. Nintendo's decision to make the thing look like a bazooka was pretty silly in retrospect. Not that shrinking it would have reduced it's battery consumption, but it would have made it far easier to handle and aim. I said it was accurate, but considering just how far the sights are from the light sensor, setting up it's calibration is a pretty tricky proposition. Move around even a little bit and you throw it all off again. Sega's Menacer was easier to handle, but the best light guns were Konami's Enforcers.
So, today I got two probably bad DS games, and some memory cards.

DS
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Underwater Attack - $3, cart only. This is a shmup I believe, albeit a very cheap and mediocre looking one I'm guessing. Still, it could be okay (I like the genre for sure), and it's not one I've seen a lot so I wanted to get it.

Crazy Chicken Star Karts - $2, cart only. This one I expect to be terrible, but as a big futuristic racing game fan, I couldn't pass up this futuristic kart racer even if it's bad.

As for those memory cards, a local Goodwill carries a bunch of videogame stuff (none of the others do, just one of them), and they got a bunch of memory cards recently... and I got three pairs of cards for $5 each for each two cards. Almost all of them were PS1 and PS2 cards, but in the back I found a pair of black Gamecube Memory Card 251s, which is a pretty great deal! GC Memory Card 1019s are unreliable so you want the 251s, and need a decent number for a good-sized GC collection. otherwise, I got a pair of PS1 cards (Sony brand, both are blue), and the other pair is one PS1 card (another blue Sony-brand card) and one PS2 card (transparent and red color, Sony brand). I've kind of wanted some more PS1 cards for a while, since those fill up quickly, so getting three more is nice.

Quote:I got a Super Scope as a present years ago when it was new. I've had the thing long enough to form some solid opinions on it First off, as with the Zapper it's very accurate, but it only works on CRT screens or those occasional weird TVs that use CRT timing on some other display (good luck finding any of those these days). The issue is the thing is far too big. Nintendo's decision to make the thing look like a bazooka was pretty silly in retrospect. Not that shrinking it would have reduced it's battery consumption, but it would have made it far easier to handle and aim. I said it was accurate, but considering just how far the sights are from the light sensor, setting up it's calibration is a pretty tricky proposition. Move around even a little bit and you throw it all off again. Sega's Menacer was easier to handle, but the best light guns were Konami's Enforcers.
What do you think of the top-mounted fire button then, do you get used to it after a while?

The NES Zapper's accuracy is decent, but of the light guns I have, it's not one of the best (though it's not the worst either, for sure!). For light guns, I have:

NES Zapper - it works fine, but the flash on the screen every time you pull the trigger is distracting, and hitting small targets can be difficult.
SMS Light Phaser - Similar to the Zapper, but I think it's a little better. SMS lightgun games are a little better than NES ones too, I think... one of the only genres the SMS wins in.
SNES Super Scope - Haven't used it enough to say much other than that the thing is too big and the fire button is badly located. Seems accurate though.
Saturn Stunner - The Saturn light gun is quite good and accurate, definitely better than 3rd-gen light guns.
Third-party PS1 Namco GunCon-compatible gun - This thing is inaccurate and kind of awful. Third party guns are not great, apparently.
PS2 Namco GunCon 2 - As a light gun this is pretty good, maybe the best one of these (or at least equal with the Stunner), but it has a d-pad on it, and a few games want you to move with the d-pad on the gun while you shoot with the gun itself... and that's terrible!

I have also used Konami's Genesis Justifier gun before, as my cousins have one, but don't have the gun myself. It's pretty good, for the time anyway, but of course only has three games that work with it (unless you count the SCD and Genesis versions of the Lethal Enforcers games separately, but that'd be silly). I've never used the other two Genesis light guns, the Menacer and ALG GameGun (which is apparently works with maybe both other guns?), or the light guns which do exist for other consoles I have, such as the 3DO's gun, better PS1 guns, etc.

Overall though, I very rarely use light guns because I'm terrible with them; I'm no good at hitting anything with light guns, and definitely am a lot better at light gun games that let you use a mouse, versus having to use the gun...
I think the fire button fits the bazooka style of the thing. I never had too much issue with it's location. It doesn't depress very far though, so it can be tough to tell if you're hitting it too hard or if you clicked it by mistake or not. The button does sit exactly where my hand naturally rests when holding the super scope up at least. Really the bigger issue is how bigly it is, necessitating placing the fire button there in the first place.

As for Zapper accuracy, I can hit the can in the can shooting mini-game, so I think it's accurate enough. I know that many Zappers had trouble aging well. There's a number of factors, from being stored improperly to being exposed to direct sunlight to simply using a faulty CRT. Again, I gotta praise my Trinitron. Still, there are more accurate ones, and the best is the Namco Guncon. Sorry you got a third party knockoff of the real thing, but you've got a Guncon 2, and that's the best there is. I know you may not like using the d-pad while aiming, but it's just there as an option, so it isn't hurting the gun itself. Guncon 3? Throw it in the garbage and set your house on fire. The Guncon 3 sadly had to be designed expecting the user wouldn't be using an old CRT (it was for the PS3 after all), so it's got that Wiimote style design where it uses a light bar placed next to the TV to aim. As you might imagine, you can't aim down the sights of it, and depend entirely on the on-screen cursor, which all such light games would need to have. Further, there's the latency issues inherent in anything beyond the CRT era. The Guncon 3 marked the death of good light gun shooters on console. That's just the way it is.
So it's been a month, but I got some random stuff today from a store around here.

Nintendo 3DS
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Skylanders Trap Team - $3, all the contents of the box but without the box. They clearly wanted to get rid of some extra Skylanders games, and so they did this, which is awesome because I've been wanting to be able to play the 3DS Skylanders games for some time, but finding a 3DS Portal proved difficult, for less than full price... until now. So, for only a few bucks, I got a copy of the game (complete in its case), 3DS portal (with some batteries that are leaking in their separate package, so I won't be using those...), a poster of the Skylanders added for Trap Team, a manual sheet for the portal, and two Skylanders, neither of which I had before so that was a plus too, one trap master and one mini one. So yeah, pretty good deal here.

Also, a few months ago, I don't think I mentioned it because I didn't have a 3DS portal, I also have two other 3DS Skylanders games, the first two:

Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure - cart in generic case, $1
Skylanders: Giants - card only, $1


So that's nice. The other games I got are:

Game Gear
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Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II - $4, cart only - What I've seen of this in an emulator was not impressive even compared to the first one for GG (which I actually kind of like), but I'll give this one another chance... most of Sega's 8-bit racers like this are good. And trying it now, yeah, the game is kind of odd -- the play window is only half screen, with the upper half for a large map, while other GG racers have a larger play window... and it also has weird controls -- you automatically accelerate, and A and B change gears. There is no Automatic gears option. Huh. It could be good once you get used to it, though.

NES
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Tiny Toon Adventures - $11, cart only - I have had the second NES Tiny Toons game for years, but where that game is a collection of varied game types, this one is a traditional platformer. Looks good though, as you expect from a Konami title.

Playstation
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Black Dawn - $3, complete - This is a helicopter flight action game. Could be alright?

Playstation 2
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Godai: Elemental Force - $3, complete - This is a third-person action-adventure game from 3DO. 3DO's stuff is very mixed in quality, but some are better than people give them credit for, so I want to give this one a chance.

Playstation 3
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Atelier Shallie - $14, complete - This is the second game in the series that begins with Atelier Ayesha, the Atelier game I got a month or two ago. This is a lot cheaper than Gamestop charges for this game and the other one seems alright, so I got this even though I'm not far in that one.
As a little update to the above GG Monaco GP II does have automatic transmission with more normal controls (buttons for accelerate/brake), it's in the menus.

Xbox
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Black Stone: Magic & Steel - $14, complete. This game is a blatant Gauntlet Legends clone, and as such I've been very interested in it for a long time now. I just finally convinced myself to actually buy the thing, and... yup, it's a Gauntlet Legends clone! It's not as good as the real thing of course, but as a huge fan of Gauntlet Legends and Dark Legacy, it's pretty cool to see something else similar; there are surprisingly few games like this. I'll definitely be playing more of this one... sure, it's kind of average objectively, but it's so much like Gauntlet that I like it a good amount anyway.
3DS DD
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Shantae - $5, Virtual Console - For some reason I've never actually owned the first Shantae game, despite being interested in it since the beginning, so... I finally bought it. I should have bought the original GBC version back when it came out but I didn't, and in the last few years have gotten the other three games in this series, so here I got the first game last. Heh. It's good.

Parascientific Escape: Cruise in the Distant Seas - $4, on sale (regular price is $5) - This is a Japanese adventure game. It's an escape-room game, where you play as a girl stuck on a huge cruise ship which is sinking. The game is part visual novel, about the main character and three other girls who are trying to disarm a bomb that has been strapped around one girls' neck, while also getting off before the ship sinks, and part traditional-ish adventure game, as you look around for items to pick up and figure out where to use them. You also have some psychic powers, as the name suggests, which lets you move things around behind walls, for some minigame-esque elements. You can't move around each screen though, only look at still images at various points, and your inventory is limited, so this is a fairly simple game. Still, it's fun. Fortunately there isn't actually a timer, that would be awful... but yeah, this is an alright short little game.
SNES
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The Hunt for Red October - $6, cart only - This is an okay sidescrolling shooting game with a Super Scope minigame element. It's one I've been thinking about getting for a while, but that I have a Super Scope now finally convinced me to get it.

PS3 DD - PSN sale
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The Unfinished Swan - $3 - First-person puzzle/ action game, I believe.

PS3/PSP (PS Minis) DD - PSN Sale
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Bashi Blocks - $1.40 - It's another blockbreaking game, Arkanoid-style.
N64
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Pokemon Snap - $4, cart only. I got this game a day or two ago, but didn't mention it because the cart wasn't working at first; those pins were really dirty. Well, I finally got it to work, so I'll mention it now. Now, why did I get this game that I've always thought I wouldn't like much? Well, it IS a non-sports N64 game I don't own, and the price was quite low, so I got it. I played a few runs and, yeah, it's not very good. I guess there is a slight appeal to trying to take pictures of all of the pokemon in the game, and improve your photos, but the gameplay is so incredibly limited that there's barely anything here. I'll play a little more of it I think, but not a lot.
PS3 PSN - Some more stuff from Sony's current sales.
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Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel - $9 -2d fighter.
Spelunker HD Ultimate Edition - $5 - A PS3-exclusive modern title inspired by a mid '80s platformer.
R-Type Dimensions - $3 - This is also on 360, but the two versions are supposed to be the same and it's cheap in this sale so I got it. R-Type is one of the greatest classic shmups, of course.

PSP PSN - Sale stuff
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Brandish: The Dark Revenant - $10 - This is a recent-ish release, from last year I believe, and it's intresting -- it's a remake of the mid '90s Falcom classic Brandish, in 3d! It's supposed to be good, too, so it's very nice to see it on sale.

PS Minis (PS3/PSP) PSN
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Golf Mania - $2.80 - Actually a mini-golf game.
On the last day of that PSN sale I got another thing.

PS3 PSN - sale
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Entwined - $5 - This is an artsy game where you control two creatures at once, circling around a tube of sorts as you try to move each one to be in the right color area when obstacles pass by. You move each one with one of the analog sticks. It's supposed to be very short, but looks fun so I got it.

On the note of the PS3 store, that awful thing seems even more busted than before -- now on the actual PS3 it only displays the last 18 downloads in the store's download list, instead of everything you own, which is a HUGE issue. Also it crashed on me twice in the payment screen, once each time I tried to buy something (for each of these two purchases here). That's not good.
NES
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Slalom - $5, cart only
Karnov - $5, cart only
Wii
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Batman: The Brave & The Bold - $7, complete - Decent if easy 2d platform-action game from WayForward.

GBA
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SpyHunter - cart only, $1.50 - I think this is actually somehow a conversion of the early '00s console game? I like that game, so it could be interesting to see.

Also for $22 I got a gold-colored PS3 Dual Shock 3 controller. Nice.
Some stuff from a Goodwill.

PC
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Laser Squad Nemesis - complete, $2 - This is an X-Com-alike from the early '00s.
Lego Creator: Knight's Kingdom - $2, jewelcase only release - Probably bad and barely a game, but... Castle Legos.
Phantasy Star Universe - $2, disc in generic DVD case
Prince of Persia 3D - $2, jewelcase only - I have the DC version of this and actually like it, but it'd be interesting to play it for PC too.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - $1, complete (DVD case) - Yes, it came with a working install key.

GBA
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ATV: Quad Power Racing - $1, complete - A decent-looking behind-the-vehicle arcadey racing game.
So I somehow forgot to add this to my collection spreadsheet or this thread after buying it, but in September 2016 I bought the Clickteam Fusion Bundle from Humble Bundle. Some of the contents are Clickteam Fusion addons and such, for that game-creation program that is the descendant of the great Klik & Play, but it also includes some games, all made with the program of course. I got the full bundle for $15. Many of the games are also released on iOS and such, and a few are freeware, but they aren't the main reason to get the bundle so they were a nice bonus.

The games:

Concrete Jungle - puzzle/strategy game where you build a city with cards.
Jones on Fire - endless runner.
Ley Lines - third person action-adventure. This was in beta when I got the bundle but is now released, for free.
Quadle - This is a puzzle-action game inspired by Q*Bert, but a bit more puzzley since blocks drop off the screen once you turn them red.
Pink Hour - A mini Studio Pixel game, prequel to Kero Blaster. It's freeware.
Pink Heaven - Like the above, this is another one. Also free.
Necromonads - Shmup.
Plantera - Garden-building sim.
Receiver - Randomly-generated FPS.
The Yawhg - Adventure game.
Tick Tock Isle - Another adventure game.
As I said in its thread, since I backed the Kickstarter I got Yooka-Laylee for PC yesterday when it released. It's a fantastic game, one of the best new games I've played in a long time!

PS3
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Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens - $2, disc only - A nice find for so cheap.
This isn't new, but I just noticed that some games I bought on sale from GOG years ago isn't in my game collection spreadsheet... and then after searching I found that I'd never mentioned them here either. So, here they are.

PC DD - GOG sales (all of these games are from GOG sales, yes.)
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These titles are ones I bought in November 2012.
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Earthworm Jim 3D - $3
Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader - $3
Realms of Arkania 3: Shadows over Riva - $5
Machinarium Collector's Edition - $1.45
Geneforge Saga (games 1-5 collection) - $2.85
Gemini Rue - $1.90
Mutant Mudds - $1.90
Unmechanical: Extended - $1.90
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This game I got in February 2013.
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Urban Chaos - $3
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This is from August 2013.
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Wizardry 8 - $5
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These are from December 2013.
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Wasteland 1: The Original Classic - Free - This was a free bonus title given to people who backed Wasteland 2's Kickstarter, which I did.
Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics Classics - Free - These were given out free on GOG by Interplay in the last days of their still having rights to these games before Bethesda got classic Fallout rights due to the terms of the Fallout IP purchase deal. I already had physical copies of Fallouts 1 and 2 before this, but not Tactics. These versions, which you can't get anymore, have a lot more stuff included with them than Bethesda's barebones versions they now sell on GOG -- all you can get now is just Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics, for PC only, with only a digital manual for each game and that's it. The Interplay releases I have here are for both PC and Mac, and include a whole lot of extra images and such -- the manual, reference card, soundtrack, wallpapers, and avatar images are included for each game, along with the 200-page game bible for the series, and for Tactics also a bonus mission, item icons pack, intro movie concepts, and the Fallout Tactics Warfare addon thing. That's quite a bit missing from Bethesda's version.
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This is from February 2014.
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Dungeon Keeper Gold - Free in a limited-time offer.
Dreamcast
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Resident Evil: Code Veronica - $7, discs in generic case - Several years ago I got a copy of this with the case but damaged discs, but these are in good condition so I'll find that case and put these discs in it. :)

Wii
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Build 'n Race - $3, complete - Okay-looking racing game with a track-construction feature, as the name suggests.
PS3 PSN - sale
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Soldner-X - $1.60
Soldner-X 2 - $3.90
Suikoden 3 - $3.50 (PS2 Classics)

PS3/PSP PSN (PS1 Classics) - sale
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The Misadventures of Tron Bonne - $2.40

PSP PSN - sale
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Cho Aniki Zero - $2.40
So other than the thing I made a thread for (Wii U), I got these games recently as well:

3DS
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Shifting World - $1, cart in generic case - a decent puzzle-platformer. You can jump with one button and flip the world with the other. When you flip the world it makes it so that all platforms become open space and all open space becomes platforms, and you switch from walking on the 'floor' to walking on what was the underside of that floor. It gets confusing quickly, but it's a cool idea and they execute it well I think.

DS
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Death Jr. & the Science Fair of Doom - $3, cart only - The DS spinoff of this otherwise PSP and Wii-based action-platform franchise.

Atari 5200
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Star Wars: The Arcade Game - $11, cart and manual, from ebay - This is a pretty solid (for the hardware) port of Atari's vector space shooter to the 5200. Of course on 5200 there are no vectors, so instead you get very pixelated visuals, but it looks nice for the system; the scaling's decent and it plays well. The controls are analog, but targeting is tricky and it can be hard to hit enemies. Still, solid stuff, and it's nice to have a 5200 game that uses more of the system's power -- the 2600 version of this game is hugely downgraded, if you look it up. This arcade game is the one that both the early '90s Sega arcade Star Wars game and the Rogue Squadron series were inspired by, and while it's no Rogue Squadron and I'm sure it'd be far better in the original vectors, this version is fun.
So, I saw a Wii U Pro Controller for $15 at another store in the local chain that I found the system at, so I got it. And yeah, it's a quite nice controller, I like it.
The controller is well-made, but it does appear to be an afterthought when compared to the singular focus on design of the main controller. It is clear where most of the design effort went. The same goes for the Wii classic controller. The Switch controller seems a bit more ergonomic, but again when you compare it to the singular focus that the Gamecube controller design got, it seems pretty clear that it wasn't at the forefront of their design.
True, none of Nintendo's Classic or Pro controllers for the Wii or beyond have GC levels of attention, for sure. I do think this one seems better than what I've seen of the Wii's classic/pro controllers, it's no match for the GC (or N64) controllers in design attention, feel, or what have you. Most of Nintendo's attention went to the Wiimote/Nunchuck, Wii U Gamepad, and the Joycons, respectively, more so than the classic/pro controllers... and perhaps as a result they aren't among Nintendo's best controllers.

But while again I don't have any Wii CC/CC Pros, from what I did use of them the Wii U one does seem like an improvement over them in feel and function. While the absence of analog triggers is unfortunate and should not have happened (the GC controller is better!), the Wii still needed a 6-face-button controller, and since it still doesn't have motion (tilt and such) you need a Wiimote or Wii U Gamepad for anything with tilt (an issue the Switch Pro Controller fixes), it's a decent and good (not great, but good)-feeling controller and probably is worth having, particularly if there are games that support it but don't work with Wiimote+Nuinchuck for non-Gamepad play.
Wii U
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Splatoon - complete, $39 - That's $11 less than this game costs at Gamestop. The store actually also had a used copy of BotW for $40, but I got this and not that because I really don't need both Xenoblade X and BotW at the same time, and Splatoon is something I really should play sooner if I want to play it because I'm sure once the sequel releases on Switch player counts will drop a lot in this one...

Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze - $7, complete - this was half off the regular price. I'm looking forward to playing this one (eventually), the Wii game was amazing.
So MS is having a big sale of a bunch of downloadable X360 games that will also work on the Xbox One. The sale ends in a day or so, and I decided to get a bunch of stuff. It's all download-only games, not any with physical releases on the X360.

X360 DD (on sale)
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Blood of the Werewolf - $1.79 - platformer
Borderlands 2 Season Pass - $9 - fps - all of the addon chapters for the game.
Aqua - $1.25 - twinstick shooter
Assault Heroes 2 - $3 - twinstick shooter. I got the first Assault Heroes for PC years ago (and it is also on 360), but oddly the sequel was only released on 360. Finally got around to getting it.
Garou: Mark of the Wolves - $2.50 - fighting game (one of SNK's best)
Gatling Gears - $2.50 - twinstick shooter
Guwange - $2.50 - shmup
NIN2-Jump - $1.25 - platformer
Omega Five - $2.50 - shmup
Qix++ - $2.50 - like the classic arcade game
Triggerheart Exelica - $2.50 - shmup
Shred Nebula - $1.25 - Asteroids-like arcade shooter
Carcassonne - $5 - boardgame
Mad Tracks - $2.50 - racing game
Rayman 3 HD - $3.30 - 3d platformer. Why get this, though I mostly like to play the Rayman games on PC? Well, as I said in my summary of the PC version, it won't work on many modern PCs, including mine. And on my old computer it runs, but I can't get it working with analog gamepads. So this should be better.
Joy Ride Turbo - $2.50 - kart-style racing game
3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures - $3 - minigolf. There is also a PC version of this, but this is cheaper than that has ever been and the game has a X360-only DLC addon.
Crystal Quest - $1.25 - one part classic arcade action game, one part modernized title with twinstick shooting.
Ikaruga - $2.50 ... for this price I couldn't refuse, though I of course have played this game quite a bit elsewhere.
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved - $1.25 - as above, I have this for PC, but have the other two for X360 so why not complete the trilogy? It is one of the best games of its generation after all!
PS2
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Siren - $7, complete - a good price for this game.
Wii U
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Mario Kart 8 - $35, complete - I really wanted a racing game for this system and decided to get MK, since I had to get it sometime.
Got some stuff on sale on the eshop.

3DS eshop
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Demon King Box - $2 - a simple strategy game where you send troops down three lanes on the screen to try to reach the other side.
Castle Conqueror 3D - $2 - This simple strategy game is a bit like Galcon.
RV-7 My Drone - $1.60 - This is a top-view shmup with some missions as well as shooting, so maybe a bit of Viewpoint and a bit of Desert Strike?

Wii U eshop
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Zacisa's Last Stand - $0.80 - simple tower defense game
Ducktales Remastered - $3.74 - I'd like to have this on a disc, but that costs like $20 while this is currently cheap, so I got this.
D&D: Chronicles of Mystara - $3.74 - ... Yes I have this on the 360, but it's great and I'd like to have it for Wii U as well.
Gravity Badgers - $2 - gravity 'platformer' thing.
Hot Rod Racer - $0.60 - avoid-the-cars.
3DS eshop
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Picross 3D Round 2 - $30 - yes, I finally caved and bought this digitally. This sequel to one of the best games on the original DS has a physical release in Japan (and also Europe I believe), but not the US for some stupid and annoying reason and Nintendo almost never puts its first-party games on sale, so I finally convinced myself to just buy it. If there is a physical release eventually I'll buy it someday though... and the same goes for the BoxBoy complete collection, which is digital-only in the US but has a cart release elsewhere. (In that case I only own the first game digitally and not the two sequels, but do I want to buy the others if there is any chance we get the collection here?)
I got some pretty cool stuff today...


Genesis
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Atomic Robo Kid - $12, cart only - I was amazed to see this, because Atomic Robo Kid is a game I liked a lot playing in emulators years ago and have really wanted ever since, but have never seen in person so I still didn't have it... until now. This isn't the best game but it is pretty fun, and it's really awesome to finally have found a copy of this game, one of my most-wanted Genesis games for sure!

PSP
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Fading Shadows - $7, complete - a fantasy puzzle/action game, looks interesting.


Wii U
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Super Mario Maker - $40, complete (with the outer cardboard box and artbook!) - My other absolute must-have Wii U game, along with Mario 3D World, is this, and I finally have it! The 3DS one I got last year is pretty good at some things, but the very limited online options are disappointing and this one fixes that.

The Wonderful 101 -$16, complete - I was trying to decide between this and NFS Most Wanted (which I do not own for any system), and went with this. Maybe I should have gotten that game, as I know that game is good while I'm not sure about this one, but... well, I guess I'll see. Hopefully it's worth it.

Tank! Tank! Tank! - $22.50, complete - For a somewhat obscure and not very popular game this one is a bit oddly expensive, but it looks like the kind of thing I'd like, so I've wanted to play it for a long time now. So I got this.


Additionally, for $6, I got a pretty interesting Nyko light gun for the PS1. Its most unique feature is that it isn't just a Namco Guncon (1) clone, it also supports Konami's Playstation Juftifier light gun, and thus the handful of PS1 light gun games which require the Konami gun to work with a light gun! That's great, as I have one of those games, Project Horned Owl, and I've always wanted to play it with a light gun. Well, now I will be able to.
SNES
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True Lies - $15, cart only. This is a reasonably well-regarded top-down run & gun shooting action game. Most classic games where you play as Arnold Schwarzenegger are not very good, but this one breaks that mold. I've been interested in the game for some time, but had never seen a copy...

Master System
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Wanted - $10 - cart only. This is a Wild West-themed light gun shooter for the SMS. The SMS's light gun games are mostly pretty good, so I hope this one will be as well. It sells for more than this on ebay so it's a nice find.
Got some more eshop stuff now on sale.

3DS eshop
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BoxBoxBoy - $3.50 - The second game in Hal's quite good BoxBox puzzle-platformer series.
Turtle Tale - $1 - a little indie platformer.
Excave - $2.50 - dungeon crawling action-rpg.
Robot Rescue 3D - $1.50 - puzzle-action game where you control two characters who move together.
Quell: Reflect - $2 - well regarded puzzle game where you slide things around like those ice-level slide puzzles I think.
Iron Combat: War in the Air - $3.50 - flight combat game with anime stylings.
Cube Tactics - $2 - decent looking little strategy game
Kami - $1.50 - color-sliding puzzle game, supposedly a bit like Color Zen.

Wii U eshop
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Never Alone - $3 - That platformer with an Inuit history/legend theme.
GOG's summer sale is on now (ends in a couple of days!) so, because they seem to finally have dropped their annoying "you need to buy bundles to get the good deals" stuff, I got a few games:

PC DD (GOG sale)
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Moto Racer 3 - $2 - This is a quite disappointing game, but being a series fan I need to get this sometime...
Tales of Monkey Island (all 5 chapters) - $2 - I'm not a Telltale fan, but I really should at least play this one.
Sam & Max Hit the Road - $1.50 - Why didn't I own this long ago?
Army Men II - $3 - I actually like the first one, but I've never played the sequels...
Army Men: Toys in Space - $3 - The last of the PC-only Army Men games.
Outlaws + Handful of Missions - $1.50 - I never did get this pretty solid wild west FPS from Lucasarts, so why not?
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom - $3.60 - This is the last of Impressions' City Building Series games they made for Sierra. It's no Simcity (the walkers concept can be frustrating to manage...) but is a good series, though Caesar II is probably my favorite one. Zeus was alright but not great, so I stopped playing them after that. Why not try it again though... and the Chinese setting separates it from the others (Caesar, Pharaoh, Zeus).

Plus:

Rebel Galaxy - free. With any purchase during this sale you get a copy of this game. Nice!

Alan Wake's American Nightmare - also free, as this one is given out to anyone who spends $10 or more during the sale. The original Alan Wake isn't available digitally anymore for rights reasons, but this is and it's being given out.

Fantasy General - This sale has had various limited-time free offers, most of which I missed because I haven't checked it regularly, but this one happened to be there while I was logged in yesterday so, even though I own this game on disc, I grabbed it. Not reason not to, it's free.
Those 3 seem to be the only giveaways they'd had during this sale, but they're decent ones. I already had "American Nightmare" thanks to a deep sale just before Alan Wake proper got removed from digital stores due to a license expiring on a song they used in the game. (They really need to handle licensing things for games better. Some sort of unlimited use with royalties based on percentage of sale would do fine, I think. Isn't that how movies do it? I never had to worry about Neverending Story's theme song getting cut out of future releases anyway.)
I don't know how movies do it, but limited-time rights are very much a thing for film as well, that's why stuff is constantly coming and going from Netflix, yes? They often only have the rights to something for a period of time, and once that's over it vanishes. But with movies or TV shows there are often other ways to see something, but with some games that is not the case, at least not legally... like, Alan Wake had a physical release so you can still play that, but there are a lot of other games which are not so lucky. The ephemeral nature of so many things on the internet is kind of awful, things need to be preserved for the future! Of course you cannot re-create the feeling of, say, being in some old online game back when it actually had users, but that many such games now can't be played at all is so much worse...
Wii U
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Sonic: Lost Worlds - $15, complete - I know it got a mixed reception, but I like the 3DS game (and the Wii U demo), so I expect to like this one too.

PSP
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PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient - $4, complete - a 3d (logic) puzzle game which could be interesting.
If you recall, I also thought Lost Worlds was a lot better than most people gave it credit for. It has it's flaws, to be sure (the parkour controls aren't very intuitive and are too tough to learn), but the central concept of turning every 3D sonic stage into a cylinder is absolute genius. It keeps you moving forward fast while giving you freedom to continue on the level in various different ways depending on where you are on it's circumference. They also patched in "100 rings for an extra life", so that complaint in a lot of the reviews is now fixed.
I was interested in Lost Worlds right from the start, since it looks like a Sonic game that takes inspiration from Mario Galaxy and the Knuckles Chaotix bonus stages. Those are some good things to take inspiration from, and Lost Worlds does it well I think. The 3DS game's definitely good (it's got the same concept as this one but with different levels and such, so look it up if you haven't played it; it's one of the few handheld Sonic games that I actually like), but for whatever reason I never got the PC port of the Wii U version, once that released; I guess I wanted the original Switch version instead.


But anyway, it's the Steam sale right now. On the one hand, the deals are worse than they used to. You won't get good recent games for cheap like you could a few years back, sadly. That there aren't any short-term deals also encourages higher prices for sure. However, there are SO MANY games on Steam now that despite just spending a LOT of money on this sale -- see the list below -- I could easily have doubled this amount and still there would be games on sale I very much want to have...

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition - $4 - very good price for this one.
Rosenkreuzstillette - $8 - kind of expensive (only 20% off), but I've really wanted the English version of this quality Mega Man-style Japanese doujin game so I got it.
KNIGHTS - $0.50 - puzzle/board game, looks interesting.
Archibald's Adventures - $1.74 - 2d platform/puzzle game.
Miracle Fly - $1.60 - 2d platform game where you fly around and can shoot backwards.
Castle in the Darkness - $2 - fairly well regarded 8-bit-style platformer.
Trouble Witches Origin - Episode1 Daughters of Amalgam - $5 - quality Japanese indie shmup. There isn't an episode 2, yet at least, though, despite this game being not exactly new.
Militia - $2.40 - board game thing
Hyperdevotion Noire - $3 - the Neptunia franchise tries tactical strategy.
Extreme-G 2 - $4 - I have the original PC version of this and surely could just play that, but this new digital release comes with copies of the soundtracks from all four XG games, and for that reason and that I love the series, I think this is well worth it to support the developers who brought this awesome classic back!
Battle Crust - $4.80 - Japanese shmup, '80s style
Pharaoh Rebirth+ - $4 - cute 2d platformer with a rabbit explorer.
Glass Masquerade - $3.14 - Puzzle game, jigsaw style except you are putting together stained glass windows. Great art design here.
Smashing the Battle - $6 - arcade-style action/beat 'em up game
Dystoria - $3.40 - Retro-styled vehicular combat game where you can move along any side of any surface, a bit like the PS1 Ghost in the Shell game or something but with a Tron aesthetic.
Bombshell - $3.50 - The new "3d Realms" topdown action-shooting game; it was originally going to be a Duke Nukem game, but because they sold the IP they couldn't use him here and Bombshell (a new variant on a character originally designed to be Duke's female companion character in Duke Nukem Forever, before being cut from that game) was made instead. It's supposed to be okay but not great but I want to try it, and the deal here is pretty good (90% off).
Grow Up - $5 - The sequel to the pretty good, simple little 3d platformer Grow Home.
Guilty Gear Xrd Sign - Big Blast Bundle - $13.20 - This is the first GG Xrd game with all of its DLC. I haven't played the Xrd games before, but while anime-style fighters aren't my favorite they are stylish and can be pretty fun once you get used to them.
Grip - $12 - This is a homage to the Rollcage series. It's still in early access but looks great, and the original two Rollcage games are fantastic so it's really awesome to see this style of game return!
DOOM - $15 - Last years' very popular title.
Dishonored 2 - $20 - Maybe I should wait for a better price on this one, I'm sure it will go down from this, but the first game is quite good and I really like the demo of this one, so I don't want to wait...
Snake Pass - $10 - Recently released 3d platformer with unique controls, as you are a snake.
Redout - $12 - Very nice looking futuristic racing game. This is more Wipeout-esque, though it's not just a clone of Wipeout like Formula Fusion is; I considered getting that one, but not yet. It's still kind of unfinished.
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen - $12 - I have this for the 360 and it's very good there, but this PC(/PS4/XONE) version adds fast travel, and for that I think it's worth getting the game again; I really liked Dragon's Dogma at first, but the tedious travel times get old fast...
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition - $10 - One of the most highly acclaimed 2d platformers of the past year, I believe.
Styx: Master of Shadows - $6 - Stealth game. Unlike Dishonored, where you can choose a more or less violent and more or less action-oriented play style, in this one you're a goblin assassin going after humans, period, so it's a more 'traditional' stealth game.
Divinity: Dragon Commander - $4 - strategy / rpg hybrid where you control, well, dragons.
Ubermosh - $0.50 - simple topdown shooter.
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