Three more missing ones I got during the last two months.
Atari 2600 - Spider Fighter ($1, loose), Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back ($5, complete), and Star Wars: Jedi Arena ($5, complete).
I also got some controllers and stuff for the TG16 in the last few months. I got:
2 NEC Avenue 3 pad controllers (grey) for the PCE/TG16
1 PCE Turbo controller (white)
1 PCE CoreGrafx controller (grey)
1 5-player multitap for the PCE/TG16
And a Memory Base 128 save backup unit.
These all use the Japanese PCE and US TurboDuo controller plug, which is different from that on my US Turbografx. So, you need a controller adapter to use them on a system like mine.
My last (for this year) big box of Japanese games just arrived. I may get a few more individual titles, but nothing like this, or the last two (which are in the big list above, and make up a lot of it), Shipping this time was $85, a bit more than the other ones, because the box is bigger (more multi-game lots). Games mentioned together were each together in a lot.
All games are Japanese of course.
One interesting thing is that Japanese game boxes have plastic trays inside, instead of paper ones like most US boxes did. This helps them hold shape better... and yes, the SNES, GG, and N64 boxed games I got here all are like this.
Game Gear
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Royal Stone (Game not listed on IGN) - $7.01, complete. This is the spiritual sequel to Crystal Warriors, which is a great game and one of the best games on the GG. Sadly it was only released in Japan. The game comes with a map/item list poster, as well as the manual, which is cool.
SNES
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Super Bomberman 4, Super Tetris 3, Dragon Quest III, and Gussun Oyoyo 2 (Game not listed on IGN) - $10.51, carts only. I got this for everything except DQIII. All four games are Japan-only releases, and Super Tetris III has four player multiplayer, too. Super Bomberman 4 sounds decent; maybe better than the first one? Also, Gussun Oyoyo 2 is in the same series as the Saturn game I got last month. This one gets better reviews than that game, though it was pretty decent too.
Pop'n Twinbee - $5.50, cart only. Vertical-scrolling shmup from Konami. Decent series; I like Gradius and Parodius more, but this is fun too, and it does have two player simultaneous. This game was released in Japan and Europe, but not the US, like several other SNES, PS1, GB, and Saturn Twinbee and Parodius games.
Dragon's Earth - $6, complete. Strategy game. The ingame menus are all in English, which is nice. This is a somewhat unique and rarely mentioned fantasy strategy game, so even though the ingame text is English, I'm sure it'll take a bit of effort to figure out how to play... the manual is in Japanese after all. You've got to defeat the dragons and protect your medieval kingdom.
NES
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Star Wars (Namco) - $2.80, cart only. Yes, it's the one with black-haired Luke, Darth Vader turning into a scorpion, etc. I know it's not great, but I wanted to have this... quite a unique thing, anyway. :)
Macross (with manual), Parodius, Salamander, Twin Bee, Makaimura (Ghosts n Goblins), and Transformers: Mystery of Comvoy (all cart only) - $28. A bit expensive, but these games add up to close to or over this much if you buy them all separately... and they are all definitely worth having. Parodius is a great Konami shmup (I got the Saturn collection version of this, but the NES port is not the same...), Transformers is infamously terrible but that's why I want it, Ghouls & Ghosts is a classic and yes I don't have the US NES release, Salamander is not the same as US Life Force (Salamander has some graphical enhancements not present in the US version, so this is the better game), and Twin Bee is an early but decent vertical shooter, first in the Twinbee series (the SNES game above is the fifth game). Oh, and the Macross game is an okay early NES shmup.
Nintendo 64
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Custom Robo - complete, $10.50. I've really wanted the N64 Custom Robo games ever since playing the two we did get, the GC and DS games, and really liking them... so yeah, I got this, the first one. It's not as good as the GC game (the GC game is the only Custom Robo game with those awesome 3-4 player battles...), but it's good.
Playstation
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Zeiram Zone (Game not listed on IGN) - $2.25, complete. Beat 'em up game using the Iria/Zeiram license. It's 3d, and my hopes aren't high, but hey, it was cheap, and the anime was decently good, the live-action movies not so much... we'll see about this. The game comes in an extra-thick plastic case, about two jewelcases thick. I've never seen one of these before, I wonder if they were common... oh, and the cover art's pretty nice. There's also a SNES Iria game. It looks fun -- that one's a platformer.
Dreamcast
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Puyo Puyo~n 4 (Puyo Puyo 4) - $6. The last major Puyo Puyo game from Compile, before they died and Sega took over the series. I really like Sega's first one, Puyo Puyo Fever (DC/GC/etc.), but classic Puyo is good too, and this one has four player while Fever doesn't (two player only there)... Also, emulated copies of this game strip out the soundtrack, so you really do need the real thing.
TurboGrafx-16 (games are all complete, I think -- or at least, they all have cases and manuals. I don't know if these originally came with spine cards or not.)
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Legend of the Valkyrie (Game not listed on IGN) - $15.50. This was the game that spurred me to get the rest of this stuff... I really, really wanted Valkyrie. It's a very good top down run & gun/platform action game with good graphics and lots of action. Great stuff. The game was released in the US, but only on the PS1 Namco Museum 5 collection, which is very rare. I'll get that sometime (to be able to read the text), but this version is great, and the language issue only comes up at a few points in the game -- this game is mostly about the action. Plus, password save!
Galaga '88 - $6. Released in the US as Galaga '90, I got this for a little cheaper than US copies go for, plus the game is exactly the same. Galaga is a great classic shmup, and this game was its first sequel. It's quite good.
F1 Circus '91, F-1 Dream (Game not listed on IGN), F1 Triple Battle, Fire Pro Wrestling 3 Legend Bout, and Ganbare! Golf Boys - $5. The shipping was the main cost here... but this was something I really wanted. F1 Dream is a good topdown racing game. F1 Triple Battle is an averagely bland behind-the-car racer with dated graphics, but it does have a nice 3-player splitscreen mode, and it plays okay. F1 Circus '91 is the second game in the F1 Circus series of super-fast topdown racing games. You're always moving up the screen in this one, and memorization is the name of the game! You've got to memorize everything to get anywhere. Hard. Still, I really wanted at least one of the games. The third one is best, but this one's nice too, and it supports saving, which the first game did not. F1 Dream and Firepro also save. As for those last two, I doubt I'll play them much; wrestling isn't my thing (I know the Firepro series is popular among genre fans though), and the last one is another bland topdown golf game. The racing games are why I got this lot.
Hardware (TG16)
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Tennokoe Bank - $4.25, complete. This is a HuCard with save backup memory on it, so you can get more save space than that tiny save memory in the CD base unit allows. The Memory Base 128, which I got last month, does that too, but I can't use that yet (need an Arcade Card), and I want one of these too -- the two are more complimentary than anything, and it's much easier to copy files out of this than it is to use the MB128 for that, which you have to do through specific games. However, this does have a battery in it which is likely dying or dead. I'll see if it's still good, or if it'll have to go into my "to fix" pile.
TurboGrafx CD (regular CD title, not Super or Arcade CD, unless noted (there is one Super CD game), complete but without spine cards unless noted)
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Gulclight TDF2 (Game not listed on IGN), Rom Rom Stadium (Game not listed on IGN), Record of Lodoss War, and Bikkuriman Daijikai (Game not listed on IGN) - $9.50. Rom Rom Stadium is an unspectacular baseball game, Gulclight TDF2 an okay giant-robot strategy game with some English in the menus that I definitely want to try (might be good?), and Lodoss War a decent but definitely language-is-an-issue RPG. There's a bit of help for it online, but not a full walkthrough. Lodoss War is a dual jewel case, but there's not much reason for it -- all that's in the back half is a poster/item list. It's quite nice (there's nice artwork of Deedlit on the poster), but this could have fit in a regular jewelcase I think. Bikkuriman Daijikai is a worthless nongame with no actual game content on the disc aside from some quiz questions -- it's mostly just a fan-disc with information and stuff on it. I did not get this for this.
Ultra Box vol. 6 (Game not listed on IGN), Jantei Monogatari II Shutsoudouhen (Game not listed on IGN), Super Albatross (Game not listed on IGN), and Mateki Densetsu Astralius (Game not listed on IGN) - $3.60. Cheap price for four mediocre games. Ultra Box is a digital magazine series; this is the last volume. Might be kind of amusing, but I'm not expecting much. Jantei Monogatari is an adventure game/mahjoing game hybrid series. I'll play it when I manage to learn mahjong, which I'll do sometime. Astralius is a badly dated and archaic RPG, but does have a good FAQ for it online. Super Albatross is a golf game with lots of cutscenes -- using that CD format! The golf is basic top-down stuff.
Legion (Game not listed on IGN) - $6.50. Widely disliked shmup, though a few people like this game. It's a very, very hard game, but decent if you can manage it. It does have two player co-op, which is cool. Not many TG16 shmups do.
Shanghai II (Game not listed on IGN) - $2. This is one of the solitaire games using Mahjong tiles. You know, match the tiles... fun stuff! I quite like Shanghai.
Puyo Puyo CD (Super CD game, with Spine Card) (Game not listed on IGN) - $5. The TG16 version of the first Puyo Puyo game, released in the US on SNES (as Kirby's Avalanche) and Genesis (as Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine). I don't have those versions, though, but now I have Japanese copies of all four main games in the series from Compile...
Game Boy (B&W) - all cart only games
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Choplifter II - $2. This one's a GB-only title, for whatever reason... decent, though. It's not too different from other Choplifter games, but it's fun enough.
The Adventures of Star Saver - $12. Yeah, it was pricey, but this game is uncommon! I don't think I've seen it before, and it costs even more than this online. This game is a side-scrolling run & gun action game where you play as a boy who has to save his kidnapped ... sister, I think? Not sure, but you need to save her from aliens who kidnapped both of you, but let you out for whatever reason. So yeah, use the super powerful robot suit that you find there, and go get those aliens. The plot couldn't be any more cliche, but the game is actually fun. The game has some platform-jumping too, but you've got a variety of powerful guns, and do a lot of shooting here. The game is an early title, and it looks it, but it plays well enough and really is quite fun. Star Saver is a hard game, but it's good and is well worth tracking down for anyone who likes this kind of game. Apparently this game has a sequel, also on GB, though it was only released in Japan and Europe (the sequel was called "Max" in Europe.)
Heiankyo Alien - $6, cart only. You mgiht be able to get this a little cheaper on ebay, but it's not too bad a price for this somewhat known, but not overly common, game. Heiankyo Alien is a port and remake of an extremely early (1979) Japanese computer game. It's a single screen game, and you're a guy trying to save medieval [Heian] Japan from invading aliens by digging holes and then filling the holes in after aliens walk into them. Yeah. Well... why not? :) This concept was used again in games like Cratermaze for the TG16. Cratermaze (which I have the Japanese version of, it's listed earlier in this thread as "Doraemon: Meikyuu Daisakusen") is a much easier game than this one, though! There are two variants on this cart, Old and New. Old is the original 1979 version, and it is very hard and unforgiving. It takes quite a while to dig holes in this version... it'll take time to get used to. New is easier, but still provides some challenge, unlike the very easy (even on "Hard" mode) Cratermaze. Cratermaze might be more fun, though... anyway, this game is interesting and worth a look if you like classic-style arcade games. This version is GB-exclusive, too.
New place opened in town, with some interesting stuff...
Saturn
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F1 Challenge - $4.50, complete. Arcade racing game from Sega from 1995.
Hang-On GP - $4.50, complete. Another Sega racing game from '95. This one is widely disliked, but part of that is because the d-pad controls are very touchy... but with an Arcade Racer, which I have, the game controls great!
Playstation
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Bugriders - $2, disc in case (no manual). Weird racing game where you play as bug-riding aliens.
Steel Reign - $4.50, complete. Very cool tank action game. I'm very happy to find this one!
Atari 2600
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Gorf - $4.50, cart only. Port of a great Midway arcade game.
Atari 7800
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Food Fight - $4.50, cart only. 7800-exclusive arcade port; this game isn't on other systems. It's alright, cool to have too.
SNES
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Big Sky Trooper - $7.50, cart only. Topdown action game from Lucasarts with some variety to it. Nice find, I think. It's a fairly ambitious seeming game, with battery save and everything...
Sega Master System
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Rescue Mission - $3.50, cart only. Interesting lightgun game -- you have to protect this train car which goes around, as you try to rescue people and shoot the badguys as well.
Nintendo 64
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Chameleon Twist 2 - $7.50, cart only. Solid 3d platformer game, it's just really annoying that this game gets rid of the on-cart saving the first one had, and instead needs a LOT of controller pak space instead... bah. Otherwise, good.
SNES
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Spectre - $2, cart only. Very awesome find! I've always really liked Spectre VR on the PC, and had wanted to find the SNES version, but somehow had never seen it... until now. I'm really happy to have this. It's a good game, and a good port of a classic.
Fighter's History - $5, cart only. This series from Data East started out as a Street Fighter knockoff, but got more unique later... second game (on Neo-Geo, also called "Karnov's Revenge") is pretty good. This first game in the series likely isn't at that level, but still, hopefully it'll be worth checking out. I'll see. :)
Nintendo 64
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Powerpuff Girls in: Chemical X-Traction - $5, cart only. 1-on-1 Power Stone-esque fighting game. It's supposed to be not very good, but hey, it was cheap, and it'd be nice to try a Power Stone style game on the N64. This is also interesting for being a very late N64 release -- it released in October '01. Not many more releases after this one.
Atari 2600
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Solaris - complete, $10. Solaris is a space fighter game released in 1987, so it's a post-death 2600 game Atari made after releasing the 2600 Jr. The game has fantastic graphics and is somewhat complex (and is supposed to be good), so I'd been looking for it... and then I saw this! Yes, I had to get it. And yes, the game is good. It's a big game for the 2600, particularly for a game which does end. Your goal is to explore the galaxy as you try to reach the planet Solaris. There's a galactic map to explore. It's broken into 16 6x8-square areas, connected by warp points. The galaxy is a maze, so you'll have to figure out where to go by exploring (or cheat and look it up, but that'd be no fun). If you go to space with enemies on them, you'll fight them, rail shooter style. The game has some targeting help on screen, to help you actually hit them, which is nice. If you go to a planet, the game turns "2d" - there's no height element anymore, just moving left and right and shooting at stuff. On friendly planets you can refill your fuel, or save them from enemies when enemies attack friendly planets. On enemy planets you save people; save all the hostages and the planet blows up. So yeah, it feels like an expanded, much better version of Imagic's Moonsweeper. It's not the best game, but it is good. And yes, the manual is VERY helpful, so I'm glad I got this complete. I'd probably need to print something, otherwise...
Atari 7800
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Xevious - $7, complete. I've never been the biggest fan of Xevious, and previously only had it in Namco Museums, but eh... it was complete, so I decided to try it. Xevious is a decent early shmup from Namco. It's nowhere near as good as Galaga, and the music is a HORRIBLE two second long droning loop, but the gameplay's solid and somewhat fun, for an endless (and yes, the game is endless) vertical shooter. This is one of the earlier scrolling shooters, and it's not nearly as good as later ones, but yeah, I think I can have some fun with this. Oh, the visuals are okay.
N64
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A Bug's Life - $3, cart only. A thoroughly mediocre 3d platform-action game, and a blatantly obvious port from the PS1. It could be worse, but it could be a LOT better, too.
Was I once telling you that you need to become a curator for museum for video games? I changed my mind. You should open your own museum.
A Bug's Life? Are you serious? That's better spent behind glass than in an N64. :p Can't guarantee many people would pay to see it, though.
BTW who rated this thread five stars? I call shenanigans. But if I can be honest for a moment, ABF, you must have a very impressive collection. Does it take up a lot of space? Is it difficult to organize?
Do you have a set of collectibles that you show in your room (the ones you want to show off to guests) while the garbage goes in a cellar somewhere? Do you need to regularly spray the games for silverfish? How many consoles do you own, and spanning how many generations? The oldest one I can think is that Odyssey or whatever, what's that from the early eighties? I assumed straight away that you must have current-gen consoles, but it occurred to me that I never see you post about them and you probably only play new games on the PC. Do you have a WiiU?
ABF does seem to buy a LOT of garbage, and his justifications never really resonate as actual arguments with me. (I mean seriously, "at least now I have it" seems like yet ANOTHER downside with some of the games you list, not a bonus.)
I can only assume that ABF is in it to "win it", which is to say, he intends to collect ALL OF THE GAMES.
Some good questions there...
Quote: Was I once telling you that you need to become a curator for museum for video games? I changed my mind. You should open your own museum.
Hah, maybe. I do have a lot of games. :p Over 3200 now I believe! I know some collectors have plenty more than me, but it's a lot.
Quote:[quote]How many consoles do you own, and spanning how many generations? The oldest one I can think is that Odyssey or whatever, what's that from the early eighties?
The oldest console I have is an Atari 2600, but it doesn't work (and never has since I got it), so I play my 2600 games on my Atari 7800, which is a newer (mid '80s) system. Next oldest would be the Odyssey 2; I don't have the original Odyssey, which is the first console ever, but the second one, which is from the late '70s. Apart from that though, I don't have any other pre-NES consoles. I've been getting into that over the past few years in the O2 and 2600, of course, and only got that 7800 this year, so I expect I'll probably eventually get more of them. The Intellivision, Atari 5200, and Colecovision are three obvious ones to eventually get, for instance; there are lots of pre-NES consoles though, some very obscure and rare. I don't think I need EVERYTHING. I do want (someday) those three, the newer systems I mentioned earlier, a 3DO, a Jaguar, a Jaguar CD (maybe), and perhaps some other stuff, though.
Quote: I assumed straight away that you must have current-gen consoles, but it occurred to me that I never see you post about them and you probably only play new games on the PC. Do you have a WiiU?
No, I don't have a Wii U, 3DS, Vita, or PS3. I do have a 360, but only got it in May or June of this year. I spend way too much money (and time!) with older games to be able to afford most of the newer ones... though I definitely do want a 3DS. Whenever I get another system (next year sometime I expect), that'll most likely be the one. And even that 360, I don't really regret getting it, but I could have gotten that next year too, probably; I played it for a while, but have barely touched it since finally deciding to spend the cash to get my Turbo CD drive repaired... because yes the TG16+CD is really awesome.
As for PC, my case, and CPU, are getting older... I replaced the video card a couple of years ago, but the CPU is from early '07. By next year we'll start seeing PC games which my computer won't be able to run, since games which require more RAM than I have and a 64-bit OS, which I also don't have, are coming. I do have quite a few games on Steam and such though, bought from various online sales, sure. I've never actually gotten around to PLAYING too many of them, but I own plenty, and even played some.. :p Of course over the last gen I also got a DS (in 2007) and a Wii (in 2010), which served well until this year. Oh, and PSP too, in 2011 I believe... I've used that more than I thought I would. Apart from TG16 stuff, Class of Heroes for PSP has been my most played game for the past couple of months, for instance...
When I first got this PC in '07 I thought I'd play more games on it than I have ended up doing, honestly. I kept getting games, on digital-download sales or older PC games on sale locally mostly (I've only got a very few full price PC games in recent years). The main reason that has been how much I've been playing consoles, older consoles particularly, but also back somewhere around the later '00s my wrists started hurting a bit while playing PC games (with the mouse, particularly); this pushed me more towards consoles as well, since gamepads are much more comfortable. That didn't help. But that's not the only reason... I just came to really like playing this stuff. I mean, I already said how I already only infrequently play the 360, and I have stacks of barely-played Wii games as well... I've played the PSP a lot more than the Wii, since getting it. (And the DS too of course, but that I've had for much longer.) I don't dislike modern games though, when I do play them I often like them... but I like older games a lot too. I didn't have any of these consoles back when they were actually current, so a lot of this stuff is/was new to me, and it's great... And on that note, yes, that I spent over a decade with the PC as my main gaming platform probably is another reason why I play it less now; PC gaming isn't what it was back in the '90s, and when I play modern PC games, I can see that decline. Graphics have gotten better, but games overall have not.
Also, I can't stand modern military shooters and have absolutely no interest in playing such games. And open-world games? Eh, maybe amusing for a few hours, but I've never found one that I actually want to come back to and really stick with. Those things limits the number of modern "AAA" titles I actually have any interest in playing for sure. I like the 360 so far, for instance, but I've played platformers, sidescrolling action games, fighting games (2d and 3), racing games, RPGs, shmups, and the like, mostly; very few first or third person shooters.
But anyway, overall games from all generations that I've played, second through current, can be fun and good games. So now I play some from all of them, "next-gen" excepted since of course I don't have those systems yet, or a still-high-end PC (I can still run anything now, but by the time Watch Dogs and the like come out, next year? That will not be true anymore. I'll have to get a new machine eventually, not sure when.).
Quote: Do you have a set of collectibles that you show in your room (the ones you want to show off to guests) while the garbage goes in a cellar somewhere?
Well, I just have an apartment (and basement too), so I can't keep everything up here yes... PC game boxes, cardboard boxes for N64, SNES, etc. games, most PC game manuals, those are all in the basement. Excepting a few PC games, I keep the games upstairs, though. It takes up quite a bit of space now. :p And to make it easier to get to games I put a bunch of them on the floor too, even though I could put more away if I wanted to... some consoles are on the floor as well, since there's no space for them elsewhere. It's a mixture of both. I generally try to keep the usable stuff (games, controllers I'll actually use, and such) out, and the less important stuff -- extra controllers, unnecessary game boxes, etc -- stored away. I do not have space to keep all that stuff out up here too.
As for collectibles, I have games all over the place (I am not a naturally overly neat person, floors are good places to put videogames! :) And shelves too of course, along with books.), and some manuals (on shelves or in the basement), but I don't really have much in the way of "collectibles" outside of games; I don't have any Mario or Sonic toys or what have you. The games take up enough space, and money, as it is... I remember thinking about getting a Starcraft action figure back in '98 when they were first made, for instance, but didn't do it, and haven't done that for any other games either.
I do have some videogame-related posters, mostly small ones that came with games but a few from other places, some of which are up on my walls, though. For small posters that I have up (these came in game boxes/cases) I've got posters for Guild Wars; The Lost Vikings (I forget if it's from the PC or Genesis version though...); Micro Machines 1+2: Twin Turbo (the GBC collection; it's bad, but the original versions are great); Micro Machines V3 (GBC version poster); the Bust-A-Move 2 (N64) ad that's on the back of the Iggy's 'Reckin Balls poster; Wipeout 64; and Etrian Odyssey 3. I have some more for various other games that came in game boxes of course, but the ones that are up are for games I particularly liked. For other (larger) gaming posters, I did get those Zelda posters from the Nintendo Club prize collection thing (for the points you get for buying first-party Nintendo games), and have the Twilight Princess poster up because it's really awesome (that game has my favorite Zelda art design...), and the "all the Links" poster up elsewhere. I think that also came with a Wind Waker/Phantom Hourglass poster, but I didn't put that one up. There's also a Sub-Terrania (Genesis game) poster that I actually found in a local store; it's pretty cool, so I have it up. Back in the '90s we used to have this Sid & Al's Incredible Toons poster on the wall (it's a large poster from the game box), but I haven't had that one up in quite some time now though I do still have it. There are also some others from PC Gamer I never quite liked enough to put up, such as a Drakan poster and one with a Midkemia map on one side and Return to Krondor on the other. Oh, there's also one with some ~1995 Interplay D&D game ads on one side (Blood & Magic, Descent to Undermountain, underwhelming stuff like that...), and a big Forgotten Realms map on the other. Or maybe it's one sided and the ads are the bottom, which is why I didn't put it up much? I did used to have a Civ II tech tree poster on the wall, though... don't anymore.
Another thing I don't have is game-related clothing. I've never actually bought any videogame-related clothing (shirts or whatever); I've got that now-somewhat-torn (since I wore it a lot!) Eternal Darkness shirt I won from the raffle on Tendo City back in 2002, and a Playstation baseball cap I've never worn and don't plan on wearing but I have because my sister said if I didn't want it she was going to throw it out and, well, I don't like doing that, and that's it.
Quote: A Bug's Life? Are you serious? That's better spent behind glass than in an N64. Can't guarantee many people would pay to see it, though.
It's not very good (the game is a subpar, shoddy port of a mediocre PS1 game), but something else I got recently for the N64 is much, much worse than that game: The Powerpuff Girls: Chemical X-Traction. I played that some yesterday... and I think I have a new worst N64 game. I of course generally like N64 games, but this one is HORRIBLE. The game has okay graphics, but absolutely unforgivably terrible gameplay and controls. I haven't played Superman 64, but it is surely the worst N64 game i have played -- yes, it's even worse than my previous choice, War Gods. At least that game can be amusing (in multiplayer particularly); this one is not.
Quote:Do you need to regularly spray the games for silverfish?
What are those? Oh, a kind of bug. For stuff in the basement, I have had mold issues with a few cardboard PC game boxes which were stored too close to the (concrete) floor there, but no, no bug issues there.
Dark Jaguar Wrote:ABF does seem to buy a LOT of garbage, and his justifications never really resonate as actual arguments with me. (I mean seriously, "at least now I have it" seems like yet ANOTHER downside with some of the games you list, not a bonus.)
I can only assume that ABF is in it to "win it", which is to say, he intends to collect ALL OF THE GAMES.
That's not true for most consoles, but it would be nice to have all of the non-sports N64 games, anyway... I don't want, say, every PS1 game though, or even every non-sports one; that'd be way too many games I have no interest in ever playing. Basically I get stuff if I think I might like to play it some, sometime (and a decent price helps as well of course). Do I end up actually PLAYING all of those games? No. My stacks of unplayed or barely played games, mostly for the PS2, Xbox, X360, Wii, and PC, attest to that. But I'd only get them if I think I might want to try it at least. :)
It depends on what kinds of games you like, and what level of quality you want... if you only want the best games, obviously you wouldn't do as I do. But I don't think that only a system's best games are worth playing, the other stuff often can be very interesting as well... or not, but you never know; for every game I get and dislike or never play, there's something else I enjoy even if it's not the best, or genuinely find good.
And yeah, on that note, for games I do like somewhat, I'm probably a somewhat easy grader... when scoring stuff (I do put scores on stuff in my database of games I own) I use 7.5 as average, as it is in school, but even then, probably more games end up above that line than below it.
Your apartment has a basement?! Wow!
Well, it's a house with different people living on each of the three floors, not an apartment tower or something. And virtually all houses in New England have basements, of course... and there's storage space down there.
Oh weird, so it's like the owner of the house started renting out bedrooms to people? Like in Forrest Gump or Hey Arnold? How exotic!
Huh? No, as I said, each floor (of the 3-story house) is an apartment. There are common stairways of course. It's a fairly common setup...
Also, with 11 hours to go in Steam's Halloween sale, I got a couple of cheap things.
PC DD
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The Whispered World - $2. This is an adventure game I've wanted to play since it released...
The Adventures of Shuggy - $1.25. 2d platformer.
Handful of Japanese games; it's a lot less stuff than the earlier boxes for sure, but I spent more than I was thinking mostly because of one specific game...
Shipping was $35.
N64
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Neon Genesis Evangelion - $17, cart only. Decent game -- it's a 2.5d beat 'em up. It's also the only action game based on Evangelion, and is one of the more interesting import N64 titles.
Sin and Punishment - $37, complete. Yeah, this is the one I was talking about, and it wasn't cheap, but it IS complete, which is pretty awesome. S&P is of course a game I've wanted to own ever since it originally released; there was no import title I wanted more than this one, so when I saw this, I had to bid... and got it for a fair price (this is about what it costs; used to be more, but that was before the WiiVC re-release and such).
PS1
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Ganbare Goemon: Kuru nara Koi! Ayashige Ikka no Kuroi Kage - $7.50, complete. 3d action-platformer Goemon game. It's disliked by the few people who have reviewed it in English, but it's a Goemon game and I like the franchise, so I decided to get it anyway. I played it a bit. It's okay, though the camera makes the jumping puzzles very annoying. This is one of those games which clearly show how 3d tech wasn't entirely understood yet (with how to make a good game in 3d, that is).
SNES
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Ganbare Goemon 3 - $7, cart only. This one's a top-down action-adventure game; yes, the Goemon series constantly changed. I got it so that I'd have all of the main four SNES games, and now I do! You really need a walkthrough to play this, but they exist, so it is playable.
TurboGrafx CD
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Ranma 1/2 - $2.86, complete. Mediocre side-scrolling action-platformer with lengthy cutscenes between stages. Most Ranma games weren't that great... still, I want to try this one. I still don't have any of the SNES Ranma games, which also are thoroughly medioce, and this is the only one that's a platformer... the others are all fighting games. So yeah, even if it's not the greatest, I want to have it.;
Down Load 2 - $23.50, complete. This is a very good shmup. It's a sequel to the first game, which of course I got a month or more ago, and impressively for a regular CD title, it has just as much parallax as that game does! Very nice. They did cut out the password save system, but there are cheatcodes. The art style is different, but the gameplay is similar, which means quite good - Down Load is one of the best TG16 shmups there is. Game not listed on IGN.
Jantei Monogatari 2: Kanketsu-hen - $3.60, complete. I think my collector instincts are the only reason I got this one... yes, there are two different games under the "Jantei Monogatari 2" name, so now I got the other one too. For some reason. This one does have one new feature: a Mahjong-only mode which avoids the "adventure" scenes. That's nice. Game not listed on IGN.
Quote:Well, I just have an apartment (and basement too), so I can't keep everything up here yes... PC game boxes, cardboard boxes for N64, SNES, etc. games, most PC game manuals, those are all in the basement. Excepting a few PC games, I keep the games upstairs, though. It takes up quite a bit of space now. And to make it easier to get to games I put a bunch of them on the floor too, even though I could put more away if I wanted to... some consoles are on the floor as well, since there's no space for them elsewhere. It's a mixture of both. I generally try to keep the usable stuff (games, controllers I'll actually use, and such) out, and the less important stuff -- extra controllers, unnecessary game boxes, etc -- stored away. I do not have space to keep all that stuff out up here too.
Dude can we have pictures of your pad? For serious. That sounds like an intense set-up. Use a camera phone if you need to. (Hahahahaha ABF having a cell phone.)
We'll do an exchange, a Tendo City Cribs edition. I'll show you my sink full of dirty dishes, in a kitchen that has NO dishwasher (damned if I make that mistake again), my bedroom with black-painted walls (because I never grew out of being an angry teenager) and my cats.
I don't have a cellphone, but I do have a digital camera.
My mom recently asked me if I'd ever played a game called Taz-Mania for the Sega Genesis. I said, oddly enough, yes I had, but wondered why she'd ask about such an obscure old game for an old game system (she's not really a gaming hobbyist, she just plays adventure games every now and then). Apparently, she knows someone online who worked on that game. Huh...
Ugh, Genesis Taz-Mania... it's okay, but it's just LOADED with blind jumps, and I hate that stuff... that's kind of cool, though.
There was a Tazmania for SNES that was pretty good. It killed a weekend, anyway.
Yeah, the SNES one is fun. It's a completely different game from a different publisher; instead of being a platformer, the SNES game is a behind-the-character running action game of sorts. It's simple, but entertaining.
Dreamcast
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Confidential Mission - $4, disc in generic case. Lightgun game from Sega.
Atari 2600
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Chopper Command - $3, cart only. It's a Defender-style game.
Genesis
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Boogerman - $8, cart only. It does have good gameplay, despite the themes involved... too bad the kickstarter for a sequel isn't going well at all.
SNES
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Bust-A-Move - $7, cart only. SNES version of this classic game...
Game Gear Tazmania is even worse than the Genesis version, if you can believe it. If you can't, it isn't. That was a conditional statement.
I got GG Taz-Mania a few months ago, and yeah, it's not very good. However, like most GG platformers it IS short... the Genesis game will take quite a bit more of your time. Plus, it's annoyinv and frustrating for different reasons -- it's got "mediocre/bad GG platformer-itis" (short game, bland design, some annoying elements, etc.), while the Genesis game is mostly just plagued with mountains horrribly frustrating blind jumps.
So yeah, which is worse? I'm not sure, offhand... they're both bad in different ways. I might like the GG game more just because of how much I dislike blind jumps, but it isn't a good game, so... yeah. No decision there.
What I can say, though, is that Sunsoft's Taz-Mania for the Game Boy is a good, fun game, as all of their Looney Tunes platformers for the GB are. It's great fun! And that behind-the-character running action game of theirs on the SNES is okay too, though the GB one is my favorite. Sadly, while there was a second Taz-Mania game on the GB, Sunsoft had nothing to do with it and it isn't nearly as good. Ah well.
The current Humble Bundle is a WB Games bundle. I got it for $5, so I got all the stuff... though I don't really want a bunch of it.
PC DD (all from Humble Bundle collection above)
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Batman: Arkham Asylum (yeah, I didn't previously have this)
Batman: Arkham City GOTY
Scribblenauts Unlimited
Lord of the Rings: War in the North (action hack & slash style game)
Plus games I haven't redeemed yet but probably will eventually:
F.E.A.R. 2
F.E.A.R. 3
Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection (MK1, 2, and UMK3 arcade versions)
LOTR: Guardians of Middle Earth + DLC (a LOTR MOBA? Meh... sorry, MOBAs have never been something I find THAT interesting...) [MOBAs -- DOTA-inspired games. Well, DOTA took the idea from some previous WC3 maps, but that was the one that really got popular. Super successful genre of its own now, but not one I ever found compelling.]
Games I don't have much interest in / aren't really full games:
LOTR Online: Steely Dawn Starter Pack (the game is free to play now with a fee for extra stuff or something I believe. I haven't played it and probably won't, so this pack isn't too useful.)
Gotham City Impostors: Professional Kit (third person shooter this time, yet another free to play game they're giving you some starter stuff for to try to get you hooked. I don't think I care.)
Millenium Skins Pack for Batman: Arkham Origins (the new, third game in the series. Yeah, they give you some DLC for this game in order to try to convince people to buy it. I'm not doing that anytime soon.)
F.E.A.R. (the first one) - I have this already. No need for a second copy.
So yeah, anyone have any interest in anything in that last category? I haven't redeemed any of those yet. If not, meh, I'll just leave them sitting there unused for now, I think.
Unfortunately Humble Bundle changed their redemption process. You can't give out codes to anyone any more.
Yeah you can, they just changed how you do it. There's a little "gift" button to the right of "redeem key"; if you click that, you get a link that you can give someone else so they can redeem the game instead of you. If you have clicked on "redeem" though, it's yours of course, no going back.
PC DD (from sales)
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Skullgirls - $10, on sale on Steam. The sale ends in under 8 hours, so yeah, it's almost over, but the game had a 'free weekend' on Friday and Saturday (yes, ended Sunday morning. How is that "weekend"? Odd...), and it seems pretty good, so I got it. Also the first DLC character is only free until the 22nd, so it saves some money on that too. Oh, this is a 2d fighting game. Very nice animation.
Divine Divinity - $1.50, on sale on GOG (about a day left in the sale). Diablo-esque action-RPG; I've heard good things about it, but haven't played it before.
Slipstream 5000 - $2.39, on sale on GOG (same as above). This is a mid '90s 3d racing game. So yeah, the graphics are primitive. Hopefully it's fun, though. It's a plane racing game, so you're not stuck to the ground... nice.
Atari 2600
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Indy 500 - $3. This game requires the Driving Controller, below. It's a pretty good topdown racing game. Controls are exceptional with the Driving Controller, but single-player content is absurdly limited -- there's only one-minute time trials if you don't have another person (in six maps). Also, unlike Paddle COntrollers, Driving Cotnrollers are annoyingly enough only one to a cord, so I'll have to get another Driving Controller later... only had the money for one, today (the place had three; just repaired them, I believe). The game has very basic, early-2600 graphics, but the gameplay is great, as long as you have someone to play against. But even if single player gets old in ten minutes, it was easily worth it to experience such fantastic controls!
Atari 2600 Driving Controller - $5. It's fixed and working great. This analog controller is basically the same as a Paddle Controller, except with only one on the cord instead of two, and it doesn't have left or right bounds so it spins freely. This gives you OUTSTANDING control of your car! Seriously, if only the NES had a controller like this, games like Super Sprint and Super Off-Road would be so, SO much better... :bummed: Also Indy 500 is the only game that actually works with the things, oddly enough. Yes, atari released a controller with only works with ONE game. Crazy. They should have made some more, the game and controller are great! This controller really is best for top-down racing games, so it's fine that the 2600's behind-the-car racers don't work with it (free-spinning wheels would not be great for behind-the-car...), and Slot Racers used the paddles not the Racing Controller... but still, there could have been something. I think there might be a homebrew game that supports it though... that'd be nice.
Xbox 360 - Digital Download
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Motocross Madness - $2.50, on sale (usually $10). MS is having a sale this week, and this one interests me and it was cheap so I got it. I won't be able to play it until after I get a hard drive, but it looks like a decently fun little game; no match for the old PC Motocross Madness games, but hopefully fun.
Also I haven't been mentioning it, but I have gotten (most of?) the Games with Gold titles. So:
Iron Brigade - free. This is the current one.
A World of Kelfings - free. This is from the first half of November.
Halo 3 - free. This is from a month or two ago, but it wasn't in the thread thanks to the hack, and I didn't list it again. But yeah, I have it.
Crackdown - I have this on disc, but it was free, so I got the digital copy too.
These also I don't have the space to download now of course. No idea if they're any good (Crackdown aside; that is pretty good). I did miss out on one game, Rainbow Six Vegas. I've never had much of any interest in the game, though, so that's no big loss.
It's buy 2 get 1 free at Gamestop this weekend... so I got some stuff.
Xbox 360 (all games are complete unless noted)
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Earth Defense Force 2017 - $9 - It's too bad that the jetpack soldier from the earlier (Japan-only) games isn't in this one, but still, it sounds like cheesy fun...
Lost Odyssey - $13.50 - JRPG; I've heard good things about this one.
Brutal Legend - free, would be $4.50 - who knows, could be good...
Akai Katana - $9 - bullet-hell shmup with a depressing story. I don't expect to like it, but thought I should have it anyway.
Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom - $9 - The game looks interesting. I've heard it's average, but I really want to try it.
Hunted: The Demon's Forge = $9, no manual - Because it's from Brian Fargo, I've really wanted to play this game ever since it was released...
Wii
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Shiren the Wanderer 3 - free, would be $9, disc and case (no manual) - roguelike dungeon crawler. I've heard it's much more approachable than the early games in the series.
DS (both card only)
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WarioWare D.I.Y. - free, would be $7.20 - The first DS one was fun enough...
The Legendary Starfy - $4.50 - it's supposed to be easy but fun.
Also my PowerUp card/subscription expired, so I got another year for the usual $15. I save money for sure, plus Game Informer is occasionally amusing (and comes free with the subscription).
Atari 2600
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Pitfall - $4, cart only. A real classic, this game really pushed the platformer genre forward. I don't know if I like it today or not, but I had to have it.
Moon Patrol - $6, complete (with box and manual). Moon Patrol is a fantastic port of a pretty good arcade game. This game is from 1983, so it's a late pre-death release on the 2600, and it shows -- Moon Patrol's graphics are impressive. They even manage to pull off a "parallax" effect, with the starfield and mountains moving at a different speed from the ground! The game plays just like it should, too. Up to jump is kind of annoying, but it's not too bad here. So yeah, this is great. It's cool that it came with the box and manual, too.
Atari 7800
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Ms. Pac-Man - $4, cart only. It's Ms. Pac-Man. Has one or two player alternating, and you can start from any of a bunch of stages. Good port, I think.
Joust - $4, cart only. Joust is an arcade classic, but it's one I have always had somewhat mixed feelings about. The concept is great, but as a kid I didn't like Joust all that much. The play mechanics are kind of weird and definitely take some getting used to -- the flying, momentum, etc. I can appreciate it now, though; this will never be one of my favorite early arcade games, but it is a good game, and this is a good port. As was very common on the 7800 you have four difficulty level options and one or two player simultaneous play. The graphics look good, too -- it's very close to the arcade, I think.
Genesis
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WeaponLord - cart only, $4. Good fighting game from later in the system's life. There's also a SNES version; each has some advantages over the other, I believe. This game has a fantasy theme and all the characters have weapons, as the name suggests.
I didn't mention it, but I got a second 2600 Driving controller, for Indy 500 multiplayer, the same day as the games in the post above.
Xbox
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Kingdoms Under Fire: The Crusaders - $2, complete.
Top Spin - $1, disc only. Good tennis game.
PS2 - $1 each, disc only games
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Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk - flight combat game
Dance Dance Revolution MAX 2
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
For $7 I also got a (first-party) Xbox 360 Component cable. Previously I'd been using a third party PS2/Xbox/X360 cable, but now I can use that with the original Xbox, and this one with the 360, so I can have both usable without having to switch cables on the back of the systems, which is quite a pain.
Finally, for $4.50 I got the current Humble Jumbo Bundle for PC (with above the average titles; it's low for this one)
PC DD
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Natural Selection 2 - I have no interest in this one but I don't have it so I'll probably add it anyway.
Garry's Mod - same as above.
Sanctum Complete - I've had an interest in this game and will definitely try it.
Sanctum 2 - Same as the first one.
Magicka plus the 'Vietnam' and 'Dungeons and Daemons' DLCs - played the demo, it's alright.
Cities in Motion 2 - who knows, I'll try it.
Plus it also came with a few games I have already. I'll have to give these away or something... they're listed below.
Serious Sam 3:BFE
Orcs Must Die! GOTY
Orcs Must Die 2 Complete - I have this game, with all but one of the DLCs, but that DLC is $5... so yeah, either i redeem this key and get just that (since you can't separate it), or give this away and wait until that goes on sale to buy it... not sure what I'll do.
These are some more games I got back in the summer but were missing from my list on my computer, they didn't get into the posts I did on the last page listing everything I got then. They're all Japanese import games and aren't in IGN's database. All games come with the cart and plastic case only.
Game Gear
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Yuu Yuu Hakusho - Mediocre beat 'em up with horrendously frustrating "1-on-1" boss battles. Game not listed on IGN (though oddly its sequel is).
Fray in Magical Adventure - Good shmup (non-autoscrolling style). It's slow, and isn't nearly as good as the Fray game on Turbo CD that released several years later, but this is an uncommon game which I like, and it was really awesome to get it for a reasonable price. Game not listed on IGN.
Buster Ball - Kind of weird future sports/action game. It takes some getting used to, and has a choppy framerate, but the concept's good... Game not listed on IGN.
House of Tarot - utterly worthless tarot card simulator. It draws cards and then tells you your tarot fortune, in Japanese. That's it. Game not listed on IGN.
The Berlin Wall - Fun puzzle-platformer game in the Bubble Bobble-knockoff genre. Game not listed on IGN.
Pet Club: Inu Dai Suki! (I Love Dogs!) - Dog pet sim. In Japanese. I will never, ever play this! (I hate dogs, if you have forgotten!) Game not listed on IGN.
Atari 2600
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Encounter at L-5 - $6, cart only. Yeah, a bit expensive for a 2600 game, but this is a pretty cool paddle-controlled game, so I thought it was worth it. This game is a single-screen shooter, but with unique, sort of Missile Command-esque controls -- while shooting (hold down the button) you can't move, but instead move a marker left or right to change your angle of fire. Then when you let go of the button, you will warp to the position where the targeting cursor is over. Of course since it's paddle controlled, the game has flawless analog control of your ship's movement and firing directions. The game has almost no variety, of course, but does have a bunch of variations that make it faster and tougher. Decent game.
N64
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World Driver Championship - $3, cart only. I'd always passed on this game because I've always assumed that I wouldn't like it much ,but finally caved in order to see if it does indeed have graphics as good as I'd heard it does -- this game was one of the few which the team got access ot the N64's microcode for, so it's more optimized than most N64 games and has one of the system's higher polygon counts on screen. The game isn't expansion pak enhanced, though, and you can tell. Also, however, it's a somewhat Gran Turismo-esque racing game, not my thing at all. And indeed, the racing isn't something which interest me much -- this game is far from a real PC-style car sim, but you do skid out on turns unless you brake properly. It's okay, but not the kind of game I love. The graphics are nice, though. I don't know if it's the N64's best graphics in a racing game, I still think that Rush 2049 probably is best, but it does look nice. I dislike how absurdly narrow the hi-res letterboxed mode is, though -- it cuts a lot off of the top and bottom of the screen, leaving you with a quite narrow window. At "zoom 2" on my TV it does make it fullscreen, but you lose some of the top and bottom of the picture, more so than in most N64 games. Letterboxing for high res mode is normal on the N64, but this games' letterbox is narrower than most. And in low-res the picture looks a pit pixelated, which I don't like. I think even Roadsters might look better than this, though that is expansion pak enhanced, which helps things... with the expansion pak you could pull off a taller letterbox than this one. That's got a smoother look too though. Anyway, World Driver Championship seems like a decent game, but as I expected, it wasn't one worth spending much on -- which is why I waited until I saw it for this cheap.
PC DD - Steam sale
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Recettear - $5, flash sale - Yeah, I finally got it. Why? I don't know, to have all three of Carpe Fulgur's games maybe? I don't really expect to like this game, I don't like economics much.
Electronic Super Joy (with bonus content) - $1.50. Now this one looks much more promising! This is a 2d platformer with a pretty cool graphical style and some good techno-style music. It's in that "hard platformers" genre I believe, but hopefully it's fun.
PC DD - Steam sale
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Age of Empire II HD + The Forgotten Expansion - $7.50. Yeah, I have the original AoEII (got back after it came out!), and the expansion, but this includes easier Steam online play and, most importantly, an exclusive addon you can only get with this new release. AoEII is one of the great RTS games, so I think it's worth it. Game not listed on IGN.
X360 DD - on sale
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Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 -$5.09. This is on sale because it'll vanish forever in a few days, so they're selling it at a discount until then. I'd never have bought this game otherwise, but this IS a good price for the game, and even if I don't like the Marvel Vs. games all that much, the only one I actually have is the first MvC... I guess I can try one again (after I get a HDD that is). The game sells for way more than this retail.
UMvC - Jill DLC - $1.25. None of the DLC is listed separately on IGN (as usual for DLC).
UMvC - Shogoth DLC character - $1.25. These two characters will be impossible to legally get once the game vanishes from sale.
UMvC - Value Pack - This includes the rest of the DLC stuff which will disappear, which is mostly a whole lost of costumes for the characters.
Steam sale - more stuff. There were others I was interested in, but I got only the most interesting ones... (though I am interested in The Witcher 2, I'd rather get that in physical copy or on GOG, not Steam.)
PC DD
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Antichamber - $5. Supposed to be very hard but quite interesting.
The Bridge - $3, flash sale title. Escher-inspired platform/puzzle game, sort of like Echochrome (PSP)? Yes, I'm very interested!
GOG sale - ends in under 8 hours.
PC DD
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Volgarr the Viking - $4.80. This is a very difficult 2d platformer released this year, done in the style of classic action games, Rygar most notably. Yeah, it's kind of a Rygar meets modern super-hard platformer thing, but still, it's really well done, and this is the cheapest it's been so far.
Realms of Chaos - $2. This game was Apogee's last platformer, released in 1995, and I liked the shareware back then, but not quite enough to buy it. Well, I've finally gotten the game, and I'm sure it'll be fun.
Steam sale
PC DD
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The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav - $4. Adventure game from the people who did The Whispered World and such. Beautiful graphics, game looks decent. Price is the lowest it's been so far. This is a flash sale, so next 8 hours only (unless it repeats sometime).
Steam sale
PC DD
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Rise of the Triad (2013) - $3. Yeah, that's cheap! It's another flash sale title. I've been interested in playing this classic-style shooter, and this is definitely the right price.
Steam sale
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Hotline Miami - $2
Steam sale
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Fallen Enchantress - $5, on sale yesterday (flash sale). This game is the second (I believe) attempt at this teams' Master of Magic-styled game. It's supposed to be much, much better than the first one, Elemental, which got very poor reviews (so much so that this game is not a sequel story-wise), but still is apparently average. The expansion is better, it sounds, but well, I'd rather play the first game first... plus that one cost twice as much, even on sale. I liked Master of Magic a lot back in the mid '90s. This isn't supposed to be as good, but hopefully it's decent.
World of Goo - $1. Decent side-scrolling physics puzzle platformer, and it sure is cheap right now!
Magicka - I got some more of the DLC, including the second addon campaign, The Stars Are Left ($1.25, goes in between the two that came with that Humble Bundle pack; the newest addon isn't on sale), and a variety of other DLCs as well, most with challenge levels in them: Final Frontier (challenge, vs., robe; $0.75), Marshlands (challenge, $0.50), The Other Side of the Coin ($1.25, alternate story and characters), Nippon ($0.25, robe and items), and Grimnir's Laboratory (challenge, $0.25). Yeah, Magicka has a lot of DLC. There's a pack for $6.50 that includes all the cheaper DLC stuff (ie, everything except for the newer addon campaigns), but I don't really want the rest of the stuff -- it's all versus maps and robe packs, and I'd rather save my $2 than pay for that stuff. Oh, I also got the free DLC challenge map set, Free Joiner's Workshop.
Atari 2600
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Kaboom - $3, cart only. This is a popular classic from Activision. Paddle controller game! It's really simple (move left and right and catch the bombs as they fall), but is pretty good with paddles.
Game Boy Color
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Harry Potter - $1. The first of the two GBC Harry Potter RPGs; I have the second one.
SNES
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Cosmo Gang: The Puzzle - $6, cart only. This is a Japanese import game I got at a local store. Block-dropping puzzle game stuff. Game not listed on IGN (though the arcade version is).
Also, for $4 each I got copies of the official Nintendo Power guides for Zelda: OoT and Majora's Mask. Maybe I can finally force myself to finish Majora's Mask now...
Steam sale
PC DD
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PixelJunk Eden - $1, flash sale. Could be interesting? Seemed worth checking out, for that price.
Xbox 360 Live Arcade (Digital Download)
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Eternal Sonata - $3.75, on sale. This game is a physical disc action-RPG game, but it's a lot cheaper here. I'll play it eventually.
Moon Diver - $3.75, on sale. Side-scrolling action game. Looks interesting enough to be worth a try.
Tales of Vesperia - ~$10, on sale. I'll have to play this.
Steam sale
PC DD
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Sid Meier's Civilization V: Brave New World - $10.19, on sale. Expansion to Civ V... it sounds pretty good.
Hammerwatch - $3.35, on sale. Pixel-art Gauntlet-style game? Sounds interesting! Game not listed on IGN.
Valdis Story - $3.75, on sale. This is a side-scrolling action-RPG. Could be interesting, we'll see. This was a successful kickstarter, apparently, but I hadn't heard of it before.
These games were 3 for $20. Looking them up, on ebay I could get these for a few bucks less in total, but it's way, WAY below the Gamestop prices for the games, which is pretty good. Those cheap ebay auctions are not always reliable either, who knows what condition you'd get the game in...
All games are complete with case and manual.
Xbox 360
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Warhammer: Battle March - An RTS. Probably won't be much fun with a gamepad, but I couldn't resist anyway.
Tekken 6 - I'm not really sure why I got this one given that I dislike the series, but I did. Ah well.
Dishonored - I'd probably enjoy this more on the PC, but eh, it could work on consoles... and I'm sure it'll run better than the PC version would on my now-aging machine. Also this was a little cheaper than the PC version (which I don't have) was during the most recent Steam sale; I'm sure with enough waiting I could have gotten the PC version for less, but again, how badly would it have run... probably not well.
Lego Pirates of the Carribean - I like Lego and the PotC movies, so why not try this one. It's probably fun enough.
Wii
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Need for Speed: Nitro - This is the Wii-exclusive NFS game. It's supposed to be reasonably good.
Need for Speed: The Run - I don't have too high expectations from this one, but I'd like to try it... it's the NFS game with on-foot parts and the like. That is, if the Wii version has that stuff. :p
My Christmas gift for myself (partially paid for with Christmas money) arrived, another big box of games from Japan.
All of these games are Japanese import games, of course. Shipping was $95, which is a lot, but averages to just a bit over $3 a game, which is much more reasonable (when you get so much).
Game Boy
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Yaiba! - Cart only. Decent looking licensed platformer. Game not listed on IGN.
Parodius Da - Cart only. GB version of this great Konami shmup. #1 reason I got this stuff.
Pocket Monsters Red - Cart and plastic case. I'll probably try to sell this one.
Fushigi no Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer GB - Not sure if I'll play it seriously, but it's interesting to have.
Game Gear
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Gunstar Heroes - $16, cart and plastic case. Yeah, this was expensive, but it's a pretty interesting late Game Gear game with impressive action for the system. Earlier GG action games often are full of slowdown, but this one manages to run faster... though at the cost of having a LOT of flicker. Still though, impressive work for the GG. Sega was pretty stupid to not bring this over to the US.
N64
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Super Mario 64: Rumble Pack Edition - Mario 64, but with rumble pack support. Japan exclusive. There's also Wave Race 64 with rumble support, I need to get that! Game not listed on IGN.
Doraemon 2: - $11.50, complete. This is the second of the three Doraemon 3d platformers on the N64. I'm always interested in playing another N64 3d platformer.
SNES
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Mickey to Donald Magical Adventure 3 - cart only. This is the third and lad Mickey's Magical Quest game, which wasn't released in the US on SNES, only much later on GBA. The GBA game is pricey and costs just as much as this import did, though, so why not get the better version...
Mario & Wario - complete. This game is one I've wanted for years! This is a game that was supposed to release in the US, but didn't for some stupid reason. It's a puzzle game which is designed for the SNES mouse. You play as this fairy girl (she's your mouse cursor) and have to guide helpless Mario, who got a bucket stuck on his head, through many side-scrolling levels by moving blocks and stuff to keep him from running into obstacles.
Dreamcast
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Tomoyo's Video Operation - complete and with spine card. I probably shouldn't have gotten this one, but too late... ah well. It's a short, weird game where you have to take photos of stuff... sort of like anime Pokemon Snap.
Saturn - all games are complete (though they only have the spine card if noted).
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Solo Crisis - With spine card. This is a strategy/sim game. It's got a Populous-like angled viewpoint, but the world is 3d. You can affect the world, as you try to defend your people and get them to the goal in each map. The twist is that there are two sides to the world, and when you raise the land on one side it lowers (and maybe goes underwater) on the other, for example. I've seen some videos of this on Youtube, and it looks like it might be interesting.
Nairugawa no Yoake (Birth of the Nile) - This is a city-building game set in ancient Egypt. I don't know why they didn't bother properly translating the tile for the end-label, but they didn't. I doubt I'll be able to play this one too well, but there's virtually nothing about it online in English and I sometimes like this genre and it was cheap, so I decided to give it a try. Game not listed on IGN.
Dead or Alive - The Saturn version of this game has better graphics than the PS1 version, but it has scores fewer costumes and no Ayane... but I got it anyway. Well, I DO like the game for sure (I got every costume in the PS1 version a few years ago, after all!), so I'm sure it'll be fun even without the best character. :p
TurboGrafx-16 (PC Engine) [HuCard games]
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Gradius - $26, complete. Yeah, this was an expensive one, but Gradius is my favorite shmup series and this is the best console version of the first Gradius game, so I had to get it. This game has an exclusive level, so it's the longest version of the game, and the graphics are just about the same as the arcade game. Very nice.
Bravoman - Card only. Fun 2d platform/action game. I'm happy to get this one. There is a US version of this game, but this is cheaper.
Jantei Necromancer - Card only. JRPG I'm sure I will never play much at all (part of a lot).
Vigilante - Card only. Side-scrolling beat 'em up. It's pretty mediocre, but hopefully this is at least better than the Master System version, which I have.
Genpei Toumaden - Card only. Okay, kind of weird platform/action game from Namco. This games' sequel released in the US as Samurai Ghost, but we didn't get this one. Game not listed on IGN.
Mahjong Haou: Kaiser's Quest - Complete, . Yes, it's another mahjong game. This one's a fantasy RPG themed mahjong game, though as usual it's got girl pictures in it I think, they always seem to do that. Game not listed on IGN.
F-1 Circus - Complete, . This is the first game in the F1 Circus series. It's much like the second game, but with simpler graphics and track designs. I like this one though, and definitely wanted to have it... sure F1 Circus is really hard, but it's fun to play anyway, at least some of the time... I mean, once you start to learn the tracks a bit it is. :)
Turbo CD (PCE CD) - All games are 'complete' (game+case+manual); only noted titles have spine cards though.
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CD
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Minesweeper - I really wanted to try this one... I like Minesweeper on the PC (it's true), and I'm interested to try this Japanese console version of the game. And yes, it IS Minesweeper. It's got the usual game, plus a little quest mode too. :) Game not listed on IGN.
CD / Super CD Dual-mode
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Ranma 1/2 Ganso Musabetsu Kakutohryu - This is the third and last Ranma game for the Turbo CD, and it's the only one with Super CD support. The first game, which I have, is a mediocre platform-beat 'em up. The second is a digital comic adventure game; it's supposed to be good, but I haven't convinced myself to try any of those yet (so much text!). This one is a fighting game. It's from Masaya, who also did the first two SNES Ranma games, and those are both very mediocre. Hopefully this one is better, but I'll probably like it somewhat anyway, since I really liked the Ranma series.
Macross 2036 - $26. Well-regarded horizontal shmup. Hopefully it's worth the money. It is at least good, for sure.
Super CD
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Browning - Mediocre at best side-scrolling mech action game from Telenet. Game not listed on IGN.
The Record of Lodoss War 2 - Second half of the story. The game is in a dual-jewel case again, and comes with a map/spell chart poster, and mini audio CD as well.
Xak 1 & 2 - With spine card. Pretty decent action-RPG in the Ys mold. Xak III is better, but these are good too. Game not listed on IGN.
Dragon Knight 2 - $5. First person dungeon-crawling RPG with lots of scantily clad anime girls in it. NEC allowed more of that stuff than the other console makers. I like dungeon crawlers though... or at least I like some of them, we'll see about this. Game not listed on IGN.
Hawk F-123 - $5. Pretty good, and cheap, horizontal shmup. Good game for the price. Game not listed on IGN.
Travel Epule - Topdown action game, somewhat Bomberman-ish, with two player co-op. Looks fun. Game not listed on IGN.
Human Sports Festival - This collection has a tennis game, based on the HuCard Final Match Tennis game but with female characters instead of male ones only as the HuCard had, a golf game, and a soccer game. The tennis game should be pretty good, but we'll see about the others. Game not listed on IGN.
Sorcerian - Japanese console port of a Western PC game. The main menu is full of Japanese text, but there is a translation for it, and once you get in the game it's fine. Ugly graphics, but they are better than the US PC version...
Alshark - JRPG with pretty ugly ingame graphics. It's a port of an X68000 game apparently. There is a basic English guide for the game, though, so it's playable. It's got some nice cinema scenes too, and the sci-fi theme is nice -- it's got spaceships, laser swords, and the like. Game not listed on IGN (though the not as good Sega CD version is).
Monster Maker - Another JRPG. This game is in one of those thicker-single-jewelcase cases that I've seen in a few Japanese games here and there (Daytona Circuit Edition for Saturn, Rune Jade for Dreamcast, maybe another...). The game looks mediocre and I'm sure I'll get stuck early on, but I was interested so I got it anyway. It does have decently good graphics and a female lead character (who, as the title suggests, can tame monsters and get them in your party I believe)
Super Real Mahjong Special - Average-looking mahjong game.
Super/Arcade and Arcade Card games - again 'complete'.
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Brandish - $2.25. Arcade CD-enhanced Super CD game. With the Arcade Card you get better animation in the cutscenes and less loading. As for the game, it's the same as the US SNES version of Brandish, just with slightly worse graphics but with anime cutscenes and voice acting and stuff (and a lower price too). It's a top-down action-RPG from Falcom with the very weird quirk that the perspective shifts as you turn, as if it was a first-person game from the era.
Fatal Fury 2 - Arcade Card required. I don't have an Arcade Card yet, but once I do it'll be nice to have a game for it. I can wait though, Fatal Fury isn't one of my favorite fighting game series... but this is a good port of the game, and I do like SNK fighters, so it was worth getting. (I didn't previously have any versions of FF2, either.)
TG16 Hardware
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Super System Card 3.0 - complete, $11.50. I was going to only get an Arcade Card, but those are a good $50-60, which just was too expensive, so I ended up finally getting this thing which will become useless once I finally get an Arcade Card. The price sure is a lot lower, and only a relative few games support or require the Arcade Card.
Xbox 360
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Lost Planet: Extreme Condition - Colonies Edition - $5, complete. Lost Planet with extra stuff included (DLC?). I haven't played these games, but I'll try one.
All the rest of the games were $2 each, and came with the carts and plastic cases. I was also given 11 extra Game Boy and 2 extra Game Gear cases, above the ones for the games below; the store didn't want them. GG/GB cases can be useful.
Game Boy
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Dead Heat Scramble - Fun point-to-point top-down racing game. This is a simple game, as you just avoid teh stuff and try to reach the end of each stage before running out of time, but it quickly gets tough. I like this, it's basic but good.
Penguin Wars - Weird little game where you and another animal throw balls at eachother from across a table. The winner is the one with fewer balls on their side when time runs out. This is average at best, I think.
Hyper Lode Runner - It's Lode Runner, but harder! Yeah, this is tough... I'm having trouble even with the first stage. It's meant for people who have played a lot more classic Lode Runner than I have, though. Very basic graphics, but the gameplay's here. It has 50 stages (common for the series back then), and you can play them in any order (they're all unlocked). I guess this was worth getting, I didn't have it before.
Lock 'n Chase - This is a sequel, or remake, to the classic arcade/Atari 2600 game Lock n Chase. It's a Pac-Man knockoff where you can close doors in the maze in order to lock the police chasing you out of certain paths for a while, so you can try to escape. Yeah, you play as the badguy here. I have the Atari version, but this one has a level progression, multiple maps, and better graphics. This is a fine classic arcade game, good stuff.
Game Gear
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Paperboy 2 - Why did I get this? I know I don't like Paperboy all that much, it's such a punishingly hard series... and I have the SNES version of this but have barely played it. But I remember playing GG Paperboy back in the early '90s, so I got it anyway. It IS an arcade classic, even if it's frustratingly hard... those targets you have to hit, the mailboxes or doormats, are so small! As if people would cancel the newspaper just because the paper was one foot into the driveway instead of being on the doormat... hah!
Gear Works - This is a puzzle game where you have to find a way to get a chain of gears across the screen, to turn a specific goal gear. You have several different sizes of gears to work with, and each level has a new layout of points you can attach gears to. We got the PC version of this back in the early '90s, but it's glitched or something and you can't beat the first world, it just loops forever. That was disappointing, since this is a somewhat fun game. I'm sure this one will actually work correctly, so I'd definitely like to play it. :)
Yes, another box of stuff from Japan. One more, then that'll be it for another long while. First though, a few other little things.
First, these three were on sale on Microsoft's web store a few weeks ago. They're from the physical-products MS store, not the downloads stores.
Xbox 360
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NeverDead - new, $4 - we'll see...
PC
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DarkSpore - $3, new - I'm interested in playing this one.
Homefront - $3, new - maybe just barely interesting enough for a few bucks?
Also I got a triwing screwdriver for $2, to take apart Game Boy stuff with. I successfully repaired my solid green GBC, so it's working correctly now for the first time! Yeah, this is the first time in a while I've had a fully working GBC; I have three of them, but all were broken or damaged. Now one works. Unfortunately I couldn't fix the one with the bad speaker, but maybe I can do something if the board from the one with the dead screen still works... we'll see. Also, I managed to get my original GBA's d-pad working better, which is good. The screen is still badly scratched so I wouldn't want to use it much (unless I replace the screen cover), but at least it's usable now for, like, 3-player GC-link games and stuff, along with my other, working-fine GBA and the GBA-SP.
Finally, for about $4 I got a Dreamcast disc that lets me swap in games from other regions, so as to play import games easily. Works great.
The stuff below is the big one though... yeah, spending too much on this. At least I'm not really spending anything else on games, as the infrequent updates to this thread show. :) This time shipping was $120. Some larger items. All prices below don't include that items's share of the shipping of course.
The six GB/C games were one lot, $11.50. Good price, particularly for the first one, which is the reason I bought the lot. The six are all cart only. The last game (in the GBC category) isn't in the lot and is complete.
Game Boy
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Rubble Saver II - This game is the sequel to The Adventures of Star Saver, which I got a few months back. It's a sidescrolling action-shooting game. Uncommon game, and it didn't release in the US. The European version (titled Max) seems even rarer than the Japanese one, but this isn't common either. And it is good, just like the first game is. This made this lot worth it for sure, you can pay well over that for this game.
Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins - Will probably sell this one, I have this of course in its US release.
Ultraman Chou Toushi Gekiden - Mediocre at best looking sidescroller. I would not have gotten this apart from the lot.
GB/GB Color Dual-Mode
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Pocket Monsters Gold - I'm not sure if I'll keep or sell this one... I don't have it, but I don't care much about it either and there is an English version.
Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Malta no Fushigina Kagi - Iru no Bouken (Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Tara's Adventure) - Not sure if I'll keep this one or not; I probably will for now. It's the girl-PC version of the second Dragon Quest Pokemon-inspired game series.
GBC Only
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Koro Koro Kirby (Kirby Tilt n Tumble) - Will probably sell this one. I've had the US version since it first released, of course.
Sakura Wars GB2 Limited Edition - Complete, $30. This comes with the game, complete in a smaller box, and a Sakura Wars: Mission Thunderbolt-labelled (yes, in English) Game Boy holding bag, both inside a larger box. This is an uncommon game -- no other copies sold on ebay in the last 3 months - and looked moderately interesting -- unlike the other Saturn Wars games, this one is mostly a dungeon crawler style RPG. It's got some visual novel stuff, but the gameplay is RPG dungeon crawling. Sounds decent. Plus, that LE with the GB holding bag interested me as well. It's just the right size to hold any GBC-sized handheld! I'll definitely use it for some system. The only guide for this is an item translation list, but for the dungeons that should be plenty.
NES (Famicom) - All three of these games released in 1990-'91. It's nice to get some more later releases, many of my FC games are the really early stuff that doesn't look nearly as good as these.
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Magical Taruruuto-kun - complete, $6. Nice-looking platformer. Famicom boxes are interesting, I know they vary in size but this one is just barely bigger than the cartridge, which of course makes it a small box. Game not listed on IGN.
Jackie Chan's Action Kung-Fu - cart only, $4.74. This has a US release, but this was a lot cheaper. It's a Hudson platformer. There's also a better Turbografx version, but I don't have it yet. The two aren't quite the same game, it's not like Bonk's Adventure where that is a down-port.
Parman - cart only, $6. Irem platform/action game. It looks good, and is available but not one of their cheaper games. Game not listed on IGN.
Super Nintendo (Super Famicom)
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Super Robot Taisen EX - complete, $2. An entry in the long-running giant robot strategy game franchise using robots from many licenses. Yes, the licensing nightmare is why we've never seen any of these games, other than three that use only original characters and not licensed ones. I have one of those three, the second GBA one. It's good.
Super Robot Taisen IV - complete, $3. The last of four SNES Super Robot Taisen games. Yeah, these were cheap. Wouldn't have gotten them otherwise, but hopefully they're fun. I like strategy games, but we'll see. Oh yeah, and both have extensive guides on GameFAQs.
TurboGrafx CD (PC Engine CD)
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Mahjong Clinic Special - $4.80. Another mahjong game. Mahjong games can be tough, but yeah, they are fun; I'm not getting these just to have. Game not listed on IGN.
Tenchi Muyo: Ryo Oki! - $4.75. This one is a digital comic. I know the series, so hopefully I'll be able to make sense out of it. :)
Dragon Knight III - $4.75. Unlike Dragon Knight 2, this one is top-down instead of first-person. Otherwise it's similar dungeon-crawling stuff. Game not listed on IGN (though they do have the PC version).
Burai II - $3.75. This game is supposed to be much improved over the first Burai, so I might play them out of order... plus, it does have a solid guide for playing it in English, and is supposed to be a decently good game.
Also for the PCE/TG16 I got a 6-button NEC Avenue 6 controller for $19.50. Yeah, they're expensive, but worth it... without that SFII is kind of unfun, and there are another ten or so fighting games that also benefit, one of which I have. Plus it looks great and is comfortable to hold. I'll be using this a lot, I think.
Sega CD (Mega CD)
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Yumimi Mix - $0.45. I bid on some other Mega CD games, but only won this one... ah well, I can't play it on the actual system yet anyway, since I'd need a conversion or flash cart to do that. Flash carts that let you play import CD games are easy to find now, but if this is the only import game I have, I won't need that now. It's cool to have though; the disc art really is very nice, in full color and with color "Mega CD" and "MD" logos on it too, and the manual's good and lengthy. I've played the game before on a copy disc, and it's decent for a FMV-ish game. The nice Game Arts art design helps. And the very low price. :p Game not listed on IGN.
Sega Saturn - all come with case and manual, any other contents are as listed.
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Bouken Katsugeki Mono Mono - $3. 80. Somewhat obscure action-RPG with a nice cartoony art style. You play as a ninja guy. The game has nice 2d graphics, visible enemies, and side-scrolling battles. Could be good. Game not listed on IGN.
Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete - MPEG Edition - $6.50. Yes, this is the only Saturn game which requires the MPEG Card, which I don't have yet. Well, I'll need to get one; I do also have one other game that'd benefit from it, Vatlva. I already have several versions of Lunar 1, but you can't have too many Lunar games... :)
Gale Racer - $5, with spine card. Mediocre early Saturn racing game from Sega. It uses scaling sprites and is somewhat Outrun-esque, but isn't quite Outrun's level. Draw distance is a bit close too. But it IS a Sega racing game, so I got it.
Cyber Troopers Virtual-On - $1.31. This also has a US release, but this was cheaper and the game itself is the same. I don't like the DC version much, but the Saturn controller should be slightly better for this...
Langrisser V: The End of Legend - $4. This is the last game in this series' chronology, though a few more gaems released after it that aren't in the main series. This is a strategy game sersei from Masaya, and is considered Growlanser's predecessor. That series has some design similarities and art by the same concept artist, though it's not from the same company since Masaya was shut down in 2000. Langrisser is complex, so fortunately it does have a good guide on GameFAQs. I now have the first (Warsong, for Genesis) and fifth games; will need to fill in the ones in between, I think. (Growlanser IV: Wayfarer of Time for PSP is the best game on the PSP!)
Wachenroder - $3.75, complete with spine card, sticker sheet, and artbook, as well as the manual. This is in a thick jewel case. Wachenroder is a 1998 release, and it seems like a fairly impressive effort going by the packaging -- they stuff a lot of stuff into this case! There's just as much or more than some games which used full dual-jewel cases, but nicely they used this smaller size. I just hope the game, which is a SRPG (and yes it does have a good GameFAQs guide), is as good as the packaging. It looks like a somewhat sad game going by the art, but the steampunk/1930s-style art design is very cool. I really like the "W" logo. The sticker sheet has a large sticker of the female character, and several smaller stickers of logos and the games' name. They're all still there, so I think I'll leave them.
Super Real Mahjong P V - $1.38, with spine card. Mahjong game. Fifth game in this series of fairly basic mahjong titles. 18+ rated for some nudity, maybe this series was successful and long-running because it was fanservicer than many? Or maybe they were just cheap and profitable to make, who knows. Super Real Mahjong 1 for TGCD is mediocre, so I wouldn't pay much for this, but it didn't cost much.
Idol Jansi Suchie-Pai II - $4, complete with artbook. Another mahjong game, also with nudity. This one is a bigger effort -- it's a two-disc game and comes with an artbook in the case too. Yeah, this series didn't last as long as the above one. This game also actually takes time in its manual to actually explain winning mahjong hands,with pictures! That's great, none of the Turbo CD mahjong games I have bother to do that. I definitely didn't get these because they're fanservicey, just to have some more mahjong games; Saturn/TG16 mahjong games just usually seem to be full of that stuff. I'm not sure which ones aren't... that Sega CD one maybe? I think that one even has four player support, which would be great; all these others are two player only (1p vs. 1 cpu), which is kind of limited in comparison.
Playstation
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Galaxian 3 - $2.25. This game is a Starblade-style lightgun-style "rail" shooter. Of course, this game is from Namco, the same company which made Starblade, so that's probably not a cooincidence. As in Starblade, in Galaxian 3 you fly through space along a railed predetermined path and shoot thigns as they appear. Oddly enough this game was only released in Japan and isn't all that common, but isn't too expensive either, so I got it. It even has four player multiplayer, and PS1 Mouse support! The PS1 can handle four cursors on screen at the same time, I guess. :) Oddly this game has Japanese text only on both sides of the case; most PS1 and Saturn games have English on one side. The title is English on the manual, though. So yeah, it's like a PC Engine CD game in that respect -- those games often have English titles on the cover, but only Japanese on both ends of the case.
Summon Night 2 - $5.50, complete with spine card. This game is in a somewhat odd double-thick special jewelcase thing. The game has two discs, buyt it's not the usual dual-jewel case. Interesting. This is my first Summon Night SRPG, but I of course really love the Summon Night action-RPGs on the GBA. I've been wanting to try one of the main strategy game series.
Nintendo 64
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64 Trump: Alice's Waku Waku Trump World - complete, $1. This is a card game collection. It was cheap and is an N64 game that isn't a sports game and looked maybe possibly decent, so I got it. It has on-cart saving, which is nice. It was cheap too.
Dreamcast - All games are complete with the case and manual, and all except for Aero Wings i come with spine cards as well. Other stuff is as listed.
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Aero Dancing i - $3.05. This is the third and last game in the Aero Wings series, as it was called in the US, but this one unfortunately didn't get a US release. It's a flight sim/combat game. The other ones are good, this one should be too.
Dead or Alive 2 L.E. - $11.50, complete with spine card (and also a Sega points card, as if that can still be redeemed :p). I overpaid for this one, but at least it was for a great game... could have gotten this for almost half as much if I'd been paying attention. Ah well. I do love this game, and wanted to own this version of it since it's the best Dreamcast release -- versus the US release, this version adds a more playable character (Bayman) and ~1-7 new costumes per character, too. Yeah, that's why I have always passed on the US DOA2 release. Interestingly this is in one of those thick single jewel cases that some Japanese games use, in order to have a manual thick enough to have move lists for every character.
Sorcerian Shichisei - Mahou no Shiko Limited Edition - $5.50, with dual-jewel case, soundtrack, spinecard, and character/item list poster. This DC Sorcerian game is the last new Sorcerian title, and it was quite unpopular because of bad graphics and dated gameplay. Sorcerian is a decently good game, though, and this version is no different. Yeah, the graphics aren't great, but still it's interesting seeing the game in 2.5d. This game is a collection of some of the original missions, plus some new stuff. And the Limited Edition comes with a nice Sorcerian series soundtrack CD, too. Good price for this, I think.
Sakura Wars Hanagumi Taisen Columns 2 - $15, with spine card, manual, ad booklet, and pack of 6 Sakura Taisen character cards. This is the sequel to Hanagumi Taisen Columns 1 for the Saturn, which I have, and is Sega's only new Columns game on the Dreamcast. Columns isn't the greatest puzzle game, but it was a good enough one to last a dozen years, so it clearly did something right -- and it did, because even if it's sometimes too simple, Columns had a good concept and is a good series. This one is no different. Puyo Puyo 4 is better, but this game is good too. This one-disc game could have been in a thick single jewel case instead of a dual-jewel case, though... it would have easily fit, those cards don't take up THAT much more space and the manual is only 30 pages. Instead it's a space-wasting dual-jewel. Ah well.
Vampire Chronicle For Matching Service - $13.70, with spine card. Yeah, this was expensive, but the For Matching Service titles are like that -- they weren't sold in stores I believe, only online, so sales were limited. Street Fighter II X (Turbo) For Matching Service sells for like $100, so this is much more affordable than that game, but it's still not cheap. It IS a great DarkStalkers collection, though. This game is the basis of DarkStalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower for PSP, except with less loading time than that version, for sure.
Sakura Wars 3 Limited Edition Ver. B - $9.38, with spinecard, all paperwork, and the L.E. VMU. Sakura Wars was Sega's most popular series through the second half of the '90s, in Japan at least. I got the only US-released one, Sakura Wars (5): So Long, My Love; it's okay. Basically it's mostly visual novel, with occasional strategy game battles with mechs (of course). Anyway, I got these, this game and the one below, in part to have (the series is interesting, and all four of the first games have very thorough FAQs translating everything on GameFAQs), but also because the special editions interested me. This one includes the game (with everything, including another pack of trading cards) and a brown/gold colored VMU with matching cap. I can always use more memory cards for the DC, and this is a pretty cool one to have. The Sakura Wars 1 and 2 DC version LEs come with pink rumble pack and VMU, respectively, and the first game for Saturn comes with a Saturn mouse and Sakura Wars mousepad. I don't have those though, but this one is nice. And I'll definitely use the VMU! The price was sane, too; LE stuff can get crazy, but this went for relatively cheap.
Sakura Wars 4 Limited Edition - $9.38, complete with spinecard, all papers, and a set of Sakura Wars metal charm things and a strap. Yeah, serious kitch with this one! I presume they're meant as cellphone charms.
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/sakurat...-dc-le.jpg Image. Each one has a picture of one of the characters on it on one side, engraved into the metal, and their name written on the back, in cursive (Japanese for the Japanese characters, our alphabet for the ones from the third game since that one's set in France).
Game Boy Advance
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Custom Robo GX - $15, complete. Only one more Custom Robo game to go now; the only one I'm missing is the second N64 game. This one is 2d, with side-scrolling 2d battles instead of the usual 3d ones, which fits the GBA's hardware well. All of the other Custom Robo games are really good, hopefully this one is as well.