10th July 2010, 1:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 12th November 2014, 1:29 AM by A Black Falcon.)
New Games
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6/27/10
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From the local Library Book Sale. Got on the final day of the sale, when it's $3 a bag, so each of these items indiviudually cost very little.
Timex Sinclair (quite rare in the US '80s computer that was popular in England as the Sinclair Spectrum)
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Chess (cassette tape game) (complete in box) (what a strange find...)
PC
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Hard Truck II (jewelcase only) - terrible racing game
Pharoah: Cleopatra (expansion to Pharoah, a game that I do not have) (jewelcase only)
Hot Wheels Stunt Track Challenge (jewelcase only)
7/2/10
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From Goodwill... a Goodwill I hadn't been to before. They had some pretty cool stuff. :)
Genesis
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Instruments of Chaos Starring Young Indiana Jones - $1 (complete) - okay game, nice whip controls but some annoying elements to the gameplay
PC (quite a variety of stuff, CD games from 1992 to 2006...)
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Jewels of the Oracle - $2 (complete)
Battlegammon -$2 (jewelcase only) (a Backgammon game ripping off Battle Chess...) - Game not listed on IGN
Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers - $2 (jewelcase only) - quality platformer also on various consoles
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe (1992) - $1 (disc in generic case only)
John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles - $2 (discs in generic dual jewel only) - good looking horror adventure game
Age of Mythology: Gold Edition - $2 (I have the base game, but not the addon... one of Ensemble's weaker games really, but still, worth it I think)
Bengal - $3 (jewelcase in slipcover only, but that's how it would sell - this is a budget Zuma clone)
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga - $2 (jewelcase only) (a collection of Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds and its expansion. It's an RTS that uses the Age of Empires II engine, and plays a lot like that game, but with Star Wars stuff instead. Really, this feels like a Star Wars AOE2 total conversion... the gameplay is pretty much identical.
Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile - $2 (jewelcase only) (the first city-building team from Tilted Mill, a studio founded by ex-Impressions staff (Impressions had pretty much created that genre with Caesar and its followups, of course). I've been interested in these games, but had never gotten them.)
American Conquest: Divided Nation - $2 (jewelcase only)
Also, I didn't get them, but the oddest thing I saw was, of all things, 16 Memorex VIS CDs... no VIS there, so who knows why they were all donated. The Memorex VIS isn't something I think I have seen in person -- it's a rare and very unsuccessful early '90s CD-based console that focused on edutainment stuff. And indeed, almost all of the discs were either young kids' games, encyclopedias, and things like that. Animal Encyclopedia, History Timeline, American Presidents, Kid Fun (actually a kids' karoke disc), etc... only two of the 16 discs were games for people over the age of six, I think -- Links (a version of the PC golf game) and a graphic adventure game about whaling sponsored by an environmental group that I can't remember the name of offhand. Still, I was quite tempted, if just because of the rarity of the system... at $2 each, though, I didn't really quite think it'd be worth it, unless those discs are actually rare and valuable or something, which I doubt. If a system had been there, maybe... but oh well. I have almost never seen VIS CDs before (and have never seen a system as far as i can remember), so I thought it was pretty interesting. :)
7/12
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Xbox
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Metal Slug 3 - complete, $10 -- Stupid waste of money, given that I already have the PS2 collection and that has infinite, at-point continues while the Xbox version is ridiculously broken because continues send you back to the beginning of the level (and yes, I know this. I've spent quite a bit of time with the Xbox version of Metal Slug 3, my cousins have it)? Yes. But ultimately irresistible anyway, considering how much I love the series and that if through some miracle I ever actually beat this nearly impossible game (MS3 level 5 with only one continue is an insane, insane challenge...) you unlock several Xbox-exclusive bonus modes? Unfortunately, also yes.
... :) ?
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6/27/10
--
From the local Library Book Sale. Got on the final day of the sale, when it's $3 a bag, so each of these items indiviudually cost very little.
Timex Sinclair (quite rare in the US '80s computer that was popular in England as the Sinclair Spectrum)
--
Chess (cassette tape game) (complete in box) (what a strange find...)
PC
--
Hard Truck II (jewelcase only) - terrible racing game
Pharoah: Cleopatra (expansion to Pharoah, a game that I do not have) (jewelcase only)
Hot Wheels Stunt Track Challenge (jewelcase only)
7/2/10
--
From Goodwill... a Goodwill I hadn't been to before. They had some pretty cool stuff. :)
Genesis
--
Instruments of Chaos Starring Young Indiana Jones - $1 (complete) - okay game, nice whip controls but some annoying elements to the gameplay
PC (quite a variety of stuff, CD games from 1992 to 2006...)
--
Jewels of the Oracle - $2 (complete)
Battlegammon -$2 (jewelcase only) (a Backgammon game ripping off Battle Chess...) - Game not listed on IGN
Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers - $2 (jewelcase only) - quality platformer also on various consoles
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe (1992) - $1 (disc in generic case only)
John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles - $2 (discs in generic dual jewel only) - good looking horror adventure game
Age of Mythology: Gold Edition - $2 (I have the base game, but not the addon... one of Ensemble's weaker games really, but still, worth it I think)
Bengal - $3 (jewelcase in slipcover only, but that's how it would sell - this is a budget Zuma clone)
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga - $2 (jewelcase only) (a collection of Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds and its expansion. It's an RTS that uses the Age of Empires II engine, and plays a lot like that game, but with Star Wars stuff instead. Really, this feels like a Star Wars AOE2 total conversion... the gameplay is pretty much identical.
Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile - $2 (jewelcase only) (the first city-building team from Tilted Mill, a studio founded by ex-Impressions staff (Impressions had pretty much created that genre with Caesar and its followups, of course). I've been interested in these games, but had never gotten them.)
American Conquest: Divided Nation - $2 (jewelcase only)
Also, I didn't get them, but the oddest thing I saw was, of all things, 16 Memorex VIS CDs... no VIS there, so who knows why they were all donated. The Memorex VIS isn't something I think I have seen in person -- it's a rare and very unsuccessful early '90s CD-based console that focused on edutainment stuff. And indeed, almost all of the discs were either young kids' games, encyclopedias, and things like that. Animal Encyclopedia, History Timeline, American Presidents, Kid Fun (actually a kids' karoke disc), etc... only two of the 16 discs were games for people over the age of six, I think -- Links (a version of the PC golf game) and a graphic adventure game about whaling sponsored by an environmental group that I can't remember the name of offhand. Still, I was quite tempted, if just because of the rarity of the system... at $2 each, though, I didn't really quite think it'd be worth it, unless those discs are actually rare and valuable or something, which I doubt. If a system had been there, maybe... but oh well. I have almost never seen VIS CDs before (and have never seen a system as far as i can remember), so I thought it was pretty interesting. :)
7/12
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Xbox
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Metal Slug 3 - complete, $10 -- Stupid waste of money, given that I already have the PS2 collection and that has infinite, at-point continues while the Xbox version is ridiculously broken because continues send you back to the beginning of the level (and yes, I know this. I've spent quite a bit of time with the Xbox version of Metal Slug 3, my cousins have it)? Yes. But ultimately irresistible anyway, considering how much I love the series and that if through some miracle I ever actually beat this nearly impossible game (MS3 level 5 with only one continue is an insane, insane challenge...) you unlock several Xbox-exclusive bonus modes? Unfortunately, also yes.
... :) ?
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