31st January 2014, 11:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 7th February 2014, 10:34 PM by A Black Falcon.)
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.
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
--
NeverDead - new, $4 - we'll see...
PC
--
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).
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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.
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