Games Bought Thread 3

[A Black Falcon]

So, today I got two probably bad DS games, and some memory cards.

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

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

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

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

What do you think of the top-mounted fire button then, do you get used to it after a while?

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

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

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

Overall though, I very rarely use light guns because I'm terrible with them; I'm no good at hitting anything with light guns, and definitely am a lot better at light gun games that let you use a mouse, versus having to use the gun...