13th January 2006, 11:01 PM
I'm not sure, but I might have surpassed even myself in game buying volume over the past few weeks... I've spent $180+ on videogames, and plan on spending at least $15 more tomorrow... yeah...
-GC - Fire Emblem (the one thing here that was a gift...), Baten Kaitos, Defender.
-SNES - BlaZeon, Tiny Toons Wacky Sports Challenge, plan on getting EDF and Smartball.
and a PSOne... and eight games... Wipeout, Strikers 1945 (well it's actually Strikers 1945 II, but they call it "Strikers 1945" because the first one didn't come out on consoles here), King of Fighters '99, Tekken 3, Warhawk, Persona 2, Alundra 2, and Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey. (I almost got a Genesis, but didn't, and got a PSOne instead...)
... should I also get Tube Sliders for GC? I want it... I know the reviews aren't great, but it's a futuristic racing game, and I like most all of them... or maybe Custom Robo? Wario World? I'm not sure... :) (some others I've seen and considred for PSX include Tenchu 1, Blaster Master, Darkstalkers 3... other stuff that either seemed too expensive or not good enough ($25-30 for Vagrant Story? $30 for Metal Slug X? $40 for Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo? $30 for Fear Effect 2? No.)...)
Anyway, I got shooters for three consoles... :) An interesting study in contrasts, comparing Blazeon to Strikers 1945 (slow pace, classic-style 16-bit shooter to a modern arcade fastpaced blaster), or Warhawk to Defender (early 3d shooter to a new 3d shooter)... all four games are quite good, though. And supposedly EDF is better than Blazeon... :) ... well, Blazeon seems to have mediocre reviews, but I think it's quite good... slow, with long pauses where you just fly forward with nothing happening? Yes. But the music's good, so I don't mind... really hard? Yes. Restart at beginning of very long level when you get game over? Yup. But even so, it's a great game... unique, with the ability to take over some of the enemy giant robots (in lieu of powerups for the main ship)... and both enemy ships and the giant robots you take over lose guns as you shoot them -- so get hit once with a robot and then it has less firepower... (they can take 2 or 3 hits, while your ship of course can only take 1) but yes, it does get frusterating to get to the boss of a very long, multipart level, (levels 4 through 8 of Strikers have 'restart level at death', and thus are insanely hard, but at least that game has short levels so it doesn't take that long...) only to die and have to start from scratch... eh, but you expect that kind of thing from these games. Games like this are a big part of why I got a SNES... :)
-GC - Fire Emblem (the one thing here that was a gift...), Baten Kaitos, Defender.
-SNES - BlaZeon, Tiny Toons Wacky Sports Challenge, plan on getting EDF and Smartball.
and a PSOne... and eight games... Wipeout, Strikers 1945 (well it's actually Strikers 1945 II, but they call it "Strikers 1945" because the first one didn't come out on consoles here), King of Fighters '99, Tekken 3, Warhawk, Persona 2, Alundra 2, and Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey. (I almost got a Genesis, but didn't, and got a PSOne instead...)
... should I also get Tube Sliders for GC? I want it... I know the reviews aren't great, but it's a futuristic racing game, and I like most all of them... or maybe Custom Robo? Wario World? I'm not sure... :) (some others I've seen and considred for PSX include Tenchu 1, Blaster Master, Darkstalkers 3... other stuff that either seemed too expensive or not good enough ($25-30 for Vagrant Story? $30 for Metal Slug X? $40 for Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo? $30 for Fear Effect 2? No.)...)
Anyway, I got shooters for three consoles... :) An interesting study in contrasts, comparing Blazeon to Strikers 1945 (slow pace, classic-style 16-bit shooter to a modern arcade fastpaced blaster), or Warhawk to Defender (early 3d shooter to a new 3d shooter)... all four games are quite good, though. And supposedly EDF is better than Blazeon... :) ... well, Blazeon seems to have mediocre reviews, but I think it's quite good... slow, with long pauses where you just fly forward with nothing happening? Yes. But the music's good, so I don't mind... really hard? Yes. Restart at beginning of very long level when you get game over? Yup. But even so, it's a great game... unique, with the ability to take over some of the enemy giant robots (in lieu of powerups for the main ship)... and both enemy ships and the giant robots you take over lose guns as you shoot them -- so get hit once with a robot and then it has less firepower... (they can take 2 or 3 hits, while your ship of course can only take 1) but yes, it does get frusterating to get to the boss of a very long, multipart level, (levels 4 through 8 of Strikers have 'restart level at death', and thus are insanely hard, but at least that game has short levels so it doesn't take that long...) only to die and have to start from scratch... eh, but you expect that kind of thing from these games. Games like this are a big part of why I got a SNES... :)