25th January 2011, 11:23 PM
You mean EBay, Amazon, etc? Sometimes, sometimes not, and usually with shipping charges to make things more expensive than they would be in stores, unless those stores are doing as DJ says and inflate their prices by what they see on EBay... and yeah, some places definitely do that. Whether you can get good deals at such places is often pretty hit or miss I think, some games will be affordable and others... not so much.
Wii
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl - $35 - I had to get it sometime, and won't find it cheaper than this. Didn't really want to, but ... it is a must have at some point.
Game Gear - pretty cool, a whole bunch of GG games all came in at once... $2 each, and all include cart and protective plastic case. :)
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Super Columns - Basically the GG equivalent of Columns III, in terms of gameplay and design. Maybe slightly easier though?
Bust-A-Move - Yeah, pretty awesome find! The Bust-A-Move series is just fantastic, and it's really cool to find this portable version. Plays well, too. It's slow compared to later titles in the series, but still it's great stuff.
X-Men - I wonder if these three (this and the next two) are conversions of the Genesis platformers, or if they're different...
Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge
Taz: Escape from Mars
Road Rash - 16-bit Road Rash is somewhat mediocre, not expecting great things from this.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park - One of the last GG games, from 1997.
Game Boy Color - $2 each, all cart only
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Croc 2 - I really like the Croc 3d platformers, but I've never tried the handheld sidescrollers...
Portal Runner - I was expecting this to be bad, but it's actually kind of fun. :) Platformer starring Vicky from the 3DO Army Men games (there was also a 3d platfor-action on the PS2 of the same name, I've never played it).
San Francisco Rush 2049 - I've played a little of the GBC version of this one before. It's... not so great. Not awful, but a pretty lame in comparison to the arcade original and particularly the N64/Dreamcast game, which is still the best racing game ever made. This is a topdown racer, and it's not the best one on the platform either. Though I do like it more than Mickey's Racing Challenge, I think... still it's not as good as Micro Machines V3, for sure.
Polaris SnoCross - Rumble cart. Another mediocre topdown racer, the handling DEFINITELY takes some getting used to here!
Pokemon Puzzle Challenge - The GBC counterpart to Pokemon Puzzle League, this isn't quite as good as its major-console counterparts -- the smaller playfield limits strategy -- but still, it's portable Panel de Pon, and it was a lot cheaper than the $20-plus the DS one (Planet Puzzle League) costs, too. It has the outstanding gameplay you expect from the series.
GB/GBC Dual Mode - $2, cart only
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Quest for Camelot - (note- this game does have Super Game Boy enhancements, with a border and auto-changing palettes depending on which area you are in.) Action-RPG from Titus, Zelda or FFA inspired for sure. I just played through the first area of the game, and it's okay but definitely not great. I remember considering getting this back when it came out but ultimately not doing it (I've never seen the movie, actually, kind of wanted to but... um, I think I own it now, maybe I should watch it.) You play as the main character girl from the film, going around avoiding knights until you get the sword (you have to find the five chickens around the somewhat mazelike first area and bring them back to a guy, who then gives you the sword, not a great first impression), then going back and killing them. Definitely middle-of-the-road stuff, but it's not that bad, I will play more.
Game Boy - $2, cart only
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Flipull - Puzzle game I'd never heard of, but wanted to try anyway. It's not great, but just decent enough for me to not regret buying it. It's a tile-matching game of sorts, where you shoot tiles into a block of tiles, aiming so that you hit similar tiles or ones that react correctly. I think I'll need to read something online about how to play this, what tiles do what isn't immediately obvious. Also, this game suffers from not being in color, they have to use different symbols on the tiles instead and it's not quite as good, B&W is fine for most games but for this kind of game it is a negative.
Wii
--
Super Smash Bros. Brawl - $35 - I had to get it sometime, and won't find it cheaper than this. Didn't really want to, but ... it is a must have at some point.
Game Gear - pretty cool, a whole bunch of GG games all came in at once... $2 each, and all include cart and protective plastic case. :)
--
Super Columns - Basically the GG equivalent of Columns III, in terms of gameplay and design. Maybe slightly easier though?
Bust-A-Move - Yeah, pretty awesome find! The Bust-A-Move series is just fantastic, and it's really cool to find this portable version. Plays well, too. It's slow compared to later titles in the series, but still it's great stuff.
X-Men - I wonder if these three (this and the next two) are conversions of the Genesis platformers, or if they're different...
Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge
Taz: Escape from Mars
Road Rash - 16-bit Road Rash is somewhat mediocre, not expecting great things from this.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park - One of the last GG games, from 1997.
Game Boy Color - $2 each, all cart only
--
Croc 2 - I really like the Croc 3d platformers, but I've never tried the handheld sidescrollers...
Portal Runner - I was expecting this to be bad, but it's actually kind of fun. :) Platformer starring Vicky from the 3DO Army Men games (there was also a 3d platfor-action on the PS2 of the same name, I've never played it).
San Francisco Rush 2049 - I've played a little of the GBC version of this one before. It's... not so great. Not awful, but a pretty lame in comparison to the arcade original and particularly the N64/Dreamcast game, which is still the best racing game ever made. This is a topdown racer, and it's not the best one on the platform either. Though I do like it more than Mickey's Racing Challenge, I think... still it's not as good as Micro Machines V3, for sure.
Polaris SnoCross - Rumble cart. Another mediocre topdown racer, the handling DEFINITELY takes some getting used to here!
Pokemon Puzzle Challenge - The GBC counterpart to Pokemon Puzzle League, this isn't quite as good as its major-console counterparts -- the smaller playfield limits strategy -- but still, it's portable Panel de Pon, and it was a lot cheaper than the $20-plus the DS one (Planet Puzzle League) costs, too. It has the outstanding gameplay you expect from the series.
GB/GBC Dual Mode - $2, cart only
--
Quest for Camelot - (note- this game does have Super Game Boy enhancements, with a border and auto-changing palettes depending on which area you are in.) Action-RPG from Titus, Zelda or FFA inspired for sure. I just played through the first area of the game, and it's okay but definitely not great. I remember considering getting this back when it came out but ultimately not doing it (I've never seen the movie, actually, kind of wanted to but... um, I think I own it now, maybe I should watch it.) You play as the main character girl from the film, going around avoiding knights until you get the sword (you have to find the five chickens around the somewhat mazelike first area and bring them back to a guy, who then gives you the sword, not a great first impression), then going back and killing them. Definitely middle-of-the-road stuff, but it's not that bad, I will play more.
Game Boy - $2, cart only
--
Flipull - Puzzle game I'd never heard of, but wanted to try anyway. It's not great, but just decent enough for me to not regret buying it. It's a tile-matching game of sorts, where you shoot tiles into a block of tiles, aiming so that you hit similar tiles or ones that react correctly. I think I'll need to read something online about how to play this, what tiles do what isn't immediately obvious. Also, this game suffers from not being in color, they have to use different symbols on the tiles instead and it's not quite as good, B&W is fine for most games but for this kind of game it is a negative.