4th May 2010, 8:41 PM
NES
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Gradius - $6.25, cart only -- Gradius is one of my favorite shmups ever, I've been looking for it ever since I got a NES but hadn't seen a single copy since then. It's been very frustrating... sure, I did find Life Force last year, and that game's amazing, but I really, really wanted Gradius. Well, I FINALLY found a copy, and it's awesome. That game is still so incredibly great... hard, but great.
Then these three were disc only. It was $5 for all three.
Xbox
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Dr. Muto - 3d platformer from Midway and one of Midway Games West's last games.
Test Drive - Why didn't this have a "7" after the name? Because that's what it is, very much like Test Drives 4-6...
PS2
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God of War - Only got because it was so cheap... good game with great graphics, of course, but the story is so, so stupid, and the gameplay is repetitive.
These two were $3 each. Both are cart only.
N64
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Tetrisphere - Heard lots of good things about this one over the years, but never played it.
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter - I won't play it much soon, I bet, but have the other three games in the N64 series, I should complete it... and I did want the first one.
And finally, on Direct2Drive in the last week of their spring sale I got:
PC
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Europa Universalis: Rome ($5) -- I got the first EU back in 2001 or so and found it overwhelmingly complex and abandoned the game after a little while. I haven't played a Paradox game since... but I decided to try again. Their games pretty much define grand strategy, and I know that if I ever really put the time into it these games are the kind of thing you can play for many, many hours. The depth of the strategic systems are just so deep and complex...
--
Gradius - $6.25, cart only -- Gradius is one of my favorite shmups ever, I've been looking for it ever since I got a NES but hadn't seen a single copy since then. It's been very frustrating... sure, I did find Life Force last year, and that game's amazing, but I really, really wanted Gradius. Well, I FINALLY found a copy, and it's awesome. That game is still so incredibly great... hard, but great.
Then these three were disc only. It was $5 for all three.
Xbox
--
Dr. Muto - 3d platformer from Midway and one of Midway Games West's last games.
Test Drive - Why didn't this have a "7" after the name? Because that's what it is, very much like Test Drives 4-6...
PS2
--
God of War - Only got because it was so cheap... good game with great graphics, of course, but the story is so, so stupid, and the gameplay is repetitive.
These two were $3 each. Both are cart only.
N64
--
Tetrisphere - Heard lots of good things about this one over the years, but never played it.
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter - I won't play it much soon, I bet, but have the other three games in the N64 series, I should complete it... and I did want the first one.
And finally, on Direct2Drive in the last week of their spring sale I got:
PC
--
Europa Universalis: Rome ($5) -- I got the first EU back in 2001 or so and found it overwhelmingly complex and abandoned the game after a little while. I haven't played a Paradox game since... but I decided to try again. Their games pretty much define grand strategy, and I know that if I ever really put the time into it these games are the kind of thing you can play for many, many hours. The depth of the strategic systems are just so deep and complex...