7th October 2010, 9:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 7th October 2010, 10:02 PM by A Black Falcon.)
NES
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Athena - cart only, $6.50. I know a lot of people dislike this game, and it's hard, but it's not so bad, and I like SNK... not one I've seen much at all either.
PS2
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Sega Classics Collection - $8, used. The collection of eight of the first Sega Ages remakes, and the only PS2 Sega Ages remakes we got in the US. Sadly most are poor, but for $1 a game it's probably worth it... though it definitely is really unfortunate that Sega didn't release any more PS2 Sega Ages games here. Some of them would have been so awesome to see...
Sega CD
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Stellar Fire - $5, complete.
The Mansion of Hidden Souls - $5, complete.
Stellar Fire is a Battlezone-style game from Sierra. It's a conversion of the PC game Stellar 7. It's pretty mediocre, sadly. Decent but nothing special graphics (this game has nothing on Battlecorps, Soulstar, Batman Returns' driving stages, etc, but it does have a simple look that works fairly well), lots of dark colors, constant undodgeable hits, flying enemies but you can't aim up or down so you just have to wait until they fly low enough to get hit... it's not a terrible game, but it's definitely not that good. The simple gameplay works fine in concept, sure, as you drive from point to point collecting items and then fighting the boss, but you restart the level when you die, and as I said it's very hard to avoid the enemy attacks along the way. I just get hit constantly. Maybe it'll be more fun on Easy difficulty, I think I'll try that... it's decent enough that I want to play it some more, but it's definitely not that great. If you want to play a great early '90s Battlezone-inspired game, play Spectre, not this. Maybe my opinion will change as I play it more though, we'll see.
As for Mansion of Hidden Souls, it's a creepy, horror-ish adventure game. Looks decently good, but I haven't played much of it yet. This game must have been popular around here at least, I see copies of it fairly often... finally got one of them.
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Athena - cart only, $6.50. I know a lot of people dislike this game, and it's hard, but it's not so bad, and I like SNK... not one I've seen much at all either.
PS2
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Sega Classics Collection - $8, used. The collection of eight of the first Sega Ages remakes, and the only PS2 Sega Ages remakes we got in the US. Sadly most are poor, but for $1 a game it's probably worth it... though it definitely is really unfortunate that Sega didn't release any more PS2 Sega Ages games here. Some of them would have been so awesome to see...
Sega CD
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Stellar Fire - $5, complete.
The Mansion of Hidden Souls - $5, complete.
Stellar Fire is a Battlezone-style game from Sierra. It's a conversion of the PC game Stellar 7. It's pretty mediocre, sadly. Decent but nothing special graphics (this game has nothing on Battlecorps, Soulstar, Batman Returns' driving stages, etc, but it does have a simple look that works fairly well), lots of dark colors, constant undodgeable hits, flying enemies but you can't aim up or down so you just have to wait until they fly low enough to get hit... it's not a terrible game, but it's definitely not that good. The simple gameplay works fine in concept, sure, as you drive from point to point collecting items and then fighting the boss, but you restart the level when you die, and as I said it's very hard to avoid the enemy attacks along the way. I just get hit constantly. Maybe it'll be more fun on Easy difficulty, I think I'll try that... it's decent enough that I want to play it some more, but it's definitely not that great. If you want to play a great early '90s Battlezone-inspired game, play Spectre, not this. Maybe my opinion will change as I play it more though, we'll see.
As for Mansion of Hidden Souls, it's a creepy, horror-ish adventure game. Looks decently good, but I haven't played much of it yet. This game must have been popular around here at least, I see copies of it fairly often... finally got one of them.