31st October 2012, 6:46 PM
Genesis
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Battlemaster - $4, cart only. Action-RPG (Amiga port). It's got very basic graphics, a high difficulty level, horrifically choppy scrolling, and 74 (yes, 74!!) character passwords, but based on playing it a little, it seems kind of fun... I'll play this at least a little more. You can play as four different characters from each of four races, and explore levels fighting monsters, getting killed by traps or hordes of enemies, finding treasure and items, etc. You can control a party, not just one character.
Warrior of Rome 2 - $4, cart only. Real-time strategy game on an isometric square grid. This one has battery save, which is great. I don't think the first game did. Look like it could be good, once I figure out how to play it -- it's got lots of menus, as usual for an early '90s strategy game. I wish I had the manual... I'll have to look up GameFAQs or such.
Super Battleship - $4, complete (cardboard box version) It's got classic Battleship, but also a more wargamey version too that looks more interesting, with shooting at other ships, moving them around, passwords between stages, etc. Haven't played it yet though.
PS2
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Heroes of Might & Magic: Quest for the Dragonbone Staff - $6, complete - This is, while it doesn't say so anywhere in the game or packaging, actually a remake of the original King's Bounty. I'd seen this game before but assumed it was just some probably not so great console port, but it's actually a PS2-exclusive remake of King's Bounty? That's pretty cool, the original King's Bounty looks interesting but is another one of those Genesis games with massively long password-only saving. Hopefully it's good.
PSP
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Gungnir - $8, complete. Yeah, pretty good price for a recent release that I had been considering getting for the full $20... this one's a strategy game by Sting's Riviera/Yggdra Union/Knights in the Nightmare team. It's a Final Fantasy Tactics style "SRPG" strategy game), and it's the most straight FFT/Tactics Ogre of the games -- those three games were quite original, but unfortunately this one's much more conventional. I think KitN is a much better strategy game than any FFT/TO-style games, honestly, and Yggdra Union, while very deeply flawed, at least was original and unique. This... isn't really, which is part of why I didn't get it sooner, even though I'm a fan of the series. But still, it IS part of the series, so it's worth having at least. Now I have three of the PSP versions -- all I don't have is the PSP port of Riviera (which of course I have for GBA; I did get Yggdra for PSP, but that added more than Riviera PSP, which is mostly just a higher-res port with just a little bit of new stuff.).
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Battlemaster - $4, cart only. Action-RPG (Amiga port). It's got very basic graphics, a high difficulty level, horrifically choppy scrolling, and 74 (yes, 74!!) character passwords, but based on playing it a little, it seems kind of fun... I'll play this at least a little more. You can play as four different characters from each of four races, and explore levels fighting monsters, getting killed by traps or hordes of enemies, finding treasure and items, etc. You can control a party, not just one character.
Warrior of Rome 2 - $4, cart only. Real-time strategy game on an isometric square grid. This one has battery save, which is great. I don't think the first game did. Look like it could be good, once I figure out how to play it -- it's got lots of menus, as usual for an early '90s strategy game. I wish I had the manual... I'll have to look up GameFAQs or such.
Super Battleship - $4, complete (cardboard box version) It's got classic Battleship, but also a more wargamey version too that looks more interesting, with shooting at other ships, moving them around, passwords between stages, etc. Haven't played it yet though.
PS2
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Heroes of Might & Magic: Quest for the Dragonbone Staff - $6, complete - This is, while it doesn't say so anywhere in the game or packaging, actually a remake of the original King's Bounty. I'd seen this game before but assumed it was just some probably not so great console port, but it's actually a PS2-exclusive remake of King's Bounty? That's pretty cool, the original King's Bounty looks interesting but is another one of those Genesis games with massively long password-only saving. Hopefully it's good.
PSP
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Gungnir - $8, complete. Yeah, pretty good price for a recent release that I had been considering getting for the full $20... this one's a strategy game by Sting's Riviera/Yggdra Union/Knights in the Nightmare team. It's a Final Fantasy Tactics style "SRPG" strategy game), and it's the most straight FFT/Tactics Ogre of the games -- those three games were quite original, but unfortunately this one's much more conventional. I think KitN is a much better strategy game than any FFT/TO-style games, honestly, and Yggdra Union, while very deeply flawed, at least was original and unique. This... isn't really, which is part of why I didn't get it sooner, even though I'm a fan of the series. But still, it IS part of the series, so it's worth having at least. Now I have three of the PSP versions -- all I don't have is the PSP port of Riviera (which of course I have for GBA; I did get Yggdra for PSP, but that added more than Riviera PSP, which is mostly just a higher-res port with just a little bit of new stuff.).