7th March 2013, 6:54 PM
Dreamcast
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Incoming - $5, complete. DC port of the PC game of the same name. I got the PC original as a pack-in with my Voodoo2 card when I bought it in November 1998, but I was interested enough in seeing how the DC port turned out to pick this up. It's the same game, all right. A little of the graphical flash may be missing, and of course the max resolution is lower (nothing you can do about that, then) but it still looks good. Of course though Incoming always was a graphics-over-gameplay title, with VERY flashy graphics but bland, repetitive, and extremely simplistic shooting action, and that's the same as ever, but at least it's decently fun.
Genesis
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Ex-Mutants - $5, complete - This is a sidescroller from Malibu and published by Sega. The game stars some comic book characters from a Malibu Comics series, I believe; I have no knowledge of the source material. As for the game though, you play as a male or female character, and have to beat the evil mutants and save your four kidnapped friends (two male and two female). As the title suggests, the six of you aren't mutants, you are ex-mutants, or rather mutants who were turned back into humans by a good doctor, since mutants in this future are apparently evil. The game is decently fun, with average graphics, sound, and gameplay, but the levels have plenty of secret areas to find, and there's a nice variety of weapons too. It's a bit frustrating, because if you die you lose ALL of your powerups, which sets you back SIGNIFICANTLY... and oh yeah, when you die, all powerups in the level respawn, too. Depending on how far you are (there are invisible checkpoints where you will spawn from if you die; game over doesn't send you back any, until you run out of continues and have to start the game over), you may or may not be able to go back and get them. The game has eight levels, and each one is only moderately long, but it's a tough game because by level 3 it gets hard, and there's no save system. At least there is an easy-to-use level select cheat... I think I'll use it. A game like this should have had saving anyway. But yeah, it's generic Western platormer stuff, but it's decently fun.
Also, I got something from ebay. For only $18.50, I got a Virtual Boy controller and VB AC Adapter Tap -- it was put up as buy it now at that price, which is below what VB AC adapter taps usually sell for. I was fortunate to find it, and bought it right away. It didn't come with a SNES power supply, so I have to use the one from my SNES (I'll need to get another SNES power brick, once I find one for cheap...), but that's the easy part to find. VB controllers, and especially AC adapter taps... those are the hard ones. And yes, it is an official AC adapter tap. I've tested it, and it, and the controller, work perfectly. It's just awesome, I've been wanting one of these (AC adapter tap) ever since I bought the VB back in '08, and it's fantastic to finally have it! And of course with how my VB controller has been acting up for the past 6-12 months, I hadn't used the system much at all for some time now, despite getting four games for it last year (3D Tetris, Mario Clash, Teleroboxer, Galactic Pinball; it doubled my collection from 4 games to 8). I'll have to use it more now, that's for sure. Seriously, the VB should have come with the AC adapter tap (plus AC adapter) in the box when you bought the system. It's just ludicrous that they forced you to buy it separately, and only included that awful battery box.
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Incoming - $5, complete. DC port of the PC game of the same name. I got the PC original as a pack-in with my Voodoo2 card when I bought it in November 1998, but I was interested enough in seeing how the DC port turned out to pick this up. It's the same game, all right. A little of the graphical flash may be missing, and of course the max resolution is lower (nothing you can do about that, then) but it still looks good. Of course though Incoming always was a graphics-over-gameplay title, with VERY flashy graphics but bland, repetitive, and extremely simplistic shooting action, and that's the same as ever, but at least it's decently fun.
Genesis
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Ex-Mutants - $5, complete - This is a sidescroller from Malibu and published by Sega. The game stars some comic book characters from a Malibu Comics series, I believe; I have no knowledge of the source material. As for the game though, you play as a male or female character, and have to beat the evil mutants and save your four kidnapped friends (two male and two female). As the title suggests, the six of you aren't mutants, you are ex-mutants, or rather mutants who were turned back into humans by a good doctor, since mutants in this future are apparently evil. The game is decently fun, with average graphics, sound, and gameplay, but the levels have plenty of secret areas to find, and there's a nice variety of weapons too. It's a bit frustrating, because if you die you lose ALL of your powerups, which sets you back SIGNIFICANTLY... and oh yeah, when you die, all powerups in the level respawn, too. Depending on how far you are (there are invisible checkpoints where you will spawn from if you die; game over doesn't send you back any, until you run out of continues and have to start the game over), you may or may not be able to go back and get them. The game has eight levels, and each one is only moderately long, but it's a tough game because by level 3 it gets hard, and there's no save system. At least there is an easy-to-use level select cheat... I think I'll use it. A game like this should have had saving anyway. But yeah, it's generic Western platormer stuff, but it's decently fun.
Also, I got something from ebay. For only $18.50, I got a Virtual Boy controller and VB AC Adapter Tap -- it was put up as buy it now at that price, which is below what VB AC adapter taps usually sell for. I was fortunate to find it, and bought it right away. It didn't come with a SNES power supply, so I have to use the one from my SNES (I'll need to get another SNES power brick, once I find one for cheap...), but that's the easy part to find. VB controllers, and especially AC adapter taps... those are the hard ones. And yes, it is an official AC adapter tap. I've tested it, and it, and the controller, work perfectly. It's just awesome, I've been wanting one of these (AC adapter tap) ever since I bought the VB back in '08, and it's fantastic to finally have it! And of course with how my VB controller has been acting up for the past 6-12 months, I hadn't used the system much at all for some time now, despite getting four games for it last year (3D Tetris, Mario Clash, Teleroboxer, Galactic Pinball; it doubled my collection from 4 games to 8). I'll have to use it more now, that's for sure. Seriously, the VB should have come with the AC adapter tap (plus AC adapter) in the box when you bought the system. It's just ludicrous that they forced you to buy it separately, and only included that awful battery box.