13th June 2013, 2:48 PM
This first one's from ebay. It's my first actual game for the system! (Before I've only played emulated stuff.)
TurboGrafx-CD
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Splash Lake - $12.50, complete. Yeah, pretty decent price there! Fun game too. It's a puzzle-action game.
The rest I got locally.buy 3 get 1 for the first four. All are complete.
PS1
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XS Junior League Dodgeball - Released in Japan in 1998 as "Dodge de Ball", this game was released five years later by XS with all of the character names and such changed to try to pretend that this anime-style game is actually Western. Pretty silly stuff. The gameplay, though, is quite similar to Super Dodgeball and such. I hadn't heard of this game before getting it, but it looked interesting, whether or not it's good.
PS2
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Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier - Originally for PSP, this is the last of the PS2 Jak games, this one's also on PSP. I now have all of the PS2 and PSP Jak/Daxter games. I don't know why this game got a PS2 port while the probably better Daxter stayed PSP only, but eh, I have it. (And anyway, Daxter is pretty good on PSP... I was just wishing that it was on a system with a better analog stick. Ah well.)
Xbox
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Whacked - arena fighting 'party' game. The player character are a bunch of violent cartoon creatures and a mostly-naked woman (covered with censor bars). Combat seems okay but bland. This would surely be more fun in multiplayer.
Voodoo Vince - 3d platformer. Haven't tried it yet.
These next four were $5 for two. All are cart only.
Atari 2600
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Moonsweeper - From Imagic. Interesting isometric shooter, move left and right and move at stuff coming towards you. You can stay in space or go down to planets to try to rescue people, and shoot comets, enemies, and such along the way. Nice graphics, and the gameplay seems solid. It's too bad that my copy has no art on the label (just text), but otherwise, seems like a good find.
Haunted House - adventure game.
Genesis
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Summer Challenge - I have the PC version of this Accolade game, but not the Genesis port. Accolade's early '90s sports games were fantastic!
Nintendo 64
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V-Rally '99 Edition - One of the very few N64 racing games that I don't have, and I finally found it cheap... very nice find! This game isn't exactly great, and has bland graphics, but it is at least a bit better looking than the original PS1 version. The problem is that it was a late, barely-enhanced port, and that by the time this was out the second game was almost out on PS1, and it's got a lot more content. Sadly that game didn't have an N64 port, though I do have the quite nice Dreamcast version of the second game (Test Drive V-Rally for DC; it's a port of V-Rally 2 for PS1). Anyway though, this is a decent game, and it was very nice to find it. Not many left, just a few imports like Airboarder 64, the two NASCAR games, and a couple more...
TurboGrafx-CD
--
Splash Lake - $12.50, complete. Yeah, pretty decent price there! Fun game too. It's a puzzle-action game.
The rest I got locally.buy 3 get 1 for the first four. All are complete.
PS1
--
XS Junior League Dodgeball - Released in Japan in 1998 as "Dodge de Ball", this game was released five years later by XS with all of the character names and such changed to try to pretend that this anime-style game is actually Western. Pretty silly stuff. The gameplay, though, is quite similar to Super Dodgeball and such. I hadn't heard of this game before getting it, but it looked interesting, whether or not it's good.
PS2
--
Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier - Originally for PSP, this is the last of the PS2 Jak games, this one's also on PSP. I now have all of the PS2 and PSP Jak/Daxter games. I don't know why this game got a PS2 port while the probably better Daxter stayed PSP only, but eh, I have it. (And anyway, Daxter is pretty good on PSP... I was just wishing that it was on a system with a better analog stick. Ah well.)
Xbox
--
Whacked - arena fighting 'party' game. The player character are a bunch of violent cartoon creatures and a mostly-naked woman (covered with censor bars). Combat seems okay but bland. This would surely be more fun in multiplayer.
Voodoo Vince - 3d platformer. Haven't tried it yet.
These next four were $5 for two. All are cart only.
Atari 2600
--
Moonsweeper - From Imagic. Interesting isometric shooter, move left and right and move at stuff coming towards you. You can stay in space or go down to planets to try to rescue people, and shoot comets, enemies, and such along the way. Nice graphics, and the gameplay seems solid. It's too bad that my copy has no art on the label (just text), but otherwise, seems like a good find.
Haunted House - adventure game.
Genesis
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Summer Challenge - I have the PC version of this Accolade game, but not the Genesis port. Accolade's early '90s sports games were fantastic!
Nintendo 64
--
V-Rally '99 Edition - One of the very few N64 racing games that I don't have, and I finally found it cheap... very nice find! This game isn't exactly great, and has bland graphics, but it is at least a bit better looking than the original PS1 version. The problem is that it was a late, barely-enhanced port, and that by the time this was out the second game was almost out on PS1, and it's got a lot more content. Sadly that game didn't have an N64 port, though I do have the quite nice Dreamcast version of the second game (Test Drive V-Rally for DC; it's a port of V-Rally 2 for PS1). Anyway though, this is a decent game, and it was very nice to find it. Not many left, just a few imports like Airboarder 64, the two NASCAR games, and a couple more...