26th November 2013, 1:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 26th November 2013, 2:44 AM by A Black Falcon.)
Atari 2600
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Indy 500 - $3. This game requires the Driving Controller, below. It's a pretty good topdown racing game. Controls are exceptional with the Driving Controller, but single-player content is absurdly limited -- there's only one-minute time trials if you don't have another person (in six maps). Also, unlike Paddle COntrollers, Driving Cotnrollers are annoyingly enough only one to a cord, so I'll have to get another Driving Controller later... only had the money for one, today (the place had three; just repaired them, I believe). The game has very basic, early-2600 graphics, but the gameplay is great, as long as you have someone to play against. But even if single player gets old in ten minutes, it was easily worth it to experience such fantastic controls!
Atari 2600 Driving Controller - $5. It's fixed and working great. This analog controller is basically the same as a Paddle Controller, except with only one on the cord instead of two, and it doesn't have left or right bounds so it spins freely. This gives you OUTSTANDING control of your car! Seriously, if only the NES had a controller like this, games like Super Sprint and Super Off-Road would be so, SO much better... :bummed: Also Indy 500 is the only game that actually works with the things, oddly enough. Yes, atari released a controller with only works with ONE game. Crazy. They should have made some more, the game and controller are great! This controller really is best for top-down racing games, so it's fine that the 2600's behind-the-car racers don't work with it (free-spinning wheels would not be great for behind-the-car...), and Slot Racers used the paddles not the Racing Controller... but still, there could have been something. I think there might be a homebrew game that supports it though... that'd be nice.
Xbox 360 - Digital Download
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Motocross Madness - $2.50, on sale (usually $10). MS is having a sale this week, and this one interests me and it was cheap so I got it. I won't be able to play it until after I get a hard drive, but it looks like a decently fun little game; no match for the old PC Motocross Madness games, but hopefully fun.
Also I haven't been mentioning it, but I have gotten (most of?) the Games with Gold titles. So:
Iron Brigade - free. This is the current one.
A World of Kelfings - free. This is from the first half of November.
Halo 3 - free. This is from a month or two ago, but it wasn't in the thread thanks to the hack, and I didn't list it again. But yeah, I have it.
Crackdown - I have this on disc, but it was free, so I got the digital copy too.
These also I don't have the space to download now of course. No idea if they're any good (Crackdown aside; that is pretty good). I did miss out on one game, Rainbow Six Vegas. I've never had much of any interest in the game, though, so that's no big loss.
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Indy 500 - $3. This game requires the Driving Controller, below. It's a pretty good topdown racing game. Controls are exceptional with the Driving Controller, but single-player content is absurdly limited -- there's only one-minute time trials if you don't have another person (in six maps). Also, unlike Paddle COntrollers, Driving Cotnrollers are annoyingly enough only one to a cord, so I'll have to get another Driving Controller later... only had the money for one, today (the place had three; just repaired them, I believe). The game has very basic, early-2600 graphics, but the gameplay is great, as long as you have someone to play against. But even if single player gets old in ten minutes, it was easily worth it to experience such fantastic controls!
Atari 2600 Driving Controller - $5. It's fixed and working great. This analog controller is basically the same as a Paddle Controller, except with only one on the cord instead of two, and it doesn't have left or right bounds so it spins freely. This gives you OUTSTANDING control of your car! Seriously, if only the NES had a controller like this, games like Super Sprint and Super Off-Road would be so, SO much better... :bummed: Also Indy 500 is the only game that actually works with the things, oddly enough. Yes, atari released a controller with only works with ONE game. Crazy. They should have made some more, the game and controller are great! This controller really is best for top-down racing games, so it's fine that the 2600's behind-the-car racers don't work with it (free-spinning wheels would not be great for behind-the-car...), and Slot Racers used the paddles not the Racing Controller... but still, there could have been something. I think there might be a homebrew game that supports it though... that'd be nice.
Xbox 360 - Digital Download
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Motocross Madness - $2.50, on sale (usually $10). MS is having a sale this week, and this one interests me and it was cheap so I got it. I won't be able to play it until after I get a hard drive, but it looks like a decently fun little game; no match for the old PC Motocross Madness games, but hopefully fun.
Also I haven't been mentioning it, but I have gotten (most of?) the Games with Gold titles. So:
Iron Brigade - free. This is the current one.
A World of Kelfings - free. This is from the first half of November.
Halo 3 - free. This is from a month or two ago, but it wasn't in the thread thanks to the hack, and I didn't list it again. But yeah, I have it.
Crackdown - I have this on disc, but it was free, so I got the digital copy too.
These also I don't have the space to download now of course. No idea if they're any good (Crackdown aside; that is pretty good). I did miss out on one game, Rainbow Six Vegas. I've never had much of any interest in the game, though, so that's no big loss.