20th December 2013, 12:05 AM
Atari 2600
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Encounter at L-5 - $6, cart only. Yeah, a bit expensive for a 2600 game, but this is a pretty cool paddle-controlled game, so I thought it was worth it. This game is a single-screen shooter, but with unique, sort of Missile Command-esque controls -- while shooting (hold down the button) you can't move, but instead move a marker left or right to change your angle of fire. Then when you let go of the button, you will warp to the position where the targeting cursor is over. Of course since it's paddle controlled, the game has flawless analog control of your ship's movement and firing directions. The game has almost no variety, of course, but does have a bunch of variations that make it faster and tougher. Decent game.
N64
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World Driver Championship - $3, cart only. I'd always passed on this game because I've always assumed that I wouldn't like it much ,but finally caved in order to see if it does indeed have graphics as good as I'd heard it does -- this game was one of the few which the team got access ot the N64's microcode for, so it's more optimized than most N64 games and has one of the system's higher polygon counts on screen. The game isn't expansion pak enhanced, though, and you can tell. Also, however, it's a somewhat Gran Turismo-esque racing game, not my thing at all. And indeed, the racing isn't something which interest me much -- this game is far from a real PC-style car sim, but you do skid out on turns unless you brake properly. It's okay, but not the kind of game I love. The graphics are nice, though. I don't know if it's the N64's best graphics in a racing game, I still think that Rush 2049 probably is best, but it does look nice. I dislike how absurdly narrow the hi-res letterboxed mode is, though -- it cuts a lot off of the top and bottom of the screen, leaving you with a quite narrow window. At "zoom 2" on my TV it does make it fullscreen, but you lose some of the top and bottom of the picture, more so than in most N64 games. Letterboxing for high res mode is normal on the N64, but this games' letterbox is narrower than most. And in low-res the picture looks a pit pixelated, which I don't like. I think even Roadsters might look better than this, though that is expansion pak enhanced, which helps things... with the expansion pak you could pull off a taller letterbox than this one. That's got a smoother look too though. Anyway, World Driver Championship seems like a decent game, but as I expected, it wasn't one worth spending much on -- which is why I waited until I saw it for this cheap.
PC DD - Steam sale
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Recettear - $5, flash sale - Yeah, I finally got it. Why? I don't know, to have all three of Carpe Fulgur's games maybe? I don't really expect to like this game, I don't like economics much.
Electronic Super Joy (with bonus content) - $1.50. Now this one looks much more promising! This is a 2d platformer with a pretty cool graphical style and some good techno-style music. It's in that "hard platformers" genre I believe, but hopefully it's fun.
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Encounter at L-5 - $6, cart only. Yeah, a bit expensive for a 2600 game, but this is a pretty cool paddle-controlled game, so I thought it was worth it. This game is a single-screen shooter, but with unique, sort of Missile Command-esque controls -- while shooting (hold down the button) you can't move, but instead move a marker left or right to change your angle of fire. Then when you let go of the button, you will warp to the position where the targeting cursor is over. Of course since it's paddle controlled, the game has flawless analog control of your ship's movement and firing directions. The game has almost no variety, of course, but does have a bunch of variations that make it faster and tougher. Decent game.
N64
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World Driver Championship - $3, cart only. I'd always passed on this game because I've always assumed that I wouldn't like it much ,but finally caved in order to see if it does indeed have graphics as good as I'd heard it does -- this game was one of the few which the team got access ot the N64's microcode for, so it's more optimized than most N64 games and has one of the system's higher polygon counts on screen. The game isn't expansion pak enhanced, though, and you can tell. Also, however, it's a somewhat Gran Turismo-esque racing game, not my thing at all. And indeed, the racing isn't something which interest me much -- this game is far from a real PC-style car sim, but you do skid out on turns unless you brake properly. It's okay, but not the kind of game I love. The graphics are nice, though. I don't know if it's the N64's best graphics in a racing game, I still think that Rush 2049 probably is best, but it does look nice. I dislike how absurdly narrow the hi-res letterboxed mode is, though -- it cuts a lot off of the top and bottom of the screen, leaving you with a quite narrow window. At "zoom 2" on my TV it does make it fullscreen, but you lose some of the top and bottom of the picture, more so than in most N64 games. Letterboxing for high res mode is normal on the N64, but this games' letterbox is narrower than most. And in low-res the picture looks a pit pixelated, which I don't like. I think even Roadsters might look better than this, though that is expansion pak enhanced, which helps things... with the expansion pak you could pull off a taller letterbox than this one. That's got a smoother look too though. Anyway, World Driver Championship seems like a decent game, but as I expected, it wasn't one worth spending much on -- which is why I waited until I saw it for this cheap.
PC DD - Steam sale
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Recettear - $5, flash sale - Yeah, I finally got it. Why? I don't know, to have all three of Carpe Fulgur's games maybe? I don't really expect to like this game, I don't like economics much.
Electronic Super Joy (with bonus content) - $1.50. Now this one looks much more promising! This is a 2d platformer with a pretty cool graphical style and some good techno-style music. It's in that "hard platformers" genre I believe, but hopefully it's fun.