13th January 2014, 6:49 PM
Xbox 360
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Lost Planet: Extreme Condition - Colonies Edition - $5, complete. Lost Planet with extra stuff included (DLC?). I haven't played these games, but I'll try one.
All the rest of the games were $2 each, and came with the carts and plastic cases. I was also given 11 extra Game Boy and 2 extra Game Gear cases, above the ones for the games below; the store didn't want them. GG/GB cases can be useful.
Game Boy
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Dead Heat Scramble - Fun point-to-point top-down racing game. This is a simple game, as you just avoid teh stuff and try to reach the end of each stage before running out of time, but it quickly gets tough. I like this, it's basic but good.
Penguin Wars - Weird little game where you and another animal throw balls at eachother from across a table. The winner is the one with fewer balls on their side when time runs out. This is average at best, I think.
Hyper Lode Runner - It's Lode Runner, but harder! Yeah, this is tough... I'm having trouble even with the first stage. It's meant for people who have played a lot more classic Lode Runner than I have, though. Very basic graphics, but the gameplay's here. It has 50 stages (common for the series back then), and you can play them in any order (they're all unlocked). I guess this was worth getting, I didn't have it before.
Lock 'n Chase - This is a sequel, or remake, to the classic arcade/Atari 2600 game Lock n Chase. It's a Pac-Man knockoff where you can close doors in the maze in order to lock the police chasing you out of certain paths for a while, so you can try to escape. Yeah, you play as the badguy here. I have the Atari version, but this one has a level progression, multiple maps, and better graphics. This is a fine classic arcade game, good stuff.
Game Gear
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Paperboy 2 - Why did I get this? I know I don't like Paperboy all that much, it's such a punishingly hard series... and I have the SNES version of this but have barely played it. But I remember playing GG Paperboy back in the early '90s, so I got it anyway. It IS an arcade classic, even if it's frustratingly hard... those targets you have to hit, the mailboxes or doormats, are so small! As if people would cancel the newspaper just because the paper was one foot into the driveway instead of being on the doormat... hah!
Gear Works - This is a puzzle game where you have to find a way to get a chain of gears across the screen, to turn a specific goal gear. You have several different sizes of gears to work with, and each level has a new layout of points you can attach gears to. We got the PC version of this back in the early '90s, but it's glitched or something and you can't beat the first world, it just loops forever. That was disappointing, since this is a somewhat fun game. I'm sure this one will actually work correctly, so I'd definitely like to play it. :)
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Lost Planet: Extreme Condition - Colonies Edition - $5, complete. Lost Planet with extra stuff included (DLC?). I haven't played these games, but I'll try one.
All the rest of the games were $2 each, and came with the carts and plastic cases. I was also given 11 extra Game Boy and 2 extra Game Gear cases, above the ones for the games below; the store didn't want them. GG/GB cases can be useful.
Game Boy
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Dead Heat Scramble - Fun point-to-point top-down racing game. This is a simple game, as you just avoid teh stuff and try to reach the end of each stage before running out of time, but it quickly gets tough. I like this, it's basic but good.
Penguin Wars - Weird little game where you and another animal throw balls at eachother from across a table. The winner is the one with fewer balls on their side when time runs out. This is average at best, I think.
Hyper Lode Runner - It's Lode Runner, but harder! Yeah, this is tough... I'm having trouble even with the first stage. It's meant for people who have played a lot more classic Lode Runner than I have, though. Very basic graphics, but the gameplay's here. It has 50 stages (common for the series back then), and you can play them in any order (they're all unlocked). I guess this was worth getting, I didn't have it before.
Lock 'n Chase - This is a sequel, or remake, to the classic arcade/Atari 2600 game Lock n Chase. It's a Pac-Man knockoff where you can close doors in the maze in order to lock the police chasing you out of certain paths for a while, so you can try to escape. Yeah, you play as the badguy here. I have the Atari version, but this one has a level progression, multiple maps, and better graphics. This is a fine classic arcade game, good stuff.
Game Gear
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Paperboy 2 - Why did I get this? I know I don't like Paperboy all that much, it's such a punishingly hard series... and I have the SNES version of this but have barely played it. But I remember playing GG Paperboy back in the early '90s, so I got it anyway. It IS an arcade classic, even if it's frustratingly hard... those targets you have to hit, the mailboxes or doormats, are so small! As if people would cancel the newspaper just because the paper was one foot into the driveway instead of being on the doormat... hah!
Gear Works - This is a puzzle game where you have to find a way to get a chain of gears across the screen, to turn a specific goal gear. You have several different sizes of gears to work with, and each level has a new layout of points you can attach gears to. We got the PC version of this back in the early '90s, but it's glitched or something and you can't beat the first world, it just loops forever. That was disappointing, since this is a somewhat fun game. I'm sure this one will actually work correctly, so I'd definitely like to play it. :)