7th March 2014, 12:40 AM
Super Nintendo
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Firepower 2000 - $17, cart only. You can get this for less on EBay for sure, but I'd rather buy local when I can... and when the result is getting a game this great, that I've been looking for for a long time but hadn't seen, I don't mind the cost. (It also doesn't hurt that you can also spend quite a bit more than this on EBay or Amazon for loose copies of this game, too.) So anyway, Firepower 2000, aka Super SWIV, is a quite impressive Euro-shmup, and it's probably one of the best Euro-shmups I've played. The game is fast, rarely slows down in single player mode, has great graphics, and is fairly well designed. It's also very difficult, with six long levels and no continues allowed, so this will take a lot of skill to get through for sure. Of course, the game has two player co-op as well, and two playable vehicles, one a jeep which can fire in any direction and one a helicopter which can only fire up. The game was inspired by the NES game Silkworm, and I got the last SWIV game, SWIV 3D for the PC, years ago. That one's not that great, though; it's a mediocre Strike-style 3d helicopter shooting game. This game is much, MUCH better. I really like this.
PC
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Redneck Rampage Rides Again - $2, disc in plain jewelcase. This is the 'sequel' (stand-alone expansion pack, really) to the Build engine FPS Redneck Rampage, which I got back in ~2001 in the "Interplay 15th Anniversary Collection". That only included the original game, though, not the addon, so now I have it. I've never liked Redneck Rampage's backwoods-redneck-hick theme much, but the Build engine is a solid classic FPS engine, so I got this anyway. This game is also interesting in being a 1998 DOS release in the US -- there were a few other late '90s DOS releases in Europe, but in the US, new DOS games pretty much dried up in 1997...
Also, it's not a videogame, but for $1 I got a 3-disc DVD collection of the first 13 episodes of the Mega Man cartoon. Hopefully it's amusing. :)
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Firepower 2000 - $17, cart only. You can get this for less on EBay for sure, but I'd rather buy local when I can... and when the result is getting a game this great, that I've been looking for for a long time but hadn't seen, I don't mind the cost. (It also doesn't hurt that you can also spend quite a bit more than this on EBay or Amazon for loose copies of this game, too.) So anyway, Firepower 2000, aka Super SWIV, is a quite impressive Euro-shmup, and it's probably one of the best Euro-shmups I've played. The game is fast, rarely slows down in single player mode, has great graphics, and is fairly well designed. It's also very difficult, with six long levels and no continues allowed, so this will take a lot of skill to get through for sure. Of course, the game has two player co-op as well, and two playable vehicles, one a jeep which can fire in any direction and one a helicopter which can only fire up. The game was inspired by the NES game Silkworm, and I got the last SWIV game, SWIV 3D for the PC, years ago. That one's not that great, though; it's a mediocre Strike-style 3d helicopter shooting game. This game is much, MUCH better. I really like this.
PC
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Redneck Rampage Rides Again - $2, disc in plain jewelcase. This is the 'sequel' (stand-alone expansion pack, really) to the Build engine FPS Redneck Rampage, which I got back in ~2001 in the "Interplay 15th Anniversary Collection". That only included the original game, though, not the addon, so now I have it. I've never liked Redneck Rampage's backwoods-redneck-hick theme much, but the Build engine is a solid classic FPS engine, so I got this anyway. This game is also interesting in being a 1998 DOS release in the US -- there were a few other late '90s DOS releases in Europe, but in the US, new DOS games pretty much dried up in 1997...
Also, it's not a videogame, but for $1 I got a 3-disc DVD collection of the first 13 episodes of the Mega Man cartoon. Hopefully it's amusing. :)