22nd August 2014, 9:40 PM
Sega CD
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ESPN Baseball Tonight - complete, $2. I have the ESPN Hockey game on SCD, and like that game this is also from Sony, so I had very low expectations for this one... buti t's actually fun! It's flawed, with questionable batting where I seem to usually either strike out or get a home run, but it's fun. I like that it doesn't use the usual stupid top-down field view I've always hated, but instead has a behind-the-plate viewpoint. This is a decent game, and I will play more of it. It's an enhanced Genesis port, and I looked up differences; on SNES and Genesis, the game is mostly similar, but has only one ballpark to play in, and doesn't have a season mode, only playoffs or single game. On SCD you can play (and save to system) a full season, and it has all the parks. Also it's got live-action video clips, of course. So yeah, okay game for the time.
NES
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Ice Climber - $5, cart only... but that's not the whole story. See, this copy of Ice Climber is in a (5-screw) Balloon Fight cartridge, so the store was selling it for cheap. I've wanted Ice Climber for some time, because it's a good game, and if it's in the wrong cart because someone was presumably trying to rip off a video rental store years ago, I'll take it!
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ESPN Baseball Tonight - complete, $2. I have the ESPN Hockey game on SCD, and like that game this is also from Sony, so I had very low expectations for this one... buti t's actually fun! It's flawed, with questionable batting where I seem to usually either strike out or get a home run, but it's fun. I like that it doesn't use the usual stupid top-down field view I've always hated, but instead has a behind-the-plate viewpoint. This is a decent game, and I will play more of it. It's an enhanced Genesis port, and I looked up differences; on SNES and Genesis, the game is mostly similar, but has only one ballpark to play in, and doesn't have a season mode, only playoffs or single game. On SCD you can play (and save to system) a full season, and it has all the parks. Also it's got live-action video clips, of course. So yeah, okay game for the time.
NES
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Ice Climber - $5, cart only... but that's not the whole story. See, this copy of Ice Climber is in a (5-screw) Balloon Fight cartridge, so the store was selling it for cheap. I've wanted Ice Climber for some time, because it's a good game, and if it's in the wrong cart because someone was presumably trying to rip off a video rental store years ago, I'll take it!