24th August 2014, 9:28 PM
Game Gear
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The Jungle Book - $2, cart only. Decent platformer with nice graphics for the system. I think this is a different game from the console version?
Genesis
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Beauty & the Beast: Belle's Quest - $6, cart only. This is a sidescrolling platform/adventure game where you play as Belle. Interesting concept. It's from Sunsoft, and is okay. They also made a second Genesis Beauty & the Beast game, Roar of the Beast; as the name suggests, that one's an action-platformer starring the Beast. The store had that one too, but I got this one first. I'll likely get the other eventually too.
Nintendo DS
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Atari Retro Classics - $6, complete. This is a collection of ten late '70s and early '80s arcade games, with both button and touch screen controls. Most of the games originally had analog controls; the only exception, I think, is Asteroids. The analog works great in some games, like Breakout, but I have problems controlling Sprint with analog. This is an okay collection, but more games would be nice. Also, it's very cool that the game has optional redone graphics modes, but unfortunately the new modes are only visual; gameplay stays the same. The redone graphics look nice, and are, interestingly, designed by several popular graffiti artists, but I'd have liked to see new gameplay modes too, like you see in the Namco classic remakes. The other major issue here is that the games have no options at all, which is odd; where's the difficulty setting? Still, for cheap, this is worth a look because of the touch controls.
The place also had in a lot of other GBA and DS games from Nintendo, but I didn't get any of them, yet at least. I did see stuff I still don't have like Mario & Luigi, Mario Pinball Land, and Yoshi Topsy-Turvy for GBA, and Mario vs Donkey Kong 2, Diddy Kong Racing DS, and others for DS, but I'm not sure which I actually want... and none were cheap, either; I'm sure they go for that much online, but... well, I remember disliking what I played of Mario & Lugi, and those other two GBA games got poor reviews, and I have the other DS MvDK game which plays just the same as that one, and I have N64 DKR... so I got these for now.
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The Jungle Book - $2, cart only. Decent platformer with nice graphics for the system. I think this is a different game from the console version?
Genesis
--
Beauty & the Beast: Belle's Quest - $6, cart only. This is a sidescrolling platform/adventure game where you play as Belle. Interesting concept. It's from Sunsoft, and is okay. They also made a second Genesis Beauty & the Beast game, Roar of the Beast; as the name suggests, that one's an action-platformer starring the Beast. The store had that one too, but I got this one first. I'll likely get the other eventually too.
Nintendo DS
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Atari Retro Classics - $6, complete. This is a collection of ten late '70s and early '80s arcade games, with both button and touch screen controls. Most of the games originally had analog controls; the only exception, I think, is Asteroids. The analog works great in some games, like Breakout, but I have problems controlling Sprint with analog. This is an okay collection, but more games would be nice. Also, it's very cool that the game has optional redone graphics modes, but unfortunately the new modes are only visual; gameplay stays the same. The redone graphics look nice, and are, interestingly, designed by several popular graffiti artists, but I'd have liked to see new gameplay modes too, like you see in the Namco classic remakes. The other major issue here is that the games have no options at all, which is odd; where's the difficulty setting? Still, for cheap, this is worth a look because of the touch controls.
The place also had in a lot of other GBA and DS games from Nintendo, but I didn't get any of them, yet at least. I did see stuff I still don't have like Mario & Luigi, Mario Pinball Land, and Yoshi Topsy-Turvy for GBA, and Mario vs Donkey Kong 2, Diddy Kong Racing DS, and others for DS, but I'm not sure which I actually want... and none were cheap, either; I'm sure they go for that much online, but... well, I remember disliking what I played of Mario & Lugi, and those other two GBA games got poor reviews, and I have the other DS MvDK game which plays just the same as that one, and I have N64 DKR... so I got these for now.