24th October 2015, 6:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 24th October 2015, 10:00 PM by A Black Falcon.)
Oh, right. Yeah, I guess I have heard the "Camp X-Ray" name before, but I only think of it as Guantanamo Bay, as you say. The game is supposed to be quite short, so sure, maybe I'll give it a try eventually.
That said, I got a bunch of stuff today from a couple of places...
Atari 2600
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California Games - $3, cart only. It's kind of amazing that the 2600 got games in the late '80s, but this is another of them. Winter Games for the 2600 is actually kind of interesting, and hopefully this one is as well. The limited graphics make them different from the other versions of the games, but both look quite nice for 2600 games...
Game Boy
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Tesserae - $5, cart and manual. This is a tough boardgame-style puzzle game. It's sort of like a more complex version of Solitaire... not the card game, the marble-jumping one. Instead of "just" jumping over balls to eliminate them though, in this game you have to deal with three different types of tiles, with a plus, square, or circle on them. They can combine in multiple ways, and you can only eliminate tiles by jumping over them with a similar tile, or landing on a complimentary one. I am very glad this came with the manual, because otherwise it'd be very hard to figure out how it works! This isn't a kind of game I love, because I'm not great at these games and they get hard fast, but it is interesting enough that I had to get it.
Neo Geo Pocket Color
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Metal Slug: 2nd Mission - $12, cart in protector case. Metal Slug: First Mission is a great game, and as far as I know this one is more of the same, so I have high hopes for it! They've had this game there for a while now, but I finally decided to get it. This is about what the game is worth, and it already seems to be a pretty good game. I think this game actually was the last game released for the NGPC in the US during the system's original release (that is, not counting the two games first released in the US in the 2003 blister-pack releases selling off left-over stock), because shortly after its May '00 release SNK went under and was bought by Aruze. The NGPC's very early death (less than a year, in the US!) was pretty sad, and there would have been a lot more good games on the system had SNK not had to abandon it early (a new Magician Lord game, for example), but at least we did get this one, and it's great. Like the first one, you have a health bar in this game, and the gameplay is a bit more platformer-styled than in the regular Neo-Geo games. It actually works quite well.
PSP
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Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony - $3, complete. I don't know if this will be any good or not, but I like this kind of game so I want to try it. The Dungeon Siege series never was great, but it was cheap and I have wanted the game, so I got it. Sure, Dungeon Siege 1 is a game I got back when it came out and was very disappointed by (it's so repetitive!), but Dungeon Siege 3, at least, is good... I'm sure this game isn't going to be nearly that good, but hopefully it's at least an okay action-RPG. The PSP actually has several fun games like this, which is nice; I am of course a huge Gauntlet fan.
Xbox
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Blitz: The League - $1, complete. I don't like football games, and quite dislike football, but Midway's arcadey ones are fun, I guess.
Xbox 360
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Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) - $7, complete. Yeah, I got this for PC back when it came out, but it doesn't run smoothly no matter what settings I try and the game is pretty good, so I've wanted the 360 version as well. Now I have it. :)
Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection - $4, disc in generic case. I'm sure there are some games on this I don't have.
The Crew- $15, complete. I'm not sure why, but I've wanted to play this game ever since it was announced... I don't care for open-world games of course, but since this one is entirely driving-focused it made me more interested than your average open-world third-person shooter.
These last four games are disc only and were free; they normally would be a quite cheap 30 cents, but I got a bunch of other stuff so these were just made free. Yes, that they were free is a definite reason why I got these games I might not have wanted to get for money.
Playstation
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Tekken 2 - I generally think the Tekken series is kind of bad and by far the worst of the popular fighting game series, but I've never actually played the first two games, as far as I remember... maybe sometime in the arcade, but I don't remember it. This game is probably bad just like all the other Tekken games, but for free I'll try it.
Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero -- I've never actually played this... of course I'd rather have it for N64, but the N64 version isn't 30 cents to free.
Digimon: Digital Monsters - Rumble Arena -- Digimon Smash Bros. knockoff.
Xbox
--
Forza Motorsport (+ Xbox Live Arcade) - I wonder, will the XBLA part have demos, like that other XBLA disc I have for the original Xbox? Original Xbox XBLA is interesting stuff, it's all entirely offline now so you can't buy the few games released for it unless you pirate them.
Lastly, this game is actually from early last month.
Atari 5200
--
Moon Patrol - cart only. I seem to have forgotten to mention this game. I got it in early September from ebay for $6 including shipping. It's fun stuff and is a good port of Moon Patrol, much more accurate to the arcade game than the 2600 version is.
That said, I got a bunch of stuff today from a couple of places...
Atari 2600
--
California Games - $3, cart only. It's kind of amazing that the 2600 got games in the late '80s, but this is another of them. Winter Games for the 2600 is actually kind of interesting, and hopefully this one is as well. The limited graphics make them different from the other versions of the games, but both look quite nice for 2600 games...
Game Boy
--
Tesserae - $5, cart and manual. This is a tough boardgame-style puzzle game. It's sort of like a more complex version of Solitaire... not the card game, the marble-jumping one. Instead of "just" jumping over balls to eliminate them though, in this game you have to deal with three different types of tiles, with a plus, square, or circle on them. They can combine in multiple ways, and you can only eliminate tiles by jumping over them with a similar tile, or landing on a complimentary one. I am very glad this came with the manual, because otherwise it'd be very hard to figure out how it works! This isn't a kind of game I love, because I'm not great at these games and they get hard fast, but it is interesting enough that I had to get it.
Neo Geo Pocket Color
--
Metal Slug: 2nd Mission - $12, cart in protector case. Metal Slug: First Mission is a great game, and as far as I know this one is more of the same, so I have high hopes for it! They've had this game there for a while now, but I finally decided to get it. This is about what the game is worth, and it already seems to be a pretty good game. I think this game actually was the last game released for the NGPC in the US during the system's original release (that is, not counting the two games first released in the US in the 2003 blister-pack releases selling off left-over stock), because shortly after its May '00 release SNK went under and was bought by Aruze. The NGPC's very early death (less than a year, in the US!) was pretty sad, and there would have been a lot more good games on the system had SNK not had to abandon it early (a new Magician Lord game, for example), but at least we did get this one, and it's great. Like the first one, you have a health bar in this game, and the gameplay is a bit more platformer-styled than in the regular Neo-Geo games. It actually works quite well.
PSP
--
Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony - $3, complete. I don't know if this will be any good or not, but I like this kind of game so I want to try it. The Dungeon Siege series never was great, but it was cheap and I have wanted the game, so I got it. Sure, Dungeon Siege 1 is a game I got back when it came out and was very disappointed by (it's so repetitive!), but Dungeon Siege 3, at least, is good... I'm sure this game isn't going to be nearly that good, but hopefully it's at least an okay action-RPG. The PSP actually has several fun games like this, which is nice; I am of course a huge Gauntlet fan.
Xbox
--
Blitz: The League - $1, complete. I don't like football games, and quite dislike football, but Midway's arcadey ones are fun, I guess.
Xbox 360
--
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) - $7, complete. Yeah, I got this for PC back when it came out, but it doesn't run smoothly no matter what settings I try and the game is pretty good, so I've wanted the 360 version as well. Now I have it. :)
Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection - $4, disc in generic case. I'm sure there are some games on this I don't have.
The Crew- $15, complete. I'm not sure why, but I've wanted to play this game ever since it was announced... I don't care for open-world games of course, but since this one is entirely driving-focused it made me more interested than your average open-world third-person shooter.
These last four games are disc only and were free; they normally would be a quite cheap 30 cents, but I got a bunch of other stuff so these were just made free. Yes, that they were free is a definite reason why I got these games I might not have wanted to get for money.
Playstation
--
Tekken 2 - I generally think the Tekken series is kind of bad and by far the worst of the popular fighting game series, but I've never actually played the first two games, as far as I remember... maybe sometime in the arcade, but I don't remember it. This game is probably bad just like all the other Tekken games, but for free I'll try it.
Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero -- I've never actually played this... of course I'd rather have it for N64, but the N64 version isn't 30 cents to free.
Digimon: Digital Monsters - Rumble Arena -- Digimon Smash Bros. knockoff.
Xbox
--
Forza Motorsport (+ Xbox Live Arcade) - I wonder, will the XBLA part have demos, like that other XBLA disc I have for the original Xbox? Original Xbox XBLA is interesting stuff, it's all entirely offline now so you can't buy the few games released for it unless you pirate them.
Lastly, this game is actually from early last month.
Atari 5200
--
Moon Patrol - cart only. I seem to have forgotten to mention this game. I got it in early September from ebay for $6 including shipping. It's fun stuff and is a good port of Moon Patrol, much more accurate to the arcade game than the 2600 version is.