18th January 2016, 9:02 PM
N64
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Army Men: Sarge's Heroes - $6, cart only - average third-person shooter. I like the topdown (PC/GBC) and helicopter Army Men games, but never really have tried the shooters, they're the weaker games in the franchise I think... but this one's supposed to be at least okay, and it's on the N64, so I'll give it a try. :)
Also, the guy gave me a semifunctional Atari 5200 controller and also a not-really-working Atari 2600/8-bit trackball both for free, because they had no real use for them and he knew I well might. I tried out the 5200 controller. It's got a totally broken and missing rubber ring that holds the stick in place, no Start/Pause/Reset buttons or button holder, and the side triggers don't work at all... but the stick does work. It doesn't respond as well as it should, and the left direction particularly often doesn't respond well, but the stick is at least better than that other broken 5200 controller I have, so that's something. I'll take it apart eventually and try to see if I can use some of the parts from that other broken controller to make this work better -- rubber ring, maybe the flex circuit though that one is also bad (on that one the Start/Pause/Reset part is busted, but at least the side buttons work). I'll try adjusting those trim pots too. So yeah, my quest for a second working 5200 controller continues, but this is nice to have and might help with that. Either way, it was free! Oh, and it came with an overlay for 5200 Frogger taped to the controller, so I have that now too. Nice.
As for the trackball, haven't tried it yet.
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Army Men: Sarge's Heroes - $6, cart only - average third-person shooter. I like the topdown (PC/GBC) and helicopter Army Men games, but never really have tried the shooters, they're the weaker games in the franchise I think... but this one's supposed to be at least okay, and it's on the N64, so I'll give it a try. :)
Also, the guy gave me a semifunctional Atari 5200 controller and also a not-really-working Atari 2600/8-bit trackball both for free, because they had no real use for them and he knew I well might. I tried out the 5200 controller. It's got a totally broken and missing rubber ring that holds the stick in place, no Start/Pause/Reset buttons or button holder, and the side triggers don't work at all... but the stick does work. It doesn't respond as well as it should, and the left direction particularly often doesn't respond well, but the stick is at least better than that other broken 5200 controller I have, so that's something. I'll take it apart eventually and try to see if I can use some of the parts from that other broken controller to make this work better -- rubber ring, maybe the flex circuit though that one is also bad (on that one the Start/Pause/Reset part is busted, but at least the side buttons work). I'll try adjusting those trim pots too. So yeah, my quest for a second working 5200 controller continues, but this is nice to have and might help with that. Either way, it was free! Oh, and it came with an overlay for 5200 Frogger taped to the controller, so I have that now too. Nice.
As for the trackball, haven't tried it yet.