8th August 2018, 5:32 PM
So back from vacation I finally had a chance to look around for more Colecovision games, and got more pretty interesting ones. I think I've gotten all of the ones around here right now at the places I usually go, but it's a nice collection now so that's fine. Some of these I knew about but hadn't gotten yet, but a few were new, and one of those is maybe the best of the bunch. I got some other interesting stuff too.
Colecovision
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Fortune Builder - $20, complete. This very interesting game is an early building sim, sort of like a proto-SimCity. It's even got two player co-op, interestingly. The game has a large hard plastic case which opens, book-style, and the manual is great to have.
Facemaker - $8, complete. Much less interesting, this is a very basic educational software toy for kids which lets you make faces and look at them. Yeah. It is in another one of those hard plastic cases, though, so it looks kind of cool... I remember last year this store had several more of these hard plastic case games, in addition to these two, but I didn't get them and now these are all that's left. Fortune Builder's probably the interesting one of them though so that's fine. The hard plastic cases were apparently mostly use for the Coleco Adam, so on Colecovision it seems to mostly be edutainment games that used them.
Memory Manor - $6, cart and manual.
Dance Fantasy - $6, cart and manual. These two games are the other two games in Fischer-Price's line of Colecovision software for kids, the other of which is Linking Logic, which I got a few weeks ago. That one's actually a pretty good and interesting game, but these are far less so -- Memory Manor is just Concentration, and Dance Fantasy is a very basic thing where you program dances and then watch them. Yeah. They are pretty rare though, so collecting-wise these are fantastic finds, way below ebay value particularly with the manuals!
Mr. Do! - $12, cart only. Colecovision-wise this is probably the gem of the day. Mr. Do! is a great arcade classic, kind of like Dig-Dug but better and with more variety. It's great to have this, I really like Mr. Do but hadn't previously owned any versions of the game...
Omega Race - $12, cart only. Despite the title, Omega Race is a vehicular combat game. You drive around shooting enemy cars. The arcade game was a vector game, but this obviously uses sprites. I have the 2600 version of this, but it needs an uncommon controller addon I don't have, so I can't play it. It's nice to get this game.
Dreamcast
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Virtua Fighter 3tb - $17, complete. VF3 is not considered to be one of the best VF games by most, but I've never played it and couldn't resist this...
Pod Speed Zone - free with other purchases (would have been $8), complete. I've played this a lot before of course, and reviewed it, but this complete copy is in great condition and I didn't have a complete copy of this game before so I got it.
Playstation 2
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Growlanser: Heritage of War Limited Edition - $31, almost complete (it's missing the keyring, but has everything else -- artbook, pins, holo-cards, media dvd, game.). This game is known as being the worst of the Growlanser games, and I think they mess with the great strategic combat of previous titles, but the PSP Growlanser is maybe my favorite PSP game so I wanted to get this anyway even if it isn't nearly as good. The price is good, this will cost this much or more on ebay now.
Colecovision
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Fortune Builder - $20, complete. This very interesting game is an early building sim, sort of like a proto-SimCity. It's even got two player co-op, interestingly. The game has a large hard plastic case which opens, book-style, and the manual is great to have.
Facemaker - $8, complete. Much less interesting, this is a very basic educational software toy for kids which lets you make faces and look at them. Yeah. It is in another one of those hard plastic cases, though, so it looks kind of cool... I remember last year this store had several more of these hard plastic case games, in addition to these two, but I didn't get them and now these are all that's left. Fortune Builder's probably the interesting one of them though so that's fine. The hard plastic cases were apparently mostly use for the Coleco Adam, so on Colecovision it seems to mostly be edutainment games that used them.
Memory Manor - $6, cart and manual.
Dance Fantasy - $6, cart and manual. These two games are the other two games in Fischer-Price's line of Colecovision software for kids, the other of which is Linking Logic, which I got a few weeks ago. That one's actually a pretty good and interesting game, but these are far less so -- Memory Manor is just Concentration, and Dance Fantasy is a very basic thing where you program dances and then watch them. Yeah. They are pretty rare though, so collecting-wise these are fantastic finds, way below ebay value particularly with the manuals!
Mr. Do! - $12, cart only. Colecovision-wise this is probably the gem of the day. Mr. Do! is a great arcade classic, kind of like Dig-Dug but better and with more variety. It's great to have this, I really like Mr. Do but hadn't previously owned any versions of the game...
Omega Race - $12, cart only. Despite the title, Omega Race is a vehicular combat game. You drive around shooting enemy cars. The arcade game was a vector game, but this obviously uses sprites. I have the 2600 version of this, but it needs an uncommon controller addon I don't have, so I can't play it. It's nice to get this game.
Dreamcast
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Virtua Fighter 3tb - $17, complete. VF3 is not considered to be one of the best VF games by most, but I've never played it and couldn't resist this...
Pod Speed Zone - free with other purchases (would have been $8), complete. I've played this a lot before of course, and reviewed it, but this complete copy is in great condition and I didn't have a complete copy of this game before so I got it.
Playstation 2
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Growlanser: Heritage of War Limited Edition - $31, almost complete (it's missing the keyring, but has everything else -- artbook, pins, holo-cards, media dvd, game.). This game is known as being the worst of the Growlanser games, and I think they mess with the great strategic combat of previous titles, but the PSP Growlanser is maybe my favorite PSP game so I wanted to get this anyway even if it isn't nearly as good. The price is good, this will cost this much or more on ebay now.