11th February 2019, 12:00 AM
I went to a flea market today and didn't see much videogame related apart from some highly overpriced games from the PS2 and newer, but found a couple of interesting older PC games...
PC
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Distant Frontiers - $3, jewelcase copy. This is a very obscure (in the US at least) DOS PC RPG from the early '90s. It's a European game which was called Whale's Journey there, and apparently is part dungeon-crawler RPG and part trading game. Alright. It seems to be a bit better known there than here.
Pro Pinball: Timeshock - $5, jewelcase only copy. The Pro Pinball series was a well known one for its highly accurate depictions of pinball, and this is one of the three games in the series. I've only ever played the demos of these games, oddly enough, so this is very cool to have.
Also, Starlink stuff is on sale at Best Buy, so I got another ship and a weapon set. It's too bad that the game doesn't seem to have done great because it is good, but being toys-to-life I can understand that... the gameplay's good though and the plastic ships look very nice, and they are useful in the game, so I'm glad to have this.
PC
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Distant Frontiers - $3, jewelcase copy. This is a very obscure (in the US at least) DOS PC RPG from the early '90s. It's a European game which was called Whale's Journey there, and apparently is part dungeon-crawler RPG and part trading game. Alright. It seems to be a bit better known there than here.
Pro Pinball: Timeshock - $5, jewelcase only copy. The Pro Pinball series was a well known one for its highly accurate depictions of pinball, and this is one of the three games in the series. I've only ever played the demos of these games, oddly enough, so this is very cool to have.
Also, Starlink stuff is on sale at Best Buy, so I got another ship and a weapon set. It's too bad that the game doesn't seem to have done great because it is good, but being toys-to-life I can understand that... the gameplay's good though and the plastic ships look very nice, and they are useful in the game, so I'm glad to have this.