10th May 2019, 7:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 10th May 2019, 7:53 PM by A Black Falcon.)
Genesis
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T2: The Arcade Game - $12, complete. This is a cardboard box game and the box for this game isn't in great shape, but it was there and since I got the Menacer, I thought that I definitely should get this once I saw it. There are only two US-released cartridge games that support the Menacer, plus five bad Sega CD games and a cart game only released in Europe, so the thing has a very small game library. For some very strange reason Sega of Japan didn't make any light gun games that gen; the Master System, Saturn, and Dreamcast all have great light gun games from Sega's Japanese teams, but the Genesis sadly doesn't have any. So, all of the Menacer's small handful of games are Western. Because I didn't previously have the gun I hadn't bought this game before, but now that I have one obviously I needed to get it when I saw it today. I hope to find a copy of the Menacer 6-in-1 soon as well, though sadly I didn't see one today. This game works, though, and it's far better than the awful Sega CD stuff. T2 is an arcade classic, and while I find the game impossible -- in any version, I have never gotten past the 'defend the truck' stage, frustratingly -- it's a good game anyway and this is a good version of the game so it was wroth getting. The SNES version probably is better because it has mouse support so you don't need ot use a lightgun for accurate control, but it's a good fun game and the gun works well enough; it has tracking problems sometimes, but mostly is fine. Oh, the Genesis version of this game came in a cardboard box, and it's not in good shape. Oh well, but at least it was there.
Intellivision
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Venture - complete in box, $6 - I already have this fun early arcade action-adventureish game on the Atari 2600 and Colecovision so there was no real reason to also get this one, but... I got it anyway. The port's good, unlike most of Coleco's Intellivision games; yes, this is from Coleco. It doesn't quite match the Colecovision version, but you wouldn't expect that. It is a fine version of this good game, and has all the stages, unlike the 2600. Yes, for once Coleco didn't just port the 2600 version to Intellivision! Nice.
Nintendo 3DS
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Yo-Kai Watch - $9, card only. I've had some interest in this Pokemon-esque series for a while, but didn't want to pay the kind of money the games cost. Well, this was affordable enough that I thought I'd get it, and sure, this game is amusing. It's a simple little kids RPG game with little depth, but it's an amusing little thing that's mildly fun to play.
PC DD
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Rad Rogers - $6.79, on sale on Steam. This is a classic PC shareware game inspired platformer. Fun stuff.
Curse of the Great Curry God - $12, on sale on Steam. This is a pretty average dungeon crawler. Probably wait for a cheaper sale than this.
PS Vita DD
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Adventures of Mana - $6, on sale (last week, not sure about now). This is a polygonal 3d remake of Final Fantasy Adventure for the Game Boy. Unlike Sword of Mana on GBA, this game keeps the same level designs and gameplay as the original. This game was only released on iOS/Android and Vita, so it's a mobile game at heart, but still as a big fan of the original game I had to get this eventually.
Muramasa Rebirth DLC Addons collection - $4.50, on sale. Compared to the $15 it usually costs, this recent sale was a pretty good price for this DLC. And the file sizes are small, so I actually found the space to download them! Well, it's more Murasmasa, so it looks amazing but plays much less well. Oh well.
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T2: The Arcade Game - $12, complete. This is a cardboard box game and the box for this game isn't in great shape, but it was there and since I got the Menacer, I thought that I definitely should get this once I saw it. There are only two US-released cartridge games that support the Menacer, plus five bad Sega CD games and a cart game only released in Europe, so the thing has a very small game library. For some very strange reason Sega of Japan didn't make any light gun games that gen; the Master System, Saturn, and Dreamcast all have great light gun games from Sega's Japanese teams, but the Genesis sadly doesn't have any. So, all of the Menacer's small handful of games are Western. Because I didn't previously have the gun I hadn't bought this game before, but now that I have one obviously I needed to get it when I saw it today. I hope to find a copy of the Menacer 6-in-1 soon as well, though sadly I didn't see one today. This game works, though, and it's far better than the awful Sega CD stuff. T2 is an arcade classic, and while I find the game impossible -- in any version, I have never gotten past the 'defend the truck' stage, frustratingly -- it's a good game anyway and this is a good version of the game so it was wroth getting. The SNES version probably is better because it has mouse support so you don't need ot use a lightgun for accurate control, but it's a good fun game and the gun works well enough; it has tracking problems sometimes, but mostly is fine. Oh, the Genesis version of this game came in a cardboard box, and it's not in good shape. Oh well, but at least it was there.
Intellivision
--
Venture - complete in box, $6 - I already have this fun early arcade action-adventureish game on the Atari 2600 and Colecovision so there was no real reason to also get this one, but... I got it anyway. The port's good, unlike most of Coleco's Intellivision games; yes, this is from Coleco. It doesn't quite match the Colecovision version, but you wouldn't expect that. It is a fine version of this good game, and has all the stages, unlike the 2600. Yes, for once Coleco didn't just port the 2600 version to Intellivision! Nice.
Nintendo 3DS
--
Yo-Kai Watch - $9, card only. I've had some interest in this Pokemon-esque series for a while, but didn't want to pay the kind of money the games cost. Well, this was affordable enough that I thought I'd get it, and sure, this game is amusing. It's a simple little kids RPG game with little depth, but it's an amusing little thing that's mildly fun to play.
PC DD
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Rad Rogers - $6.79, on sale on Steam. This is a classic PC shareware game inspired platformer. Fun stuff.
Curse of the Great Curry God - $12, on sale on Steam. This is a pretty average dungeon crawler. Probably wait for a cheaper sale than this.
PS Vita DD
--
Adventures of Mana - $6, on sale (last week, not sure about now). This is a polygonal 3d remake of Final Fantasy Adventure for the Game Boy. Unlike Sword of Mana on GBA, this game keeps the same level designs and gameplay as the original. This game was only released on iOS/Android and Vita, so it's a mobile game at heart, but still as a big fan of the original game I had to get this eventually.
Muramasa Rebirth DLC Addons collection - $4.50, on sale. Compared to the $15 it usually costs, this recent sale was a pretty good price for this DLC. And the file sizes are small, so I actually found the space to download them! Well, it's more Murasmasa, so it looks amazing but plays much less well. Oh well.