24th May 2019, 11:17 PM
Colecovision
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Time Pilot - $12, cart only. This port of Coleco's of a popular classic shooter from Konami isn't one I've ever spent a lot of time playing, but I probably should...
Nova Blast - $35, complete. This one is an Imagic game, and it's a Defender-inspired game with some very Imagic art design. I've heard it's sort of like Defender but easier, so we'll see; I love Defender, but "Defender but easier" games aren't always the best, I'm not a big fan of Chopper Command (2600) for example. This looks a lot better than that game, though, and it's very cool to find it complete like this -- the box art is great! Amusingly, the ad booklet in the box for other Imagic games doesn't even mention that they released games for the Colecovision, it's all 2600 and Intellivision games... heh.
NES
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Pin-Bot - $5, cart only
Xbox
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Silent Scope Complete - $5, complete. It's three Silent Scope games on one disc. These are fun arcade light gun games with a sniper rifle, but on consoles unless you buy the sniper rifle accessory (which I'm sure is expensive on ebay...) you're stuck with the controller. Oh well, this is nice to have either way.
Nintendo Switch DD (digital)
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Gunlord X - $10. This game just released, so I bought it immediately because Gunlord is an amazing game and $10 is a fantastic price for this enhanced port of the game! Gunlord was a 2012 Dreamcast and Neo-Geo release, and it's a fantastic Turrican-inspired game. It's like Turrican but harder, pretty much. This Switch port makes a lot of nice changes, including, most importantly, adding a save system -- where before the game only saved your scores, now it'll save your progress, after you beat levels! That's a huge and extremely welcome change which makes this super-hard game much more playable. So yeah, buy this for sure.
Xbox 360 DD (on sale)
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Radiant Silvergun - $7.50. There's a big digital sale of backwards compatible X360 games going on now (it ends on the 27th, so only a few more days!), and among them are some great games, such as this one. Yeah, I didn't own it before, but now I finally do... and the presentation and everything is fantastic and feels a lot like its sequel Ikaruga, but I still find the whole "seven weapons each on a separate button" thing is very confusing and gives this game a high learning curve that I've never gotten past. I hope this time I'll play it more and finally figure it out, now that I actually own it and all. This game isn't on sale often, so buy it if you don't have it!
Space Giraffe - $2.50. I have this fantastic Jeff Minter shooter on Steam, but for this low of a price, I think getting it on X360 as well is an easy choice; this is a very good game, with a lot of Tempest inspiration but some new elements, and having an easier way to play it on the TV is always nice.
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Time Pilot - $12, cart only. This port of Coleco's of a popular classic shooter from Konami isn't one I've ever spent a lot of time playing, but I probably should...
Nova Blast - $35, complete. This one is an Imagic game, and it's a Defender-inspired game with some very Imagic art design. I've heard it's sort of like Defender but easier, so we'll see; I love Defender, but "Defender but easier" games aren't always the best, I'm not a big fan of Chopper Command (2600) for example. This looks a lot better than that game, though, and it's very cool to find it complete like this -- the box art is great! Amusingly, the ad booklet in the box for other Imagic games doesn't even mention that they released games for the Colecovision, it's all 2600 and Intellivision games... heh.
NES
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Pin-Bot - $5, cart only
Xbox
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Silent Scope Complete - $5, complete. It's three Silent Scope games on one disc. These are fun arcade light gun games with a sniper rifle, but on consoles unless you buy the sniper rifle accessory (which I'm sure is expensive on ebay...) you're stuck with the controller. Oh well, this is nice to have either way.
Nintendo Switch DD (digital)
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Gunlord X - $10. This game just released, so I bought it immediately because Gunlord is an amazing game and $10 is a fantastic price for this enhanced port of the game! Gunlord was a 2012 Dreamcast and Neo-Geo release, and it's a fantastic Turrican-inspired game. It's like Turrican but harder, pretty much. This Switch port makes a lot of nice changes, including, most importantly, adding a save system -- where before the game only saved your scores, now it'll save your progress, after you beat levels! That's a huge and extremely welcome change which makes this super-hard game much more playable. So yeah, buy this for sure.
Xbox 360 DD (on sale)
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Radiant Silvergun - $7.50. There's a big digital sale of backwards compatible X360 games going on now (it ends on the 27th, so only a few more days!), and among them are some great games, such as this one. Yeah, I didn't own it before, but now I finally do... and the presentation and everything is fantastic and feels a lot like its sequel Ikaruga, but I still find the whole "seven weapons each on a separate button" thing is very confusing and gives this game a high learning curve that I've never gotten past. I hope this time I'll play it more and finally figure it out, now that I actually own it and all. This game isn't on sale often, so buy it if you don't have it!
Space Giraffe - $2.50. I have this fantastic Jeff Minter shooter on Steam, but for this low of a price, I think getting it on X360 as well is an easy choice; this is a very good game, with a lot of Tempest inspiration but some new elements, and having an easier way to play it on the TV is always nice.