13th December 2019, 7:32 PM
PS2
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Shifters - complete, $10
PS3
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EyePet - $2, disc only (EyeToy game)
Game Boy
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Pyramids of Ra - $12, cart only. Now this is kind of a weird one. Not the game -- the game is a good, if quite challenging, logic puzzle game -- but no, the publisher. So, this logic puzzle game set in Egypt was published by... Matchbox? Like, the toy car company? Wait, what? Why Matchbox? How strange! Looking it up, Matchbox only published two games, a NES game quite sensibly about Matchbox cars and this thing that has absolutely nothing to do with their main product, the cars. How bizarre. (as an aside, as a kid I always called them "Matchbox cars", not "Hot Wheels", as the generic term for all small cars of that size, so I guess I've always liked Matchbox more than Hot Wheels... not that they are different anymore, the same company owns them both now. Corporate mergers... ah well.)
Game Boy Advance
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Super Monkey Ball Jr. - $4, cart only. I wonder, is this version better or worse than the N-Gage version? That one has better graphics than the GBA could manage but horrible controls. Hopefully this is better, if only by a bit; it's still Monkey Ball on a d-pad, so it's sure to be not good.
Sonic Battle - $6, cart only. This is an interesting one -- it's an isometric 3d fighting game, with the Sonic characters. It's got some nice 3d for the GBA and definitely is quite unlike the other GBA Sonic games... and it's suppose to be decent too, so when I saw it I had to get it.
Saturn
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SimCity 2000 - $3, disc only. This may be a dpad-only console version of this great PC classic, sadly with no mouse support and with plenty of slowdown, but it is a pretty interesting version -- it has changing graphic tilesets as time passes, something the PC game does not. Neat stuff.
--
Shifters - complete, $10
PS3
--
EyePet - $2, disc only (EyeToy game)
Game Boy
--
Pyramids of Ra - $12, cart only. Now this is kind of a weird one. Not the game -- the game is a good, if quite challenging, logic puzzle game -- but no, the publisher. So, this logic puzzle game set in Egypt was published by... Matchbox? Like, the toy car company? Wait, what? Why Matchbox? How strange! Looking it up, Matchbox only published two games, a NES game quite sensibly about Matchbox cars and this thing that has absolutely nothing to do with their main product, the cars. How bizarre. (as an aside, as a kid I always called them "Matchbox cars", not "Hot Wheels", as the generic term for all small cars of that size, so I guess I've always liked Matchbox more than Hot Wheels... not that they are different anymore, the same company owns them both now. Corporate mergers... ah well.)
Game Boy Advance
--
Super Monkey Ball Jr. - $4, cart only. I wonder, is this version better or worse than the N-Gage version? That one has better graphics than the GBA could manage but horrible controls. Hopefully this is better, if only by a bit; it's still Monkey Ball on a d-pad, so it's sure to be not good.
Sonic Battle - $6, cart only. This is an interesting one -- it's an isometric 3d fighting game, with the Sonic characters. It's got some nice 3d for the GBA and definitely is quite unlike the other GBA Sonic games... and it's suppose to be decent too, so when I saw it I had to get it.
Saturn
--
SimCity 2000 - $3, disc only. This may be a dpad-only console version of this great PC classic, sadly with no mouse support and with plenty of slowdown, but it is a pretty interesting version -- it has changing graphic tilesets as time passes, something the PC game does not. Neat stuff.