11th February 2020, 10:04 PM
So what have I gotten recently?
First, some games I got a bit over a week ago:
NES
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Gremlins 2 - cart only, $17. This is a good top-down action game from Sunsoft. Nice find!
N64
--
South Park Rally - cart only, $11.50. This is more just one I got for the collection, since I want all the non-sports N64 games... as far as US games go, I'm getting fairly close to that now. Though maybe it'll be decent, who knows?
Neo Geo Pocket Color
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Puzzle Bobble Mini (aka Bust-A-Move Pocket) - $11.50, cart in plastic case. This is a game I own already, got it back when I got my NGPC I believe, but the copy I got back then has a major issue, the chip is corrupted or something and and it won't save any times for any of the levels. I got this in the hopes of getting a fully working copy... and it is! That's fantastic. This is a good handheld version of Bust-A-Move. This title and cart version was originally the European version, but it also was sold in the US as a part of the blister-pack NGPC rerelease in '03 or so.
Xbox One
--
Vikings: Wolves of Midgard - complete, free in a buy 2 get 1 free (the paid titles are the Switch games below)
Gears of War 4 - $5, complete
Wii U
--
Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark - complete, $5
Nintendo 3DS
--
RPG Maker Fes - cart only, $5 - this package is disappointing, in part because the vast majority of its DLC stayed Japan-only and thus it feels very limited, but there's probably enough amusement here for the price I paid.
Nintendo Switch
--
Ittle Dew 2+ - $18, complete
Dusk Diver - $28, complete
Also, I got a few things from ebay within the past week.
Atari Jaguar
--
Super Burnout - $82 (including shipping), complete. This game is a scaler-style racing game, and has some of the most impressive graphics on the Jag -- it's a 60fps super scaler style game with super smooth animation and scaling and good gameplay. The game is fairly basic in design, as two lines of scaling objects approach along the sides of the road on each track with little variation, but what's here is good; it's not the developers' fault that the budget was clearly small, and they pulled off a nice technical feat. At the time of its release in '95 this was probably the best scaler-style racing game on a console, and it's still good. Expensive, but good.
Also for $40 I got a Sega Saturn 6-player multitap. I have been thinking about getting one for some time, but what really sealed it was when I got some Saturn controller extension cables for my new setup (see the pictures in the other thread, there should be some there), since the distance is a bit too much for the Saturn otherwise... only to find that for some bizarre reason, and I don't know if this is only these cables or all of them, only regular, dpad-only Saturn controllers work with these extension cables! It's a really bizarre limitation, but it's true -- the 3D Controller, wheel, and joystick all don't function with these extension cables. So in the hopes of getting something that would work, I got this US 6-player multitap... and it works great! The thing has a long cable and any controller works when attached to it. What a lifesaver. It enables 3+ player multiplayer as well, and maybe I'll use that sometime, but I got it for the controller extension first.
First, some games I got a bit over a week ago:
NES
--
Gremlins 2 - cart only, $17. This is a good top-down action game from Sunsoft. Nice find!
N64
--
South Park Rally - cart only, $11.50. This is more just one I got for the collection, since I want all the non-sports N64 games... as far as US games go, I'm getting fairly close to that now. Though maybe it'll be decent, who knows?
Neo Geo Pocket Color
--
Puzzle Bobble Mini (aka Bust-A-Move Pocket) - $11.50, cart in plastic case. This is a game I own already, got it back when I got my NGPC I believe, but the copy I got back then has a major issue, the chip is corrupted or something and and it won't save any times for any of the levels. I got this in the hopes of getting a fully working copy... and it is! That's fantastic. This is a good handheld version of Bust-A-Move. This title and cart version was originally the European version, but it also was sold in the US as a part of the blister-pack NGPC rerelease in '03 or so.
Xbox One
--
Vikings: Wolves of Midgard - complete, free in a buy 2 get 1 free (the paid titles are the Switch games below)
Gears of War 4 - $5, complete
Wii U
--
Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark - complete, $5
Nintendo 3DS
--
RPG Maker Fes - cart only, $5 - this package is disappointing, in part because the vast majority of its DLC stayed Japan-only and thus it feels very limited, but there's probably enough amusement here for the price I paid.
Nintendo Switch
--
Ittle Dew 2+ - $18, complete
Dusk Diver - $28, complete
Also, I got a few things from ebay within the past week.
Atari Jaguar
--
Super Burnout - $82 (including shipping), complete. This game is a scaler-style racing game, and has some of the most impressive graphics on the Jag -- it's a 60fps super scaler style game with super smooth animation and scaling and good gameplay. The game is fairly basic in design, as two lines of scaling objects approach along the sides of the road on each track with little variation, but what's here is good; it's not the developers' fault that the budget was clearly small, and they pulled off a nice technical feat. At the time of its release in '95 this was probably the best scaler-style racing game on a console, and it's still good. Expensive, but good.
Also for $40 I got a Sega Saturn 6-player multitap. I have been thinking about getting one for some time, but what really sealed it was when I got some Saturn controller extension cables for my new setup (see the pictures in the other thread, there should be some there), since the distance is a bit too much for the Saturn otherwise... only to find that for some bizarre reason, and I don't know if this is only these cables or all of them, only regular, dpad-only Saturn controllers work with these extension cables! It's a really bizarre limitation, but it's true -- the 3D Controller, wheel, and joystick all don't function with these extension cables. So in the hopes of getting something that would work, I got this US 6-player multitap... and it works great! The thing has a long cable and any controller works when attached to it. What a lifesaver. It enables 3+ player multiplayer as well, and maybe I'll use that sometime, but I got it for the controller extension first.