6th May 2022, 4:20 PM
I guess I'll use this as a dump thread.
I just picked up a bunch of used games. Ninja Turtles 1 and 2 for Gameboy. I gotta say the first one just flies by. I beat it half an hour after I got home. Decent. The second is a bit tougher and I need to dedicate a couple hours to it at some point.
Here's a bizarre one, Battletoads for Gameboy. So, there's three of these right? One's Battletoads and Double Dragon, one's Battletoads in Ragnarok's World, and the last (well first) is just "Battletoads" and reuses the NES box art as it's own. Two of them are ports and one's a sequel to the first, but not the one you'd think. The one just called "Battletoads" is the sequel, for some reason! Ragnarok's World is the NES game's port, and the third is just what you'd expect, a port of the crossover game. I already own the crossover on Genesis, so I didn't need that one. Anyway, as a sequel it's competent if smaller. Good, all around.
I also picked up Contra for Gameboy. Operation C! Yeah that's it. Anyway, it's a good one, though of course it's hard to even hold a candle to that one-two punch of Contra III and Hard Corps on SNES and Genesis respectively.
I also resumed my collection of N64 games. I'm almost at a point where I'm comfortable stopping. The N64 had a lot of hidden gems. There's Glover, for example. It's controls are.... well they're not good. Direction of movement reverses every time you're on a ball. Play the game on "easy" and that's not a problem though. I just wish that setting was independent. It's got some interesting concepts, but it's a pretty average platformer otherwise. I also picked up Quake II. It's essentially a completely new game using PC Quake II's assets, and I might actually like it better than the PC version.
Space Station Silicon Valley! This is the ONE game that has issues with the N64 expansion RAM expansion pak, at least the first version. I advise picking up the second revision if at all possible (look for ones with that two digit code imprinted on the back label that has an "A" next to the number). That one works fine with the expansion pak, but there's still a critical glitch. You can't 100% the game because there's an item with it's collision detection turned off. Anyway, it's still a fun game. You run around possessing creatures and using their abilities to do things.
I've also at long last finally obtained Bombersman 64s. I remembered playing this ages ago and only just reclaimed it.
I also finally have Rayman 2! No not the N64 version, but the superior Dreamcast version. I'd considered getting the PS2 version but that's got whole new level design and can be treated as a remake. Paired with that, I got Rayman 1 for Playstation. I considered the Saturn version but after looking at a number of head to head comparisons, I found the PS1 version came out ahead for me. For Saturn, as a consolation prize, I have NBA Jam Tournament Edition. I'm not really a fan of sports games, but I make an exception when they're silly arcadey fun and not going for realism.
I just picked up a bunch of used games. Ninja Turtles 1 and 2 for Gameboy. I gotta say the first one just flies by. I beat it half an hour after I got home. Decent. The second is a bit tougher and I need to dedicate a couple hours to it at some point.
Here's a bizarre one, Battletoads for Gameboy. So, there's three of these right? One's Battletoads and Double Dragon, one's Battletoads in Ragnarok's World, and the last (well first) is just "Battletoads" and reuses the NES box art as it's own. Two of them are ports and one's a sequel to the first, but not the one you'd think. The one just called "Battletoads" is the sequel, for some reason! Ragnarok's World is the NES game's port, and the third is just what you'd expect, a port of the crossover game. I already own the crossover on Genesis, so I didn't need that one. Anyway, as a sequel it's competent if smaller. Good, all around.
I also picked up Contra for Gameboy. Operation C! Yeah that's it. Anyway, it's a good one, though of course it's hard to even hold a candle to that one-two punch of Contra III and Hard Corps on SNES and Genesis respectively.
I also resumed my collection of N64 games. I'm almost at a point where I'm comfortable stopping. The N64 had a lot of hidden gems. There's Glover, for example. It's controls are.... well they're not good. Direction of movement reverses every time you're on a ball. Play the game on "easy" and that's not a problem though. I just wish that setting was independent. It's got some interesting concepts, but it's a pretty average platformer otherwise. I also picked up Quake II. It's essentially a completely new game using PC Quake II's assets, and I might actually like it better than the PC version.
Space Station Silicon Valley! This is the ONE game that has issues with the N64 expansion RAM expansion pak, at least the first version. I advise picking up the second revision if at all possible (look for ones with that two digit code imprinted on the back label that has an "A" next to the number). That one works fine with the expansion pak, but there's still a critical glitch. You can't 100% the game because there's an item with it's collision detection turned off. Anyway, it's still a fun game. You run around possessing creatures and using their abilities to do things.
I've also at long last finally obtained Bombersman 64s. I remembered playing this ages ago and only just reclaimed it.
I also finally have Rayman 2! No not the N64 version, but the superior Dreamcast version. I'd considered getting the PS2 version but that's got whole new level design and can be treated as a remake. Paired with that, I got Rayman 1 for Playstation. I considered the Saturn version but after looking at a number of head to head comparisons, I found the PS1 version came out ahead for me. For Saturn, as a consolation prize, I have NBA Jam Tournament Edition. I'm not really a fan of sports games, but I make an exception when they're silly arcadey fun and not going for realism.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)