Now Playing - September 2017

It's my 32nd birthday this month and the 20th anniversary of lots of PlayStation related stuff, I got my PlayStation and my first PlayStation game in 1997, many of my top favorite games of all time came out in 1997 (some in late 96 and as a result they didn't get played until 97) and it's also the 30th anniversary for some really old games like Maze Hunter 3-D on Master System and the legendary R-Type.
I'll mostly focus my playtime on as many of the games from 97 as possible this months to truly celebrate as any gamer in this situation should.

Roswell Conspiracies Aliens, Myths & Legends (Game Boy Color)

WORMS (PC)
Wanted to play some old school Worms.

LIERO (PC)
Wanted to play some Liero.

Tenkai Knights Brave Battle (3DS)
got this game as a birthday gift, it's not very good but it has semi-customizable Lego brick-esque transformer robot mech suits, so it's not all bad

Maze Hunter 3-D (Master System, played on 3DS as part of the SEGA 3D Classics Collection)

V-Rally (PlayStation)

V-Rally 2 (PlayStation)

Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation)

WipEout 2097 (PlayStation)
drinking Red Bull for authentic improved reaction speed

S.C.A.R.S. (PlayStation)
it may be a 1998 release but it's far too good not to play

R-Type (Master System)

R-Type (PC Engine)

R-Type (Game Boy, part of the R-Type DX cartridge)

R-Type II (Game Boy, part of the R-Type DX cartridge)

R-Type (Game Boy Color, played on Game Boy Advance as part of the R-Type DX cartridge)

R-Type II (Game Boy Color, played on Game Boy Advance as part of the R-Type DX cartridge)

R-Type Delta (PlayStation)

Armored Core (PlayStation)

Auto Destruct (PlayStation)

Command & Conquer (PlayStation)
the first PlayStation game I ever owned

Exhumed (PlayStation)

Ghost in the Shell (PlayStation)

Grand Theft Auto (PlayStation)

Disney's Actionspel med Herkules (PlayStation)

JumpingFlash!2 (PlayStation)

Killer Loop (PlayStation)

Metal Slug (PlayStation)

Oddworld Abe's Oddysee (PlayStation)

Overboard! (PlayStation)

Pandemonium 2 (PlayStation)

Porsche Challenge (PlayStation)

Rage Racer (PlayStation)

RayStorm (PlayStation)

ReLoaded (PlayStation)

SoulBlade (PlayStation)

Spider (PlayStation)

Star Wars Rebel Assault II The Hidden Empire (PlayStation)

WarCraft II The Dark Saga (PlayStation)

Fossil Fighters Frontier (3DS)
finally got around to play this, it's okay so far, starting with a painfully long and unskippable intro sequence then introducing the painfully annoying and unnecessarily large cast of main characters in the form of way too much annoying text based dialog has made it a very slow game to get rolling, but I like the buggy driving and monster battles, the excavating of fossils is a shitty touch screen tapping minigame but it's at least over fairly quickly and not that hard to do (so far), it's an okay looking game for the system, the monsters have nice bumpmaps, or possible normalmaps, on them, it's hard to tell exactly but it's some kind of sub texture map that adds additional visual detail, which is nice, it's also very bright and colorful and plays smoothly, so it's far from a bad game, it's not exactly close to a good game yet but it's okay overall, I hope it will get better once the gameplay starts to take center stage over all this forced tutorial/introductory story garbage, also the humor is pretty juvenile, a "joke" they've already repeated multiple times, believe it or not, is that the fat kid is so fat he literally rolls around if he falls over, and he's a bumbling idiot who trips and falls over a lot, yeah it's not well written, it's very poor indeed, the gameplay is the saving grace of this game so far, to say the very least

Gaming Purchases - September 2017

September 5th:

It's my 32nd birthday, finally I reach the original PlayStation's 32-bit generation age! (trust me, it's a VERY big deal to a gamer).
No second-hand stuff this time, just brand new things all across the board.

3DS:
Tenkai Knights Brave Battle

PlayStation 3 accessories:
2x Bluetooth headset
USB headset

PlayStation Vita accessories:
Smart Case

Disney Infinity:
Helen Parr/Elastigirl

LEGO Star Wars:
Jawa Sandcrawler polybag

Nanoblock:
Blue Whale Skeleton
Dinonix
Human Skeleton
Pteranodon
Stegosaurus
Triceratops
Tyrannosaurus Skeleton
Space Station

Nanoblock+:
Hello Kitty - Kitty's House
Hello Kitty - Yacht

Other Notable Gifts:
2x buckets of cotton candy
4x Red Bull energy drinks (to drink while playing WipEout 2097 for authentically increased reaction speed)
4x Milka chocolate bars



I also took a trip to a local second-hand shop and found some additional goodies.

PlayStation 2:
Colin McRae Rally 2005
Hugo CannonCruise
Kart Racer
Madagascar Escape 2 Africa
Midnight Club
The Simpsons Game

Comics:
Scooby-Doo!

Manga Pocket:
Chobits Vol. 1
Inu-Yasha Vol. 9
Inu-Yasha Vol. 24
Kemono To Chat Vol. 1
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 1
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 2
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 3
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 4
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 5
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 6
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 7
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 8
Tokyo Mew Mew Vol. 2
XXX-Holic Vol. 13
ことばの学習 (Language learning) まんがで覚・える (Remember by comic) 反対語・同意語 (Autonym and Psynonym)
(ことばの学習 まんがで覚・える 反対語・同意語 The opposite words and synonyms that you can remember in the language learning manga)
(反対語・同意語 まんがで覚・える ことばの学習 Learning words that can be memorized in opposite words / synonymous comic books)


Manga DVD:
Pompoko
School Rumble Collection - Vol. 1-6 (6 DVD Box Set)

DVD:
Kirikou Og Trollkvinnen (norwegian edition of the original 1998 Kirikou animated movie)
The Muppet Show - Series 1 (4 DVD Box Set)


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September 13th:

Went second-hand shopping today, found some stuff.

DVD:
Cube
Planet 51

Comics:
Archie
Ducktales
Garfield
Scooby-Doo!
Tarzan
Tom & Jerry

Books:
Barbie
Beverloo
Disney's Aladdin
Disney's Aristocats

Other:
Hot Wheels Monster Jam Grave Digger
Hot Wheels Monster Jam El Toro Loco
a very long legged doll
a shoebox of assorted Lego