Dodgem Arena (PlayStation)
Newman Haas Indycar Racing (PlayStation)
Formula One (PlayStation)
Eragon (Game Boy Advance)
Unlike the PSP game which I enjoy greatly, this is a slow generic RPG style game with somewhat action-oriented turn-based combat, you press combos using A and B rather than select your move from a list, so it's like an extremely dumbed down and simplified Legend of Legaia or Xenogears type of system, it's not a bad game but I have fantastic RPGs to play, this has literally nothing that draws me in, it exclusively makes me want to play any of the countless better games that do the same kind of things endlessly better.
DT Racer (PlayStation 2)
Chip Shot Super Pro Golf (Intellivision, played as part of Intellivision Lives! on PlayStation 2)
Played this for Intellivision Day, December 3rd. I was originally planning to play lots of varied games and especially focusing on my favorite, Auto Racing, but I was away and busy most of the day so I didn't have time for that and decided to instead focus on some game I hadn't played that much that I still knew was good, and Chip Shot Super Pro Golf fit that criteria perfectly.
It's a really good golf game, one of if not the best I've ever played.
It's easy to get into and doesn't have any issues like more modern golf games and it's not as limited and basic as older and other contemporary games from back then were either, it's a virtually perfect mix of simple and to the point level of entry with just the right amount of complexity and advanced features to add the necessary depth for it to not get boring over time.
Auto Racing (Intellivision, played as part of Intellivision Lives! on PlayStation 2)
Set a new best time of 7:11 on my favorite track 3 with the red car.
Golf (Intellivision, played as part of Intellivision Lives! on PlayStation 2)
It's almost unplayable because of how the controls fail to emulate the analog disc of the Intellivision controller which is required for the aiming in this game, having only 8 directions to aim forces you to at least double, triple and even quadruple your amount of swings as you simply can't aim where you want and have to zig-zag and divide your swings up with the few directions you can aim in, it takes almost all enjoyment out of the game to say the least. Such a shame.
Chip Shot Super Pro Golf (Intellivision)
With the proper colors it's much easier to see the direction of the incline on the green and where the hole is, unlike in the Intellivision Lives! emulated version on PS2 which fucks up the colors pretty bad for this game in particular.
Soccer (Intellivision)
used it to test if my newly purchased INTV System III worked without any issues, everything seems to be working fine
Pac-Man (Intellivision)
Popeye (Intellivision)
BurgerTime! (Intellivision)
Auto Racing (Intellivision, emulated on PlayStation Portable)
It's embarrassing how insanely much better this emulates than the official Intellivision Lives! version on the stronger PlayStation 2 hardware. This emulator even emulates switching to the 2nd controller, making games like Auto Racing playable as it normally requires both controllers to start the game even in single player mode, while on PS2 you still need two controllers for that.
The emulator isn't perfect and there can be some glitches (especially with emulation speed being too fast, but a quick restart of the emulator fixes that and it only seems to occur after having been awakened from after being in sleep mode) and some games don't seem to work (not sure why but there seem to be some config file that is required by the emulator that I don't have set up properly, I'll look more into that in the future), but for now at least my beloved Auto Racing plays great and it's awesome to be able to play it properly and portable, I love it.
Super Mario Land (Game Boy)
Got some new batteries for my old Game Boy and playing through Super Mario Land a few times is a great way to get back into the Game Boy groove.
Smashing Drive (Game Boy Advance)
Finally getting to play this on real hardware, I've tried it emulated before and it seemed really interesting, it's a really fun arcade style checkpoint race and crash type game with over the top powerups and lots of action. It's a bit on the short side with only 4 levels but they multiple segments to them and each segment has alternate paths and secrets to find. I like it and will continue to look for a console version.
3D Rubik's Cube 2 (flash game on PC)
an excellent Rubik's Cube game for PC made entirely in flash
it had multiple sizes of cubes and full color customization for the different sides so you can get it just right, controls are also good and it plays smoothly even on my weak old PC
Here's a link to the .swf file: 3D Rubik's Cube 2
Night Stalker (Intellivision, played as part of Intellivision Lives! on PlayStation 2)
Shinobi (3DS)
A lackluster, low budget game in an otherwise great series. Controls are clunky, level design and enemy placement is awful, enemy respawning is annoying, pickups are either completely useless for gameplay (most just give a few points) or useless because they don't give what you need nor want (for example: after segments where you're guaranteed to take damage you get a shuriken throwing powerup or something instead of a health pickup, in other places after you've started a new level or something you get a full health pickup when you already have full health). The parry move that allows you to nullify enemy attacks is both laggy and hard to judge when you're executed, it also has lag frames after so you can't do it with every attack no matter how good you are at the timing, the game makes it completely useless when you're attacked multiple times in short succession, everything else you do also has a lag to it and lag frames after, so you're open to attacks almost constantly and there's no way to make it better, you can't improve your skills to overcome, it's just a bad game design limitation.
It also has shit poor checkpoints and you have to replay enormous parts of levels that are easily big enough to count as levels on their own all in one go, so even when playing on easy where you have infinite continues and the enemies are weaker than on normal or hard, it's still an extremely repetitive chore to play if you just happen to fall down an invisibly hidden insta-death pit after having gone through a whole huge area only to find that nope, there wasn't a single checkpoint anywhere during that place.
The visuals are literally on DS levels with unfiltered textures, low poly 3D detail and aliasing galore (even when turning off the stereoscopic effect), the framerated is also not perfect in stereoscopic mode (as is a common problem on 3DS, sadly) and the game is very dark and enemies and hazards don't stand out at all with little to no contrast from the environment and sometimes they're just plain hidden behind foreground objects making it literally impossible to avoid taking damage from their "suprise motherfucker" attacks, also touch damage on everything: touch an enemy's toe? take full damage as if he cut you with a sword.
All cut scenes are 2D cartoony video, as in 2D animated style and no 3D effects for the 3DS, despite this being a 3DS exclusive. I've played several multiplat games with custom 3DS stuff in them like the pre-rendered cutscenes being rendered with stereoscopic effects, but not in this exclusive 3DS title!
It offers an "easy" mode for beginners of the series that allows infinite continues and weaker enemies, as in normal and hard have limited lives and enemies you have to keep hitting until they die, constantly slowing the game to a crawl and making it artificially annoying that you have to restart the whole game if you run out of lives, it's as bad as old games only this had no excuse as it came out in modern times.
Sub Rebellion (PlayStation 2)
Basically a mix of AquaNox and Armored Core, two of my favorite games ever, so yeah this game is awesome. It's also made by Irem, makers of R-Type, so that's a triple treat right there!
Space Debris (PlayStation)
One of the finest third-person semi-on-rail shooters ever made.
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Gaming Purchases - December 2018
01:00 at night from Friday, 30th November to Saturday, December 1st:
Ordered some awesome stuff online, should arrive later next week.
UPDATE: It's Friday 7th today and it still hasn't arrived, maybe next week?
UPDATE: It arrived and I went to pick it up on Saturday the 8th
Intellivision:
INTV System III (console, both hardwired controllers work, power cable and RF cable with RF Game/TV switcher box)
Soccer (complete in box with manual and two overlays)
Game Boy Advance:
Smashing Drive (cartridge only)
PlayStation:
Space Debris (complete in box with manual)
PlayStation 2:
Sub Rebellion (complete in box with manual)
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December 13th:
ordered online today
UPDATE: it arrived in my mailbox on the 18th
PlayStation 2:
a third party Dual Shock 2 replica controller
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December 14th:
at the local GameStop
3DS:
Shinobi (pre-owned)
PlayStation 3:
BlazBlue Calamity Trigger (pre-owned)
The Last of Us (pre-owned)
PlayStation 4:
Redout: Race Faster Than Ever - Lightspeed Edition
Collectibles:
Totaku Collection: WipEout AG-SYS (First Edition)
Starlink: Battle for Atlas - Starship Pack: Pulse (ship) + Volcano (gun attachment) + Calisto "Chase" da Silva (character)
from another store
Electric Bug Zapper Lantern (green)
Mickey Mouse comic + LEGO Star Wars Imperial AT-Hauler ship polybag
LEGO Nexo Knights magazine + Princess Macy with her Thunder Hammer
and from a third store
a small portable battery powered LED light chain (black)
a small regular electric powered LED light chain (black)
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December 20th:
some secondhand finds
DVD:
Aladdin och Rövarnas Konung (Disney)
Barbie i Svansjön
Barbie - Fairytopia
Barbie - En Perfekt Jul
The Bunker (2001)
HDDVD:
King Kong (Peter Jackson)
Vinyl Records:
Bernard & Bianca i Australien (Disney)
Den Lilla Sjöjungfrun (Disney)
Göstas Skiva
Juletid
Juletid
Jul
CD:
Hassan (P3)
Books/Comics:
Hassan (P3)
Kim Possible - Rädda Världen (Disney)
Sabina - Serier för Tjejer (1990)
Sabina - Serier för Tjejer (1991)
Other:
a hand carved alabaster stone egg (made in Italy)
clothing blueprints (five different, women's clothing only, with illustrated art covers)
a 1x2x3 Rubik's Cube (McDonalds, Secret Life of Pets)
a 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube (McDonalds, Minions)
a yo-yo that lights up when it spins (Skittles)
a wallet (Disney's Cars)
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December 21th:
some movies
DVD:
Barbie - Delfiner och Magi
Biet Maya - På nya honungsäventyr
Encounter
Grottmannen Dug
Maze Runner - The Death Cure
Peter Rabbit
The Titan
Bluray:
The Titan
Ordered some awesome stuff online, should arrive later next week.
UPDATE: It's Friday 7th today and it still hasn't arrived, maybe next week?
UPDATE: It arrived and I went to pick it up on Saturday the 8th
Intellivision:
INTV System III (console, both hardwired controllers work, power cable and RF cable with RF Game/TV switcher box)
Soccer (complete in box with manual and two overlays)
Game Boy Advance:
Smashing Drive (cartridge only)
PlayStation:
Space Debris (complete in box with manual)
PlayStation 2:
Sub Rebellion (complete in box with manual)
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December 13th:
ordered online today
UPDATE: it arrived in my mailbox on the 18th
PlayStation 2:
a third party Dual Shock 2 replica controller
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December 14th:
at the local GameStop
3DS:
Shinobi (pre-owned)
PlayStation 3:
BlazBlue Calamity Trigger (pre-owned)
The Last of Us (pre-owned)
PlayStation 4:
Redout: Race Faster Than Ever - Lightspeed Edition
Collectibles:
Totaku Collection: WipEout AG-SYS (First Edition)
Starlink: Battle for Atlas - Starship Pack: Pulse (ship) + Volcano (gun attachment) + Calisto "Chase" da Silva (character)
from another store
Electric Bug Zapper Lantern (green)
Mickey Mouse comic + LEGO Star Wars Imperial AT-Hauler ship polybag
LEGO Nexo Knights magazine + Princess Macy with her Thunder Hammer
and from a third store
a small portable battery powered LED light chain (black)
a small regular electric powered LED light chain (black)
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December 20th:
some secondhand finds
DVD:
Aladdin och Rövarnas Konung (Disney)
Barbie i Svansjön
Barbie - Fairytopia
Barbie - En Perfekt Jul
The Bunker (2001)
HDDVD:
King Kong (Peter Jackson)
Vinyl Records:
Bernard & Bianca i Australien (Disney)
Den Lilla Sjöjungfrun (Disney)
Göstas Skiva
Juletid
Juletid
Jul
CD:
Hassan (P3)
Books/Comics:
Hassan (P3)
Kim Possible - Rädda Världen (Disney)
Sabina - Serier för Tjejer (1990)
Sabina - Serier för Tjejer (1991)
Other:
a hand carved alabaster stone egg (made in Italy)
clothing blueprints (five different, women's clothing only, with illustrated art covers)
a 1x2x3 Rubik's Cube (McDonalds, Secret Life of Pets)
a 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube (McDonalds, Minions)
a yo-yo that lights up when it spins (Skittles)
a wallet (Disney's Cars)
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December 21th:
some movies
DVD:
Barbie - Delfiner och Magi
Biet Maya - På nya honungsäventyr
Encounter
Grottmannen Dug
Maze Runner - The Death Cure
Peter Rabbit
The Titan
Bluray:
The Titan
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Gaming Purchases - November 2018
November 1st:
Went secondhand shopping today, found some stuff.
PlayStation 2:
MotoGP (Namco)
Xbox:
Star Wars Battlefront (no manual)
Xbox 360:
composite A/V cable with a separate RCA and S-Video to SCART adapter
composite+component combo-A/V cable
Hitman Blood Money
Ringarnas Herre Slaget om Midgård II (Lord of the Rings Battle of Middle-Earth II)
Other:
male USB to male Mini USB cable
male RCA to male 3,5mm cable
Comics:
Fix & Foxi
Korak
Disney's Princess Yule Album
Disney's The Jungle Book 2 (two different versions)
Disney's Jasmine Friends for Life
DVD:
Disney's Brave
Disney's Cinderella 2
Disney's Dumbo
Pelle Svanslös i Amerikatt (Peter No-Tail in Americat)
Toys:
Atco City Series 3023 Airport Set + instructions (two parts missing, the glass for the helicopter canopy and the plug to hold one of the smaller propellers in place)
Atco Space Adventure 8025 Space Ship + instructions
and a new movie from a movie store
DVD:
The Star (2017)
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November 8th:
Some second hand finds today.
Electronics:
composite and S-Video <-> SCART converter
DVD:
LEGO Friends (2013, with original protective paper sleeve still around it, episodes 1-3)
Monty Python and the Holy Graal (2-disc Special Edition)
Bluray:
Cleopatra (2-disc 50th Anniversary Edition)
Books/Magazines/Comics:
Bobo - Svarta feens trolldom! (1984)
Disney's Classics - Sleeping Beauty
Katitzi vol. 1 - Barnhemsflickan
Katitzi vol. 2 - Zigenarflickan
Katitzi vol. 3 - Hjältinnan
LEGO Ninjago - Find the Samuraidroid (Where's Wally?-style look-and-find book with the LEGO Samuraidroid set to build)
Lilla Fruntimret - från livstycke till fuskpäls
Lilla Fruntimret rymmer hemifrån
Nya Fruntimmers Boken
Modern Dansk Humor
Toys:
a bag of toy cars (mostly made in china cheap ones, one Hot Wheels and one Majorette)
another Rubik's Cube (3x3x3, official Rubik's Cube brand)
a Secret Life of Pets McDonald's Rubik's Cube (1x2x3 size)
Other:
a 40-pack of flat green glass blobs
UNO (the card game from Mattel, 2015 edition with new "trade all" and "make your own rule" cards)
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November 12th:
Some new stuff, no secondhand stuff today.
DVD:
Justice League (2017)
Toy Cars:
a red Audi R8 (Majorette)
a gold Lamborghini Gallardo (Majorette)
a silver Lamborghini Reventon (Majorette)
a wine red Renault Alpine A110-50 (Majorette)
Other:
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic chocolate advent calendar (60g)
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November 15th:
More secondhand stuff.
DVD:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Iron Sky (2012)
Books/Magazines/Comics:
Barbie (#2 1993, #4 1993)
Dennis (#3 1988)
LEGO:
a small bag of blue and grey Technic pieces from an unknown set
Other:
a factory sealed, new and unused deck of playing cards (Black Jaguar label)
six factory sealed, new and unused VHS-C compact videocassettes
a bag of 103 smaller flat green glass blobs
a motorcycle painting in light-shifting colors (Yamaha Genesis)
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November 19th:
Other:
another My Little Pony Friendship is Magic chocolate advent calendar, different design than the other one (75g)
Went secondhand shopping today, found some stuff.
PlayStation 2:
MotoGP (Namco)
Xbox:
Star Wars Battlefront (no manual)
Xbox 360:
composite A/V cable with a separate RCA and S-Video to SCART adapter
composite+component combo-A/V cable
Hitman Blood Money
Ringarnas Herre Slaget om Midgård II (Lord of the Rings Battle of Middle-Earth II)
Other:
male USB to male Mini USB cable
male RCA to male 3,5mm cable
Comics:
Fix & Foxi
Korak
Disney's Princess Yule Album
Disney's The Jungle Book 2 (two different versions)
Disney's Jasmine Friends for Life
DVD:
Disney's Brave
Disney's Cinderella 2
Disney's Dumbo
Pelle Svanslös i Amerikatt (Peter No-Tail in Americat)
Toys:
Atco City Series 3023 Airport Set + instructions (two parts missing, the glass for the helicopter canopy and the plug to hold one of the smaller propellers in place)
Atco Space Adventure 8025 Space Ship + instructions
and a new movie from a movie store
DVD:
The Star (2017)
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November 8th:
Some second hand finds today.
Electronics:
composite and S-Video <-> SCART converter
DVD:
LEGO Friends (2013, with original protective paper sleeve still around it, episodes 1-3)
Monty Python and the Holy Graal (2-disc Special Edition)
Bluray:
Cleopatra (2-disc 50th Anniversary Edition)
Books/Magazines/Comics:
Bobo - Svarta feens trolldom! (1984)
Disney's Classics - Sleeping Beauty
Katitzi vol. 1 - Barnhemsflickan
Katitzi vol. 2 - Zigenarflickan
Katitzi vol. 3 - Hjältinnan
LEGO Ninjago - Find the Samuraidroid (Where's Wally?-style look-and-find book with the LEGO Samuraidroid set to build)
Lilla Fruntimret - från livstycke till fuskpäls
Lilla Fruntimret rymmer hemifrån
Nya Fruntimmers Boken
Modern Dansk Humor
Toys:
a bag of toy cars (mostly made in china cheap ones, one Hot Wheels and one Majorette)
another Rubik's Cube (3x3x3, official Rubik's Cube brand)
a Secret Life of Pets McDonald's Rubik's Cube (1x2x3 size)
Other:
a 40-pack of flat green glass blobs
UNO (the card game from Mattel, 2015 edition with new "trade all" and "make your own rule" cards)
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November 12th:
Some new stuff, no secondhand stuff today.
DVD:
Justice League (2017)
Toy Cars:
a red Audi R8 (Majorette)
a gold Lamborghini Gallardo (Majorette)
a silver Lamborghini Reventon (Majorette)
a wine red Renault Alpine A110-50 (Majorette)
Other:
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic chocolate advent calendar (60g)
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November 15th:
More secondhand stuff.
DVD:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Iron Sky (2012)
Books/Magazines/Comics:
Barbie (#2 1993, #4 1993)
Dennis (#3 1988)
LEGO:
a small bag of blue and grey Technic pieces from an unknown set
Other:
a factory sealed, new and unused deck of playing cards (Black Jaguar label)
six factory sealed, new and unused VHS-C compact videocassettes
a bag of 103 smaller flat green glass blobs
a motorcycle painting in light-shifting colors (Yamaha Genesis)
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November 19th:
Other:
another My Little Pony Friendship is Magic chocolate advent calendar, different design than the other one (75g)
Now Playing - November 2018
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
Sonic 3D Flickies' Island (Mega Drive)
Auto Racing (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
It's still not as good as the real thing but it's still good enough to have some fun with.
Bomb Squad (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
This one is borderline unplayable, the heavy use of the numeric keypad and bad control emulation ruins a lot of the intuitive nature of the game and like most games on this disc the lack of proper instructions makes it so you have to look up extra stuff online to get a good idea what to even do.
Thankfully I already know how to play most these games properly but for others who want to get into Intellivision are gonna have a very hard time with this collection, sadly. It does not show off the awesomeness of the real games running on original hardware, that's for sure.
Skiing (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
Enduro (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
This one I am not so familiar with, but I'm trying to get the hang of it, I'm getting better.
Stadium Mud Buggies (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
Sonic The Hedgehog (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
Sadly they've just lazily taken the 60hz NTSC roms and slowed them down to play at 50hz for this collection, so the games run and sound slow and weird, far from the real 50hz PAL original versions on original hardware.
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
Sonic 3D Flickies' Island (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
WRC Rally Evolved (PlayStation 2)
A really great rally game with some cool extreme weather effects and stuff, kinda similar to games like Motorstorm Apocalypse or Split/Second.
WRC 4 (PlayStation 2)
A great rally game, it's basically like WRC Rally Evolved but focused on regular rally racing only. Both are great games.
Rally Championship (PlayStation 2)
A fantastic arcade rally game, I love the driving physics, the music is awesome, this may be a new contender for the best [arcade] rally game I've ever played. I can't seem to wipe off the huge dumb grin I get on my face when playing this.
Jet Ion GP (PlayStation 2)
A nostalgic classic for me, I think it was the third or possibly fourth game I got for my PS2 back in the day.
New York Race (PlayStation 2)
I got this game less than a year ago but originally I could've gotten it instead of Jet Ion GP.
Now finally I've been able to compare both side by side and truly see if I made the right choice when I picked Jet Ion GP over New York Race all those years ago.
I have to say yes, I made the right choice, as good as New York Race is, I like Jet Ion GP better. I'm glad to finally have both though.
Sonic CD (Sonic Gems Collection, PlayStation 2)
Beat is with the bad ending but I did probably my personal best run ever, with only having lost one life during the whole playthrough, obtaining 5 of the time stones and getting the good future in I think 8 or 9 stages.
Sonic Unleashed (PlayStation 2)
This game is awful.
It's the same version that is on Wii so I can't even imagine how bad that one must be if it's this game with broken motion controls..
I have the Xbox 360 version, which is different from the PS2/Wii versions, but I haven't played that one yet. I'm guessing it's probably really awful as well, maybe not quite as bad as this one but still really bad, I have no reason to think they made it better in any way that counts, the atrocious Sonic Generations I have on Xbox 360 has made sure I can exclusively assume the very worst of all modern Sonic games.
As a side note, anyone who dares complain about even a single tiny little thing about Sonic 06 needs to play this (and/or Sonic Generations) to see what truly bad Sonic games are like, then they need to beg on their bare knees to Sonic 06 for forgiveness.
Crash of the Titans (PlayStation 2)
I didn't have much hope for this being good but it suprised me, in fact it's one of the better 3D platformers I've played.
Good visuals, good gameplay, good controls, good level design, very good multilingual voice acting.
The combat could've been a bit better in the responsiveness and control, but the ability to take over large enemies and use their abilities adds a nice variety and depth to the combat and gameplay of the entire game, so overall that's all still good too.
Offroad Extreme! (PlayStation 2)
I have this on Wii and played it a few years ago, it was pretty bad with the visuals and framerate but I remember it having really responsive and accurate motion controls, far better than any other Wii game in fact, and now I've tried out the PS2 version and can safely say the framerate, visuals and controls are all much better than in the Wii version, as good as the Wii version's controls are they are to no suprise infinitely better with an analog stick, and the visuals actually look okay in this, still low budget looking but they run silky smooth and the environments and textures don't look weird like they did on Wii.
Simply put, the PS2 version is clearly superior in every way to the newer Wii version, and keep in mind that Wii had a more than twice as powerful CPU than PS2 and twice as much RAM memory.
Armored Core (PlayStation)
Made the Shadow The Hedgehog logo as an emblem. Also began work on a My Little Pony emblem of the old cartoon (My Little Pony Tales) show logo.
Dead Or Alive 2 (PlayStation 2)
LEGO Batman The Videogame (PlayStation 2)
Saint Seiya The Hades (PlayStation 2)
What a disappointment. I enjoyed the anime series back in the day, Hilda De Polaris being my favorite character, but this game is just awful.
Ugly, poor controls, repetitive, limited gameplay and game modes, awful game design with enemies being allowed to revive themselves multiple times before you defeat them but you game over instantly if you lose once, enemies are either super easy and can be defeated by repeating a single attack or they are impossibly hard and spam super moves that can't be dodged that drain 95% of your health in one hit, japanese voices only, retarded dialog options you have to unlock before they are actual options but you still have to pick the only option available as if you had a choice only to waste your time and slow down the already awful excuses for cutscenes.
I really didn't find a single redeemable feature in this game. I didn't even get to see Hilda.
DT Racer (PlayStation 2)
Feels good to play my favorite racing game of all time again.
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow (PlayStation 2)
Awful gameplay design, atrocious tutorial design, garbage programming and optimization with tons of unnecessary in-level loading times and framerate issues, glitches, artificial limitations on what you can do making a vast majority of the moves you have at your disposal unusable, bad voice acting, extremely poor script with cringe worthy dialogue from everyone, continuity problems severely limiting your freedom of options in the levels.
It's a bad game, plain and simple. Play a good stealth action game instead, there are many of them, even in the same series there are better ones that are older, this one is simply one of the worst, avoid it entirely, you're not missing out on anything good if you never play this, you're just saving yourself from a headache and frustration.
The Italian Job L.A. Heist (PlayStation 2)
One of those potentially fantastic games that was ruined by absolutely retarded progress design. Unless you super master every single little corner of the game with every car and save your progress you'll never see a vast majority of it, not even in multiplayer mode which could've been great and fun had they just had everything unlocked to enjoy. Having to perfect the entire singleplayer experience to have anything fun in multiplayer is at best insult to injury. Such a shame. it plays great otherwise, looks great too. Tight controls and fun stunt moves, it has so many top quality attributes it's nothing short of impressive how they managed to systematically go through all the trouble of locking down the entire game and making it one of the hardest games ever to unlock even a single new thing in. One of the best examples of all time on how not to design a game's difficulty and means of progression.
Cold Winter (PlayStation 2)
An overall mediocre FPS with a great physics engine, tons of interactivity and great dynamic lighting and shadows, too bad none of that is used and it plays more similar to Wolfenstein 3D or Doom than, say, a stealth game or something.
Battle Engine Aquila (PlayStation 2)
Good old cockpit view mech shooter. I wish it would've had a third person view but it's still a good game, some repetitive missions and sadly as always with game like this the developers just had to force in annoying protect and escort missions to ruin the fun.
Star Wars Racer Revenge (PlayStation 2)
I like it, it's fast, looks good, controls good, sounds good and has nice levels with multiple paths. I wish it would've had weapons like WipEout, but you can at least damage your opponents with aggressive playing, so it's not completely limited to just basic racing at least.
Star Wars Jedi Starfighter (PlayStation 2)
An okay free-flight spaceship shooter, nowhere near the level of games like StarLancer, Star Trek Invasion, Colony Wars Red Sun or Blast Radius but not bad either, just okay. Framerate issues, some clunky command controls, clunky enemy selection/targeting controls, repetitive defend, destroy all, protect and escort missions and repetitive gameplay keep it from being great.
The SeeD Warzone (PlayStation 2)
I'm getting a little better at this game. I always wanted to be good at it and play through it properly but I've never had the time to dedicate to learning all the depth this game has to offer.
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Entertainment System)
Super Mario Bros. (Entertainment System)
Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Mega Drive)
Wonder Boy The Dragon's Trap (Game Gear)
Sonic 3D Flickies' Island (Mega Drive)
Auto Racing (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
It's still not as good as the real thing but it's still good enough to have some fun with.
Bomb Squad (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
This one is borderline unplayable, the heavy use of the numeric keypad and bad control emulation ruins a lot of the intuitive nature of the game and like most games on this disc the lack of proper instructions makes it so you have to look up extra stuff online to get a good idea what to even do.
Thankfully I already know how to play most these games properly but for others who want to get into Intellivision are gonna have a very hard time with this collection, sadly. It does not show off the awesomeness of the real games running on original hardware, that's for sure.
Skiing (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
Enduro (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
This one I am not so familiar with, but I'm trying to get the hang of it, I'm getting better.
Stadium Mud Buggies (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
Sonic The Hedgehog (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
Sadly they've just lazily taken the 60hz NTSC roms and slowed them down to play at 50hz for this collection, so the games run and sound slow and weird, far from the real 50hz PAL original versions on original hardware.
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
Sonic 3D Flickies' Island (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
WRC Rally Evolved (PlayStation 2)
A really great rally game with some cool extreme weather effects and stuff, kinda similar to games like Motorstorm Apocalypse or Split/Second.
WRC 4 (PlayStation 2)
A great rally game, it's basically like WRC Rally Evolved but focused on regular rally racing only. Both are great games.
Rally Championship (PlayStation 2)
A fantastic arcade rally game, I love the driving physics, the music is awesome, this may be a new contender for the best [arcade] rally game I've ever played. I can't seem to wipe off the huge dumb grin I get on my face when playing this.
Jet Ion GP (PlayStation 2)
A nostalgic classic for me, I think it was the third or possibly fourth game I got for my PS2 back in the day.
New York Race (PlayStation 2)
I got this game less than a year ago but originally I could've gotten it instead of Jet Ion GP.
Now finally I've been able to compare both side by side and truly see if I made the right choice when I picked Jet Ion GP over New York Race all those years ago.
I have to say yes, I made the right choice, as good as New York Race is, I like Jet Ion GP better. I'm glad to finally have both though.
Sonic CD (Sonic Gems Collection, PlayStation 2)
Beat is with the bad ending but I did probably my personal best run ever, with only having lost one life during the whole playthrough, obtaining 5 of the time stones and getting the good future in I think 8 or 9 stages.
Sonic Unleashed (PlayStation 2)
This game is awful.
It's the same version that is on Wii so I can't even imagine how bad that one must be if it's this game with broken motion controls..
I have the Xbox 360 version, which is different from the PS2/Wii versions, but I haven't played that one yet. I'm guessing it's probably really awful as well, maybe not quite as bad as this one but still really bad, I have no reason to think they made it better in any way that counts, the atrocious Sonic Generations I have on Xbox 360 has made sure I can exclusively assume the very worst of all modern Sonic games.
As a side note, anyone who dares complain about even a single tiny little thing about Sonic 06 needs to play this (and/or Sonic Generations) to see what truly bad Sonic games are like, then they need to beg on their bare knees to Sonic 06 for forgiveness.
Crash of the Titans (PlayStation 2)
I didn't have much hope for this being good but it suprised me, in fact it's one of the better 3D platformers I've played.
Good visuals, good gameplay, good controls, good level design, very good multilingual voice acting.
The combat could've been a bit better in the responsiveness and control, but the ability to take over large enemies and use their abilities adds a nice variety and depth to the combat and gameplay of the entire game, so overall that's all still good too.
Offroad Extreme! (PlayStation 2)
I have this on Wii and played it a few years ago, it was pretty bad with the visuals and framerate but I remember it having really responsive and accurate motion controls, far better than any other Wii game in fact, and now I've tried out the PS2 version and can safely say the framerate, visuals and controls are all much better than in the Wii version, as good as the Wii version's controls are they are to no suprise infinitely better with an analog stick, and the visuals actually look okay in this, still low budget looking but they run silky smooth and the environments and textures don't look weird like they did on Wii.
Simply put, the PS2 version is clearly superior in every way to the newer Wii version, and keep in mind that Wii had a more than twice as powerful CPU than PS2 and twice as much RAM memory.
Armored Core (PlayStation)
Made the Shadow The Hedgehog logo as an emblem. Also began work on a My Little Pony emblem of the old cartoon (My Little Pony Tales) show logo.
Dead Or Alive 2 (PlayStation 2)
LEGO Batman The Videogame (PlayStation 2)
Saint Seiya The Hades (PlayStation 2)
What a disappointment. I enjoyed the anime series back in the day, Hilda De Polaris being my favorite character, but this game is just awful.
Ugly, poor controls, repetitive, limited gameplay and game modes, awful game design with enemies being allowed to revive themselves multiple times before you defeat them but you game over instantly if you lose once, enemies are either super easy and can be defeated by repeating a single attack or they are impossibly hard and spam super moves that can't be dodged that drain 95% of your health in one hit, japanese voices only, retarded dialog options you have to unlock before they are actual options but you still have to pick the only option available as if you had a choice only to waste your time and slow down the already awful excuses for cutscenes.
I really didn't find a single redeemable feature in this game. I didn't even get to see Hilda.
DT Racer (PlayStation 2)
Feels good to play my favorite racing game of all time again.
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow (PlayStation 2)
Awful gameplay design, atrocious tutorial design, garbage programming and optimization with tons of unnecessary in-level loading times and framerate issues, glitches, artificial limitations on what you can do making a vast majority of the moves you have at your disposal unusable, bad voice acting, extremely poor script with cringe worthy dialogue from everyone, continuity problems severely limiting your freedom of options in the levels.
It's a bad game, plain and simple. Play a good stealth action game instead, there are many of them, even in the same series there are better ones that are older, this one is simply one of the worst, avoid it entirely, you're not missing out on anything good if you never play this, you're just saving yourself from a headache and frustration.
The Italian Job L.A. Heist (PlayStation 2)
One of those potentially fantastic games that was ruined by absolutely retarded progress design. Unless you super master every single little corner of the game with every car and save your progress you'll never see a vast majority of it, not even in multiplayer mode which could've been great and fun had they just had everything unlocked to enjoy. Having to perfect the entire singleplayer experience to have anything fun in multiplayer is at best insult to injury. Such a shame. it plays great otherwise, looks great too. Tight controls and fun stunt moves, it has so many top quality attributes it's nothing short of impressive how they managed to systematically go through all the trouble of locking down the entire game and making it one of the hardest games ever to unlock even a single new thing in. One of the best examples of all time on how not to design a game's difficulty and means of progression.
Cold Winter (PlayStation 2)
An overall mediocre FPS with a great physics engine, tons of interactivity and great dynamic lighting and shadows, too bad none of that is used and it plays more similar to Wolfenstein 3D or Doom than, say, a stealth game or something.
Battle Engine Aquila (PlayStation 2)
Good old cockpit view mech shooter. I wish it would've had a third person view but it's still a good game, some repetitive missions and sadly as always with game like this the developers just had to force in annoying protect and escort missions to ruin the fun.
Star Wars Racer Revenge (PlayStation 2)
I like it, it's fast, looks good, controls good, sounds good and has nice levels with multiple paths. I wish it would've had weapons like WipEout, but you can at least damage your opponents with aggressive playing, so it's not completely limited to just basic racing at least.
Star Wars Jedi Starfighter (PlayStation 2)
An okay free-flight spaceship shooter, nowhere near the level of games like StarLancer, Star Trek Invasion, Colony Wars Red Sun or Blast Radius but not bad either, just okay. Framerate issues, some clunky command controls, clunky enemy selection/targeting controls, repetitive defend, destroy all, protect and escort missions and repetitive gameplay keep it from being great.
The SeeD Warzone (PlayStation 2)
I'm getting a little better at this game. I always wanted to be good at it and play through it properly but I've never had the time to dedicate to learning all the depth this game has to offer.
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Entertainment System)
Super Mario Bros. (Entertainment System)
Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Mega Drive)
Wonder Boy The Dragon's Trap (Game Gear)
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Gaming Purchases - Oktober 2018
Oktober 11th:
Decided to go secondhand shopping today even though I hadn't originally planned to do so, got lucky and found a PS2 slim model cheap among some other things.
PlayStation 2:
PStwo Slim (2006)
PStwo Slim power adapter
PlayStation composite cables
third party Dual Shock 2 controller
Wii:
Klik-on Wiimote candy dispenser (white)
DVD:
Disco Daggarna (2009)
Toys:
2x electric racetrack cars (red Mitsubishi Lancer and blue Subaru Impreza)
Comics:
Dennis
Disney's Princess
Min Häst
Pondus
Woody Woodpecker
Snow White
W.I.T.C.H.
Other:
Lunarama backlit reversal film slide viewer (orange)
3 green badminton shotballs
Decided to go secondhand shopping today even though I hadn't originally planned to do so, got lucky and found a PS2 slim model cheap among some other things.
PlayStation 2:
PStwo Slim (2006)
PStwo Slim power adapter
PlayStation composite cables
third party Dual Shock 2 controller
Wii:
Klik-on Wiimote candy dispenser (white)
DVD:
Disco Daggarna (2009)
Toys:
2x electric racetrack cars (red Mitsubishi Lancer and blue Subaru Impreza)
Comics:
Dennis
Disney's Princess
Min Häst
Pondus
Woody Woodpecker
Snow White
W.I.T.C.H.
Other:
Lunarama backlit reversal film slide viewer (orange)
3 green badminton shotballs
Monday, October 1, 2018
Now Playing - Oktober 2018
Tearaway (PlayStation Vita)
Getting further one amazing place at a time. I love this game.
Yoshi's New Island (3DS)
This game still sucks but I wanted to play something on 3DS that I haven't already played that much.
I discovered a new thing about it though, when you die a few times in a row (like I did in a part that was really cheap designed and you just had to make blind faith jumps and there were insta kill spikes you had to know beforehand to stick the landing) it gives you a cheat automatically so you can fly indefinitely in the level you're in, too bad they didn't just design the game better so there weren't tons of cheap deaths, they already give you a fuckton of extra lives, I have over 80 lives and I've died plenty of times due to cheap level design, but they respawn so you can literally die three time and gain 9 lives because there's usually around 3 lives every single section of every level, so die in one section once and you're more likely to gain 2 or 3 lives from that death than actually lose 1, it's ridiculous, and adding that infinite flight cheat powerup they give you when you've died like 3 times in a row, I just may have found the easiest game in the world, I don't see how anyone can not complete this game, which isn't a bad thing in itself, it's great that they have the game balanced so everyone can play it, skilled players and complete beginners, but it would've been infinitely better had they designed a good game first rather than a shitfest or garbage level design with poor and very limited controls and an unfinished art design.
Seriously, the original Yoshi's Island on Super Nintendo and the enhanced GBA version are both ten trillion times better than this crap.
Azure Dreams (PlayStation)
A generic action adventure game with some mixed visuals, the 2D sprites are nice but the 3D environments are quite bland, and there are so many forced tutorials I feel like I've played through an entire game already but I'm still just at the very beginning, what a horrible way to start a game, I sure hope it picks up soon or I won't bother, I got many better games to spend my time with, like Illusion of gaia on Super Nintendo that I began playing last month.
Dreams to Reality (PlayStation)
An odd and obscure 3D platformer with flying mechanics. It doesn't have the best controls or visuals ever, but I kinda like it so far. I don't know how inspired the developers were by the Saturn game Nights into Dreams but they sure have a lot in common.
Pax Corpus (PlayStation)
Really awkward controls in this one but kinda interesting, I like it but I only have a russian version, making it harder to play for sure when you don't know what the fuck is going on.
Psycho Fox (Master System)
Not loving the momentum of the controls, you have to work up speed to make jumps, this is rather cumbersome in a platformer, a good game otherwise. Looks good, sounds good.
Thrill Kill Full Uncensored NTSC-U (PlayStation)
Still my favorite fighting game of all time and still the #1 reason why EA remains at the top of my permanent boycott blacklist.
Monster Racer (PlayStation)
Given the time of year I decided to give this Halloween inspired kart-esque racer another try. I haven't played it more than once when I had just bought it and I didn't think much of it.
I can say now after having played through the main mode that it's really not much more than I initially thought, actually it's nothing more at all, it's exactly what I thought when I played it the first time.
It's still a generic kart racer style game and it's nothing special in any way, the visuals are solid enough and the controls work, the music is completely forgettable and uninspired, the sound effects and as stock as can be and mostly unfitting and lame for what they are suppose to be representing, the levels and playable characters are unoriginal and bland and the powerups are unbalanced, some last way too long while others are completely useless, the only powerup that really matters in the turbo boost as it can make you lap the other opponents, it's literally that overpowered. That's easy mode at least, normal on the other hand is so hard you'll try using every trick available just to not end up in last place, I still haven't gotten better than second last on normal, it's a huge leap in difficulty from easy to normal, to say the least.
Anyway, I decided to record a playthrough of the adventure mode, it's available as a playlist on YouTube by clicking here.
Also here are the individual videos:
Botanic Garden
Port
Mad Jungle
Egypte
Castle
Museum
Mine
Iceberg
Teath Pass
Volcano
Botanic Garden (reverse)
Port (reverse)
Mad Jungle (reverse)
Egypte (reverse)
Castle (reverse)
Museum (reverse)
Mine (reverse)
Iceberg (reverse)
Teath Pass (reverse)
Volcano (reverse)
WILD WILD RACING (PlayStation 2)
The most classic PS2 offroad racer of them all, I love this game and I really needed to play a good racing game after having played so much Monster Racer lately.
I recorded a replay of a random Time Trial race.
LEGO Star Wars III The Clone Wars (3DS)
Just picking up where I left off earlier this year, I haven't gotten very far in this one yet.
Gale Gunner (PlayStation)
Basically Virtual On on PlayStation. I like it. It's a lot better than the N64 equivalent, whatever that was called, I forgot.
S.C.A.R.S. (PlayStation)
Just playing some of my favorite kart racer ever, after having suffered through the deeply flawed mediocrity that is Monster Racer I need to play some good racing games to make up for all the suckiness I've endured, plain and simple.
Bakugan Defenders of the Core (PlayStation Portable)
This game turned 8 years old on the 26th (NTSC-U release) and 29th (PAL release) so I'm celebrating with some awesome monster fighting goodness.
I recorded a battle from the PSP version between Neo Dragonoid and Ingram to celebrate.
(Swedish language)
Auto Racing (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
Playing the emulated version on PS2 using the Intellivision Lives! disc. It's daly not very good, running very slowly even on the fastest speed settings and with really bad audio emulation and audio glitches causing the tire brake noises to get stuck in annoying loops that rape the ears pretty badly around almost every turn.
I managed to record my favorite car on my favorite track though.
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
The difference between the real thing and the PS2 version is almost like playing two entirely different games.
Sonic 3D Flickies' Island (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
Getting further one amazing place at a time. I love this game.
Yoshi's New Island (3DS)
This game still sucks but I wanted to play something on 3DS that I haven't already played that much.
I discovered a new thing about it though, when you die a few times in a row (like I did in a part that was really cheap designed and you just had to make blind faith jumps and there were insta kill spikes you had to know beforehand to stick the landing) it gives you a cheat automatically so you can fly indefinitely in the level you're in, too bad they didn't just design the game better so there weren't tons of cheap deaths, they already give you a fuckton of extra lives, I have over 80 lives and I've died plenty of times due to cheap level design, but they respawn so you can literally die three time and gain 9 lives because there's usually around 3 lives every single section of every level, so die in one section once and you're more likely to gain 2 or 3 lives from that death than actually lose 1, it's ridiculous, and adding that infinite flight cheat powerup they give you when you've died like 3 times in a row, I just may have found the easiest game in the world, I don't see how anyone can not complete this game, which isn't a bad thing in itself, it's great that they have the game balanced so everyone can play it, skilled players and complete beginners, but it would've been infinitely better had they designed a good game first rather than a shitfest or garbage level design with poor and very limited controls and an unfinished art design.
Seriously, the original Yoshi's Island on Super Nintendo and the enhanced GBA version are both ten trillion times better than this crap.
Azure Dreams (PlayStation)
A generic action adventure game with some mixed visuals, the 2D sprites are nice but the 3D environments are quite bland, and there are so many forced tutorials I feel like I've played through an entire game already but I'm still just at the very beginning, what a horrible way to start a game, I sure hope it picks up soon or I won't bother, I got many better games to spend my time with, like Illusion of gaia on Super Nintendo that I began playing last month.
Dreams to Reality (PlayStation)
An odd and obscure 3D platformer with flying mechanics. It doesn't have the best controls or visuals ever, but I kinda like it so far. I don't know how inspired the developers were by the Saturn game Nights into Dreams but they sure have a lot in common.
Pax Corpus (PlayStation)
Really awkward controls in this one but kinda interesting, I like it but I only have a russian version, making it harder to play for sure when you don't know what the fuck is going on.
Psycho Fox (Master System)
Not loving the momentum of the controls, you have to work up speed to make jumps, this is rather cumbersome in a platformer, a good game otherwise. Looks good, sounds good.
Thrill Kill Full Uncensored NTSC-U (PlayStation)
Still my favorite fighting game of all time and still the #1 reason why EA remains at the top of my permanent boycott blacklist.
Monster Racer (PlayStation)
Given the time of year I decided to give this Halloween inspired kart-esque racer another try. I haven't played it more than once when I had just bought it and I didn't think much of it.
I can say now after having played through the main mode that it's really not much more than I initially thought, actually it's nothing more at all, it's exactly what I thought when I played it the first time.
It's still a generic kart racer style game and it's nothing special in any way, the visuals are solid enough and the controls work, the music is completely forgettable and uninspired, the sound effects and as stock as can be and mostly unfitting and lame for what they are suppose to be representing, the levels and playable characters are unoriginal and bland and the powerups are unbalanced, some last way too long while others are completely useless, the only powerup that really matters in the turbo boost as it can make you lap the other opponents, it's literally that overpowered. That's easy mode at least, normal on the other hand is so hard you'll try using every trick available just to not end up in last place, I still haven't gotten better than second last on normal, it's a huge leap in difficulty from easy to normal, to say the least.
Anyway, I decided to record a playthrough of the adventure mode, it's available as a playlist on YouTube by clicking here.
Also here are the individual videos:
Port
Mad Jungle
Egypte
Castle
Museum
Mine
Iceberg
Teath Pass
Volcano
Botanic Garden (reverse)
Port (reverse)
Mad Jungle (reverse)
Egypte (reverse)
Castle (reverse)
Museum (reverse)
Mine (reverse)
Iceberg (reverse)
Teath Pass (reverse)
Volcano (reverse)
WILD WILD RACING (PlayStation 2)
The most classic PS2 offroad racer of them all, I love this game and I really needed to play a good racing game after having played so much Monster Racer lately.
LEGO Star Wars III The Clone Wars (3DS)
Just picking up where I left off earlier this year, I haven't gotten very far in this one yet.
Gale Gunner (PlayStation)
Basically Virtual On on PlayStation. I like it. It's a lot better than the N64 equivalent, whatever that was called, I forgot.
S.C.A.R.S. (PlayStation)
Just playing some of my favorite kart racer ever, after having suffered through the deeply flawed mediocrity that is Monster Racer I need to play some good racing games to make up for all the suckiness I've endured, plain and simple.
Bakugan Defenders of the Core (PlayStation Portable)
This game turned 8 years old on the 26th (NTSC-U release) and 29th (PAL release) so I'm celebrating with some awesome monster fighting goodness.
(Swedish language)
Auto Racing (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
Playing the emulated version on PS2 using the Intellivision Lives! disc. It's daly not very good, running very slowly even on the fastest speed settings and with really bad audio emulation and audio glitches causing the tire brake noises to get stuck in annoying loops that rape the ears pretty badly around almost every turn.
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
The difference between the real thing and the PS2 version is almost like playing two entirely different games.
Sonic 3D Flickies' Island (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
Monday, September 3, 2018
Gaming Purchases - September 2018
September 3rd:
some movies to get the month started
DVD:
Barbie The Pearl Princess (2013)
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 (2013)
Det Bästa Med Johan Glans Det Bleka Hotet (2011, new and factory sealed)
Pixels (2015)
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September 7rd:
another movie
DVD:
Batman Unlimited Animal Instincts (2015)
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September 13th:
Comic + LEGO:
Mickey Mouse comic with LEGO polybag - LEGO Jurassic World 30382 Baby Velociraptor Playpen
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September 24th:
Ordered a PS2 game today, it should arrive in a few days. (it arrived in the mail on october 1st, exactly a week after I ordered it)
PlayStation 2:
Legend of Kay (new and sealed)
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September 28th:
Bought a little toy car today while out grocery shopping to cheer myself up from doing something as fucking boring as grocery shopping.
Majorette:
Lamborghini Aventador (yellow)
some movies to get the month started
DVD:
Barbie The Pearl Princess (2013)
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 (2013)
Det Bästa Med Johan Glans Det Bleka Hotet (2011, new and factory sealed)
Pixels (2015)
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September 7rd:
another movie
DVD:
Batman Unlimited Animal Instincts (2015)
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September 13th:
Comic + LEGO:
Mickey Mouse comic with LEGO polybag - LEGO Jurassic World 30382 Baby Velociraptor Playpen
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September 24th:
Ordered a PS2 game today, it should arrive in a few days. (it arrived in the mail on october 1st, exactly a week after I ordered it)
PlayStation 2:
Legend of Kay (new and sealed)
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September 28th:
Bought a little toy car today while out grocery shopping to cheer myself up from doing something as fucking boring as grocery shopping.
Majorette:
Lamborghini Aventador (yellow)
Saturday, September 1, 2018
Now Playing - September 2018
It's my birthday this month (september 5th) and since I've declared 2018 to be the year of Intellivision of course I have to play a lot of Intellivision games, but it's also the end of the 32-bit/PlayStation year where I celebrated the 20th anniversary of many fantastic 1997 titles, when I got my PlayStation and that I turned 32 all at once, so a throwback to the past year with lots of 32-bit games is also in order, also my new found enjoyment in solving Rubik's Cube I've been doing that a lot, and of course just a bunch of other awesome games in general, as always, but even more focused and intense because arbitrary number of times the planet has spun around the sun since I was born and such!
Rubik's Cube
fastest time so far 1:47
Centipede (Intellivision)
Defender (Intellivision)
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
River Raid (Intellivision)
Rubik's Puzzle World (DS, played on 3DS)
Total Drivin (PlayStation)
V-Rally (PlayStation)
Neo Kobe 2045 Road Rage (PlayStation)
Centipede (PlayStation)
Cyber Sled (PlayStation)
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
Cosmic Carnage (32X)
Shinobi (Master System)
A basic platformer action game with a cool gimmick, you can move into the background and foreground of the level, giving some literal depth to the gameplay, very cool indeed.
Deathtrap Dungeon (PlayStation)
A cool 3D hack n slash game where you either play as a generic knight I forget the name of or a hot dominatrix called Red Lotus, guess who I always play as. You go through levels figuring out the puzzles, avoiding deadly traps and fighting enemies with different weapons you find along the way, the battle system is interesting in that you have an attack button but while attacking you can press different directions and do different attacks based on the direction you press, you can for example attack behind you, which is uncommon in games in general as most games will have you face your enemy and force you to turn around to attack whatever was previously behind you. There's a lot of dismemberment on enemy bodies, you can chop off parts of the enemies even after they've died and see parts to flying and leave blood and splatter on the ground and walls and blood dripping down from the ceiling etc.
Shanghai (Master System)
A basic mahjong game.
Shanghai II (Game Gear)
Shanghai II Dragon's Eye (Mega Drive)
A slight graphical improvement and with some more options for tile graphics and background graphics, but the same basic game otherwise.
Yakyuuken Adventure Part II - Gal's Dungeon (Famicom Disc System)
A weird japanese 3D maze game where you hunt down a woman and play rock, scissor, paper with her for a key to the next level.
Sexy Yakyuuken Adventure II - Gal's Dungeon Part II (Famicom Disc System)
Same as the first, just slightly different visuals.
BurgerTime! (Intellivision)
Bomb Squad (Intellivision)
Finally took the time to learn how to play this. It's really cool and I've had a blast playing it, some pun intended.
You have to figure out the numeric code by replacing circuits inside the LEDs on a digital number display to see if they light up or not, and then systematically figure out what the numeric code is and enter it before the timer runs out and the bomb goes off. You have a set of tools at your disposal accessible via the keypad, a wire cutter, a plier, a soldering iron and a fire extinguisher, fires only happen on the higher difficulties though so on the easy settings it goes unused.
The game uses the IntelliVoice module to give you voiced instructions, taunts and hints, making the game feel even more modern and advanced than it already was, which is really cool and gives a very effective feeling of realistic urgency to the game.
Arcade Classics (Game Gear)
Centipede, Pong and some third game I didn't care for enough to even remember what it was. You have the option of using original style visuals or a slight makeover with some more colors, it makes no real difference but it's nice that there's at least some enhancement that uses the higher color depth the Game Gear has to offer.
Centipede was okay, not the best version I've played but not the worst either, just average.
Pong is Pong, the digital control makes it less fun that it can be when using analog controls like on a proper Pong console, also Pong isn't much even at best so this really is not a reason to care for this collection.
And like I said I don't even remember the third.
Basically this is Centipede with Pong as a very minor bonus and it's not even a great version of Centipede.
Over this was a typical 3/5 experience.
Bugs Bunny in Double Trouble (Game Gear)
A very nice looking game that has some seriously generic and unfun gameplay. It's divided into two levels; 1.) Tease Daffy Duck to chase you past sings to change them from Rabbit Season to Duck Season and 2.) jump on a lion to catch dynamite and parachute down and land on places to blow up holes in the ground without the lion touching you on your way down. Both suck. Great visuals wasted on a fairly poor game, I give it a 2/5.
Daffy Duck in Hollywood (Game Gear)
This game baffles me, either I'm missing something or it's just broken and incredibly poorly made, and it's not like there are that many buttons to pick from so if I'm missing something, they hid it well, FAR too well.
Basically it's a platformer, with some good visuals, where you die in one hit but you can pick up a magic wand which grants you a fairy that will take an extra hit for you.
You have a bubble gun you can use to take out very select few enemies, while a majority of the rest are invulnerable even after you've upgraded your gun to shoot explosive fire blasts! Them be some tough enemies..
The levels are non-linear and confusing and there are lots of places that seem like you could go there but you simply can't, it's a game of constant dead ends and wondering; What do I do? Where do I go?
It's very unenjoyable and the controls are not precise and you jump really high, making it hard to stick landings once you go flying.
You can pick between several levels from the get go but I've not enjoyed a single one, and they're not very varied either.
Sadly this is another 2/5.
Earthworm Jim (Game Gear)
A downgraded port of the Mega Drive/Super Nintendo game. It's playable but just barely, the downgrades are many, sadly mostly in the gameplay.
The visuals are good, as usual for Game Gear games, but it plays stiff, unresponsive and inaccurately, making the simplest of jumps and taking out the easiest enemies a chore.
Sadly yet another 2/5.
Mega Man (Game Gear)
One of the best Game Gear games and a great game in the Mega Man series, a favorite for sure.
Sadly it never came out here in Europe or even in Japan, so not many got to experience it back in the day, such a shame as it's a brilliant and super high quality game, not just by Game Gear standards either, it's just fantastic, plain and simple, end of story.
It looks great, plays spot on, sounds great, has great levels, enemies, bosses and plenty of secrets to find.
Needless to say this is an easy game to give 5/5.
GT Racers (Game Boy Advance)
I didn't know there was a GBA version until now, I have it on PS2 where it's one of those games that is so bad that it's entertaining, definitely not because it's a good game but entirely because it's such a broken, buggy, glitchy mess of a game that you can only laugh at it.
The GBA game on the other hand is wildly different, it's a top down racer similar to the excellent Death Rally on PC and Karnage Rally also on GBA.
I've only played some of it but so far it beats both those games in terms of visual quality and it's one of the most technically advanced games on GBA with 3D polygonal objects all around the track, all fully textured, and running with a constant and smooth framerate.
It even plays well with fairly good controls. There are some tracks and cars to pick from. So all in all it's a good game. I haven't played it enough to know if there are any issues yet but it's made one very suprisingly impressive first impression for sure, especially with the infamous PS2 game in mind.
RollCage (PlayStation)
Batman Gotham City Racer (PlayStation)
Frogger (PlayStation)
Venture (Intellivision)
First time playing this one. I think I beat it on my first try, because after I completed the last level and got all the treasure it just looped the last level over and over again.
It's short, simple, but still pretty good. You move around different overworld map levels with some enemies moving around that you can't kill and enter buildings with treasure and killable enemies until you've been in all the rooms and gotten all the treasure, then you complete the level and move onto the next one, until you've found all the treasure in the game, then the last level loops until you run out of lives or quit the game.
You pick up the treasure and get out without getting killed and repeat until you have all the treasure, simple enough. You have a bow and arrows with infinite ammo you can shoot enemies with, you shoot in the direction you're moving in, there's no strafing in this game, and enemies are kind of like xenomorph aliens in that after you kill them they leave behind their bodies that can kill you until they've evaporated entirely, shooting a dead enemy makes it start the decaying over again making it take longer to go away, so avoid shooting the dead!, and as even one single pixel left is enough to kill you if you touch it you really don't want those things to stick around longer than needed.
If you wait around long enough an invincible enemy that can pass through walls appears and hunts you down, but it takes a while and you can just exit a building to escape from it, so it's something I only saw twice, one time when I was putting down the controller after I had killed the enemies and the building I was in was now empty and I thought it was safe and I wanted to turn down the volume a bit, at first I tried to kill it but it didn't die so I just left the building and it was gone, after that I just paused the game whenever I need to as I usually would in any other game, the second time I saw it was when I deliberately waited around to see if I could see it again, and yes, it appears whenever you wait around inside a building.
I never saw it on the overworld map screens so I'm assuming it only appears when you're inside the buildings.
The enemies can only be killed when you're inside the buildings, the enemies on the overworld map can not be killed as you can't use the bow there, you can only use it in the buildings.
Everything is a one hit kill in this, and you can't get any extra lives as far as I can tell, killing enemies just gets you the usual useless points.
There are no bosses, no secrets as far as I can tell and no other bonus or extra stuff, just pick up the treasure and then kill yourself to end the game as it just loops the last map, level 9, until you run out of lives otherwise.
The music is repetitive and simple, but not bad.
The visuals are simplistic but get the job done and at least have some nice color variations, the main character is literally just a red smiley face, that turns into a red frowny face when you get hit by an enemy, and on the overworld map he's literally just a single red pixel. When in buildings he also has his bow and arrow pointing in the direction you're moving, letting you know what direction your arrows will go if you shoot.
You move with the disc and shoot with the side buttons.
The enemies come on a nice variety and they all have two-frame animations while they move around, other than that there are some moving walls of death and the killed enemies evaporating effect is animated quite nicely.
The gameplay is solid enough but it's far too shallow and simple of a game in total, with some type of bosses and a proper end screen giving some satisfaction to completing the game I would've given it at least a 4/5, as it currently stands I'll give it a solid 3/5.
Armored Core (PlayStation)
Started a new game.
Rubik's Cube
fastest time so far 1:47
Centipede (Intellivision)
Defender (Intellivision)
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
River Raid (Intellivision)
Rubik's Puzzle World (DS, played on 3DS)
Total Drivin (PlayStation)
V-Rally (PlayStation)
Neo Kobe 2045 Road Rage (PlayStation)
Centipede (PlayStation)
Cyber Sled (PlayStation)
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
Cosmic Carnage (32X)
Shinobi (Master System)
A basic platformer action game with a cool gimmick, you can move into the background and foreground of the level, giving some literal depth to the gameplay, very cool indeed.
Deathtrap Dungeon (PlayStation)
A cool 3D hack n slash game where you either play as a generic knight I forget the name of or a hot dominatrix called Red Lotus, guess who I always play as. You go through levels figuring out the puzzles, avoiding deadly traps and fighting enemies with different weapons you find along the way, the battle system is interesting in that you have an attack button but while attacking you can press different directions and do different attacks based on the direction you press, you can for example attack behind you, which is uncommon in games in general as most games will have you face your enemy and force you to turn around to attack whatever was previously behind you. There's a lot of dismemberment on enemy bodies, you can chop off parts of the enemies even after they've died and see parts to flying and leave blood and splatter on the ground and walls and blood dripping down from the ceiling etc.
Shanghai (Master System)
A basic mahjong game.
Shanghai II (Game Gear)
Shanghai II Dragon's Eye (Mega Drive)
A slight graphical improvement and with some more options for tile graphics and background graphics, but the same basic game otherwise.
Yakyuuken Adventure Part II - Gal's Dungeon (Famicom Disc System)
A weird japanese 3D maze game where you hunt down a woman and play rock, scissor, paper with her for a key to the next level.
Sexy Yakyuuken Adventure II - Gal's Dungeon Part II (Famicom Disc System)
Same as the first, just slightly different visuals.
BurgerTime! (Intellivision)
Bomb Squad (Intellivision)
Finally took the time to learn how to play this. It's really cool and I've had a blast playing it, some pun intended.
You have to figure out the numeric code by replacing circuits inside the LEDs on a digital number display to see if they light up or not, and then systematically figure out what the numeric code is and enter it before the timer runs out and the bomb goes off. You have a set of tools at your disposal accessible via the keypad, a wire cutter, a plier, a soldering iron and a fire extinguisher, fires only happen on the higher difficulties though so on the easy settings it goes unused.
The game uses the IntelliVoice module to give you voiced instructions, taunts and hints, making the game feel even more modern and advanced than it already was, which is really cool and gives a very effective feeling of realistic urgency to the game.
Arcade Classics (Game Gear)
Centipede, Pong and some third game I didn't care for enough to even remember what it was. You have the option of using original style visuals or a slight makeover with some more colors, it makes no real difference but it's nice that there's at least some enhancement that uses the higher color depth the Game Gear has to offer.
Centipede was okay, not the best version I've played but not the worst either, just average.
Pong is Pong, the digital control makes it less fun that it can be when using analog controls like on a proper Pong console, also Pong isn't much even at best so this really is not a reason to care for this collection.
And like I said I don't even remember the third.
Basically this is Centipede with Pong as a very minor bonus and it's not even a great version of Centipede.
Over this was a typical 3/5 experience.
Bugs Bunny in Double Trouble (Game Gear)
A very nice looking game that has some seriously generic and unfun gameplay. It's divided into two levels; 1.) Tease Daffy Duck to chase you past sings to change them from Rabbit Season to Duck Season and 2.) jump on a lion to catch dynamite and parachute down and land on places to blow up holes in the ground without the lion touching you on your way down. Both suck. Great visuals wasted on a fairly poor game, I give it a 2/5.
Daffy Duck in Hollywood (Game Gear)
This game baffles me, either I'm missing something or it's just broken and incredibly poorly made, and it's not like there are that many buttons to pick from so if I'm missing something, they hid it well, FAR too well.
Basically it's a platformer, with some good visuals, where you die in one hit but you can pick up a magic wand which grants you a fairy that will take an extra hit for you.
You have a bubble gun you can use to take out very select few enemies, while a majority of the rest are invulnerable even after you've upgraded your gun to shoot explosive fire blasts! Them be some tough enemies..
The levels are non-linear and confusing and there are lots of places that seem like you could go there but you simply can't, it's a game of constant dead ends and wondering; What do I do? Where do I go?
It's very unenjoyable and the controls are not precise and you jump really high, making it hard to stick landings once you go flying.
You can pick between several levels from the get go but I've not enjoyed a single one, and they're not very varied either.
Sadly this is another 2/5.
Earthworm Jim (Game Gear)
A downgraded port of the Mega Drive/Super Nintendo game. It's playable but just barely, the downgrades are many, sadly mostly in the gameplay.
The visuals are good, as usual for Game Gear games, but it plays stiff, unresponsive and inaccurately, making the simplest of jumps and taking out the easiest enemies a chore.
Sadly yet another 2/5.
Mega Man (Game Gear)
One of the best Game Gear games and a great game in the Mega Man series, a favorite for sure.
Sadly it never came out here in Europe or even in Japan, so not many got to experience it back in the day, such a shame as it's a brilliant and super high quality game, not just by Game Gear standards either, it's just fantastic, plain and simple, end of story.
It looks great, plays spot on, sounds great, has great levels, enemies, bosses and plenty of secrets to find.
Needless to say this is an easy game to give 5/5.
GT Racers (Game Boy Advance)
I didn't know there was a GBA version until now, I have it on PS2 where it's one of those games that is so bad that it's entertaining, definitely not because it's a good game but entirely because it's such a broken, buggy, glitchy mess of a game that you can only laugh at it.
The GBA game on the other hand is wildly different, it's a top down racer similar to the excellent Death Rally on PC and Karnage Rally also on GBA.
I've only played some of it but so far it beats both those games in terms of visual quality and it's one of the most technically advanced games on GBA with 3D polygonal objects all around the track, all fully textured, and running with a constant and smooth framerate.
It even plays well with fairly good controls. There are some tracks and cars to pick from. So all in all it's a good game. I haven't played it enough to know if there are any issues yet but it's made one very suprisingly impressive first impression for sure, especially with the infamous PS2 game in mind.
RollCage (PlayStation)
Batman Gotham City Racer (PlayStation)
Frogger (PlayStation)
Venture (Intellivision)
First time playing this one. I think I beat it on my first try, because after I completed the last level and got all the treasure it just looped the last level over and over again.
It's short, simple, but still pretty good. You move around different overworld map levels with some enemies moving around that you can't kill and enter buildings with treasure and killable enemies until you've been in all the rooms and gotten all the treasure, then you complete the level and move onto the next one, until you've found all the treasure in the game, then the last level loops until you run out of lives or quit the game.
You pick up the treasure and get out without getting killed and repeat until you have all the treasure, simple enough. You have a bow and arrows with infinite ammo you can shoot enemies with, you shoot in the direction you're moving in, there's no strafing in this game, and enemies are kind of like xenomorph aliens in that after you kill them they leave behind their bodies that can kill you until they've evaporated entirely, shooting a dead enemy makes it start the decaying over again making it take longer to go away, so avoid shooting the dead!, and as even one single pixel left is enough to kill you if you touch it you really don't want those things to stick around longer than needed.
If you wait around long enough an invincible enemy that can pass through walls appears and hunts you down, but it takes a while and you can just exit a building to escape from it, so it's something I only saw twice, one time when I was putting down the controller after I had killed the enemies and the building I was in was now empty and I thought it was safe and I wanted to turn down the volume a bit, at first I tried to kill it but it didn't die so I just left the building and it was gone, after that I just paused the game whenever I need to as I usually would in any other game, the second time I saw it was when I deliberately waited around to see if I could see it again, and yes, it appears whenever you wait around inside a building.
I never saw it on the overworld map screens so I'm assuming it only appears when you're inside the buildings.
The enemies can only be killed when you're inside the buildings, the enemies on the overworld map can not be killed as you can't use the bow there, you can only use it in the buildings.
Everything is a one hit kill in this, and you can't get any extra lives as far as I can tell, killing enemies just gets you the usual useless points.
There are no bosses, no secrets as far as I can tell and no other bonus or extra stuff, just pick up the treasure and then kill yourself to end the game as it just loops the last map, level 9, until you run out of lives otherwise.
The music is repetitive and simple, but not bad.
The visuals are simplistic but get the job done and at least have some nice color variations, the main character is literally just a red smiley face, that turns into a red frowny face when you get hit by an enemy, and on the overworld map he's literally just a single red pixel. When in buildings he also has his bow and arrow pointing in the direction you're moving, letting you know what direction your arrows will go if you shoot.
You move with the disc and shoot with the side buttons.
The enemies come on a nice variety and they all have two-frame animations while they move around, other than that there are some moving walls of death and the killed enemies evaporating effect is animated quite nicely.
The gameplay is solid enough but it's far too shallow and simple of a game in total, with some type of bosses and a proper end screen giving some satisfaction to completing the game I would've given it at least a 4/5, as it currently stands I'll give it a solid 3/5.
Armored Core (PlayStation)
Started a new game.
Thursday, August 9, 2018
Now Playing - Augusti 2018
Super Mario Bros. 2 (Entertainment System)
Tearaway (PlayStation Vita)
Sonic The Hedgehog (as part of SEGA 3D Classics on 3DS)
CarmaGeddoN (PlayStation)
The classic CarmaGeddoN, PSX version, awesome.
Super Mario Bros. (Entertainment System)
Wario's Woods (Entertainment System)
A puzzle game where you play as Toad. Bombs drop from above and you have to combine them with creatures to clear the area before the ceiling lowers down and crushes you. It's pretty good, sure beats a lot of other similar puzzle games from back then.
Wario's Woods (Super Nintendo)
The Entertainment System game of the same name with a Super Mario Allstars makeover.
Sudoku portable LCD game
Sudoku
just regular Sudoku on paper
Bomb Jack (SG-1000)
Perhaps not the best version of Bomb Jack ever, but a good and enjoyable one for sure.
CastleVania Legends (Game Boy)
I love this game, it's very tough but also very enjoyable. Sonia is best Belmont origin canon.
Rubik's Cube
trained and learned how to solve one in real life, my fastest time solving a cube from scrambled to all sides complete as of this post is 2m21s
Rubik's Puzzle World (DS, played on 3DS)
After having learned how to solve a Rubik's Cube in real life on an actual cube I was able to solve it in this game with a time of 4:45, which is twice as long than I can do it in real life (fastest time as of typing this in 2:21) but it's far less intuitive and much clunkier with the low res and highly inaccurate touch screen control of a DS/3DS, so I still think it's a very good time for someone who just learned how to do it.
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
just playing some awesome Intellivision games again
BurgerTime! (Intellivision)
Centipede (Intellivision)
Defender (Intellivision)
Pac-Man (Intellivision)
Popeye (Intellivision)
Q*bert (Intellivision)
Scooby Doo's Maze Chase (Intellivision)
this was a new one for me, another good maze game (aka "Pac-Man clone"), very typical for the time
Nightlong Union City Conspiracy (PC)
also playing some nostalgic PC point and click games, it's not a genre I like but it has a handful games I love
The C.H.A.O.S. Continuum (PC)
The Colonel's Bequest A Laura Bow Mystery (PC)
Ninja Gaiden (Master System)
Total Drivin (PlayStation)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Entertainment System)
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Mega Drive)
it's been ages since I played this, I usually just play the original Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic CD or Sonic & Knuckles or the old classics, the rest I only play a bit sporadically, sometimes a lot and then not at all for long stretches of time
Samurai Showdown (Mega Drive)
another one I haven't played it ages, I think it was last in the early 2000s on PC, the MS-DOS version
Time Trax (Mega Drive, prototype rom)
an odd platformer with some slow motion time manipulation power, it's pretty good but it's only a prototype, I don't think it ever was released as a full retail version sadly, it's not bad at all and feels pretty much complete, it's far better than many games that did come out back in the day
Scooby-Doo Mystery (Mega Drive)
an awful point and click mystery solving adventure game starring Scooby-Doo and Shaggy, with the rest of the gang being absent during the game only to be part of the intros and outros of the two mysteries the game has to offer. it's slow, clunky, illogical, unintuitive and arbitrary as fuck, the only way to solve a vast majority of the "puzzles" is to try every possible combination until you randomly find the correct thing to do, except for a handful thing you do there really is no thought, logic, rhyme or reason to anything else in the entire game, you will get stuck, a lot, and it's not your fault, the game is just extremely poorly designed, it looks very nice with good level of detail, nice animation and such, and the audio is fine as well, but damn, the gameplay just brutally murders the entire experience, just play this with a guide from the beginning if you ever try it out, and save yourself the headache
Tom & Jerry Frantic Antics (Mega Drive)
holy fucknuts this game is awful, it looks bad, sounds horrible and plays worse than just about anything else ever made, it's nothing short of a travesti it got released in this condition
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
River Raid (Intellivision)
Tearaway (PlayStation Vita)
Sonic The Hedgehog (as part of SEGA 3D Classics on 3DS)
CarmaGeddoN (PlayStation)
The classic CarmaGeddoN, PSX version, awesome.
Super Mario Bros. (Entertainment System)
Wario's Woods (Entertainment System)
A puzzle game where you play as Toad. Bombs drop from above and you have to combine them with creatures to clear the area before the ceiling lowers down and crushes you. It's pretty good, sure beats a lot of other similar puzzle games from back then.
Wario's Woods (Super Nintendo)
The Entertainment System game of the same name with a Super Mario Allstars makeover.
Sudoku portable LCD game
Sudoku
just regular Sudoku on paper
Bomb Jack (SG-1000)
Perhaps not the best version of Bomb Jack ever, but a good and enjoyable one for sure.
CastleVania Legends (Game Boy)
I love this game, it's very tough but also very enjoyable. Sonia is best Belmont origin canon.
Rubik's Cube
trained and learned how to solve one in real life, my fastest time solving a cube from scrambled to all sides complete as of this post is 2m21s
Rubik's Puzzle World (DS, played on 3DS)
After having learned how to solve a Rubik's Cube in real life on an actual cube I was able to solve it in this game with a time of 4:45, which is twice as long than I can do it in real life (fastest time as of typing this in 2:21) but it's far less intuitive and much clunkier with the low res and highly inaccurate touch screen control of a DS/3DS, so I still think it's a very good time for someone who just learned how to do it.
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
just playing some awesome Intellivision games again
BurgerTime! (Intellivision)
Centipede (Intellivision)
Defender (Intellivision)
Pac-Man (Intellivision)
Popeye (Intellivision)
Q*bert (Intellivision)
Scooby Doo's Maze Chase (Intellivision)
this was a new one for me, another good maze game (aka "Pac-Man clone"), very typical for the time
Nightlong Union City Conspiracy (PC)
also playing some nostalgic PC point and click games, it's not a genre I like but it has a handful games I love
The C.H.A.O.S. Continuum (PC)
The Colonel's Bequest A Laura Bow Mystery (PC)
Ninja Gaiden (Master System)
Total Drivin (PlayStation)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Entertainment System)
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Mega Drive)
it's been ages since I played this, I usually just play the original Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic CD or Sonic & Knuckles or the old classics, the rest I only play a bit sporadically, sometimes a lot and then not at all for long stretches of time
Samurai Showdown (Mega Drive)
another one I haven't played it ages, I think it was last in the early 2000s on PC, the MS-DOS version
Time Trax (Mega Drive, prototype rom)
an odd platformer with some slow motion time manipulation power, it's pretty good but it's only a prototype, I don't think it ever was released as a full retail version sadly, it's not bad at all and feels pretty much complete, it's far better than many games that did come out back in the day
Scooby-Doo Mystery (Mega Drive)
an awful point and click mystery solving adventure game starring Scooby-Doo and Shaggy, with the rest of the gang being absent during the game only to be part of the intros and outros of the two mysteries the game has to offer. it's slow, clunky, illogical, unintuitive and arbitrary as fuck, the only way to solve a vast majority of the "puzzles" is to try every possible combination until you randomly find the correct thing to do, except for a handful thing you do there really is no thought, logic, rhyme or reason to anything else in the entire game, you will get stuck, a lot, and it's not your fault, the game is just extremely poorly designed, it looks very nice with good level of detail, nice animation and such, and the audio is fine as well, but damn, the gameplay just brutally murders the entire experience, just play this with a guide from the beginning if you ever try it out, and save yourself the headache
Tom & Jerry Frantic Antics (Mega Drive)
holy fucknuts this game is awful, it looks bad, sounds horrible and plays worse than just about anything else ever made, it's nothing short of a travesti it got released in this condition
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
River Raid (Intellivision)
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Gaming Purchases - Augusti 2018
Augusti 7th:
A trip to the local GameStop resulted in some interesting purchases to get this month started.
PlayStation 3:
Resonance of Fate
Rise of the Argonauts
Virtua Tennis 3
PlayStation 4:
BAJA Edge of Control HD (new)
CarmaGeddoN Max Damage (new)
PlayStation 4 Camera V2
PS4 PlayStation Move Motion Controller PlayStation VR Accessory Twin Pack (new and sealed)
..and some movies from another store.
DVD:
Anchorman 2 The Legend Continues (new and sealed)
Disney Cinderella III (new and sealed)
LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Justice League Gotham City Breakout (new and sealed)
LEGO Nexo Knights Episodes 16-20 (new and sealed)
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Augusti 10th:
A couple of movies from a movie store.
DVD:
The Man With The Iron Heart (2017)
Woody Woodpecker (2017)
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Augusti 11th:
Just some non-gaming secondhand shopping finds today.
DVD:
Bästa Knattefilmerna Vol. 1 Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll med flera (2007)
Karlsson på Taket TV-serien - Karlsson och John Blund (2002)
Karlsson på Taket TV-serien - Karlsson Dammsuger (2002)
My Little Pony Slottet Bland Molnen (2004) (5 episodes of My Little Pony 'n Friends (1986))
Building Blocks:
LEGO System 5875 Belville Hospital Ward (1994)
Sluban Girl's Dream M38-B0516 Mailing Letter
Other:
a bag of POGs
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Augusti 17th:
Just a couple of movies today.
DVD:
LEGO Jurassic World Indominus-Rex Rymning (LEGO Jurassic World The Indominus Escape, 2016)
Your Name (Makoto Shinkai, 2017)
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Augusti 18th:
Some secondhand finds today.
PC:
LEGO Rock Raiders
DVD:
Bakugan Gundalian Invaders Vol. 2 (2010)
Dunderklumpen! (1974)
Hacke Hackspett och hans vänner Vol. 6 (Woody Woodpecker and His Friends Vol. 6, 1940-1972)
Manga & Comics:
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 6 (paperback)
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 7 (paperback)
Hacke Hackspett (Woody Woodpecker, #10 1971)
Hacke Hackspett (Woody Woodpecker, #15 1973)
Hacke Hackspett (Woody Woodpecker, #4 1977)
Tom & Jerry (#2 1991)
LEGO:
a Bionicle figure with 4 arms (came with the manual and a cutout part of the original box)
a Hero Factory figure with handcuffs, shoulder cannon and a gun arm (came with the manual)
a wolf warrior of some sort with a double sword and a saw blade shield, possibly Hero Factory
Toys & Other:
Mighty Max, a big vampire skull with light-up glowing eyes (all figures and other detachables are missing)
a painting of two trolls on a bridge, a male troll who is fishing and a female troll who is smelling a flower, there is a crescent moon in the background
a Rubik's Cube, very smooth and easy to twist, possibly one of those that's commonly referred to as a speed cube
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Augusti 21th:
When grocery shopping I saw they had some movies on sale. I also bought the last Mountain Dew Cherry Blast they had, I hope they'll get more as it's my favorite, I'd hate if that one also is going out of production like so many other delishus sodas in the past.
DVD:
Snobben (Peanuts The Movie, 2015)
Star Wars The Force Awakens (2015)
Bluray:
Star Wars The Force Awakens (2015)
A trip to the local GameStop resulted in some interesting purchases to get this month started.
PlayStation 3:
Resonance of Fate
Rise of the Argonauts
Virtua Tennis 3
PlayStation 4:
BAJA Edge of Control HD (new)
CarmaGeddoN Max Damage (new)
PlayStation 4 Camera V2
PS4 PlayStation Move Motion Controller PlayStation VR Accessory Twin Pack (new and sealed)
..and some movies from another store.
DVD:
Anchorman 2 The Legend Continues (new and sealed)
Disney Cinderella III (new and sealed)
LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Justice League Gotham City Breakout (new and sealed)
LEGO Nexo Knights Episodes 16-20 (new and sealed)
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Augusti 10th:
A couple of movies from a movie store.
DVD:
The Man With The Iron Heart (2017)
Woody Woodpecker (2017)
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Augusti 11th:
Just some non-gaming secondhand shopping finds today.
DVD:
Bästa Knattefilmerna Vol. 1 Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll med flera (2007)
Karlsson på Taket TV-serien - Karlsson och John Blund (2002)
Karlsson på Taket TV-serien - Karlsson Dammsuger (2002)
My Little Pony Slottet Bland Molnen (2004) (5 episodes of My Little Pony 'n Friends (1986))
Building Blocks:
LEGO System 5875 Belville Hospital Ward (1994)
Sluban Girl's Dream M38-B0516 Mailing Letter
Other:
a bag of POGs
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Augusti 17th:
Just a couple of movies today.
DVD:
LEGO Jurassic World Indominus-Rex Rymning (LEGO Jurassic World The Indominus Escape, 2016)
Your Name (Makoto Shinkai, 2017)
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Augusti 18th:
Some secondhand finds today.
PC:
LEGO Rock Raiders
DVD:
Bakugan Gundalian Invaders Vol. 2 (2010)
Dunderklumpen! (1974)
Hacke Hackspett och hans vänner Vol. 6 (Woody Woodpecker and His Friends Vol. 6, 1940-1972)
Manga & Comics:
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 6 (paperback)
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 7 (paperback)
Hacke Hackspett (Woody Woodpecker, #10 1971)
Hacke Hackspett (Woody Woodpecker, #15 1973)
Hacke Hackspett (Woody Woodpecker, #4 1977)
Tom & Jerry (#2 1991)
LEGO:
a Bionicle figure with 4 arms (came with the manual and a cutout part of the original box)
a Hero Factory figure with handcuffs, shoulder cannon and a gun arm (came with the manual)
a wolf warrior of some sort with a double sword and a saw blade shield, possibly Hero Factory
Toys & Other:
Mighty Max, a big vampire skull with light-up glowing eyes (all figures and other detachables are missing)
a painting of two trolls on a bridge, a male troll who is fishing and a female troll who is smelling a flower, there is a crescent moon in the background
a Rubik's Cube, very smooth and easy to twist, possibly one of those that's commonly referred to as a speed cube
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Augusti 21th:
When grocery shopping I saw they had some movies on sale. I also bought the last Mountain Dew Cherry Blast they had, I hope they'll get more as it's my favorite, I'd hate if that one also is going out of production like so many other delishus sodas in the past.
DVD:
Snobben (Peanuts The Movie, 2015)
Star Wars The Force Awakens (2015)
Bluray:
Star Wars The Force Awakens (2015)
Monday, July 2, 2018
Now Playing - Juli 2018
Tearaway (PlayStation Vita)
Just been playing some games with a friend, same as usual (Ice Hockey, Double Dribble, Track & Field II, Pro Wrestling) plus a new one, Ghosts & Goblins.
Net Yaroze Collection (PlayStation)
A Dog Tale and Blitter Boy
Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive, played on 3DS as part of the SEGA 3D Classics Collection)
Guilty Gear XX The Midnight Carnival #Reload (PC)
Also called Guilty Gear X2 #Reload and Guilty Gear X2 The Midnight Carnival #Reload.
I haven't played much Guilty Gear at all, just the original on PSX a little bit before this one.
I didn't like the original very much, I found it to be a very typical and generic anime 2D fighting game, not bad per se, easily better than many others like it, just not interesting to me at all as I strongly prefer 3D fighting games.
This one is quite a lot better in every aspect over the original on PSX, it plays better, looks better, sounds better, has a better character roster and has better controls with more moves.
I'm still not into 2D anime fighting games like this, but at least this one is fairly good by the standards they go by.
Honey Peach (Entertainment System)
an awesome rock paper scissor hentai game from the 90s, nuff said really, you rock paper scissor until hot hentai babes lose all their clothes, it's just awesome
Rubik's Puzzle World (DS, played on 3DS)
Some minigames similar to Mercury but not as good, though some are decent, and a really poor Rubik's Cube mode with a lousy camera, all topped off with inaccurate touch screen controls for everything making every step a hurdle, making sure you're never actually having any fun by accident, because we simply can't have fun with Rubik's Cube game, that just can not be permitted.
Just been playing some games with a friend, same as usual (Ice Hockey, Double Dribble, Track & Field II, Pro Wrestling) plus a new one, Ghosts & Goblins.
Net Yaroze Collection (PlayStation)
A Dog Tale and Blitter Boy
Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive, played on 3DS as part of the SEGA 3D Classics Collection)
Guilty Gear XX The Midnight Carnival #Reload (PC)
Also called Guilty Gear X2 #Reload and Guilty Gear X2 The Midnight Carnival #Reload.
I haven't played much Guilty Gear at all, just the original on PSX a little bit before this one.
I didn't like the original very much, I found it to be a very typical and generic anime 2D fighting game, not bad per se, easily better than many others like it, just not interesting to me at all as I strongly prefer 3D fighting games.
This one is quite a lot better in every aspect over the original on PSX, it plays better, looks better, sounds better, has a better character roster and has better controls with more moves.
I'm still not into 2D anime fighting games like this, but at least this one is fairly good by the standards they go by.
Honey Peach (Entertainment System)
an awesome rock paper scissor hentai game from the 90s, nuff said really, you rock paper scissor until hot hentai babes lose all their clothes, it's just awesome
Rubik's Puzzle World (DS, played on 3DS)
Some minigames similar to Mercury but not as good, though some are decent, and a really poor Rubik's Cube mode with a lousy camera, all topped off with inaccurate touch screen controls for everything making every step a hurdle, making sure you're never actually having any fun by accident, because we simply can't have fun with Rubik's Cube game, that just can not be permitted.
Game Purchases - Juli 2018
Juli 2th:
Starting this month with another movie purchase.
Bluray:
The Emoji Movie (2017)
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Juli 5th:
Got a tip from a friend that a secondhand shop downtown had a bunch of games from the game store that closed down last year, so I took a trip downtown and did some browsing, most were new and most were still factory sealed.
Game Boy Advance accessories:
Logic 3 GBA Fun Pack (3x thumb pads that you put on top of the d-pad, rubber grips for the back, screen protector overlay and a wrist strap)
GameCube Wii:
Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed
Funfair Party
Minion Everyday Hero
Sprint Cars
PlayStation 2:
Alpine Skiing 2005
Army Men Sarge's Heroes 2
Artlist Collection The Dog Island
Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter
Destroy All Humans! 2
Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires
Everybody's Tennis
EyeToy Kinetic Combat
Mercenaries 2 World in Flames
Mercury Meltdown Remix
Naruto Ultimate Ninja
Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles
Pipe Mania
Pool Shark 2
Project Eden
SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons Globs of Doom
Tak and the Guardians of Gross
The Sims 2 Castaway
Transworld Surf
Volleyball Challenge
Xbox 360:
Syndicate
I also went to the other second hand shop I go to regularly and picked up a ton of comics and also another game.
PlayStation 2:
Sniper Assault
DVD:
Jurassic Shark
Manga:
D-N-Angel (paperback, volumes 1-11)
Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne (paperback, volumes 2-7)
Time Stranger Kyoko (paperback, volumes 2-3)
Vampire Game (paperback, volume 1)
Comics:
Asterix Caesar's Gift (vol 21, 1977)
Asterix in Belgium (vol 24, 1979)
Asterix in India (vol 28, 1987)
Captain W.E. Johns' Biggles Den Hemliga Eskadern (vol 7, 1984)
Comics 6 Den Stora Serieboken (vol 6, 1974)
Fenomenala 4:ans Äventyr (Les 4 As et l'Aéroglisseur, vol 2, 1964)
Johan och Pellevins Äventyr 1 Vilden i Klippiga Skogen (Le Lutin du Bois aux Roches, vol 1, 1973)
Superman 25th Anniversary Special (1974)
Superman Revenge from the Phantom Zone (1980, printed 1981)
W.I.T.C.H. (volumes 2-3 and 6-11 2002, 7-10 and Halloween Special 2003, 4-9 2004, 5-6 2005)
Yoko Tsuno The Curious Trio (vol 1, 1972, printed 1981)
Toys:
Matchbox Specials Chevrolet Camaro (1:40, 1983)
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Juli 5th:
and some more movies
DVD:
A Ghost Story (2017)
An Inconvenient Sequel (2017)
Jurassic World (2014)
Unknown Soldier (2017)
WarCraft The Beginning (2015)
Bluray:
Jurassic World (2014)
WarCraft The Beginning (2015)
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Juli 11th:
Was out shopping a little today and picked up some stuff.
PC hardware:
Trust GXT 155 Gaming Mouse
Trust regular mouse without "cool" name with numbers and stuff
Other:
a pack of various electrical parts
What really made today special was the fact that I got stopped and asked to show my bag before I was allowed to leave the store in two different stores, it's never happened before ever and now twice in one day, I dunno maybe I looked unusually criminal today? I don'ät know, all I know is I won't be going to Jula och Net on Net anymore, they think so lowly of me that they treat me like a common criminal then they have lost me as a customer, I've been going to both those places since the 90s and this has never happened before, they know me, I've never shoplifted or stole anything in my life, I was honestly shocked and offended and even more so that it happened twice like this, I'm still in shock over it.
If this is how they choose to treat their longtime customers then fuck em, I'm out, no more, I will take my business elsewhere, I won't force them to take my money ever again!
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Juli 16th:
The first of two online orders I placed last Friday arrived today. All items are new and sealed.
DS:
Transformers Dark of the Moon Autobots (toy car bundle)
Transformers Dark of the Moon Decepticons (toy car bundle)
PlayStation Vita:
LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes
LEGO Batman 3 Beyond Gotham
PC:
AquaNox Collection (AquaNox and AquaNox 2 Revelation, Nordic Games)
Big Mutha Truckers 2 Truck Me Harder (Medallion)
Guilty Gear X2 #Reload (Medallion)
Monster Madness Battle for Suburbia (Games for Windows)
DVD:
Independence Day Resurgence
Bluray:
Independence Day Resurgence
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Juli 17th:
The second order arrived. All items are new and sealed.
PlayStation Vita:
LEGO Jurassic World
Xbox 360:
LEGO Jurassic World
Amiibo:
Samus Aran (Metroid Samus Returns)
Bluray:
Independence Day 20th Anniversary Attacker Edition
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Juli 26th:
Long day today, went out for a long walk early in the morning, then walked downtown and checked two secondhand stores and found a whole bunch of games among other things, and lastly I met up with a friend I hadn't seen in ages and talked to him for 2½ hours.
at the first place I got:
DS:
Ellen Whitaker's Horse Life
Wii:
Cruis'n
RTL Winter Sports 2009
Top Spin 4
Wheelspin
PlayStation 2:
Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2
WALL-E
PlayStation 3:
Bodycount
Stranglehold
Xbox 360:
Dragon Age II
PC:
LEGO Star Wars II The Original Trilogy
and at the second place I got:
Xbox:
Over The Hedge
Xbox 360:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Forza Motorsport 2 (in a bundle with Viva Piñata)
Forza Motorsport 3
Iron Man
Juiced Hot Import Nights 2
Jumper Griffin's Story
Kinect Adventures! (disc only, hidden in the Juiced 2 box under the Juiced 2 disc, found it the day after)
N3 Ninety-Nine Nights
Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands (Special Collector's Edition)
Sonic The Hedgehog
Spider-man Friend or Foe
Viva Piñata (in a bundle with Forza Motorsport 2)
DVD:
Barbie in The Nutcracker
Barbie of Swan Lake
Biker Mice from Mars (vol. 3)
Bratz Pampered Petz
How To Train Your Dragon 2
My Little Pony & Friends (The Glass Princess, Sweet Stuff and the treasure hunt)
My Little Pony Tales (vol. 3, )
The Black Cauldron (Special Edition)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Noble Entertainment)
Bluray:
TMNT (2007)
Comics/Magazines:
24x Disney Princess with cardboard folder to store them in
W.I.T.C.H. sticker album with some additional posters
Bizarro (Vol. 5, 2004)
Other:
Disney's Cinderella wooden wall plate
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Juli 30th:
Some more secondhand finds today.
Game Boy Advance:
MadCatz MagLens SP (screen magnifier for Game Boy Advance SP)
DS:
Cooking Guide - Can't decide what to eat? (new and sealed)
Rubik's Puzzle World (Bakugan Battle Brawlers box, no manual, just a standard Nintendo health and safety precautions booklet)
Wii:
Pocoyo Racing (RTL Winter Sports 2008 box and manual, no manual for Pocoyo Racing)
PlayStation 2:
Jetix Puzzle Buzzle (new and sealed)
Books:
Fräcka Fredag!
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Juli 31st:
Went on another secondhand binge today, 25 more games where of a whopping 22 were dupes of games I already had, several even being multiple dupes of the same game. I've definitely never bought this many copies of the same games at the same time before.
PlayStation 2:
Artlist Collection The Dog Island (new and sealed)
3x Bakugan Battle Brawlers (new and sealed)
Ben 10 Alien Force (new and sealed)
6x Bratz The Movie (new and sealed)
2x Crescent Suzuki Racing
2x Everybody's Tennis (new and sealed)
2x Jetix Puzzle Buzzle (new and sealed)
Madagascar Escape 2 Africa (Platinum, new and sealed)
Mercury Meltdown Remix (new and sealed)
Rayman Raving Rabbids (new and sealed)
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
SSX
Stuntman
Thunderhawk Operation Phoenix
Xbox 360:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (infamous german version, altered for censorship and with no language options, german speech and text only)
Starting this month with another movie purchase.
Bluray:
The Emoji Movie (2017)
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Juli 5th:
Got a tip from a friend that a secondhand shop downtown had a bunch of games from the game store that closed down last year, so I took a trip downtown and did some browsing, most were new and most were still factory sealed.
Game Boy Advance accessories:
Logic 3 GBA Fun Pack (3x thumb pads that you put on top of the d-pad, rubber grips for the back, screen protector overlay and a wrist strap)
GameCube Wii:
Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed
Funfair Party
Minion Everyday Hero
Sprint Cars
PlayStation 2:
Alpine Skiing 2005
Army Men Sarge's Heroes 2
Artlist Collection The Dog Island
Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter
Destroy All Humans! 2
Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires
Everybody's Tennis
EyeToy Kinetic Combat
Mercenaries 2 World in Flames
Mercury Meltdown Remix
Naruto Ultimate Ninja
Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles
Pipe Mania
Pool Shark 2
Project Eden
SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons Globs of Doom
Tak and the Guardians of Gross
The Sims 2 Castaway
Transworld Surf
Volleyball Challenge
Xbox 360:
Syndicate
I also went to the other second hand shop I go to regularly and picked up a ton of comics and also another game.
PlayStation 2:
Sniper Assault
DVD:
Jurassic Shark
Manga:
D-N-Angel (paperback, volumes 1-11)
Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne (paperback, volumes 2-7)
Time Stranger Kyoko (paperback, volumes 2-3)
Vampire Game (paperback, volume 1)
Comics:
Asterix Caesar's Gift (vol 21, 1977)
Asterix in Belgium (vol 24, 1979)
Asterix in India (vol 28, 1987)
Captain W.E. Johns' Biggles Den Hemliga Eskadern (vol 7, 1984)
Comics 6 Den Stora Serieboken (vol 6, 1974)
Fenomenala 4:ans Äventyr (Les 4 As et l'Aéroglisseur, vol 2, 1964)
Johan och Pellevins Äventyr 1 Vilden i Klippiga Skogen (Le Lutin du Bois aux Roches, vol 1, 1973)
Superman 25th Anniversary Special (1974)
Superman Revenge from the Phantom Zone (1980, printed 1981)
W.I.T.C.H. (volumes 2-3 and 6-11 2002, 7-10 and Halloween Special 2003, 4-9 2004, 5-6 2005)
Yoko Tsuno The Curious Trio (vol 1, 1972, printed 1981)
Toys:
Matchbox Specials Chevrolet Camaro (1:40, 1983)
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Juli 5th:
and some more movies
DVD:
A Ghost Story (2017)
An Inconvenient Sequel (2017)
Jurassic World (2014)
Unknown Soldier (2017)
WarCraft The Beginning (2015)
Bluray:
Jurassic World (2014)
WarCraft The Beginning (2015)
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Juli 11th:
Was out shopping a little today and picked up some stuff.
PC hardware:
Trust GXT 155 Gaming Mouse
Trust regular mouse without "cool" name with numbers and stuff
Other:
a pack of various electrical parts
What really made today special was the fact that I got stopped and asked to show my bag before I was allowed to leave the store in two different stores, it's never happened before ever and now twice in one day, I dunno maybe I looked unusually criminal today? I don'ät know, all I know is I won't be going to Jula och Net on Net anymore, they think so lowly of me that they treat me like a common criminal then they have lost me as a customer, I've been going to both those places since the 90s and this has never happened before, they know me, I've never shoplifted or stole anything in my life, I was honestly shocked and offended and even more so that it happened twice like this, I'm still in shock over it.
If this is how they choose to treat their longtime customers then fuck em, I'm out, no more, I will take my business elsewhere, I won't force them to take my money ever again!
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Juli 16th:
The first of two online orders I placed last Friday arrived today. All items are new and sealed.
DS:
Transformers Dark of the Moon Autobots (toy car bundle)
Transformers Dark of the Moon Decepticons (toy car bundle)
PlayStation Vita:
LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes
LEGO Batman 3 Beyond Gotham
PC:
AquaNox Collection (AquaNox and AquaNox 2 Revelation, Nordic Games)
Big Mutha Truckers 2 Truck Me Harder (Medallion)
Guilty Gear X2 #Reload (Medallion)
Monster Madness Battle for Suburbia (Games for Windows)
DVD:
Independence Day Resurgence
Bluray:
Independence Day Resurgence
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Juli 17th:
The second order arrived. All items are new and sealed.
PlayStation Vita:
LEGO Jurassic World
Xbox 360:
LEGO Jurassic World
Amiibo:
Samus Aran (Metroid Samus Returns)
Bluray:
Independence Day 20th Anniversary Attacker Edition
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Juli 26th:
Long day today, went out for a long walk early in the morning, then walked downtown and checked two secondhand stores and found a whole bunch of games among other things, and lastly I met up with a friend I hadn't seen in ages and talked to him for 2½ hours.
at the first place I got:
DS:
Ellen Whitaker's Horse Life
Wii:
Cruis'n
RTL Winter Sports 2009
Top Spin 4
Wheelspin
PlayStation 2:
Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2
WALL-E
PlayStation 3:
Bodycount
Stranglehold
Xbox 360:
Dragon Age II
PC:
LEGO Star Wars II The Original Trilogy
and at the second place I got:
Xbox:
Over The Hedge
Xbox 360:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Forza Motorsport 2 (in a bundle with Viva Piñata)
Forza Motorsport 3
Iron Man
Juiced Hot Import Nights 2
Jumper Griffin's Story
Kinect Adventures! (disc only, hidden in the Juiced 2 box under the Juiced 2 disc, found it the day after)
N3 Ninety-Nine Nights
Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands (Special Collector's Edition)
Sonic The Hedgehog
Spider-man Friend or Foe
Viva Piñata (in a bundle with Forza Motorsport 2)
DVD:
Barbie in The Nutcracker
Barbie of Swan Lake
Biker Mice from Mars (vol. 3)
Bratz Pampered Petz
How To Train Your Dragon 2
My Little Pony & Friends (The Glass Princess, Sweet Stuff and the treasure hunt)
My Little Pony Tales (vol. 3, )
The Black Cauldron (Special Edition)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Noble Entertainment)
Bluray:
TMNT (2007)
Comics/Magazines:
24x Disney Princess with cardboard folder to store them in
W.I.T.C.H. sticker album with some additional posters
Bizarro (Vol. 5, 2004)
Other:
Disney's Cinderella wooden wall plate
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Juli 30th:
Some more secondhand finds today.
Game Boy Advance:
MadCatz MagLens SP (screen magnifier for Game Boy Advance SP)
DS:
Cooking Guide - Can't decide what to eat? (new and sealed)
Rubik's Puzzle World (Bakugan Battle Brawlers box, no manual, just a standard Nintendo health and safety precautions booklet)
Wii:
Pocoyo Racing (RTL Winter Sports 2008 box and manual, no manual for Pocoyo Racing)
PlayStation 2:
Jetix Puzzle Buzzle (new and sealed)
Books:
Fräcka Fredag!
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Juli 31st:
Went on another secondhand binge today, 25 more games where of a whopping 22 were dupes of games I already had, several even being multiple dupes of the same game. I've definitely never bought this many copies of the same games at the same time before.
PlayStation 2:
Artlist Collection The Dog Island (new and sealed)
3x Bakugan Battle Brawlers (new and sealed)
Ben 10 Alien Force (new and sealed)
6x Bratz The Movie (new and sealed)
2x Crescent Suzuki Racing
2x Everybody's Tennis (new and sealed)
2x Jetix Puzzle Buzzle (new and sealed)
Madagascar Escape 2 Africa (Platinum, new and sealed)
Mercury Meltdown Remix (new and sealed)
Rayman Raving Rabbids (new and sealed)
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
SSX
Stuntman
Thunderhawk Operation Phoenix
Xbox 360:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (infamous german version, altered for censorship and with no language options, german speech and text only)
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Game Purchases - Juni 2018
Juni 6th:
No gaming purchases yet, just a movie.
DVD:
Rock Dog (2017)
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Juni 8th:
A couple more movies.
DVD:
Godzilla (2014)
Bluray:
Smurfarna Den Försvunna Byn (The Smurfs Lost Village, 2017)
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Juni 14th:
Finally got some new games purchased today!
Wii:
The Simpsons Game (no manual)
Welcome to Animal Crossing: Let's go to the City
PlayStation 2:
Rollercoaster World (no manual)
PlayStation 3:
Ratchet & Clank Tools of Destruction (no manual)
PC:
FlatOut (Medallion)
DVD:
6e Dagen (The 6th Day, 2000)
Den Onda Dockan 3 (Child's Play 3, 2001)
Fruits Basket - The Complete Series (6 Disc Exclusive Collection)
LEGO Ninjago Masters of Spinjitzu Vol. 2
LEGO Ninjago Masters of Spinjitzu Vol. 3
Transformers (2007)
Bluray:
Jack Frost (1996)
LEGO:
Mini Taurus (buildable board game, the yellow playable microfigure character was missing, otherwise it was complete in box)
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Juni 25th:
And a few more movies.
DVD:
Bamse och Häxans Dotter (Bamse and the Witch's Daughter, 2016)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Bilar 3 (Cars 3, 2017)
Den Stora Nötkuppen 2 (The Nut Job 2, 2017)
Dumma Mej 3 (Despicable Me 3, 2017)
Leatherface (2015)
The Emoji Movie (2017)
Bluray:
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Justice League (2017)
Sing (2016)
No gaming purchases yet, just a movie.
DVD:
Rock Dog (2017)
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Juni 8th:
A couple more movies.
DVD:
Godzilla (2014)
Bluray:
Smurfarna Den Försvunna Byn (The Smurfs Lost Village, 2017)
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Juni 14th:
Finally got some new games purchased today!
Wii:
The Simpsons Game (no manual)
Welcome to Animal Crossing: Let's go to the City
PlayStation 2:
Rollercoaster World (no manual)
PlayStation 3:
Ratchet & Clank Tools of Destruction (no manual)
PC:
FlatOut (Medallion)
DVD:
6e Dagen (The 6th Day, 2000)
Den Onda Dockan 3 (Child's Play 3, 2001)
Fruits Basket - The Complete Series (6 Disc Exclusive Collection)
LEGO Ninjago Masters of Spinjitzu Vol. 2
LEGO Ninjago Masters of Spinjitzu Vol. 3
Transformers (2007)
Bluray:
Jack Frost (1996)
LEGO:
Mini Taurus (buildable board game, the yellow playable microfigure character was missing, otherwise it was complete in box)
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Juni 25th:
And a few more movies.
DVD:
Bamse och Häxans Dotter (Bamse and the Witch's Daughter, 2016)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Bilar 3 (Cars 3, 2017)
Den Stora Nötkuppen 2 (The Nut Job 2, 2017)
Dumma Mej 3 (Despicable Me 3, 2017)
Leatherface (2015)
The Emoji Movie (2017)
Bluray:
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Justice League (2017)
Sing (2016)
Friday, June 1, 2018
Now Playing - Juni 2018
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed (PlayStation Vita)
Played some more Entertainment System games with a friend; Ice Hockey, Double Dribble, Volleyball and Blades of Steel.
And some even more Entertainment System games with a friend; Blades of Steel, Ice Hockey again, Double Dribble again, Dead Fox, Three Eyed Boy, TMNT II The Arcade Game and Battleship.
In light of having played so much Intellivision recently
I've decided to dedicate 2018 to be the Year of Intellivision
and so I commemorate this by making the INTV Running Man immortalized in Etch A Sketch!
FlatOut (PC)
It's choppy but playable. The sequel is a huge improvement in most ways, especially the stunt minigames, but this one's still good, better on console ofcourse where it's been optimized to run with maximal quality, but on a shitty PC like mine I'm amazed it runs at all.
Need for Speed Underground (PC)
Just one race, it's so choppy, I just don't want to play it on PC. On PC I guess it's marginally better than the GBA version due to the options for superior visual detail, that's really the nicest thing I can say about it, it makes for a very nice looking slideshow.
1NSANE (PC)
An old favorite offroad racing game of mine, used to play it a lot back on my old Pentium 4 with Windows XP and GeForce 4 in the early 00s.
It's like a PC exclusive Smugglers Run type of game.
Tearaway (PlayStation Vita)
Stopped giving Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed an undeserved try and went back to the most charming place in gaming instead, back to the wonderful world of Tearaway!
Net Yaroze Collection (PlayStation)
I love playing these games.
Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed (PlayStation Vita)
Played some more Entertainment System games with a friend; Ice Hockey, Double Dribble, Volleyball and Blades of Steel.
And some even more Entertainment System games with a friend; Blades of Steel, Ice Hockey again, Double Dribble again, Dead Fox, Three Eyed Boy, TMNT II The Arcade Game and Battleship.
In light of having played so much Intellivision recently
I've decided to dedicate 2018 to be the Year of Intellivision
and so I commemorate this by making the INTV Running Man immortalized in Etch A Sketch!
FlatOut (PC)
It's choppy but playable. The sequel is a huge improvement in most ways, especially the stunt minigames, but this one's still good, better on console ofcourse where it's been optimized to run with maximal quality, but on a shitty PC like mine I'm amazed it runs at all.
Need for Speed Underground (PC)
Just one race, it's so choppy, I just don't want to play it on PC. On PC I guess it's marginally better than the GBA version due to the options for superior visual detail, that's really the nicest thing I can say about it, it makes for a very nice looking slideshow.
1NSANE (PC)
An old favorite offroad racing game of mine, used to play it a lot back on my old Pentium 4 with Windows XP and GeForce 4 in the early 00s.
It's like a PC exclusive Smugglers Run type of game.
Tearaway (PlayStation Vita)
Stopped giving Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed an undeserved try and went back to the most charming place in gaming instead, back to the wonderful world of Tearaway!
Net Yaroze Collection (PlayStation)
I love playing these games.
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Game Purchases - Maj 2018
Maj 12th:
Haven't gotten much of anything since last month, still no new games at all.
Magazines:
The Lego Batman Movie + Harley Quinn on rollerskates exclusive polybag figure
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Maj 17th:
Some stuff from a second hand store today, still no new games though.
DVD:
From Dusk till Dawn 3 The Hangman's Daughter
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist!
CD:
Dio
Musikgymnasiet 95
Other:
Boo-Diddley (Super Mario McDonalds figure with tongue that moves)
and a DVD from a movie store
DVD:
Trolls (2016)
and a magazine from a grocery store
Magazines:
Donald Duck + LEGO 30531 Ninjago bike polybag set
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Maj 21th:
Just some movies from a movie store today.
DVD:
Bring It On (2017)
Free Fire (2016)
Shopkins Chef Club (2016)
The Exception (2016)
The Lost City of Z (2017)
The Mummy (2016)
What Happened to Monday (2017)
Bluray:
47 Meters Down (2016)
Bring It On (2017)
The Lost City of Z (2017)
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Maj 24th:
Doesn't look like I'll be getting any new games this month, just another LEGO magazine + polybag set today.
Magazines:
LEGO Jurassic World + LEGO Jurassic World Velociraptor baby and nest limited edition polybag set
Haven't gotten much of anything since last month, still no new games at all.
Magazines:
The Lego Batman Movie + Harley Quinn on rollerskates exclusive polybag figure
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Maj 17th:
Some stuff from a second hand store today, still no new games though.
DVD:
From Dusk till Dawn 3 The Hangman's Daughter
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist!
CD:
Dio
Musikgymnasiet 95
Other:
Boo-Diddley (Super Mario McDonalds figure with tongue that moves)
and a DVD from a movie store
DVD:
Trolls (2016)
and a magazine from a grocery store
Magazines:
Donald Duck + LEGO 30531 Ninjago bike polybag set
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Maj 21th:
Just some movies from a movie store today.
DVD:
Bring It On (2017)
Free Fire (2016)
Shopkins Chef Club (2016)
The Exception (2016)
The Lost City of Z (2017)
The Mummy (2016)
What Happened to Monday (2017)
Bluray:
47 Meters Down (2016)
Bring It On (2017)
The Lost City of Z (2017)
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Maj 24th:
Doesn't look like I'll be getting any new games this month, just another LEGO magazine + polybag set today.
Magazines:
LEGO Jurassic World + LEGO Jurassic World Velociraptor baby and nest limited edition polybag set
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Now Playing - Maj 2018
Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed (PlayStation Vita)
V-Rally (PlayStation)
Joyriding.
Super Mario Bros. (Entertainment System)
Just a quick playthrough.
The Valley Rule (PC)
Just a quick playthrough.
Vector TD (PC)
Just a quick playthrough.
Vector TD 2 (PC)
Just a quick playthrough.
Grand Theft Auto (PC)
Just testing it out a little bit.
Grand Theft Auto 2 (PC)
Just testing it out a little bit.
Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (Xbox 360)
Still trying to replicate the glitch with the combining hubworlds, sadly to no success. I have completed some regular challenge in the game in the meantime though.
Senario Vs. Maxx (Plug&Play)
Just playing some of the games for fun, Smart Escape is still the best of the bunch.
Been playing some games at a friend's house, Ice Hockey, Double Dribble and Ice Climber on Entertainment System and some various games on his new Atari Flashback, a fishing game, a cowboy duel game (Outlaw), a tank game (Combat) and some other ones (American Football, Football ("Soccer"), and some top-down racing games).
I've also installed an Intellivision emulator (Bliss 2.04) and am trying out some of the games I own, since I don't own an actual Intellivision console to play them on this is as good as I can do at the moment.
BurgerTime! (Intellivision)
BurgerTime! is a really good arcade game and a lot of fun to play, the Intellivision version is great.
Pac-Man (Intellivision)
One of the top best older versions of Pac-Man for sure.
Frog Bog (Intellivision)
It's a lot more fun when you activate manual controls.
Popeye (Intellivision)
A fun arcade game, not the most impressive version but a good game regardless and still very enjoyable, I prefer it to some of the more technically impressive versions as some of the added animations, music and sound effects etc. in other versions aren't always that good and end up being kind of awkward, so at the end of the day this is still my favorite version.
Skiing (Intellivision)
A simple but enjoyable skiing game, I'd say it's one of the best due to it's simplicity, compared to for example Slalom on Entertainment System this is much better as that game is far too hard and has rather annoying controls in which you have to constantly hold up on the steering cross to go forward, which is absolute murder on your thumb, and when compared to more modern games like Alpine Skiing 2007 on PS2 for example it's also superior as that game is a bit too technical and advanced for it's own good, it looks fantastic for a PS2 game but it's just not very fun to play, Skiing on Intellivision is just a great and simple little game to pick up and play and for us who aren't into the sport of skiing that's really all you need, and it makes for a better experience than all the licenced and complicated stuff other skiing games have to offer, at least in my opinion.
Utopia (Intellivision)
Trying to learn how to play this properly, it's a really cool game once you learn it, like a versus sim game, you control one of two islands with each of the two controllers and you try to manage your island as good as you can for a set amount of turns, the one who has managed their island the best at the end, wins.
Centipede (Intellivision)
A good version, nothing spectacular but it does what it needs to do, if you know Centipede in general then you know the Intellivision version as well, it's just the same good old classic Centipede.
Stadium Mud Buggies (Intellivision)
A great isometric racing game with good control, good visuals, lots of content and great driving physics.
Monster Truck Rally (Entertainment System)
The spiritual successor to Stadium Mud Buggies, basically the same game with even more content and better visuals.
Been playing some more games at a friend's house, now on his Mega Drive Flashback; Golden Axe 1, 2 and 3, Eternal Champions, Bonanza Bros., Flicky and Mortal Kombat 1 and 2.
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
An underrated top-down racer with some really good driving physics making it a blast to powerslide through corners like a pro. Got some nice visuals too with the cars and roadside buildings having shadows and the game shows off some nice multi-directional scrolling for such an old title.
This game commonly gets a bad rep for having bad controls but it all boils down to learning the controls, and they aren't even hard to learn, I'm honestly astonished over how many seem to struggle with them, basically the control disc is like a steering wheel, using the 16-directional input as a means to determine how much you're turning in either direction, only it's even easier as you don't actually have to turn it, you can just press down where you want and the game will do it, it's of course easier to explain in real life with an actual controller or with visual aids but here's an attempt at doing so in text form anyway; for example, pressing up on the disc does nothing as that's where the steering wheel is neutral, pressing up and diagonally will only ever so slightly steer in those direction, which can be good for minor adjustments, pressing straight left or right will give you a moderate amount of turning while still not risking any spin-outs, and pressing the lower part of the disc while turning, as in lower diagonal-left and lower diagonal-right, will result in significantly tighter turning, this can cause spin-outs if you do it too much from left to right in quick succession, but if done correctly you'll powerslide through corners at high speeds and it'll feel like a modern racing game only with a top-down camera angle and retro visuals, and finally you can slide it over to the other side and basically do 180 degree handbrake like turns and even pull off proper 360s if you're good enough, it's a genuine analog control that simply wasn't a thing again at all until the later part of the 90s, so enormous amounts of kudos to this game for implementing such a control scheme this early on and of course an equal amount of Kudos to the Intellivision for having such an awesome controller for making it possible in the first place, most impressive, you also have brakes on the action buttons but they're rarely needed even on the harder tracks, only the two fastest cars truly need the use of braking, it automatically accelerates so you just have to focus on steering for the most part.
There is an older and much more rare version of the game that had another control scheme (the regular one was an option too but you had to input a code to access it) and I can kind of excuse anyone who's played that as it seems to have far harder to manage controls than the regular version, but my guess is that a majority of those who have trouble with the game has it due to them using emulation where they try and map the 16-directional control disc to a 4-directional steering cross on a modern controller or the arrow keys on a keyboard, effectively losing 12 steps of analog sensitivity in the process, it's literally the same thing as mapping a modern console's analog stick to WASD, you'll lose any and all analog sensitivity and some games simply won't play correctly if they require you to use that sensitivity, as is the case of Auto Racing, despite being an older game the system was WAY ahead of it's time and the analog disc circle pad was only one of many things it did that took competitors many years, sometimes close to a couple of decades to catch up to.
Bowling (Intellivision)
What can I say, it's bowling. You line your guy up, aim, throw the ball, give it some aftertouch, hope the physics give you a strike then repeat that until you've bowled a whole game and get the final score. You get to pick some options like ball size, isle slipperiness, right or left handed and how many players will compete, you move the guy left and right on the isle with the left action buttons and aim/shoot with the lower right action button, you can see each player's current score by pressing the corresponding number key during gameplay.
Atlantis (Intellivision)
A Missile Command clone with some cool special features like a shmup ability where you ge to send out a ship to shoot down the incoming enemies but it had an energy limit of 90 second, you need to land and recharge to use it more, it can also be destroyed while in action.
Sonic Generations (Xbox 360)
An awful game with virtually no positive, everything is bad, bad visuals, bad framerate, strange super low screen resolutions at times, tons of super simplistic "3D" models (as in a lot of basic sprite stuff you'd expect to see in old 32-bit generation games) bad, inaccurate and laggy controls, bad, inaccurate and glitchy physics, no camera control, camera glitches, long load times, horrible voice acting, garbage script, wildly unfitting voice actors, characters act inaccordingly to their personalities and feel completely rebooted and out of place, bad level design, bad audio design, almost complete lack of exploration 99% of the time, super excessive use of forced on-rail segments where you have little to no control (you can sometimes use boost to make them go by faster but that drains the boost bar), poor placement of hidden star pickups forcing repeat gameplay in the laziest of ways imaginable (literally in one stage you have three right next to each other directly after a jump you can't control with three ways to jump and no way to return and grab the other two, simply pick one jump one time you play through the level, then the second during a second playthrough and finally the third during a third playthrough, it's as forced and boring as it gets, no skill involved, just rinse and repeat thee times over, it's mindless, boring and repetitive, and it's by far the most commonly used design choice for every single thing in this game), speaking of the boost, you have a button that boosts you forward, killing enemies automatically and stuff, making the already ultra linear and on-rail designed gameplay even more linear and on-rails, it fills up with everything you do, even moving the analog stick during on-ail jumps gives you points that charge your boost meter so you can use it to skip even more gameplay, on top of that you also have lots of upgrades you can buy, from points you get for completing and replaying stages, that make the game even more automatic and easy to breeze through, it's like they went to every extreme to make the game as unplayable and skippable as possible because they weren't going to put anything good in there anyway so why make anyone suffer through it, literally the levels are quite big in size but take only a couple of minutes to get through, they feel a lot longer becuase it's just several minutes of watching sonic "go fast" without much if any interaction, so basically you can watch a playthrough on youtube and get a virtually identical experience, there's so little gameplay here it's almost not even warranted to call it a game, there are a few extra challenges you can play as well, like racing against another charcter to the end of a level with a timer, or collecting rings with a timer, or using invincibility to walk across spikes etc. to reach the end of a level while on a timer, and so on.
Sonic The Hedgehog (Xbox 360, the unlockable Mega Drive version available in Sonic Generations after purchasing the Mega Drive controller in the shop for 7777 points and using it on the Mega Drive console above Green Hill zone)
The one potentially good thing about this game was that it came with the original Mega Drive version of Sonic The Hedgehog, except ofcourse it's not the original version, it's a ported version with some glitches and omissions, first off it runs in a window, so it's not full screen, not even close, the level select code don't seem to work and there are tons of little glitches that the original definitely didn't have, finally the audio has been remade so it sounds different, same musical compositions and the same kind of sound effects but it all sounds different, not sure if I would count that as a negative or a neutral as it technically doesn't sound "worse", it's more a matter of if you want it to sound authentic or not, if you do then it's a clear negative, if you don't care then it's okay, I guess, on a final tiny positive note they did fix the insta-death if you touch spikes while temporarily invincible after having been hit by something and lost your rings, so I guess that's something, still, it's a lesser version of the original and it doesn't even slightly begin to make up for the shitty main Sonic Generations game.
V-Rally (PlayStation)
Joyriding.
Super Mario Bros. (Entertainment System)
Just a quick playthrough.
The Valley Rule (PC)
Just a quick playthrough.
Vector TD (PC)
Just a quick playthrough.
Vector TD 2 (PC)
Just a quick playthrough.
Grand Theft Auto (PC)
Just testing it out a little bit.
Grand Theft Auto 2 (PC)
Just testing it out a little bit.
Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (Xbox 360)
Still trying to replicate the glitch with the combining hubworlds, sadly to no success. I have completed some regular challenge in the game in the meantime though.
Senario Vs. Maxx (Plug&Play)
Just playing some of the games for fun, Smart Escape is still the best of the bunch.
Been playing some games at a friend's house, Ice Hockey, Double Dribble and Ice Climber on Entertainment System and some various games on his new Atari Flashback, a fishing game, a cowboy duel game (Outlaw), a tank game (Combat) and some other ones (American Football, Football ("Soccer"), and some top-down racing games).
I've also installed an Intellivision emulator (Bliss 2.04) and am trying out some of the games I own, since I don't own an actual Intellivision console to play them on this is as good as I can do at the moment.
BurgerTime! (Intellivision)
BurgerTime! is a really good arcade game and a lot of fun to play, the Intellivision version is great.
Pac-Man (Intellivision)
One of the top best older versions of Pac-Man for sure.
Frog Bog (Intellivision)
It's a lot more fun when you activate manual controls.
Popeye (Intellivision)
A fun arcade game, not the most impressive version but a good game regardless and still very enjoyable, I prefer it to some of the more technically impressive versions as some of the added animations, music and sound effects etc. in other versions aren't always that good and end up being kind of awkward, so at the end of the day this is still my favorite version.
Skiing (Intellivision)
A simple but enjoyable skiing game, I'd say it's one of the best due to it's simplicity, compared to for example Slalom on Entertainment System this is much better as that game is far too hard and has rather annoying controls in which you have to constantly hold up on the steering cross to go forward, which is absolute murder on your thumb, and when compared to more modern games like Alpine Skiing 2007 on PS2 for example it's also superior as that game is a bit too technical and advanced for it's own good, it looks fantastic for a PS2 game but it's just not very fun to play, Skiing on Intellivision is just a great and simple little game to pick up and play and for us who aren't into the sport of skiing that's really all you need, and it makes for a better experience than all the licenced and complicated stuff other skiing games have to offer, at least in my opinion.
Utopia (Intellivision)
Trying to learn how to play this properly, it's a really cool game once you learn it, like a versus sim game, you control one of two islands with each of the two controllers and you try to manage your island as good as you can for a set amount of turns, the one who has managed their island the best at the end, wins.
Centipede (Intellivision)
A good version, nothing spectacular but it does what it needs to do, if you know Centipede in general then you know the Intellivision version as well, it's just the same good old classic Centipede.
Stadium Mud Buggies (Intellivision)
A great isometric racing game with good control, good visuals, lots of content and great driving physics.
Monster Truck Rally (Entertainment System)
The spiritual successor to Stadium Mud Buggies, basically the same game with even more content and better visuals.
Been playing some more games at a friend's house, now on his Mega Drive Flashback; Golden Axe 1, 2 and 3, Eternal Champions, Bonanza Bros., Flicky and Mortal Kombat 1 and 2.
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
An underrated top-down racer with some really good driving physics making it a blast to powerslide through corners like a pro. Got some nice visuals too with the cars and roadside buildings having shadows and the game shows off some nice multi-directional scrolling for such an old title.
This game commonly gets a bad rep for having bad controls but it all boils down to learning the controls, and they aren't even hard to learn, I'm honestly astonished over how many seem to struggle with them, basically the control disc is like a steering wheel, using the 16-directional input as a means to determine how much you're turning in either direction, only it's even easier as you don't actually have to turn it, you can just press down where you want and the game will do it, it's of course easier to explain in real life with an actual controller or with visual aids but here's an attempt at doing so in text form anyway; for example, pressing up on the disc does nothing as that's where the steering wheel is neutral, pressing up and diagonally will only ever so slightly steer in those direction, which can be good for minor adjustments, pressing straight left or right will give you a moderate amount of turning while still not risking any spin-outs, and pressing the lower part of the disc while turning, as in lower diagonal-left and lower diagonal-right, will result in significantly tighter turning, this can cause spin-outs if you do it too much from left to right in quick succession, but if done correctly you'll powerslide through corners at high speeds and it'll feel like a modern racing game only with a top-down camera angle and retro visuals, and finally you can slide it over to the other side and basically do 180 degree handbrake like turns and even pull off proper 360s if you're good enough, it's a genuine analog control that simply wasn't a thing again at all until the later part of the 90s, so enormous amounts of kudos to this game for implementing such a control scheme this early on and of course an equal amount of Kudos to the Intellivision for having such an awesome controller for making it possible in the first place, most impressive, you also have brakes on the action buttons but they're rarely needed even on the harder tracks, only the two fastest cars truly need the use of braking, it automatically accelerates so you just have to focus on steering for the most part.
There is an older and much more rare version of the game that had another control scheme (the regular one was an option too but you had to input a code to access it) and I can kind of excuse anyone who's played that as it seems to have far harder to manage controls than the regular version, but my guess is that a majority of those who have trouble with the game has it due to them using emulation where they try and map the 16-directional control disc to a 4-directional steering cross on a modern controller or the arrow keys on a keyboard, effectively losing 12 steps of analog sensitivity in the process, it's literally the same thing as mapping a modern console's analog stick to WASD, you'll lose any and all analog sensitivity and some games simply won't play correctly if they require you to use that sensitivity, as is the case of Auto Racing, despite being an older game the system was WAY ahead of it's time and the analog disc circle pad was only one of many things it did that took competitors many years, sometimes close to a couple of decades to catch up to.
Bowling (Intellivision)
What can I say, it's bowling. You line your guy up, aim, throw the ball, give it some aftertouch, hope the physics give you a strike then repeat that until you've bowled a whole game and get the final score. You get to pick some options like ball size, isle slipperiness, right or left handed and how many players will compete, you move the guy left and right on the isle with the left action buttons and aim/shoot with the lower right action button, you can see each player's current score by pressing the corresponding number key during gameplay.
Atlantis (Intellivision)
A Missile Command clone with some cool special features like a shmup ability where you ge to send out a ship to shoot down the incoming enemies but it had an energy limit of 90 second, you need to land and recharge to use it more, it can also be destroyed while in action.
Sonic Generations (Xbox 360)
An awful game with virtually no positive, everything is bad, bad visuals, bad framerate, strange super low screen resolutions at times, tons of super simplistic "3D" models (as in a lot of basic sprite stuff you'd expect to see in old 32-bit generation games) bad, inaccurate and laggy controls, bad, inaccurate and glitchy physics, no camera control, camera glitches, long load times, horrible voice acting, garbage script, wildly unfitting voice actors, characters act inaccordingly to their personalities and feel completely rebooted and out of place, bad level design, bad audio design, almost complete lack of exploration 99% of the time, super excessive use of forced on-rail segments where you have little to no control (you can sometimes use boost to make them go by faster but that drains the boost bar), poor placement of hidden star pickups forcing repeat gameplay in the laziest of ways imaginable (literally in one stage you have three right next to each other directly after a jump you can't control with three ways to jump and no way to return and grab the other two, simply pick one jump one time you play through the level, then the second during a second playthrough and finally the third during a third playthrough, it's as forced and boring as it gets, no skill involved, just rinse and repeat thee times over, it's mindless, boring and repetitive, and it's by far the most commonly used design choice for every single thing in this game), speaking of the boost, you have a button that boosts you forward, killing enemies automatically and stuff, making the already ultra linear and on-rail designed gameplay even more linear and on-rails, it fills up with everything you do, even moving the analog stick during on-ail jumps gives you points that charge your boost meter so you can use it to skip even more gameplay, on top of that you also have lots of upgrades you can buy, from points you get for completing and replaying stages, that make the game even more automatic and easy to breeze through, it's like they went to every extreme to make the game as unplayable and skippable as possible because they weren't going to put anything good in there anyway so why make anyone suffer through it, literally the levels are quite big in size but take only a couple of minutes to get through, they feel a lot longer becuase it's just several minutes of watching sonic "go fast" without much if any interaction, so basically you can watch a playthrough on youtube and get a virtually identical experience, there's so little gameplay here it's almost not even warranted to call it a game, there are a few extra challenges you can play as well, like racing against another charcter to the end of a level with a timer, or collecting rings with a timer, or using invincibility to walk across spikes etc. to reach the end of a level while on a timer, and so on.
Sonic The Hedgehog (Xbox 360, the unlockable Mega Drive version available in Sonic Generations after purchasing the Mega Drive controller in the shop for 7777 points and using it on the Mega Drive console above Green Hill zone)
The one potentially good thing about this game was that it came with the original Mega Drive version of Sonic The Hedgehog, except ofcourse it's not the original version, it's a ported version with some glitches and omissions, first off it runs in a window, so it's not full screen, not even close, the level select code don't seem to work and there are tons of little glitches that the original definitely didn't have, finally the audio has been remade so it sounds different, same musical compositions and the same kind of sound effects but it all sounds different, not sure if I would count that as a negative or a neutral as it technically doesn't sound "worse", it's more a matter of if you want it to sound authentic or not, if you do then it's a clear negative, if you don't care then it's okay, I guess, on a final tiny positive note they did fix the insta-death if you touch spikes while temporarily invincible after having been hit by something and lost your rings, so I guess that's something, still, it's a lesser version of the original and it doesn't even slightly begin to make up for the shitty main Sonic Generations game.
Monday, April 2, 2018
Game Purchases - April 2018
April 2nd:I made a trade with a friend today, my copy of Excite Bike for a copy of The Adventures of Bayou Billy and a copy of Slalom for Nintendo Entertainment System.
Entertainment System:
Slalom (cartridge only)
The Adventures of Bayou Billy (cartridge only)
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April 15th:
Not game related really but I haven't bought anything for a while now so anything of interest is worth posting at this point!
Magazine:
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic + polybag with Applejack in it
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April 18th:
Took two hour long walk to a nearby shopping center today and bought some neat stuff today.
Xbox 360 accessories:
Microsoft Xbox 360 controller mini-keyboard (used)
PlayStation 3 accessories:
Sony PlayStation 3 Bluray remote (used)
PlayStation 4:
Killzone Shadowfall (used)
Tearaway Unfolded (new)
Collectibles:
TOTAKU GameStop+ Exclusive WipEout Feisar FX350 ship figure (new)
Other:
3-pack Emoji Movie suprise chocolate eggs
3-pack My Little Pony Friendship is Magic suprise chocolate eggs
3-pack Transformers suprise chocolate eggs
Magazine:
Mickey Mouse + Lego Batman polybag set 30522 Batman in the Phantom Zone
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April 19th:
Some secondhand finds today.
PC:
Grand Theft Auto 2 (Xplosiv)
Need for Speed - Road Challenge
Street Tennis
TOCA 2 Touring Cars (Sold Out)
DVD:
Ace Ventura When Nature Calls (1995)
Below (2002)
Hercules in New York (1970)
The Passion (2009)
Other:
a bucket of assorted Lego Bionicle parts
..and a movie from a movie store.
DVD:
Norm of the North (2015)
Entertainment System:
Slalom (cartridge only)
The Adventures of Bayou Billy (cartridge only)
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April 15th:
Not game related really but I haven't bought anything for a while now so anything of interest is worth posting at this point!
Magazine:
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic + polybag with Applejack in it
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April 18th:
Took two hour long walk to a nearby shopping center today and bought some neat stuff today.
Xbox 360 accessories:
Microsoft Xbox 360 controller mini-keyboard (used)
PlayStation 3 accessories:
Sony PlayStation 3 Bluray remote (used)
PlayStation 4:
Killzone Shadowfall (used)
Tearaway Unfolded (new)
Collectibles:
TOTAKU GameStop+ Exclusive WipEout Feisar FX350 ship figure (new)
Other:
3-pack Emoji Movie suprise chocolate eggs
3-pack My Little Pony Friendship is Magic suprise chocolate eggs
3-pack Transformers suprise chocolate eggs
Magazine:
Mickey Mouse + Lego Batman polybag set 30522 Batman in the Phantom Zone
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April 19th:
Some secondhand finds today.
PC:
Grand Theft Auto 2 (Xplosiv)
Need for Speed - Road Challenge
Street Tennis
TOCA 2 Touring Cars (Sold Out)
DVD:
Ace Ventura When Nature Calls (1995)
Below (2002)
Hercules in New York (1970)
The Passion (2009)
Other:
a bucket of assorted Lego Bionicle parts
..and a movie from a movie store.
DVD:
Norm of the North (2015)
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