Gaming Purchases - November 2019

November 5th:

A day of shopping resulted in some nice finds. GameStop has 50% off all older secondhand games so I picked up everything of interest, including some games for alternative reasons than the game itself, the DS games especially are mostly to use as GBA boxes as I still have some loose GBA cartridges in need of boxes.

DS:
Astrology
Camp Rock The Final Jam
Jonas
MTV FanAttack
Prince of Persia The Fallen King

3DS:
Epic Mickey Power of Illusion
LEGO The Hobbit
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Wii:
Barbie Jet, Set & Style!

PlayStation 3:
Dead Island (Special Edition)
GTA Episodes from Liberty City
The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim (including map)

PlayStation Vita:
Fate Extella The Umbral Star
Little Big Planet Vita

also from a hardware store

PC:
Trust USB optical mouse

Other:
Menuett mini fridge (fits exactly a six pack of 33cl soda cans)

also got some other stuff from another store

Diecast Cars:
Hot Wheels 1966 TV series Batmobile (2019 blue flames edition)

Magazines:
2x My Little Pony Friendship is Magic (#11 2019) with polybag containing Trixie Lulamoon with hat and cape

Other:
Halloween clear plastic skull filled with candy

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November 29th:

Went shopping today. Visited the local GameStop and some other places. It was Black Friday but I didn't find that much of interest that was part of the Black Friday sales.

At the local GameStop I got

3DS:
Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers (new)

PlayStation 3:
Grid 2 (no manual)
LEGO Star Wars III The Clone Wars
Sports Champions (2 manuals)
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen
Wet (no manual)

PlayStation 4:
Lumo

PlayStation 4 accessories:
a red GameStop wired PS4 Dual Shock 4 controller (new and sealed)

And at some other places I got

Diecast Cars:
Hot Wheels Justice League Batmobile (2019 blue chrome rims edition)

Decorative Items:
3x 80mm colored diamonds (green, pink, purple)

Collectible Figures:
3x My Happy Horse (blue, pink, purple)

Building Blocks:
Sluban Construct-ion A Tractor
Sluban Construct-ion B Excavator

Other:
alcatel 2003D Dark Grey (mobile phone)
a pair of winter boots

Gaming Purchases - Oktober 2019

Oktober 30th:

Ordered some stuff online. All new, nothing secondhand this time.
UDPATE: arrived the next day

DS:
Secret Saturdays Beasts of the 5th Sun

Xbox 360:
Far Cry 2 + Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

PlayStation 3 accessories:
2x e-ZEE Chat (Dual Shock 3 mic + speaker attachment)

Vita:
2x LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes

PC:
Dark Void
Ka Kuro Classic (Medallion)

DVD:
Modesty Blaise (1966)
Ratchet & Clank (2016)

Gaming Purchases - Februari 2019

Februari 5th:

some awesome secondhand finds

PlayStation 2:
SONY PlayStation 2 Slim (300kr, slim model SCPH-90004 from 2008, came with a power cable and a very worn but still functional composite video cable)
SONY Dual Shock 2 Analog Controller (came with the PS2, it's a bit worn but still works)
SONY PlayStation 2 8MB MagicGate Memory Card (came with the PS2)
Sonic Riders (disc only, it was in the PS2 when I opened the lid, the disc is scratched pretty bad and has some trouble playing the intro video and in-game music but it works enough for gameplay, it's not an issue for me regardless though as I still have my old unharmed original copy of the game I bought when it was released in 2006)

PC:
Diablo II (BestSeller Series)
Diablo II Expansion Set Lord of Destruction (disc only, has some minor scratches on it but should work fine)
Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun Plus Firestorm Mission CD

DVD:
Gustav + Gustav 2 (Garfield (2004) + Garfield 2 A Tale of Two Kitties (2006))
Ooops! Var är arken? (Ooops! Noah Is Gone../Two by Two/All Creatures Big and Small, 2015)
Argai The Prophecy - Vol. 1 (new and sealed, 2000)

Comics:
Dennis The Menace
2x Gustaf (Garfield)
2x Tom & Jerry

Manga:
Emma

Other:
2x retro drink coasters
a jar of decorative fake diamonds
2x mixed blind bags of toys (2x2x2 Rubik's Cube (Minions), 1x2x3 Rubik's Cube (Secret Life of Pets), etc.)

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Februari 12th:

Electronics:
HDMI <-> Component converter (USB powered)

Manga:
Rebirth (volumes 1 to 11 and 16)
One Piece (volumes 19, 20 and 30)
Tsubasa (volumes 11 and 12)

Comics:
Arne Anka

Magazines:
Bratz (stickers and puzzles)

Toys:
a bunch of Bakugan with some metal cards
a pink metallic fidget spinner
colorful camo fidget spinner
a bag of old 90s constructable sci-fi toys (a robot, lots of little pilot guys, some other various pieces)

Other:
a cartoony fox girl bike chain lock

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Februari 18th:

Magazine
LEGO Batman + LEGO Batman figure (polybag)

Gaming Purchases - Januari 2019

Januari 10th:

just some various secondhand finds, no games this year yet

DVD:
Barbie & her sisters in the great puppy adventure (2015)
Barbie Mariposa and her butterfly fairy friends (2007)
LEGO Friends (Ep 4-6, 2014)
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Vol. 10 A Canterlot Wedding (2011)

Comics:
Hulk
Miss Hulk (She-Hulk)
Batman
(will maybe fill in more info later)

Books:
(will maybe fill in more info later)

LEGO:
LEGO 3843 Ramses Pyramid (board game)
LEGO 3863 Kokoriko (board game)

Other:
4x junction boxes (2x white, 2x yellow)
a black keyring compass

a couple of movies from a movie store

DVD:
Escape Plan 2 (2018)
Ready Player One (2018)

and some stuff from a DIY store

Other:
500-pack blind rivet set + carry box (assorted 2,4mm, 3,2mm, 4,0mm and 4,8mm)
50-pack blind rivets + drill tip (3,2mm)

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Januari 15th:

First proper game stuff of 2019, and a good'n too! A cheap second hand store find.

PlayStation 3:
PlayStation 3 Slim console with power cable and HDMI cable
2x black Sony Dual Shock 3 controllers

DVD:
Vaiana (aka Moana in the US, found it still inside the PS3 Slim's disc slot, lol, BONUS! sadly an extremely shitty movie though, tried watching it but couldn't even sit through the whole thing, absolutely complete garbage, even by modern Disney standards this was unusually unbearable, if only they'd stop forcing everything to be low quality musicals for the sake of being low quality musicals at the expense of everything of value, they'd automatically become infinity³ times better without even trying, just the lack of that shit would skyrocket their movies all the way up to lower levels of mediocrity)

Other:
a "blind bag" of various assorted stuff, I buy these every now and then, gotten some good stuff like Rubik's Cubes etc. in the past, this time however it wasn't anything interesting, oh well, can't win 'em all

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Januari 18th:

A late Yule gift from my mother arrived today, my very own Chaos Emerald!

Basically a green diamond shaped glass ornament piece, very nice.

10cm diameter is medium size but it's one of the biggest actually available, and even then you have to import them with hefty import taxes.

The biggest I've ever seen online was over 30cm in diameter, but they come in sizes as small as just 1cm and usually 4-6cm is the biggest you can find, 8-12cm is rare and the prices for those go up by quite a lot over the small ones, and the even bigger after that, the 16-30+cm are impossible to find unless you're lucky, and of course those are very expensive, so at that point it's literally on the level of real treasure despite being fake.

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Januari 22nd:

some second hand finds today

Xbox:
Gauntlet Seven Sorrows (complete in mint condition)

PC:
Fujitsu Siemens KWD-205 keyboard (white)

Portable game device:
E-9999 Brick Game 9999-in-1 (blue/black model, defective because of a battery acid leak and a disconnected wire, I bought it for the parts which are all intact and functional and the plastic casing is in good condition and complete with and undamaged battery cover)

Other electronics:
female Red, White and Yellow RCA -> male 3,5mm adapter
2-way RF splitter (1-1000MHZ)

DVD:
Betty Boop & Friends (2003)

Book:
Barbie's Big Fairytale Book

Other:
nude woman with a water jug statue
a decorative porcelain shoe
11x classic red Yule tree candles (boxed)
2x small prism-shaped decorative cut glass pieces

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Januari 23rd:

Placed the online order today (Wednesday).
UPDATE: It arrived on the 28th (Monday).

3DS accessory:
USB charger cable (also compatible with DSi and DSi XL)

Plug-N-Play:
Sony PlayStation Classic Mini

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Januari 24th:

Some second hand finds this Tuesday.

Comics:
Action
Donald Duck
Python
Samurai

Other:
a decorative metal box with viking(?) relief patterns
a small decorative glass pyramid with a 3D rendition of Nefertiti's head in it
a small metal replica of the Capitoline Wolf

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)

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.

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)

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

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.

Now Playing - April 2018

Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (Xbox 360)
This game is really getting on my nerves, problems with glitches, poor design and low quality are rearing their ugly heads too much, I may not car enough to get through this one 100% like I did multiple times in a row like I did with the two previous games. A clear step down in quality to say the least, I even enjoyed the downscaled 3DS version better as it was downscaled in good ways, it skips a lot of the problem and keeps the best stuff.
UPDATE 7 April: I beat the story mode at least, doing most of the side stuff as well but I'm not aiming for 100% of this, some side quests are just far too annoying.
UPDATE 15 April: After having unlocked a bunch of more stuff and completed most of the side quests that aren't flying or checkpoint racing I ran into one hell of a glitch where the hub worlds loaded combined, the one I was at and travelled from merged with the one I travelled to creating a whole new dimension, especially when I combined the lantern worlds with the batcave or the watchtower becuase they were not compatible with their gravity and coordinate alignment so I was running in the air and up and down walls etc, it was pure pandemonium, it actually took quite a long time before it froze from all this madness but sadly I haven't been able to recreate it again after that, it happened after I unlocked Giganta and tried to warp and switch characters, her size difference powers are most likely the catalyst but some other ingredient seems to be missing for it to happen again, I've tried with different characters, even both being Giganta, large and small combinations, but nothing has triggered it to happen again so far.
To be honest, this is the best thing this game has offered so far, in the midst of all the mediocrity it's offered this stood out and one hell of an experience, so I'd love to be able to recreate it again and learn how to trigger it manually, that'd be awesome.
Oh and also I've finally gone all the hub worlds and it's specifically the green lantern world Oa where you finally get to use all the vehicles you unlock in the game, it almost exclusively has land and air racing challenges, so it's not exactly a huge open world like Gotham was in Lego Batman 2 DC Superheroes, but it's at least something as the rest of the game virtually have no vehicles at all other than the select few side scrolling shooter levels.

Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens (PlayStation Vita)
One mission at a time, slow and steady wins the race...? Nah I'm done for now, time for something else to make my Vita fun again, hopefully.

Justice League Task Force (Mega Drive)
The music alone is worth starting up this game for.
Still one of the most criminally underrated fighting games of the 16-bit generation and one of the most polarizingly opposite of it's Super Nintendo counterpart as on Super Nintendo this game is extremely poor and I can only recommend avoiding it entirely, yeah it's sadly that bad, handled by another developer and the result was a wildly different version that fails to be as good as the Mega Drive game in every way, shape and form.
On Mega Drive this is a must play for fighting game, DC and Mega Drive fans.

The Adventures of Bayou Billy (Entertainment System)
I really like this game, despite the design changes for this version over how the original Japanese version, Mad City, was.
It's a really cool game, reminds me of Robin Hood Prince of Thieves as it also has multiple genres of gameplay baked into it, sadly this game is overly tedious due to the increased difficulty, but the gameplay that's there is still really good, with good controls, good visuals, great music and some nice technical impressive things like digitized voice samples and screen warping effects, not bad at all for an old Entertainment System game.

Slalom (Entertainment System)
Rare sure like making potentially great games that get hindered with far too high difficulty.

Ride! Next Generation Equitation (PC)
I wanted to try one of the first horse games I got for PC, it's technically a very well made game, even if it's not my genre at all and I suck at it, at least it's better than most other horse games as this at least manages to be a professional level game for those interested in this type of thing, it's not just another low quality horse tamagotchi sim where you waste most of your time playing awful minigames like washing the horse, feeding it and literally picking up horse shit, this focuses on obstacle courses and such, the competition and actual sport, so kudos for that at least, it also look rather good with some very nicely detailed horses, environments, special effects and animations, for a 2008 PC game in this specific genre it looks very good indeed.

Night Stalker (PC)
Just running around shooting some bats, robots and the occasional spider in this very competent fan made PC port of the Intellivision classic.

Cat Pöke (PC)
Just having some fun poking cat butts.

Cat Planet (PC)
Just flying around looking for some talkative little kitties.

The Adventures of Captain Comic (PC)
I got farther than I've ever done before, that was cool, I almost feel like there's a chance I could beat the game now, I've had it since I was a kid, it was one of the first PC games I ever played, so it would've been cool to beat this one at least once.

Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed (PlayStation Vita)
Already knew it was gonna look bad seeing as it's a port of the 3DS version rather than a port of the HD console version, sadly, but it's still okay I guess, it could've been amazing had they just had some ACTUAL all-stars to play as, but alas it's the most generic and common ones like Sonic, Tails, Amy and Knuckles, and a bunch of characters you never wanted and for several of them you probably never even heard or or knew where there as you probably played the better characters in the games these ones come from, like the one guy from Crazy Taxi nobody plays as, some secondary character from Jet Grind Radio Future/Jet Set Radio, a couple of monkeys from Samba de Amigo (I think, and yes they get two characters featured from that game, as if one uninteresting monkey you didn't know or want to play as wasn't enough, they gave us two, you know instead of something you'd like to play as becuase that would've been too much fun according to Sega, and we can't have fun in videogames, nope, we have to be disappointed and wishing we were playing a good game instead, that's the modern Sega way for some reason!) and fucking Alex Kidd etc., but almost none of the ones you know and love and would've actually wanted to play as are there, so yeah, thanks Sega for making it obvious why we should never buy your games when they're new and you can still make a profit from a sale, we never will, we promise.

Need for Speed Road Challenge (PC)
Not fully compatible with Windows 7 it seems, so I have to run it in software mode, it looks kinda like a low-end PSX game with an unusually choppy framerate.

V-Rally (PlayStation)
Just joyriding while winning some races.

Sega Rally Championship PC (PC)
Just joyriding for the fun of joyriding.

Game Purchases - Mars 2018

Mars 8th:

Some second-hand finds today..

PlayStation 2:
Sprint Car Challenge

DVD:
Open Season 2/Boog & Elliot 2
Rugrats in Paris Movie
The Wild Thornberrys Movie

CD:
Napalm Rave

Books:
Nemi Vol. 1
Nemo Vol. 2
Nemi Vol. 4
Nemi Vol. 10

Other:
Emoji Movie Jailbreak plush toy (McDonalds)
frog lady in bikini figurine
Super Mario Bros. bricks (McDonalds)

..and some movies from a movie store.

DVD:
Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You
Milo månvaktaren
Monster High Stora Skalliärrevet
Monster High Tystnad Tagning Vampyraction
Resident Evil Vendetta

Bluray:
Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You
The Lego Batman Movie


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Mars 13th:

Some secondhand finds today.

PC:
Gast (Gast The Greatest Little Ghost © 2001 Idol FX)

CD:
La Isla Mix

DVD:
Klara
Rugrats Go Wild
Monster House
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Season 2
Once upon a time in Mexico

Bluray:
Superhero Movie
Snow White and the woodsman
Lady Vengeance

Lego:
purple Slizer
yellow Slizer

Other:
broidery painting of lady with tentacles capturing a child, purple colors, very pixelart looking
wooden vase with art of a tribe woman on it


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Mars 15th:

Some interesting secondhand finds today; old PC programs!

PC:
eJay Dance 2+
Focus Essential 10000 Photos Vol. 2
Greenstreet Draw 4
GSP Pressworks 2.5
Serif 3DPlus 2
Serif DrawPlus 4
Serif PhotoPlus 6
Serif WebPlus 6
Ulead Cool 360

DVD:
The Kongress

CD:
System Of A Down Toxicity

Other:
König HC-SM10 electric slimming massager


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Mars 20th:

Some interesting secondhand finds today, a couple of obscure PC games and some good classic movies!

PC:
Batman Justice Unbalanced
Dr. Brain Action/Reaction

DVD:
Blackie The Pirate
Desperado (Special Edition)
Not Another Not Another Movie
The Darkling
The Lego Movie (still factory sealed)
Walking With Dinosaurs

Other:
a spanish family figure thing, I like the señorita mom


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Mars 20th:

Some nice second-hand finds today.

PC hardware:
Microsoft IntelliMouse TrackBall

DVD:
Disney's Snow White (1937) (Special Edition, 2x DVD)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Highlander (Collector's Edition)
The Swan Princess a Royal Family Tale (2013)
Tintin Castafiore's Jewels (1991)
War Heroes World War II (3x DVD: The Eagle has Landed (1976), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), The Unknown Soldier (1955))

Books:
Barbie sails to Hawaii (1999)

Other:
a new urn for the remains of my cat that passed away a few years ago

..and some movies from a movie store.

DVD:
Atomic Blonde (2017)
Kill Switch (2016)
Transformers The Last Knights (2017)
Valerian and the City of a thousand Planets (2017)

Bluray:
Wonder Woman (2017)


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Mars 25th:

Ordered some games today, sunday, they should arrive some day during the following week. (they arrived and I went to pick them up on the 28th) I know the Sonic games are all trash but they were having a sale and I've been wanting to get some modern Sonic games to test out and see just how bad exactly for years, and I got the PS2 version of Unleashed just a short while ago so now I have lots of garbage to compare and try out in their full versions, I've already played demos of most of them so I know they're bad, I just don't know to what extent they suck really, it'll be interesting to find out how deep the shit hole that is these games truly goes, also I had to give myself a treat for taking on this arduous task, so I got Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham as well so I'll at least get one good game out of all this relentless suffering I'm about to submit myself to.

PlayStation Vita:
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

Xbox 360:
Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (Classics)
Sonic Unleashed (Classics)
Sonic Generations (Classics)
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing with Banjo-Kazooie (Classics)
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (Classics)


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Mars 30th:

Founds some movies in a movie store today.

DVD:
Alien Covenant (2017)
Day of the Dead Bloodline (2017)
Starship Troopers Traitors of Mars (2017)
Wonder Woman (2017)

Now Playing - Mars 2018

Cyber Sled (PlayStation)

Aironauts (PlayStation)
A 3D jetpack flying action arcade game, you pick a character, do missions in arena style levels, face off against other characters as bosses and gain points to upgrade your character's stats. It's a good fun game, it plays well, looks good with nice dynamic lighting and has good music.
I played it the first time on a PlayStation Magazine demo disc back in 1999 and liked it, but there were other games I was more interested in so it had to wait, sadly it became somewhat rare and hard to find after that and it wasn't until recently that I finally got hold of a copy, now that I own it I'm glad I got it, it's a good game and I really like it, overall it's a very good game, I think it's a PAL exclusive which probably contribute a lot to the game having little to no coverage on for example YouTube or online game forums.

Roswell Conspiracies Aliens, Myths and Legends (PlayStation)
Finally getting on with playing the PlayStation version I got recently, after having enjoyed the Game Boy Color version last year it's nice to play and compare the two.
It's a good game on PSX as well and similar to the Game Boy Color version it has some good but sometimes very dark visuals, okay controls that can be a bit clunky at times making certain actions harder to pull off than they should be and an overall very high challenge with little to no forgiveness while also having parts that are so easy it's almost silly.
A mixed bag but still good overall.

Gast The Greatest Little Ghost (PC)
A game by Idol FX, the same developer that made IMP. Gast is a point and click adventure horror game meant for a younger audience, it's not great but it's not terrible either, some minor design issues with too much darkness and bad camera angles, I haven't played far enough to say much else.

Dr. Brain Action/Reaction (PC)
A first person physics puzzle action game from 1999 running on the Unreal Engine, it's actually pretty fun, I'm enjoying it so far.

Puyo Puyo 2 (played on 3DS as part of the SEGA 3D Classics Collection)
A rather bland puzzle game with some annoying problems, the biggest being it focuses on Vs. gameplay against the AI, which loves you rape you up thre ass constantly unless you get lucky, not a good formula for a puzzle game, sadly, and this game doesn't even do a good job with it, the Net Yaroze game Super Bub on PSX had the same idea but executed it about an infinite times better.

F1 World Championship (1993) (Mega Drive)
Always good to drive a few laps in a great racing game.

Columns (Mega Drive)
Another rather bland puzzle game, but at least it delivers something good, it's sadly too simplistic and shallow to last very long and the gameplay gets boring pretty quickly due to the lack of depth, it's genuinely fun in short bursts though.

Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (Xbox 360)
Finally get to play the full console version of this. After some time with it I can say it's mostly sadly a let down, it's worse than the original Lego Batman, Lego Batman 2 DC Superheroes and even the 3DS/Vita version of itself; Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham, because that version is less convoluted and doesn't have some of the negative aspects of this version.
It's structured similarly to the original Lego Batman, it lacks the free roaming open world gameplay of Lego Batman 2 DC Superheroes, which isn't a negative in itself, but how it does it is worse, instead of having easy to use and navigate hubworlds like the original game did, the hubworlds in Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham on Xbox 360 are full of stuff, all the sidequests and tons of environmental objects to destroy and such, so you spend a lot of time just grinding in the hubworlds for studs (the in-game currency of all modern Lego games), which is slower than in the other games because objects don't work in the same way as they did before, they stay longer on screen before they flash and disappear and while on screen they still count as physically there, hindering you from reaching studs that have landed behind and under them, so you have to wait around for pieces of destroyed objects to disappear before you can collect a lot of studs, the stud amount needed in general to reach the True Hero rank in the story missions are also higher, so there's more grinding for studs in the story missions as well, I myself have failed to reach True Hero in some missions both in the 3DS/Vita version and this console version of the game because of this, I've completed the 3DS/Vita version 100% but I could only do so after having unlocked the stud multiplier powerups you can find in the game, before that it was impossible in several missions to reach True Hero, and sadly the same thing seems to apply to this version.
I's glitchy as well, this is nothing new to the series as they all have glitches of some sorts, but you'd think after so many games using the same basic game engine they could've worked out most of the kinks had they just tried, but no, some of the issues the first game had like glitching through objects and the ground, AI wandering off and killing itself walking off edges into bottomless pits etc. is all still here, nothing has been fixed.
It's also not really that good looking, it's better looking that the first Lego Batman for sure, but Lego batman 2 DC Superheroes looks significantly more impressive and better overall with better use of lighting, better textures, better detail textures, better special effects and more custom animations. It's not a bad looking game, it's just a step down from the previous game for some reason.
The story and characters and also not that good this time around compared to the previous two games, it's genuinely become more of a Lego Justice League game than a Lego Batman game at this point and the lack of focus on what it calls itself is unfortunate, I'd love a Lego Justice League game, don't get me wrong, but I'd want it to be it's own thing, not leeching off of Batman and convoluting his game like this.
They've also remixed and added some other things, like there are almost no vehicles anymore, which sucks as I love vehicles in the Lego games, and the citizens you can find and save on the previous games have ALL been replaced with Adam West, which is kind of cool that the real Adam West is in a Lego batman game, but his implementation is just such a waste, and overused at the same time, very sad, they've also shoehorned in a couple of other completely malplaced c-list celebs, Kevin Smith (from Jay and Silent Bob "fame", if anyone still remembers that old obscure comedy movie, he played the role of Silent Bob, a character that never spoke, so yeah, him doing voice acting in this game is just... beyond words, and not in a good way) and one of the countless Letterman wannabe talk show hosts from the 90s, Conan O'Brien, stands around in all the hubworld areas "jokingly" explaining what every area does, except by doing it "jokingly" he provides no usable info, it's just unfunny jokes that completely fail to be entertaining, and I do my best not to trigger them as personally I can't stand his incredibly annoying voice.
So yeah, sadly it's a significantly lesser game than what the series has offered so far in almost every way, a lot worse in some ways, but sadly it has even more things that are problematic than I've listed above, like it doesn't seem to care about what canon it follows, so you have things taken from newer animated series for example, while also having things that happened in older series being the same canon in this game, all at the same time, some things being more troublesome to shoehorn in than others, for sure, like Batman and Wonder Woman, and Superman and Lois Lane are not couples in this anymore, instead Batman is antisocial/asocial toward everyone, no exceptions, and Superman and for some reason Wonder Woman are trying to be a couple except as a running gag it fails all the time, much like in one of the newest spinoff animated series that focused on comedy more than story and character development, so yeah, a total clusterfuck of Batman related things crammed into a Lego game with already questionable quality as it was.
Still, with all this being said, it's not the worst game I've played, it's just far below what it should've been, especially considering had they just left some things out and taken a similar approach that the 3DS/Vita version did it would've at least been a better game by default as at least the visuals are a little bit better than the portable versions thanks to the more powerful hardware in the Xbox 360.

Now Playing - Februari 2018

Disney's Kim Possible Global Gemini (DS, played on 3DS)
I got as far as I could, the game requires a B grade on all levelös to play the final level and the vehicle levels I all have the lowest grades on and all the matrix like levels I have the second lowest, I despise those levels and I won't be trying to get better grades in them, the game was not good enough to warrant such an arbitrary bullshit requirement to complete the game, I unlocked all the bonus stuff and found all the secrets so there's really only the end of the story left and I didn't give a flying shitsickle about the story in this game so fuck it, I'm done, it had a good game engine with good visuals and good gameplay in the regular levels, the regular levels were huge and had good gameplay design and were enjoyable to play through but the game still lied about being able to play as Rufus, you only get to use him as an item to unlock doors, you have no control over him at all, so yeah, it's an okay game but ultimately very disappointing and it should've been a lot better, the Kim Possible What's the Switch? game I have on PS2 is much better than this game in every way, the best part of this game was the visual quality, it looks very good for a DS title.

Lego Batman The Videogame (PlayStation 2)
Another great version of a great game. No complaints.
You can watch my playthrough on YouTube by clicking HERE.

Lego Batman The Videogame (DS, played on 3DS)
A different game with the same name, it's basically a simplified game made from the ground up specifically for the DS and it does offers unique content the other versions didn't have, it's nowhere near as advanced, varied or complex as the other versions but it's an okay compliment to own if you can find it cheap enough and already own a DS or 3DS.

Lego Batman The Videogame (PlayStation Portable)
Basically the console version, it lacks 2-player co-op and the visuals are a bit lower quality overall and the framerate can be a little choppy at times, but other than those minor things it's the entire full console game on the go, a very impressive port all things considered and the only way to play the full version of the game in a portable manner as the DS version was a different game entirely.

Unreal Tournament (PlayStation 2)
A very good port of the PC game, some content is missing, there aren't as many options to play around with and it can get a little choppy at times, but it definitely satisfies the urge to play some Unreal Tournament.
It's not as good as Unreal Championship or Unreal Championship 2 The Liandri Conflict on Xbox, or Unreal Tournament III on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 for that matter, but it's a good alternative and without an Xbox, an Xbox 360 or a PS3 on offer this is still a great game to have some fun with.
There's also a version for Dreamcast which is fairly similar, it's been too long ago since I played it to remember exact details, but it had some differences in content, with a slightly different set of levels, but overall both are very good with roughly the same pros and cons. I'll keep trying to hunt down a copy of the Dreamcast version as I sadly don't currently own one and would really like to play it again.

Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy (DS, played on 3DS)
Very glitchy and choppy but more advanced than Lego Batman on DS

Lego Star Wars III The Clone Wars (3DS)
A rather good game with some occasional severe framerate issues if you have the 3D effect turned on, sadly.

WORMS (Mega Drive)
Always fun to go a few matches in WORMS. Incoming!

Cyber Sled (PlayStation)
One of the best 1-on-1 arena versus games ever made, featuring sleek futuristic hovertanks and tight arcade style controls, one of my top favorite games of all-time.

4min33secs (PC)
A simple game where you try to be the only one playing for 4 minute and 33 seconds, it's literally just a timer and a connection to an online server that keeps track if anyone else logs on and plays at the same time as you,. if you manage to be the only person wo is connected for 4 minutes and 33 seconds you win, that's it.

Cat Planet (PC)
Haven't played this in a while, it's still fun to fly through once in a while.

Death Illustrated (PC)
A game I haven't played in years, it's based on the Quake or possibly Quake 2 engine and is arena after arena of enemies you have to kill ,it's fast paced, relatively hard and very gothic in the visual style, black and white visuals and a heavy metal soundtrack, it's got some nostalgia despite not being that old, it's just about 15 years old or so.

Base Conflict (PC)
A very old artillery game with some added strategy, you control a base and you can fire missiles and send tanks toward the enemy base, you have to build new ones if you run out, it's very good and it's a nostalgic game for me.

Megatron (PC)
A very old maze shooter with battlemechs, a Vulture and a Mad Cat from the Battletech universe to be specific, I have a lot of nostalgia for this one.

Lemmings 3D (PC)
An awful game, I never liked Lemmings in the first place and in 3D with awful controls and equally awful camera controls it's even worse than it was in 2D, complete shit.

Gaming Purchases - Januari 2018

Januari 9th:

A shopping trip resulted in some nice finds today.

3DS:
Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens (new, sealed)
Yoshi's New Island (new, sealed)

Wii:
Star Wars The Clone Wars Lightsaber Duels

PlayStation Vita:
two Vita 2000 Slim model protection cases (new, sealed)

Xbox 360:
Lego Batman 2 DC Super Heroes
Lego Marvel Super Heroes

Hot Wheels:
Aston Martin 1963 DB5
Batman Live! Batmobile
Dragon Blaster
Flash Drive
Ford Shelby GR-1 Concept (orange with black stripe)
Howlin' Heat
Knight Draggin'
Lamborghini Countach (Tooned series)
Mad Manga
Ratmobile
Speedy Pérez
Steer Clear
Turbot

Transformers:
Dickie Toys - Transformers Robots in Disguise - Metal Series 1 - Sideswipe

Hot Wheels Star Wars:
Boba Fett's Slave I
Millennium Falcon
Rebel Snowspeeder
Tie Fighter
X-Wing Fighter - Red 5
Y-Wing Fighter - Gold Leader

tools and stuff:
several different sizes of extendable/retractable utility knives
a set of pocket sized precision screwdrivers


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Januari 16th:

some second-hand finds

PC:
American McGee's Alice (SoldOut!)

Lego:
Lego 3855 Star Wars Battle of Hoth (board game set)

Toys:
Wonder Woman figure (McDonalds 2016)
Super Mario Kart Mario figure

CD:
Basshunter - Now You're Gone (singel)
Reel 2 Real - I Like To Move It (singel)

DVD:
Barbie presenterar Tummelisa (Barbie presents THumbelina (2009))
Black Beauty (1971)
Disney's Talespin Vol. 1
Haja Läget 2 (The Reef 2)
Kungen och Jag (Anna and the King (1999))
Milo mot Mars (Mars needs moms)
Moses Nilens Prins (Prince of the Nile The Story of Moses (1998))
Sagan om My Little Pony (My Little Pony The Movie (1986))

Anime DVD:
Porco Rosso
Rurouni Kenshin Samurai X Vol. 1 Trust
Rurouni Kenshin Samurai X Vol. 2 Betrayal

Bluray:
Haj Fajv (Seefood)

Books:
Disney's Klassiker Törnrosa
Disney's Tjuren Ferdinand
Det Var En Gång Askungen

and some outlet movies from a movie rental store

DVD:
Monster High Electrified
Spark

Bluray:
Monster High Boo York, Boo York A Monsterrific Musical


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Januari 17th:

picked up some more outlet movies at the movie rental store today as they stocked up with some new ones

DVD:
Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice
Colossal
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Hostel 3
Husdjurens Hemliga Liv (The Secret Life of Pets)
Kong Skull Island
Monster High Scaris Skräckens Stad (Monster High Scaris City of Frights)

Bluray:
Ghost in the Shell (2017)


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Januari 19th:

Ordered a bunch of games online, it's friday today so they should arrive some time next week if everything goes as planned.

from one place I ordered (these arrived the following monday, the 22nd)

Mega Drive:
Battle Frenzy (German, no manual)

Saturn:
Virtual On Cyber Troopers Operation Moongate (Japanese)

3DS:
Skylanders Giants Booster Pack (new)

GameCube:
V-Rally 3

PlayStation:
Aironauts
Cybersled
Firebugs (no manual)
Roswell Conspiracies

PlayStation 2:
Garfield Saving Arlene

Dreamcast:
Tomee High Definition VGA Cable with separate composite RCA plugs for stereo audio (new)

Amiibo:
Splatoon 2-pack - Callie & Marie (new)

and from another place I ordered (these arrived on the following thursday, the 25th)

DS:
Disney's Kim Possible Global Gemini
Lego Batman The Videogame
Lego Star Wars II Original Trilogy (no manual)

3DS:
Lego Star Wars III The Clone Wars

PlayStation:
Colin McRae Rally 2.0 (Platinum)
Syphon Filter 2 (Platinum)

PlayStation 2:
WinX Club
Lego Batman The Videogame
Offroad Extreme!
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Rally Championship
Saint Seiya The Hades
Sonic Mega Collection Plus
Sonic Unleashed
WRC 4 (Platinum)
WRC Rally Evolved


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Januari 23rd:

No games today, just some other second-hand finds.

CD:
Darude - Sandstorm (single)
N.G.3 As Nasty As We Wanna Be

VCD:
Mickey Mouse (Chinese)
Tom & Jerry (Chinese)

DVD:
Disney's Princess Stories Vol. 2 Tales of Friendship
Hocus Pocus
Monster High 13 Wishes
Pixar Short Films Collection Vol. 1
The Fairytaler Vol. 12 H.C. Andersen's The Snow Queen

Bluray:
The Hobbit Smaugs Ödemark (The Desolation of Smaug)

Comics:
Bugs Bunny #1 1995
Carousel #1 2009
Carousel #3 2009
Asterix and the Vikings
Asterix Rose and Pedal
Berts Dagbok
Berts Dagbok
Lilla Fridolf
91an Karlsson
91an Karlsson
Min Häst
Tom & Jerry
Bamse

Books:
Bolt
Peter Pan

Lego:
a Lego bucket with assorted Lego Friends content

Other:
a miniature crystal stone guardian lion figurine


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Januari 25th:

went and picked up the second order of games today (listed above) and also bought some other stuff at a second-hand store

PlayStation 2:
EyeToy Play Astro Zoo (Platinum)

DVD:
Disney's Frozen
Lego Star Wars The Yoda Chronicles Vol. 1
Mamma Mu & Kråkan The Movie

Books:
Barbie on Ski Vacation
Disney's Robin Hood the big ambush
Disney's Aristocats on the run

Other:
glass marbles and stones

and a movie rental store

DVD:
Baby Boss (2017)
Monster Trucks (2017) they had one copy left of the Bluray version of Monster Trucks but my friend saw it first, so I could only get the DVD, maybe I'll find another copy of the Bluray version some day

Now Playing - Januari 2018

Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (3DS)
beat it 100%

Lego Marvel Avengers (PlayStation Vita)
beat story mode

Lego Batman The Videogame (Xbox 360)
beat it 100%

Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens (PlayStation Vita)

Lego Batman 2 DC Super Heroes (Xbox 360)
beat it 100%

Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens (3DS)
Now I see why the Vita version was so mediocre and lackluster, it's sadly just a port of the 3DS version rather than a properly made and optimized Vita original version or stationary console port like it could've easily been seeing as the Vita is literally PS3 hardware and there are games on it that surpass even the best technical achievements on the PS3, like the incredibly impressive Killzone Mercenary that far surpasses games like Killzone 2 and 3 and Resistance 2 and 3, four of the very finest shooters the PS3 has to offer! not saying this is a bad game, it's just a shame the low tech 3DS (it's weaker than the old PSP) got a custom version when the vastly more powerful Vita just gets a slightly polished up port.

Yoshi's New Island (3DS)
Unresponsive, stiff, forced motion controls during certain segments, one-way levels that force you to replay the level from the beginning if you missed something, plain and simple this game feels like it was designed in the mid 80s.

Battle Frenzy/Bloodshot (Mega Drive)
An FPS in a similar vein to Wolfenstein 3D only in a sci-fi setting and it has a 2 player split-screen multiplayer mode.
It's a good game for the time and I like it, it gets a bit choppy and the countdown at the end of every level is almost a greater enemy than the nasty killer machines you face along the way.
It's a very tough game but it's cool enough and still enjoyable.
I got the european version titled Battle Frenzy but in the game the title screen still says Bloodshot.

Disney's Kim Possible Global Gemini (DS, played on 3DS)
Very similar to the PS2 game Kim Possible What's the Switch?, it actually does a really good job with the visuals and gameplay alike, its' smooth, responsive, you got good moves and I like the visual style with some flat shaded polygonal stuff, it fits with the cartoony look perfectly and helps the DS keep up a nice level of detail and a brisk framerate at the same time, a very well crafted game overall so far and I'm enjoying it.
UPDATE: The on-rail segments with snowboard and moped suck, they use the touch screen as a pseudo analog steering tablet and it's awkward as fuck to hold the DS/3DS while playing a game that way, those are by far the worst parts of the game so far, also the matrix type levels aren't very good either, it's just a gauntlet of dodging laser beams and a lot of grapple hook swinging, neither of which are this game's strong points, also they look really generic with the same blue grid pattern on everything.

WinX Club (PlayStation 2)
Finally I got hold of this for PS2, I've had the PC version for a few years but as both a fan of WinX Club and an avid console gamer I've always wanted the PS2 version specifically. It's virtually identical to the PC version. A good action platformer and great game for WinX Club fans.

Gaming Purchases - December 2017

December 5th:

me and a friend went to a secondhand shop where I found an old Action Force (EU G.I. Joe) comic from 1989 comic and after we had some pizza we went to a movie store where I picked up the Lego Batman Movie on DVD

DVD:
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

Comics:
Action Force (1989)

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December 10th:

Finally the USB speakers I ordered a couple weeks ago arrived, despite their very expensive shipping costs they didn't even send the order until a week and they sent me the wrong information in the email so I couldn't log into their site and check the status of my order and the package they sent had nothing to secure it, it was just cardboard wrapped once around it with a string, it's a miracle it came through without major injury, I'm never ordering anything from BRL again.

PC Hardware:
2x USB Speakers Boynq The Vase

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December 12th:

A shopping trip resulted in some on-sale Lego game finds from GameStop and some cheap DVD finds from another store.

3DS:
Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (pre-owned but complete and in mint condition)

PlayStation Vita:
Lego Marvel Avengers (new)
Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens (new)

DVD:
Julkalendern 1990 - Kurt Olssons Jul
Lego DC Comics Super Heroes - Justice League Vs. Bizarro League
Littlest Pet Shop Vol. 1 - Littlest Pets, Big Adventures
Littlest Pet Shop Vol. 2 - Lights, Camera, Mongoose!
Littlest Pet Shop Vol. 3 - Sweetest Pets

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December 19th:

A quick visit to a second hand shop resulted in some nice finds today.

GameCube:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

PlayStation 2:
Barbie as The Island Princess
Crash of the Titans (promo)

DVD:
Aliens in the Attic
The Ricky Gervais Show - The Complete First Series
Lotus Lantern (Region 3 NTSC)
Kentucky Fried Movie
Disney's Beauty & The Beast - 2 disc Special Edition
South Park - Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Madagascar 3 (new and factory sealed)
The Legend of Korra - Book 3 - Change
Cloudy with a chance for Meatballs
Agent Freddie
Batman Returns
Batman & Robin
Monty Python's A Liar's Autobiography

Comics:
Min Häst
Garfield special
The Phantom
Agent X9
Stål Kalle

Toys:
Micro Machines
Super Mario Bros. McDonald's figures - Mario and Toad
Lego Catwoman mask
a cream white medium-large SAAB plastic model car, older model from the 70s or 80s, not sure

Other:
Minnie Mouse painting
Snow White painting
wooden figure - sitting body-less lady

CD:
Dynamite Dance

Books:
cat books
two small humor books

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December 21th:

Another quick visit to a second hand shop resulted in some more nice finds today.

Mega Drive:
F1 World Championship Edition
LHX Attack Chopper
Super Monaco GP
Urban Strike The Sequel To Jungle Strike

PlayStation 3:
Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed II
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Dead Space
F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon

PC:
Asterix & Obelix XXL2 Mission Las Vegum

Portable LCD game:
Brick Game 9999-games-in-1 (blue)

DVD:
10000BC

Other:
Sleeping Beauty wooden tablet
Spanish Dancing Ladies, three, yellow clothes, one in original box, one big and one regular medium size
porcelain bikini pigs, three small, one big piggy bank
pink geisha dancing lady
a couple of small art frames

and I found a couple of movies during a quick stop at a movie shop

DVD:
The Smurfs The Lost Village

Bluray:
Storks

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December 22nd:

a trip to the mall didn't result in any new games today, I almost bought one for PSP but when I saw the line to the register I said nah, I can buy this some other time if they still have it then, I did get some other stuff though

Stuff:
a mobile phone 3,5mm headphone jack LED light to work as a strong extra light when taking photos
a Barbie superhero frog girl, it was so weird I had to buy it, I couldn't leave the store without owning it
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Princess Luna figure
three small Mega Bloks Hot Wheels sets (Chromad, Turbo Nitro Booster and Sting Shot)
two Hot Wheels, one of which was a white Lotus Esprit S1, like the one James Bond had in one of the movies that turned into a submarine in James Bond 007 The Spy Who Loved Me, and a Ford Shelby GR-1 Concept (black with green stripe)

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December 24th:

Today I only got one gift worth mentioning, a Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 7-pack of little mouser robots, I always loved those in the original cartoon but I never got the toys they had back then, so even though I don't like the Nickelodeon reboot of the show I still love that we gota second chance at getting some mouser toys.

Good Yule!

Now Playing - December 2017

Remember Me (Xbox 360)

Littlest Pet Shop Garden (DS)

Alien Storm (Mega Drive)

Eternal Champions (Mega Drive)

The Story of Thor A Successor of the Light (Mega Drive)

Justice League Task Force (Mega Drive)
A fun fighting game with some cool moves, some very nice visual effects and a fantastic soundtrack. Batman and Wonder Woman especially are a lot of fun to play as in this.

Justice League Task Force (Super Nintendo)
Basically a bad alternative to the vastly superior Mega Drive game, with uglier and simpler visuals, unresponsive controls that require specific timing to do what the AI can do instantly (cheating bastards), less content with some gameplay modes and options being absent entirely, no proper intro sequence and no cutscenes between fights in the story mode, and finally either boring and awful unfitting music for a fighting game with horrible ear piercing noises pretending to be instruments or no music at all with just boring ambient sounds, it's an awful game and should be completely avoided at all costs, go for the Mega Drive game instead and have a great time because you sure won't have one if you play this terrible Super Nintendo version.

Zero Tolerance (Mega Drive)
My relatively new third-party Retro-Bit 6-button controller broke while I was playing this, it's only a year or two old now but the top part of the d-pad broke straight off, the plastic that connected it in the middle underneath had given in, I glued it back and hopefully it'll hold like that for a while but once broken it's a permanent weak spot so we'll see how many games I can play before it eventually breaks again..

Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
Ok so a couple days later the controller broke again and this time I tried to drill a hole through it to reinforce it with a metal screw down the middle, while also gluing it, and so far it's holding up, but I fear the plastic just isn't good enough to last very long regardless, it's a cheaply made controller, plain and simple.

WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw 2007 (Xbox 360)
Just making some custom characters, my OC Farideh, Lara Croft and Bonnie Rockwaller.

Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (3DS)
Pretty good, not exactly a step up from all the other Lego games over the last decade and a half, quite literally exactly on the same level more than anything, but I guess it's what we've all come to expect at this point.
The one positive thing to note about this specific version is that they actually have realtime stencil shadows, a bit pixelated, but they're there, which is pretty impressive for a 3DS game.
Not even the port of Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy on PSP had that back in the day despite PSP being notably more powerful than 3DS, however, textures are far lower resolution with some very blurry ones in some places and the framerate is not as smooth or as stable.

Gal*Gun Double Peace (PlayStation Vita)
I wasn't sure if picking the emotionally distant girl over the aggressive girl was a good choice, but turns out it was, she was actually really sweet and had a magic doll made to remind her of me because she missed me so much

Lego Batman The Videogame (Xbox 360)
I haven't played this in many years now, I never completed it back then and I probably won't this time either, but every step along the way counts, maybe some day I will have completed some of my now many Lego games.
I've gotten a lot farther now though, unlocked tons of new stuff and completed almost all of the Hero missions 100%, just a few things missing here and there where I need specific supervillains to do certain things in the levels to get the remaining stuff.
It's a very good game and I'm enjoying it a lot, so much in fact I've been looking into getting the two sequels, DC Superheroes and Beyond Gotham, for Xbox 360 or maybe PS3. I tried the demos for both on Xbox 360, downloaded from Xbox Live, and I really enjoyed them so I doubt I'd regret getting either or both of them in full version, sadly they're a bit pricey and hard to find, DC Superheroes has been available only once but it sold out again and that was only the PS3 version, so I'll have to keep an eye out.

Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens (PlayStation Vita)
Unimpressive, sadly. I haven't played for long but already I have a list of complaints that shouldn't have made it into the final version of the game.
The camera is no longer static and panning over areas nicely all the time making for a good solid experience from beginning to end, like in most other Lego games, instead it's far too often switched to a third person camera with some basic manual control, the problem is that it's way too zoomed in making it very hard to navigate the environment, there's also an insane amounts of up-close and personal pop-up, especially NPCs walking around, they will literally pop-up out of nowhere right next to your character, out of nowhere, and a lot of the time several NPCs will do this as the same time, like two or three of them just suddenly appear next to you as you bump into them, slowing you down in the process.
It's like they're just teleporting around like in Star Trek, but with a severe case of ADHD. It looks worse than anything else I've ever seen in regards to pop-up in videogames, far worse.
The controls are a complete waste of Vita features, the d-pad, left analog stick and touch screen all do the same thing, control your character's movement, with the analog stick doing the best job of the three and the touch screen being almost unusable as it can't turn properly, it moves forward or backward only and very poorly to the left and right, it's completely unbalanced. The touch pad on the back does nothing.
The shoulder buttons and right analog stick both control the camera, moving it left and right only, up and down on the right analog stick does nothing.
I haven't played far enough into the game to say how the controls are different when it changes modes to flying spaceships and such yet.
The minigames are overly simplistic, making the originals they're based on, like Space Invaders and Zaxxon, seem far more modern and complex by comparison.
When you get to play the action sequences with a classic Lego game static camera angle the game picks up and is much better and more fun to play.

Lego Marvel Avengers (PlayStation Vita)
Compared to Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens this is even more of a mixed bag, while some problems that game had have been made better, some are still there and a whole list of brand new ones have been added.
The audio first of all is really poor, the voice acting sounds like it's been recorded from an old radio with an old mix onto cassette tape and then played back and recorded onto computer with a cheap headset mic. It's really bad, dare I say even worse than Remember Me? Yes, yes I do, it's worse than Remember Me, and a lot worse at that as it encompasses the entire cast of characters throughout the entire games it seems, I haven't completed it but so far it's all bad, and I'm several hours in.
The big difference is that this game has an open world where you can free roam, a chunk of New York and a carrier ship.
There are side quests and challenges scattered about and you can jump into vehicles and destroy stuff for Lego studs, the universal currency of all modern Lego games.
The controls are about identical to the previous mentioned game, with all the same shortcomings.
Visually it's a step up and a step down depending on how you see it, the characters don't animate their faces during in-game cutscenes, I don't remember now if they did or not in Force Awakens but I want to say they did. There seems to be a bit more detail and special effects present, but it's had to compare.
Overall I think I like this one a little bit more than Force Awakens, but because I don't like marvel and their characters much, nor do I like Disney's take on Star Wars, it's safe to say I'm not a huge fan of either of these two games, they're okay when the focus is on them being Lego games but when story and characters and such come into play they both drop in quality and so does my interest and patience.

Virtua Racing (Mega Drive)

Urban Strike The Sequel To Jungle Strike (Mega Drive)
Arguably the best of the original 8- and 16-bit generation Strike games and a great helicopter action game. I still prefer Red Zone, Steel Talons and LHX Attack chopper from the 16-bit generation and the Strike games on PlayStation, Saturn, N64 and PC though.
It's nice that they have on-foot missions and different helicopters to pick from during missions, I don't remember if you had that in the previous Strike games, regardless, good stuff.

F1 World Championship Edition (1993) (Mega Drive)
A great F1 game with some fast speed, scaling 2D graphics and polygonal 3D graphics.
It plays very well, it's good and responsive, if you crash into stuff you can sometimes keep going without coming to a complete stop, this was pretty rare back in the day for racing games as a vast majority would force you to see a crash animation or wait until the car or bike or whatever reset to the track before you could drive again, it still happens in this game but mostly for things that are too high to drive over, like sign posts and trees, but for all the shorter objects including the opponent cars you can hit them and get back to driving again without a full crash and reset, it has good control and handling too so for the most part you can avoid crashing altogether, there are lots of tracks to race on and it even has a turbo mode where some of the graphics are scaled down so the game can run at twice the framerate making an already fast and smooth game even faster and smoother.

F1 World Championship Edition (1995) (Mega Drive)
Same name but slightly different game, it also boasts fast speed, scaling 2D graphics, polygonal 3D graphics and lots of tracks to race on, however, it lacks a turbo mode but adds a third person camera instead so you can see your car while you race, it also has many layers of parallax scrolling for the sky and backgrounds and it has a lot more polygonal 3D objects around the tracks.
It doesn't play quite as well as it doesn't have the minor crash physics, just the regular stop and reset to track style, but it does have good controls and handling and is fast and responsive, so you won't be crashing much anyway and it still feels very good to play.
Overall I think both games are fantastic and impressive racing games for the Mega Drive, you can't go wrong with either.
I personally prefer having a third person view so this game is my favorite of the two for that reason alone, but in all other ways they are overall equals, where one is better in one way, the other is better in another way.

New York Race (PlayStation 2)
Back in the day when PS2 launched I got mine with Armored Core 2 and Zone of the Enders as my two first games of the launch lineup available, a couple of weeks later I also got my first PS2 memory card, after some time I had saved up enough to buy more games, the third game I got was Shadow of Memories, after that however I was give the option to wish for a new game that winter, and I had narrowed down my options to two games Jet Ion GP and New York Race, after much consideration I picked Jet Ion GP, thinking I'll probably get NYR not that long after. I enjoyed Jet Ion GP a lot and it remains a classic for me but I never got NYR, not until now, in December of 2017, I had only tried it on PC back in the mid 00's and liked it but I never found a copy on sale again until I now finally ordered it online. It's very nice to finally own a copy of my own and it's a good game, I would've loved to have this back then but things turned out like this and I'll have to try and enjoy it now instead, far after the hype of the brand new PS2 has long gone died off and I can only enjoy games based on how good they are objectively, no added new generation factor giving it a push.
I can gladly say though this is a very good game and I'm enjoying it pretty much as if it was new to me back then, I can usually mentally put myself back in those days and kind of forcefully add the excitement of what it was like had I played it back when it was originally released for games in general, it's not exactly like the real experience but as close as it can get, I've had plenty of practise with games for Mega Drive and other older systems over years and it's been a blast. Great games don't really age, it's just our perception of what games are like that does, thankfully I play enough old games that I can easily keep my mind fully open to older titles and enjoy them as they would've been enjoyed back when they were new, as it should be.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Hyperstone Heist (Mega Drive)

Score International Baja 1000 World Championship Off Road Racing (PlayStation 2)
An overall mediocre game, completely locked down with all content painstakingly unlockable one thing at a time, the bad controls making it almost unplayable and very far from even remotely enjoyable.