Gaming Purchases - Juni 2020

Juni 2nd:

Visited my mom again today. She had another good day and we walked a full lap around the entire hospital, great weather yesterday too, and on the way home I visited GameStop again.
The Wii U console and all games were pre-owned/used (unless otherwise specified), and the collectibles were all new.

DS:
WinX Club Rockstars

Wii:
Kororinpa
Monster High Ghoul Spirit

Wii U hardware:
a black Wii U Elite 32GB console (with tablet controller, Wii sensor bar, power cable, HDMI cable, charger cable for the tablet, charging bay for the tablet, a regular stand for the tablet and two small clip-on vertical stands for the console)

PlayStation 3:
Call of Duty Black Ops II (disc only)
Crysis 2 (disc only)
Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate (disc only)
Saints Row IV (made sure to pick up the correct game this time!)

PlayStation 4:
RIGS Mechanized Combat League (new)

Xbox 360:
Colin McRae DiRT (disc only)
Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 (disc only)
Skyrim (disc only)
Race Driver GRID (disc only)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (disc only)
WarTech Senko no Ronde (this was the PAL version, I originally got the NTSC version back in the day and it's nice to finally have the proper PAL release as well)
Yaiba Ninja Gaiden Z Special Edition (sadly missing the Special Edition comic book, but the soundtrack CD was included)

Collectibles/Other:
a StarLink Pilot Pack - Razor Lemay
two more Crash Bandicoot keyring figure blindbags (containing Aku Aku and yet another Crash)
and two more Lara Croft Temple of Osiris Totaku figures

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Juni 11th:

Went ahead and ordered some games, mainly for my recently purchased Wii U since I didn't have anything to play on it other than regular Wii games.

I placed orders from two separate places a few of days ago (Juni 8th) and the first package arrived today. The games that arrived today were all new and sealed copies.

PlayStation 3:
Ultimate Action Triple Pack (Just Cause 2, Sleeping Dogs and the Tomb Raider 2013 Reboot)

Wii U:
Art Academy Atellier
Call of Duty Black Ops II
Legend of Kay Anniversary
LEGO Batman 3 Beyond Gotham
LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens
The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild

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Juni 12th:

Second order of games arrived today. All of these were used copies.

UPDATE: Two of the four games didn't work! Zelda Wind Waker HD was damaged on the data side of the disc so it didn't work at all, the Wii U didn't even recognize it as a Wii U game, and ZombiU was the american release, which doesn't work on my european Wii U system. It should've been labelled as an import but they hadn't noticed and sold it as a regular game by mistake.
LEGO Batman 2 and Super Mario 3D World both worked, but there was extensive water damage to the Super Mario 3D World cover so the paper was all gross and nasty, and the LEGO Batman 2 disc has some rather worrying looking scratches on it.
The scratches on LEGO Batman 2 were on the outer part of the disc and the game starts up without any issues. Hopefully they're shallow enough that it will remain fully playable without any noticeable issues, but until I've played through the entire game 100%, I can't say for certain.
I contacted the store about this and because these were all Wii U games, they didn't have any more copies to replace them with.
I am to return the two games that didn't work and then I would get a 10% discount on the order for the remaining two games as "goodwill", as they phrased it in their reply.

Wii U:
LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes (some scratches on the disc, only playing through it and 100%-ing the game will tell if it will have problems later on or not)
Super Mario 3D World (game was fine but the cover had severe water damage and looked gross, grimy and nasty as a result)
The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker HD (didn't work at all, there was damage on the data side of the disc and the Wii U didn't even recognize the disc)
ZombiU (american release, unplayable on my european Wii U)

Gaming Purchases - January 2020

January 23rd:

Took a trip to the local mall and went to the local GameStop once final time before they close down permanently in three days.

PlayStation 4:
Battlezone (new)
Fate Extella The Umbral Star (new disc, but the box had lost the cover art, but I got it for free)
MediEvil (new and sealed)
The Technomancer

Collectibles/Figures:
Funko Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers Gadget Hackwrench action figure

Other:
Paladone Official Playstation waterproof and removable decals

also got some stuff from another store

Magazine+LEGO:
2x LEGO Star Wars #1 2020 + Snowspeeder polybag

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January 24th:

when out grocery shopping I saw they had a big bin full of DVDs and Blurays, mostly animated kids movies, all norwegian releases

DVD:
[will fill in details later]

Bluray:
[will fill in details later]

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January 25th:

got some PC stuff today

PC Hardware:
a Lenovo laptop with Windows 10

PC Accessories:
2x Trust Gaming Bundle (mouse, mousepad, keyboard and headset)

Other:
Bluewear gasmask
Bluewear yellow tinted glasses

Gaming Purchases - December 2019

December 17th:

Was out shopping and was maybe gonna buy some games today but the local GameStop informed me that they're shutting down all their stores in all nordic countries, so by the end of january they'll be gone. so I'm gonna wait to buy anything there until near the end, in case they have a sale, and I also didn't find anything of interest today when I was browsing anyway.

From other places I got some stuff though.

PC accessory:
Trust gaming mouse

RC:
Officially Licensed Ferrari Enzo

Diecast Cars:
12x Hot Wheels (will fill in individual details later)

Building Blocks:
LEGO Ninjago Samurai X Mech Mini (will fill in more detail about the LEGO sets later)
LEGO Ninjago Golden Dragon Mini
LEGO Disney Princess Jasmine castle
LEGO Friends Submarine
Sluban Construct-ion A Tractor
Sluban Construct-ion B Excavator

Other:
2x white paper stars to put over the lights in my windows as winter decorations

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December 22nd:

Quick trip to the mall, got some last minute stuff from the local GameStop and some of the last stuff that was being sold off from another store.

Collectibles/Figures:
2x Totaku Hitman Agent 47
3x Star Wars vehicle blind bags
6x Disney Princess sticker sheets

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 - September 2019

September 3rd:

Didn't do any shopping at all during August. Found some stuff today though.

PlayStation 2 accessories:
4x Buzz! USB controllers

PC:
Lattjo Lajban - Lilla Sjöjungfrun och sifferjakten (Svenska CD-ROM spel, TV4 AB, 1999)

PC hardware:
4x 515MB DDR2 RAM

DVD:
Conan The Barbarian (2010)
Elektronisk mobbning (e-mobbning) (Kunskapsmedia, 2007)
Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior) (1981)
Platoon - Special Edition (1986)
Sahara (2005)
The Knife - Silent Shout - An Audio Visual Experience (2006)

Bluray:
Alpha & Omega (2010)
R.I.P.D. Rest In Peace Department (2013)

Comics:
Agent X9 (#8 1994, #10 2000, #1 2001, #9 2001, #10 2001, #11 2001, #12 2001, #3 2006, #4 2006, #5 2006, #6 2006, #7 2006)
Magnum Special (#2 1991, #7 1991)
Mumin (#8 2000)
Stål-Kalle (Disney's PK, #4 2002)

Books
Disney Princess - Jasmine and the Golden Key (2008)

Toys:
Monster High Boo York Boo York - Nefera de Nile (doll, came with a random non-Monster High yellow dress, all accessories were missing, the thumb on her right hand was broken off, 2011-2015)
My Little Pony Equestria Girls - Twilight Sparkle (doll, came with original dress, 2014)
Gone With The Wind - Scarlett's Deception (Limited Edition figurine, 1993)
Polly Pocket - Shani on kickbike (Burger King toy, unopened factory sealed, Jan-May 2019)

Other:
two 4X AA+AAA battery chargers

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September 5th:

Birthday shopping!

PlayStation:
Family Games Compendium
FIFA Football 2002
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

PlayStation 2 accessories:
two SingStar microphones + USB adapter
Silver Slim EyeToy USB Camera

PC:
Deus Ex Invisible War (2003)
Outcast (2000)

PC accessories:
Deltaco HL-69 gaming headphones with microphone and USB/battery-powered vibration feature

DVD:
Death Race 2 (2010)
Disneys Äventyrsfavoriter (Extreme Adventure Fun, 2006)
Oscars Oas del 8 (Oscar's Oasis Vol. 8, 2010)
Robot Wars - The First Great Wars (1998)

Comics:
five more issues of Mumin (#3 1997, #6 1998, #4 1999, #3 2000, #5 2000)

Books:
Barbie som ballerina (1995)
Barbie som circusprinsessa (1996)
LEGO Friends Magiska Mia (2013)

Toys:
assorted bag of stuff (some off-brand made in china diecast cars, superballs, LED dice, spiders, My Little Pony Twilight Sparkle polybag figure, assorted Bamse figures, Hot Wheels car with part of a track (new, in sealed original polybag, unopened))

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September 9th:

Ordered some USB AC adapters to use with my PlayStation Classic, surf tablet, mobile phone etc..

USB Chargers:
a couple of 5V 1A USB AC-adapters
a 5V 2.4A USB AC-adapter with two USB slots

Other:
a couple of 10-pack of 3,5mm headphone jack diamond dust protectors, varied colors

UPDATE 13th September:
welp, the 2-pack of 5V 1A USB adapters got lost in the mail, so everybody loses, they don't get paid and I don't get what I ordered since instead of sending another pair they just removed it from my order, their incompetence is nothing short of staggering and I am definitely not a satisfied customer, I didn't want my money back, money in a bank account can't fucking charge my fucking devices now can it? unbelievable

UPDATE 19th September:
the missing package with the two 5V 1A USB AC-adapters arrived today after all, back from the land of the lost!
I honestly don't know if they sent another pair without telling me or if it's the actual original missing package, but whatever, as long as I'm not being charged for them I guess it's okay.
I don't have much use for them now though as I already bought another one with dual USB slots from GameStop in the time it took for these to finally show up, seeing as they were officially permanently lost according to and confirmed by the senders, the bank and the postal office!!

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September 15th:

A trip to the local GameStop today resulted in some great finds. The games were all secondhand but complete with manuals etc. and in brand new condition.

PlayStation 3:
Create
LEGO Star Wars The Complete Saga (Essentials)
PlayStation Move Heroes
Saints Row The Third
TV Superstars

USB Chargers:
a GameStop 5V 2A USB AC-adapter with two USB slots (new, sealed in box)

Collectibles:
TOTAKU WipEout AG-SYS (new, sealed in box)

And some more finds from other places, all new stuff, no secondhand shopping today.

LEGO:
LEGO 41158 Disney Princess - Jasmine's Petite Tower
LEGO 70841 The LEGO Movie 2 - Benny's Space Squad - Kenny, Benny, Lenny & Jenny

Diecast Cars:
Majorette black car with yellow bottom and yellow fire on hood and roof (BK250416)
Majorette white car with red striped on top and blue base (BK200217)

Magazines:
2x My Little Pony Friendship is Magic + Princess Luna figure (# 2019)

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 - December 2018

01:00 at night from Friday, 30th November to Saturday, December 1st:

Ordered some awesome stuff online, should arrive later next week.
UPDATE: It's Friday 7th today and it still hasn't arrived, maybe next week?
UPDATE: It arrived and I went to pick it up on Saturday the 8th

Intellivision:
INTV System III (console, both hardwired controllers work, power cable and RF cable with RF Game/TV switcher box)
Soccer (complete in box with manual and two overlays)

Game Boy Advance:
Smashing Drive (cartridge only)

PlayStation:
Space Debris (complete in box with manual)

PlayStation 2:
Sub Rebellion (complete in box with manual)

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December 13th:

ordered online today
UPDATE: it arrived in my mailbox on the 18th

PlayStation 2:
a third party Dual Shock 2 replica controller

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December 14th:

at the local GameStop

3DS:
Shinobi (pre-owned)

PlayStation 3:
BlazBlue Calamity Trigger (pre-owned)
The Last of Us (pre-owned)

PlayStation 4:
Redout: Race Faster Than Ever - Lightspeed Edition

Collectibles:
Totaku Collection: WipEout AG-SYS (First Edition)
Starlink: Battle for Atlas - Starship Pack: Pulse (ship) + Volcano (gun attachment) + Calisto "Chase" da Silva (character)

from another store

Electric Bug Zapper Lantern (green)
Mickey Mouse comic + LEGO Star Wars Imperial AT-Hauler ship polybag
LEGO Nexo Knights magazine + Princess Macy with her Thunder Hammer

and from a third store

a small portable battery powered LED light chain (black)
a small regular electric powered LED light chain (black)

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December 20th:

some secondhand finds

DVD:
Aladdin och Rövarnas Konung (Disney)
Barbie i Svansjön
Barbie - Fairytopia
Barbie - En Perfekt Jul
The Bunker (2001)

HDDVD:
King Kong (Peter Jackson)

Vinyl Records:
Bernard & Bianca i Australien (Disney)
Den Lilla Sjöjungfrun (Disney)
Göstas Skiva
Juletid
Juletid
Jul

CD:
Hassan (P3)

Books/Comics:
Hassan (P3)
Kim Possible - Rädda Världen (Disney)
Sabina - Serier för Tjejer (1990)
Sabina - Serier för Tjejer (1991)

Other:
a hand carved alabaster stone egg (made in Italy)
clothing blueprints (five different, women's clothing only, with illustrated art covers)
a 1x2x3 Rubik's Cube (McDonalds, Secret Life of Pets)
a 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube (McDonalds, Minions)
a yo-yo that lights up when it spins (Skittles)
a wallet (Disney's Cars)

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December 21th:

some movies

DVD:
Barbie - Delfiner och Magi
Biet Maya - På nya honungsäventyr
Encounter
Grottmannen Dug
Maze Runner - The Death Cure
Peter Rabbit
The Titan

Bluray:
The Titan

Gaming Purchases - November 2018

November 1st:

Went secondhand shopping today, found some stuff.

PlayStation 2:
MotoGP (Namco)

Xbox:
Star Wars Battlefront (no manual)

Xbox 360:
composite A/V cable with a separate RCA and S-Video to SCART adapter
composite+component combo-A/V cable
Hitman Blood Money
Ringarnas Herre Slaget om Midgård II (Lord of the Rings Battle of Middle-Earth II)

Other:
male USB to male Mini USB cable
male RCA to male 3,5mm cable

Comics:
Fix & Foxi
Korak
Disney's Princess Yule Album
Disney's The Jungle Book 2 (two different versions)
Disney's Jasmine Friends for Life

DVD:
Disney's Brave
Disney's Cinderella 2
Disney's Dumbo
Pelle Svanslös i Amerikatt (Peter No-Tail in Americat)

Toys:
Atco City Series 3023 Airport Set + instructions (two parts missing, the glass for the helicopter canopy and the plug to hold one of the smaller propellers in place)
Atco Space Adventure 8025 Space Ship + instructions

and a new movie from a movie store

DVD:
The Star (2017)

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November 8th:

Some second hand finds today.

Electronics:
composite and S-Video <-> SCART converter

DVD:
LEGO Friends (2013, with original protective paper sleeve still around it, episodes 1-3)
Monty Python and the Holy Graal (2-disc Special Edition)

Bluray:
Cleopatra (2-disc 50th Anniversary Edition)

Books/Magazines/Comics:
Bobo - Svarta feens trolldom! (1984)
Disney's Classics - Sleeping Beauty
Katitzi vol. 1 - Barnhemsflickan
Katitzi vol. 2 - Zigenarflickan
Katitzi vol. 3 - Hjältinnan
LEGO Ninjago - Find the Samuraidroid (Where's Wally?-style look-and-find book with the LEGO Samuraidroid set to build)
Lilla Fruntimret - från livstycke till fuskpäls
Lilla Fruntimret rymmer hemifrån
Nya Fruntimmers Boken
Modern Dansk Humor

Toys:
a bag of toy cars (mostly made in china cheap ones, one Hot Wheels and one Majorette)
another Rubik's Cube (3x3x3, official Rubik's Cube brand)
a Secret Life of Pets McDonald's Rubik's Cube (1x2x3 size)

Other:
a 40-pack of flat green glass blobs
UNO (the card game from Mattel, 2015 edition with new "trade all" and "make your own rule" cards)

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November 12th:

Some new stuff, no secondhand stuff today.

DVD:
Justice League (2017)

Toy Cars:
a red Audi R8 (Majorette)
a gold Lamborghini Gallardo (Majorette)
a silver Lamborghini Reventon (Majorette)
a wine red Renault Alpine A110-50 (Majorette)

Other:
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic chocolate advent calendar (60g)

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November 15th:

More secondhand stuff.

DVD:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Iron Sky (2012)

Books/Magazines/Comics:
Barbie (#2 1993, #4 1993)
Dennis (#3 1988)

LEGO:
a small bag of blue and grey Technic pieces from an unknown set

Other:
a factory sealed, new and unused deck of playing cards (Black Jaguar label)
six factory sealed, new and unused VHS-C compact videocassettes
a bag of 103 smaller flat green glass blobs
a motorcycle painting in light-shifting colors (Yamaha Genesis)

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November 19th:

Other:
another My Little Pony Friendship is Magic chocolate advent calendar, different design than the other one (75g)

Now Playing - Oktober 2018

Tearaway (PlayStation Vita)
Getting further one amazing place at a time. I love this game.

Yoshi's New Island (3DS)
This game still sucks but I wanted to play something on 3DS that I haven't already played that much.
I discovered a new thing about it though, when you die a few times in a row (like I did in a part that was really cheap designed and you just had to make blind faith jumps and there were insta kill spikes you had to know beforehand to stick the landing) it gives you a cheat automatically so you can fly indefinitely in the level you're in, too bad they didn't just design the game better so there weren't tons of cheap deaths, they already give you a fuckton of extra lives, I have over 80 lives and I've died plenty of times due to cheap level design, but they respawn so you can literally die three time and gain 9 lives because there's usually around 3 lives every single section of every level, so die in one section once and you're more likely to gain 2 or 3 lives from that death than actually lose 1, it's ridiculous, and adding that infinite flight cheat powerup they give you when you've died like 3 times in a row, I just may have found the easiest game in the world, I don't see how anyone can not complete this game, which isn't a bad thing in itself, it's great that they have the game balanced so everyone can play it, skilled players and complete beginners, but it would've been infinitely better had they designed a good game first rather than a shitfest or garbage level design with poor and very limited controls and an unfinished art design.
Seriously, the original Yoshi's Island on Super Nintendo and the enhanced GBA version are both ten trillion times better than this crap.

Azure Dreams (PlayStation)
A generic action adventure game with some mixed visuals, the 2D sprites are nice but the 3D environments are quite bland, and there are so many forced tutorials I feel like I've played through an entire game already but I'm still just at the very beginning, what a horrible way to start a game, I sure hope it picks up soon or I won't bother, I got many better games to spend my time with, like Illusion of gaia on Super Nintendo that I began playing last month.

Dreams to Reality (PlayStation)
An odd and obscure 3D platformer with flying mechanics. It doesn't have the best controls or visuals ever, but I kinda like it so far. I don't know how inspired the developers were by the Saturn game Nights into Dreams but they sure have a lot in common.

Pax Corpus (PlayStation)
Really awkward controls in this one but kinda interesting, I like it but I only have a russian version, making it harder to play for sure when you don't know what the fuck is going on.

Psycho Fox (Master System)
Not loving the momentum of the controls, you have to work up speed to make jumps, this is rather cumbersome in a platformer, a good game otherwise. Looks good, sounds good.

Thrill Kill Full Uncensored NTSC-U (PlayStation)
Still my favorite fighting game of all time and still the #1 reason why EA remains at the top of my permanent boycott blacklist.

Monster Racer (PlayStation)
Given the time of year I decided to give this Halloween inspired kart-esque racer another try. I haven't played it more than once when I had just bought it and I didn't think much of it.
I can say now after having played through the main mode that it's really not much more than I initially thought, actually it's nothing more at all, it's exactly what I thought when I played it the first time.
It's still a generic kart racer style game and it's nothing special in any way, the visuals are solid enough and the controls work, the music is completely forgettable and uninspired, the sound effects and as stock as can be and mostly unfitting and lame for what they are suppose to be representing, the levels and playable characters are unoriginal and bland and the powerups are unbalanced, some last way too long while others are completely useless, the only powerup that really matters in the turbo boost as it can make you lap the other opponents, it's literally that overpowered. That's easy mode at least, normal on the other hand is so hard you'll try using every trick available just to not end up in last place, I still haven't gotten better than second last on normal, it's a huge leap in difficulty from easy to normal, to say the least.

Anyway, I decided to record a playthrough of the adventure mode, it's available as a playlist on YouTube by clicking here.

Also here are the individual videos:
Botanic Garden

Port

Mad Jungle

Egypte

Castle

Museum

Mine

Iceberg

Teath Pass

Volcano

Botanic Garden (reverse)

Port (reverse)

Mad Jungle (reverse)

Egypte (reverse)

Castle (reverse)

Museum (reverse)

Mine (reverse)

Iceberg (reverse)

Teath Pass (reverse)

Volcano (reverse)

WILD WILD RACING (PlayStation 2)
The most classic PS2 offroad racer of them all, I love this game and I really needed to play a good racing game after having played so much Monster Racer lately.

I recorded a replay of a random Time Trial race.

LEGO Star Wars III The Clone Wars (3DS)
Just picking up where I left off earlier this year, I haven't gotten very far in this one yet.

Gale Gunner (PlayStation)
Basically Virtual On on PlayStation. I like it. It's a lot better than the N64 equivalent, whatever that was called, I forgot.

S.C.A.R.S. (PlayStation)
Just playing some of my favorite kart racer ever, after having suffered through the deeply flawed mediocrity that is Monster Racer I need to play some good racing games to make up for all the suckiness I've endured, plain and simple.

Bakugan Defenders of the Core (PlayStation Portable)
This game turned 8 years old on the 26th (NTSC-U release) and 29th (PAL release) so I'm celebrating with some awesome monster fighting goodness.

I recorded a battle from the PSP version between Neo Dragonoid and Ingram to celebrate.
(Swedish language)

Auto Racing (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
Playing the emulated version on PS2 using the Intellivision Lives! disc. It's daly not very good, running very slowly even on the fastest speed settings and with really bad audio emulation and audio glitches causing the tire brake noises to get stuck in annoying loops that rape the ears pretty badly around almost every turn.

I managed to record my favorite car on my favorite track though.

Auto Racing (Intellivision)
The difference between the real thing and the PS2 version is almost like playing two entirely different games.

Sonic 3D Flickies' Island (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)

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)

Gaming Purchases - Augusti 2018

Augusti 7th:

A trip to the local GameStop resulted in some interesting purchases to get this month started.

PlayStation 3:
Resonance of Fate
Rise of the Argonauts
Virtua Tennis 3

PlayStation 4:
BAJA Edge of Control HD (new)
CarmaGeddoN Max Damage (new)
PlayStation 4 Camera V2
PS4 PlayStation Move Motion Controller PlayStation VR Accessory Twin Pack (new and sealed)

..and some movies from another store.

DVD:
Anchorman 2 The Legend Continues (new and sealed)
Disney Cinderella III (new and sealed)
LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Justice League Gotham City Breakout (new and sealed)
LEGO Nexo Knights Episodes 16-20 (new and sealed)

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Augusti 10th:

A couple of movies from a movie store.

DVD:
The Man With The Iron Heart (2017)
Woody Woodpecker (2017)

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Augusti 11th:

Just some non-gaming secondhand shopping finds today.

DVD:
Bästa Knattefilmerna Vol. 1 Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll med flera (2007)
Karlsson på Taket TV-serien - Karlsson och John Blund (2002)
Karlsson på Taket TV-serien - Karlsson Dammsuger (2002)
My Little Pony Slottet Bland Molnen (2004) (5 episodes of My Little Pony 'n Friends (1986))

Building Blocks:
LEGO System 5875 Belville Hospital Ward (1994)
Sluban Girl's Dream M38-B0516 Mailing Letter

Other:
a bag of POGs

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Augusti 17th:

Just a couple of movies today.

DVD:
LEGO Jurassic World Indominus-Rex Rymning (LEGO Jurassic World The Indominus Escape, 2016)
Your Name (Makoto Shinkai, 2017)

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Augusti 18th:

Some secondhand finds today.

PC:
LEGO Rock Raiders

DVD:
Bakugan Gundalian Invaders Vol. 2 (2010)
Dunderklumpen! (1974)
Hacke Hackspett och hans vänner Vol. 6 (Woody Woodpecker and His Friends Vol. 6, 1940-1972)

Manga & Comics:
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 6 (paperback)
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 7 (paperback)
Hacke Hackspett (Woody Woodpecker, #10 1971)
Hacke Hackspett (Woody Woodpecker, #15 1973)
Hacke Hackspett (Woody Woodpecker, #4 1977)
Tom & Jerry (#2 1991)

LEGO:
a Bionicle figure with 4 arms (came with the manual and a cutout part of the original box)
a Hero Factory figure with handcuffs, shoulder cannon and a gun arm (came with the manual)
a wolf warrior of some sort with a double sword and a saw blade shield, possibly Hero Factory

Toys & Other:
Mighty Max, a big vampire skull with light-up glowing eyes (all figures and other detachables are missing)
a painting of two trolls on a bridge, a male troll who is fishing and a female troll who is smelling a flower, there is a crescent moon in the background
a Rubik's Cube, very smooth and easy to twist, possibly one of those that's commonly referred to as a speed cube

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Augusti 21th:

When grocery shopping I saw they had some movies on sale. I also bought the last Mountain Dew Cherry Blast they had, I hope they'll get more as it's my favorite, I'd hate if that one also is going out of production like so many other delishus sodas in the past.

DVD:
Snobben (Peanuts The Movie, 2015)
Star Wars The Force Awakens (2015)

Bluray:
Star Wars The Force Awakens (2015)

Game Purchases - Juni 2018

Juni 6th:

No gaming purchases yet, just a movie.

DVD:
Rock Dog (2017)

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Juni 8th:

A couple more movies.

DVD:
Godzilla (2014)

Bluray:
Smurfarna Den Försvunna Byn (The Smurfs Lost Village, 2017)

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Juni 14th:

Finally got some new games purchased today!

Wii:
The Simpsons Game (no manual)
Welcome to Animal Crossing: Let's go to the City

PlayStation 2:
Rollercoaster World (no manual)

PlayStation 3:
Ratchet & Clank Tools of Destruction (no manual)

PC:
FlatOut (Medallion)

DVD:
6e Dagen (The 6th Day, 2000)
Den Onda Dockan 3 (Child's Play 3, 2001)
Fruits Basket - The Complete Series (6 Disc Exclusive Collection)
LEGO Ninjago Masters of Spinjitzu Vol. 2
LEGO Ninjago Masters of Spinjitzu Vol. 3
Transformers (2007)

Bluray:
Jack Frost (1996)

LEGO:
Mini Taurus (buildable board game, the yellow playable microfigure character was missing, otherwise it was complete in box)

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Juni 25th:

And a few more movies.

DVD:
Bamse och Häxans Dotter (Bamse and the Witch's Daughter, 2016)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Bilar 3 (Cars 3, 2017)
Den Stora Nötkuppen 2 (The Nut Job 2, 2017)
Dumma Mej 3 (Despicable Me 3, 2017)
Leatherface (2015)
The Emoji Movie (2017)

Bluray:
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Justice League (2017)
Sing (2016)

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.

Game Purchases - April 2018

April 2nd:I made a trade with a friend today, my copy of Excite Bike for a copy of The Adventures of Bayou Billy and a copy of Slalom for Nintendo Entertainment System.

Entertainment System:
Slalom (cartridge only)
The Adventures of Bayou Billy (cartridge only)


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April 15th:

Not game related really but I haven't bought anything for a while now so anything of interest is worth posting at this point!

Magazine:
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic + polybag with Applejack in it


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April 18th:

Took two hour long walk to a nearby shopping center today and bought some neat stuff today.

Xbox 360 accessories:
Microsoft Xbox 360 controller mini-keyboard (used)

PlayStation 3 accessories:
Sony PlayStation 3 Bluray remote (used)

PlayStation 4:
Killzone Shadowfall (used)
Tearaway Unfolded (new)

Collectibles:
TOTAKU GameStop+ Exclusive WipEout Feisar FX350 ship figure (new)

Other:
3-pack Emoji Movie suprise chocolate eggs
3-pack My Little Pony Friendship is Magic suprise chocolate eggs
3-pack Transformers suprise chocolate eggs

Magazine:
Mickey Mouse + Lego Batman polybag set 30522 Batman in the Phantom Zone


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April 19th:

Some secondhand finds today.

PC:
Grand Theft Auto 2 (Xplosiv)
Need for Speed - Road Challenge
Street Tennis
TOCA 2 Touring Cars (Sold Out)

DVD:
Ace Ventura When Nature Calls (1995)
Below (2002)
Hercules in New York (1970)
The Passion (2009)

Other:
a bucket of assorted Lego Bionicle parts

..and a movie from a movie store.

DVD:
Norm of the North (2015)

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.