Juli 8th:
Visited the nearby GameStop again, probably for the last time, but who knows, they have open for 10 more days until Juli 18th before they close down forever, so it's not impossible I go there again within that time.
All games were pre-owned/used and the collectibles/other stuff was all new.
DS:
Disney's Brave (cartridge only)
Sonic Colours (cartridge only)
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (cartridge only)
PSP:
a white 2GB SONY Memorystick Pro Duo
PlayStation 3:
Get Fit With Mel B
We Dare
PlayStation 4:
Deception IV The Nightmare Princess
Xbox 360:
Far Cry 3 (disc only)
Le Tour de France
Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes (disc only)
PC:
a Piranha Rush Medium Mousepad (27x22cm)
Collectibles/Other:
two more StarLink Pilot Packs - Razor Lemay
four @play component+composite cable combo packs (compatible with PlayStation, PS2, PS3, Wii, WiiU and Xbox 360)
and two @play USB-charger cables for 3DS
also from other places I got some other random stuff
two battery powered red LED string lights
green 3,5mm in-ear earphones
two Zebra/Flying Tiger brand Build-Your-Own Dinosaur polybags (a red dilophosaurus and an orange velociraptor)
and a lot of candy (skittles both regular and wild berry, ahlgrens bilar grillbilar and limousiner, mentos fruit etc.)
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Juli 9th:
Ordered some more games, should arrive some time next week. All new, nothing second-hand/used/pre-owned this time.
UPDATE: package arrived and I went to pick it up on the 13th
Wii U:
Darksiders Warmastered Edition
Injustice Gods Among Us
Mass Effect 3 Special Edition
Skylanders Imaginators Starter Pack
PSP:
Syphon Filter Logan's Shadow (PSP Essentials)
Xbox 360:
Blades of Time
Other:
My Arcade Micro Player Retro Arcade BurgerTime!
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
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)
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)
ZombiU (american release, unplayable on my european Wii U)
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Gaming Purchases - May 2020
May 31st:
Today was Mothers Day in Sweden and I went to visit my mom who's been in the hospital recovering from surgery for pancreatic cancer for about a month.
We were allowed to see each other outside only due to the corona virus. She's well enough now that she could walk outside with a stroller holding her drip thing, and today the weather was very warm and sunny so it worked well.
On the way home I took a little detour to the only GameStop store still open in Sweden (they're open until 18th July), and I found some stuff!
All games were second-hand/pre-owned/used. Other stuff was new.
DS:
Elements of Destruction
MechAssault Phantom War
MTV FanAttack (already got a copy of this recently, but it was the cheapest DS game they had so I picked it up for the case)
Wii:
Baroque
PlayStation Portable:
Beaterator
Championship Manager
Football Manager Handheld 2010
Gunpey
NBA Live 07
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
PlayStation 3:
Atelier Rorona Plus The Alhcemist of Arland
Cabela's Dangerous Adventures
Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 3
Saints Row The Third (I already have this, when I meant to pick up Saints Row IV, I accidentally picked up the wrong damn game! D'oh!)
PlayStation Vita:
Aegis of Earth Protonovus Assault
FIFA 13
FIFA 14
Xbox 360:
Need for Speed ProStreet (Classics)
Collectibles/Other:
three Crash Bandicoot keyring figure blindbags (two were Crash, the other was Coco)
two Coco Bandicoot Totaku figures
a Lara Croft Temple of Osiris Totaku figure
two more packs of PlayStation themed decals (same type as I purchased recently)
Today was Mothers Day in Sweden and I went to visit my mom who's been in the hospital recovering from surgery for pancreatic cancer for about a month.
We were allowed to see each other outside only due to the corona virus. She's well enough now that she could walk outside with a stroller holding her drip thing, and today the weather was very warm and sunny so it worked well.
On the way home I took a little detour to the only GameStop store still open in Sweden (they're open until 18th July), and I found some stuff!
All games were second-hand/pre-owned/used. Other stuff was new.
DS:
Elements of Destruction
MechAssault Phantom War
MTV FanAttack (already got a copy of this recently, but it was the cheapest DS game they had so I picked it up for the case)
Wii:
Baroque
PlayStation Portable:
Beaterator
Championship Manager
Football Manager Handheld 2010
Gunpey
NBA Live 07
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
PlayStation 3:
Atelier Rorona Plus The Alhcemist of Arland
Cabela's Dangerous Adventures
Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 3
Saints Row The Third (I already have this, when I meant to pick up Saints Row IV, I accidentally picked up the wrong damn game! D'oh!)
PlayStation Vita:
Aegis of Earth Protonovus Assault
FIFA 13
FIFA 14
Xbox 360:
Need for Speed ProStreet (Classics)
Collectibles/Other:
three Crash Bandicoot keyring figure blindbags (two were Crash, the other was Coco)
two Coco Bandicoot Totaku figures
a Lara Croft Temple of Osiris Totaku figure
two more packs of PlayStation themed decals (same type as I purchased recently)
Thursday, January 23, 2020
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
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
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
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)
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)
Monday, June 17, 2019
Gaming Purchases - June 2019
June 17th:
A trip to the local GameStop to pick up a second PSX Mini as part of the Days of Play sale, it was reduced to 349kr, cheapest so far and a very fair price indeed. Also got some cheap DVD movies. All items were new and sealed, nothing second hand today.
Plug-&-Play:
PlayStation Classic
DVD:
Monster High - Dödsläckert Dubbeläventyr: Terrormin + Nytt monster i klassen (Fang-tastic Double Pack: Scaremester + New Ghoul @ School, 2015)
Välkommen till Monster High - Ursprungsberättelsen (Monster High - Welcome to Monster High, 2016)
Moonwalker - The *true story of how we landed on the moon (*well sort of...) (2015)
A trip to the local GameStop to pick up a second PSX Mini as part of the Days of Play sale, it was reduced to 349kr, cheapest so far and a very fair price indeed. Also got some cheap DVD movies. All items were new and sealed, nothing second hand today.
Plug-&-Play:
PlayStation Classic
DVD:
Monster High - Dödsläckert Dubbeläventyr: Terrormin + Nytt monster i klassen (Fang-tastic Double Pack: Scaremester + New Ghoul @ School, 2015)
Välkommen till Monster High - Ursprungsberättelsen (Monster High - Welcome to Monster High, 2016)
Moonwalker - The *true story of how we landed on the moon (*well sort of...) (2015)
Friday, February 1, 2019
Now Playing - Februari 2019
Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes (PlayStation 3)
Started a new game, it's a good game even if it's a bit small. The problems are frustrating at times but the fun you can have make up for them enough.
played some demos that were already on the PS3 Slim I bought, the two I tried out were Eufloria and Urban Trial Freestyle, both were good
Killzone HD (PlayStation 3)
Started a new game. Still my favorite in the series, though Mercenary on Vita is really fantastic too and I will play that again soon as well.
Shadow Fall on PS4 is another great one but I don't have a PS4 to play it on right now.
Killzone 2 (PlayStation 3)
trying it out, it's a LOT glitchier than I remember, but the extreme amount of invisible walls all over the place keeping you from exploring even a tiny amount are just as plentiful and claustrophobic as I remember, also I had forgotten you could carry less weapons than in the original Killzone, you can hold literally just one single weapon of choice, beise that you have a permagun with infinite ammo and grenades, if you want ANY other weapon than the one you already picked up you're gonna have to swap that one for the new one no matter how much you don't wanna drag that infinite pea shooting pistol around, no exceptions, ever, it sucks! This was a very big drop down from the quality of the original game on PS2, the only real upgrades are minor visual things like the polygonal detail, some special effects like bump maps and lens flares etc., higher screen resolution, bigger color depth and better framerates, but textures are actually much lower res than were in the original on PS2, so it's not all better (it fucking should be!).
Also the ability to play as different characters by choice (after they were unlocked) is gone as well, this really sucks as I loved being able to replay levels as the different characters to see what different paths they took and what they got to do when I was doing my thing elsewhere last time.
EyeCreate (PlayStation 3)
recorded some silly things
Sly Cooper Thieves in Time (PlayStation 3)
started a new game
Superstars Racing V8 (PlayStation 3)
SuperCar Challenge (PlayStation 3)
BAJA Edge of Control (PlayStation 3)
Columns (Master System)
Columns (Game Gear)
Columns (Mega Drive)
Total Carnage (Midway Arcade Origins, PlayStation 3)
played through it, got bad ending, not a great game to be honest, unbalanced and focused far too much to steal your money by artificially making it frustrating and unfairly hard, doesn't flow well at all, extremely repetitive, stiff and slow controls, it has some good visuals but that's about it
Loaded (PlayStation)
Tomb Raider Legend (Tomb Raider Trilogy, PlayStation 3)
Finally got to playing this and so far it's not very good, some visual problems with the new lighting and shadows engine are very apparent and don't look good at all and there have been some odd control glitches where stuff happens without me pressing anything, grandes have been tossed and weapon changes have happened mid combat when all I was doing was moving in a single direction and shooting with default guns normally, no other buttons being pressed, very annoying. It also seems to have missed some of the treasures I know for a fact I picked up, I had to replay Lara's Mansion 5 times already to pick up the same damn treasure it kept ignoring when I picked it up.
I'll see it through to the end though as I know this game very well having played through most versions of it over the years. Not a good start though, not good at all, so far it's the worst port of this version of the game I've played, not counting the GBA or DS versions as they are not ports of this version but entirely different games made from the ground up for both those systems respectively.
Started a new game, it's a good game even if it's a bit small. The problems are frustrating at times but the fun you can have make up for them enough.
played some demos that were already on the PS3 Slim I bought, the two I tried out were Eufloria and Urban Trial Freestyle, both were good
Killzone HD (PlayStation 3)
Started a new game. Still my favorite in the series, though Mercenary on Vita is really fantastic too and I will play that again soon as well.
Shadow Fall on PS4 is another great one but I don't have a PS4 to play it on right now.
Killzone 2 (PlayStation 3)
trying it out, it's a LOT glitchier than I remember, but the extreme amount of invisible walls all over the place keeping you from exploring even a tiny amount are just as plentiful and claustrophobic as I remember, also I had forgotten you could carry less weapons than in the original Killzone, you can hold literally just one single weapon of choice, beise that you have a permagun with infinite ammo and grenades, if you want ANY other weapon than the one you already picked up you're gonna have to swap that one for the new one no matter how much you don't wanna drag that infinite pea shooting pistol around, no exceptions, ever, it sucks! This was a very big drop down from the quality of the original game on PS2, the only real upgrades are minor visual things like the polygonal detail, some special effects like bump maps and lens flares etc., higher screen resolution, bigger color depth and better framerates, but textures are actually much lower res than were in the original on PS2, so it's not all better (it fucking should be!).
Also the ability to play as different characters by choice (after they were unlocked) is gone as well, this really sucks as I loved being able to replay levels as the different characters to see what different paths they took and what they got to do when I was doing my thing elsewhere last time.
EyeCreate (PlayStation 3)
recorded some silly things
Sly Cooper Thieves in Time (PlayStation 3)
started a new game
Superstars Racing V8 (PlayStation 3)
SuperCar Challenge (PlayStation 3)
BAJA Edge of Control (PlayStation 3)
Columns (Master System)
Columns (Game Gear)
Columns (Mega Drive)
Total Carnage (Midway Arcade Origins, PlayStation 3)
played through it, got bad ending, not a great game to be honest, unbalanced and focused far too much to steal your money by artificially making it frustrating and unfairly hard, doesn't flow well at all, extremely repetitive, stiff and slow controls, it has some good visuals but that's about it
Loaded (PlayStation)
Tomb Raider Legend (Tomb Raider Trilogy, PlayStation 3)
Finally got to playing this and so far it's not very good, some visual problems with the new lighting and shadows engine are very apparent and don't look good at all and there have been some odd control glitches where stuff happens without me pressing anything, grandes have been tossed and weapon changes have happened mid combat when all I was doing was moving in a single direction and shooting with default guns normally, no other buttons being pressed, very annoying. It also seems to have missed some of the treasures I know for a fact I picked up, I had to replay Lara's Mansion 5 times already to pick up the same damn treasure it kept ignoring when I picked it up.
I'll see it through to the end though as I know this game very well having played through most versions of it over the years. Not a good start though, not good at all, so far it's the worst port of this version of the game I've played, not counting the GBA or DS versions as they are not ports of this version but entirely different games made from the ground up for both those systems respectively.
Thursday, January 10, 2019
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
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
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Now Playing - Januari 2019
CastleVania Symphony of the Night (PlayStation, played on PlayStation Portable)
created a new game file for my annual playthrough of 2019, calling it "MM X IX"
Shinobi (3DS)
playing around a bit in the free play mode with some of the unlockable cheats, it's definitely better but you're still limited to what you've unlocked in the normal mode, so it's not a lot to have fun with until you've suffered through til the end of the main mode and at least unlocked all the levels to free play in
Rouge The Bat in Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive)
A homebrew hack/mod of Sonic The Hedgehog that replaces Sonic with Rouge, fully custom adapted with her own graphics, new unique moves and abilities.
New favorite game of all time? Nah, it'd need an official version and physical release and preferably a new game to go with the new stuff this one has in it, but for what it is, a hack of the original Sonic game, it's exceptionally well made and I love it. As a Rouge fan this is one of the best games I've ever played for sure.
Wacky Races (Mega Drive, emulated prototype ROM)
Easily the best kart racer of the 16-bit generation in the things it gets right, with just a little bit more tweaking and some other minor things it would've been perfect, sadly it was never finished and remains only available as an unreleased prototype ROM, but wow what a prototype, it has FMV, polygonal graphics, excellent sprite quality, lots of high quality animation and tons of high quality sample based audio and on top of it all it plays with a good framerate and high speed, the controls are a bit of a mixed bag but they are functional and better than some games that did get released, so there was great potential in close reach.
It's easily one of the most technically impressive games of the 16-bit generation, and that says a thing or two when you look at some of the best competition for technical achievements that generation had.
Beam Rider (Intellivision)
A very good space shooter with a 3D viewpoint.
The Last of Us (PlayStation 3)
Trying it out on my newly purchased PS3 Slim while also testing the controllers I got for it, all works well, had to safe mode reset it to work though as it was set up for HDMI display so I got no image or sound on my old SDTV at first, thankfully it's easy to do, just hold the power button down until you hear a second beep and it's pretty much done and you can play as normal.
Had to start a new game of course, but I haven't played the game in so long that I was planning on starting over anyway as my old save file from 2015 on my Super Slim is so old now that I don't even remember where I was, I think Fall, but more than that I dunno, I just know I hadn't gotten to Winter yet, at least.
Ratchet & Clank Tools of Destruction (PlayStation 3)
Finally getting into this game, it's pretty good so far, it looks good, plays smoothly, worst thing has been that a lot of side paths and stuff to pick up is missable so extremely easily, so now already I have to go back and redo stuff from all the way back from the beginning of the game as you're not allowed to backtrack in the levels at all, they're linear and almost every step forward blocks your ability to go back even a single room or area, very annoying when you know there was more stuff back there if only you could open that door again that was open without any issues just a second ago or jump back on the platform just over there where you should easily be able to reach, but no, they're permanently blocked off unless you restart the whole level from the start, I really hate that, it makes the levels feel far less impressive and open, they look big and open ended but it's literally just a pretty corridor.
Space Debris (PlayStation)
Cool Boarders (PlayStation)
It's been a long time since I played this one, it's still one of the best snowboarding games ever, easy to get into, fun to play.
Super Sprint (as part of Midway Arcade Origins, played on PlayStation 3)
Spent a few hours getting over 257000 points, it gets repetitive after a while and the emulation is not perfect, but it's enjoyable enough for a gameplay session from time to time.
created a new game file for my annual playthrough of 2019, calling it "MM X IX"
Shinobi (3DS)
playing around a bit in the free play mode with some of the unlockable cheats, it's definitely better but you're still limited to what you've unlocked in the normal mode, so it's not a lot to have fun with until you've suffered through til the end of the main mode and at least unlocked all the levels to free play in
Rouge The Bat in Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive)
A homebrew hack/mod of Sonic The Hedgehog that replaces Sonic with Rouge, fully custom adapted with her own graphics, new unique moves and abilities.
New favorite game of all time? Nah, it'd need an official version and physical release and preferably a new game to go with the new stuff this one has in it, but for what it is, a hack of the original Sonic game, it's exceptionally well made and I love it. As a Rouge fan this is one of the best games I've ever played for sure.
Wacky Races (Mega Drive, emulated prototype ROM)
Easily the best kart racer of the 16-bit generation in the things it gets right, with just a little bit more tweaking and some other minor things it would've been perfect, sadly it was never finished and remains only available as an unreleased prototype ROM, but wow what a prototype, it has FMV, polygonal graphics, excellent sprite quality, lots of high quality animation and tons of high quality sample based audio and on top of it all it plays with a good framerate and high speed, the controls are a bit of a mixed bag but they are functional and better than some games that did get released, so there was great potential in close reach.
It's easily one of the most technically impressive games of the 16-bit generation, and that says a thing or two when you look at some of the best competition for technical achievements that generation had.
Beam Rider (Intellivision)
A very good space shooter with a 3D viewpoint.
The Last of Us (PlayStation 3)
Trying it out on my newly purchased PS3 Slim while also testing the controllers I got for it, all works well, had to safe mode reset it to work though as it was set up for HDMI display so I got no image or sound on my old SDTV at first, thankfully it's easy to do, just hold the power button down until you hear a second beep and it's pretty much done and you can play as normal.
Had to start a new game of course, but I haven't played the game in so long that I was planning on starting over anyway as my old save file from 2015 on my Super Slim is so old now that I don't even remember where I was, I think Fall, but more than that I dunno, I just know I hadn't gotten to Winter yet, at least.
Ratchet & Clank Tools of Destruction (PlayStation 3)
Finally getting into this game, it's pretty good so far, it looks good, plays smoothly, worst thing has been that a lot of side paths and stuff to pick up is missable so extremely easily, so now already I have to go back and redo stuff from all the way back from the beginning of the game as you're not allowed to backtrack in the levels at all, they're linear and almost every step forward blocks your ability to go back even a single room or area, very annoying when you know there was more stuff back there if only you could open that door again that was open without any issues just a second ago or jump back on the platform just over there where you should easily be able to reach, but no, they're permanently blocked off unless you restart the whole level from the start, I really hate that, it makes the levels feel far less impressive and open, they look big and open ended but it's literally just a pretty corridor.
Space Debris (PlayStation)
Cool Boarders (PlayStation)
It's been a long time since I played this one, it's still one of the best snowboarding games ever, easy to get into, fun to play.
Super Sprint (as part of Midway Arcade Origins, played on PlayStation 3)
Spent a few hours getting over 257000 points, it gets repetitive after a while and the emulation is not perfect, but it's enjoyable enough for a gameplay session from time to time.
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Now Playing - December 2018
Dodgem Arena (PlayStation)
Newman Haas Indycar Racing (PlayStation)
Formula One (PlayStation)
Eragon (Game Boy Advance)
Unlike the PSP game which I enjoy greatly, this is a slow generic RPG style game with somewhat action-oriented turn-based combat, you press combos using A and B rather than select your move from a list, so it's like an extremely dumbed down and simplified Legend of Legaia or Xenogears type of system, it's not a bad game but I have fantastic RPGs to play, this has literally nothing that draws me in, it exclusively makes me want to play any of the countless better games that do the same kind of things endlessly better.
DT Racer (PlayStation 2)
Chip Shot Super Pro Golf (Intellivision, played as part of Intellivision Lives! on PlayStation 2)
Played this for Intellivision Day, December 3rd. I was originally planning to play lots of varied games and especially focusing on my favorite, Auto Racing, but I was away and busy most of the day so I didn't have time for that and decided to instead focus on some game I hadn't played that much that I still knew was good, and Chip Shot Super Pro Golf fit that criteria perfectly.
It's a really good golf game, one of if not the best I've ever played.
It's easy to get into and doesn't have any issues like more modern golf games and it's not as limited and basic as older and other contemporary games from back then were either, it's a virtually perfect mix of simple and to the point level of entry with just the right amount of complexity and advanced features to add the necessary depth for it to not get boring over time.
Auto Racing (Intellivision, played as part of Intellivision Lives! on PlayStation 2)
Set a new best time of 7:11 on my favorite track 3 with the red car.
Golf (Intellivision, played as part of Intellivision Lives! on PlayStation 2)
It's almost unplayable because of how the controls fail to emulate the analog disc of the Intellivision controller which is required for the aiming in this game, having only 8 directions to aim forces you to at least double, triple and even quadruple your amount of swings as you simply can't aim where you want and have to zig-zag and divide your swings up with the few directions you can aim in, it takes almost all enjoyment out of the game to say the least. Such a shame.
Chip Shot Super Pro Golf (Intellivision)
With the proper colors it's much easier to see the direction of the incline on the green and where the hole is, unlike in the Intellivision Lives! emulated version on PS2 which fucks up the colors pretty bad for this game in particular.
Soccer (Intellivision)
used it to test if my newly purchased INTV System III worked without any issues, everything seems to be working fine
Pac-Man (Intellivision)
Popeye (Intellivision)
BurgerTime! (Intellivision)
Auto Racing (Intellivision, emulated on PlayStation Portable)
It's embarrassing how insanely much better this emulates than the official Intellivision Lives! version on the stronger PlayStation 2 hardware. This emulator even emulates switching to the 2nd controller, making games like Auto Racing playable as it normally requires both controllers to start the game even in single player mode, while on PS2 you still need two controllers for that.
The emulator isn't perfect and there can be some glitches (especially with emulation speed being too fast, but a quick restart of the emulator fixes that and it only seems to occur after having been awakened from after being in sleep mode) and some games don't seem to work (not sure why but there seem to be some config file that is required by the emulator that I don't have set up properly, I'll look more into that in the future), but for now at least my beloved Auto Racing plays great and it's awesome to be able to play it properly and portable, I love it.
Super Mario Land (Game Boy)
Got some new batteries for my old Game Boy and playing through Super Mario Land a few times is a great way to get back into the Game Boy groove.
Smashing Drive (Game Boy Advance)
Finally getting to play this on real hardware, I've tried it emulated before and it seemed really interesting, it's a really fun arcade style checkpoint race and crash type game with over the top powerups and lots of action. It's a bit on the short side with only 4 levels but they multiple segments to them and each segment has alternate paths and secrets to find. I like it and will continue to look for a console version.
3D Rubik's Cube 2 (flash game on PC)
an excellent Rubik's Cube game for PC made entirely in flash
it had multiple sizes of cubes and full color customization for the different sides so you can get it just right, controls are also good and it plays smoothly even on my weak old PC
Here's a link to the .swf file: 3D Rubik's Cube 2
Night Stalker (Intellivision, played as part of Intellivision Lives! on PlayStation 2)
Shinobi (3DS)
A lackluster, low budget game in an otherwise great series. Controls are clunky, level design and enemy placement is awful, enemy respawning is annoying, pickups are either completely useless for gameplay (most just give a few points) or useless because they don't give what you need nor want (for example: after segments where you're guaranteed to take damage you get a shuriken throwing powerup or something instead of a health pickup, in other places after you've started a new level or something you get a full health pickup when you already have full health). The parry move that allows you to nullify enemy attacks is both laggy and hard to judge when you're executed, it also has lag frames after so you can't do it with every attack no matter how good you are at the timing, the game makes it completely useless when you're attacked multiple times in short succession, everything else you do also has a lag to it and lag frames after, so you're open to attacks almost constantly and there's no way to make it better, you can't improve your skills to overcome, it's just a bad game design limitation.
It also has shit poor checkpoints and you have to replay enormous parts of levels that are easily big enough to count as levels on their own all in one go, so even when playing on easy where you have infinite continues and the enemies are weaker than on normal or hard, it's still an extremely repetitive chore to play if you just happen to fall down an invisibly hidden insta-death pit after having gone through a whole huge area only to find that nope, there wasn't a single checkpoint anywhere during that place.
The visuals are literally on DS levels with unfiltered textures, low poly 3D detail and aliasing galore (even when turning off the stereoscopic effect), the framerated is also not perfect in stereoscopic mode (as is a common problem on 3DS, sadly) and the game is very dark and enemies and hazards don't stand out at all with little to no contrast from the environment and sometimes they're just plain hidden behind foreground objects making it literally impossible to avoid taking damage from their "suprise motherfucker" attacks, also touch damage on everything: touch an enemy's toe? take full damage as if he cut you with a sword.
All cut scenes are 2D cartoony video, as in 2D animated style and no 3D effects for the 3DS, despite this being a 3DS exclusive. I've played several multiplat games with custom 3DS stuff in them like the pre-rendered cutscenes being rendered with stereoscopic effects, but not in this exclusive 3DS title!
It offers an "easy" mode for beginners of the series that allows infinite continues and weaker enemies, as in normal and hard have limited lives and enemies you have to keep hitting until they die, constantly slowing the game to a crawl and making it artificially annoying that you have to restart the whole game if you run out of lives, it's as bad as old games only this had no excuse as it came out in modern times.
Sub Rebellion (PlayStation 2)
Basically a mix of AquaNox and Armored Core, two of my favorite games ever, so yeah this game is awesome. It's also made by Irem, makers of R-Type, so that's a triple treat right there!
Space Debris (PlayStation)
One of the finest third-person semi-on-rail shooters ever made.
Newman Haas Indycar Racing (PlayStation)
Formula One (PlayStation)
Eragon (Game Boy Advance)
Unlike the PSP game which I enjoy greatly, this is a slow generic RPG style game with somewhat action-oriented turn-based combat, you press combos using A and B rather than select your move from a list, so it's like an extremely dumbed down and simplified Legend of Legaia or Xenogears type of system, it's not a bad game but I have fantastic RPGs to play, this has literally nothing that draws me in, it exclusively makes me want to play any of the countless better games that do the same kind of things endlessly better.
DT Racer (PlayStation 2)
Chip Shot Super Pro Golf (Intellivision, played as part of Intellivision Lives! on PlayStation 2)
Played this for Intellivision Day, December 3rd. I was originally planning to play lots of varied games and especially focusing on my favorite, Auto Racing, but I was away and busy most of the day so I didn't have time for that and decided to instead focus on some game I hadn't played that much that I still knew was good, and Chip Shot Super Pro Golf fit that criteria perfectly.
It's a really good golf game, one of if not the best I've ever played.
It's easy to get into and doesn't have any issues like more modern golf games and it's not as limited and basic as older and other contemporary games from back then were either, it's a virtually perfect mix of simple and to the point level of entry with just the right amount of complexity and advanced features to add the necessary depth for it to not get boring over time.
Auto Racing (Intellivision, played as part of Intellivision Lives! on PlayStation 2)
Set a new best time of 7:11 on my favorite track 3 with the red car.
Golf (Intellivision, played as part of Intellivision Lives! on PlayStation 2)
It's almost unplayable because of how the controls fail to emulate the analog disc of the Intellivision controller which is required for the aiming in this game, having only 8 directions to aim forces you to at least double, triple and even quadruple your amount of swings as you simply can't aim where you want and have to zig-zag and divide your swings up with the few directions you can aim in, it takes almost all enjoyment out of the game to say the least. Such a shame.
Chip Shot Super Pro Golf (Intellivision)
With the proper colors it's much easier to see the direction of the incline on the green and where the hole is, unlike in the Intellivision Lives! emulated version on PS2 which fucks up the colors pretty bad for this game in particular.
Soccer (Intellivision)
used it to test if my newly purchased INTV System III worked without any issues, everything seems to be working fine
Pac-Man (Intellivision)
Popeye (Intellivision)
BurgerTime! (Intellivision)
Auto Racing (Intellivision, emulated on PlayStation Portable)
It's embarrassing how insanely much better this emulates than the official Intellivision Lives! version on the stronger PlayStation 2 hardware. This emulator even emulates switching to the 2nd controller, making games like Auto Racing playable as it normally requires both controllers to start the game even in single player mode, while on PS2 you still need two controllers for that.
The emulator isn't perfect and there can be some glitches (especially with emulation speed being too fast, but a quick restart of the emulator fixes that and it only seems to occur after having been awakened from after being in sleep mode) and some games don't seem to work (not sure why but there seem to be some config file that is required by the emulator that I don't have set up properly, I'll look more into that in the future), but for now at least my beloved Auto Racing plays great and it's awesome to be able to play it properly and portable, I love it.
Super Mario Land (Game Boy)
Got some new batteries for my old Game Boy and playing through Super Mario Land a few times is a great way to get back into the Game Boy groove.
Smashing Drive (Game Boy Advance)
Finally getting to play this on real hardware, I've tried it emulated before and it seemed really interesting, it's a really fun arcade style checkpoint race and crash type game with over the top powerups and lots of action. It's a bit on the short side with only 4 levels but they multiple segments to them and each segment has alternate paths and secrets to find. I like it and will continue to look for a console version.
3D Rubik's Cube 2 (flash game on PC)
an excellent Rubik's Cube game for PC made entirely in flash
it had multiple sizes of cubes and full color customization for the different sides so you can get it just right, controls are also good and it plays smoothly even on my weak old PC
Here's a link to the .swf file: 3D Rubik's Cube 2
Night Stalker (Intellivision, played as part of Intellivision Lives! on PlayStation 2)
Shinobi (3DS)
A lackluster, low budget game in an otherwise great series. Controls are clunky, level design and enemy placement is awful, enemy respawning is annoying, pickups are either completely useless for gameplay (most just give a few points) or useless because they don't give what you need nor want (for example: after segments where you're guaranteed to take damage you get a shuriken throwing powerup or something instead of a health pickup, in other places after you've started a new level or something you get a full health pickup when you already have full health). The parry move that allows you to nullify enemy attacks is both laggy and hard to judge when you're executed, it also has lag frames after so you can't do it with every attack no matter how good you are at the timing, the game makes it completely useless when you're attacked multiple times in short succession, everything else you do also has a lag to it and lag frames after, so you're open to attacks almost constantly and there's no way to make it better, you can't improve your skills to overcome, it's just a bad game design limitation.
It also has shit poor checkpoints and you have to replay enormous parts of levels that are easily big enough to count as levels on their own all in one go, so even when playing on easy where you have infinite continues and the enemies are weaker than on normal or hard, it's still an extremely repetitive chore to play if you just happen to fall down an invisibly hidden insta-death pit after having gone through a whole huge area only to find that nope, there wasn't a single checkpoint anywhere during that place.
The visuals are literally on DS levels with unfiltered textures, low poly 3D detail and aliasing galore (even when turning off the stereoscopic effect), the framerated is also not perfect in stereoscopic mode (as is a common problem on 3DS, sadly) and the game is very dark and enemies and hazards don't stand out at all with little to no contrast from the environment and sometimes they're just plain hidden behind foreground objects making it literally impossible to avoid taking damage from their "suprise motherfucker" attacks, also touch damage on everything: touch an enemy's toe? take full damage as if he cut you with a sword.
All cut scenes are 2D cartoony video, as in 2D animated style and no 3D effects for the 3DS, despite this being a 3DS exclusive. I've played several multiplat games with custom 3DS stuff in them like the pre-rendered cutscenes being rendered with stereoscopic effects, but not in this exclusive 3DS title!
It offers an "easy" mode for beginners of the series that allows infinite continues and weaker enemies, as in normal and hard have limited lives and enemies you have to keep hitting until they die, constantly slowing the game to a crawl and making it artificially annoying that you have to restart the whole game if you run out of lives, it's as bad as old games only this had no excuse as it came out in modern times.
Sub Rebellion (PlayStation 2)
Basically a mix of AquaNox and Armored Core, two of my favorite games ever, so yeah this game is awesome. It's also made by Irem, makers of R-Type, so that's a triple treat right there!
Space Debris (PlayStation)
One of the finest third-person semi-on-rail shooters ever made.
Gaming Purchases - December 2018
01:00 at night from Friday, 30th November to Saturday, December 1st:
Ordered some awesome stuff online, should arrive later next week.
UPDATE: It's Friday 7th today and it still hasn't arrived, maybe next week?
UPDATE: It arrived and I went to pick it up on Saturday the 8th
Intellivision:
INTV System III (console, both hardwired controllers work, power cable and RF cable with RF Game/TV switcher box)
Soccer (complete in box with manual and two overlays)
Game Boy Advance:
Smashing Drive (cartridge only)
PlayStation:
Space Debris (complete in box with manual)
PlayStation 2:
Sub Rebellion (complete in box with manual)
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December 13th:
ordered online today
UPDATE: it arrived in my mailbox on the 18th
PlayStation 2:
a third party Dual Shock 2 replica controller
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December 14th:
at the local GameStop
3DS:
Shinobi (pre-owned)
PlayStation 3:
BlazBlue Calamity Trigger (pre-owned)
The Last of Us (pre-owned)
PlayStation 4:
Redout: Race Faster Than Ever - Lightspeed Edition
Collectibles:
Totaku Collection: WipEout AG-SYS (First Edition)
Starlink: Battle for Atlas - Starship Pack: Pulse (ship) + Volcano (gun attachment) + Calisto "Chase" da Silva (character)
from another store
Electric Bug Zapper Lantern (green)
Mickey Mouse comic + LEGO Star Wars Imperial AT-Hauler ship polybag
LEGO Nexo Knights magazine + Princess Macy with her Thunder Hammer
and from a third store
a small portable battery powered LED light chain (black)
a small regular electric powered LED light chain (black)
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December 20th:
some secondhand finds
DVD:
Aladdin och Rövarnas Konung (Disney)
Barbie i Svansjön
Barbie - Fairytopia
Barbie - En Perfekt Jul
The Bunker (2001)
HDDVD:
King Kong (Peter Jackson)
Vinyl Records:
Bernard & Bianca i Australien (Disney)
Den Lilla Sjöjungfrun (Disney)
Göstas Skiva
Juletid
Juletid
Jul
CD:
Hassan (P3)
Books/Comics:
Hassan (P3)
Kim Possible - Rädda Världen (Disney)
Sabina - Serier för Tjejer (1990)
Sabina - Serier för Tjejer (1991)
Other:
a hand carved alabaster stone egg (made in Italy)
clothing blueprints (five different, women's clothing only, with illustrated art covers)
a 1x2x3 Rubik's Cube (McDonalds, Secret Life of Pets)
a 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube (McDonalds, Minions)
a yo-yo that lights up when it spins (Skittles)
a wallet (Disney's Cars)
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December 21th:
some movies
DVD:
Barbie - Delfiner och Magi
Biet Maya - På nya honungsäventyr
Encounter
Grottmannen Dug
Maze Runner - The Death Cure
Peter Rabbit
The Titan
Bluray:
The Titan
Ordered some awesome stuff online, should arrive later next week.
UPDATE: It's Friday 7th today and it still hasn't arrived, maybe next week?
UPDATE: It arrived and I went to pick it up on Saturday the 8th
Intellivision:
INTV System III (console, both hardwired controllers work, power cable and RF cable with RF Game/TV switcher box)
Soccer (complete in box with manual and two overlays)
Game Boy Advance:
Smashing Drive (cartridge only)
PlayStation:
Space Debris (complete in box with manual)
PlayStation 2:
Sub Rebellion (complete in box with manual)
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December 13th:
ordered online today
UPDATE: it arrived in my mailbox on the 18th
PlayStation 2:
a third party Dual Shock 2 replica controller
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December 14th:
at the local GameStop
3DS:
Shinobi (pre-owned)
PlayStation 3:
BlazBlue Calamity Trigger (pre-owned)
The Last of Us (pre-owned)
PlayStation 4:
Redout: Race Faster Than Ever - Lightspeed Edition
Collectibles:
Totaku Collection: WipEout AG-SYS (First Edition)
Starlink: Battle for Atlas - Starship Pack: Pulse (ship) + Volcano (gun attachment) + Calisto "Chase" da Silva (character)
from another store
Electric Bug Zapper Lantern (green)
Mickey Mouse comic + LEGO Star Wars Imperial AT-Hauler ship polybag
LEGO Nexo Knights magazine + Princess Macy with her Thunder Hammer
and from a third store
a small portable battery powered LED light chain (black)
a small regular electric powered LED light chain (black)
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December 20th:
some secondhand finds
DVD:
Aladdin och Rövarnas Konung (Disney)
Barbie i Svansjön
Barbie - Fairytopia
Barbie - En Perfekt Jul
The Bunker (2001)
HDDVD:
King Kong (Peter Jackson)
Vinyl Records:
Bernard & Bianca i Australien (Disney)
Den Lilla Sjöjungfrun (Disney)
Göstas Skiva
Juletid
Juletid
Jul
CD:
Hassan (P3)
Books/Comics:
Hassan (P3)
Kim Possible - Rädda Världen (Disney)
Sabina - Serier för Tjejer (1990)
Sabina - Serier för Tjejer (1991)
Other:
a hand carved alabaster stone egg (made in Italy)
clothing blueprints (five different, women's clothing only, with illustrated art covers)
a 1x2x3 Rubik's Cube (McDonalds, Secret Life of Pets)
a 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube (McDonalds, Minions)
a yo-yo that lights up when it spins (Skittles)
a wallet (Disney's Cars)
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December 21th:
some movies
DVD:
Barbie - Delfiner och Magi
Biet Maya - På nya honungsäventyr
Encounter
Grottmannen Dug
Maze Runner - The Death Cure
Peter Rabbit
The Titan
Bluray:
The Titan
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Now Playing - November 2018
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
Sonic 3D Flickies' Island (Mega Drive)
Auto Racing (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
It's still not as good as the real thing but it's still good enough to have some fun with.
Bomb Squad (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
This one is borderline unplayable, the heavy use of the numeric keypad and bad control emulation ruins a lot of the intuitive nature of the game and like most games on this disc the lack of proper instructions makes it so you have to look up extra stuff online to get a good idea what to even do.
Thankfully I already know how to play most these games properly but for others who want to get into Intellivision are gonna have a very hard time with this collection, sadly. It does not show off the awesomeness of the real games running on original hardware, that's for sure.
Skiing (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
Enduro (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
This one I am not so familiar with, but I'm trying to get the hang of it, I'm getting better.
Stadium Mud Buggies (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
Sonic The Hedgehog (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
Sadly they've just lazily taken the 60hz NTSC roms and slowed them down to play at 50hz for this collection, so the games run and sound slow and weird, far from the real 50hz PAL original versions on original hardware.
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
Sonic 3D Flickies' Island (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
WRC Rally Evolved (PlayStation 2)
A really great rally game with some cool extreme weather effects and stuff, kinda similar to games like Motorstorm Apocalypse or Split/Second.
WRC 4 (PlayStation 2)
A great rally game, it's basically like WRC Rally Evolved but focused on regular rally racing only. Both are great games.
Rally Championship (PlayStation 2)
A fantastic arcade rally game, I love the driving physics, the music is awesome, this may be a new contender for the best [arcade] rally game I've ever played. I can't seem to wipe off the huge dumb grin I get on my face when playing this.
Jet Ion GP (PlayStation 2)
A nostalgic classic for me, I think it was the third or possibly fourth game I got for my PS2 back in the day.
New York Race (PlayStation 2)
I got this game less than a year ago but originally I could've gotten it instead of Jet Ion GP.
Now finally I've been able to compare both side by side and truly see if I made the right choice when I picked Jet Ion GP over New York Race all those years ago.
I have to say yes, I made the right choice, as good as New York Race is, I like Jet Ion GP better. I'm glad to finally have both though.
Sonic CD (Sonic Gems Collection, PlayStation 2)
Beat is with the bad ending but I did probably my personal best run ever, with only having lost one life during the whole playthrough, obtaining 5 of the time stones and getting the good future in I think 8 or 9 stages.
Sonic Unleashed (PlayStation 2)
This game is awful.
It's the same version that is on Wii so I can't even imagine how bad that one must be if it's this game with broken motion controls..
I have the Xbox 360 version, which is different from the PS2/Wii versions, but I haven't played that one yet. I'm guessing it's probably really awful as well, maybe not quite as bad as this one but still really bad, I have no reason to think they made it better in any way that counts, the atrocious Sonic Generations I have on Xbox 360 has made sure I can exclusively assume the very worst of all modern Sonic games.
As a side note, anyone who dares complain about even a single tiny little thing about Sonic 06 needs to play this (and/or Sonic Generations) to see what truly bad Sonic games are like, then they need to beg on their bare knees to Sonic 06 for forgiveness.
Crash of the Titans (PlayStation 2)
I didn't have much hope for this being good but it suprised me, in fact it's one of the better 3D platformers I've played.
Good visuals, good gameplay, good controls, good level design, very good multilingual voice acting.
The combat could've been a bit better in the responsiveness and control, but the ability to take over large enemies and use their abilities adds a nice variety and depth to the combat and gameplay of the entire game, so overall that's all still good too.
Offroad Extreme! (PlayStation 2)
I have this on Wii and played it a few years ago, it was pretty bad with the visuals and framerate but I remember it having really responsive and accurate motion controls, far better than any other Wii game in fact, and now I've tried out the PS2 version and can safely say the framerate, visuals and controls are all much better than in the Wii version, as good as the Wii version's controls are they are to no suprise infinitely better with an analog stick, and the visuals actually look okay in this, still low budget looking but they run silky smooth and the environments and textures don't look weird like they did on Wii.
Simply put, the PS2 version is clearly superior in every way to the newer Wii version, and keep in mind that Wii had a more than twice as powerful CPU than PS2 and twice as much RAM memory.
Armored Core (PlayStation)
Made the Shadow The Hedgehog logo as an emblem. Also began work on a My Little Pony emblem of the old cartoon (My Little Pony Tales) show logo.
Dead Or Alive 2 (PlayStation 2)
LEGO Batman The Videogame (PlayStation 2)
Saint Seiya The Hades (PlayStation 2)
What a disappointment. I enjoyed the anime series back in the day, Hilda De Polaris being my favorite character, but this game is just awful.
Ugly, poor controls, repetitive, limited gameplay and game modes, awful game design with enemies being allowed to revive themselves multiple times before you defeat them but you game over instantly if you lose once, enemies are either super easy and can be defeated by repeating a single attack or they are impossibly hard and spam super moves that can't be dodged that drain 95% of your health in one hit, japanese voices only, retarded dialog options you have to unlock before they are actual options but you still have to pick the only option available as if you had a choice only to waste your time and slow down the already awful excuses for cutscenes.
I really didn't find a single redeemable feature in this game. I didn't even get to see Hilda.
DT Racer (PlayStation 2)
Feels good to play my favorite racing game of all time again.
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow (PlayStation 2)
Awful gameplay design, atrocious tutorial design, garbage programming and optimization with tons of unnecessary in-level loading times and framerate issues, glitches, artificial limitations on what you can do making a vast majority of the moves you have at your disposal unusable, bad voice acting, extremely poor script with cringe worthy dialogue from everyone, continuity problems severely limiting your freedom of options in the levels.
It's a bad game, plain and simple. Play a good stealth action game instead, there are many of them, even in the same series there are better ones that are older, this one is simply one of the worst, avoid it entirely, you're not missing out on anything good if you never play this, you're just saving yourself from a headache and frustration.
The Italian Job L.A. Heist (PlayStation 2)
One of those potentially fantastic games that was ruined by absolutely retarded progress design. Unless you super master every single little corner of the game with every car and save your progress you'll never see a vast majority of it, not even in multiplayer mode which could've been great and fun had they just had everything unlocked to enjoy. Having to perfect the entire singleplayer experience to have anything fun in multiplayer is at best insult to injury. Such a shame. it plays great otherwise, looks great too. Tight controls and fun stunt moves, it has so many top quality attributes it's nothing short of impressive how they managed to systematically go through all the trouble of locking down the entire game and making it one of the hardest games ever to unlock even a single new thing in. One of the best examples of all time on how not to design a game's difficulty and means of progression.
Cold Winter (PlayStation 2)
An overall mediocre FPS with a great physics engine, tons of interactivity and great dynamic lighting and shadows, too bad none of that is used and it plays more similar to Wolfenstein 3D or Doom than, say, a stealth game or something.
Battle Engine Aquila (PlayStation 2)
Good old cockpit view mech shooter. I wish it would've had a third person view but it's still a good game, some repetitive missions and sadly as always with game like this the developers just had to force in annoying protect and escort missions to ruin the fun.
Star Wars Racer Revenge (PlayStation 2)
I like it, it's fast, looks good, controls good, sounds good and has nice levels with multiple paths. I wish it would've had weapons like WipEout, but you can at least damage your opponents with aggressive playing, so it's not completely limited to just basic racing at least.
Star Wars Jedi Starfighter (PlayStation 2)
An okay free-flight spaceship shooter, nowhere near the level of games like StarLancer, Star Trek Invasion, Colony Wars Red Sun or Blast Radius but not bad either, just okay. Framerate issues, some clunky command controls, clunky enemy selection/targeting controls, repetitive defend, destroy all, protect and escort missions and repetitive gameplay keep it from being great.
The SeeD Warzone (PlayStation 2)
I'm getting a little better at this game. I always wanted to be good at it and play through it properly but I've never had the time to dedicate to learning all the depth this game has to offer.
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Entertainment System)
Super Mario Bros. (Entertainment System)
Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Mega Drive)
Wonder Boy The Dragon's Trap (Game Gear)
Sonic 3D Flickies' Island (Mega Drive)
Auto Racing (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
It's still not as good as the real thing but it's still good enough to have some fun with.
Bomb Squad (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
This one is borderline unplayable, the heavy use of the numeric keypad and bad control emulation ruins a lot of the intuitive nature of the game and like most games on this disc the lack of proper instructions makes it so you have to look up extra stuff online to get a good idea what to even do.
Thankfully I already know how to play most these games properly but for others who want to get into Intellivision are gonna have a very hard time with this collection, sadly. It does not show off the awesomeness of the real games running on original hardware, that's for sure.
Skiing (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
Enduro (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
This one I am not so familiar with, but I'm trying to get the hang of it, I'm getting better.
Stadium Mud Buggies (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
Sonic The Hedgehog (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
Sadly they've just lazily taken the 60hz NTSC roms and slowed them down to play at 50hz for this collection, so the games run and sound slow and weird, far from the real 50hz PAL original versions on original hardware.
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
Sonic 3D Flickies' Island (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
WRC Rally Evolved (PlayStation 2)
A really great rally game with some cool extreme weather effects and stuff, kinda similar to games like Motorstorm Apocalypse or Split/Second.
WRC 4 (PlayStation 2)
A great rally game, it's basically like WRC Rally Evolved but focused on regular rally racing only. Both are great games.
Rally Championship (PlayStation 2)
A fantastic arcade rally game, I love the driving physics, the music is awesome, this may be a new contender for the best [arcade] rally game I've ever played. I can't seem to wipe off the huge dumb grin I get on my face when playing this.
Jet Ion GP (PlayStation 2)
A nostalgic classic for me, I think it was the third or possibly fourth game I got for my PS2 back in the day.
New York Race (PlayStation 2)
I got this game less than a year ago but originally I could've gotten it instead of Jet Ion GP.
Now finally I've been able to compare both side by side and truly see if I made the right choice when I picked Jet Ion GP over New York Race all those years ago.
I have to say yes, I made the right choice, as good as New York Race is, I like Jet Ion GP better. I'm glad to finally have both though.
Sonic CD (Sonic Gems Collection, PlayStation 2)
Beat is with the bad ending but I did probably my personal best run ever, with only having lost one life during the whole playthrough, obtaining 5 of the time stones and getting the good future in I think 8 or 9 stages.
Sonic Unleashed (PlayStation 2)
This game is awful.
It's the same version that is on Wii so I can't even imagine how bad that one must be if it's this game with broken motion controls..
I have the Xbox 360 version, which is different from the PS2/Wii versions, but I haven't played that one yet. I'm guessing it's probably really awful as well, maybe not quite as bad as this one but still really bad, I have no reason to think they made it better in any way that counts, the atrocious Sonic Generations I have on Xbox 360 has made sure I can exclusively assume the very worst of all modern Sonic games.
As a side note, anyone who dares complain about even a single tiny little thing about Sonic 06 needs to play this (and/or Sonic Generations) to see what truly bad Sonic games are like, then they need to beg on their bare knees to Sonic 06 for forgiveness.
Crash of the Titans (PlayStation 2)
I didn't have much hope for this being good but it suprised me, in fact it's one of the better 3D platformers I've played.
Good visuals, good gameplay, good controls, good level design, very good multilingual voice acting.
The combat could've been a bit better in the responsiveness and control, but the ability to take over large enemies and use their abilities adds a nice variety and depth to the combat and gameplay of the entire game, so overall that's all still good too.
Offroad Extreme! (PlayStation 2)
I have this on Wii and played it a few years ago, it was pretty bad with the visuals and framerate but I remember it having really responsive and accurate motion controls, far better than any other Wii game in fact, and now I've tried out the PS2 version and can safely say the framerate, visuals and controls are all much better than in the Wii version, as good as the Wii version's controls are they are to no suprise infinitely better with an analog stick, and the visuals actually look okay in this, still low budget looking but they run silky smooth and the environments and textures don't look weird like they did on Wii.
Simply put, the PS2 version is clearly superior in every way to the newer Wii version, and keep in mind that Wii had a more than twice as powerful CPU than PS2 and twice as much RAM memory.
Armored Core (PlayStation)
Made the Shadow The Hedgehog logo as an emblem. Also began work on a My Little Pony emblem of the old cartoon (My Little Pony Tales) show logo.
Dead Or Alive 2 (PlayStation 2)
LEGO Batman The Videogame (PlayStation 2)
Saint Seiya The Hades (PlayStation 2)
What a disappointment. I enjoyed the anime series back in the day, Hilda De Polaris being my favorite character, but this game is just awful.
Ugly, poor controls, repetitive, limited gameplay and game modes, awful game design with enemies being allowed to revive themselves multiple times before you defeat them but you game over instantly if you lose once, enemies are either super easy and can be defeated by repeating a single attack or they are impossibly hard and spam super moves that can't be dodged that drain 95% of your health in one hit, japanese voices only, retarded dialog options you have to unlock before they are actual options but you still have to pick the only option available as if you had a choice only to waste your time and slow down the already awful excuses for cutscenes.
I really didn't find a single redeemable feature in this game. I didn't even get to see Hilda.
DT Racer (PlayStation 2)
Feels good to play my favorite racing game of all time again.
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow (PlayStation 2)
Awful gameplay design, atrocious tutorial design, garbage programming and optimization with tons of unnecessary in-level loading times and framerate issues, glitches, artificial limitations on what you can do making a vast majority of the moves you have at your disposal unusable, bad voice acting, extremely poor script with cringe worthy dialogue from everyone, continuity problems severely limiting your freedom of options in the levels.
It's a bad game, plain and simple. Play a good stealth action game instead, there are many of them, even in the same series there are better ones that are older, this one is simply one of the worst, avoid it entirely, you're not missing out on anything good if you never play this, you're just saving yourself from a headache and frustration.
The Italian Job L.A. Heist (PlayStation 2)
One of those potentially fantastic games that was ruined by absolutely retarded progress design. Unless you super master every single little corner of the game with every car and save your progress you'll never see a vast majority of it, not even in multiplayer mode which could've been great and fun had they just had everything unlocked to enjoy. Having to perfect the entire singleplayer experience to have anything fun in multiplayer is at best insult to injury. Such a shame. it plays great otherwise, looks great too. Tight controls and fun stunt moves, it has so many top quality attributes it's nothing short of impressive how they managed to systematically go through all the trouble of locking down the entire game and making it one of the hardest games ever to unlock even a single new thing in. One of the best examples of all time on how not to design a game's difficulty and means of progression.
Cold Winter (PlayStation 2)
An overall mediocre FPS with a great physics engine, tons of interactivity and great dynamic lighting and shadows, too bad none of that is used and it plays more similar to Wolfenstein 3D or Doom than, say, a stealth game or something.
Battle Engine Aquila (PlayStation 2)
Good old cockpit view mech shooter. I wish it would've had a third person view but it's still a good game, some repetitive missions and sadly as always with game like this the developers just had to force in annoying protect and escort missions to ruin the fun.
Star Wars Racer Revenge (PlayStation 2)
I like it, it's fast, looks good, controls good, sounds good and has nice levels with multiple paths. I wish it would've had weapons like WipEout, but you can at least damage your opponents with aggressive playing, so it's not completely limited to just basic racing at least.
Star Wars Jedi Starfighter (PlayStation 2)
An okay free-flight spaceship shooter, nowhere near the level of games like StarLancer, Star Trek Invasion, Colony Wars Red Sun or Blast Radius but not bad either, just okay. Framerate issues, some clunky command controls, clunky enemy selection/targeting controls, repetitive defend, destroy all, protect and escort missions and repetitive gameplay keep it from being great.
The SeeD Warzone (PlayStation 2)
I'm getting a little better at this game. I always wanted to be good at it and play through it properly but I've never had the time to dedicate to learning all the depth this game has to offer.
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Entertainment System)
Super Mario Bros. (Entertainment System)
Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Mega Drive)
Wonder Boy The Dragon's Trap (Game Gear)
Monday, October 1, 2018
Now Playing - Oktober 2018
Tearaway (PlayStation Vita)
Getting further one amazing place at a time. I love this game.
Yoshi's New Island (3DS)
This game still sucks but I wanted to play something on 3DS that I haven't already played that much.
I discovered a new thing about it though, when you die a few times in a row (like I did in a part that was really cheap designed and you just had to make blind faith jumps and there were insta kill spikes you had to know beforehand to stick the landing) it gives you a cheat automatically so you can fly indefinitely in the level you're in, too bad they didn't just design the game better so there weren't tons of cheap deaths, they already give you a fuckton of extra lives, I have over 80 lives and I've died plenty of times due to cheap level design, but they respawn so you can literally die three time and gain 9 lives because there's usually around 3 lives every single section of every level, so die in one section once and you're more likely to gain 2 or 3 lives from that death than actually lose 1, it's ridiculous, and adding that infinite flight cheat powerup they give you when you've died like 3 times in a row, I just may have found the easiest game in the world, I don't see how anyone can not complete this game, which isn't a bad thing in itself, it's great that they have the game balanced so everyone can play it, skilled players and complete beginners, but it would've been infinitely better had they designed a good game first rather than a shitfest or garbage level design with poor and very limited controls and an unfinished art design.
Seriously, the original Yoshi's Island on Super Nintendo and the enhanced GBA version are both ten trillion times better than this crap.
Azure Dreams (PlayStation)
A generic action adventure game with some mixed visuals, the 2D sprites are nice but the 3D environments are quite bland, and there are so many forced tutorials I feel like I've played through an entire game already but I'm still just at the very beginning, what a horrible way to start a game, I sure hope it picks up soon or I won't bother, I got many better games to spend my time with, like Illusion of gaia on Super Nintendo that I began playing last month.
Dreams to Reality (PlayStation)
An odd and obscure 3D platformer with flying mechanics. It doesn't have the best controls or visuals ever, but I kinda like it so far. I don't know how inspired the developers were by the Saturn game Nights into Dreams but they sure have a lot in common.
Pax Corpus (PlayStation)
Really awkward controls in this one but kinda interesting, I like it but I only have a russian version, making it harder to play for sure when you don't know what the fuck is going on.
Psycho Fox (Master System)
Not loving the momentum of the controls, you have to work up speed to make jumps, this is rather cumbersome in a platformer, a good game otherwise. Looks good, sounds good.
Thrill Kill Full Uncensored NTSC-U (PlayStation)
Still my favorite fighting game of all time and still the #1 reason why EA remains at the top of my permanent boycott blacklist.
Monster Racer (PlayStation)
Given the time of year I decided to give this Halloween inspired kart-esque racer another try. I haven't played it more than once when I had just bought it and I didn't think much of it.
I can say now after having played through the main mode that it's really not much more than I initially thought, actually it's nothing more at all, it's exactly what I thought when I played it the first time.
It's still a generic kart racer style game and it's nothing special in any way, the visuals are solid enough and the controls work, the music is completely forgettable and uninspired, the sound effects and as stock as can be and mostly unfitting and lame for what they are suppose to be representing, the levels and playable characters are unoriginal and bland and the powerups are unbalanced, some last way too long while others are completely useless, the only powerup that really matters in the turbo boost as it can make you lap the other opponents, it's literally that overpowered. That's easy mode at least, normal on the other hand is so hard you'll try using every trick available just to not end up in last place, I still haven't gotten better than second last on normal, it's a huge leap in difficulty from easy to normal, to say the least.
Anyway, I decided to record a playthrough of the adventure mode, it's available as a playlist on YouTube by clicking here.
Also here are the individual videos:
Botanic Garden
Port
Mad Jungle
Egypte
Castle
Museum
Mine
Iceberg
Teath Pass
Volcano
Botanic Garden (reverse)
Port (reverse)
Mad Jungle (reverse)
Egypte (reverse)
Castle (reverse)
Museum (reverse)
Mine (reverse)
Iceberg (reverse)
Teath Pass (reverse)
Volcano (reverse)
WILD WILD RACING (PlayStation 2)
The most classic PS2 offroad racer of them all, I love this game and I really needed to play a good racing game after having played so much Monster Racer lately.
I recorded a replay of a random Time Trial race.
LEGO Star Wars III The Clone Wars (3DS)
Just picking up where I left off earlier this year, I haven't gotten very far in this one yet.
Gale Gunner (PlayStation)
Basically Virtual On on PlayStation. I like it. It's a lot better than the N64 equivalent, whatever that was called, I forgot.
S.C.A.R.S. (PlayStation)
Just playing some of my favorite kart racer ever, after having suffered through the deeply flawed mediocrity that is Monster Racer I need to play some good racing games to make up for all the suckiness I've endured, plain and simple.
Bakugan Defenders of the Core (PlayStation Portable)
This game turned 8 years old on the 26th (NTSC-U release) and 29th (PAL release) so I'm celebrating with some awesome monster fighting goodness.
I recorded a battle from the PSP version between Neo Dragonoid and Ingram to celebrate.
(Swedish language)
Auto Racing (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
Playing the emulated version on PS2 using the Intellivision Lives! disc. It's daly not very good, running very slowly even on the fastest speed settings and with really bad audio emulation and audio glitches causing the tire brake noises to get stuck in annoying loops that rape the ears pretty badly around almost every turn.
I managed to record my favorite car on my favorite track though.
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
The difference between the real thing and the PS2 version is almost like playing two entirely different games.
Sonic 3D Flickies' Island (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
Getting further one amazing place at a time. I love this game.
Yoshi's New Island (3DS)
This game still sucks but I wanted to play something on 3DS that I haven't already played that much.
I discovered a new thing about it though, when you die a few times in a row (like I did in a part that was really cheap designed and you just had to make blind faith jumps and there were insta kill spikes you had to know beforehand to stick the landing) it gives you a cheat automatically so you can fly indefinitely in the level you're in, too bad they didn't just design the game better so there weren't tons of cheap deaths, they already give you a fuckton of extra lives, I have over 80 lives and I've died plenty of times due to cheap level design, but they respawn so you can literally die three time and gain 9 lives because there's usually around 3 lives every single section of every level, so die in one section once and you're more likely to gain 2 or 3 lives from that death than actually lose 1, it's ridiculous, and adding that infinite flight cheat powerup they give you when you've died like 3 times in a row, I just may have found the easiest game in the world, I don't see how anyone can not complete this game, which isn't a bad thing in itself, it's great that they have the game balanced so everyone can play it, skilled players and complete beginners, but it would've been infinitely better had they designed a good game first rather than a shitfest or garbage level design with poor and very limited controls and an unfinished art design.
Seriously, the original Yoshi's Island on Super Nintendo and the enhanced GBA version are both ten trillion times better than this crap.
Azure Dreams (PlayStation)
A generic action adventure game with some mixed visuals, the 2D sprites are nice but the 3D environments are quite bland, and there are so many forced tutorials I feel like I've played through an entire game already but I'm still just at the very beginning, what a horrible way to start a game, I sure hope it picks up soon or I won't bother, I got many better games to spend my time with, like Illusion of gaia on Super Nintendo that I began playing last month.
Dreams to Reality (PlayStation)
An odd and obscure 3D platformer with flying mechanics. It doesn't have the best controls or visuals ever, but I kinda like it so far. I don't know how inspired the developers were by the Saturn game Nights into Dreams but they sure have a lot in common.
Pax Corpus (PlayStation)
Really awkward controls in this one but kinda interesting, I like it but I only have a russian version, making it harder to play for sure when you don't know what the fuck is going on.
Psycho Fox (Master System)
Not loving the momentum of the controls, you have to work up speed to make jumps, this is rather cumbersome in a platformer, a good game otherwise. Looks good, sounds good.
Thrill Kill Full Uncensored NTSC-U (PlayStation)
Still my favorite fighting game of all time and still the #1 reason why EA remains at the top of my permanent boycott blacklist.
Monster Racer (PlayStation)
Given the time of year I decided to give this Halloween inspired kart-esque racer another try. I haven't played it more than once when I had just bought it and I didn't think much of it.
I can say now after having played through the main mode that it's really not much more than I initially thought, actually it's nothing more at all, it's exactly what I thought when I played it the first time.
It's still a generic kart racer style game and it's nothing special in any way, the visuals are solid enough and the controls work, the music is completely forgettable and uninspired, the sound effects and as stock as can be and mostly unfitting and lame for what they are suppose to be representing, the levels and playable characters are unoriginal and bland and the powerups are unbalanced, some last way too long while others are completely useless, the only powerup that really matters in the turbo boost as it can make you lap the other opponents, it's literally that overpowered. That's easy mode at least, normal on the other hand is so hard you'll try using every trick available just to not end up in last place, I still haven't gotten better than second last on normal, it's a huge leap in difficulty from easy to normal, to say the least.
Anyway, I decided to record a playthrough of the adventure mode, it's available as a playlist on YouTube by clicking here.
Also here are the individual videos:
Port
Mad Jungle
Egypte
Castle
Museum
Mine
Iceberg
Teath Pass
Volcano
Botanic Garden (reverse)
Port (reverse)
Mad Jungle (reverse)
Egypte (reverse)
Castle (reverse)
Museum (reverse)
Mine (reverse)
Iceberg (reverse)
Teath Pass (reverse)
Volcano (reverse)
WILD WILD RACING (PlayStation 2)
The most classic PS2 offroad racer of them all, I love this game and I really needed to play a good racing game after having played so much Monster Racer lately.
LEGO Star Wars III The Clone Wars (3DS)
Just picking up where I left off earlier this year, I haven't gotten very far in this one yet.
Gale Gunner (PlayStation)
Basically Virtual On on PlayStation. I like it. It's a lot better than the N64 equivalent, whatever that was called, I forgot.
S.C.A.R.S. (PlayStation)
Just playing some of my favorite kart racer ever, after having suffered through the deeply flawed mediocrity that is Monster Racer I need to play some good racing games to make up for all the suckiness I've endured, plain and simple.
Bakugan Defenders of the Core (PlayStation Portable)
This game turned 8 years old on the 26th (NTSC-U release) and 29th (PAL release) so I'm celebrating with some awesome monster fighting goodness.
(Swedish language)
Auto Racing (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
Playing the emulated version on PS2 using the Intellivision Lives! disc. It's daly not very good, running very slowly even on the fastest speed settings and with really bad audio emulation and audio glitches causing the tire brake noises to get stuck in annoying loops that rape the ears pretty badly around almost every turn.
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
The difference between the real thing and the PS2 version is almost like playing two entirely different games.
Sonic 3D Flickies' Island (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
Saturday, September 1, 2018
Now Playing - September 2018
It's my birthday this month (september 5th) and since I've declared 2018 to be the year of Intellivision of course I have to play a lot of Intellivision games, but it's also the end of the 32-bit/PlayStation year where I celebrated the 20th anniversary of many fantastic 1997 titles, when I got my PlayStation and that I turned 32 all at once, so a throwback to the past year with lots of 32-bit games is also in order, also my new found enjoyment in solving Rubik's Cube I've been doing that a lot, and of course just a bunch of other awesome games in general, as always, but even more focused and intense because arbitrary number of times the planet has spun around the sun since I was born and such!
Rubik's Cube
fastest time so far 1:47
Centipede (Intellivision)
Defender (Intellivision)
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
River Raid (Intellivision)
Rubik's Puzzle World (DS, played on 3DS)
Total Drivin (PlayStation)
V-Rally (PlayStation)
Neo Kobe 2045 Road Rage (PlayStation)
Centipede (PlayStation)
Cyber Sled (PlayStation)
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
Cosmic Carnage (32X)
Shinobi (Master System)
A basic platformer action game with a cool gimmick, you can move into the background and foreground of the level, giving some literal depth to the gameplay, very cool indeed.
Deathtrap Dungeon (PlayStation)
A cool 3D hack n slash game where you either play as a generic knight I forget the name of or a hot dominatrix called Red Lotus, guess who I always play as. You go through levels figuring out the puzzles, avoiding deadly traps and fighting enemies with different weapons you find along the way, the battle system is interesting in that you have an attack button but while attacking you can press different directions and do different attacks based on the direction you press, you can for example attack behind you, which is uncommon in games in general as most games will have you face your enemy and force you to turn around to attack whatever was previously behind you. There's a lot of dismemberment on enemy bodies, you can chop off parts of the enemies even after they've died and see parts to flying and leave blood and splatter on the ground and walls and blood dripping down from the ceiling etc.
Shanghai (Master System)
A basic mahjong game.
Shanghai II (Game Gear)
Shanghai II Dragon's Eye (Mega Drive)
A slight graphical improvement and with some more options for tile graphics and background graphics, but the same basic game otherwise.
Yakyuuken Adventure Part II - Gal's Dungeon (Famicom Disc System)
A weird japanese 3D maze game where you hunt down a woman and play rock, scissor, paper with her for a key to the next level.
Sexy Yakyuuken Adventure II - Gal's Dungeon Part II (Famicom Disc System)
Same as the first, just slightly different visuals.
BurgerTime! (Intellivision)
Bomb Squad (Intellivision)
Finally took the time to learn how to play this. It's really cool and I've had a blast playing it, some pun intended.
You have to figure out the numeric code by replacing circuits inside the LEDs on a digital number display to see if they light up or not, and then systematically figure out what the numeric code is and enter it before the timer runs out and the bomb goes off. You have a set of tools at your disposal accessible via the keypad, a wire cutter, a plier, a soldering iron and a fire extinguisher, fires only happen on the higher difficulties though so on the easy settings it goes unused.
The game uses the IntelliVoice module to give you voiced instructions, taunts and hints, making the game feel even more modern and advanced than it already was, which is really cool and gives a very effective feeling of realistic urgency to the game.
Arcade Classics (Game Gear)
Centipede, Pong and some third game I didn't care for enough to even remember what it was. You have the option of using original style visuals or a slight makeover with some more colors, it makes no real difference but it's nice that there's at least some enhancement that uses the higher color depth the Game Gear has to offer.
Centipede was okay, not the best version I've played but not the worst either, just average.
Pong is Pong, the digital control makes it less fun that it can be when using analog controls like on a proper Pong console, also Pong isn't much even at best so this really is not a reason to care for this collection.
And like I said I don't even remember the third.
Basically this is Centipede with Pong as a very minor bonus and it's not even a great version of Centipede.
Over this was a typical 3/5 experience.
Bugs Bunny in Double Trouble (Game Gear)
A very nice looking game that has some seriously generic and unfun gameplay. It's divided into two levels; 1.) Tease Daffy Duck to chase you past sings to change them from Rabbit Season to Duck Season and 2.) jump on a lion to catch dynamite and parachute down and land on places to blow up holes in the ground without the lion touching you on your way down. Both suck. Great visuals wasted on a fairly poor game, I give it a 2/5.
Daffy Duck in Hollywood (Game Gear)
This game baffles me, either I'm missing something or it's just broken and incredibly poorly made, and it's not like there are that many buttons to pick from so if I'm missing something, they hid it well, FAR too well.
Basically it's a platformer, with some good visuals, where you die in one hit but you can pick up a magic wand which grants you a fairy that will take an extra hit for you.
You have a bubble gun you can use to take out very select few enemies, while a majority of the rest are invulnerable even after you've upgraded your gun to shoot explosive fire blasts! Them be some tough enemies..
The levels are non-linear and confusing and there are lots of places that seem like you could go there but you simply can't, it's a game of constant dead ends and wondering; What do I do? Where do I go?
It's very unenjoyable and the controls are not precise and you jump really high, making it hard to stick landings once you go flying.
You can pick between several levels from the get go but I've not enjoyed a single one, and they're not very varied either.
Sadly this is another 2/5.
Earthworm Jim (Game Gear)
A downgraded port of the Mega Drive/Super Nintendo game. It's playable but just barely, the downgrades are many, sadly mostly in the gameplay.
The visuals are good, as usual for Game Gear games, but it plays stiff, unresponsive and inaccurately, making the simplest of jumps and taking out the easiest enemies a chore.
Sadly yet another 2/5.
Mega Man (Game Gear)
One of the best Game Gear games and a great game in the Mega Man series, a favorite for sure.
Sadly it never came out here in Europe or even in Japan, so not many got to experience it back in the day, such a shame as it's a brilliant and super high quality game, not just by Game Gear standards either, it's just fantastic, plain and simple, end of story.
It looks great, plays spot on, sounds great, has great levels, enemies, bosses and plenty of secrets to find.
Needless to say this is an easy game to give 5/5.
GT Racers (Game Boy Advance)
I didn't know there was a GBA version until now, I have it on PS2 where it's one of those games that is so bad that it's entertaining, definitely not because it's a good game but entirely because it's such a broken, buggy, glitchy mess of a game that you can only laugh at it.
The GBA game on the other hand is wildly different, it's a top down racer similar to the excellent Death Rally on PC and Karnage Rally also on GBA.
I've only played some of it but so far it beats both those games in terms of visual quality and it's one of the most technically advanced games on GBA with 3D polygonal objects all around the track, all fully textured, and running with a constant and smooth framerate.
It even plays well with fairly good controls. There are some tracks and cars to pick from. So all in all it's a good game. I haven't played it enough to know if there are any issues yet but it's made one very suprisingly impressive first impression for sure, especially with the infamous PS2 game in mind.
RollCage (PlayStation)
Batman Gotham City Racer (PlayStation)
Frogger (PlayStation)
Venture (Intellivision)
First time playing this one. I think I beat it on my first try, because after I completed the last level and got all the treasure it just looped the last level over and over again.
It's short, simple, but still pretty good. You move around different overworld map levels with some enemies moving around that you can't kill and enter buildings with treasure and killable enemies until you've been in all the rooms and gotten all the treasure, then you complete the level and move onto the next one, until you've found all the treasure in the game, then the last level loops until you run out of lives or quit the game.
You pick up the treasure and get out without getting killed and repeat until you have all the treasure, simple enough. You have a bow and arrows with infinite ammo you can shoot enemies with, you shoot in the direction you're moving in, there's no strafing in this game, and enemies are kind of like xenomorph aliens in that after you kill them they leave behind their bodies that can kill you until they've evaporated entirely, shooting a dead enemy makes it start the decaying over again making it take longer to go away, so avoid shooting the dead!, and as even one single pixel left is enough to kill you if you touch it you really don't want those things to stick around longer than needed.
If you wait around long enough an invincible enemy that can pass through walls appears and hunts you down, but it takes a while and you can just exit a building to escape from it, so it's something I only saw twice, one time when I was putting down the controller after I had killed the enemies and the building I was in was now empty and I thought it was safe and I wanted to turn down the volume a bit, at first I tried to kill it but it didn't die so I just left the building and it was gone, after that I just paused the game whenever I need to as I usually would in any other game, the second time I saw it was when I deliberately waited around to see if I could see it again, and yes, it appears whenever you wait around inside a building.
I never saw it on the overworld map screens so I'm assuming it only appears when you're inside the buildings.
The enemies can only be killed when you're inside the buildings, the enemies on the overworld map can not be killed as you can't use the bow there, you can only use it in the buildings.
Everything is a one hit kill in this, and you can't get any extra lives as far as I can tell, killing enemies just gets you the usual useless points.
There are no bosses, no secrets as far as I can tell and no other bonus or extra stuff, just pick up the treasure and then kill yourself to end the game as it just loops the last map, level 9, until you run out of lives otherwise.
The music is repetitive and simple, but not bad.
The visuals are simplistic but get the job done and at least have some nice color variations, the main character is literally just a red smiley face, that turns into a red frowny face when you get hit by an enemy, and on the overworld map he's literally just a single red pixel. When in buildings he also has his bow and arrow pointing in the direction you're moving, letting you know what direction your arrows will go if you shoot.
You move with the disc and shoot with the side buttons.
The enemies come on a nice variety and they all have two-frame animations while they move around, other than that there are some moving walls of death and the killed enemies evaporating effect is animated quite nicely.
The gameplay is solid enough but it's far too shallow and simple of a game in total, with some type of bosses and a proper end screen giving some satisfaction to completing the game I would've given it at least a 4/5, as it currently stands I'll give it a solid 3/5.
Armored Core (PlayStation)
Started a new game.
Rubik's Cube
fastest time so far 1:47
Centipede (Intellivision)
Defender (Intellivision)
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
River Raid (Intellivision)
Rubik's Puzzle World (DS, played on 3DS)
Total Drivin (PlayStation)
V-Rally (PlayStation)
Neo Kobe 2045 Road Rage (PlayStation)
Centipede (PlayStation)
Cyber Sled (PlayStation)
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
Cosmic Carnage (32X)
Shinobi (Master System)
A basic platformer action game with a cool gimmick, you can move into the background and foreground of the level, giving some literal depth to the gameplay, very cool indeed.
Deathtrap Dungeon (PlayStation)
A cool 3D hack n slash game where you either play as a generic knight I forget the name of or a hot dominatrix called Red Lotus, guess who I always play as. You go through levels figuring out the puzzles, avoiding deadly traps and fighting enemies with different weapons you find along the way, the battle system is interesting in that you have an attack button but while attacking you can press different directions and do different attacks based on the direction you press, you can for example attack behind you, which is uncommon in games in general as most games will have you face your enemy and force you to turn around to attack whatever was previously behind you. There's a lot of dismemberment on enemy bodies, you can chop off parts of the enemies even after they've died and see parts to flying and leave blood and splatter on the ground and walls and blood dripping down from the ceiling etc.
Shanghai (Master System)
A basic mahjong game.
Shanghai II (Game Gear)
Shanghai II Dragon's Eye (Mega Drive)
A slight graphical improvement and with some more options for tile graphics and background graphics, but the same basic game otherwise.
Yakyuuken Adventure Part II - Gal's Dungeon (Famicom Disc System)
A weird japanese 3D maze game where you hunt down a woman and play rock, scissor, paper with her for a key to the next level.
Sexy Yakyuuken Adventure II - Gal's Dungeon Part II (Famicom Disc System)
Same as the first, just slightly different visuals.
BurgerTime! (Intellivision)
Bomb Squad (Intellivision)
Finally took the time to learn how to play this. It's really cool and I've had a blast playing it, some pun intended.
You have to figure out the numeric code by replacing circuits inside the LEDs on a digital number display to see if they light up or not, and then systematically figure out what the numeric code is and enter it before the timer runs out and the bomb goes off. You have a set of tools at your disposal accessible via the keypad, a wire cutter, a plier, a soldering iron and a fire extinguisher, fires only happen on the higher difficulties though so on the easy settings it goes unused.
The game uses the IntelliVoice module to give you voiced instructions, taunts and hints, making the game feel even more modern and advanced than it already was, which is really cool and gives a very effective feeling of realistic urgency to the game.
Arcade Classics (Game Gear)
Centipede, Pong and some third game I didn't care for enough to even remember what it was. You have the option of using original style visuals or a slight makeover with some more colors, it makes no real difference but it's nice that there's at least some enhancement that uses the higher color depth the Game Gear has to offer.
Centipede was okay, not the best version I've played but not the worst either, just average.
Pong is Pong, the digital control makes it less fun that it can be when using analog controls like on a proper Pong console, also Pong isn't much even at best so this really is not a reason to care for this collection.
And like I said I don't even remember the third.
Basically this is Centipede with Pong as a very minor bonus and it's not even a great version of Centipede.
Over this was a typical 3/5 experience.
Bugs Bunny in Double Trouble (Game Gear)
A very nice looking game that has some seriously generic and unfun gameplay. It's divided into two levels; 1.) Tease Daffy Duck to chase you past sings to change them from Rabbit Season to Duck Season and 2.) jump on a lion to catch dynamite and parachute down and land on places to blow up holes in the ground without the lion touching you on your way down. Both suck. Great visuals wasted on a fairly poor game, I give it a 2/5.
Daffy Duck in Hollywood (Game Gear)
This game baffles me, either I'm missing something or it's just broken and incredibly poorly made, and it's not like there are that many buttons to pick from so if I'm missing something, they hid it well, FAR too well.
Basically it's a platformer, with some good visuals, where you die in one hit but you can pick up a magic wand which grants you a fairy that will take an extra hit for you.
You have a bubble gun you can use to take out very select few enemies, while a majority of the rest are invulnerable even after you've upgraded your gun to shoot explosive fire blasts! Them be some tough enemies..
The levels are non-linear and confusing and there are lots of places that seem like you could go there but you simply can't, it's a game of constant dead ends and wondering; What do I do? Where do I go?
It's very unenjoyable and the controls are not precise and you jump really high, making it hard to stick landings once you go flying.
You can pick between several levels from the get go but I've not enjoyed a single one, and they're not very varied either.
Sadly this is another 2/5.
Earthworm Jim (Game Gear)
A downgraded port of the Mega Drive/Super Nintendo game. It's playable but just barely, the downgrades are many, sadly mostly in the gameplay.
The visuals are good, as usual for Game Gear games, but it plays stiff, unresponsive and inaccurately, making the simplest of jumps and taking out the easiest enemies a chore.
Sadly yet another 2/5.
Mega Man (Game Gear)
One of the best Game Gear games and a great game in the Mega Man series, a favorite for sure.
Sadly it never came out here in Europe or even in Japan, so not many got to experience it back in the day, such a shame as it's a brilliant and super high quality game, not just by Game Gear standards either, it's just fantastic, plain and simple, end of story.
It looks great, plays spot on, sounds great, has great levels, enemies, bosses and plenty of secrets to find.
Needless to say this is an easy game to give 5/5.
GT Racers (Game Boy Advance)
I didn't know there was a GBA version until now, I have it on PS2 where it's one of those games that is so bad that it's entertaining, definitely not because it's a good game but entirely because it's such a broken, buggy, glitchy mess of a game that you can only laugh at it.
The GBA game on the other hand is wildly different, it's a top down racer similar to the excellent Death Rally on PC and Karnage Rally also on GBA.
I've only played some of it but so far it beats both those games in terms of visual quality and it's one of the most technically advanced games on GBA with 3D polygonal objects all around the track, all fully textured, and running with a constant and smooth framerate.
It even plays well with fairly good controls. There are some tracks and cars to pick from. So all in all it's a good game. I haven't played it enough to know if there are any issues yet but it's made one very suprisingly impressive first impression for sure, especially with the infamous PS2 game in mind.
RollCage (PlayStation)
Batman Gotham City Racer (PlayStation)
Frogger (PlayStation)
Venture (Intellivision)
First time playing this one. I think I beat it on my first try, because after I completed the last level and got all the treasure it just looped the last level over and over again.
It's short, simple, but still pretty good. You move around different overworld map levels with some enemies moving around that you can't kill and enter buildings with treasure and killable enemies until you've been in all the rooms and gotten all the treasure, then you complete the level and move onto the next one, until you've found all the treasure in the game, then the last level loops until you run out of lives or quit the game.
You pick up the treasure and get out without getting killed and repeat until you have all the treasure, simple enough. You have a bow and arrows with infinite ammo you can shoot enemies with, you shoot in the direction you're moving in, there's no strafing in this game, and enemies are kind of like xenomorph aliens in that after you kill them they leave behind their bodies that can kill you until they've evaporated entirely, shooting a dead enemy makes it start the decaying over again making it take longer to go away, so avoid shooting the dead!, and as even one single pixel left is enough to kill you if you touch it you really don't want those things to stick around longer than needed.
If you wait around long enough an invincible enemy that can pass through walls appears and hunts you down, but it takes a while and you can just exit a building to escape from it, so it's something I only saw twice, one time when I was putting down the controller after I had killed the enemies and the building I was in was now empty and I thought it was safe and I wanted to turn down the volume a bit, at first I tried to kill it but it didn't die so I just left the building and it was gone, after that I just paused the game whenever I need to as I usually would in any other game, the second time I saw it was when I deliberately waited around to see if I could see it again, and yes, it appears whenever you wait around inside a building.
I never saw it on the overworld map screens so I'm assuming it only appears when you're inside the buildings.
The enemies can only be killed when you're inside the buildings, the enemies on the overworld map can not be killed as you can't use the bow there, you can only use it in the buildings.
Everything is a one hit kill in this, and you can't get any extra lives as far as I can tell, killing enemies just gets you the usual useless points.
There are no bosses, no secrets as far as I can tell and no other bonus or extra stuff, just pick up the treasure and then kill yourself to end the game as it just loops the last map, level 9, until you run out of lives otherwise.
The music is repetitive and simple, but not bad.
The visuals are simplistic but get the job done and at least have some nice color variations, the main character is literally just a red smiley face, that turns into a red frowny face when you get hit by an enemy, and on the overworld map he's literally just a single red pixel. When in buildings he also has his bow and arrow pointing in the direction you're moving, letting you know what direction your arrows will go if you shoot.
You move with the disc and shoot with the side buttons.
The enemies come on a nice variety and they all have two-frame animations while they move around, other than that there are some moving walls of death and the killed enemies evaporating effect is animated quite nicely.
The gameplay is solid enough but it's far too shallow and simple of a game in total, with some type of bosses and a proper end screen giving some satisfaction to completing the game I would've given it at least a 4/5, as it currently stands I'll give it a solid 3/5.
Armored Core (PlayStation)
Started a new game.
Thursday, August 9, 2018
Now Playing - Augusti 2018
Super Mario Bros. 2 (Entertainment System)
Tearaway (PlayStation Vita)
Sonic The Hedgehog (as part of SEGA 3D Classics on 3DS)
CarmaGeddoN (PlayStation)
The classic CarmaGeddoN, PSX version, awesome.
Super Mario Bros. (Entertainment System)
Wario's Woods (Entertainment System)
A puzzle game where you play as Toad. Bombs drop from above and you have to combine them with creatures to clear the area before the ceiling lowers down and crushes you. It's pretty good, sure beats a lot of other similar puzzle games from back then.
Wario's Woods (Super Nintendo)
The Entertainment System game of the same name with a Super Mario Allstars makeover.
Sudoku portable LCD game
Sudoku
just regular Sudoku on paper
Bomb Jack (SG-1000)
Perhaps not the best version of Bomb Jack ever, but a good and enjoyable one for sure.
CastleVania Legends (Game Boy)
I love this game, it's very tough but also very enjoyable. Sonia is best Belmont origin canon.
Rubik's Cube
trained and learned how to solve one in real life, my fastest time solving a cube from scrambled to all sides complete as of this post is 2m21s
Rubik's Puzzle World (DS, played on 3DS)
After having learned how to solve a Rubik's Cube in real life on an actual cube I was able to solve it in this game with a time of 4:45, which is twice as long than I can do it in real life (fastest time as of typing this in 2:21) but it's far less intuitive and much clunkier with the low res and highly inaccurate touch screen control of a DS/3DS, so I still think it's a very good time for someone who just learned how to do it.
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
just playing some awesome Intellivision games again
BurgerTime! (Intellivision)
Centipede (Intellivision)
Defender (Intellivision)
Pac-Man (Intellivision)
Popeye (Intellivision)
Q*bert (Intellivision)
Scooby Doo's Maze Chase (Intellivision)
this was a new one for me, another good maze game (aka "Pac-Man clone"), very typical for the time
Nightlong Union City Conspiracy (PC)
also playing some nostalgic PC point and click games, it's not a genre I like but it has a handful games I love
The C.H.A.O.S. Continuum (PC)
The Colonel's Bequest A Laura Bow Mystery (PC)
Ninja Gaiden (Master System)
Total Drivin (PlayStation)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Entertainment System)
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Mega Drive)
it's been ages since I played this, I usually just play the original Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic CD or Sonic & Knuckles or the old classics, the rest I only play a bit sporadically, sometimes a lot and then not at all for long stretches of time
Samurai Showdown (Mega Drive)
another one I haven't played it ages, I think it was last in the early 2000s on PC, the MS-DOS version
Time Trax (Mega Drive, prototype rom)
an odd platformer with some slow motion time manipulation power, it's pretty good but it's only a prototype, I don't think it ever was released as a full retail version sadly, it's not bad at all and feels pretty much complete, it's far better than many games that did come out back in the day
Scooby-Doo Mystery (Mega Drive)
an awful point and click mystery solving adventure game starring Scooby-Doo and Shaggy, with the rest of the gang being absent during the game only to be part of the intros and outros of the two mysteries the game has to offer. it's slow, clunky, illogical, unintuitive and arbitrary as fuck, the only way to solve a vast majority of the "puzzles" is to try every possible combination until you randomly find the correct thing to do, except for a handful thing you do there really is no thought, logic, rhyme or reason to anything else in the entire game, you will get stuck, a lot, and it's not your fault, the game is just extremely poorly designed, it looks very nice with good level of detail, nice animation and such, and the audio is fine as well, but damn, the gameplay just brutally murders the entire experience, just play this with a guide from the beginning if you ever try it out, and save yourself the headache
Tom & Jerry Frantic Antics (Mega Drive)
holy fucknuts this game is awful, it looks bad, sounds horrible and plays worse than just about anything else ever made, it's nothing short of a travesti it got released in this condition
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
River Raid (Intellivision)
Tearaway (PlayStation Vita)
Sonic The Hedgehog (as part of SEGA 3D Classics on 3DS)
CarmaGeddoN (PlayStation)
The classic CarmaGeddoN, PSX version, awesome.
Super Mario Bros. (Entertainment System)
Wario's Woods (Entertainment System)
A puzzle game where you play as Toad. Bombs drop from above and you have to combine them with creatures to clear the area before the ceiling lowers down and crushes you. It's pretty good, sure beats a lot of other similar puzzle games from back then.
Wario's Woods (Super Nintendo)
The Entertainment System game of the same name with a Super Mario Allstars makeover.
Sudoku portable LCD game
Sudoku
just regular Sudoku on paper
Bomb Jack (SG-1000)
Perhaps not the best version of Bomb Jack ever, but a good and enjoyable one for sure.
CastleVania Legends (Game Boy)
I love this game, it's very tough but also very enjoyable. Sonia is best Belmont origin canon.
Rubik's Cube
trained and learned how to solve one in real life, my fastest time solving a cube from scrambled to all sides complete as of this post is 2m21s
Rubik's Puzzle World (DS, played on 3DS)
After having learned how to solve a Rubik's Cube in real life on an actual cube I was able to solve it in this game with a time of 4:45, which is twice as long than I can do it in real life (fastest time as of typing this in 2:21) but it's far less intuitive and much clunkier with the low res and highly inaccurate touch screen control of a DS/3DS, so I still think it's a very good time for someone who just learned how to do it.
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
just playing some awesome Intellivision games again
BurgerTime! (Intellivision)
Centipede (Intellivision)
Defender (Intellivision)
Pac-Man (Intellivision)
Popeye (Intellivision)
Q*bert (Intellivision)
Scooby Doo's Maze Chase (Intellivision)
this was a new one for me, another good maze game (aka "Pac-Man clone"), very typical for the time
Nightlong Union City Conspiracy (PC)
also playing some nostalgic PC point and click games, it's not a genre I like but it has a handful games I love
The C.H.A.O.S. Continuum (PC)
The Colonel's Bequest A Laura Bow Mystery (PC)
Ninja Gaiden (Master System)
Total Drivin (PlayStation)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Entertainment System)
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Mega Drive)
it's been ages since I played this, I usually just play the original Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic CD or Sonic & Knuckles or the old classics, the rest I only play a bit sporadically, sometimes a lot and then not at all for long stretches of time
Samurai Showdown (Mega Drive)
another one I haven't played it ages, I think it was last in the early 2000s on PC, the MS-DOS version
Time Trax (Mega Drive, prototype rom)
an odd platformer with some slow motion time manipulation power, it's pretty good but it's only a prototype, I don't think it ever was released as a full retail version sadly, it's not bad at all and feels pretty much complete, it's far better than many games that did come out back in the day
Scooby-Doo Mystery (Mega Drive)
an awful point and click mystery solving adventure game starring Scooby-Doo and Shaggy, with the rest of the gang being absent during the game only to be part of the intros and outros of the two mysteries the game has to offer. it's slow, clunky, illogical, unintuitive and arbitrary as fuck, the only way to solve a vast majority of the "puzzles" is to try every possible combination until you randomly find the correct thing to do, except for a handful thing you do there really is no thought, logic, rhyme or reason to anything else in the entire game, you will get stuck, a lot, and it's not your fault, the game is just extremely poorly designed, it looks very nice with good level of detail, nice animation and such, and the audio is fine as well, but damn, the gameplay just brutally murders the entire experience, just play this with a guide from the beginning if you ever try it out, and save yourself the headache
Tom & Jerry Frantic Antics (Mega Drive)
holy fucknuts this game is awful, it looks bad, sounds horrible and plays worse than just about anything else ever made, it's nothing short of a travesti it got released in this condition
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
River Raid (Intellivision)
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Gaming Purchases - Augusti 2018
Augusti 7th:
A trip to the local GameStop resulted in some interesting purchases to get this month started.
PlayStation 3:
Resonance of Fate
Rise of the Argonauts
Virtua Tennis 3
PlayStation 4:
BAJA Edge of Control HD (new)
CarmaGeddoN Max Damage (new)
PlayStation 4 Camera V2
PS4 PlayStation Move Motion Controller PlayStation VR Accessory Twin Pack (new and sealed)
..and some movies from another store.
DVD:
Anchorman 2 The Legend Continues (new and sealed)
Disney Cinderella III (new and sealed)
LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Justice League Gotham City Breakout (new and sealed)
LEGO Nexo Knights Episodes 16-20 (new and sealed)
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Augusti 10th:
A couple of movies from a movie store.
DVD:
The Man With The Iron Heart (2017)
Woody Woodpecker (2017)
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Augusti 11th:
Just some non-gaming secondhand shopping finds today.
DVD:
Bästa Knattefilmerna Vol. 1 Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll med flera (2007)
Karlsson på Taket TV-serien - Karlsson och John Blund (2002)
Karlsson på Taket TV-serien - Karlsson Dammsuger (2002)
My Little Pony Slottet Bland Molnen (2004) (5 episodes of My Little Pony 'n Friends (1986))
Building Blocks:
LEGO System 5875 Belville Hospital Ward (1994)
Sluban Girl's Dream M38-B0516 Mailing Letter
Other:
a bag of POGs
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Augusti 17th:
Just a couple of movies today.
DVD:
LEGO Jurassic World Indominus-Rex Rymning (LEGO Jurassic World The Indominus Escape, 2016)
Your Name (Makoto Shinkai, 2017)
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Augusti 18th:
Some secondhand finds today.
PC:
LEGO Rock Raiders
DVD:
Bakugan Gundalian Invaders Vol. 2 (2010)
Dunderklumpen! (1974)
Hacke Hackspett och hans vänner Vol. 6 (Woody Woodpecker and His Friends Vol. 6, 1940-1972)
Manga & Comics:
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 6 (paperback)
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 7 (paperback)
Hacke Hackspett (Woody Woodpecker, #10 1971)
Hacke Hackspett (Woody Woodpecker, #15 1973)
Hacke Hackspett (Woody Woodpecker, #4 1977)
Tom & Jerry (#2 1991)
LEGO:
a Bionicle figure with 4 arms (came with the manual and a cutout part of the original box)
a Hero Factory figure with handcuffs, shoulder cannon and a gun arm (came with the manual)
a wolf warrior of some sort with a double sword and a saw blade shield, possibly Hero Factory
Toys & Other:
Mighty Max, a big vampire skull with light-up glowing eyes (all figures and other detachables are missing)
a painting of two trolls on a bridge, a male troll who is fishing and a female troll who is smelling a flower, there is a crescent moon in the background
a Rubik's Cube, very smooth and easy to twist, possibly one of those that's commonly referred to as a speed cube
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Augusti 21th:
When grocery shopping I saw they had some movies on sale. I also bought the last Mountain Dew Cherry Blast they had, I hope they'll get more as it's my favorite, I'd hate if that one also is going out of production like so many other delishus sodas in the past.
DVD:
Snobben (Peanuts The Movie, 2015)
Star Wars The Force Awakens (2015)
Bluray:
Star Wars The Force Awakens (2015)
A trip to the local GameStop resulted in some interesting purchases to get this month started.
PlayStation 3:
Resonance of Fate
Rise of the Argonauts
Virtua Tennis 3
PlayStation 4:
BAJA Edge of Control HD (new)
CarmaGeddoN Max Damage (new)
PlayStation 4 Camera V2
PS4 PlayStation Move Motion Controller PlayStation VR Accessory Twin Pack (new and sealed)
..and some movies from another store.
DVD:
Anchorman 2 The Legend Continues (new and sealed)
Disney Cinderella III (new and sealed)
LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Justice League Gotham City Breakout (new and sealed)
LEGO Nexo Knights Episodes 16-20 (new and sealed)
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Augusti 10th:
A couple of movies from a movie store.
DVD:
The Man With The Iron Heart (2017)
Woody Woodpecker (2017)
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Augusti 11th:
Just some non-gaming secondhand shopping finds today.
DVD:
Bästa Knattefilmerna Vol. 1 Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll med flera (2007)
Karlsson på Taket TV-serien - Karlsson och John Blund (2002)
Karlsson på Taket TV-serien - Karlsson Dammsuger (2002)
My Little Pony Slottet Bland Molnen (2004) (5 episodes of My Little Pony 'n Friends (1986))
Building Blocks:
LEGO System 5875 Belville Hospital Ward (1994)
Sluban Girl's Dream M38-B0516 Mailing Letter
Other:
a bag of POGs
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Augusti 17th:
Just a couple of movies today.
DVD:
LEGO Jurassic World Indominus-Rex Rymning (LEGO Jurassic World The Indominus Escape, 2016)
Your Name (Makoto Shinkai, 2017)
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Augusti 18th:
Some secondhand finds today.
PC:
LEGO Rock Raiders
DVD:
Bakugan Gundalian Invaders Vol. 2 (2010)
Dunderklumpen! (1974)
Hacke Hackspett och hans vänner Vol. 6 (Woody Woodpecker and His Friends Vol. 6, 1940-1972)
Manga & Comics:
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 6 (paperback)
Sugar Sugar Rune Vol. 7 (paperback)
Hacke Hackspett (Woody Woodpecker, #10 1971)
Hacke Hackspett (Woody Woodpecker, #15 1973)
Hacke Hackspett (Woody Woodpecker, #4 1977)
Tom & Jerry (#2 1991)
LEGO:
a Bionicle figure with 4 arms (came with the manual and a cutout part of the original box)
a Hero Factory figure with handcuffs, shoulder cannon and a gun arm (came with the manual)
a wolf warrior of some sort with a double sword and a saw blade shield, possibly Hero Factory
Toys & Other:
Mighty Max, a big vampire skull with light-up glowing eyes (all figures and other detachables are missing)
a painting of two trolls on a bridge, a male troll who is fishing and a female troll who is smelling a flower, there is a crescent moon in the background
a Rubik's Cube, very smooth and easy to twist, possibly one of those that's commonly referred to as a speed cube
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Augusti 21th:
When grocery shopping I saw they had some movies on sale. I also bought the last Mountain Dew Cherry Blast they had, I hope they'll get more as it's my favorite, I'd hate if that one also is going out of production like so many other delishus sodas in the past.
DVD:
Snobben (Peanuts The Movie, 2015)
Star Wars The Force Awakens (2015)
Bluray:
Star Wars The Force Awakens (2015)
Monday, July 2, 2018
Now Playing - Juli 2018
Tearaway (PlayStation Vita)
Just been playing some games with a friend, same as usual (Ice Hockey, Double Dribble, Track & Field II, Pro Wrestling) plus a new one, Ghosts & Goblins.
Net Yaroze Collection (PlayStation)
A Dog Tale and Blitter Boy
Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive, played on 3DS as part of the SEGA 3D Classics Collection)
Guilty Gear XX The Midnight Carnival #Reload (PC)
Also called Guilty Gear X2 #Reload and Guilty Gear X2 The Midnight Carnival #Reload.
I haven't played much Guilty Gear at all, just the original on PSX a little bit before this one.
I didn't like the original very much, I found it to be a very typical and generic anime 2D fighting game, not bad per se, easily better than many others like it, just not interesting to me at all as I strongly prefer 3D fighting games.
This one is quite a lot better in every aspect over the original on PSX, it plays better, looks better, sounds better, has a better character roster and has better controls with more moves.
I'm still not into 2D anime fighting games like this, but at least this one is fairly good by the standards they go by.
Honey Peach (Entertainment System)
an awesome rock paper scissor hentai game from the 90s, nuff said really, you rock paper scissor until hot hentai babes lose all their clothes, it's just awesome
Rubik's Puzzle World (DS, played on 3DS)
Some minigames similar to Mercury but not as good, though some are decent, and a really poor Rubik's Cube mode with a lousy camera, all topped off with inaccurate touch screen controls for everything making every step a hurdle, making sure you're never actually having any fun by accident, because we simply can't have fun with Rubik's Cube game, that just can not be permitted.
Just been playing some games with a friend, same as usual (Ice Hockey, Double Dribble, Track & Field II, Pro Wrestling) plus a new one, Ghosts & Goblins.
Net Yaroze Collection (PlayStation)
A Dog Tale and Blitter Boy
Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive, played on 3DS as part of the SEGA 3D Classics Collection)
Guilty Gear XX The Midnight Carnival #Reload (PC)
Also called Guilty Gear X2 #Reload and Guilty Gear X2 The Midnight Carnival #Reload.
I haven't played much Guilty Gear at all, just the original on PSX a little bit before this one.
I didn't like the original very much, I found it to be a very typical and generic anime 2D fighting game, not bad per se, easily better than many others like it, just not interesting to me at all as I strongly prefer 3D fighting games.
This one is quite a lot better in every aspect over the original on PSX, it plays better, looks better, sounds better, has a better character roster and has better controls with more moves.
I'm still not into 2D anime fighting games like this, but at least this one is fairly good by the standards they go by.
Honey Peach (Entertainment System)
an awesome rock paper scissor hentai game from the 90s, nuff said really, you rock paper scissor until hot hentai babes lose all their clothes, it's just awesome
Rubik's Puzzle World (DS, played on 3DS)
Some minigames similar to Mercury but not as good, though some are decent, and a really poor Rubik's Cube mode with a lousy camera, all topped off with inaccurate touch screen controls for everything making every step a hurdle, making sure you're never actually having any fun by accident, because we simply can't have fun with Rubik's Cube game, that just can not be permitted.
Game Purchases - Juli 2018
Juli 2th:
Starting this month with another movie purchase.
Bluray:
The Emoji Movie (2017)
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Juli 5th:
Got a tip from a friend that a secondhand shop downtown had a bunch of games from the game store that closed down last year, so I took a trip downtown and did some browsing, most were new and most were still factory sealed.
Game Boy Advance accessories:
Logic 3 GBA Fun Pack (3x thumb pads that you put on top of the d-pad, rubber grips for the back, screen protector overlay and a wrist strap)
GameCube Wii:
Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed
Funfair Party
Minion Everyday Hero
Sprint Cars
PlayStation 2:
Alpine Skiing 2005
Army Men Sarge's Heroes 2
Artlist Collection The Dog Island
Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter
Destroy All Humans! 2
Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires
Everybody's Tennis
EyeToy Kinetic Combat
Mercenaries 2 World in Flames
Mercury Meltdown Remix
Naruto Ultimate Ninja
Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles
Pipe Mania
Pool Shark 2
Project Eden
SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons Globs of Doom
Tak and the Guardians of Gross
The Sims 2 Castaway
Transworld Surf
Volleyball Challenge
Xbox 360:
Syndicate
I also went to the other second hand shop I go to regularly and picked up a ton of comics and also another game.
PlayStation 2:
Sniper Assault
DVD:
Jurassic Shark
Manga:
D-N-Angel (paperback, volumes 1-11)
Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne (paperback, volumes 2-7)
Time Stranger Kyoko (paperback, volumes 2-3)
Vampire Game (paperback, volume 1)
Comics:
Asterix Caesar's Gift (vol 21, 1977)
Asterix in Belgium (vol 24, 1979)
Asterix in India (vol 28, 1987)
Captain W.E. Johns' Biggles Den Hemliga Eskadern (vol 7, 1984)
Comics 6 Den Stora Serieboken (vol 6, 1974)
Fenomenala 4:ans Äventyr (Les 4 As et l'Aéroglisseur, vol 2, 1964)
Johan och Pellevins Äventyr 1 Vilden i Klippiga Skogen (Le Lutin du Bois aux Roches, vol 1, 1973)
Superman 25th Anniversary Special (1974)
Superman Revenge from the Phantom Zone (1980, printed 1981)
W.I.T.C.H. (volumes 2-3 and 6-11 2002, 7-10 and Halloween Special 2003, 4-9 2004, 5-6 2005)
Yoko Tsuno The Curious Trio (vol 1, 1972, printed 1981)
Toys:
Matchbox Specials Chevrolet Camaro (1:40, 1983)
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Juli 5th:
and some more movies
DVD:
A Ghost Story (2017)
An Inconvenient Sequel (2017)
Jurassic World (2014)
Unknown Soldier (2017)
WarCraft The Beginning (2015)
Bluray:
Jurassic World (2014)
WarCraft The Beginning (2015)
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Juli 11th:
Was out shopping a little today and picked up some stuff.
PC hardware:
Trust GXT 155 Gaming Mouse
Trust regular mouse without "cool" name with numbers and stuff
Other:
a pack of various electrical parts
What really made today special was the fact that I got stopped and asked to show my bag before I was allowed to leave the store in two different stores, it's never happened before ever and now twice in one day, I dunno maybe I looked unusually criminal today? I don'ät know, all I know is I won't be going to Jula och Net on Net anymore, they think so lowly of me that they treat me like a common criminal then they have lost me as a customer, I've been going to both those places since the 90s and this has never happened before, they know me, I've never shoplifted or stole anything in my life, I was honestly shocked and offended and even more so that it happened twice like this, I'm still in shock over it.
If this is how they choose to treat their longtime customers then fuck em, I'm out, no more, I will take my business elsewhere, I won't force them to take my money ever again!
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Juli 16th:
The first of two online orders I placed last Friday arrived today. All items are new and sealed.
DS:
Transformers Dark of the Moon Autobots (toy car bundle)
Transformers Dark of the Moon Decepticons (toy car bundle)
PlayStation Vita:
LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes
LEGO Batman 3 Beyond Gotham
PC:
AquaNox Collection (AquaNox and AquaNox 2 Revelation, Nordic Games)
Big Mutha Truckers 2 Truck Me Harder (Medallion)
Guilty Gear X2 #Reload (Medallion)
Monster Madness Battle for Suburbia (Games for Windows)
DVD:
Independence Day Resurgence
Bluray:
Independence Day Resurgence
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Juli 17th:
The second order arrived. All items are new and sealed.
PlayStation Vita:
LEGO Jurassic World
Xbox 360:
LEGO Jurassic World
Amiibo:
Samus Aran (Metroid Samus Returns)
Bluray:
Independence Day 20th Anniversary Attacker Edition
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Juli 26th:
Long day today, went out for a long walk early in the morning, then walked downtown and checked two secondhand stores and found a whole bunch of games among other things, and lastly I met up with a friend I hadn't seen in ages and talked to him for 2½ hours.
at the first place I got:
DS:
Ellen Whitaker's Horse Life
Wii:
Cruis'n
RTL Winter Sports 2009
Top Spin 4
Wheelspin
PlayStation 2:
Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2
WALL-E
PlayStation 3:
Bodycount
Stranglehold
Xbox 360:
Dragon Age II
PC:
LEGO Star Wars II The Original Trilogy
and at the second place I got:
Xbox:
Over The Hedge
Xbox 360:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Forza Motorsport 2 (in a bundle with Viva Piñata)
Forza Motorsport 3
Iron Man
Juiced Hot Import Nights 2
Jumper Griffin's Story
Kinect Adventures! (disc only, hidden in the Juiced 2 box under the Juiced 2 disc, found it the day after)
N3 Ninety-Nine Nights
Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands (Special Collector's Edition)
Sonic The Hedgehog
Spider-man Friend or Foe
Viva Piñata (in a bundle with Forza Motorsport 2)
DVD:
Barbie in The Nutcracker
Barbie of Swan Lake
Biker Mice from Mars (vol. 3)
Bratz Pampered Petz
How To Train Your Dragon 2
My Little Pony & Friends (The Glass Princess, Sweet Stuff and the treasure hunt)
My Little Pony Tales (vol. 3, )
The Black Cauldron (Special Edition)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Noble Entertainment)
Bluray:
TMNT (2007)
Comics/Magazines:
24x Disney Princess with cardboard folder to store them in
W.I.T.C.H. sticker album with some additional posters
Bizarro (Vol. 5, 2004)
Other:
Disney's Cinderella wooden wall plate
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Juli 30th:
Some more secondhand finds today.
Game Boy Advance:
MadCatz MagLens SP (screen magnifier for Game Boy Advance SP)
DS:
Cooking Guide - Can't decide what to eat? (new and sealed)
Rubik's Puzzle World (Bakugan Battle Brawlers box, no manual, just a standard Nintendo health and safety precautions booklet)
Wii:
Pocoyo Racing (RTL Winter Sports 2008 box and manual, no manual for Pocoyo Racing)
PlayStation 2:
Jetix Puzzle Buzzle (new and sealed)
Books:
Fräcka Fredag!
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Juli 31st:
Went on another secondhand binge today, 25 more games where of a whopping 22 were dupes of games I already had, several even being multiple dupes of the same game. I've definitely never bought this many copies of the same games at the same time before.
PlayStation 2:
Artlist Collection The Dog Island (new and sealed)
3x Bakugan Battle Brawlers (new and sealed)
Ben 10 Alien Force (new and sealed)
6x Bratz The Movie (new and sealed)
2x Crescent Suzuki Racing
2x Everybody's Tennis (new and sealed)
2x Jetix Puzzle Buzzle (new and sealed)
Madagascar Escape 2 Africa (Platinum, new and sealed)
Mercury Meltdown Remix (new and sealed)
Rayman Raving Rabbids (new and sealed)
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
SSX
Stuntman
Thunderhawk Operation Phoenix
Xbox 360:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (infamous german version, altered for censorship and with no language options, german speech and text only)
Starting this month with another movie purchase.
Bluray:
The Emoji Movie (2017)
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Juli 5th:
Got a tip from a friend that a secondhand shop downtown had a bunch of games from the game store that closed down last year, so I took a trip downtown and did some browsing, most were new and most were still factory sealed.
Game Boy Advance accessories:
Logic 3 GBA Fun Pack (3x thumb pads that you put on top of the d-pad, rubber grips for the back, screen protector overlay and a wrist strap)
GameCube Wii:
Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed
Funfair Party
Minion Everyday Hero
Sprint Cars
PlayStation 2:
Alpine Skiing 2005
Army Men Sarge's Heroes 2
Artlist Collection The Dog Island
Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter
Destroy All Humans! 2
Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires
Everybody's Tennis
EyeToy Kinetic Combat
Mercenaries 2 World in Flames
Mercury Meltdown Remix
Naruto Ultimate Ninja
Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles
Pipe Mania
Pool Shark 2
Project Eden
SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons Globs of Doom
Tak and the Guardians of Gross
The Sims 2 Castaway
Transworld Surf
Volleyball Challenge
Xbox 360:
Syndicate
I also went to the other second hand shop I go to regularly and picked up a ton of comics and also another game.
PlayStation 2:
Sniper Assault
DVD:
Jurassic Shark
Manga:
D-N-Angel (paperback, volumes 1-11)
Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne (paperback, volumes 2-7)
Time Stranger Kyoko (paperback, volumes 2-3)
Vampire Game (paperback, volume 1)
Comics:
Asterix Caesar's Gift (vol 21, 1977)
Asterix in Belgium (vol 24, 1979)
Asterix in India (vol 28, 1987)
Captain W.E. Johns' Biggles Den Hemliga Eskadern (vol 7, 1984)
Comics 6 Den Stora Serieboken (vol 6, 1974)
Fenomenala 4:ans Äventyr (Les 4 As et l'Aéroglisseur, vol 2, 1964)
Johan och Pellevins Äventyr 1 Vilden i Klippiga Skogen (Le Lutin du Bois aux Roches, vol 1, 1973)
Superman 25th Anniversary Special (1974)
Superman Revenge from the Phantom Zone (1980, printed 1981)
W.I.T.C.H. (volumes 2-3 and 6-11 2002, 7-10 and Halloween Special 2003, 4-9 2004, 5-6 2005)
Yoko Tsuno The Curious Trio (vol 1, 1972, printed 1981)
Toys:
Matchbox Specials Chevrolet Camaro (1:40, 1983)
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Juli 5th:
and some more movies
DVD:
A Ghost Story (2017)
An Inconvenient Sequel (2017)
Jurassic World (2014)
Unknown Soldier (2017)
WarCraft The Beginning (2015)
Bluray:
Jurassic World (2014)
WarCraft The Beginning (2015)
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Juli 11th:
Was out shopping a little today and picked up some stuff.
PC hardware:
Trust GXT 155 Gaming Mouse
Trust regular mouse without "cool" name with numbers and stuff
Other:
a pack of various electrical parts
What really made today special was the fact that I got stopped and asked to show my bag before I was allowed to leave the store in two different stores, it's never happened before ever and now twice in one day, I dunno maybe I looked unusually criminal today? I don'ät know, all I know is I won't be going to Jula och Net on Net anymore, they think so lowly of me that they treat me like a common criminal then they have lost me as a customer, I've been going to both those places since the 90s and this has never happened before, they know me, I've never shoplifted or stole anything in my life, I was honestly shocked and offended and even more so that it happened twice like this, I'm still in shock over it.
If this is how they choose to treat their longtime customers then fuck em, I'm out, no more, I will take my business elsewhere, I won't force them to take my money ever again!
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Juli 16th:
The first of two online orders I placed last Friday arrived today. All items are new and sealed.
DS:
Transformers Dark of the Moon Autobots (toy car bundle)
Transformers Dark of the Moon Decepticons (toy car bundle)
PlayStation Vita:
LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes
LEGO Batman 3 Beyond Gotham
PC:
AquaNox Collection (AquaNox and AquaNox 2 Revelation, Nordic Games)
Big Mutha Truckers 2 Truck Me Harder (Medallion)
Guilty Gear X2 #Reload (Medallion)
Monster Madness Battle for Suburbia (Games for Windows)
DVD:
Independence Day Resurgence
Bluray:
Independence Day Resurgence
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Juli 17th:
The second order arrived. All items are new and sealed.
PlayStation Vita:
LEGO Jurassic World
Xbox 360:
LEGO Jurassic World
Amiibo:
Samus Aran (Metroid Samus Returns)
Bluray:
Independence Day 20th Anniversary Attacker Edition
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Juli 26th:
Long day today, went out for a long walk early in the morning, then walked downtown and checked two secondhand stores and found a whole bunch of games among other things, and lastly I met up with a friend I hadn't seen in ages and talked to him for 2½ hours.
at the first place I got:
DS:
Ellen Whitaker's Horse Life
Wii:
Cruis'n
RTL Winter Sports 2009
Top Spin 4
Wheelspin
PlayStation 2:
Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2
WALL-E
PlayStation 3:
Bodycount
Stranglehold
Xbox 360:
Dragon Age II
PC:
LEGO Star Wars II The Original Trilogy
and at the second place I got:
Xbox:
Over The Hedge
Xbox 360:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Forza Motorsport 2 (in a bundle with Viva Piñata)
Forza Motorsport 3
Iron Man
Juiced Hot Import Nights 2
Jumper Griffin's Story
Kinect Adventures! (disc only, hidden in the Juiced 2 box under the Juiced 2 disc, found it the day after)
N3 Ninety-Nine Nights
Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands (Special Collector's Edition)
Sonic The Hedgehog
Spider-man Friend or Foe
Viva Piñata (in a bundle with Forza Motorsport 2)
DVD:
Barbie in The Nutcracker
Barbie of Swan Lake
Biker Mice from Mars (vol. 3)
Bratz Pampered Petz
How To Train Your Dragon 2
My Little Pony & Friends (The Glass Princess, Sweet Stuff and the treasure hunt)
My Little Pony Tales (vol. 3, )
The Black Cauldron (Special Edition)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Noble Entertainment)
Bluray:
TMNT (2007)
Comics/Magazines:
24x Disney Princess with cardboard folder to store them in
W.I.T.C.H. sticker album with some additional posters
Bizarro (Vol. 5, 2004)
Other:
Disney's Cinderella wooden wall plate
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Juli 30th:
Some more secondhand finds today.
Game Boy Advance:
MadCatz MagLens SP (screen magnifier for Game Boy Advance SP)
DS:
Cooking Guide - Can't decide what to eat? (new and sealed)
Rubik's Puzzle World (Bakugan Battle Brawlers box, no manual, just a standard Nintendo health and safety precautions booklet)
Wii:
Pocoyo Racing (RTL Winter Sports 2008 box and manual, no manual for Pocoyo Racing)
PlayStation 2:
Jetix Puzzle Buzzle (new and sealed)
Books:
Fräcka Fredag!
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Juli 31st:
Went on another secondhand binge today, 25 more games where of a whopping 22 were dupes of games I already had, several even being multiple dupes of the same game. I've definitely never bought this many copies of the same games at the same time before.
PlayStation 2:
Artlist Collection The Dog Island (new and sealed)
3x Bakugan Battle Brawlers (new and sealed)
Ben 10 Alien Force (new and sealed)
6x Bratz The Movie (new and sealed)
2x Crescent Suzuki Racing
2x Everybody's Tennis (new and sealed)
2x Jetix Puzzle Buzzle (new and sealed)
Madagascar Escape 2 Africa (Platinum, new and sealed)
Mercury Meltdown Remix (new and sealed)
Rayman Raving Rabbids (new and sealed)
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
SSX
Stuntman
Thunderhawk Operation Phoenix
Xbox 360:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (infamous german version, altered for censorship and with no language options, german speech and text only)
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