Juni 7th:
My first purchase at a brand new local gaming store downtown with focus on retro gaming. An appetizer before they get more interesting stuff in stock.
PlayStation 2:
Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli (new, sealed)
Juni 13th:
Ordered a 4TB external USB 3.0 drive for my PC, it should arrive in a couple of days. (Update: a couple of days later it arrived and it works with no problems.)
Juni 13th:
Today's second hand finds.
Gaming related:
a handheld portable Sudoku LCD game
DVD:
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic - A Pony Party
Comics:
multiple Agent X9
multiple Magnum
Household stuff:
different nozzles and stuff for my sink and shower etc, nozzles you can aim and an LED shower thing that changes color while you shower, also some electrical outlet plugs to keep out dust when left unused.
Juni 23rd:
Due to recent health issues gaming has been a bit on the low activity side but today I went to the retro store again and even though they still don't have any Sega stuff in stock I picked up a couple of other things.
Wii:
Transformers Dark of the Moon Stealth Force Edition (new, sealed)
It's the collector's edition with the little Bumblebee transformer toy in the box.
DVD:
Alien Tripleup Collection (new, sealed)
It contains three sci-fi b-movies; Aliens Vs. Avatars, American Battleship and Alien Origin
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Now Playing - Maj 2016
Mostly been playing the games I got recently, it feels great to finally own copies of my own for some of these games and the newcomers have been welcome additions to my library as well.
Eternal Champions (Mega Drive)
F22 Interceptor (Mega Drive)
I'm usually not a huge fan of flight sim games but a flat-shaded polygonal 3D flight sim on the Mega Drive that plays well and is fun is easily something I can make an exception for and thoroughly enjoy.
LHX Attack Chopper (Mega Drive)
I do however love helicopter games and this alongside the more arcade oriented Steel Talons, also on the Mega Drive, is one of my oldest favorites in that genre.
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
Winter Challenge (Mega Drive)
Doom (32X)
My favorite version of Doom alongside the PSX port.
Metal Head (32X)
Essentially Armored Core on 32X, naturally a given favorite.
Virtua Racing Deluxe (32X)
While not my top favorite version of Virtua Racing, that honor goes to the SVP powered Mega Drive port, it's still one of my favorite games ever on one of my favorite systems ever.
Centipede (PSX)
While not quite on par with the next gen Dreamcast port this is still a fantastic version and due to how much easier it is to play a PlayStation game than a Dreamcast game it certainly has an edge of it's own, and when played on PS2 with texture filtering turned on there's even less of a difference between the two.
Also I don't think the Dreamcast version ever got released here in Europe so the PSX version was the only one available for me anyway. Great game though, even comes with the original arcade game so it's two games in one and I love that.
Iron Soldier 3 (PSX)
Not exactly an Armored Core killer but still a great mech game nonetheless. It retains what made the Jaguar 64 and Jaguar 64 CD games so good and improves the formula even further with the help of the superior power of the PlayStation. It may lack the flat-shaded polygonal charm of the Jaguar games but it makes up for it with technically superior visuals overall.
It's a tough game though, not one you just jump straight into and have a quick brawl guns a blazin', you have to be tactical and take your time, aim carefully and think and plan things out before you make your moves, your mech is big and heavy and controls like it, in that way it's very different from mech games in general from that era as most, at least on consoles, were more fast paced and action oriented.
I'd love to get hold of a Jaguar 64 and the original Iron Soldier games some day, I've tried the first one in the past and I loved it, which is why I was extra happy to get hold of this great sequel finally.
Kirikou (PSX)
A 2001 release exclusive to Europe, based on the first movie in the Kirikou series about an African boy who is very special indeed. It's a 2.5D platformer similar to some of Disney's greatest 2.5D platformers of the time like Hercules and Tarzan or other great 2.5D PSX classics like Klonoa and Tombi/Tomba, where you take on levels with multiple paths and lots of hidden secrets and all that good stuff. It re-enacts the events from the first film as you play as Kirikou literally from birth to coming face to face with the evil sorceress Karaba, on the way you must face her evil robots (called "fetishes") and make your way through the levels collecting water (essentially this game's equivalent to coins in Mario or rings in Sonic) and learning new abilities from the wise elder such as double jumping and other common game things.
It's easily one of the best 2.5D platformers I've played and I'm glad to own it. I didn't know about the game back when it was new but a few years ago when I found the movie on DVD and thought it looked interesting I got more into it and found out there were games released, multiple games actually, and sequels to the movie as well, so while I still haven't found much I now at least have the first game on PlayStation to go with the first movie on DVD, now I just need to find the PS2 game, the Game Boy Color game and the movie sequels!
Newman Haas Racing (PSX)
A 1998 release by Psygnosis and Bizarre Creations. It saddens me that I missed out on this one back when it was new but I'm glad to have discovered it now and I'm enjoying it very much, it's one of the best F1 style racing games I've ever played.
Re-Loaded (PSX)
A classic I played on PSX and MS-DOS back in the day but sadly never had myself and it's been over 15 years since I played it last. It lived up to my nostalgic memories and I've had a blast from the past with this one, a fantastic top-down action shooter and while I don't think it's better than the original Loaded I also don't think it's worse, they're equals but for different reasons, Loaded was a simpler, more straight forwards and notably more hectic shooter and thus a slightly better two-player experience this expands the missions and gameplay and makes for a better singleplayer experience, I'd say they compliment eachother perfectly and now I need to get hold of a copy the original Loaded so I can relive those nostalgic memories as well, we'll just have to wait and see how many more years that'll take to happen..
T'ai Fu Wrath of the Tiger (PSX)
A 1999 release by Dreamworks and the spiritual predecessor of Kung Fu Panda, a 3D platformer with lots of fighting and a great game I've played through numerous times in the past.
Viewpoint (PSX)
Not much to say about this one, it's a fantastic looking version of Viewpoint, identical to the other versions in gameplay and design but with a complete overhaul of the visuals and music. There's no competition for me, this is the superior way to play this already great game.
WinX Club (PC)
The old Konami developed WinX game that was also released on PS2 that's based on season 1 of the cartoon. I like this game and after having found a no-CD crack for it that worked so I don't have to get the disc out even though the game's been installed I finally got into the game. I really hate when PC games try to limit how I use them even after I've bought them, which is why I don't do PC gaming in general and don't acknowledge digital online gaming at all, if a game has only been released on Steam or something (Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Nintendo eShop etc.) I don't consider it to have ever been released at all.
Brahma Force (PSX)
An FPS mech sim action game with similarities to Armored Core, GunGriffon and Krazy Ivan among many more, I like it but it's not exactly killing the competition, I prefer pretty much all those other games over this, still it's pretty good and has some good stuff in it, it's not bad by any means but it does come with a lot of minor and medium sized problems. Forever and literally constant respawning of enemies are the cause to most of the issues I have.
KKND 2 Krossfire (PC)
I've only ever played this on PlayStation before so it's interesting to see how different it is, it's basically two different games in almost every way, the good thing about that is you can't directly compare the two and thus neither ends up being the "bad" one. I love when they do this rather than just make direct ports because this gives incentive to those who own and enjoy one to get the other as well. It's just as hard as I remember the PlayStation version to be, only for slightly different reasons. I haven't really played either enough to say much more at this point.
KKND Krossfire (PSX)
I remember having troubles with this game back in the day and now when I'm revisiting it and it's PC original I fully understand why as my memories of getting absolutely crushed by the enemy AI comes rushing back as a nightmare that I thought was long gone. This is a hard as fuck game regardless if it's played on PC or PSX, "easy" mode doesn't mean much in this game, the harder difficulties I can't even imagine what they're like. It's good though, not impossible, just very hard and unforgiving. You need to get good at this game to enjoy it, it asks of you to invest time to get something of equal or greater value back and honestly that's not a bad thing, some of the best games ever do this. It just would've been even better still if the game had eased you into it step by step a bit because you'll be losing big time for a while just to learn the basic controls and what any of all the stuff you can do actually does. Having some easier levels to begin with letting you get used to said basics before having the enemy rape your base's every orifice with death and defeat would've been greatly appreciated. These games really didn't need to ask that much of the player so early on, especially in a strategy game where missions can get rather lengthy. A hard platformer in comparison is usually hard but has short levels that are over in just a couple of minutes so getting back to the place you were and trying a different strategy to get better and win is less of a setback.
SEGA Arcade Gallery (Game Boy Advance)
V-Rally 3 (Game Boy Advance)
Eternal Champions (Mega Drive)
F22 Interceptor (Mega Drive)
I'm usually not a huge fan of flight sim games but a flat-shaded polygonal 3D flight sim on the Mega Drive that plays well and is fun is easily something I can make an exception for and thoroughly enjoy.
LHX Attack Chopper (Mega Drive)
I do however love helicopter games and this alongside the more arcade oriented Steel Talons, also on the Mega Drive, is one of my oldest favorites in that genre.
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
Winter Challenge (Mega Drive)
Doom (32X)
My favorite version of Doom alongside the PSX port.
Metal Head (32X)
Essentially Armored Core on 32X, naturally a given favorite.
Virtua Racing Deluxe (32X)
While not my top favorite version of Virtua Racing, that honor goes to the SVP powered Mega Drive port, it's still one of my favorite games ever on one of my favorite systems ever.
Centipede (PSX)
While not quite on par with the next gen Dreamcast port this is still a fantastic version and due to how much easier it is to play a PlayStation game than a Dreamcast game it certainly has an edge of it's own, and when played on PS2 with texture filtering turned on there's even less of a difference between the two.
Also I don't think the Dreamcast version ever got released here in Europe so the PSX version was the only one available for me anyway. Great game though, even comes with the original arcade game so it's two games in one and I love that.
Iron Soldier 3 (PSX)
Not exactly an Armored Core killer but still a great mech game nonetheless. It retains what made the Jaguar 64 and Jaguar 64 CD games so good and improves the formula even further with the help of the superior power of the PlayStation. It may lack the flat-shaded polygonal charm of the Jaguar games but it makes up for it with technically superior visuals overall.
It's a tough game though, not one you just jump straight into and have a quick brawl guns a blazin', you have to be tactical and take your time, aim carefully and think and plan things out before you make your moves, your mech is big and heavy and controls like it, in that way it's very different from mech games in general from that era as most, at least on consoles, were more fast paced and action oriented.
I'd love to get hold of a Jaguar 64 and the original Iron Soldier games some day, I've tried the first one in the past and I loved it, which is why I was extra happy to get hold of this great sequel finally.
Kirikou (PSX)
A 2001 release exclusive to Europe, based on the first movie in the Kirikou series about an African boy who is very special indeed. It's a 2.5D platformer similar to some of Disney's greatest 2.5D platformers of the time like Hercules and Tarzan or other great 2.5D PSX classics like Klonoa and Tombi/Tomba, where you take on levels with multiple paths and lots of hidden secrets and all that good stuff. It re-enacts the events from the first film as you play as Kirikou literally from birth to coming face to face with the evil sorceress Karaba, on the way you must face her evil robots (called "fetishes") and make your way through the levels collecting water (essentially this game's equivalent to coins in Mario or rings in Sonic) and learning new abilities from the wise elder such as double jumping and other common game things.
It's easily one of the best 2.5D platformers I've played and I'm glad to own it. I didn't know about the game back when it was new but a few years ago when I found the movie on DVD and thought it looked interesting I got more into it and found out there were games released, multiple games actually, and sequels to the movie as well, so while I still haven't found much I now at least have the first game on PlayStation to go with the first movie on DVD, now I just need to find the PS2 game, the Game Boy Color game and the movie sequels!
Newman Haas Racing (PSX)
A 1998 release by Psygnosis and Bizarre Creations. It saddens me that I missed out on this one back when it was new but I'm glad to have discovered it now and I'm enjoying it very much, it's one of the best F1 style racing games I've ever played.
Re-Loaded (PSX)
A classic I played on PSX and MS-DOS back in the day but sadly never had myself and it's been over 15 years since I played it last. It lived up to my nostalgic memories and I've had a blast from the past with this one, a fantastic top-down action shooter and while I don't think it's better than the original Loaded I also don't think it's worse, they're equals but for different reasons, Loaded was a simpler, more straight forwards and notably more hectic shooter and thus a slightly better two-player experience this expands the missions and gameplay and makes for a better singleplayer experience, I'd say they compliment eachother perfectly and now I need to get hold of a copy the original Loaded so I can relive those nostalgic memories as well, we'll just have to wait and see how many more years that'll take to happen..
T'ai Fu Wrath of the Tiger (PSX)
A 1999 release by Dreamworks and the spiritual predecessor of Kung Fu Panda, a 3D platformer with lots of fighting and a great game I've played through numerous times in the past.
Viewpoint (PSX)
Not much to say about this one, it's a fantastic looking version of Viewpoint, identical to the other versions in gameplay and design but with a complete overhaul of the visuals and music. There's no competition for me, this is the superior way to play this already great game.
WinX Club (PC)
The old Konami developed WinX game that was also released on PS2 that's based on season 1 of the cartoon. I like this game and after having found a no-CD crack for it that worked so I don't have to get the disc out even though the game's been installed I finally got into the game. I really hate when PC games try to limit how I use them even after I've bought them, which is why I don't do PC gaming in general and don't acknowledge digital online gaming at all, if a game has only been released on Steam or something (Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Nintendo eShop etc.) I don't consider it to have ever been released at all.
Brahma Force (PSX)
An FPS mech sim action game with similarities to Armored Core, GunGriffon and Krazy Ivan among many more, I like it but it's not exactly killing the competition, I prefer pretty much all those other games over this, still it's pretty good and has some good stuff in it, it's not bad by any means but it does come with a lot of minor and medium sized problems. Forever and literally constant respawning of enemies are the cause to most of the issues I have.
KKND 2 Krossfire (PC)
I've only ever played this on PlayStation before so it's interesting to see how different it is, it's basically two different games in almost every way, the good thing about that is you can't directly compare the two and thus neither ends up being the "bad" one. I love when they do this rather than just make direct ports because this gives incentive to those who own and enjoy one to get the other as well. It's just as hard as I remember the PlayStation version to be, only for slightly different reasons. I haven't really played either enough to say much more at this point.
KKND Krossfire (PSX)
I remember having troubles with this game back in the day and now when I'm revisiting it and it's PC original I fully understand why as my memories of getting absolutely crushed by the enemy AI comes rushing back as a nightmare that I thought was long gone. This is a hard as fuck game regardless if it's played on PC or PSX, "easy" mode doesn't mean much in this game, the harder difficulties I can't even imagine what they're like. It's good though, not impossible, just very hard and unforgiving. You need to get good at this game to enjoy it, it asks of you to invest time to get something of equal or greater value back and honestly that's not a bad thing, some of the best games ever do this. It just would've been even better still if the game had eased you into it step by step a bit because you'll be losing big time for a while just to learn the basic controls and what any of all the stuff you can do actually does. Having some easier levels to begin with letting you get used to said basics before having the enemy rape your base's every orifice with death and defeat would've been greatly appreciated. These games really didn't need to ask that much of the player so early on, especially in a strategy game where missions can get rather lengthy. A hard platformer in comparison is usually hard but has short levels that are over in just a couple of minutes so getting back to the place you were and trying a different strategy to get better and win is less of a setback.
SEGA Arcade Gallery (Game Boy Advance)
V-Rally 3 (Game Boy Advance)
Gaming Purchases - Maj 2016
May 3rd:
Some tuesday second hand finds.
PC Games:
Best Friends Horse & Pony My Horse
Hugo Heroes of the Savannah
KA-52 Team Alligator
Nuclear Strike
Serious Sam The Second Encounter
Silent Hill Homecoming
PC Other:
2x Diskette storage cases
(which I'm now using to house my Mega Drive and 32X games, similar to a Nin10case)
DVD:
Balto Wolf Quest
Other:
various comics (various W.I.T.C.H., The Simpsons and Magic Fantasy)
various manga comics (various Manga Mania)
various manga pocket comics (Chrono Crusade Vol. 2, Demon Diary Vol. 5, Negima! Magister Negi Magi Omnibus Vol. 1-3, Rebirth Vol. 4)
4x framed paintings
and a box with some various LEGO Bionicle
Maj 17th:
Some tuesday second hand finds.
PC Games:
Bratz 4 Real
Kill Switch
KKND 2 Krossfire
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Vanguard Saga of Heroes
DVD:
Marvel Thor Tales of Asgård
Mary Poppins 2-Disc Special Edition
CD:
Dir en grey - Cage
Malice Mizer - Color Me Blood Red
Malice Mizer - de l'image
also some books and a small lamp.
Maj 24th:
Some tuesday second hand finds.
PC Games:
Disney Princess Cinderella's Fairy Castles
Hugo Volcano Island
Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc
DVD
Hop
Other:
Maneki-neko Piggy bank Halina Slide Viewer
Comics:
Agent X9
Also a bag full of toy cars like Hot Wheels, Majorette, Disney's Cars, a couple of Legos and some other off-brand stuff.
Maj 31th:
Some tuesday second hand finds.
Skylanders:
Portal of Power
Some tuesday second hand finds.
PC Games:
Best Friends Horse & Pony My Horse
Hugo Heroes of the Savannah
KA-52 Team Alligator
Nuclear Strike
Serious Sam The Second Encounter
Silent Hill Homecoming
PC Other:
2x Diskette storage cases
(which I'm now using to house my Mega Drive and 32X games, similar to a Nin10case)
DVD:
Balto Wolf Quest
Other:
various comics (various W.I.T.C.H., The Simpsons and Magic Fantasy)
various manga comics (various Manga Mania)
various manga pocket comics (Chrono Crusade Vol. 2, Demon Diary Vol. 5, Negima! Magister Negi Magi Omnibus Vol. 1-3, Rebirth Vol. 4)
4x framed paintings
and a box with some various LEGO Bionicle
Maj 17th:
Some tuesday second hand finds.
PC Games:
Bratz 4 Real
Kill Switch
KKND 2 Krossfire
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Vanguard Saga of Heroes
DVD:
Marvel Thor Tales of Asgård
Mary Poppins 2-Disc Special Edition
CD:
Dir en grey - Cage
Malice Mizer - Color Me Blood Red
Malice Mizer - de l'image
also some books and a small lamp.
Maj 24th:
Some tuesday second hand finds.
PC Games:
Disney Princess Cinderella's Fairy Castles
Hugo Volcano Island
Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc
DVD
Hop
Other:
Maneki-neko Piggy bank Halina Slide Viewer
Comics:
Agent X9
Also a bag full of toy cars like Hot Wheels, Majorette, Disney's Cars, a couple of Legos and some other off-brand stuff.
Maj 31th:
Some tuesday second hand finds.
Skylanders:
Portal of Power
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Gaming Purchases - April 2016
April 5th:
Today's second hand finds included a PC game, none other than classic Saturn exclusive Enemy Zero, the second game in WARP's D series (D2 on Dreamcast being the third and final game in the series and final game WARP made before shutting down permanently).
Enemy Zero is a 1996 sci-fi survival horror game with first person shooting, stealth mechanics, a mix between cinematic FMV and real-time 3D exploration gameplay and a unique battle system that uses audio cues rather than visual on-screen cues to locate and take out the alien enemies.
Originally developed as a PlayStation exclusive it was changed to Saturn only after Sony had poorly handled the release of the original D causing the director of Enemy Zero and founder of WARP to port the entire project over to Saturn and make the series and all other future games Sega exclusive from that point onward, the original D was a multiplatform game released on just about every 32-bit disc-based system at the time including the 3DO, PSX and Saturn.
Enemy Zero was one of the very few games for Saturn that came on 4 discs, which was a bit more common on PlayStation with games like Final Fantasy VIII and Fear Effect 2 Retro Helix for example.
Enemy Zero was originally released on December 13th of 1996 for Sega Saturn in Japan, later in 1997 it was released in the other regions worldwide and finally in 1998 it got ported to PC, initially released under the SEGA PC brand.
The version I got hold on is the more recent and much more common here in Europe these days re-release under the popular but nowadays defunct Xplosiv brand by UK-based Empire Interactive Entertainment that also re-released many other SEGA PC classics like Panzer Dragoon, House of the Dead 2, Virtua Fighter, Virtua Fighter 2 (that I also got hold of relatively recently), Sega Rally Championship, Sonic & Knuckles Collection, Sonic 3D Flickies' Island, Sonic R, Virtua Cop 2 etc. etc..
PC:
Enemy Zero (Xplosiv re-release, still factory sealed)
April 26th:
Today's second hand finds included some PC games, some FIFA games for PS3, some PSP UMD movies, some DVDs, some multi CD cases, some W.I.T.C.H. comics, a pocket manga Kajika by Akira Toriyama, a PC video card to component and S-Video converter cable, a small pocket mirror, a magnetic massage thing with rounded spiky balls and a bunch of 5-10 year old videogame magazines.
PSP UMD Movies:
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
Kill Bill
Kill Bill 2
(2x) Pusher 3
PlayStation 3:
FIFA 11
FIFA 12 (no manual)
FIFA 13
PC:
IMP #005 Hydrael
IMP #007 Kentaurus
IMP #012 Frostmork
IMP #024 Kosmoeus
IMP #025 Megamammon
IMP #027 Ghoulak
IMP #033 Vulkanicus
IMP #046 Buttgod (yes, that's his actual name)
IMP, for those who are not in the know what this game is, was a 1-on-1 arena style fighting game/monster collecting game for PC by the Swedish developer Idol FX and came out for Windows 98/2000 in 2001.
The idea was that you would purchase separate CD-ROMs for each monster you wanted at a lower price than buying a full game on just one disc, needless to say if they had been very cheap and distributed on a larger scale with proper backing and funding by some bigger brand with advertising abilities and all that it might've worked, sadly they were rather expensive for just one monster per disc and on top of that very hard to find as very select few stores ever sold them. I only ever found them in one local store myself. So it didn't last and never became a big thing like Pokemon, Digimon, Monster Rancher, Jade Cocoon and so on.
I don't have all of them but I've managed to get hold of quite a few over the years. I originally bought a bunch when they were new and have since found wayward copies in different second hand shops. I rather liked the monster designs so whenever I see an IMP lost out there in the wild I just gotta catch it.
April 28th:
On April 25th I placed an order for some games that arrived for pickup two days later on April 27th and today, April 28th I went and picked them up.
It's a bigger order that I've had to wait a while to do because the site I ordered it from had some bug in the homepage which didn't allow me to use points I had earned which would've made it more expensive. It was already an expensive order so I had to wait if I wanted to afford to place it at all, during this time several of the games I wanted sadly got sold out and I'll probably not be able to get hold of them again for years if ever, they are simply that rare here, so I'm disappointed that it took well over two months for them to fix their homepage until I got my points. Also now when I got the order two of the games that we supposed to have manuals and be "complete" were missing the manuals. So another disappointment. A third disappointment was that they made some prices higher, and a lot higher at that, for some other games I wanted to the point were even with my points I couldn't afford them and didn't really want to buy them anymore because I don't think they're worth that much, so I had to skip buying them as well.
Simply put I only got about two thirds of the order I originally had planned to buy only two months later than I wanted and it still cost about the same, so not a super great experience overall that I'll not soon forget.
Regardless of the negatives I finally have some 32X games of my very own, I got some nice classics for PlayStation that I've been on the hunt for and my collection for Mega Drive and PlayStation Portable got a little bigger as well.
Mega Drive:
F22 Interceptor (no manual)
LHX Attack Chopper (no manual)
Retro-bit RetroGen 6-button Controller
32X:
DOOM
Metal Head
Virtua Racing Deluxe
PlayStation:
Centipede
Iron Soldier 3
Kirikou
Newman Haas Racing
T'ai Fu Wrath of the Tiger (no manual)
Re-Loaded (no manual)
Star Wars Rebel Assault II The Hidden Empire (no manual)
Viewpoint (no manual)
PlayStation Portable:
Key of Heaven
L.A. Rush
Today's second hand finds included a PC game, none other than classic Saturn exclusive Enemy Zero, the second game in WARP's D series (D2 on Dreamcast being the third and final game in the series and final game WARP made before shutting down permanently).
Enemy Zero is a 1996 sci-fi survival horror game with first person shooting, stealth mechanics, a mix between cinematic FMV and real-time 3D exploration gameplay and a unique battle system that uses audio cues rather than visual on-screen cues to locate and take out the alien enemies.
Originally developed as a PlayStation exclusive it was changed to Saturn only after Sony had poorly handled the release of the original D causing the director of Enemy Zero and founder of WARP to port the entire project over to Saturn and make the series and all other future games Sega exclusive from that point onward, the original D was a multiplatform game released on just about every 32-bit disc-based system at the time including the 3DO, PSX and Saturn.
Enemy Zero was one of the very few games for Saturn that came on 4 discs, which was a bit more common on PlayStation with games like Final Fantasy VIII and Fear Effect 2 Retro Helix for example.
Enemy Zero was originally released on December 13th of 1996 for Sega Saturn in Japan, later in 1997 it was released in the other regions worldwide and finally in 1998 it got ported to PC, initially released under the SEGA PC brand.
The version I got hold on is the more recent and much more common here in Europe these days re-release under the popular but nowadays defunct Xplosiv brand by UK-based Empire Interactive Entertainment that also re-released many other SEGA PC classics like Panzer Dragoon, House of the Dead 2, Virtua Fighter, Virtua Fighter 2 (that I also got hold of relatively recently), Sega Rally Championship, Sonic & Knuckles Collection, Sonic 3D Flickies' Island, Sonic R, Virtua Cop 2 etc. etc..
PC:
Enemy Zero (Xplosiv re-release, still factory sealed)
April 26th:
Today's second hand finds included some PC games, some FIFA games for PS3, some PSP UMD movies, some DVDs, some multi CD cases, some W.I.T.C.H. comics, a pocket manga Kajika by Akira Toriyama, a PC video card to component and S-Video converter cable, a small pocket mirror, a magnetic massage thing with rounded spiky balls and a bunch of 5-10 year old videogame magazines.
PSP UMD Movies:
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
Kill Bill
Kill Bill 2
(2x) Pusher 3
PlayStation 3:
FIFA 11
FIFA 12 (no manual)
FIFA 13
PC:
IMP #005 Hydrael
IMP #007 Kentaurus
IMP #012 Frostmork
IMP #024 Kosmoeus
IMP #025 Megamammon
IMP #027 Ghoulak
IMP #033 Vulkanicus
IMP #046 Buttgod (yes, that's his actual name)
IMP, for those who are not in the know what this game is, was a 1-on-1 arena style fighting game/monster collecting game for PC by the Swedish developer Idol FX and came out for Windows 98/2000 in 2001.
The idea was that you would purchase separate CD-ROMs for each monster you wanted at a lower price than buying a full game on just one disc, needless to say if they had been very cheap and distributed on a larger scale with proper backing and funding by some bigger brand with advertising abilities and all that it might've worked, sadly they were rather expensive for just one monster per disc and on top of that very hard to find as very select few stores ever sold them. I only ever found them in one local store myself. So it didn't last and never became a big thing like Pokemon, Digimon, Monster Rancher, Jade Cocoon and so on.
I don't have all of them but I've managed to get hold of quite a few over the years. I originally bought a bunch when they were new and have since found wayward copies in different second hand shops. I rather liked the monster designs so whenever I see an IMP lost out there in the wild I just gotta catch it.
April 28th:
On April 25th I placed an order for some games that arrived for pickup two days later on April 27th and today, April 28th I went and picked them up.
It's a bigger order that I've had to wait a while to do because the site I ordered it from had some bug in the homepage which didn't allow me to use points I had earned which would've made it more expensive. It was already an expensive order so I had to wait if I wanted to afford to place it at all, during this time several of the games I wanted sadly got sold out and I'll probably not be able to get hold of them again for years if ever, they are simply that rare here, so I'm disappointed that it took well over two months for them to fix their homepage until I got my points. Also now when I got the order two of the games that we supposed to have manuals and be "complete" were missing the manuals. So another disappointment. A third disappointment was that they made some prices higher, and a lot higher at that, for some other games I wanted to the point were even with my points I couldn't afford them and didn't really want to buy them anymore because I don't think they're worth that much, so I had to skip buying them as well.
Simply put I only got about two thirds of the order I originally had planned to buy only two months later than I wanted and it still cost about the same, so not a super great experience overall that I'll not soon forget.
Regardless of the negatives I finally have some 32X games of my very own, I got some nice classics for PlayStation that I've been on the hunt for and my collection for Mega Drive and PlayStation Portable got a little bigger as well.
Mega Drive:
F22 Interceptor (no manual)
LHX Attack Chopper (no manual)
Retro-bit RetroGen 6-button Controller
32X:
DOOM
Metal Head
Virtua Racing Deluxe
PlayStation:
Centipede
Iron Soldier 3
Kirikou
Newman Haas Racing
T'ai Fu Wrath of the Tiger (no manual)
Re-Loaded (no manual)
Star Wars Rebel Assault II The Hidden Empire (no manual)
Viewpoint (no manual)
PlayStation Portable:
Key of Heaven
L.A. Rush
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Now Playing - April 2016
What I'm playing right now.
Rally Fusion Race Of Champions (PlayStation 2)
Pretty much my all-time favorite rally game. It has all my favorite rally cars throughout all the ages of rally racing, fantastic visuals, good driving physics, great tracks and a driving feel that makes it enjoyable to just play the game. I recently (middle of December 2015) got hold of the Xbox version but because my Xbox died just a few days later I never got a chance to try it out, so now instead I've dug out my PS2 copy and am playing through it from the beginning. I haven't played it in what feels like forever but it's just as good as I remember it to be and after having played some other rather fun rally games recently on PS2 and GameCube (WRC3 and Pro Rally respectively) you might think this would have a harder time living up to the memory I have of it being the best and all but honestly it's quite the opposite, it easily lived up to my rose-tinted memories and in comparison to the other two it's in a league of it's own, even other types of challenges that in other games are mostly tedious and annoying are fun in this, like cone challenges, I don't know any other racing game where I enjoy them in beside this!
Beyond Oasis (Mega Drive)
A top-down action adventure game with platforming, puzzle and RPG elements, a common type of game on Super Nintendo but not so much on the Mega Drive making this very much a one of a kind.
And what a one of a kind it is! It's easily the best representative of the genre in that generation and puts the Super Nintendo competitors like The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past and Chrono Trigger in their places.
I completed the game with a time of 6 hours and 33 minutes with 0 deaths but I missed a lot of secrets and stuff so I only got about half of the stuff you can find and none of the secret super weapons. So there's certainly replayability in there as well, which is nice.
The game has a built in save feature for up to four separate files at a time and it saves your end scores so every time you beat it you can compare with how you did in your previous playthroughs. You can aim to get a better time and higher rank and stuff separately too as they have their own scoreboards which is really cool and should be appreciated by anyone who likes to improve their game without having to keep a manual score themselves by writing down stats on paper or on a PC or something, very innovative thinking by the developers to say the least, even more so for a game released in 1995 on a console from 1989.
So it's a great game and a must play for anyone who likes the idea of the genre but haven't felt satisfied with the more common Super Nintendo offerings, this was the type of game I was looking for and I enjoyed it a lot.
Metal Head (32X)
Basically Armored Core on the 32X, it's fantastic.
Star Wars Arcade (32X)
Virtua Racing Deluxe (32X)
Rally Fusion Race Of Champions (PlayStation 2)
Pretty much my all-time favorite rally game. It has all my favorite rally cars throughout all the ages of rally racing, fantastic visuals, good driving physics, great tracks and a driving feel that makes it enjoyable to just play the game. I recently (middle of December 2015) got hold of the Xbox version but because my Xbox died just a few days later I never got a chance to try it out, so now instead I've dug out my PS2 copy and am playing through it from the beginning. I haven't played it in what feels like forever but it's just as good as I remember it to be and after having played some other rather fun rally games recently on PS2 and GameCube (WRC3 and Pro Rally respectively) you might think this would have a harder time living up to the memory I have of it being the best and all but honestly it's quite the opposite, it easily lived up to my rose-tinted memories and in comparison to the other two it's in a league of it's own, even other types of challenges that in other games are mostly tedious and annoying are fun in this, like cone challenges, I don't know any other racing game where I enjoy them in beside this!
Beyond Oasis (Mega Drive)
A top-down action adventure game with platforming, puzzle and RPG elements, a common type of game on Super Nintendo but not so much on the Mega Drive making this very much a one of a kind.
And what a one of a kind it is! It's easily the best representative of the genre in that generation and puts the Super Nintendo competitors like The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past and Chrono Trigger in their places.
I completed the game with a time of 6 hours and 33 minutes with 0 deaths but I missed a lot of secrets and stuff so I only got about half of the stuff you can find and none of the secret super weapons. So there's certainly replayability in there as well, which is nice.
The game has a built in save feature for up to four separate files at a time and it saves your end scores so every time you beat it you can compare with how you did in your previous playthroughs. You can aim to get a better time and higher rank and stuff separately too as they have their own scoreboards which is really cool and should be appreciated by anyone who likes to improve their game without having to keep a manual score themselves by writing down stats on paper or on a PC or something, very innovative thinking by the developers to say the least, even more so for a game released in 1995 on a console from 1989.
So it's a great game and a must play for anyone who likes the idea of the genre but haven't felt satisfied with the more common Super Nintendo offerings, this was the type of game I was looking for and I enjoyed it a lot.
Metal Head (32X)
Basically Armored Core on the 32X, it's fantastic.
Star Wars Arcade (32X)
Virtua Racing Deluxe (32X)
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Now Playing - Mars 2016
As per usual there are a lot of recent purchases dominating the current playlist, but also some regulars and returning oldies.
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Entertainment System)
I recently played through the three Super Mario Bros. games on Entertainment System and as usual I got through them no problem, but I always like to go back and do some extra stuff in the third, it's just such a huge game that one playthrough is never enough.
Ballz 3D (Mega Drive)
I'm not a big fan of fighting games in general but I have come to love many over the years, Ballz 3D is one of the oldest. I really like the free roaming 3D style of gameplay and the use of simple ball sprites of different sizes making up the bodies of the many different characters works perfectly to create a smooth illusion of sprite scaling.
Eternal Champions (Mega Drive)
Another old fighting game I love, extremely well made in every aspect, it's everything good the best versions of Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat has and lacks and then some. The Mega CD sequel is even better still in almost every way but for a Mega Drive cartridge it's as good as it gets.
F1 World Championship (Mega Drive)
A 3D polygonal racing game with F1 cars.
Kawasaki Superbike Challenge (Mega Drive)
A 3D polygonal racing game with motorbikes.
Newman Haas IndyCar Featuring Nigel Mansell (Mega Drive)
A 3D polygonal racing game with IndyCar cars.
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
I absolutely love old 3D polygon games, especially the ones on Mega Drive as they were very technically impressive, most of them only used the main processor of the Mega Drive to do everything, with no additional enhancement chips in the cartridges needed.
Super Monaco GP (Mega Drive)
It's old, technically unimpressive, rather visually bland and uneventful, but it's playable and with enough nostalgia it can still be a good time.
Virtua Racing (Mega Drive)
The single most advanced and powerful additional enhancement chip ever made still makes Virtua Racing on Mega Drive the most technically impressive and visually stunning polygonal 3D game in the entire 16-bit generation.
Winter Challenge (Mega Drive)
3D polygon visuals in Mega Drive games makes me happy in pants.
Sega Sports Formula One World Championship Beyond The Limit (Mega CD)
I consider this to be one of the best Mega CD games there are, the sprite scaling and overall technical quality are on par with 32X games and the movie quality for the intro cinematic is unusually high res, full screen and smooth framerate by even the best of Mega CD standards.
Sega Arcade Gallery (Game Boy Advance)
I mainly play Space Harrier but I've tried out the other three games a little more as well, I guess Super Hang On comes second as it's like OutRun but it has turbo boost and opponents, making the gameplay a tiny bit more interesting, OutRun is third and Afterburner comes last.
I was never a fan of the OutRun, Hang On or Afterburner games to begin with but at least the versions in this collection are all very high quality ports of the arcade originals and run very smoothly with excellent sprite scaling, so while they may not be arcade perfect ports with the GBA hardware limitations in mind, they're still some of the best versions I've played in all four cases, only the 32X versions of Space Harrier and Afterburner II Complete are on this level, not counting the arcade perfect versions on Saturn, Dreamcast and other more powerful hardware that can easily handle old sprite scaler games like these.
O.D.T. Escape or Die Trying (PlayStation)
It feels like a mix of Tomb Raider (original Core Design style) and Apocalypse (that sci-fi action shooter game with Bruce Willis) and I'm really enjoying it so far.
Dead or Alive 2 (PlayStation 2)
I've been enjoying Dead or Alive 2 on Dreamcast since it was was new and the Ultimate remake on Xbox for the last few years, so I've never really felt the need to get the PS2 version as well, but now since both those consoles are broken I figured it was time to rekindle my memories of the PS2 version I played with a friend all those years ago when I had the Dreamcast version and he got the PS2 version.
This is a promo disc, I don't know if there are any in-game differences between it and the retail release, but I highly doubt there are.
It still looks and plays great, it was one of those early games I remember really showing what next gen tech could do. Fighting games in general have always been good at pushing tech to the limit, looking fantastic for the time and aging very well as a result, same goes for racing games.
Mercury Meltdown Remix (PlayStation 2)
I love Mercury and Mercury Meltdown, both games were great on PSP and I even enjoyed Meltdown Revolution on Wii despite the motion controls not being quite as good as I would've liked. Meltdown Remix on PS2 is somewhere between the original Meltdown on PSP and Revolution on Wii as far as extra content goes, it's got more stuff than Meltdown on PSP but not as much as Revolution on Wii, but the controls I'd say are the best in Remix on PS2 so it's pretty much a tie between the three versions overall; the original on PSP is portable, Remix on PS2 has the best controls and Revolution on Wii has the most content, which is also why I didn't stop until I had all three versions.
I still love the original PSP exclusive Mercury the most, it not only evolved the puzzle genre, it did it on a portable system, that hadn't been done since Tetris on Game Boy, there was nothing else like it and it was only made possible thanks to PSP, it was an unforgettable experience playing that game but there's no denying Meltdown in all versions is an objectively better game in almost every way.
It's safe to say after all these years I'm still a fan of the series despite how bad the latest Xbox 360/PS3 downloadable DLC divided game Mercury Hg was.
Operation WinBack (PlayStation 2)
While the Nintendo 64 version was impressive by N64 standards, this version was improved enough that for a 2001 release it was also impressive by PS2 standards. The screen resolution, framerate, polygonal detail, special effects (like detailed shadows) and texture resolution and detail have all been given a massive upgrade and the game is now fully voice acted. It's essentially everything the N64 game was but much better in every way.
Smuggler's Run 2 Hostile Territory (PlayStation 2)
It's a promo disc but I assume everything in-game is the same as the regular retail release.
I like the original Smuggler's Run on PS2, I've given the GBA game a try (spoiler alert: it really sucks) and I haven't played the GameCube Smuggler's Run so I couldn't say what that one was like. By comparison to the original and the GBA game this sequel improves on the overall formula of the first game by being more of the same only with further optimization and fine tuning. It has some of the most impressive draw distances of any PS2 game I've seen and the visuals are very nice overall as well, there are even codes you can input during paused gameplay to double the framerate and stuff, there's a lot of fun to be had in this game.
Transformers (PlayStation 2)
I've wanted this game for years but it's always managed to slip through my fingers, literally every time a copy has surfaced someone else has beaten me to it. But not this time! I saw it, I ordered it, I got it, Rat wins! It's a really great game and I'm glad to finally be playing it. I was never a big fan of Armada but this game doesn't feel too ruined by it, it's still got plenty of Transformers goodness in it, and while I'm not a fan of the whole mini-con business in the cartoon at all at least they fit well in a game as customizable powers and abilities, it makes them a lot more tolerable than they ever were in the cartoon.
Worms 3D (PlayStation 2)
I know this game gets a lot of flack but I could never figure out quite why, I enjoy it myself and everyone I know who likes Worms games also like the 3D ones, the only haters I know of are online and far away. It's basically Worms 2, Armageddon or World Party in 3D, and while I may be a much bigger fan of the original Worms on PlayStation, Mega Drive, MS-DOS and Super Nintendo than I am of the newer Worms 2 cartoony redesign, I still enjoy the core gameplay mechanics and feel the 3D games in the series deliver on their part.
That being said I haven't really enjoyed the later games in the series at all, the ones that went back to 2D gameplay.
WRC3 (PlayStation 2)
An extremely great rally game that does just about everything right, putting the competition on all other platforms from all other generations to shame. Very impressive so far. It's like the PS2 equivalent of RalliSport Challenge 2 on Xbox. The first WRC and the sequel WRC2 on PS2 were also great, so the third WRC follows in line with glorious high quality tradition.
Ignition (PC)
A 3D top-down arcade racing game that came out in 1997 exclusively on PC and a great blast from the past.
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Entertainment System)
I recently played through the three Super Mario Bros. games on Entertainment System and as usual I got through them no problem, but I always like to go back and do some extra stuff in the third, it's just such a huge game that one playthrough is never enough.
Ballz 3D (Mega Drive)
I'm not a big fan of fighting games in general but I have come to love many over the years, Ballz 3D is one of the oldest. I really like the free roaming 3D style of gameplay and the use of simple ball sprites of different sizes making up the bodies of the many different characters works perfectly to create a smooth illusion of sprite scaling.
Eternal Champions (Mega Drive)
Another old fighting game I love, extremely well made in every aspect, it's everything good the best versions of Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat has and lacks and then some. The Mega CD sequel is even better still in almost every way but for a Mega Drive cartridge it's as good as it gets.
F1 World Championship (Mega Drive)
A 3D polygonal racing game with F1 cars.
Kawasaki Superbike Challenge (Mega Drive)
A 3D polygonal racing game with motorbikes.
Newman Haas IndyCar Featuring Nigel Mansell (Mega Drive)
A 3D polygonal racing game with IndyCar cars.
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
I absolutely love old 3D polygon games, especially the ones on Mega Drive as they were very technically impressive, most of them only used the main processor of the Mega Drive to do everything, with no additional enhancement chips in the cartridges needed.
Super Monaco GP (Mega Drive)
It's old, technically unimpressive, rather visually bland and uneventful, but it's playable and with enough nostalgia it can still be a good time.
Virtua Racing (Mega Drive)
The single most advanced and powerful additional enhancement chip ever made still makes Virtua Racing on Mega Drive the most technically impressive and visually stunning polygonal 3D game in the entire 16-bit generation.
Winter Challenge (Mega Drive)
3D polygon visuals in Mega Drive games makes me happy in pants.
Sega Sports Formula One World Championship Beyond The Limit (Mega CD)
I consider this to be one of the best Mega CD games there are, the sprite scaling and overall technical quality are on par with 32X games and the movie quality for the intro cinematic is unusually high res, full screen and smooth framerate by even the best of Mega CD standards.
Sega Arcade Gallery (Game Boy Advance)
I mainly play Space Harrier but I've tried out the other three games a little more as well, I guess Super Hang On comes second as it's like OutRun but it has turbo boost and opponents, making the gameplay a tiny bit more interesting, OutRun is third and Afterburner comes last.
I was never a fan of the OutRun, Hang On or Afterburner games to begin with but at least the versions in this collection are all very high quality ports of the arcade originals and run very smoothly with excellent sprite scaling, so while they may not be arcade perfect ports with the GBA hardware limitations in mind, they're still some of the best versions I've played in all four cases, only the 32X versions of Space Harrier and Afterburner II Complete are on this level, not counting the arcade perfect versions on Saturn, Dreamcast and other more powerful hardware that can easily handle old sprite scaler games like these.
O.D.T. Escape or Die Trying (PlayStation)
It feels like a mix of Tomb Raider (original Core Design style) and Apocalypse (that sci-fi action shooter game with Bruce Willis) and I'm really enjoying it so far.
Dead or Alive 2 (PlayStation 2)
I've been enjoying Dead or Alive 2 on Dreamcast since it was was new and the Ultimate remake on Xbox for the last few years, so I've never really felt the need to get the PS2 version as well, but now since both those consoles are broken I figured it was time to rekindle my memories of the PS2 version I played with a friend all those years ago when I had the Dreamcast version and he got the PS2 version.
This is a promo disc, I don't know if there are any in-game differences between it and the retail release, but I highly doubt there are.
It still looks and plays great, it was one of those early games I remember really showing what next gen tech could do. Fighting games in general have always been good at pushing tech to the limit, looking fantastic for the time and aging very well as a result, same goes for racing games.
Mercury Meltdown Remix (PlayStation 2)
I love Mercury and Mercury Meltdown, both games were great on PSP and I even enjoyed Meltdown Revolution on Wii despite the motion controls not being quite as good as I would've liked. Meltdown Remix on PS2 is somewhere between the original Meltdown on PSP and Revolution on Wii as far as extra content goes, it's got more stuff than Meltdown on PSP but not as much as Revolution on Wii, but the controls I'd say are the best in Remix on PS2 so it's pretty much a tie between the three versions overall; the original on PSP is portable, Remix on PS2 has the best controls and Revolution on Wii has the most content, which is also why I didn't stop until I had all three versions.
I still love the original PSP exclusive Mercury the most, it not only evolved the puzzle genre, it did it on a portable system, that hadn't been done since Tetris on Game Boy, there was nothing else like it and it was only made possible thanks to PSP, it was an unforgettable experience playing that game but there's no denying Meltdown in all versions is an objectively better game in almost every way.
It's safe to say after all these years I'm still a fan of the series despite how bad the latest Xbox 360/PS3 downloadable DLC divided game Mercury Hg was.
Operation WinBack (PlayStation 2)
While the Nintendo 64 version was impressive by N64 standards, this version was improved enough that for a 2001 release it was also impressive by PS2 standards. The screen resolution, framerate, polygonal detail, special effects (like detailed shadows) and texture resolution and detail have all been given a massive upgrade and the game is now fully voice acted. It's essentially everything the N64 game was but much better in every way.
Smuggler's Run 2 Hostile Territory (PlayStation 2)
It's a promo disc but I assume everything in-game is the same as the regular retail release.
I like the original Smuggler's Run on PS2, I've given the GBA game a try (spoiler alert: it really sucks) and I haven't played the GameCube Smuggler's Run so I couldn't say what that one was like. By comparison to the original and the GBA game this sequel improves on the overall formula of the first game by being more of the same only with further optimization and fine tuning. It has some of the most impressive draw distances of any PS2 game I've seen and the visuals are very nice overall as well, there are even codes you can input during paused gameplay to double the framerate and stuff, there's a lot of fun to be had in this game.
Transformers (PlayStation 2)
I've wanted this game for years but it's always managed to slip through my fingers, literally every time a copy has surfaced someone else has beaten me to it. But not this time! I saw it, I ordered it, I got it, Rat wins! It's a really great game and I'm glad to finally be playing it. I was never a big fan of Armada but this game doesn't feel too ruined by it, it's still got plenty of Transformers goodness in it, and while I'm not a fan of the whole mini-con business in the cartoon at all at least they fit well in a game as customizable powers and abilities, it makes them a lot more tolerable than they ever were in the cartoon.
Worms 3D (PlayStation 2)
I know this game gets a lot of flack but I could never figure out quite why, I enjoy it myself and everyone I know who likes Worms games also like the 3D ones, the only haters I know of are online and far away. It's basically Worms 2, Armageddon or World Party in 3D, and while I may be a much bigger fan of the original Worms on PlayStation, Mega Drive, MS-DOS and Super Nintendo than I am of the newer Worms 2 cartoony redesign, I still enjoy the core gameplay mechanics and feel the 3D games in the series deliver on their part.
That being said I haven't really enjoyed the later games in the series at all, the ones that went back to 2D gameplay.
WRC3 (PlayStation 2)
An extremely great rally game that does just about everything right, putting the competition on all other platforms from all other generations to shame. Very impressive so far. It's like the PS2 equivalent of RalliSport Challenge 2 on Xbox. The first WRC and the sequel WRC2 on PS2 were also great, so the third WRC follows in line with glorious high quality tradition.
Ignition (PC)
A 3D top-down arcade racing game that came out in 1997 exclusively on PC and a great blast from the past.
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Gaming Purchases - Mars 2016
Mars 1st:
Was out shopping with a friend today and picked up a couple things at the local GameStop.
PlayStation Vita:
Sly Cooper Thieves in Time (no instruction booklet)
Skylanders:
Cynder
Mars 8th:
I was out shopping with a friend today and I had a GameStop code for a free Skylander to use, so we stopped by GameStop and I picked up a free Skylander set, a new PS2 controller, the three cheapest Nintendo DS games I could find to use their plastic cases for some rogue Game Boy Advance game cartridges I have laying around and some other stuff.
Hardware:
GameStop BB-122 Wired Controller for PlayStation 2 (GameStop brand Dual Shock 2)
Nintendo DS:
Disney Jonas
Guitar Hero On Tour Modern Hits
My Health Coach Stop Smoking with Allen Carr
Skylanders:
SuperCharged Combo Pack - Bone Bash Roller Brawl & Tomb Buggy (SuperChargers)
Other:
Hot Wheels - HW Race Track Stars #184 - DMC DeLorean
Pixel Bricks - Street Fighter - Blanka
Pixel Bricks - Street Fighter - Ken
Pixel Bricks - Street Fighter - Ryu
Mars 15th:
On my way home today I stopped by a second hand shop and among some other stuff I found some older, still sealed, PC games.
PC:
Devastation
Firestarter
Krazy Ivan
Legends of Might and Magic
Manhattan Chase
March! Offworld Recon
The Operative: No One Lives Forever
Nuclear Strike
Pariah
Racing Simulation 3
DVD:
The Smurfs Vol. 10
also picked up a couple of sealed and unused VHS and cassette tapes, two barely used microcassette tapes, a 1995 The Phantom comic book and an Oliver & Co. comic book.
Nostalgia shopping spree for the win!
Mars 22nd:
Went to the second hand shop on the way home today and found some stuff as usual, among it another old PC game.
PC:
Unreal II The Awakening
also a composite + S-Video to SCART converter, three Manga comics, a Tintin audiobook on CD, a Bakugan DVD, five more Smurfs DVDs, some paintings and some ornament figures.
Also got a Donald Duck comic with a LEGO Star Wars X-Wing Fighter set (black and orange) from another store.
Was out shopping with a friend today and picked up a couple things at the local GameStop.
PlayStation Vita:
Sly Cooper Thieves in Time (no instruction booklet)
Skylanders:
Cynder
Mars 8th:
I was out shopping with a friend today and I had a GameStop code for a free Skylander to use, so we stopped by GameStop and I picked up a free Skylander set, a new PS2 controller, the three cheapest Nintendo DS games I could find to use their plastic cases for some rogue Game Boy Advance game cartridges I have laying around and some other stuff.
Hardware:
GameStop BB-122 Wired Controller for PlayStation 2 (GameStop brand Dual Shock 2)
Nintendo DS:
Disney Jonas
Guitar Hero On Tour Modern Hits
My Health Coach Stop Smoking with Allen Carr
Skylanders:
SuperCharged Combo Pack - Bone Bash Roller Brawl & Tomb Buggy (SuperChargers)
Other:
Hot Wheels - HW Race Track Stars #184 - DMC DeLorean
Pixel Bricks - Street Fighter - Blanka
Pixel Bricks - Street Fighter - Ken
Pixel Bricks - Street Fighter - Ryu
Mars 15th:
On my way home today I stopped by a second hand shop and among some other stuff I found some older, still sealed, PC games.
PC:
Devastation
Firestarter
Krazy Ivan
Legends of Might and Magic
Manhattan Chase
March! Offworld Recon
The Operative: No One Lives Forever
Nuclear Strike
Pariah
Racing Simulation 3
DVD:
The Smurfs Vol. 10
also picked up a couple of sealed and unused VHS and cassette tapes, two barely used microcassette tapes, a 1995 The Phantom comic book and an Oliver & Co. comic book.
Nostalgia shopping spree for the win!
Mars 22nd:
Went to the second hand shop on the way home today and found some stuff as usual, among it another old PC game.
PC:
Unreal II The Awakening
also a composite + S-Video to SCART converter, three Manga comics, a Tintin audiobook on CD, a Bakugan DVD, five more Smurfs DVDs, some paintings and some ornament figures.
Also got a Donald Duck comic with a LEGO Star Wars X-Wing Fighter set (black and orange) from another store.
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