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Some of my favorites so far:
-Owlboy: Metroidvania-type of game with some of the best pixel art known to man. Story is really good, and the gameplay is rewarding.
-Golf Story: Highly recommended. I can't stand real golf, but I love golf games. This one is one of the best ever made, and the added story and humor elements really make this one a must-have.
-The Messenger: Just picked this one up last week, and it's great. Old school side-scrolling action title with Metroidvania-style elements. The action and control is perfect, and the game has some of the funniest moments I've seen in a game.
-Sonic Mania Plus: It's the best Sonic game since Sonic & Knuckles. Hell, it might be better!
-Blaster Master Zero: It's a great modernized take on the original. If you liked that one, you will love this.
-Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon: This is basically an old-school Castlevania title in everything but the name. If you liked Castlevania III, this one's for you, as it's very similar.
-Hollow Knight: Another Metroidvania title (I like those, can't you tell?). This one has a really interesting setting and style, and it is HARD.
You've already found BotW, and that's a good one and the main reason I bought a Switch. Super Mario Odyssey is simply one of the best, if not THE best, 3D platformers ever made. It impressed the hell out of me when I played it!
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Over the long weekend, I spent some quality time with my Switch, and ran through two games:
Castlevan... err... Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon (Switch)
This one was fun. Definitely easier than most Castlevania games, and it borrows so much from Dracula's Curse and contemporary games like Shovel Knight. Can't wait for the full Bloodstained game to come out, if it ever does. I still need to run through it again for the 2nd play-through to unlock everything.
The Legend of Zelda (NES, via the Switch)
I haven't played through the original Zelda game in years. It really never gets old; such a great game. I forgot that Ganon gets reduced to a bloody pile of chunks after you defeat him!
And speaking of games with second quests... I've never played through the second quest before. That's on my list now! -
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The wife wanted to go clothes shopping over the weekend, and there just happened to be a Gamestop next door, so I went there instead and walked out with these:
That GI Joe game is supposedly a modern take on run and gun games like Commando and Ikari Warriors, and the prices have been on the rise lately. I've also been looking for Heavenly Sword pretty much since I got my PS3 a few years ago, and this was the 1st time I've found a complete copy in the wild.
And that Castlevania game...
When I see a PS3 "collection" title, I usually grab it. I know that this one is tough to find, and because it's Castlevania, it's been going up in price lately. I didn't read the box too close, and realized later that it's basically just the 1st Lords of Shadow game with some downloadable content tacked on via a redeemable code.
I already had Lords of Shadow, and figured that the code had already been redeemed. To my surprise, it was NOT redeemed. Guess I'll keep it!
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Yesterday, I played not one, but TWO Galaga machines at random Walmarts.
First one had the spacer under it. This does help a lot with playability while standing, that's for sure (at least for me; I'm 6'1"). I consider myself halfway decent at Galaga, although a little rusty, but I know the game very well. Let me start off by saying that the controls are pure crap! This cab's stick was loose, and felt like there was a plastic gate on an 8-way stick that only allowed it to go left and right. On top of that, this one had a significant delay between moving the stick and the ship moving onscreen. And on top of THAT, there were some serious graphical glitches going on. The most glaring glitch happened when the tractor beam ship came down, activated the beam, and it was a solid inch off of where the ship was!
Second machine I played didn't have the spacer, but it played A LOT better. No glitches here. The stick still felt like crap but at least there was no delay this time, making it playable. I made it to round 10 or so before my back started acting up from bending down, so I gave up.
There is no freaking way I would pay $299 for this thing. It should at least have a few more games on it, like Galaxian, Gaplus, and Galaga '88 at the very least! Not to mention the crap controls...
All of this reminds me that I really need to fix up my Galaga-converted Galaxian cocktail cab that's been languishing in my basement for years now. Yeah, I should do that.
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Man, I've had a weekend so far, and it's not even over yet!
Yesterday, I went with the wife to the Iraqi Antiquities Store... err.. Hobby Lobby, and picked up a decent little soldering kit with a de-soldering pump for about $12 (no pics). And since I was in the area, we hit up a local retro game store that I like, along with a Walmart that has a legendary clearance section, and lastly, a Walgreens. This is what I snagged there:
The "White Link" was half price from the Walmart, the Mega Man figure was from Walgreens (the one near my house has random retrogaming collectibles now!), and the games were from the retro game store. I'm especially excited to have Pooyan, which I've been after for a long time. I needed Star Fox, and Entombed looked interesting, and I don't usually see US Games carts in the wild, so I snagged it.
On the way out of the Walmart, we noticed a used book store was going out of business, so we stopped in. My inner Trekkie came out and snagged these for a grand total of $5:
Today, the fun continued. We hit up a record store I love and grabbed these:
The Killswitch Engage album was actual money, but the others were $5 and under.
Then, we drove by a Salvation Army that I've scored at before, and snagged these for $6 total:
Black and the Genesis Collection are CIB, but Little Big Planet isn't. Hopefully the bonus features are on the disc. Either way, not bad for a couple bucks a pop!
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While I'm not a fan of real golf (outside of mini golf), I love me some video game golf!
Golf for the NES is where it started.
I used to rent this all the time and my dad would watch me play it. He was big into golf in the 80's, and tried to push that on me.
Much later on, I discovered the Hot Shots Golf games on the Playstation consoles. The two on the PSP were my favorites: Open Tee and Open Tee 2.
Lately, I've been playing a ton of Golf Story on the Switch. It's a hybrid RPG/Golf game. One of my favorite things about the game is that at one point, you find a pair of cartridges for a retro system that's set up in a house. Those cartridges: Galf and Galf 2.
They are basically clones of Golf for the NES, but it's funny to play them inside a golf game. Limited Run Games even made some Galf NES carts recently!
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I moved my PS3 from the living room to my game room yesterday so I can start diving into my backlog of PS3 titles. Ran through one of them quickly yesterday (no pics):
Street Fighter X Tekken: PS3
I played through with Ken and Guile on Normal difficulty. I didn't really have much of a problem with it. The game itself is... uhh... interesting. It feels like there's lag between inputting commands and the characters pulling off the move. There's virtually zero lag with this TV, so I know it's the game. The art style is weird, and I don't like that you have to pay to unlock most of the unlockable characters. They DID, however, offer a free download that unlocks Pac Man and Mega Man. Pac Man rides a wooden mech, and Mega Man is a weird, tubby version of the "bad art" Mega Man from the 1st NES game! Bizarre to say the least.
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Which Walmart is sellings risers for $15?
Plymouth, MA. Maybe I misread the shelf, but there were a bunch there with a tag that said $15. How much are they supposed to be?
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My local Walmart finally got around to setting up a cab last week: a Street Fighter unit. Some quick thoughts:
-Player 1 controls were already broken! The thing had not even been there for a week. Control stick was stuck down and would do nothing else. A ham-fisted kid (or adult) would likely kill this thing in an afternoon.
-Player 2 DID work, so I tested it out using Ken. Controls were just OK. Buttons felt on the cheap side, and the stick was clicky but felt fragile. I could pull all the moves/combos off no problem, but I would suggest upgrading all of it with better components before use.
-The thing really is small, but it would be cool in a game room or kid's playroom with some stools. The risers are only $15, which isn't bad.
-The Champion Edition-style cab graphics were my favorite of all the SFII cabs, so I was digging this thing.
For me, I'll save the $300 and stick to the many other ways I already have to play these games, unless I come across one broken in a year for $20 or so. There will be LOTS of broken ones.
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Other than the hilarious method you did your spins by charging up, yeah, I recall 2 being nowhere near as good as 3 or 4. At least I have 3 on my vita I guess.
Cool Boarders 4 was great at the time; I skipped 3, but enjoyed 4 at the time. SSX came out (along with the PS2) shortly after and completely raised the bar to another level, though.
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Seeing that the final list is out, I have a few thoughts:
-Cool Boarders 2... really? I remember it being just OK when it was new, and it has not aged well at all. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, or at the very least, Grind Session, should be on there instead of this.-Destruction Derby 2 and Destruction Derby Raw were worlds better than the original, but it was a big hit at the time.
-Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo is a random choice, but a fun game.
-It's a crime that Twisted Metal is on here instead of Twisted Metal II.
-Rainbow Six is another head scratcher, especially with both Metal Gear Solid AND Syphon Filter on here. One of the Medal of Honor games would have been a better choice.
-Battle Arena Toshinden was a big deal at launch, so that's no surprise. Kinda wish another fighter made it on, maybe Rival Schools or one of the Street Fighter EX titles.
I'm hoping that this thing is hackable for all the people that are missing their favorite games.
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Can you clarify what you mean? Maybe my memory is foggy on the real arcade cabinet, but I'm not sure I understand what is special about the controls. I mean yeah, I remember the big plastic button. But replacing that with a standard arcade button doesn't really change all that much...?
IIRC, the button physically lights up when certain moves are available to use. I don't know how you would emulate that through MAME.
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I was obsessed with wrestling games in the 80s and early 90s. WWF Superstars and Wrestlefest were both favorites, although I'm one of the rare fans of these games who has always preferred Superstars. The games are both by the same company and are actually quite similar in their mechanics, however I liked how Superstars would let you choose your moves from the grapple, and you had to live with the result. For example, if you went for a suplex while standing too close to the ropes, you'd duff it and lose your advantage. With Wrestlefest I think they tried to make it more accessible by adopting the idea of just mashing a generic "action" button and letting the game decide what move to do based on the situation, which always irked me.
As for Main Event, that game came out at the exact right time for me when I was riding high on my love of Mat Mania in arcades. I really really tried to like Main Event, but I just couldn't get into it. I played it on MAME a while back and it's even more dreadful than I remember. Man Mania, Mania Challenge, Superstars, and Wrestlefest have aged very well in comparison.
Yeah, The Main Event just doesn't translate well to MAME. All of those others are fine, but the unique controls make The Main Event hard to play.
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Other than WWF Superstars and Wrestlefest, which both RULE (especially Wrestlefest!), I used to love playing Konami's "The Main Event" in the arcades. It doesn't translate as well to MAME, but it was great as a cabinet. It had one big action button that lit up in some situations when special moves were available.
And as terrible as Tag Team Wrestling is on the NES/Famicom, I somehow like it. Once you figure out how to execute special moves, it makes a little more sense.
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For classic games, I bought a lot of them new at $49.99 back in the late 80's-onward, but I don't recall paying more than that. I do remember laughing at the price tags of certain games ($99.99 for Phantasy Star IV and Virtua Racing on the Genesis? Seriously?) but I waited and picked them up for cheap on clearance. That said, I'll limit myself to after I started collecting, which is roughly Y2K-onward.
Most expensive classic game? Chrono Trigger on the SNES. Paid $49.99 about 8 years ago loose, and I thought I was getting ripped off. That's a great price today.
Most expensive modern game? Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for $59.99. It was the reason I bought the Switch.
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My dad is a "gadget guy", and always tells me that he bought his buddy an original Odyssey for his birthday back when the were new. They both liked hunting, so the rifle accessory sold him. He also liked playing Pong in the arcades and on some of the Pong consoles friends later had.
Later on, my sister begged for a Colecovision for Xmas in '82. My dad liked to play it with her, and somehow enjoyed the Smurfs game more than anything else. He was going to get a 2600 like my cousins had, but he liked the graphics better on the Coleco.
When he bought me my NES for Xmas in '87, he didn't play it at all outside of him trying Duck Hunt once. That changed the next year, when I caught him red handed in the middle of the night playing my new copy of Rad Racer! He was shocked and startled when I caught him! We sat up all night playing after that, with a complimentary "don't tell your mom" for keeping me up so late. One of my favorite gaming memories!
My mom can barely operate the house phone, so needless to say, she has never played a game in her life.Another random memory: a friend's grandfather started playing the NES after picking one up for when my friend would go to visit him. His favorite game was... get this... Dragon Warrior. This guy from The Greatest Generation had a Dragon Warrior save that was around level 25, and he popped it in to show us how Gold Men would run away from his character! That impressed the hell out of us back then!
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I have a few that come to mind:
-Double Dragon on the NES. As glitchy and distant as it is from the arcade game, I love it. The leveling up system is really cool, gameplay is decent, and the music rules. The SMS version is an honorable mention; it plays great and is closer to the arcade version.
-Speaking of the SMS, Wonder Boy. I like it better than the arcade version and the "NES version" (aka Adventure Island). I find it more balanced and fun to play.
-1943 on the NES. Like a ton of other arcade ports to the NES, the made up for the lack of power with cool features in the games. Even though the arcade version is great, I like this one better.
-Dragonfire on the 2600. There are other, more graphically intensive ports for other consoles, but the 2600 version is perfect just the way it is. Plays fast and precise, too.
-Popeye on the Colecovision. It's technically inferior to the NES and Arcade versions, but the CV plays a mean game of Popeye! This is also the version I had as a kid, which doesn't hurt.
-The EA NHL games on the Genesis always felt superior to the ones on the SNES at the time. The game played smoother and faster. Must be the "blast processing".
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excellent luck on finding all of those records.
Yeah, it really was. Everything I've played so far has sounded great. And they have even more of them for me the next time I visit!
Also, that receiver is all hooked up, and everything sounds amazing. Really happy with that purchase!
(BTW, big fan of your YouTube channel. Keep up the good work!)
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I was trying out another new-to-me game recently and accidentally played through it.
Fighter's History (SNES):
My SNES and my HDTV aren't playing nice right now (as you can see by the weird fuzzy artifacts on screen) but the game played pretty well. It's a SFII clone, and one of the most infamous ones. Capcom actually sued Data East because it was so similar to SFII! I've only ever played the arcade game, but the SNES port is decent. Not quite as polished as SFII, but pretty damn close. Once I sort out why my SNES looks like hot garbage, I'll up the difficulty and give it another go.
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My HDTV also has component inputs, and I have some decent component cables for the PS1/PS2. It looks fine to me, so I'll just stick with that setup for now.
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Like others have said, the classic car analogy is a good one. When I'm not playing video games, I'm likely either working on or writing about old cars, so I can elaborate a little further.
"It's only original once" is a phrase often said about old cars. If you have a nice classic, and it's fully functioning and has a little bit of patina, I'm in the "leave it alone" camp. Same goes for old games/consoles/arcade cabs. Sitting in that old car and driving it around as it was back in the day is like having a time machine. Same goes for playing an original old game. We are all nostalgic for that stuff!Now, there's a big gray area when it comes to certain rides, and the same can be applied to games.
Let's take my 1979 Pontiac Trans Am for instance. When it was new, it looked cool, but wasn't the greatest performance machine on the road. Mine came saddled with an engine that wasn't the top performing engine available, and by the time I got my hands on it, it was worn out and sucked even more. Even if I rebuilt that engine (which I did), it still had fundamental flaws that would only be remedied with a full replacement. What didn't help matters is that it had an owner that severely abused the thing, and even switched out a bunch of things that made the car worse. I sourced one of those top-of-the-line engines, rebuilt it with the best parts, and plopped it in there. Another thing: the car is nearly 40 years old now. Automotive technology has advanced drastically since then. I not only replaced that engine, but have been tastefully upgrading parts here and there to enhance reliability and performance. When the car is done, it will be better than gong back in time and buying one new, and all of the problems should be fixed.
Now, I have another project sitting at my house that I've been meaning to getting around to fixing up: a Galaxian cocktail cab arcade game. When it was new, it must have been a sight to see. It was also built around the same time as my Trans Am, and like the car, it had seen some less than tasteful modifications over the years. Want to talk about an "engine transplant"? Someone along the way converted the machine to a Galaga machine! They kept the same Galaxian controls, and swapped the boards out. They even re-painted the glass art to look like a Galaga machine instead of a Galaxian one. By the time I got it, the thing wouldn't even turn on and it was beat to hell. The speaker grille was bent and rusty, the woodgrain was worn, and the monitor had a bit of burn-in.
I haven't started working on that Galaxian/Galaga machine yet, but I'm faced with a dilemma: restore it to stock Galaxian specs, or change it completely over to a Galaga machine? Like cars, they make restoration parts for it. The wear and tear on the machine is beyond patina; it flat out looks like crap and doesn't work. It will be getting some modern replacement parts, like modern new power supply and other electrical components, because just like the car, things have advanced since it was originally made. If it were original and worked as it should, I'd likely leave it alone. In this case, it's a POS that doesn't work, so I'm making some reliability upgrades.We call this a "Restomod" in the car world. It maintains the spirit of the original, with some performance and reliability upgrades that make it more enjoyable. If it's not original anyway, I mean, why not do this?
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Hows the BSG game?
Extremely meh.
The concept is cool: It takes place when Adama is still flying a Viper, and fighting in the Human/Cylon war that happened before the shows. I can't tell whether it's related to the 1978 show or the reboot. BSG games are tough to come by, so at least it exists!
It steals a lot of the gameplay from games like Colony Wars on the PS1, but plays a lot worse. Everything is super twitchy, and mission objectives can be unclear. The worst part: I couldn't even get past the first mission. It has multiple parts, and if you die at any time, they send you back to the very beginning. After that happened, I just shut the game off and moved on.
For $5 CIB, I'm not at all disappointed, but I wouldn't pay more than that.
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The wife and I were visiting her aunt's house over the weekend, and she mentioned that she was getting rid of a bunch of stuff from their basement and asked if we wanted to take any of it before it got tossed. She had been saving some Xmas stuff for the wife, so we headed down to take a look. What I didn't expect to find was a HUGE stack of vinyl records. Like many of you, I also collect vinyl. She said the only thing that wasn't up for grabs was a Queen record autographed by Brian May, which is totally understandable. I wasn't expecting to find much, but I ended up snagging a fat stack of about 20 records. A lot of it was 70's-80's Pop stuff, but there were some real gems in there, and everything was in great, playable condition. Some of them were still sealed!!! Here's a sampling of the lot:
Then, I realized that my Sherwood stereo receiver I picked up from a Salvation Army a couple years back was still on the fritz, so I couldn't listen to any of these. So, I went off to Savers the next morning and snagged these:
The receiver is a Kenwood KR-A3060 from around 1994. Probably overpaid at $29.99, but I wanted something decent with a dedicated Phono input, and this one seemed to work well enough. Has 50 watts per channel, which is decent for back then, and it's built like a fortress. Games were $5 total; nothing special but I didn't have them and they were complete.
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Parallax scrolling used to impress the hell out of me as a kid, as did Sega-style "super scaler" games like Space Harrier. I also remember my brain breaking when playing Hard Drivin' in the arcade for the first time due to those beautiful polygons!
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I did leave off Mega Man 11. I have it, but I'm having a hell of a time with it. The presentation is good, but it's one tough game. I consider myself a seasoned Mega Man player, and I was only able to complete one stage so far! It's by no means a bad game.