teh "what did you buy today"-thread

[Necromancer]

Yesterday's mail brought me copies of Shada (ready for the translation!), Hokutosei no Onna, Kagami no Kuni no Legend, and Death Bringer.

[toymachine78]

You can't really go wrong with POW for the NES.
Great game.  But do yourself a favor and play through it without resorting to using the 21 life code.

Good game, I thought it was pretty damn tough. I had to use the lives code. [emoji22]


Also, the mail brought LDis yesterday. Its a pretty good little shooter. Not spectacular, but decent, and can be had pretty cheap.

[EvilEvoIX]

I've been on an AES roll recently.  I got this Bad Boy for FREE, very nice seller.

[xelement5x]

Gypsy Dreamcast Bundle by xelement5x, on Flickr

My half of a trade from Gypsy. Lots of awesome Dreamcast games to add to my library and some not so awesome.  I'm trying to get many of the heavy hitters out of the way early as I consider going for a full set like an ultra collectard.  It will be slow going though since I am trying to fund any additional purchases through sales for the time being and I've got some other things I want to pay off as well. 

[Mathius]

^^Rayman 2 is your diamond in the rough

[VenomMacbeth]

Gypsy Dreamcast Bundle by xelement5x, on Flickr

My half of a trade from Gypsy. Lots of awesome Dreamcast games to add to my library and some not so awesome.  I'm trying to get many of the heavy hitters out of the way early as I consider going for a full set like an ultra collectard.  It will be slow going though since I am trying to fund any additional purchases through sales for the time being and I've got some other things I want to pay off as well.

Tech Romancer, nice!

[MrBroadway]

Quite a few good ones, actually: Mark of the Wolves and Last Blade 2 are quality, and Spiderman, Toy Commander, and Revolt are decent as well. Haven't played them on the DC in a while, so my memory is faulty, but I remember those being definitely worthy of a buy. Sega Rally a lot of people liked, too, but I never played it on the DC.

[xelement5x]

Quite a few good ones, actually: Mark of the Wolves and Last Blade 2 are quality, and Spiderman, Toy Commander, and Revolt are decent as well. Haven't played them on the DC in a while, so my memory is faulty, but I remember those being definitely worthy of a buy. Sega Rally a lot of people liked, too, but I never played it on the DC.

Yeah, Gypsy had some pretty decent titles he was willing to trade off to me, the only "junk filler" ones in my opinion based on what I played so far were NFL QB 2001, and 102 Dalmations.  Even Chicken Run was okay, but I find Aardman stuff pretty charming too.

[esteban]

Quite a few good ones, actually: Mark of the Wolves and Last Blade 2 are quality, and Spiderman, Toy Commander, and Revolt are decent as well. Haven't played them on the DC in a while, so my memory is faulty, but I remember those being definitely worthy of a buy. Sega Rally a lot of people liked, too, but I never played it on the DC.

Yeah, Gypsy had some pretty decent titles he was willing to trade off to me, the only "junk filler" ones in my opinion based on what I played so far were NFL QB 2001, and 102 Dalmations.  Even Chicken Run was okay, but I find Aardman stuff pretty charming too.

What the heck is "Incoming"?

I am not familiar with that title at all. I must investigate.

[DragonmasterDan]

I've been on an AES roll recently.  I got this Bad Boy for FREE, very nice seller.

That's one heck of a freebie.

[EvilEvoIX]

I bought some games and then he mailed me this one after the fact

[Gypsy]

Quite a few good ones, actually: Mark of the Wolves and Last Blade 2 are quality, and Spiderman, Toy Commander, and Revolt are decent as well. Haven't played them on the DC in a while, so my memory is faulty, but I remember those being definitely worthy of a buy. Sega Rally a lot of people liked, too, but I never played it on the DC.

Mark of the Wolves, Last Blade 2 and Tech Romancer are all awesome. I would not have traded them without replacing them with Japanese copies (which I did). Some people like Illbleed but I didn't care for it so it was easy to move on from that one.

Sega Rally is alright, it's a competent racing game.

For anyone wondering about my side Element sent me lots of PCE goodies (Cadash, 3.0 sys card, R-Type I, Puyo Puyo, ten no koe bank, Dragon Spirit, Genji Tsushin Agedama, Space Harrier) a Genesis Game Genie and some (okay quite a bit of) money.

@Esteban: It's a 3D shooter, not particularly good.

[MrBroadway]

Since you just replaced MotW, does the Japanese version have audio sync problems?

[Gypsy]

If you have access to AES or MVS I'd certainly play one of those. I like the Dreamcast controller better for fighters or I otherwise would have imported it on PS2 which is a better console version. It seems to be about the same as the US release but it is worth noting that I was sent the first pressing of the game. I don't know if the "the best" budget release fixed the issues. Maybe Redump will have information on if those discs are different.

[ProfessorProfessorson]

Picking up Contra and Double Dragon III for Famicom. Figured I'd give them a go.