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There's still a ton of GB games left for me to pick up but the good news is the prices are pretty reasonable. I think I will cool it though for now since Christmas is coming up!
Holy shit, I totally forgot about that game. I used to love the hell out of it. Nice pick up!
Thanks! It meets two criteria for me, one, it's a video pinball game which I love (and one I wanted as a kid and never got around to), and two, it's one of the original grey GB carts before the GB shovelware started getting, well.. shoveled in. Just stands in my head as a GB classic, and it's a good game to boot! Hal Labs with yet another great title. I beat the default high score last night, I'm sure it's not an accomplishment - but I am curious to see if it has a battery backup to save scores. I'm guessing no.
I picked up a copy of It Came From the Desert. What a weird game. I think the acting is pretty good, and quite humorous. It may not seem as weird and over the top to me because I actually live in the South.
If anyone doubts the legitimacy of the acting, visit Pelion or Red Bank SC. You will be convinced that the actors deserve Emmy awards lol.
Overall though, the game is a disjointed mess, and lacks flow and direction.
This is one of the games I stupidly sold as a kid and need to re-acquire. I think it was just coming off the FMV is brand new (at least on consoles) hype train, and I bought into it hook, line and sinker. While the color depth looked pretty bad even at the time to me (or the usage of it in that particular video compression scheme I should probably say), I thought it was really cool anyway. The actual action segments were pretty terrible (and difficult, if I remember, too) but overall I enjoyed the kitsch of the whole thing. Definitely gonna pick up another one on the cheap one day.
Motocross Maniacs was one of my top 5 favorite GB games growing up. I never played 2, and got the Advanced version when it came out and hated it. How do you compare this game to the original? Worth picking up? I've been playing more and more portable games as I get more and more busy during the holiday season. I also agree that a turbo express would be a dream acquisition, I'd love one.
Yeah, me too. I think Motocross Maniacs 1 was my favorite game on my original GB for sure. Not even a sports guy or a motorcycle guy, it's just a great game. The second one is almost a carbon copy gameplay wise, the graphics are the same scale, but you get color obviously, but that comes with more background details so the courses feel like they are in different settings. I like the second course for instance since it's made to look like a night time sports event with all kinds of flashing lights in the background. If you love classic Konami music like I do, it's all new stuff with some remixed versions of songs from the first game. Overall it's more of the same of the first game with some nice additions. Totally worth picking up and cheap because people ignore "sports" games on the whole, I think. I have played the GBA one also and I think I remember being disappointed in it too, but I might still get it one day to complete the set.
Love this game as well, Got it for Christmas back when it came out, I never beat it but I got really good at it. Loved it and still play it to this day.
I think that game was probably a major hit with most Game Boy owners back in the day, bigger than I thought. I don't even know how I got mine, probably recommend to my parents and given to me on some present giving occasion - because I certainly didn't care about sports (extreme or otherwise) or dirtbikes, or any of that stuff. Loved it though. One of the best OG GB games for sure.
