Come on, you don’t want to pet, touch and rub all those tanks and APCs? 
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A nice haul today!
A “New” copy of Extreme G 2 from a place called Lion. I think I’m the only one buying from this store’s substantial retro stock, which is not a bad thing! I can safely leave stuff for the next visit. This replaces a dirtied cart only version i picked up super cheap years ago, and was only 1029y! Has some sticker residue that i just made worse trying to remove, but ah well!
And the rest from Book/Hard Off! Some Gamecube games without sleeves for 108y. Figured i probably wouldnt pay much more for these with their sleeves and they’re mostly for my daughter to play anyway. Klonoa I’ve wanted for a long time and i think 500y is a good price! And Blast Dozer is another I’ve been looking for for ages for the same price!. Enjoyed a friends copy a lot as a kid. It’s also another step closer to having all Nintendo releases in Japan. Oddly i seem to be mostly missing the Rare games! And i left a copy of DK64 there, because it was too expensive with the expansion pak that I don’t need!
Hard Off was loaded with new stuff today, i could have easily spent 5x as much but i have to have limits!
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I really love those Japanese GCN covers.
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I scored this lot of Arcade PCBs from a local game store. They’d been sitting a long time and they had no way to tell if they worked or not. They ended up selling them to me for what they bought them for. Win/win for us both. I got them home and tested them out and they all fired right up and played. Not pictured is a Japanese Sigma supergun and joystick that came with the lot. Going to try to do some research on it as I’d never heard of the company. I don’t have a CPS3 so I’m going to sell War Zard. No idea if it works but I assume it does since everything else did. Very happy with this score!
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Damn. What a haul
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Latest SS lot get. A lot of obvious 100yen bargain bin fodder (El Hazard Limited Edition is actually marked as so lol) but some good stuff. There is a lost NES game in there, since the seller “lost” Virtua Fighter Remix (that was originally included in the bundle), and was kind enough to let me choose another game to make up to it.
Everything was $100 and change, so all in all, it wasn’t that bad.
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Jealous, I still have to look at more saturn and playstation stuff that I’m missing out that was only released in Japan.
Nothing too crazy but two games I’ve been wanting to pick up for a while. I’ve rented Taz Mania more times than I can count as a kid from the rental place down the street and Sonic 3D blast I only had a chance to play on Genesis so I’m excited to try the new bonus stages I never got to experience.
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Took the day off work and went hunting all over the city. I ended up finding a few really good deals! Was a fun day for sure.
- The PS1 controllers were in a bargain bin at a retro game store for $1 ea.
- The Gravis pad was at a thrift store for $2. And the PS1 games were at a different thrift store for $4.50 ea.
- The Zelda edition Wii U was at a pawn shop for $100 CAD, which is already a great deal, but I haggled them down to $90.
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Great PS1 games there!
Thanks. Man, I never find PS1 games that aren’t bottom of the barrel sports games, so this was a really great surprise.
there was a SoCal Retro Gaming Expo over this past weekend. Like, you had a lot of ppl flying into LA for E3 or some shit, but real gamers know this was the place to be!!
been looking for this for a while! Regretted not getting it for $40 during the last retro con I went to (they all got snatched up, and the only remaining copy was being sold for $50 with a messed up label). Getting it for $35 was a great deal, not the best condition but good enough for me!
and the rest of the pickups I got. So glad I found Playboy! that and Batman were 2 of the games I was really looking for! The rest are just random impulse buys, except for The Thing which is another game I’ve heard great things about!
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Another rather random get
Retrospectives of the first Super Mario Land zero-in on the game’s setting and weird enemies to show how different it is from the rest of the series. That’s fair, but the biggest adjustment I have to make as someone used to modern Mario platformers is the scale. Everything is so smol!
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Some stuff I picked up from various places, both dragon quest games I picked up at Little Tokyo in LA in mint condition for a good deal, The Saturn games I got off eBay, man Vampire Savior is amazing I can’t believe there hasn’t been a re-release on modern consoles. Grandia is also amazing on the Saturn, it immediately blows the PSX version out of the water. Contra I found in a book-off I went to on a whim for $27! I figured that I’d take my chances and thankfully it is a legit copy. I can’t believe how cheap it was considering that they’ve gotten pretty expensive on eBay and also how flooded with bootlegs the place is.
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Ooh, I don’t have any of the driving games there except SEGA Touring Car, would love to hear how the rest are.
I’m almost tempted to get a copy of Soul Hackers myself now just to compare it with the 3DS release.
Over Driving GTR is the JP version of Need For Speed. The only difference is that is sponsored by Nissan, so only Nissan cars in it. Never played the SS version of NFS, but it’s pretty good. I was particularly impressed with the FMV, great quality for a Saturn game.
Wangan Dead Heat is made by Genki (Shutoko Battle/Metropolis Street Racing) and it’s fun, you choose a “real” girl to be your copilot (with a embarrassing short FMV with fake smiles at you when you choose her) but the drift physics are hard to deal with. And I was kinda let down that it has Wangan on the name but the 3 tracks I chose at random were enclosed. Go figure. I heard that the sequel is vastly improved though.
But Sega TOuring is the worst of the bunch. The finicky physics and the variable frame rate turned me off. Sega Gran Turismo my ass.
Sega Touring Car is great with an analog pad but virtually impossible to play with the dpad. It was always an arcade game though not a GT competitor (Maybe you’re thinking of Sega GT on the Dreamcast?). It’s true there isnt much to Sega Touring Car as a result, but the time trial mode is excellent, and though the framerate isn’t ideal the game still has a good sense of speed!
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That is a damn good price for the hardcase copy of Contra. Was there a manual with it as well?
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Ah yes, I’d forgotten NFS got a reskin. I might pick that up - the original game looks like a lot of fun. I picked up one of Genki’s later racers on Saturn last week, still need to give it a proper try.
As @androgyne mentioned, Touring Car is meant to be much better with an analogue controller. I’ve ordered one recently for NiGHTS - wonderful game but it feels like blasphemy to be using a D-Pad - but I can see it enhancing Manx TT Superbike as well. That game is far too twitchy with D-Pad controls, and both it and Touring Car don’t have powerslide mechanics like Sega Rally so digital input is a lost cause.
Nice pickups!
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