A couple of pickups from Play Expo Margate’s seller section. Prices were competitive compared with other local and import options. I hope Brain Lord is good - I’d be lying if I said I didn’t pick it up solely on the box alone.
Samurai Shodown on Switch arrived today as well. From what little I’ve played it plays fine, but I’m baffled over why the user interface wasn’t rethought for the smaller screen. Many menus look as silly as you can see below…
(I’ve been waiting 4 months for these…)
Shienryu is so damn good.
Man, I love those oldschool lian li aluminum cases… so sexy. Gonna need to see some shots of the interior, @poptart
LGR does a build in an older model (new old stock) in this video, and I want one so bad.
I love the G5-esque styling of that Lian Li case. I bought an EZ Cool case for my XP machine back in the day. It didn’t feel premium at all with that hideous face design and those stupid bolts everywhere!
Not a lot of pics of it on the net but this is the design:
Reminds me of PC-equivalent of a Qanasonic Q for some reason:
They have similar aestetics in my eyes.
I can certainly see the similarities!
Two posters I’ve been after for years came up on eBay recently \o/
Two of my favourite things in one place, Yoshiyuki Takani’s art and Metal Slug:
Got something to hang up in the game room! I must not wear it though unless I want to meet with a terrible fate 
That’s a very nicely made mask!! Is it actual wood or a light plastic that looks like wood?
Here’s a look at everything I bought over the month of February.
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It just occurred to me that I never posted a pic of this clock I received as a Christmas gift. Hand made from wood, resin, and clock parts/LED Lights.
Today’s mail call. I’ve been looking for this game for years. Never thought I’d own it. Got it for around $100 out of pocket. It has a repo case and manual but I can track those down later.
Thanks!
I got this from the store description: This item is made from cast polyurethane resin, and is hand-painted with high quality acrylic paints.
Can’t wait to see a photo of it hung up! Reminds me of one of the houses in A Link Between Worlds, where you could then stick to the wall and ‘wear’ the mask
A couple of games: a digital, not-pictured copy of Yuusha Shisu/Hero must die again on Switch, which I’ve already finished, and Virtual-On Force on Xbox 360.
I’ve never played the latter at home or on the arcade, so I’m very curious about how it plays, especially with the emphasis on four contestants.
That box art is so damn clean. You’d never see that from a North American release.
Very cool.
It’s great, and you’re right. Daemon x Machina also had a similar thing where the JPN release was just the game’s clean logo on a striking single-colour background but the EUR and USA versions add a lot of ‘energy’ on top.
Another game to add to the repertoire of Densha De Go games, this time you get to drive the Sanyo Shinkansen!
This one excites me quite a bit - there’s the potential for high speed excitement, but I took the same route (on the map, from Shin Osaka 新大阪 to Hakataminami 博多南) last November.
I love the idea of these games and have always been fascinated by the series but there is just too much Japanese for me to get to grips with them, both written and in the many spoken cues that are necessary to understand in order to proceed. The PC version of Final is my most wished for English translation of any game out there, hopefully one day it will happen.
