Picked up a ton of top shelf retro gaming goodness this month. This is my first time playing FF Tactics and am loving it. Used a $20 gift card from Best Buy on SMG 1+2 so at least I didn’t have to pay Nintendo’s ridiculously greedy full $69.99 asking price. And I’m definitely addicted now to collecting Evercade carts.
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Not really retro unless we count the series.
Silent Hill F
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Posted this elsewhere but my 3D arrived, and while I’ve barely had any time to tinker with it what I have seen is really impressive.
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Pretty awesome lineup of consoles.. nice
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Damn, the job lot.
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I got my first Switch 2 game despite not owning the console yet.
I guess it’s like buying Black GBC carts back in the day before you got a GBC.
It is going to be super annoying maintaining my complete PAL+Japanese Metroid collection because I’ll probably convince myself I have to get both versions in both regions eventually. Even though they’re all technically the same code lol.
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Very nice. I see a NAD amplifier. What’s the rest of the sound setup?
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Quite basic actually - just a pair of Triangle Titus Ez bookshelf speakers. I’m long overdue to pick up the sub.
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Oooh Delta, nice!
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Terminator 2D for PS4. I wanted it on series X but that cost almost twice as much here in Japan so I ended up with the PS4 version. Surprised to see I was sent the Day one edition with extra goodies.
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I’ve been on a bit of a PlayStation racing binge as of lately. Most of them are awful or some such as GT Championship could be great if the controls were not so slow.
Out of this bunch, Taito’s Side by side is the winner. A pretty good port of the arcade game
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Ha, I saw a gif of Side by Side yesterday and was like, “huh haven’t heard of that, it looks good.” Glad to hear it is good. I’ll check it out.
I grabbed a few early Konami PS1 games for 100 yen each in 2014, including that one, and yeah all are pretty clunky. PS1 before 1997 was a strange console, overall had a kind of 3DO feel.
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Some of the special stages are crazy difficult which is a shame. It also lacks variety in the BGM. Only one track for every stage.
Still, it is a fun game when racing on the tracks which aren’t stupidly difficult.
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Even in 1997 there was still a lot of cheap and nasty games coming out for it.
In a way it’s quite interesting to see what is out there.
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Plenty of ace pick ups in the last few weeks. Am glad Taito Arcade Memories Vol. 2 was recently reissued so I didn’t have to pay an outrageous amount for it.
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Egret II can take cartridges?
