[General Discussion] Recent Game Purchases, or what I bought instead of fourteen new dildos this weekend

The more I've been weighing the pluses and minuses on whether to buy an X-Box 360, Wii, or PS3, the more I've been saying "fuck it" and just buying more old school shit for play, not to mention more cheap games for the PS2 and Gamecube. Last week, I bought Tales of Symphonia and Xenosaga III, the latter of which I'd been putting off for a while. I'm not planning on playing either of those right away, but I don't want to miss them when Gamestop pushes them off the shelf in favor of more Guitar Hero shit. I also ordered some old SNES carts, including R-Type III and U.N. Squadron, some of the best shooters I remember from that system. I had been playing both on emulators and realized that it wouldn't be too costly to just get them for the console. A week before that, I got myself a copy of Startropics for the NES, a game that still rules and is still frustrating as hell sometimes (I beat it in a few intense, curse-filled sittings, much to my girlfriend's dismay). I had to get that again, because my copy of Zoda's Revenge was lonely and still pissed at me that I lent my original copy to a douchebag who managed to break the original Startropics cartridge somehow. Some unreliable shitbag seller on Amazon stiffed me on a copy of Guardian Legend so I'm going to have to wait longer for another one of those.

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Originally Posted by Jinzo

It's been a while since my last post in this threat.
Castlevania Rondo of Blood: Again clearanced at Target for 14.98 Don't even own a PSP yet!

That's funny. I'm about to start buying up some of Konami's other amazing reissue packs, like the Gradius Collection and the Salamander Portable Pack (only in Japanese but whatever). Both these and that Castlevania set are only PSP, and I don't own one of those pieces of shit either. I really don't like handhelds, but with these great game sets it's 100% likely that they won't be getting ported over to the PS2 or any other console (though they damn well should have been, like Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories). When I do finally purchase the PSP, I hope that I can play those games on my regular TV somehow...at least without having to buy some pricy plasma-screen.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

In the past week I picked up all of these good games:

PS2:
Gradius III and IV - There was one copy of this otherwise sorta pricy game buried in the 'cheap shit' bin at one of the local Gamestops, which I think was the only copy available in my entire county. Both of these arcade ports are absolutely hard as hell (I think III was actually pulled from arcades because of its abusive level of difficulty). I'd been searching for this disc for a while and at Gamestop it was only 7 bucks or so.

Gradius V - Gamestop also had a copy of this, so I grabbed it up. This game is amazing-looking and just as good (if not better) than the other entries in the series.

Metal Slug Anthology - These games are fun and challenging as hell and I love the amount of fan service that SNK does with its Neo-Geo reissue packs, which beats the hell out of trying to scrape together several thousand bucks to buy a NeoGeo home console or arcade unit. The Metal Slug disc has 7 games on it (2 of which are different versions of Metal Slug 2, so 6 really) and it doesn't cost much.

N64:
Perfect Dark - I've never played this and I like pretty much every Rare-related title released during their years working with Nintendo. This game costs a handful of dried beans at Amazon.

Star Fox 64 - Slightly more expensive since it came with the very large N64 rumble pack, this cost me a little more (but still less than 10 bucks) at Amazon. I've been having a blast lately trying to get better at the SNES original and I'd heard lots of good reviews of N64's reinterpretation of the game.

Dreamcast:
I bought a giant musty box including the console, four controllers, six memory thingeys, the fishing rod controller, and 10 games (strangely enough, not including the fishing game ) for twenty bucks at a garage sale. The best games of the bunch are Ikaruga, which I'd wanted for a long while, and Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike.

I'm trying to complete gathering up the shmup games I really want. I still need to fill out my R-Type collection including the rare one for the PS1 and I'd love to find a copy of Radiant Silvergun at another garage sale, hopefully in another giant box full of Saturn shit.

There's nowhere I can't reach.