Video Game "Look what I found"

[ninjainspandex]

I have been holding off of buying a Saturn for some time now because the games are so expensive. However I recently came into a little extra spending money and caved in and bought a Saturn with an Action Replay cart. Here are the first games that I have purchased. I spent about $100 on these four which isn't a terrible price but is a lot worse than I normally do. The next thing that I am going to get is a fight stick or two because some of the button combinations in X-Men vs Street Fighter are extremely difficult to pull off with a normal controller.

very nice choices Bmoc! It's funny im the opposite of you I find the saturn controller a breeze to pull off specials on but I'm a total klutz on the stick. May I suggest if your into fighters that your next import be Marvel vs Street Fighter? IMO that is the best fighter on the Saturn by far, I hope one day I can own the CPS2 board of it.

[Hobie-wan]

Managed to find some decent C64 arcade ports. Each of these games was $1 or $2 each.

*snip*

I also picked up Gauntlet, but unfortunately I can't get it to work with my aftermarket floppy drive. It hangs at the copy protection screen. All the more reason to fix or replace my two dead 1541 drives.

Nice snags. Commando is fun with great music. You just need to hover holding the joystick so you can bump the space bar with your hand for grenades.

I have Gauntlet and yeah it does have some pretty terrible copy protection as I recall. Drives probably need alignment.

[Hazerd]

I have been holding off of buying a Saturn for some time now because the games are so expensive. However I recently came into a little extra spending money and caved in and bought a Saturn with an Action Replay cart. Here are the first games that I have purchased. I spent about $100 on these four which isn't a terrible price but is a lot worse than I normally do. The next thing that I am going to get is a fight stick or two because some of the button combinations in X-Men vs Street Fighter are extremely difficult to pull off with a normal controller.

Nice, i need to get me a Saturn with a Action Replay one of these days...

[BoneSnapDeez]

Managed to find some decent C64 arcade ports. Each of these games was $1 or $2 each.

*snip*

I also picked up Gauntlet, but unfortunately I can't get it to work with my aftermarket floppy drive. It hangs at the copy protection screen. All the more reason to fix or replace my two dead 1541 drives.

Nice snags. Commando is fun with great music. You just need to hover holding the joystick so you can bump the space bar with your hand for grenades.

I have Gauntlet and yeah it does have some pretty terrible copy protection as I recall. Drives probably need alignment.

Commando rules. I was shocked to see how fast and smooth it is on the C64. Definitely one I want to play through to the end.

Besides Gauntlet I own about 2 or 3 other games that I know "work" but can't be read by any of my drives. I will have to sit down someday soon and straighten these things out.

Oh and the amount of arcade conversions available on the C64 is downright nasty:
http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 5272ef817f
What a great system.

[Michi]

So I went into one of my favorite thrift stores yesterday afternoon and one of the women who works there told me that they'd gotten a box with a game system in and some games. Even though she can't name any system other than a Gamecube (she gets the games for her grandson), she knows I go in there looking for games, so she keeps an eye out for when stuff comes in.

Naturally I was happy with this information. But the box was in the back storeroom and she was the only one working at the time who could use the register, so she couldn't go back to get it. She told me she'd hold on to it for me and that if I came back this morning she'd get it for me to see if it was anything I'd want.

So I thanked her and early this morning wandered back into ye-old thrift where she procured me this box:


Somebody didn't read the instructions on the box.

There wasn't too much in it, but what was in it was pretty nice.



NES + 1 controller (no power cord )
Non-yellowed SNES + 2 controllers (all hookups)
Super Pad 64
A Dreamcast cable

5 games:
Mario/Duckhunt
Target: Renegade
Zanac
Yo! Noid
Final Fantasy
Zelda

I was most excited to find a non-yellow SNES and such nice copies of Zelda and Final Fantasy out in the wild. I'm curious about the Super Pad 64. I'll have to test that sucker out later and see how I feel about it.

Everything was super dirty when I got it, but it's nothing a good rubbing alcohol scrub won't fix. And even though I've now got a couple extra consoles that I really didn't need, it was more than worth it.

Total: $5.30

[oxymoron]

You got all that for under 6 bucks!! ^

[Michi]

You got all that for under 6 bucks!! ^

I know. I was shocked too. They usually charge $1-3 per game, but I have seen them charge less than $5 for a system before. I was expecting $20 minimum, but maybe I caught them on a good day.

Keep in mind though, that this is the same store where I found that Sega haul last year, so who knows what goes through their minds pricing-wise *shrugs*

[oxymoron]

You got all that for under 6 bucks!! ^

I know. I was shocked too. They usually charge $1-3 per game, but I have seen them charge less than $5 for a system before. I was expecting $20 minimum, but maybe I caught them on a good day.

Keep in mind though, that this is the same store where I found that Sega haul last year, so who knows what goes through their minds pricing-wise *shrugs*

Could you place a link to the sega lot?

[pierrot]

Could you place a link to the sega lot?

Be ready for your face to melt, Indiana Jones style.

[Hobie-wan]

*cheap stuff*

Nice price. SNES power brick is more important since it has the proprietary plug. You can use many power plugs from 5 to 9 volts just fine and of course a Gen 1 brick works. Zanac is an excellent NES shmup. The Super Pad is good stuff. Real analog stick so no grinding down the plastic and you can switch analog to dpad without moving your hand much. Plenty of other great stuff for the price.