Neo Geo Pocket Color Game Recommendations

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Seems strange, yeah. Fantastic game, regardless. I'd probably pay up to 30 for it, so this may be one of the rare instances where my expectations, and the price of a rare game match up.

If only it were the same for Faselei! I used to have it, and paid around £80, like new, boxed etc. I enjoyed it, but still don't think it was worth that much. Box art was cool, though.
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I really enjoyed Beast buster a few years back. Horror themed Zelda type game.

What's Biomotor & PAL Evolution run these days?
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Whoa- i just took a casual look at ebay UK for Biomotor Unitron- seems to be going for £20-30. Then a PAL version of Evolution for £130??? WTF.
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dust_hound wrote:Whoa- i just took a casual look at ebay UK for Biomotor Unitron- seems to be going for £20-30. Then a PAL version of Evolution for £130??? WTF.


Biomotor Unitron was released in all three regions early on in the handheld's life as an attempt to cash in on Pokemon.

But the Evolution port was released late, with a smaller print run, and only in the UK and Japan. The UK is the only English version, so you're now looking at the effects of both the NTSC-U and the PAL markets fixating on them. That's what causes the spike in prices.
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Ack wrote:
dust_hound wrote:Whoa- i just took a casual look at ebay UK for Biomotor Unitron- seems to be going for £20-30. Then a PAL version of Evolution for £130??? WTF.


Biomotor Unitron was released in all three regions early on in the handheld's life as an attempt to cash in on Pokemon.

But the Evolution port was released late, with a smaller print run, and only in the UK and Japan. The UK is the only English version, so you're now looking at the effects of both the NTSC-U and the PAL markets fixating on them. That's what causes the spike in prices.


Surely the Evolution dungeons aren't randomly generated like the DC games, correct?
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Jagosaurus wrote:Surely the Evolution dungeons aren't randomly generated like the DC games, correct?


I haven't played it myself, but my understanding is that the NGPC game is basically a demake of the original. There's an article on HG101 that would fill us in though.
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Ah, i see, i see.

TBH, i never actually enjoyed Evolution on DC much, so i'm glad that i'm not collecting for NGPC.

Most i ever paid for a game was Panzer Dragoon Saga which, whilst a great game, wasn't really worth the £150 i paid at the time. Lesson learned!
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