Video Game "Look what I found"

[cookie monster]

Odd find among the 75% off TV sale at Goodwill, sadly no Sony's, but this caught my eye:

Nintendo3D1Joystick.jpg

This site http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/178041-nintendo-joystick-for-pc/ gave me some info, what a weird product. There is also an archived article at IGN from 1997! that gives a bit more detail, so it is an official Nintendo product. I'd link to that but the addy is ridiculously long, just Google if your interested enough. Maybe if a 15 pin to N64 adapter exists you can use it on an N64....

I found mine at goodwill to a few years back i had a hard time finding any info back then for it and have seen one or 2 on ebay.

[CRTGAMER]

Kenningston Expert Mouse Trakball - $3.00 Swap Meet
Picked up another Kenningston which makes this the forth Arcade "Regulation Pool Ball" sized Trakball controller in my collection. So inexpensive and obscure, I hate passing them up at the Swap Meet table. This one includes the official grey "Cue" ball.

2600 Tac Scan Rarity 3 - $5.00 Swap Meet
The only other official home console release, the only other is on the PS2 Sega Genesis collection as an Arcade game unlock. This game at first threw me off, I thought my Paddles were broken. They have to be plugged in Player Two port! The 2600 version is pitiful allowing only three angles in shooter movement. Really? This with 360 spin capability of the paddle? Bought mainly due to only up front official Tac Scan title.

2600 Dragon Fire Rarity 2 - $1.00 Swap Meet
Found on a miscellaneous 1.00 table, had to get due to unique game play. Run the gauntlet of fireballs.

GBA Kururin Paradise - $5.00 BookOff
Oooh yeah, another obscure Japanese game at BookOff! There is a PS1 version called Irritating Stick, this is second and best in the GBA series. I love it when buying used cart games that already have extras unlocked, in this case the bonus Mini games.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kururin/kururin.htm

Kururin Paradise greatly expands on the original game without messing with the formula much at all. The only real control difference from its predecessor is that you can speed up the rotation of the Helirin by holding the R button. But there's plenty more depth, especially in the level design. Although there still aren't very many stages (34 in the main Adventure mode, 30 more the Challenge mode), they get really hard, really quickly. It's definitely meant for veterans of the first game, but it's ultimately a much more satisfying experience. For example, instead of exploring the stages to obtain meaningless color variations, you can now hunt for bonus keys, which will unlock sections of previously played levels and open new areas on the map.

Each section also ends with a "boss" encounter, which is some kind of mini game. One of them is a Balloon Fight rip-off, where you have to control Kururin as he flaps between spiked objects. Another requires that you bounce around a huge playing field and collect stars. Yet another is a multi-player variation of air hockey. Another is a simple race. There are fifteen of these games in total, most of which can played with up to four players.

XBox Panzer Dragoon - $5.00 BookOff
The Saturn version is ridicuosly expensive, grabbed this since so cheap. I do not even own an XBox, but my son has a 360 to "test" the game on.

Ape Escape Pipo Saru 2001 NTSJ - $5.00 BookOff
This is the Best version, I already own the regular edition both a Japan exclusive. You don't even catch the monkeys. Use a vacuum like Mario Sunshine and no kidding suck their pants off to be washed. I was really hoping it would have the extra Mcdonalds level that was only available in the fat food Mcplace in Japan. Verified with HDAdvance that both Regular and Best editions to be the exact same file size. Crap no Mickydees level.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2006/10/parappa_goes_to/

GameSetWatch points out an eBay auction for one of the rarest PlayStation 2 games ever: McDonald’s Original Happy Disc, which was given out at McDonalds’ stores in the summer of 2001 and features single-level demos of Parappa the Rapper 2 and Pipo Saru 2001 (Ape Escape Something-or-another in the States).

GSW asks whether or not the in-game demo is indeed the burger-flipping stage from Parappa 2, only with McDonalds’ logos replacing the generic in-game scenery. I can confirm that indeed it is. Because, as you could probably guess just looking at me, I own this.

It’s sheer coincidence, though: you could only get it if you pulled the little paper contest tab off your thing of fries and got the YOU ARE A WINNER message, and one of the guys in my international student dorm in Kanazawa just happened to.

PS2 Gun Grave - $5.00 BookOff
Animation reminds me of a Graphic Novel. The guy you control is seriously loaded with weapons, carry a huge board filled with guns on his back. Moves slow and methodically blasting away everything. Walking Tank Man around, damn this is fun.

PS2 Rayman Raving Rabbids - $5.00 BookOff
Another pristine CIB game from my favorite store. Say, did I mention I LOVE BOOKOFF?

This gives another option in addition to the Wii version, now can try the mini games with analog sticks instead of waving the Wiimote and Nunchuck. Nice to have the option to try a game with either method. Running with sticks is a little easier on the arms.

PS2 Red Dead Revolver - $5.00 BookOff
More gun shooting, a nice touch inspired by Sergio Leonne western movies.

PS2 Puyo Pop Fever NTSJ - $5.00 BookOff
PS2 never got a US release although it is on the Gamecube. The fever mode really kicks up the game, a frenzy to line up the puyo colors.

[AppleQueso]

XBox Panzer Dragoon - $5.00 BookOff
The Saturn version is ridicuosly expensive, grabbed this since so cheap. I do not even own an XBox, but my son has a 360 to "test" the game on.

...Panzer Dragoon Orta was never on the Saturn. Panzer Dragoon, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, and Panzer Dragoon Saga are all completely different games from the Xbox one, and of those, Saga is the only one anyone would consider "ridiculously expensive"

[CRTGAMER]

XBox Panzer Dragoon - $5.00 BookOff
The Saturn version is ridicuosly expensive, grabbed this since so cheap. I do not even own an XBox, but my son has a 360 to "test" the game on.

...Panzer Dragoon Orta was never on the Saturn. Panzer Dragoon, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, and Panzer Dragoon Saga are all completely different games from the Xbox one, and of those, Saga is the only one anyone would consider "ridiculously expensive"

No kidding, I'll take any Panzer. This puts me at two, the XBox version and the PC version.

[ninjainspandex]

XBox Panzer Dragoon - $5.00 BookOff
The Saturn version is ridicuosly expensive, grabbed this since so cheap. I do not even own an XBox, but my son has a 360 to "test" the game on.

...Panzer Dragoon Orta was never on the Saturn. Panzer Dragoon, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, and Panzer Dragoon Saga are all completely different games from the Xbox one, and of those, Saga is the only one anyone would consider "ridiculously expensive"

the US versions of panzer dragoon 1 and 2 have been creeping up in value, a few years ago complete copies could easily be found for about $20, they have doubled in price since then.
http://www.ebay.com/csc/i.html?_from=R4 ... ld=1&rt=nc

[AppleQueso]

XBox Panzer Dragoon - $5.00 BookOff
The Saturn version is ridicuosly expensive, grabbed this since so cheap. I do not even own an XBox, but my son has a 360 to "test" the game on.

...Panzer Dragoon Orta was never on the Saturn. Panzer Dragoon, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, and Panzer Dragoon Saga are all completely different games from the Xbox one, and of those, Saga is the only one anyone would consider "ridiculously expensive"

No kidding, I'll take any Panzer. This puts me at two, the XBox version and the PC version.

The Xbox game also contains a port of the PC version as an unlockable.

XBox Panzer Dragoon - $5.00 BookOff
The Saturn version is ridicuosly expensive, grabbed this since so cheap. I do not even own an XBox, but my son has a 360 to "test" the game on.

...Panzer Dragoon Orta was never on the Saturn. Panzer Dragoon, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, and Panzer Dragoon Saga are all completely different games from the Xbox one, and of those, Saga is the only one anyone would consider "ridiculously expensive"

the US versions of panzer dragoon 1 and 2 have been creeping up in value, a few years ago complete copies could easily be found for about $20, they have doubled in price since then.
http://www.ebay.com/csc/i.html?_from=R4 ... ld=1&rt=nc

Yeah, I've noticed that. Still, while $40 each is a bit on the pricier side, it's not at the point where I'd consider it "ridiculously expensive," especially on the Saturn where games tend to cost more on average anyway.

[Hobie-wan]

PS2 Gun Grave - $5.00 BookOff
Animation reminds me of a Graphic Novel. The guy you control is seriously loaded with weapons, carry a huge board filled with guns on his back. Moves slow and methodically blasting away everything. Walking Tank Man around, damn this is fun.

It is actually a coffin and yes the designs are by Yashiro Nightow who also created Trigun. There's a second game, Gungrave Overdose, as well as an anime. The anime is good, though it if more of a modern gangster story before it turns into undead walking tank craziness.

[aaron]

got an awesome handheld trackball mouse with a PS/2 connection (not Playstation 2) today. i'll try and remember to take a pic. price was free since someone at work was throwing it out. it's pretty cool! i feel like CRT would be really into it

kinda similar to this:

[fastbilly1]

aaron, those are called presentation trackballs. They are very good for one handed browsing and used often by disabled pc gamers.

[CRTGAMER]

got an awesome handheld trackball mouse with a PS/2 connection (not Playstation 2) today. i'll try and remember to take a pic. price was free since someone at work was throwing it out. it's pretty cool! i feel like CRT would be really into it

kinda similar to this:

aaron, those are called presentation trackballs. They are very good for one handed browsing and used often by disabled pc gamers.

Nice! I remember sitting thru a lecture and seeing the instructor using something similar to this. Thanks for reminding me of this, always like investigating a different controller to try a game in a new way. Now what game would benefit from this with a hand freed up? Maybe Anapan's Three Switch Pad to use as Fire Buttons or maybe some sort of Nunchuck style stick? Imagine if this is modded into the right stick of a PS2 Dual Shock keeping the Trakball as a true mouse!