Your fall 2005 used game purchase thread

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Snes: un squadron, NBA Jam te. Nes: Pinbot

― Jon W, Tuesday, 20 September 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Secret of Evermore. For thirty bucks, this better be as good as Secret of Mana.

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, it's not.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

The dude behind the counter said it wasn't good, but I heard positive reviews elsewhere so I took a chance. Mostly, because I so badly want to play a Square RPG for SNES that I haven't played.

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

Guardian Heroes Advance and Lufia for the GBA. Lufia seems kind of crappy.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

it's better than secret of mana.

― rio natsume, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

In early summer of last year, i discovered that the local EB Games sold used PC titles. Oooooh that was not the best thing for me to find out about...

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Good to hear, rio. I'm going to go play it now and see if the man behind the counter was right to laugh at me or not.

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

To be honest, I've spent the last month buying things I should already have had, or used to have and don't seem to anymore (Nes: Balloon Fight, Double Dragon, TMNT. SNES: Starwing, Super Mario World). I've not got anything rare or exciting recently, but I got quite excited when I found a 32X for a couple of quid, and a boxed Street Fighter 2 Turbo SNES in tip-top condition for under a tenner.

I've bought a lot of megadrive junk too, but only in my quest to own every game that exists for this badboy.

― melton mowbray (adr), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

Pirates! Gold, Genesis. It was only seven dollars at the same place that charged the scandalous thirty for Secret of Evermore. They also wanted $250 for P.T.O. II on the SNES, which is absolutely baffling to me.

― Allen E. Riley (allenriley), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

resident evil 4 and a used GC. AWESOME

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

super street fighter 2 turbo (and 2 snes advantage controllers)
smash tennis

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

anyway, my last used game purchase: Anachronox, in this spring. Good times, clunky models, great writing. i got distracted and drifted away from it right as you begin the assault on the bad guy's HQ.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

tempted

http://image.lik-sang.com/images//large/classics-gennex1.jpg

http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=182&products_id=7407&

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

I'll join with black nostalgia against my soul
And to myself become an enemy

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

a picture of my desk

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 22 September 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Guardian Heroes for the Saturn was immense, i have no GBA but will check out this advance version emu1at0r style.

― jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

My wife bought me Grind Session the other day. THIS has been quite the flashback. It's amazing how some of the hard tech lines, like jumping from one rail to another, are so easy while doing something simple like "skate forward to hit the garbage can" can be so hard since you can't turn as smoothly as you can in the later Tony Hawk games.

It's cool hearing GZA again:

"Take cover with the radical, urban Latino
No Hip-Hop connection between us and Janet Reno!"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

super castlevania IV (SNES)
NBA jam (SNES)
firepro wrestling returns (PS2)

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 September 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

i'm thinking of buying this

― rio natsume, Saturday, 24 September 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

I've got one of those SNES converters, but have always avoided playing import games because they'll play about 17% slower on PAL machines due to the framerate difference between PAL and NTSC.

It only occurred to me today that I should be grateful for this and should play them more often, as I'm terrible at fast games and not in any particular hurry.

― melton mowbray (adr), Saturday, 24 September 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

nes kickle cubicle + boy and his blob

― Allen E. Riley (allenriley), Sunday, 25 September 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

tempted to get this

― rio natsume, Sunday, 25 September 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

God, rio, I love that game SO MUCH.
Probably my favorite Mario game.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 25 September 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Great game rio, the paper mario follow ups, same role-playing idea but for some strange but brilliant reason everyone is made of paper, on the N64 and cube are brilliant too.

― jeffrey (johnson), Sunday, 25 September 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

here's what I just salvaged (!) from my little brothers 'misc. gaming' drawer

HARDWARE:
original game boy, screen protector removed;
original game boy advance, no back-light, no back;
purple game boy color;
silver game boy pocket, no back.

SOFTWARE:

GBA:
super mario bros. 3
mario & luigi superstar saga
WWF
shaun palmer's pro snowboarder

GB:
mortal kombat I & II
super mario land
mario & yoshi
pokémon gold
space invaders
castlevania

GBC:
rainbow six
freestyle scooter
WWF betrayal
aliens: thanatos encounter (WTF)
the simpsons: treehouse of horror

MISC:
pokémon pinball (not sure what this is for and the cart takes a battery?!)

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 September 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

beyond the obvious (the marios, mario & luigi &c.) is there any of that worth keeping out to play?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 September 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

and further raking (holy shit where does he get the money?):

GB:
spiderman
tennis
james bond 007

GBA:
pokémon leaf green
mario kart: super circuit
metroid fusion
super mario advance
tiger woods 2004

MISC:
six empty original GB cases

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 September 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

What is Final Fantasy Tactics like?

― ~~~~ DODONGO DISLIKES SMOKE ~~~~ (ex machina), Monday, 26 September 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Woo! I got myself another boxed Megadrive 2 today, and a boxed Mega CD 2! A bunch of crummy games I mostly already had came with the Megadrive, but elsewhere I bought Streets of Rage 2. Today was all about the twos!

― melton mowbray (adr), Sunday, 9 October 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

secret of evermore
secret of mana
bushido blade
yoshi's island

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 9 October 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

That is a killer list of games, cozen.

― Laura H. (laurah), Sunday, 9 October 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

yeah it kinda killed my bank account

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 9 October 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

everything video game related i own now is used.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 9 October 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

ikaruga for gc yayay $22.50

― allenalenelnalenelnae (allenriley), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Xpost Final fantasy tactics is great.
Ah, Bushido Blade. An update for next gen is desperately needed.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 October 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

Final Fantasy Tactics is great.

I got Minish Cap, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Guardian Heroes advance - GBA fr DS.

I got warioware: touched, and advance wars DS too but i have to wait abt two weeks for them to get delivered.

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

I went to get X-Men Legends used and couldn't find it.

HOWEVER EB is having a sale where X-Men Legends NEW is $10 through the 15th.

Guess what I played most of the day yesterday?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

I am loving co-op X-Men Legends to an insane degree.

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

yoshi's island - pretty gutted I missed this for so long given how much I loved the original super mario world (SM2 > SMW = SM3 > SM1 lost levels > SM1) - sharp aesthetic and great colouring and animation... controls felt a bit springy to start, like my little yoshi was just too eager to reel back in the lost years but settled down into familiarity now

bushido blade - brilliance... the graphics just 'fit'... I hate PS1 graphics because they generally look like google maps satellite pics of grimsby but it totally suits the style here... plus the arenas are so extensive... there's nothing I've experience in fighting games over the years quite like both fighters running around the arena, parallel to each other, both tuning their instinct and ability in on the kill... the way the camera sweeps out to take it all in... it's like all those annoying 'wire-fu' moves but actually good because you get to control the fighters...

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

I take it you haven't got much into secret of evermore yet, laura, what with your telly trouble?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

No. :( And I just figured out how to stop wandering endlessly around the initial village too. I'm getting the remote this weekend from my parents' house.

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Bushido Blade is total brilliance.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

really though so good!!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

iss 98 (N64)
metroid prime 2: echoes
wave bird controller

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 21 October 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

final fantasy x
metal gear solid 2
gran turismo 3 a-spec
gta vice city
tony hawks pro skater 3
devil may cry

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 21 October 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Sega Rally
Guardian Heroes
Breath of Fire: Dragonquarter

― jeffrey (johnson), Friday, 21 October 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I did not buy this, I borrowed it from Allen, but:

FF7

Time to replay it!

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 21 October 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

gradius V

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

be proud, i have not bought anything.

― allenalenelnalenelnae (allenriley), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

Super Mario 64 DS.
Nights

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

secret of evermore is going for $30?

― kephm (kephm), Sunday, 27 November 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

Xenogears, $36 at the local gamestop.
Wipeout XL.

― latebloomer: Do I have a large frog in my hair? (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 November 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

At overpriced Manhattan game stores, yes. xpost

― Laura H. (laurah), Sunday, 27 November 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

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