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  • #3842
    honkytonk52
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭honkytonk52


    This week picked up a colecovision €20 from ebay...a gameboy(faulty) and 2 mario games €10 from adverts and a black gamecube including pokemon colosseum for €20 so not a bad week all in all....:D


  • #3843
    safetyboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭safetyboy


    Picked up this

    http://www.adverts.ie/other-consoles-games/job-lot-of-retro-consoles/600777

    also in the bundle was a copy of Ico for ps2 with the 4 cards

    Lethal enforcers unopened with gun for mega cd and a load of other bits and bobs!


  • #3844
    Optimus Prime
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 5,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Optimus Prime


    Nice, looks like it was worth the money, and a powerglove.. sweet!


  • #3845
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,753 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I picked up Rainbow Islands for the DS for 6, nice little game.
    Lots of good DS games seem to be going cheap, only Mario titles seem immune and are very expensive.
    GS Clarehall no longer stocking PS2 games :eek:
    End of an era!


  • #3846
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    GS Clarehall no longer stocking PS2 games :eek:
    End of an era!

    Coincidentally, GS on Liffey Street don't stock them any more either it seems.


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  • #3847
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,590 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Yep GS has pulled the stock all over the shop.

    A shame really. I was hoping for a firesale. My local one had some rare but overpriced Nippon Ichi curios I would have picked up.


  • #3848
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,279 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Wonder what they will do with allthe left over games.


  • #3849
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,590 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Wonder what they will do with allthe left over games.

    Buell-Blast-crushed-cube1-635x385.jpg

    That, or recycled into copies of MW3.


  • #3850
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    The Pav in Swords still has them, I got Gran Turismo 3 for 99c in there a week ago.

    Might pop down today for a nosey, see if they have any left. I'd love to land Taito Legends 1 in there on the cheap.


  • #3851
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    Damn, must check out the one in rathmines. I would go there now, but rain.

    Went to the car boot sale today, not much there but picked up 2 Megadrive games. The lion king and Andre agassi tennis. I only wanted lion king but it was a whopping €1.50 for the both of them.


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  • #3852
    Optimus Prime
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 5,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Optimus Prime


    was at one today, just the usual rubbish. as psone with 5 games for 25quid, spotted a c64 light gun and tapedeck. MGS1 on psone missing disc1 though.


  • #3853
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    Yeah there was 2 PS1's today. Really do not need any more!


  • #3854
    pdbhp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    Picked up Big Bang Mini DS brand new for €9.

    Gamespot in the Square still has some PS2 games and Game in the Square has loads of PS2 games, some good ones aswell MegaMann X7 etc.might go back up and clean them out:D


  • #3855
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    pdbhp wrote: »
    Picked up Big Bang Mini DS brand new for €9.

    That is a brilliant game, enjoy it!


  • #3856
    pdbhp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    That is a brilliant game, enjoy it!

    Well I've been on the look out for it for ages amongst other shmups. Really trying to get a nice little shmup collection going at the moment


  • #3857
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    A person after my own heart. :o

    Collecting SHMUPs is addictive, but wildly expensive. One minute you have a Dreamcast, a few weeks later you have a Dreamcast a PS1 a PS2 a Saturn and the God of SHMUPs........
    The PC Engine!

    You also end up buying NEC 9801 games you haven't a hope of ever playing. :o


  • #3858
    7sr2z3fely84g5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭7sr2z3fely84g5


    think the saturn had the best shoot em ups :).


  • #3859
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Ah I'd say it's a close call between the two. The PC Engine had Sapphire, the Saturn had Radiant Silvergun. Level pegging pretty much I think. :)


  • #3860
    7sr2z3fely84g5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭7sr2z3fely84g5


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    Ah I'd say it's a close call between the two. The PC Engine had Sapphire, the Saturn had Radiant Silvergun. Level pegging pretty much I think. :)

    had alot japan only releases,besides the obvious ones,who has heard of this cracking saturn port-


  • #3861
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Super taste mate! The thing I love most about it is the soundtrack. It sounds like it was lifted from an 80's family movie.


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  • #3862
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,279 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Sapphire is damn expensive and it's good but it doesn't come close to the saturns best. Saturn wins it for me as well but the PC-Engine has some great shooters a lot of which I'd rank ahead of sapphire. What I like about the saturn and PC-Engine is that most of the shooters aren't bullet hell which I don't like as much as the traditional type of shooters.


  • #3863
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Some say Batsugun is the original danmaku... Not played it yet but it looks great. Sapphire is a thing of beauty but probably more well known for it's rarity than anything else.

    Gimme Mr. Heli any day!

    For me the PC Engine is the better platform for SHMUP games. Why? You could argue the quality of the games was on par foreach system. But I love how what could be done with what essentially is an 8 bit machine. Couple that with the innovative coding to make Hu card games use spare RAM etc on the Super CD Rom and for me it makes the PC Engine just that little bit more special.


  • #3864
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,279 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    I have Batsugun on the saturn, it doesn't seem to work well in mame. It's definitely got a lot of hallmarks from Danmaku games, it's like the missing link between Raiden and Donpachi. The weapons cover the whole screen and the bullet patterns are very danmaku and you have a tiny hit box. Great game. It was made just before Toaplan went under and as we know most of the coders went to form Cave, Raizing and other danmaku developers.


  • #3865
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    It was made just before Toaplan went under and as we know most of the coders went to form Cave, Raizing and other danmaku developers.

    God bless each and every one one of them. :)


  • #3866
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,279 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    For me the PC Engine is the better platform for SHMUP games. Why? You could argue the quality of the games was on par foreach system. But I love how what could be done with what essentially is an 8 bit machine. Couple that with the innovative coding to make Hu card games use spare RAM etc on the Super CD Rom and for me it makes the PC Engine just that little bit more special.

    The difference between an 8-bit and 16-bit processor isn't as big as Sega would have had you believe back in 1989. Put the clock speed up and it can still do amazing things. The PC Engine had an amazing CPU backed up by some great16-bit video hardware that could turf sprites about at a tremendous rate, probably as good as the Megadrive could. Sure ports from the PC Engine to the Megadrive and Mega CD were lacking compared to the PC Engine. Gates of Thunder and Lords of Thunder on the Mega CD had to have their colour palletes reduced and look a lot duller than the PC-Engine games.

    Compared to the SNES the PC-Engine was much better at throwing around sprites. Just play the SNES version of Gradius 3 or games with multi segmented bosses and watch the framerate drop spectacularly.


  • #3867
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Out Run on the PC Engine, for me, is a perfect example and encapsulates everything you just stated above.


  • #3868
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,590 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Retr0gamer wrote: »

    Gradius 3

    Oh, I saw that before you edited. For shame retr0, for shame :P


  • #3869
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,279 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    My heads just full of Treasure at the moment :P


  • #3870
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Few bits I got during the week fom eBay and other sources.


    New in box Neo Geo Pocket color (Stone Blue version):

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    Neo Geo Pocket color games(All complete and mint)

    dsc4332.jpg


    Atari Lynx II and Batman Returns game:

    dsc4334z.jpg


    Some Megadrive games (all complete):

    dsc4340.jpg


    Shenmue for DC(box is a little tatty but it is new and unused) :

    dsc4336o.jpg


    TV Tuner for Sega Game Gear

    dsc4335.jpg


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  • #3871
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,753 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Picked up an N64 with Goldeneye, Mario64 and Magical Tetris Challenge together with a.couple of controllers.
    There was a Snes with Mario Allstars that I let go, also a c64 cart and some Ps1 games here and there, but nothing extraordinary today.
    All at the Balbriggan market.


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