The Gamer's Quarter

[ApM]

[dessgeega]

last express has recently passed from my "to-do list" to my "way overdue list".
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[Lackey]

Outlaws had pretty nice box art, incidentally.
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[Dracko]

Last Express is quite amazing if only in approach to the adventure genre alone. Jordan Mechner is by far one of my favourite video game creators. I need to see if I can play Karateka eventually.

I never managed to get into Outlaws in much as I should have. I know where I can get it easily, but what did you guys like about it as far as FPS go?
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"This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!"

[sawtooth]

The Last Express had me immersed like no other game until egg spoiler spoiler spoiler. I haven't gone much farther yet, because a certain event keeps happening that I just don't want to. And I want to see what I can do without rewinding all the way back to the last stop.

It truly is an amazing game, though. I picked it up on ebay for 5 dollars along with three other games that I really don't have any intention of playing. Tell me, are Azrael's Tear, The Legend of the Lotus Spring, and Robot City any good?

[dhex]

[dessgeega]

completion.





disc pictured is popful mail, courtesy of sohn jzczepaniak (name altered to protect doner).
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[Shapermc]

[dessgeega]

[Shapermc]

[dessgeega]

i have the sega cd version too (from the same mysterious donor) but i can't get it to run in an emulator.
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[Shapermc]

[dessgeega]

it's only a bootleg, but it's one of the greatest treasures of my collection.



i cleared stage 5 with richter for the first time ever today (one "credit").
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[Shapermc]

Hey, that kind of stuff is ok-ish. I mean, I am sure that if a PS2 version was released for $20 or something you would buy it, right?

Also, I am going to create a topic on Popful Mail... it is needed.

[Ketch]

Sos Final Escape / Disaster Report. Although not a major treasure, is still an unusual and welL executed title, a minor gem in my collection. I enjoy all the little bits of extra-attention to detail that they put into it, and the way that it feels like an updated adventure game. Especially when I got it for the price of a meal at McDonald's. The sequel is due to be released this year, and it makes me wonder if I will pay full price for it? ? I'm inclined to since I have litle doubt that it will disappear quite quickly.

[Lackey]

Ah! Sequel! This is news to me. I recently picked it up for good cheapness but I have yet to play very very far in it.

The game is very scary! Most games don't have levels which fall on you / out from under you. It's often hard to tell what'll happen when things shake.
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[Mister Toups]

[Ketch]

In the latest Official PS 2 mag (UK) it says it is out in Japan already and (says something like) that it should be released later this year.

[simplicio]

Or rather (from the IC frontpage, Jan. 22nd):

[chompers po pable]

[dessgeega]

[ryan]

X-Wing Trilogy - Has the CD versions of X-Wing, Tie Fighter, as well as X-Wing Alliance and a demo of X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter.

Excite Bike - The NES version still sealed. It's one of my favorite NES games and was found in one of those travelling markets that sets up at local civic centers.

Jumping Flash! - I have the original cardboard release still sealed. I also have the large clear plastic and the black plastic releases. The opened two were purchased used and are still played fairly regularly. (GO!)

Astal - I still really like this game. It's also a bit of a sentimental item since my father made the effort to pick it up for me after it was free with the purchase of a Saturn the day after I went to Texas to buy mine.

[Lackey]

[dhex]

oh yeah!

yeah, probably.

i was one of the assholes who bought the ultima IX special edition. and i have a boxed copy of darklands that's still in good condition, even though the 3.5 floppies no longer work.
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[Lackey]

I'm pretty sure some iteration of Ultima came with a pewter Ankh.

I regret that some of my floppy disks probably don't work anymore either. I like the old hard boxes though; they feel important.
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[seryogin]

Who remembers the floppy disk version of Tie Fighter, which came with that delightful manual, the first half of which was a fake memoir of some guy from a piss-poor planet joining the Imperial Space Force?

[Lackey]

I do! My dad rented it from a video store and photo-copied the entire book.
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[dessgeega]

[Lackey]

Sim City's registration key sheet was printed in red so it wouldn't photo-copy, those clever guys! Didn't stop us from manually writing them down on a sheet of graph paper though!

A childhood friend of mine borrowed the manual for The Summoning to photocopy and absolutely destroyed the original in the process. I was furious; but I said nothing.

Thus ends my supply of manual copying anecdotes.
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[seryogin]

I had my father photocopy my manuals for me. X-Com was thus played.

[sawtooth]

I never photocopied game manuals. video game manuals, at least. I do have the dungeons and dragons player's guide: ghetto edition. Only the finest xerox stock.

[purplechair]

There was a time in my life where I knew all the copy protection codes for Day of the Tentacle by memory.

That has nothing to do with treasures of my collection, though.

[SuperWes]

I played through Metroid 2 while making notes on a blown up photocopy my mom made for me of the map found in Nintendo Power. For some reason she made like 10 of these copies, and most of them are still sitting at the bottom of a toy chest in her basement.

Despite that vivid memory I still think Metroid 2 is the worst in the series.

-Wes
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[Shapermc]

[SuperWes]

[dessgeega]

[seryogin]

[dessgeega]

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[Lackey]

I just got a whole stack of Atari 2600 games, all ones I've played and enjoyed. Now I just need an Atari 2600.

I find the combination of drawn images and game sprites on those things lovely.
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[dhex]

[dessgeega]

[DonMarco]

I'll add my sealed copy of Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistance Limied Edition to my list. Combine it with the Sagas DVD and it's going for $150 on eBay now.

Link.
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Collector of over 1,538 strategy guides. That's weird, right?

[dessgeega]

you're "maxzeecoolguy"?
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[Ketch]

(Zelda:ALTTP, Super Mario Kart) Nostalgia and because the boxes and manuals are in good condition.
System Shock 2, gotta love the glossy sheen of this box. Nearly passed it up.
Terra Nova, LBA never been able to play them but got them second hand.
Broken Sword 2, for Playstation 1 ! There were so many more types of games for the PS1.
Metal Gear: Ghost Babel.

[Lackey]

Oblivion.

B-because it came with a metal coin.
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[OtakupunkX]

[dessgeega]

my aunt once sowed the cloth map to ultima iv into a pillow.
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[TheRumblefish]

Valkyrie Profile for PS1 in near mint condition. I still remember the Christmas that I recieved it at, and the weeks I spent obsessing over the game. Then, it led to my love for Norse Mythology, and my non-stop obsession to learn more about it.

Resident Evil 4 Limited Edition for PS2. Yeah I know it's not that rare, but it's the only game I pre-ordered in my whole life, and the limited edition Ada Wong cell just sweetened the deal. Oh, and the case is beautiful. The metal texture just feels so awesome.

Metal Warriors for SNES. I don't think it's that rare, but I have the box and manual and it's full of nostalgia for me. I LOVE it.
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[dark steve]

Metal Warriors is really, really rare.

Seriously.

[TheRumblefish]