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9/10 I loved every minute playing it. Heroes made a huge difference because all of a sudden the RTS genre became more RPG. It mixed Diablo and Wc2 together, sort of

The custom games on battle.net also birthed the Dota/LoL genre

Looking at the games on my shelf this week made me think Sony's Jersey Devil, being a first party 3D platformer collect-a-thon would normally have gotten a sequel. Not that I'd particularly want one.

I wish Chrono Trigger had a sequel.

Yes yes thanks. 42 now

You had the game since launch and you placed 5th?

Showing this week's acquisitions: Ice Breaker for 3DO and Deadly Creatures for the Wii. Ice Breaker was quite a score, considering I paid about $47CAD shipped on ebay.

More Pawn Swoopings!

Yesterday I was in a remote part of western Montreal and grabbed this pair of Wii games for $30CAD, which is half their original asking price:

Then today I went to two more pawn shops. In the first I snagged Mario Galaxy, 007 Golden Eye and most surprisingly Mega Man 3 and Link's Awakening for the GB, all for 109$.

The last store had some heavy hitters, including a loose Rockin' Kats but they were priced accordingly. Still the guy cut me a super good deal on Dusty Diamond and a handful of clean N64 carts. 152$ paid for these

total paid: $291 CAD

expected value: $450 CAD

gains: $159 CAD

not bad not bad

8/10.

I preferred Vice City.

8/10 for me.

It came as a bonus game with the 3DO my family somehow ended up with in '94. True, the challenge resides exclusively in memorizing the inputs to keep the scenes going, but I still had a lot of fun doing it just to see what each next room would hold. 
 

I do like to recommend the game, it's the best among its kind

Hidden in plain sight gem: Donkey Kong for Game Boy.

Mendel Palace for NES has been mentioned and I definitely like to recommend it.

Smart Ball on SNES.

Dragon's Fury on Genesis (Devil's Crush on TG-16)

Lost in Shadow on Wii. This game is a staple of Wii hidden gems lists, but people still overlook it.

5/10

I prefer SMB2 Mario Madness but I wouldn't say SMB3 is inferior. But it is inferior to SMW. 

I had to go check, and Turok on N64 has an M rating. So that's the one.

My favorite is WCW nWo Revenge, and I’d recommend picking that one since it’s insanely cheap.

Super Mario hands down. I feel like maybe FF is more notorious for it, but all Nintendo had to do was add «Advance » to any of their titles and be done with it.
 

Now we have « Super Mario Bros Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3 »

Street Fighter II and any other game ressembling it.

I thought I was good at it, until I played people who are actually good at it. 

7 hours ago, Ankos said:

In my opinion, if people find copies of a game in the wild, then it is a more safe assumption (even if it is really rare) that it did get released rather than that it did not. Of course, if there is evidence that suggests otherwise, then that is different. With that being said, there is nothing wrong with pointing out it is an assumption being made

I found one in Montreal, Canada 3 years ago. Posted on NA.

It was 3 screws.

Playing Loop Hero on Switch and it has me completely hypnotized. Enough typing, I gotta get back to looping.

NES: Super Mario Bros

SNES: Super Mario World

Atari Lynx: Batman Returns

3DO: Crash n Brun and Dragon’s Lair

N64: Wave Race 64 and Turok

GameCube: Mario Kart Double Dash

PS1: Tekken 3

PC: Unreal Tournament and Ultima

PS2: GTA 3

Wii: Wii Sports and LEGO Star Wars The Complete Saga

PS3: Marvel vs Capcom 3

3DS: Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse

Switch: Diablo III

SMB2USA? Come on, people. At this point there are more Mario titles that aren’t 2D platformers, so SMB1-2-3-W and the SML games are in the same sub-group of Mario games.

The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks to me detonates from the series.

Leave it to me to mention Gun.Smoke! The NES version in particular adds a quest-like element in that you have to find a « wanted » poster to spawn the boss, otherwise the level loops around.

So you play a lonesome cowboy out for bounty and justice, you can buy weapons and ride a horse which grants better movement and a little bit of bullet absorbtion. The controls are fun: B shoots at 10:00 and 11:00, A shoots at 1:00 and 2:09. A+B shoot at 12:00.

On 2/4/2023 at 8:57 AM, fcgamer said:

I picked up a Japanese 3D0 machine a year or two ago, and I've now decided to actually get some software to try the thing out. I've seen some items for sale with spine cards, and then others without the cards. Obviously there's a bit of a premium for disks with the spine cards.

Anyways, I'm just wondering for those here on VGS who collect import disk games, how important are the spine cards to you? In some ways I'm tempted to just buy games and not worry about the spine cards, but I'm worried that down the line I might regret that decision and then start thinking about repurchasing portions of my collection just for the spine cards.

The only imported games I’ll ever own are Japanese 3DO games  (and Korean but they come in cardboard longboxes) and I do very much prefer having the spine card of course. 

Which ones are you getting?

I’ll segue from the talk about Super Mario 3D World.

If a game is ported to a different console, it’s a port and it’s not a variant. It becomes its own game. You can’t just pop Super Mario 3D + Bowser’s Fury in a WiiU.

When it’s Super Mario Bros. 2