Bad Retro: Playstation

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Retro Video Game Pick Ups

So today my oldest son and I went game hunting at a few of the local Flea Markets. I picked up two Nintendo games Pac-Man and Sky Shark. I'm interested in digging into Sky Shark which I guess is a vertical shoot em' up. I love shmups so hopefully this it's a fun one. Pac-Man has always been one of those games I could play and have a good time even though I'm not to good at it. Not much else I can say about Pac-Man except that it's Pac-Man on the NES.

Also picked up two PlayStation one games Die Hard Trilogy and Tekken II. I owned both of these games when I was a kid but like all my old games back in the day I ended up (regretfull now) trading them in. Anyways, we played the crap out of Tekken II when I was a kid (love this game). I was excited to add it back into my collection. Although it didn't come with the original case and manual I was more then happy to play the $1 the lady wanted for it. I can't remember much about Die Hard Trilogy except that I used to like it and thought it was fun. I guess we will see how it has held up compared to my memories of the game. All in all it was a pretty nice day. I ended up seeing a lot of cool things and I met some nice folks.

Saturday, November 10, 2012

RVG Pick Ups

I started to find all the black box games for the NES. Got these guys at a local retro game store. I always find the Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt combo cart so I was surprised to find the individual ones.

Also found some PlayStation long box games. PlayStation was a console I got for Christmas when I was kid. I spent many hours on it and have a ton of memories from those days. So when I came across these long box games at a garage sale today I knew I couldn't pass them up. Each one holds a special place in my heart, especially Wipeout. So now I'm actively looking for long box games to add to the collection.

Now the find I was most excited about this weekend was the Guncon. Found it at the same garage sale as the long box games. I loved this light gun when I was a kid. I would spend many many hours playing Time Crisis with it. For whatever reason someone decided to buy just the game and not the gun the day before at the sale so the seller gave me the Guncon for half price. Just have to find Time Crisis and I'll be a happy camper.

Leftovers. My SNES collection is slowly growing and my NES collection is starting to become respectable with the addition of the beat'em classic of Double Dragon.