June 2013 - Recently Added to Collection/ Recently Purchased

[disgaeniac]

Not really pre-ordered, but, I just ordered these (3) OST's (from Ziondood's sale items):

1).  Castlevania/Ecclesia,

2).  Crono Cross, and

3).  Legend of Mana

I'm totally unfamiliar w/ Castlevania & its music -so- whatever it is (good or bad), it will be interesting to get my 1st 'Listen' to the series' music,

and, the other 2 (CC & Mana...*Especially* CC; though) - I've been hearing for ages about the quality of their music, so, I'm *really* looking forward to giving these a listen

I'm just not the type to go bouncing around youtube trying to find/hear songs, so, this works out pretty well for me 

[elraiser]

I started the month pretty well



I am especially happy for Crash 2

[redblaze57]

got the codes for the Tale of ALLTYNEX kickstarter games for the $35 bracket

[scott]

Got my codes for The Tale of Alltynex at the $45 bracket. And the digital deluxe edition.

[blipcs76]

Picked up a few games yesterday and on the way to work this morning:

360:
Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY (GH)

PS2:
Dark Cloud
Mister Mosquito (happy to find this one, since I was looking for this after watching Game Grumps play it)

GBA:
Namco Museum
Super Mario Advance 4
Centipede/Breakout/Warlords
Polly Pocket something
Dora the Explorer something
Strawberry Shortcake something

Yeah I know, but I couldn't pass up GBA games for 50¢ even if they're for 6 year old girls.  I figure my kids might enjoy them if I have girls, or I might give them to my nieces.

[scott]

I've been on the lookout for Mister Mosquito too. Played a demo of it years ago and always meant to get it. But then it slipped my mind when it did come out.

[disgaeniac]

PS2:

Mister Mosquito (happy to find this one, since I was looking for this after watching Game Grumps play it)

Hahaha!

I'm glad to see this "under-the-radar", little-known, and unassuming little gem getting some love & attention 

I, myself, only found/heard about it by reading one of those "Least known -but- really fun and/or original games" articles 

If I'm not mistaken, the game also has either a prequel or as sequel that was JP-release only 

@Kimimi -

Have you played/do ya know anything about the game(s)?!

[theflea]

When out and hit the Garage Sales and at first found nothing, then went to a huge 90+ subdivision sale and holy crap on a cracker found some good finds.

PS2 (the countdown to 1000 ps2 games gets closer.)
977 - Black ($2)
978 - Contra: Shattered Soldier  ($2)
979 - Ghost Rider ($1)

Bought a bunch of PSP UMD movies for $1 each.
- The Messengers
- Dawn of the Dead
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse
- Saw
- Predator
- Fun with Dick & Jane
- The Evil Dead

Found a Xbox game I'm missing for 50 cents.
- High Rollers Casino

Found a PS3 game for $1.
- Need for Speed Shift

Found a couple NES games for $1 each, also had a 32x game for $1.
- Friday the 13th
- Robocop
- Star Wars Arcade (32x)

Bought two N64 lots, one is a black version with 4 games for $20, then picked up a Red N64 with 2 games. for $15
- Nascar 99
- WCW Backstage Assault
- Namco Museum 64
- All-Star baseball 2000
- Super Mario 64
- Beetle Adventure Racing

Next the two best finds of the day.
first a SNES with 26 games for $20
- Mario Paint
- Star Fox
- Street Fighter II Turbo
- Super Mario Kart
- Donkey Kong Country
- Super Metroid (players choice)
- Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
- Lost Vikings
- Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Super Play Action Football
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- Super Mario All-Stars (players choice)
- F-Zero (players choice)
- Killer Instinct
- James Bond Jr.
- Yoshi's Cookie
- Super RBI Baseball
- Super Mario World
- Donkey Kong Country 2
- Pagemaster
- Super Double Dragon
- Mario is Missing
- Mortal Kombat
- The Simpsons: Barts Nightmare
- Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
- Pocky & Rocky

and last a rare find for a video game system and game. A CDi (220 model) with 15 games/movies. Also had a controller and the Roller Controller. all for $45
- Link: Faces of Evil
- Solar System
- Cartoon Carnival
- Mystic Midway Phantom Express
- Top Gun (video)
- Surf City
- Voyeur
- The Hunt for Red October (video)
- ABC Sports: The Palm Springs Open
- Caesars World of Gambling
- Tetris
- A Great Day at the Races
- Children's Musical Theatre
- Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia
- Cartoon Jukebox

It was a great day for Garage Sales 

[soera]

Flea, you willing to adopt me and put me in your will?

[redblaze57]

my big pickup of the week is a silver PSP 3000
Bomberman Tournament - GBA
Price of Persia: Rival Swords - PSP

and I got a few games I'm waiting to come in the mail for the PSP
Final Fantasy II
Syphon Filter:Dark Mirror PSP
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
Alien Syndrome
Guilty Gear Judgment

[kimimi]

@Kimimi -

Have you played/do ya know anything about the game(s)?!

Oops sorry, didn't pop on yesterday

I don't know much - there are two of them (the sequel's called Ka 2 - Japan only) and you play as a mosquito. Err.... sorry, I'm all over the place today :S

Anyway... Disgaeniac - I'm massively jealous of your soundtrack purchases! I'd love to own more (again), but I can't afford as many as I'd like

I've actually bought/preordered some things now, so I can post in this topic - yay!

Preordered -

Final Fantasy XIV Limited Edition (PC)
Final Fantasy XIV: Before Meteor (Soundtrack CD)

Bought -
Sonic Pocket Adventure (NGPC)
Sturmwind (DC)
Kingdom Grand Prix (Saturn)
Silhouette Mirage (Saturn)

[disgaeniac]

I'd be happy to hear about the FF XIV: Before Meteor soundtrack...once you've had a chance to give your copy a listen, Kimimi 

Do you know which composer(s) worked on it?

[kimimi]

Well it's "just" a complete collection of FFXIV v1.0's music (100+ tracks) + the ending FMV in HD with 5.1 surround sound, a load of art and an in game pet, so as far as the music's concerned it's not anything I haven't heard before.. but that's why I jumped at it!

The composers are - Nobuo Uematsu, Masayoshi Soken, Tsuyoshi Sekito, Naoshi Mizuta, Ryo Yamazaki. Soken's the lead composer going forward IIRC

[foxhack]

I found something weird at the dollar store - a copy of The Spiderwick Chronicles for PC. They had several, brand new, but instead of the usual cardboard boxes that Sierra used in that time period, this was in a DVD case. It also had no UPC code.

I dug around and apparently this version of the game was sold along with the movie's DVD at Wal-Mart of all places. It was an exclusive release at the store. Of course the DVDs were nowhere to be seen so whoever dumped these at the dollar store probably ran off with them.

[stethebubble]

got my gaming laptop


IdeaPad Y500 Laptop - Dual Graphics - 59371963 - Dusk Black

    Processor: 3rd Generation Intel Core i7-3630QM Processor( 2.40GHz 1600MHz 6MB)
    operating system: Windows 8 64
    display: 15.6" FHD LED Glossy Wedge 1920x1080
    graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT750M GDDR5 2GB
    Memory: 16.0GB PC3-12800 DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MHz
    hard drive: 1TB 5400 RPM+16GB SSD
    optical device: Ultrabay SLI Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce GT750M GDDR5 2GB