Iffy Monday so treated myself to a few retros.
Super Thunder Blade (MD) boxed and Lylat Wars Cart only. £12 together. Could have spent less, meh, wanted to walk away with something to shoot stuff in.
Thunder blade is, well, it sucks, but it was more playable than I was expecting. With continues, on Easy (it's although checking if there is a difficulty mode on these old dodgy low fps games with cheap deaths), with 7 lives, I made it passed the 2nd boss. Just the 2nd level is ridiculous navigating through caves with gooseberry fool flying at you all the time, in essentially first person. OK, not great, but £4 so not the end of the world in terms of outlay.
Lylat wars, much better. Really fun. My favorite is the land master (tank) level so far. The stupid noises, the music that in a very backwards way recalls memories of Smash 64 because we played on the Corneria level a lot. Wanted to try the game but wasn't sure I would get on with it because Starfox (SNES) is so hard and like 5fps. Glad I picked it up cheap, I guess it goes for little cart only because people are looking for the big box with rumble pack or nothing. I might complete it, dunno.
Indie also had Front Mission 3 that caught my eye. Are the old games recommendable? £16. I heard about the new spiritual successor and liked the sound of the gameplay and setting (mechs etc).
Recently saw Taz Express going mint for £75
. Need to get shot of that gooseberry fool, to fund other purchases. I'm liking how affordable some of the very available carts and less well known / meh games are available for, mostly due to people looking for boxed 64 collections and stone cold classics!
Proud of my copy of alasia dragoon though. A short, underrated, hidden gem of a game, but really enjoyable in short runs and great production value. Sprites, music and gameplay all generally right and fun. Play throughs may not very a great deal, but it's almost impossible to beat without finding every single thunder power up. I still haven't beat it. You can also vary gameplay a fair bit by using different dragon accomplices (you have 4 you can switch between). And it looks mint on my PVM.
GF's recently found N64 boxes, including the console with gold controller so somewhere for that to live now (my green n64 works better), means we have 13 boxed items now:
Expansion pack
1080
Banjo Tooie (Denster
)
F1 world grand prix II
F-Zero
Goldeneye
OoT
Mario Kart 64
Rayman 2
South park
Taz express (golden turd)
Vigilante V8
Wave race 64
Unboxed:
Lylat wars
Banjo-Kazooie
V Rally
Top gear overdrive
Yoshi's story
Only 64 games I'll get back are probs jet force Gemini and maybe dk64 but tbh I didn't really enjoy it, it's a banjo kazooie clone with a gazillion collectables..