GRcade Retro Club Weekender 2.0 - Every Friday to Monday!

Yubel wrote:...Asura's Wrath... awesome... very stylish and melodramatic... outrageously excessive...

I love your descriptions, Yube - you're bang on!

Yubel wrote:...Nice one Jawa.

Thanks, man! :toot:

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I'd like to play Asura's Wrath - I've watched a friend play the opening and it does look completely mad!

My recent retro purchases nothing amazing but its all I have to share right now. I will be videoing a bit more stuff probably Wednesday for next weeks

Drumstick wrote:
The Doom Spoon wrote:I'm always on the look out for cube titles, on payday I'm going to pop into the charity shops, pawn shops and perhaps CEX to see if I can find any treasures!

Popped into CEX yesterday.

£80 for Twilight Princess and £78 for Mario Party 6.

Good job I've already got them I suppose.

Popped in to the same store unless you go to Hove (Western Road) and they had paper mario for over £100.

I bought wii u Mario maker for £5 :lol:

Corazon de Leon

First party Wii U stuff going cheap is probably the best place to speculate on future price increases, so good pick up.

Corazon de Leon wrote:First party Wii U stuff going cheap is probably the best place to speculate on future price increases, so good pick up.

And a good place to invest really. I have with some systems tried to do something I call pre-emptive retro purchasing, it's where I'll buy games for a system which has just fallen out of favour it's not current but no one considers it retro yet but you think it will be a hit one day. For example when people and shops started dumping PSP games cheap I started buying them cause I was sure one day the systems games would get some love and be popular for collectors.

So good to see that - nearly nine years after launch! - there are still many of us who are proud to be members of Club U :toot:

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^ Obvs I made the pic some time before I got mad about Yooka-Laylee :lol:

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Corazon de Leon

I should point out that I loaned my Wii U to my brother a couple of years ago and haven't played it or even seen it since. It is one of the few consoles I still have a perfect condition box for though, as I have the Wind Waker SE version.

Corazon de Leon wrote:I should point out that I loaned my Wii U to my brother a couple of years ago and haven't played it or even seen it since...

Oh, Cora

. But... maybe your brother could join Club U! Perhaps he has become a total U fanatic!

Corazon de Leon wrote:...It is one of the few consoles I still have a perfect condition box for though, as I have the Wind Waker SE version.

That Zelda-themed GamePad sure does look lovely.

With my daughter nearing the end of a 100% completion of Skyward Sword on Switch (her first traditional Zelda game - she's poured about 200hrs into Breath of the Wild) She's excited to play Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD as well as completing the Wii U version of Breath of the Wild (she's a huge Zelda/Splatoon fan).

I have a Wii U 'pro controller' so it's a doddle playing the older Zelda's, we don't have to use the 'tablet'.

Yeah I definitely feel wii u was a retro oddity of the future pretty much from the start. £5 for a major first party nintendo release is nuts especially considering the largely cut down 3ds release was £15 on the neighboring shelf... The disk is near mint too, unceasingly I reckon for wii u second hand stock you're looking at enthusiasts only owning most of the games because the console never gained traction. The rest are probably in someone's attic or destroyed and next to worthless.

They also had mario kart 8 wii u for £8 and literally on flipside of the shelf MK8 Deluxe for... £42 :fp:

And the wii u servers are still online... And free to play :lol:

It's literally the same strawberry floating game.

jawaX wrote:

So good to see that - nearly nine years after launch! - there are still many of us who are proud to be members of Club U .

^ Obvs I made the pic some time before I got mad about Yooka-Laylee .

There are times I have thought about picking up yooka for switch just to put it in its right place and send you good vibes lol. But I already own it on ps4.

Green Gecko wrote:They also had mario kart 8 wii u for £8 and literally on flipside of the shelf MK8 Deluxe for... £42

And the wii u servers are still online... And free to play

It's literally the same strawberry floating game.

That's one expensive battle mode

Buy my Wii U games you bastards (except GG who already did because he's good like that).

I've bought all your Wii U games, just on Switch

Jenuall wrote:I've bought all your Wii U games, just on Switch

It's that time of the week again, let's see what you got!

Sorry I didn't get anything posted for last week, I had a really crazy few days! I'm going to a car boot on Sunday, so hoping to have some goodies to feature!

Roaring into the Weekender... it's Burnout!

Burnout 2 was the first game that I bought for my Xbox, back in 2003. What a game! I almost exclusively focused on the Crash Junctions with that fix of pressing the pedal down, causing carnage and seeing the damage value rack up being so addictive. The game was just so slickly made, with great graphics and solid play.

I never played the third game, Takedown, so much; the graphics wee sharper but the Crash gameplay just didn't quite feel as good - for me, the additional "matrix"-styled movement just took something away from the visceral carnage. I'm conscious that many folk prefer this version, though. As for Revenge... I've still not tried it!

Those long hours spent playing Crash Junctions on Burnout 2 - battling my pal in continually trying to cause just a little more crash damage - will always be a standout memory of my OG Xbox days.

I've never owned Burnout, just played it at friends. The crash junctions were so much fun! I've been considering getting Paradise on Switch, how does it compare?

You also just reminded me about the Danger Zone games that were spiritual successors. Looks like they went on to make Dangerous Driving which completely passed me by, and a sequel is in development?

OrangeRKN wrote:I've never owned Burnout, just played it at friends. The crash junctions were so much fun! I've been considering getting Paradise on Switch, how does it compare?...

Definitely, Orange - the Crash Junction mode was ideal for local multiplayer (and would be great nowdays for online multiplayer!). Things can get pretty competitive as players discover how to create more cash damage! I've never played Paradise; the actual racing wasn't something that I got into as much on the earlier games and Paradise is openworld racing. I was going to buy it on Switch when it was on sale last week but - dang it! - I forgot to get it before the sale ended!

OrangeRKN wrote:...You also just reminded me about the Danger Zone games that were spiritual successors. Looks like they went on to make Dangerous Driving which completely passed me by, and a sequel is in development?

I have got Danger Zone on PS4 and it's... *okay*. It's made by some of the original developers but only one or two and it's very low budget. If it had more money thrown at it I think it could be great but, right now, it's not polished at all; the gameplay is fun but the presentation is bare bones.

GRcade Retro Club Weekender 2.0 - Every Friday to Monday!

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