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Santa’s Bag o’ Video Games Part 1: SNES and N64

Published by Scott on December 23, 2007 in Shopping and Video Games. 0 Comments

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I’ve been stockpiling games for about three months now and have to admit the Christmas haul is ridiculously large. We’ll have enough “new” retro titles to occupy us for a long, long time. Here are the Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 games that will be under the tree and some brief thoughts about each:

SNES

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Yoshi’s Island
We have both of these fantastic games for the Gameboy Advance. It will be fun to play them on the big screen.

Super Mario All-Stars - I talked about this one in a recent post.

Super Star Wars
Spider-man & Venom: Maximum Carnage
These are both supposed to be difficult but very good.

Street Fighter II: Turbo
Mortal Kombat II
Final Fight
I have been a Street Fighter II: The World Warrior junkie for the past couple of weeks. I’d never been a fan of fighting games before but all of a sudden I’ve developed an appreciation for the genre.

Shadowrun - A highly regard role playing adventure.

Donkey Kong Country - Platformer with everyone’s favorite oversized video game gorilla.

Starfox - I’m curious to see how this series began. I know they put in an extra chip for this game to push the graphics of the SNES to the limit.

Uniracers
Stunt Race FX
These arcade trick/racing games look fun. There’s a good review for Uniracer at racketboy.

Mega Man X - I have never played any of the Mega Man titles so I’m looking forward to checking one out.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles In Time - From what I’ve read this is a good co-op beat ‘em up. Ray especially likes those kinds of games.

Super Game Boy - Not a game but an adapter cartridge that allows you to play Game Boy and Game Boy Color games on TV through the Super Nintendo. We only have a few of those games but I thought it’d be worth checking out.

N64

Starfox 64 - I was really excited to find this at Goodwill. I was seriously considering buying it online before it magically turned up last Saturday. It’s an on-the-rails flying space shooter, just like the best parts of the two Starfox games we have for the Gamecube. Unlike in those games though, he stays in his ship the whole time.

Pokemon Stadium - We have Pokemon Colosseum for Gamecube and I expect this is probably pretty similar. It wasn’t well received during its release but I couldn’t pass it up. We love Pokemon!

Diddy Kong Racing - Gamespot describes it as “a cross between Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64.” They don’t score it very well but it sounds promising. I’m sure it’s at least three dollars worth of entertainment.

Star Wars Episode I: Racer - The pod racing sequence was kind of lame in the movie but I’ll bet it’s fun as a game.

Retro Game Explosion Part Four: Nintendo 64

Published by Scott on September 15, 2007 in Shopping and Video Games. 0 Comments

A while back I stopped at Goodwill and saw they had Mario 64 for Nintendo 64. We didn’t have a N64 but I thought sooner or later we might come across one for cheap. It was only three bucks so I grabbed it. Just in case, you know?

Sure enough, about a week later they had a Nintendo 64 system with two controllers for twenty-five bucks. One of the workers insisted that he set it up to make sure it was fully functional. It was and I pounced. There were also a bunch of N64 games for sale so I picked up Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, the classic 007 FPS Goldeneye, and Pilotwings 64.

One of the controllers had a rumble pack attached to the bottom of it. Must have been a pretty novel accessory at the time. Nowadays of course that function is built into the controller’s innards. I thought this N64 one was especially funny because it’s HUGE and sticks out really far underneath. It’s totally awkward. Not only that, it requires batteries! I can definitely live without so I just took it off.

A short time after that Helen came across a batch of N64 games at the Covington Goodwill for ten dollars. The keepers included Wave Race 64, Mission: Impossible, Automobili Lamborghini, and the most awesome football game I have ever played, NFL Blitz. That game is so fun! I read a review somewhere that accurately described it as a football game that even a non football fan can enjoy. Seven players a side, thirty yards for a first down, and over-the-top arcade action.

The other games in that bunch were Madden 64, NFL Quarterback Club 98, and NFL Quarterback Club 99. NFL Blitz is truly the only football game I need so I’m hoping to get maybe four bucks for those as a lot on eBay.

I also picked up Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 during one of my compulsive visits to the Conyers Goodwill. It’s right around the corner from where I work and you just never know what treasures will be there! I’ll admit I’ve become quite the bargain shopping junkie.

To be honest, we haven’t really played all that much of our newest system. We’re awash in games right now and haven’t given any of the above titles much more than a cursory glance. Well, except for NFL Blitz. Did I mention how fun that game is? Still, we’ll eventually get around to them. Nintendo 64 seems like a solid system and I’m looking to getting the boys (and me) a few more games for Christmas, including Star Fox 64, Pokemon Snap, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Donkey Kong 64.