Games From This Past Week

This week I picked up a few nice games, but didn't really have any major finds. Still, I was able to get a few games that I've really wanted. Things are a bit hectic with some home repairs having me out of my bedroom and stuff all moved around. Enough jibber jabber, let's have a look.

Of particular note here are the two Virtual Boy games, Galactic Pinball and Mario Tennis. I already have all of the VB games that I really wanted and I only started collecting VB a few weeks ago.

I am also happy to have Panzer Dragoon II in the collection now. Once the repairs at the house are done and I'm moved back in, I'll definitely give it a play. The Panzer Dragoon games are one of the reasons I most wanted a Saturn in the first place. The only PD game that I've ever spent any serious time with was Orta for the X-Box and it was a true joy to experience.

I'm also looking forward to playing Adventure Island(top left) here in the (hopefully) near future. It's been over 20 years since I last played it. I don't remember much about the game besides the look and feel of it, the fact that I did not beat it, and that it was a really fun game!

I also picked up Chip n Dale for the NES. I don't believe I ever played it back in the day, but, as with most of the Capcom Disney games, it is sure to please. A boxed Airwolf is now part of my NES collection. I'm sure it's not the most high quality game, but I picked it up at a good price and look forward to what I'm sure is an ultra cheesy game. The boxed Battle of Olympus is a welcome addition as well. The game looks to be pretty fun and a friend recommended it to me a while back. It also came with a mostly complete manual that has some passwords written in the password section of the manual; remember those??

Super R-Type was thrown in because I couldn't remember if I had included it in this blog or not(I had included it already) when I was pulling out all of the game pickups for the last week. It's an awesome game and brings back lots of good memories. I also got a few GameGear games on the cheap and one GameGear game(the Sonic one) that I slightly overpaid for. Speaking of overpaying, I have to mention Ninja Gaiden II. Yeah, I overpaid for it by a few bucks. I was a little off my game this week. :(

That wraps it up for this week. I will definitely be slowing down my collecting here in the near future. Not that I won't be getting games regularly. Since I have most of the systems that I want, I will be focusing more on quality games for the newer systems in the collection(Saturn, Master System) and trying to locate some must haves for systems that I already have a decent collection for(NES, SNES). I'm also going to be focusing on looking for game lots that I can purchase for a good price. With that said, game on!