Back from the dead

It's been a while, as life has been a little bit busy with the arrival of the little lady and getting ready for the wedding. Also, I've actually been getting some gametime in between all of that and work. Here are some of the pickups from the last week!

Picked up about 18 games on craigslist. 3 of the games I already had, and 2 of the games were duplicates(Mortal Kombat 3). So here are the new editions to the collection. Two of the better ones in the lot are TMNT Tournament Fighters and Paperboy 2. Paperboy 2 has one of those cursed rental stickers right on the frakkin label! I'll have to perform a Goo Gone operation on it and a few others some time down the road. Now, here are two other notable games that were in the lot...

Sunset Riders and Ghostbusters! I've never played either of these before, so the back catalogue of games to play continues to grow. Both are a bit valuable and combined are worth about what I payed for the whole lot. Sunset Riders for the Genesis is worth about half the price of the SNES versions, but it will be nice to be able to experience the game regardless.  However, if I'm not mistaken, the SNES and Genesis versions do differ from one another. Roo from Clanof thgraywolf.com did a nice video on Sunset Riders on his 16 bit Gems show, but it's been a while since I've watched it. Check it out if you're so inclined, it's a great show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUkiWZDoWHY

Also, the Craigslist lot included a Genesis and a 3 or 4 controllers. I guess it never hurts to have a third Genesis around the house. Better yet is having extra controllers. The controllers for the SNES and Genesis were pretty sturdy, but most of them that you find are 20 years or more older and have withstood there fair share of (ab)use.

And to wrap things up, another Craigslist find. Not exactly old school stuff, but for 5 bucks I think it's worth mentioning. Wii Sports(appears to be unopened), 007 Quantum of Solace(couldn't care less), and Link's Crossbow Training. Link's Crossbow Training I never bought for some reason through the years even though I really wanted to play it. Unfortunately the zapper attachment thingy didn't come with the lot. It also looks like Link's Crossbow Training isn't opened, though that seems unlikely. Maybe the owners were experts at peeling those stickers back and replacing them perfectly?






I do have a few games that should be arriving in the mail soon that I'm pretty happy about, but those aren't old school either. If I don't get any oldies sometime soon I may do a little ditty about them here once they arrive and I have some time. So until next time, keep it real folks.