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  1. neogeo1982
    The bubble that Wata and the auction house have created is disappointing. It took awhile for it to get to some of the Atari systems but it has hit. I have never been one to play emulators or roms but the last year has seen prices skyrocket. I went to buy a new replacement Jaguar and I know it was 399 not long ago. Now it was over 600. Really? I got my Lynx Desert Strike and Double Dragon new for 50 each in the last year, now ebay sellers at over 200 each. Or take Another World, pictured is a current auction for it. Insane prices, half that a year ago. I own several sealed Jaguar games and don't dare open them now. But I will advocate the Game Drive going forward. Leave sealed what I own and play the roms on real hardware. Yet even the Game Drive shortage has had scalpers at over 500 on ebay lately.  Who is buying all this stuff? Well I did buy a 650 Jag new off Bruce but I've bought a lot of stuff off him. But that's the thing, if he didn't have higher prices, and Best Bradley didn't up some of his, speculators buy cheap off them and dump it all on ebay. So is anyone in the right here? The demand surely isn't that great to warrant these huge jumps in prices is it? 

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    Tempest 4000 Vs. 2000

    By neogeo1982,

    I really enjoy T2K for the Jaguar. So much so I even went as far as having an open copy and a sealed copy of it. Today we have T4K which I have on the PS4. Very good in its own right but it doesn't feel the same in a lot of ways. This brought me to Polybius which I play on PSVR until my middle aged eyes hurt from it. The Leaderboards on PS4 are a great boon for old arcade goers like me, there's no question of who has what score and at what arcade anymore. PS4 has such a large install base of users it only made sense to me to play for score on the system and see how far up the leaderboards I can go. To my surprise, all my years of Tempest playing still pay off. Though I will always go back to my Jaguar on a daily basis.
     
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    I ended up with my daughter this weekend so she was along for Black Friday this year. My town has several thrift stores including a very large Salvation Army, and some odd pawn shops run by odder characters. I thought lets throw in a dash of Wally World to see if anything was left too, we went around noon this year.
        Smaller thrift stores were a bust. They usually are here unless you need cheap work clothes or old Nat Geo mags going back to the 70's. Worth a look though. Odd pawn shops were closed for some reason, I like to at least look at their overpriced games on offer. Plus they're the true one stop shop. Porn, guns, videogames, clothes, and you get a hotdog if you buyover $50 ?.
       Wally World was a bust too except we snagged the last 2 game related ornaments they had there. Sonic for me and Minecraft pig for the daughter was all they had. I figured all Switch and on sale games would be picked over, it was almost noon after all.
        One plaza over was the giant Salvation Army store. They have old Atari games and cool old electronics in there from time to time. Sure enough, 3 2600 games. They were only a couple dollars. I don't own an old Atari except the Lynx and Jaguar right now but I'll ask my friend if he needs them for his collection. 
        Now one more plaza over is a pet store. Not on my radar at all. Like a Youtube video rabbit hole I ended up in there with my daughter holding a baby guinea pig. The pet store lady trying to sell me all kinds of extras and talking my ear off since the second I walked into the store. We already have 2 so what's 1 more I guess. Plus if I take them and set them on the couch while playing a game, they sit and watch me play. I think they like the colors on the screen. 
        I went looking for cheap games or anything still left to buy on sale, and ended up with another guinea pig. It reminds me of Peter Griffin goes to the store to buy cheese but comes home with a retarded horse instead.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     



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    I had forgotten I bought On Duty and Always Winter about a month ago. Coming all the way to northern Pa from Finland is quite a journey. On Duty is a cool little top down shooter that kinda reminds me of Commando mixed with nes Metal Gear. It has a lot of humor to it and doesn't take itself too seriously. Always Winter Never Christmas is a small novel along the line of choose the path to take, and is Sci-fi in nature. Once again it is filled with pop culture humor from other sci-fi franchises. After looking at the White Lynx web site I found there was another game on the Always Winter cart, Robot Run. A cartoon Star Wars inspired side scroller. You collect "junk" to get rations. It reminds me of flappy bird but instead of jumping you just move up,down, back, forward. It has a nice music track and backgrounds change periodically. Pretty fun after finishing the novel. 



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    Protector SE was the game that got me hooked on the Jaguar again. I owned a Jaguar right at the end of its life cycle I picked up cheap at a used game store. I did AVP, Tempest, and moved on. Fast forward 20 years. There are many games I found out I really would have liked had I stuck with it. After venturing down many internet rabbit holes and researching what I missed out on, I ended up at Songbird. Liking shooters and arcade style games I took the $90 plunge. Money well spent. I think at this point it comes out to about $1 an hour for the time I've enjoyed playing it.
        You save little astronauts that get abducted by aliens on a horizontal plane. You can move in any direction, and a little map shows where the aliens are for you. You get money you spend on shields and ships between rounds. Forgotten Worlds and Lords of Thunder had stores like that. The soundtrack is really good and fits the game well. The graphics are a little small but are very detailed and crisp. Box and manual all look great just like a retail release. The Package also came with Jag Ads and Native disc for Jag CD. I doubt I'll ever get the CD attachment to use these so I guess just cool collectors items for now. 


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    Lynx Centipede HSC

    By neogeo1982,

    I'd been waiting for the Songbird Centipede to come up in HSC Lynx for several months now. I figured Shred or jgk would put up good numbers for me to beat. Low and behold it was Carl himself who was my biggest challenge. All week I reigned number one then I notice Friday night Carl posts a score far greater than I had gotten. My old hands aren't like they used to be, holding the Lynx vertical for hours is a challenge in itself. I going to finish this challenge. All Saturday afternoon into the night, I played many a game. Stopping several times to rest my hands. Finally, got it. First again.

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    Jaguar Total Carnage

    By neogeo1982,

    I like a good twin stick shooter. When I was younger we had the imported Saturn controller to play Virtua On with. That was awesome at home. Smash TV, Shock Troopers, Cyber Sled, T-Mek at the arcades all ate up my pocket money through the years. Now many years on I picked up Total Carnage for Jaguar. I had no expectations going into it, just a new shooter for me to try. 
        I never played this anywhere else so its hard to compare to other versions of it. The graphics are good and highly animated. The death animation when your guy blows up is hilarious. You can play 2 player on screen which is great, and I think this is how it should be played. It is hard going it by yourself. You can pick up some screen clearing bombs and many power ups for guns, its still hard. Sound is ok, it has music, nothing spectacular though. There are quite a few voice samples in this, those are impressive and clear when they play. The controls now, this game is not made for a d-pad. It works ok but, you have to stutter for a second then point in a direction. Its either move or point, with the same control pad. I got the hang of it but its not as much fun as with an actual twin stick or stick/knob combo. Worth a $90 purchase? If you already own the likes of Skyhammer, Protector, Defender, and want something new sure. Its not a terrible game by any means. 


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    I have a co-worker who recently took in several foster children. They had known the family and the kids knew who they were, the parents had overdosed several times and lost their kids for the foreseeable future. I talk about games frequently at work though most ignore me. They are more into hunting, fishing, and trucks. This day however, my co-worker asked me where to buy PS2 games for a 9 and 11 year old. Turns out he has a nearly new PS2 he hasn't used in years he wanted to hook up for the foster kids for christmas. He doesn't have any games though. We also have the same low paying job and I know they don't have much for christmas for those kids. 
        I really didn't have good answer for him to start with. Heck even 360 is slim pickings at Gamestop around here now that the generation has rotated out. A generation before that? Ebay and Amazon but trying to explain how to setup accounts and go about finding cheap deals, let alone pick stuff out to someone that never has? I knew I had boxes of PS2 stuff put away and doubles of many games. Plus I know I had some kids games I had kept that my own kids had played.
        I dug out several boxes at home and came up with a Christmas donation for him. I had more but they weren't as nice, missing cases or discs were questionable. I wasn't going to do GTA as a free donation but that was the only game the oldest kid had specifically asked for. As for content, these kids saw magnitudes worse in real life than what an old GTA has in it. A racing game, several cartoon platformers, superheroes, an army shooter, GTA, a cross section of genres. The way my co-workers face lit up when receiving them makes me think he might enjoy these with the kids too.
        So its no PS5 or anything new but it's nice they'll have some fun stuff to play on Christmas morning now.

  9. neogeo1982
    Songbird posted up an early Black Friday sale last week and I figured why not. Super Off Road was not on sale but, I'd been wanting to put it in my collection and try it out. T-tris was on sale and so was Cyber Virus, both from my Songbird wish list. 
        Super Off Road. To start with do not buy this off ebay for $300+. Same with Desert Strike and Double Dragon. Songbird stocks them or order direct from Telegames UK if he is out, $70. It took me a couple races but it is a fun little mud racer. You pick up money bags during races and between races a store lets you do upgrades to your truck. I never played other versions of this but for what this is its fun and I can see myself playing it for quite awhile. The sound and music are good. The controls are good, any problems I had were from me just learning the course layouts. The graphics are pretty sharp and the trucks move around  screen nice and fast when you get into it. I'd recommend a buy to anyone into racing or looking for something competitive.
        T-tris. Now I have played a lot of Tetris on many different devices. T-tris isn't a bad rendition by any means. I definitely will play this more than I do Klax on the Lynx. At the same time there is something amiss with it. During play there is no music. When you lock blocks into place there is a boing sound. There are several other sound effects and small samples throughout but that's it. I just turned the sound down after 5 minutes, the boing sound is really annoying without any music or anything else going on. Really that's the only glaring omission, the music. The cart does save high scores I noticed when I came back, always a welcome addition on the Lynx. Control is good, its Tetris controls. Graphics are bright and colorful blocks, its Tetris. Songbird box & manual? A+ glossy as always. I think it is worth a buy on the Lynx. If you collect and play Lynx a lot it will have coming back, just turn the sound down when you do.
        Cyber Virus. Wow this game is cool! It is a real 3D game on the Lynx like Battlewheels. Reminds me more of like a mech game than a 3D game like Doom. You have guns, grenades, missiles, armor and health bar. Each mission has a briefing which really boils down to shoot stuff, pick something up, shoot more stuff, exit level. Option shows you a handy map with current objectives. This is great because the levels are really big and the draw distance isn't very far. But everything looks so good on this game. It is arn hard though. I get 4 or 5 missions in and its game over. Even the first 2 training missions are kinda tough. Sometimes the robot enemies just swarm you or are just off camera and you're dead. Gameover. Sound and music in this one is top notch, kept it up the whole time. Box art for this one wraps all the way around the box, looks great on the shelf. If I can manage to finish this one I think I'll buy the lost missions cart next time. This was a really good buy.
     
     
     







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