Almost everybody likes talking about stuff they bought or acquired, me included. I'm hoping to have this as a irregular series, probably around twice a month. Recently, I haven't been buying a lot of games, mostly using my money to pay off debts, but here are some things I got in the last few weeks.
Super Mario Bros. 3 and The Uncanny X-Men were small impulse purchases I made when I went to a local pawn shop to pick up a boxed copy of Xexyz. That game had been snatched up, so I grabbed Mario and Bionic Commando, the latter being a game that I was not sure if I had. I ended up noticing that I already had it and returned to switch it with X-Men, a game that is considered pretty bad. Super Mario Bros. 3 is great of course, and it is one of the first games that I ever played (at a friend's house). It also came out in Japan exactly one year before I was born. Though I already had and completed the GBA version, it's nice to finally have the NES version too.
The two CIB Game Boy Color games were similarly cheap, impulse purchases. I got both for $6! I enjoyed completing the first Crazy Castle game last year, so getting the third one (and the fifth on GBA), makes me excited to complete them all. I still need the fourth one, though. Toobin' is a goofy Atari arcade game that I enjoy.
I grabbed Clockwork Knight from a seller in Facebook's Console Purist group. I have a very small Saturn collection and have been wanting to expand it. This game has kind of mixed reviews, but my friend Tyler recommended it. The look of the game makes it seem like it will be pretty fun, and it was cheap.
Vegas Stakes is a game I learned about from SNES Drunk on YouTube. It looks pretty cool, a sequel to 1990's Vegas Dream on NES. It's a game about trying to win $10,000,000 from $1,000 at various casinos and looks to have some nice slice-of-life storytelling in a sense.
The Liar Princess & The Blind Prince looks really cool, and the collector's edition has some nice stuff included, like a hardcover book. I like the fairy-tale look of it.
Epidemic is a game that I have been thinking about since the beginning of the year. I completed the often-maligned Kileak: The DNA Imperative in January, and I loved it. I love the dungeon-crawler aspect to this early FPS, something that was in a lot of these games that is missing from titles in the post-Halo world. Epidemic is the sequel to Kileak. I hope it lives up to the fun I had with the nightmarish descent of the first game.
Finally, we have two non-video game things. There's a plush Koopa Paratrooper. I have been eyeing a few Mario plushes for the last few months when I saw them at a local store. This was the first one I bought, as I really like the design. I had considered some in the past, but didn't like some of the weaker design elements, especially the glued on Goomba eyebrows. C'mon, Nintendo.
The last thing is something that I am most excited for - the Hong Kong Action Theatre! RPG. This is a martial arts tabletop RPG with an unusual twist: the campaigns are all films with the characters playing the actors playing the movie characters. I wanted this game, as I have been trying to set up an RPG campaign with a focus on supernatural martial arts. I had heard of this game years ago but never saw it until recently in the used bin at my local game store, Phantom of the Attic. The movie studio idea is pretty different from what I had in mind, but I think it will be super interesting. I want to get the supplemental books now too; one of them, To Live and Die in HK, will even help with my non-studio ideas. We'll see how it goes, and I'll see you next time.
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