Perhaps Somewhat Overboard

For those who don't care about games you can probably skip this entry.

I may have gone crazy yesterday, I went out to my normal game store locations but this time I may have bought a little too much. (Not really, there is no such thing as too many games) The thing is there were some really good finds and I didn't want to leave them to be picked up by someone else when I really do want them anyway.

Lets start at Book Off:

When I walked over to the game section right away I saw they had got some new Sega Saturn games in, which always makes me happy. The first game I picked up set the tone for the day, it was Elevator Action Returns which is a really awesome game and also a rare one. They were asking $9.50 for it which is a little high to what I like to spend but for that game its a steal. I then picked up Virus ($1), Noel 3 ($1), Eve Burst Error & Desire Value Pack ($1) and The House of the Dead ($2.50). I took one last look and found Gals Panic SS another valuable title they wanted $5 for it so I grabbed that too.

That would have been a good haul by itself but there were more new games to look at. They had a few for the Dreamcast of which I bought two, Dead or Alive 2 and Space Channel 5 both came with the spine cards and were only $1 each.

They also had got some new Gameboy games in as well. Looking though those I grabbed Popeye, Metroid II and R-Type at $5 each. A little pricey but I'm trying to complete my set of gameboy games and those are hard to come by.

There wasn't much on the Super Famicom that was new but I picked up Rock n Roll Racing ($2.50), Taekwondo ($2.50) and I was very happy to find Ganbare Daiku no Gensan for $1 which was a game I had been looking for.

Then I took a risk on Gradius for the PC Engine (Turbo Graphics 16 in the US) at $2.50 which worked out as it goes for about 10 times that on eBay.

Just as I was leaving I saw that they had a complete copy of Rez for the PS2, if you don't know about this game look it up. It came with a vibrating device that hooked up to the PS2 and responded to what you did in the game. People joked that it was how they got there girlfriends to play games ;-) anyway I picked that up for $5.

So that was Book Off I then made my way to Mandrake to see if they had an Xbox game I wanted. Xbox games in Japan are expensive if you get them at a store, about $70-$80 for something new and $60 for something old (not used just old). On top of being expensive the selection is really small, if your going to get Xbox games your best bet is used but obviously they don't always have what you are looking for and (like the big stores) the selection can be limited to only a few titles.

Once I got to Mandrake I took a look at the 360 games and was able to (with the second to last game they had) find one of the games I was looking for. That game is Bullet Soul which is a space ship shooter game, they were asking $38 which wasn't bad (I had seen it at a different Book Off for $42 but didn't have the money at the time). It turned out that it was a first print too as it came with the soundtrack disc as well. :-)

After that I checked out the Super Famicom games and found a few good ones. I picked up Return of Double Dragon ($6), Dion ($4) and ThunderBirds ($8).

Looking at the boxed games I picked up Tekkaman Blade ($6), Street Fighter II Turbo (only $1) and Super Aleste ($21) it was expensive but an awesome game that I had been looking for and what the hell it came with the box.

Finally I picked up some Neo Geo AES games, games for this system usually range from $70-$300 and up. I was surprised to see they had 2 games for $3, they were complete and everything but they were earlier games. Still even if they are cheap ones they have to be worth more than $3 right? AES games are very interesting in that they are huge carts the cases for them are the size of very big books or about the size of a US Super Nintendo. The first game was Fatal Fury 2 and the second was Fatal Fury Special I bought both of them and after looking them up online they go for anywhere between $20 and $30 not a bad turn around if you ask me.

So with that, the buying spree had come to an end and let me tell you luging all that stuff around was no picnic and I still had to go to school before I could go home.