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My housemate has been to Japan the past few weeks and picked up some stuff for me. Some requested, some he just thought I'd like (unfortunately Elevator Action Returns was too expensive, £200 😅, and he couldn't find Cosmic Smash) First batch includes a Jaki purse thing from a gatcha, which is fitting because top right is Shin Megami Tensei Devil Summoner. The King of Fighters 96, Fatal Fury 3, and top left is King of Fighters 99 Evolution for the Dreamcast Next batch, In The Hunt for the Saturn, which is Metal Slug before Metal Slug. Sonic Jam, an rpg called Cyber Doll which I've heard is interesting. Then on the right, the 2d Fight of the North Star fighting game Also a camo Tachikoma, and a King Slime to match the Slime he got me last time, and features in one of my last posts in this thread

forgot i'd ordered this, until getting loads of emails about it arriving anyway, 100+ tracks of monks chanting/refantazio soundtrack

I don't believe it, it has arrived.

Nice haul! CeX Game Boy purchases at £8 and £4, and a couple of Switch purchases pictured with their 3DS originals. This might be one of the nicest special editions I've bought. The pins are very good quality, and the postcards have game screens on their reverse. Neat package.

Brand new Mega Drive game! ZPF, I backed it on Kickstarter and nicely they've sent the physical Mega Drive versions out before they've finished the Steam version, so this isn't just a nice thing for the shelf, it's actual got played for a while today. Based on my first impressions, and I don't understand a lot of it except dodging and shooting (it's a shmup), it feels a little different than the Steam demo. My memory is that was a lot harder, maybe just because I was using the Xbox pad whereas the Mega Drive pad I'm using has a proper d-pad Oh, also a Pinky demon because I'm all about Doom at the minute

4 retro games and none of them are Dreamcast games might be a first for me I've never actually played the original Onimusha, I could see me playing the port rather than this version but it's a PS2 classic so I thought I'd buy it Tunnel B1 is apparently better than I've always assumed. Die Hard Trilogy I bought for my lightgun collection, I'll have to give it a go at some point Lunar: Silver Star Story. I've always wanted to try a Lunar game. I forgot the collection was coming out, although it's a bit expensive atm whereas this was really cheap. It'd be nice to play through this version but I suspect if I ever play any it'll be the modern port

I've no idea what happened to my original copy of Fighting Force 2. It's not a good game so it's not the best pick up. I also got a Predator light gun that should work on the Saturn and PlayStation, presumably PS2 too

cheap PC games

Yes motherfuckers! 👍

First time using monster-shop_outlet on eBay. I'll be using them again. Well impressed.

Love a Bitmap Book. & Easily best gaming deal on that Amazon Prime thing -AC FOR £18

Really not sure if this is going to be for me at all but got it for a good price so worth a punt.

It was carbon emissions cheat day. I've given up on the Aleste Collection ever arriving over here and I took advantage of the Yen being frighteningly weak at the moment to double-dip on True Colours for the collection, because this is the only Switch version that is complete on the cartridge.

Due to low moods and big sales I bought a lot of games over the past week I also want to understand this Black Ops storyline since it got so crazy so I bought all the games I was missing from that series This doesn’t include digital stuff as well. I be splurging, but thankfully a lot of these were very cheap

I finally got my Retro Game and PC room running and setup as I want it. Its a tiny bit Bigger than my last room but not much so. All The Retro Pre PS1 including Arcade runs on the Custom FPGA Mister system which is hooked up to both the TV and CRT. With Gaming PC on the Main Monitor. Under the TV PS4,3,2,1, Wii and 2600 Plus. The PS2 Soft modded with Free McBoot and all my PS2 games Installed to Hard Disk. I have made custom NFC Cards for all the Retro Games, All you have to do is tap them on the console and it boots straight into the game. Plus gives me a Way to Have a physical collection without taking up loads of space. And then Just the PS Games Collection, that continues to grow steadily. Got cable management solution for under desk coming in next few days.

Birthday gift from my mum, so technically not a purchase I suppose.

I said I could be tempted at ~ £600. Well one popped up brand new with a disc drive on eBay for £600 so here we are. Sold my old PS5 for £275. Using a bit of man logic in that the prices will likely rise some time soon with the tariffs and whatnot it’s a good deal… lol.

This could go in the computer thread, but it's for gaming so 🤷 AMD Ryzen 7 9700X cpu 1tb gen 5 NVMe 2 x 16gb 6000mhz DDR5 ram RTX 5070 (it was cheaper than usual) B850 Tomahawk Max WiFi motherboard I will be living off (gluten free) pasta for the next 6 months 😩 Also I need to put it all in my old case, but that's tomorrows job

My memory of this (X-men Children of the Atom) is that it's absolutely nails and Magneto is bullshit

A couple of these weren't cheap, one really was. Gun Grave, I played a bit of on Game Pass, I don't think it's particularly good but it was a fiver and I liked the original. Soul Fighter I've never owned, it's not especially rare so I'm not sure why it's taken me so long to buy it, it's supposed to be a decent enough brawler Gynoug I remember seeing in the video shop all the time when I was a kid but never played it. illdog loves it, raves about it, and told me off for never playing it, so I've bought it. Got to say, what I played was pretty good. It's a horizontal shmup, and it's got great music Cosmic Smash cost me about £100. I've played it a bit over the years but never owned it. It's 3d Breakout with Rez visuals. It's cool, glad to have it and will play it at properly at some point beyond the quick go I had to test it)

Christmas haul and DKCRHD which arrived today.

Here we are then... The Game of the Year awards 2024! Game of the Year 2024... 1. Winner! With 36 points... Balatro. 2. With 34 points... Metaphor Refantazio. 3. With 33 points... Astro Bot. Discovered in 2024... Unfortunately there was no clear winner which resulted in a 8 way tie for first place. Most wanted 2025... 1. Winner! With 9 points... Grand Theft Auto VI. 2. With 8 points... Metroid Prime 4. 3. With 6 points... Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. So there we have it... thank you to everyone who took part.

Gaming birthday presents from a few days ago. Dog makes a good pad rest. Don’t know if they’ve updated the pad slightly again or if my other one was just more knackered than I realised but this feels a lot better to use. Haptics and trigger effects are better and the d pad is significantly less mushy. Only wanted it for the classic design, bonus!

JRPG season is back

I need more hours in the day. 🫠

No pics as I haven't got my Switch to hand but: Inside: £1.69 Limbo: 89p I think I finished Limbo some time ago? Inside, I never got around to. But at those prices I'm more than happy to jump back into both.

Easily the best modern Sonic game (excluding Mania). Just had to. Heard the Shadow stuff is surprisingly good too.

I’m in too.

Forgot to pre-download like a dumbass...

Another game I used to have but don’t anymore. The box is a bit damaged and drawn on, but it was £20 where as “new” ones were closer to £50-£60.

File this under 'completely forgot I ordered it'. Don't regret it though, if there's one 3rd party Switch game I wanted on cart, this is it right there.

Latest physical purchases. And digital, Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2on Xbox and 1000xRESIST on Switch.

my last few Steam purchases very retro feeling

Picked this up 2nd hand from Cash Converters.

Buying stuff I was talking about Magic Carpet in the Discord the other week. It was huge for a year or so, constant talk about it, but I don't think I've heard it mentioned in years and years. I didn't especially love it back in the day, but seemingly no one wants the Japanese Saturn version, so it was cheap enough to buy, cool cover too Virtual On I used to own back in the day, I loved it. I haven't owned it since rebuying a Saturn 20 years ago, despite owning the Twin Stick for it, so that should be fun to play around with This version of D2 is the silver variant, and it's the last of the 4 Japanese variants I 'needed', so now I've got the complete set of them. No one will care, but I love D2, I actually wish there was more merch for it so I could properly geek out about it

Here are some Switch games I bought this year

*insert heavy metal*

We’re back, sorry about that. We’ve lost a few days worth of content, hopefully none of it was fried gold

October stuff. Unknown 9 got rather bad reviews but it wouldn't be the first 6/10 game I've enjoyed. Potionomics was one of those dumb 'for the collection' purchases because the box looks nice. TR is for the backlog and Ys I've started yesterday as I've been looking forward to that quite a bit. Edit: wow, the picture is awful, no idea what happened there.

We only play PS5 in this house like esteemed and classy gentleman (That’s not true we only play sleeping tablets and watch YT in this house with occasional Elden Ring on PC but we have aspirations!) (There’s no we it’s just I)

Always been intrigued by this version of TR considering it's the only one made for that generation (also the last ever Nixxes game made for Xbox). And Revenant Wings is a game I've been wanting to check out for god knows how long but never got around. I hope I can adjust to the DS' screen resolution whenever I find the time to do so.