![]() ![]() You might remember this as the version of the groundbreaking first-person shooter that was. Meanwhile, I went back to the same store a few weeks later and the manager gave me Wolfenstein for a mere $3.50, which was much more agreeable to me. Still had awesome music, which is why I popped it in as soon as I brought it home. This is the game that Squaresoft produced especially for Americans, who as we all know are amazingly stupid and could not play Final Fantasy II because it was too complicated, so they had to make us this dumbed-down version. If you get all of your balls on their side of the court before they have time to throw them back at you, you win! Repeat until you are crying about having spent your allowance on this instead of Kirby's Dream Land.įinal Fantasy: Mystic Quest and Wolfenstein 3-D for the Super NES were both priced at $7, but for that price I only bought the Final Fantasy game. You're a penguin and you have to throw these balls at a variety of other animals. Penguin Wars ($3.50) turned out to be pretty hilarious. (But why does the answer always turn out to be "no"?) Apparently the answer to this is, at $2 I'll just buy it and figure out later if it was worth spending the money. What was I thinking again?Īt $2, Othello for the Atari 2600 is another one in the "what exactly was I thinking" pile. On the right, two common Genesis games – Sonic Spinball and Ecco: The Tides of Time – that I bought for some unknown reason. ![]() How much higher depends on the game, although this one doesn't seem to vary much. Digital Press lists the PlayStation game at $15, but these early longbox editions usually trend a little higher. There aren't very many good PC price guides out there, so I don't really have a value for this Bubble Bobble port. $3.50 each.Īcclaim decided that the series' adorable dinosaur mascots weren't going to sell any videogames to the jaded college kids with too much money that every game publisher coveted in the mid-nineties, so instead of Bub and Bob we got all kinds of ugly amateur bullshit intended to appeal to a sort of futurist Lawnmower Man aesthetic. publishing rights to the Bubble Bobble games? Here are two examples: Bubble Bobble Also Featuring Rainbow Islands for the PC and the "longbox" PlayStation version of Bust-a-Move 2 Arcade Edition. $1.50.ĭid you know that Acclaim once had the U.S. And I bought this floppy disk version of Sam & Max Hit The Road because I wanted the exclusive Steve Purcell comics inside. ![]()
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