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Post by toei on Sept 11, 2018 10:25:36 GMT -5
Another one that hasn't appeared on romhacking.net's front page (yet?) is Detective Sanman, a NES adventure game. It's a parody of the usual murder investigations, where all the characters are "played by" / based on famous '80s Japanese comedians. Famous in Japan, anyway. There are also a bunch of mini-games, including a shmup section, apparently. Would definitely be more interesting to a Japanese native, but maybe it's goofy enough to be worth a look. |
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Sept 11, 2018 10:32:41 GMT -5
It is heartbreaking when you discover something old and cool only to check eBay to find out it's some rare gem.
...Not to get too far off-topic, but from a financial and "collecting" standpoint I actually find modern gaming way more disheartening. $60 launch prices, GameStop being the main game retailer, trendy scarce bullshit (Limited Run, Super Rare Games, NES Classic, collector's editions, etc.)... I'm just not into it, man. It's so much more fun to go to the retro game shop and paw through the NES and Atari carts.
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Post by Ex on Sept 11, 2018 10:57:09 GMT -5
$60 launch prices, GameStop being the main game retailer For ignorant folks I guess. I only buy new games off Amazon. For a while Amazon was giving Prime members significant discounts as preorder bonuses. That's going away now though, because it was too good for this world. But on average I'd been paying $30-40 a pop for brand new games via Amazon. Granted the past few years I've only been buying new Vita and 3DS games, not console games. I don't like that crap either. (Says the guy who owns a few Limited Run games on Vita.) That likely is funner. I haven't done that in so long it'd be surreal. I've been buying 99% of my games online since 2000. But back in the '90s, I spent tons of time scouring bargain bins, flea markets, discount stores, pawn shops, strip malls, yard sales, mom & pop retro stores, etc. for cheap deals on possibly good games. The advantage of that is you never know what you'll find; there's still the "thrill of the hunt". Sometimes you spend a few hours and come back with a bag of swag. Sometimes you come back empty handed (well maybe you pick up the flu). In contrast there's no surprises buying games on the internet, except perhaps finding a cheap deal from time to time. Buying games on the internet means specifically targeting certain games, no room for serendipitous surprises. It's not as fun sure, but it's way more efficient. I'm afraid the days of myself wanting to rummage brick 'n mortar shops have long since passed as a result. Not to mention down south people look at you weird when a 40 year old dude walks into a gaming store full of 20 year olds.
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Post by Sarge on Sept 11, 2018 11:12:15 GMT -5
$60 isn't bad. No, really. I'm surprised they haven't gone up again, but they've tamped the price down through DLC and micro transactions.
I still have GCU through the end of next year, so $48 on new releases for me.
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Post by Ex on Sept 11, 2018 11:23:58 GMT -5
$60 isn't bad. No, really. I agree, actually. I remember during their lifespan, NES games averaged $40-60 a pop new. And SNES games ranged $50-80 a pop new. When you apply the CPI inflation calculator: A $50 NES game in 1988 costs $107 in today's money. A $60 SNES game in 1994 costs $101 in today's money. I remember paying $74 for FF3 brand new in a Walmart in 1994. That's $125 in today's money. While I'd love for new games to cost $20 today, we're still paying a LOT less for new games then we used to growing up. |
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Post by Sarge on Sept 11, 2018 12:15:05 GMT -5
Yeah. That's not even factoring in waiting for a bit. Most releases drop to $40 pretty quickly, then $30, then $20, and if they're really unpopular, around $10. Gaming is downright cheap these days.
I don't buy exclusively from GameStop anymore, but since I have the whole "Elite Pro" thing there, I cash in whenever there's a B2G1 sale on pre-owned stuff. For brand-new releases, it's all Best Buy, assuming they carry the game in question. Sometimes that isn't the case, and GameStop is the exclusive retailer.
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Post by Ex on Sept 17, 2018 8:33:18 GMT -5
Another Famicom adventure game has been English translated:
This time it's 1989's Idol Hakkenden, which was developed by Natsume, and published by Towa Chiki.
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Post by Sarge on Sept 17, 2018 10:55:41 GMT -5
Just in time for Natsume November.  |
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Post by toei on Sept 30, 2018 8:51:57 GMT -5
Villgust Gaiden on the NES has been re-translated. It was one of the very early patches (1998!) and apparently wasn't very good, with a lot of missing or mistranslated text, lines changed at random or context mistakes. I'd played the SNES Villgust many years ago and enjoyed it; this is a side-story that takes place before, and was released a year after, despite being a NES game. While the SNES game was a traditional RPG with behind-the-characters battle similar to Phantasy Star 2 and 4, this one plays like a RPG with real-time side-scroller battles (but everything else seen from top-down). I might just finally play it. The old patch always put me off.
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Sept 30, 2018 13:21:21 GMT -5
Noticed that one this morning. Both the Villgust games are pretty solid. The Fami one is quite innovate, it may even be superior to its 16-bit predecessor.
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