It has taken some time to sort, clean and photograph all of the 138 games I bought at Retro Gathering Vintage Computer Edition last weekend, but finally, here they are! :D I will go through them system by system ^_^
Atari ST
The first thing I bought at the convention was an Atari 1040 ST, I already had one game for it back home, and it was in nice condition, and cheap, so I couldn’t refuse ^_^ I also picked up a few games for it. I have never played on an Atari ST before, so I’m looking forward to trying it out! :D If anyone has any suggestions of exclusive games for the system that are a must have, then please let me know :) So far I only have 5 games for it, the ones I found this weekend were Deathbringer, Gauntlet III, Future Dreams and Captive.
Atari 1040 ST with Tac 2 joystick
Atari 1040 ST
Atari 1040 ST with TAC 2
Atari ST Captive
Atari ST Deathbringer
Atari ST Future Dreams
Atari ST Gauntlet III
Atari Lynx
To continue on the Atari trail, I also found a few additions to my Atari Lynx collection from Spel & Sånt :D Not particularly exciting titles, but they were in pretty nice condition :) I do however enjoy the game of Shanghai, and it’s gonna be interesting to see what the Slime World port on Lynx looks like! :D
Atari Lynx Slime World
Atari Lynx Shanghai
Atari Lynx Scrapyard Dog
Atari 2600
I’m always on the lookout for Atari 2600 games as well, but this year there were hardly any :/ I found one guy who had like 5 cartridges, crappy games in shitty condition, but he still wanted a lot for them! I bargained a bit and bought one, just to come home with at least one 2600 game >_> I got Super-Ferrari…
Commodore 64 – 5 1/4 Floppy disk games
Moving on to Commodore, I’ve had a 5 1/4 floppy disk game for the C64 for a while, and nothing to play it on :( But this weekend I found a new in box Ocean floppy disk drive for the C64! :D It was a bit pricey.. but I really needed one since I also bought even more floppy disk games this weekend ^__^ I got the classic text-based adventures of Zork 1-3, and at the very end of the day I got a good deal on a pretty cool adventure game called Infidel. The cool thing about it is the packaging and contents! Inside are handwritten letters and maps and stuff, it’s really well made ^_^ I have a friend that I think will really enjoy trying this game out ;D Apart from that I had bought a whole moving box full of old Amiga and Commodore games from my friend Likilato beforehand and I picked it up on this weekend since he was going to Retro Gathering too :) In this package were quite a lot of C64 floppy disk games as well ^_^ Some games that I’m quite happy with are T2 Terminator Judgement Day, Robocop, Space Harrier II and Weird Dreams, they all look pretty cool ^_^ Then there were also a few less fun games, I’m not quite sure what Operation Market Garden is, but it doesn’t sound fun, and the last three: Europe Ablaze, Russia The Great War in the East and Halls of Montezuma I’m pretty sure are some kind of edutainment games for learning history >_<
C64 5 1/4 Floppy Disk Drive
Zork I, Zork II, Zork III – C64 Floppy
Infidel – C64 Floppy
Infidel game inside – C64 Floppy
Terminator 2 Judgement Day – C64 Floppy
Robocop – C64 Floppy
Weird Dreams – C64 Floppy
Space Harrier – C64 Floppy
Operation Market Garden – C64 Floppy
Europe Ablaze – C64 Floppy
Russia The Great War in the East & Halls of Montezuma – C64 Floppy
Commodore 64 – Cassette games
I found a few cassette games for the C64 as well. I got Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker from Japon, and Slap Fight for the ZX Spectrum. Pontus from Japon also tried to sell Last Ninja 2 to me, fortunately I didn’t buy it!! Because inside the big cardboard box of things I had bought from Likilato earlier contained not one but TWO copies of that exact game XD I had bought the package weeks before and didn’t remember everything that was in it.. but I’m just happy I’m not possessing three copies right now at least ;D The other C64 cassette games from Likilato were Last Ninja 3, Superman the Game, Ghostbusters II, Mr. Heli, Platoon, Speedball, Silent Service, Starglider and The Hunt for Red October.
Michael Jackson Moonwalker, Slap Fight – C64 & ZX Spectrum
Last Ninja 2 – C64
Last Ninja 3 – C64
Superman The Game – C64
Ghostbusters II – C64
Mr. Heli – C64
Platoon – C64
Speedball – C64
Silent Service, Starglider – C64
The Hunt for Red October – C64
Commodore VIC 20
Going back in time a bit we have the Commodore VIC 20, I got one of these last year and I’m still trying to expand my library of games for the system. I found a few VIC 20 cassettes on Retro Gathering this time on Mikael Holm’s table (he always has the coolest stuff!) ^_^ I know there’s two copies of Panic for VIC 20, but I couldn’t choose which one to go for, since they are DIFFERENT! It’s weird, since they are released by the same company, but one has a black spine, and the cassettes inside are different colors as well! O_o These were all dirt cheap though so I just picked them all up :) Except the two games called Vicolumn and Blue Star, these two were new releases for the system and cost a bit more, but it’s always interesting to see what people develop now for these old systems! Doodle Bug, Space Scramble, Cosmiads and Alpha Blaster all sound cool!
Select 1, Panic x 2 – VIC 20
Vicolumn, Blue Star & Doodle Bug – VIC 20
Space Scramble, Cosmiads & Alpha Blaster – VIC 20
Sinclair ZX Spectrum, ZX81
Before moving on to consoles we have pickups from yet another old computer ^_^ I bought a few games for the ZX Spectrum, Pssst, Jet Pac and Cookie had such cool matching covers! Had to get them :) Then I also got Jet Pac with a different cover and 3D Starstrike, Split personalities, Pedro, Ghosts n’ Goblins and a program that came with the system called Horizons. I also found a Sinzlair ZX Interface 2 so I can play cartridge games on my 48k :D Now I just need to find some cartridge games >_> I also bought a ZX81 :D I’ve only known about this one for a little while, when I was looking for 3D Monster Maze and found out that it only came out on the ZX81. Now I have one! So now I just need to find 3D Monster Maze again >_< I missed out on the one eBay auction I’ve ever seen… >_<
Pssst, Jet Pac, Cookie – ZX Spectrum
3D Starstrike, Jetpac, Split Personalities – ZX Spectrum
Pedro, Ghosts n Goblins, Horizons – ZX Spectrum
ZX81 computer
Sinclair ZX Interface 2
Nintendo NES (+ Game & Watch and FDS)
I bought some NTSC NES games from Gaminggrannar and from some other sellers. I also got a Game & Watch Lifeboat from Söders Spel & Skivhandel and a random Famicom Disk System game with cats from Sven666 and another FDS game from my friend MXS :)
Rad Racer II – NES
Galaxy 5000 Racing in the 51st Century – NES
Destination Earthstar – NES
Deadly Towers – NES
Rollergames – NES
The Immortal – NES
Nintendo Game & Watch LifeBoat
The Adventures of Chatran & Samurai Sword – Famicom Disk System
Sega Mega Drive
From my friend Karl I got a good deal and bought the sought after Japanese Sega Mega Drive shmup V-V (V five), I also got to buy most of his other Japanese Mega Drive titles since he wanted to get rid of them, it was mostly RPGs or strategy games, but I got such a good price that I couldn’t pass them up ^_^ I also found some PAL Mega Drive titles from other sellers, mainly sports games XD which I don’t particularly enjoy, but they were cheap! And some day me and Becki will have to have another Golf tournament ;D
V-V – Sega Mega Drive
Gauntlet – Sega Mega Drive
Ragnacenty – Sega Mega Drive
Langrisser II – Sega Mega Drive
Herzog Zwei – Sega Mega Drive
Master of Monsters – Sega Mega Drive
Populous – Sega Mega Drive
Sorcerer Kingdom – Sega Mega Drive
Bahamut Senki – Sega Mega Drive
VR Troopers – Sega Mega Drive
Super Skidmarks – Sega Mega Drive
Royal Rumble – Sega Mega Drive
Super Real Basketball – Sega Mega Drive
World Class Leader Board – Sega Mega Drive
Red Zone – Sega Mega Drive
Ultimate Soccer – Sega Mega Drive
Sega Master System
I also got a lot of Sega Master System games from various sellers. Mainly sports here as well, but I didn’t have them, and they were cheap ^_^
R.C. Grand Prix – Sega Master System
Ace of Aces – Sega Master System
Air Rescue – Sega Master System
Pit-Fighter – Sega Master System
World Class Leader Board – Sega Master System
Black Belt – Sega Master System
Enduro Racer – Sega Master System
Great Volleyball – Sega Master System
World Soccer – Sega Master System
Casino Games – Sega Master System
Sega Saturn & Playstation 2
Japon also managed to convince to bring home these two huge boxed Sega Saturn Arcade Racer controllers XD One PAL and one Japanese.. they told me that the controller was region free, so I sure hope they will both work with one console ;D In that case I might have another game to use in the next Retro Rumble competition for the finals ;D I also got two PS2 games with Megaman at a fair price from Anders :) They’re sealed.. but I might open them so I can play them!! ^_^
Sega Saturn arcade racer
PS2 Megaman X Command Mission & Megaman X8
Amiga 500 / 1200
Now onto the biggest category of the day… Amiga! The big lot of games I had bought from Likilato contained A LOT of Amiga games :) I was happy to find Banshee in there, since MXS had recently told me it was a good game, it’s for the 1200 though so I have to find a place to plug that system in as well.. They’re so big and space-consuming! Loom has a beautiful cover, and I’ve seen it before, not quite sure what kind of game it is though, but I will find out :) There were a lot of other games that looked cool like Harlequin, Codename Hellfire, Wonderland, Super Stardust, Galdregons Domain etc. It’s gonna be fun to try them all out :D I wonder what kind of game Leather Goddesses of Phobos will turn out to be XD
Banshee – Amiga
Harlequin – Amiga
Lemmings 2 The Tribes – Amiga
Accolade Test Drive II – Amiga
Codename Hellfire – Amiga
Loom – Amiga
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Curse of the Azure Bonds – Amiga
Alien Breed II The Horror Continues – Amiga
Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Wishbringer – Amiga
Zool – Amiga
Galdregons Domain – Amiga
Zool 2 – Amiga
Battle Command – Amiga
Black Crypt – Amiga
Chuck Rock Son of Chuck – Amiga
Crystal Dragon – Amiga
Dungeon Master II – Amiga
Flight of the Amazon Queen – Amiga
Super Stardust – Amiga
Wonderland Dream the Dream – Amiga
Guy Spy and the Crystals of Armageddon – Amiga
King’s Quest III To Heir is Human – Amiga
The Keys to Maramon – Amiga
Ishtar 1 – Amiga
Ishtar 2 – Amiga
Ishtar 3 – Amiga
Syndicate – Amiga
Rocket Ranger, Speedball – Amiga
‘Nam 1965-1975 – Amiga
Murder! – Amiga
Star Flight – Amiga
Nobby the Aardvark – Amiga
Operation Stealth – Amiga
Overdrive – Amiga
Megatraveller 2 Quest for the Ancients – Amiga
Police Quest 3 – Amiga
The New Zealand Story, The Bard’s Tale – Amiga
The Hound of Shadow – Amiga
Wizardry Bane of the Cosmic Forge – Amiga
Swords of Twilight – Amiga
That was all the loot for this time, now I have some gaming to do ^____^
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