This year at Retrospelsmässan I actually had a table shared with my friend Cleareyes where I spent half the time selling some of my doubles. I also spent time on the Tetris competition that I was hosting, so I didn’t get much time to shop around. There were LOADS of games for sale this year! I wish I had more time to scour through everything! But I did manage to find a few cool things :)
NES games
Atari 2600 games
ZX Spectrum games
More games
He-man!
Retro games for sale
First up are some really nice Japanese Sega Mega Drive games! The Swedish Pong champion, Barkis, was selling off his personal collection. I managed to score Gleylancer, Splatterhouse Part 3 and Awesome Possum! I also got Rastan Saga II and Shijou Saidai no Soukoban which I had no clue what they were but I was hoping they were playable XD
Gleylancer – Sega Mega Drive
Awesome Possum – Sega Mega Drive
Shijou Saidai no Soukoban – Sega Mega Drive
Splatterhouse Part 3 – Sega Mega Drive
Rastan Saga II – Sega Mega Drive
Advanced Busterhawk Gleylancer is an awesome shoot-em-up. It’s quite pricey and I didn’t think I would ever find a copy that I’d be willing to pay the price for. But together with these other games I made a good deal :) It’s a pretty good shmup! It has nice graphics, varied stages, power-ups and various settings for your side-guns. It was fairly easy, but once you die you loose your power-ups and side-guns which make it a bit more challenging.
Gleylancer Sega Mega Drive
Side-guns in Gleylancer
Gleylancer intro
Gleylancer ship
Gleylancer Stage 1
Gleylancer Stage 1 Boss
Gleylancer Stage 2 Boss
Gleylancer Stage 3 lasers
Awesome Possum is a classic platformer, unfortunately not as awesome as I had hoped >_< You could basically just jump around, and Mr. Possum was very difficult to control. It didn’t feel like you could steer him to where you wanted to go. And the story was a bit lame.. you have to run around the rain forest and collect trash to save the environment, and stop robots from cutting down the trees.. in between stages you got a quiz, felt like you were back in elementary school XD A poorly produced game if you ask me..
Awesome Possum Sega Mega Drive
Awesome Possum save the rainforest!
Awesome Possum trees
Awesome Possum tree-killing robots
Mid-term Quiz in Awesome Possum
I have a few games in the Splatterhouse series, the second one for Sega Mega Drive, the one for PC Engine and Wanpaku Grafitti for the Famicom (although that one can hardly be counted as the same XD) and now I also got Splatterhouse Part 3 which I think was better than what I remember from both the 2nd one for Mega Drive and the PC Engine version. The controls were a bit smoother, it was more fluent. It wasn’t just a regular brainless beat ’em up where you can just button mash the attack button and get away with it. Even though Rick only had one attack button you still had to use timing and strategy to outsmart the enemies. You had to be on your toes a bit more than in usual beat ’em ups. I liked that about it :) But some rooms were ridiculous, like the flying hands or the books/objects’ room where stuff just came flying at you constantly, pushing you backwards with no way of you being able to attack them back.. super annoying.. I also ran out of time on the third stage, but nothing happened, I could just continue to look for the boss room until I found it and beat it o_O
Splatterhouse Part 3 Sega Mega Drive
Upper cut!
Groin punch!
Monster toss!
Jennifer smells of rot…
Bat smack!
Bear punch!
Disgusting annoying hands! >_<
Stages of face decomposition XD
This guy… >_<
Shijou Saidai no Soukoban was a puzzle game where you pushed blocks around to get them to the marked spots to clear a stage. The graphics/colour and overall look of it was kind of boring. I played a couple of stages but eventually got stuck and I don’t have patience for these kind of puzzle games. I prefer Tetris ^_^
Shijou Saidai no Soukoban Sega Mega Drive
Shijou Saidai no Soukoban stage 1
Shijou Saidai no Soukoban boxes
The final Japanese Mega Drive game I got was Rastan Saga II. Everybody has told me it’s the shittiest game ever. And sure, the character was a bit stiff, he looked silly and was badly animated, but I liked the colourful graphics, it was definitely not as bad as Sword of Sodan XD But yeah, after reaching the second stage boss I agree, it’s definitely not a good game. I wasn’t able to get a hit on Medusa without her hitting me like three times first >_<
Rastan Saga II Sega Mega Drive
Rastan Saga II Jump attack!
Rastan Saga II Swinging
Rastan Saga II First boss
Rastan Saga II Stage 2
Rastan Saga II Second boss
I picked up an original grey Nintendo Game Boy as well, mainly because it came in this funky carry case. I already have this carry case, but it’s my favourite, so now I have two :) I also got two games with it, Tetris and Motocross Maniacs, and it was a good deal.
Apart from that I picked up a few Game Boy titles: Star Saver, Migraine, Booby Boys, Volleyfire and Sanrio Carnival.
Nintendo Game boy with carry case
Nintendo Game Boy with case and games
Star Saver & Migraine – Game Boy
Booby Boys, Volleyfire, Sanrio Carnival – Game Boy
Migraine is a typ of puzzle game where you turn levers to steer a laser that pops bubbles. It was extremely boring and frustrating. The controls were slow and the stages had an annoying time limit..
Migraine Game Boy
Migraine stage 1
Migraine stage 2
The Adventures of Star Saver on the other hand is a great platforming shooter :) And the music is awesome!! I recommend trying this one out :D
The Adventures of Star Saver intro
The Adventures of Star Saver
The Adventures of Star Saver powerup
The Adventures of Star Saver boss
I thought Volleyfire would be a shmup as well, but not really. You’re only on one screen, facing an opponent and you have to shoot down his health by getting your shot in between the moving obstacles in the middle. It’s kind of like the old school Outlaw on Atari 2600, but with space ships.. boring.
Volleyfire Game Boy
Volleyfire stage 1
Volleyfire stage 2
Booby Boys is a top down platformer where your objective is to collect all items on a stage, find the key and enter the next stage. Your weapon is that you make traps for the enemies, dig a hole and they fall down, push it again to kill them when they’re stuck. It was so-so..
Booby Boys Game Boy
Booby Boys Stage 1
Booby Boys screenshot
Sanrio Carnival was just like Columns! Except with the heads of Sanrio characters instead of gems XD You make matches of three horizontally, vertically and even diagonally. It was ok :) There’s a hard mode where the blocks just stick mid-air when you destroy a row, that was different O_o
Sanrio Carnival Game Boy
Sanrio Carnival screenshot
Sanrio Carnival difficult stage
I also found some PC Engine titles that I had been looking for, and some that I didn’t know I wanted XD I found Winds of Thunder which I have been looking for for quite some time, and PC Genjin 3 which is a great platforming series. Then I also bumped into a game called Lady Sword.. I had no clue what it was but it looked absurd so I had to get it XD
Winds of Thunder – PC Engine
PC Genjin 3 – PC Engine
Lady Sword – PC Engine
I got convinced to buy a boxed Super Famicom as well XD I already have 3.. but none of them are boxed and two of them are in really shitty condition. One is extremely yellowed, and the other one has been spray painted in silver, a really bad paint job at that.. So it was mainly because of the content that I picked it up. The console is complete and in really minty condition :) And it was a fair price.
Super Famicom boxed
Super Famicom controllers
Minty Super Famicom
The first and last thing I bought at the convention were Atari 2600 carts! I just love these, especially when they’re some weird bootlegs and stuff XD A lot of them are German and have some pretty funny names, like Raumroboter :) Spider Fighter is not in very pretty condition, but I recently bought a bootleg of it and realised it’s an amazing game so I wanted to try the original cartridge :) Phantompanzer I bought together with an Amiga CD32 game called Gloom. It’s been suggested to me before, I think it’s supposed to be an FPS game kind of like Doom…
Weltuntergang, My Way & Raumroboter – Atari 2600
Bobby Geht Heim & Phantompanzer – Atari 2600
Dschungel Boy & Pygmy – Atari 2600
Tele-games 14 & 5 – Atari 2600
Alien Force, Hoppy & Spider Fighter – Atari 2600
Gloom – Amiga CD32
At the end of the day I picked up some odd things over at Butik Mackapär. Markus always has some weird things and lots of Japanese goodies ^_^ I found a newly produced game for the Sega Dreamcast, it looked cute :) I also got a bunch of odd third party controllers. And some of the Atari 2600 games above were from him as well. He threw in an odd cartridge for the Sega Mega Drive, an Interceptor Specify Card.. I have no clue what it does XD
Alice’s Mom’s Rescue – Dreamcast
Interceptor Specify Card – Mega Drive
Third party controllers
Well this turned out to be a pretty long post XD There’s even a few more games I forgot to mention that I got at RSM, but this will have to do for now ^_^
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