I need to check out some prices too. All my games were purchased back in the 90s/early 2000s.
Groove On Fight is a cool game in the Power Instinct series, though it pales a bit compared to Matrimelee (one of the later Power Instinct games),
I need to check out some prices too. All my games were purchased back in the 90s/early 2000s.
I bought Albert Odyssey [US versions] for about $50 ten years ago. It's going for $150+ now. Absolutely crazy. Magic Knight Rayearth and the Shining spinoffs have similarly skyrocketed in price [of games that I previously owned, but unfortunately sold at some point]. Even a lot of imports [especially of shmups and certain fighters] is absolutely crazy right now.
I need to check out some prices too. All my games were purchased back in the 90s/early 2000s.
I bought Albert Odyssey [US versions] for about $50 ten years ago. It's going for $150+ now. Absolutely crazy. Magic Knight Rayearth and the Shining spinoffs have similarly skyrocketed in price [of games that I previously owned, but unfortunately sold at some point]. Even a lot of imports [especially of shmups and certain fighters] is absolutely crazy right now.
Do you know which fighters?
Yikes, no thanks. Imports are a no-no for this fella and Saturn is just too expensive for me
Get Elevator Action Returns.
Crazy to think that a decade ago, you could get pretty much any of the Japanese games pretty cheap, especially in local shops. Now so many are on auction sites with jacked-up prices and the stores are missing all this stuff. :-\
Theres no point in buying a japanese copy of Grandia when an english one already exists
The english version of Grandia is kind of aids if that helps. Bad va and all references to alcohol were changed to coffee.Crazy to think that a decade ago, you could get pretty much any of the Japanese games pretty cheap, especially in local shops. Now so many are on auction sites with jacked-up prices and the stores are missing all this stuff. :-\
Part of the problem is people on auction sites trying to one-up each other, but I think the bigger issue is that a lot of these games were never available in particularly large quantities to begin with and after years of collection most copies are in the hands of collectors who aren't willing to part with them [which shrinks the pool even further]. The same thing is even starting to happen with systems that were more popular in America, like the N64.Theres no point in buying a japanese copy of Grandia when an english one already exists
Eh, it was $6 shipped.
Part of the problem is people on auction sites trying to one-up each other, but I think the bigger issue is that a lot of these games were never available in particularly large quantities to begin with and after years of collection most copies are in the hands of collectors who aren't willing to part with them [which shrinks the pool even further]. The same thing is even starting to happen with systems that were more popular in America, like the N64.
The english version of Grandia is kind of aids if that helps. Bad va and all references to alcohol were changed to coffee.
The english version of Grandia is kind of aids if that helps. Bad va and all references to alcohol were changed to coffee.
Its also in English if that helps
One suggestion I have is to buy on amazon.co.jp
You can get games cheaper there and it ships from Japan to NA.
The english version of Grandia is kind of aids if that helps. Bad va and all references to alcohol were changed to coffee.
Its also in English if that helps
Yeah, if you can't read the text...why get a JRPG?
Yikes, no thanks. Imports are a no-no for this fella and Saturn is just too expensive for meMake Bore Mobile a Bore Premium™️ feature and you're all set.
Mupepe has a Saturn right? He should post his collection.
One suggestion I have is to buy on amazon.co.jp
You can get games cheaper there and it ships from Japan to NA.
Prices look pretty similar to what Japanese sellers on eBay are offering from what I saw glancing through. And I don't have to mess around with a site that's in Japanese.
One suggestion I have is to buy on amazon.co.jp
You can get games cheaper there and it ships from Japan to NA.
Prices look pretty similar to what Japanese sellers on eBay are offering from what I saw glancing through. And I don't have to mess around with a site that's in Japanese.
You can change the language to English. :doge
Kyrr-naion3 months ago
"we've got a bucket of saturn games here"
the appropriate measurement.
be careful with your saturn - they're breaking down a lot more nowadays and it's getting harder and harder to repair them. when i got mine out last summer it definitely struggled occasionally. nerds really need to come up with a great emulator so all this shit isn't lost in 20 years. there's a ton of great games for the system tho.
I'm now addicted to buying Japanese Saturn games on eBay. :goty
On that note: Dosukube, if you ever wanna sell any of your Saturn games, toss a PM my way.
How on Earth are you not fluent in Japanese, Rumbler?
What the hell is Body Special?
What's that DJ Wars game? Name certainly sounds intriguing...
What's that DJ Wars game? Name certainly sounds intriguing...
I thought it would be more of a DJ Hero-type rhythm game, but nope, it's a DJ simulator that's really in-depth. I might set aside some time eventually to try to figure out, but first impressions are that it won't be easy to do.
I have Blue Seed but couldn't figure it out. It's like an RPG set in a Japanese high school with card battles or something.
Also GR I bought that game in the lower left, the one from Elf. It's a waifu VN I think.
Tengai Makyou IV is one of the best import only RPGs for the system, good pick. What's that Hudson game?
And also, once you get bored of collecting for the Saturn, the PC Engine CD has a shit-ton of cheap import games to go through.
These Puyo Puyo and similar games are really kicking my butt. I understand the basic strategy of how you win [set up your blocks for consecutive matches, build vertically not horizontally], but the AI just destroys me by being faster and far more skilled at building up a good stack. :-\I think all those games are basically built on the same difficulty scale which immediately goes to wreck up the joint mode after like the third or fourth stage. Even Kirby's Avalanche goes ham on you pretty quickly.
It just hit me that Rumbler is buying all the games that never sold at the game shop I worked at back in the day. :doge
looked up a dude playing through it on youtube, oh god i forgot how big he is on the screen he's literally twice the size i remembered...and unless this guy is sequence breaking, like the first twenty minutes of the game are apparently walking through a forest where there's literally three different tree bitmaps and the trees can damage you if you run into them
I took my Saturn over to my super hardcore buddy's house (he quit his game studio job for 6 months so he could platinum Dark Souls 2, no joke)
I took my Saturn over to my super hardcore buddy's house (he quit his game studio job for 6 months so he could platinum Dark Souls 2, no joke)
Wait...what?
One of my favorite imports was Virtua Fighter Remix, not because it was a good game but the manual had really amazing art.
One of my favorite imports was Virtua Fighter Remix, not because it was a good game but the manual had really amazing art.
Fuck yeah!!! That's Katsuya Terada's art. He went on to do this fuckin awesome graphic novel called VIRTUA FIGHTER: TEN STORIES. Let me know if you want me to grab you a copy, I see them for cheap when I visit Japan.
(http://art-eater.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Terada_Virtua_Fighter_2.jpg)
He's done a bitchload of other great stuff too:
https://kotaku.com/5899323/original-zelda-art-by-katsuya-terada/ (https://kotaku.com/5899323/original-zelda-art-by-katsuya-terada/)
My boss Jake randomly met him in a bar in Tokyo, and he wound up doing some mechanical design for Galak-Z.
Katsuya Terada is a Japanese artist you may not know by name, but you may definitely know him for his work.
This thread helped lead me to be pretty shocked at how many Saturn games never made it to the U.S.
I do understand SOA being a bit leery of games that needed the RAM/ROM carts. Especially after they just came off selling 600,000 32X's and still needing to clear them out at $20.
This thread helped lead me to be pretty shocked at how many Saturn games never made it to the U.S.
IIRC, SOA president at the time, Bernie Stolar, quickly gave up on the Saturn to focus on their next console, which was still a few years way from a U.S. release. So the Saturn got all these games in Japan (and some of them could have done really well here, like X-Men Vs. Street Fighter which was the first 99% perfect 2D fighter port) that never made it elsewhere, and SOA did...pretty much nothing. I remember one E3 where their booth was just some DJ yelling "POWER VR!!!!!!" for the upcoming Dreamcast that wouldn't be launching in the States for another year.
This thread helped lead me to be pretty shocked at how many Saturn games never made it to the U.S.
IIRC, SOA president at the time, Bernie Stolar, quickly gave up on the Saturn to focus on their next console, which was still a few years way from a U.S. release. So the Saturn got all these games in Japan (and some of them could have done really well here, like X-Men Vs. Street Fighter which was the first 99% perfect 2D fighter port) that never made it elsewhere, and SOA did...pretty much nothing. I remember one E3 where their booth was just some DJ yelling "POWER VR!!!!!!" for the upcoming Dreamcast that wouldn't be launching in the States for another year.
I remember reading about that in (I believe) EGM back in the day. Was disappointed and I didn't even have a Saturn
This thread helped lead me to be pretty shocked at how many Saturn games never made it to the U.S.I remember one E3 where their booth was just some DJ yelling "POWER VR!!!!!!" for the upcoming Dreamcast that wouldn't be launching in the States for another year.
woo dragon force
I really, really, really want to play Soul Hackers. I can say this for any Saturn game.
Here's hoping I can transition fully to a stable life where I can afford getting one. And hell yes I would get Panzer Dragoon Saga US. I'm a madman when given a steady income.
FUCKIN SOUL HACKERS IS THE SHIT
Loved playin that in English on 3DS
I could never find anything on if it was intentional or if they got the FMV back and it was so bad they were like now what and and MST3K came on.
I wish more games with lots of FMV did this...I would have liked them a lot more. :doge
Did someone cut a Gex manual in half? :'(
Rumbler, you need to give some impressions for these games! Curious about Lime and Gebockers, whatever those might be...