Post everytime you get ANYTHING retro. We want to know (^v^)

[MrKirov]

I never played Twisted Metal World Tour but I played the second one and loved it. I'm really surprised that it never became a well established franchise as everyone I know really seemed to enjoy it.

Twisted Metal World tour IS the second one? Unless you played the american copy, which was call Twisted Metal 2...never known the reason for the name change though!!

[BigDeadFreak]

Ah, that explains it. Don't remember it being an American copy but, then again, I don't remember it being called World Tour. Maybe I'm just old and senile.

[donpepperoni]

Made a bit of a trek to a game shop I heard about on YouTube today. And, to my great surprise I actually bought something! I was hoping to find some US N64 games, but was just going for a browse really. I was flicking through all the PSone games and came across one sorry box facing the wrong way. I almost didn't bother looking, but I just so happened to and to my utter astonishment it contained a copy of Twisted Metal World Tour! I have looked for this game in every shop I have visited for at least five years and now it's finally mine!



Not in great nick, but it was only ?3, so why not? I also managed to find a copy of Dynamite Headdy in not too shabby a condition and a replacement PS2. One that, strangely enough wasn't listed on my version guide off eBay ? 75003, but I correctly guessed from the sequence that it was probably a v14 ? which was the minimum I was looking for to replace my borked v12.

Not bad at all.

Interestingly they did have a couple of US N64 games, but unfortunately for me they were both second rate 3D beat 'em ups.

That looks JUST like my old copy of TM: World Tour! I picked it up from an indi game store back in the day (the box was damaged/stolen) and it just had that crappy black plastic case LOL.

I sold it on a long time ago so who knows, that could be the same one!

[egparadigm]

It has a yellow sticker on the back that reads:

"THE GAMES EXCHANGE, Unit 48, Carlisle Market. We buy/sell/exchange all games and consoles for PSX, N64, Megadrive, SNES."

I often wonder when looking at retro games in shops whether I've ever flicked past a copy I used to own. The cover was all cut up with scissors in order to fit the crappy case, and it's missing one of the spines, which was torn off along the scored line.

EDIT: here's a scan:

[Blast Hardbody]

2 Game guides for $10 each at Gametraders

Duck Maze - $13

Ehrgeiz - $9 from the Cash Converters Webstore

Legend of Dragoon - $7.50, missing the 4th disc, but good for spares.

Kingdom Hearts GBA - $15 off the Cash Converters Webstore

[Lorfarius]

Hussah! Just managed to pick up Firehawk PAL on the NES for....£11.99! It's rare as buggery and snatched it quick with a sneaky ebay offer

[The Glider]

Been a long, long time since I posted in this thread. Three recent arrivals.

[egparadigm]

Got these three little beauties today. All pretty much mint apart from the Silicon Valley manual, which is a little dog-eared.



Turned them on this morning just to check they worked and was totally blown away by the graphics in Turok 2. Seriously, that opening cut-scene could be a PS2 game; hope the in-game graphics are the same.

Thought I'd better start my Turok sesh with the first game. The controls are... Interesting. I like the way they apologise up front about this in the manual. They definitely work OK, but it feels back to front. I know some people prefer it this way, but to me it is alien. At least the camera is inverted – as it should be.

You might have guessed from my recent wants thread that I was desperate to play some second-rate (by today's standards), out-dated, first-person shooters.

[Tetsuo]

Turned them on this morning just to check they worked and was totally blown away by the graphics in Turok 2. Seriously, that opening cut-scene could be a PS2 game; hope the in-game graphics are the same.

The graphics are excellent, but the problem that will soon become apparent is the framerate, which gets annihilated far too consistently throughout the game. The pacing in general is also completely lamentable. The first "level" takes several hours to complete, broken up by a handful of save points, for example. If you make it past that, you're in for a real treat on the second stage, where the framerate drops further and remains locked at single figures.

It's a just hideous mess of a game, that GoldenEye and Perfect Dark render inconsequential, really. God only knows what sums of marketing money was being pushed down the throats of reviewers at the time.

If anything, stick to Turok 1, which is a far better game Oh, and Space Station Silicon Valley is excellent!

[Jaz]

I disagree. Loved Turok 2. It's awesome.

[egparadigm]

I think N64 magazine admitted later they might have gone a bit over the top in their review of Turok 2.

I had a friend who absolutely loved it; I borrowed a copy from him and played a bit at the time. I certainly do recall the levels being massive. We'll see how I get on...

[nuskool]

Have been looking for a nice SF2 poster for when I get my games room sorted:

[importaku]

Picked up a lovely pink gb micro from here for ?18, now i can enjoy micro goodness without having to worry about my famicom one getting damaged. On the plus side the pink colour is really nice in the flesh, sort of a metallic sheen & not barbie pink as i was expecting.

Been replaying my gba stuff this weekend, pyuu to fuku is currently in there

[TheForce]

If anything, stick to Turok 1, which is a far better game Oh, and Space Station Silicon Valley is excellent!

yep, Turok 2 was terrible, the level design were VERY annoying, so big you had no idea where to go to, and when you finally finished a level you had to go through them again to find some kind of artifact (?) to be able to finish the next level.... I think I gave up half way level 3, I loved the first Turok though, much better game and much more fun to play

[BigDeadFreak]

Nice poster nuskool, I've been looking for something similar for ages. Where did you get it?