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 On 11/14/2015 at 04:01 PM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
It's the perfect day for a book sale. It's Fall, the sky is clear and bright, it's cool, and I got music on the brain. I haven't been so keen on books at the library book sales this year. It's been all about the music. Then I got a text message from Jay Str. Video Games that they had a game I wanted, Dragon Warrior I & II for Game Boy Color. I had some trades, so I thought I'd go pick that up. Here's a pic of all the stuff I got.
So the top three CDs are all stuff I'm going to use the first month of 2016. I have a new music and reading project for 2016 and it starts with the 16th century. Going left to right: John Taverner, Machaut (oops, he's from the 1300s), and a Renaisance collection featuring Monteverdi.
Next is some miscellany in the middle. Left to Right: Kronos Quartet - Caravan, Big Band Collection, and a 3 disc lounge music Christmas collection. I love the 50s art on this box set. I used to play a PopCap game called TipTop, which used the same style. The Ren and Stimpy Show uses it and I believe the Fallout series takes some of it's design from the 50s. I certainly saw it in the latest trailer I watched for Fallout 4.
On the bottom, left to right: soundtrack to a western, Once Upon a Time in the West, by Ennio Morricone, Lenny Kravitz Are You Going My Way, and Live's Unplugged album. I got all these albums for a buck each except that box set for $3.
Oh, and there's a Game Boy Color cart there in the middle. That's Dragon Warrior I & II. It was the easiest way for me to get DWII. I got it for like $9 after the trades I had. It was $25 before the trades.
Yea Saturday! My Friday. Can't wait for work to be over tonight. Tomorrow's game day and I'm considering playing Gear of War Judgment with Mark on Xbox One since it's backwards compatible now and you can play multiplayer across both 360 and Xbox One. I want to try that and see if I can do screen captures and video clips of 360 games on Xbox One. I don't know if game saves will carry over, though, but they should since I saved to the cloud. I'm really excited about streaming too. I want to try that on Twitch at some point for sure.
Cheers!
wow you can do that with an Xbox One and a 360? That's pretty cool!
I have very fond memories of Dragon Warrior on NES, even though I didn't get very far. It was just so colorful and beautiful, something that has carried over to the later games for sure.
I'm pretty sure it can do that, but every time I hear Major Nelson go over the backwards compatibility stuff, I listen hard to make sure I'm right about that. I'll put it to the test tomorrow (later today) and find out for sure.
Every since DQVIII, I've been a fan. I want to play them all now.
I have all of the Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest games through IX. I have the first three on NES, the next three on DS, VII is on PS1, VIII on PS2, and IX on DS. Jason pre-ordered one of the DS games for me as a Valentine's Day present, and I got a plush slime as the preorder bonus. My guy knows what I like!
Slime plushy! Wow! I want one.
I have DQ I, now II, VIII, and IX. DQVII was on the PS1, huh. I'm wondering how expansive the world is because I'm thinking of getting the remake for 3DS next year, and I like my RPGs old school in style for the handhelds. When they get all 3D and open worldy like DQ VIII, I like to play them on a console.
I think the 3DS remake will be fine. If I recall, it's mostly overworld map and not open world. It is a very long slog, though. There was enough in that game for it to easily have been two games.
Sounds like a preorder to me.
Once Upon A Time in the West, HECK YEAH! That is one of my favorite flicks. I should be on the lookout for that soundtrack. Good pickups on the music, I believe I might have that Lenny Kravitz CD, and I went through a Big Band phase a couple of years ago so I might have some of the tracks on your Big Band album. Renaissance stuff sounds interesting.
I never played Dragon Warrior I & II, but I'm glad you got it and traded in some stuff you don't play for it.
On the wiki page it lists all the uses of the Once Upon a TIme in the West theme. It's been used in a lot of songs!
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