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Went to Jay Street Video Games as is becoming my habit early in the week. Traded a few and bought a few. Here's a pic:

I hooked up my slim PS2 today to play Neo Contra. This is a top down twin-stick shooter. I suppose it's in the Contra series. The best thing about it was the opening cutscene which was so full of over-the-top action that made me laugh.

Started off Sunday with Scrabble for PSOne. This is a good TV version of the board game. Everything works fine. You have a tournament mode to play against A.I. characters and solitare in case you don't have anyone to play with. I played some tournament mode for a while before I got kind of bored of it. Get it, board? Yea, that's dumb. Anyway this was good to have way back when but now I have Scrabble on Xbox Live where I can play online. Yea, I don't need this anymore. 

I was looking for the Metal Slug Anthology on PS2 or Wii today at Jay Street Video Games but all they had was 4 and 5 on Xbox, so I got that with some discount for trade-ins. Here's a pic:

Started early yesterday with River City Random on NES. This is a brawler, but unlike most brawlers of the time, you feel surprisingly free to do what you want. I think it's from the variety of things you can do and places you can go. You can kick, punch and throw enemies; pick up items and use them as melee weapons or throw them. There's the usual street fighting stuff like sticks and chains, but there are also every day items like baseballs and just blocks of stone or building matterial. You move in a 2D side-scrolling world but you can open doors or enter passageways in the background and enter a park or shopping district. This gives the game a good illusion of being in a 3D world.

Tested out my replacement Genesis controler on Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side today. Eternal Champions is a fine 1v1 fighting game. The graphics are nice and the music too. I just don't go for the 1v1 fighting games that much. I'd rather scroll through environments while I fight ala Final Fight. So onward. 

I exchanged my broken Genesis controller for a working one at my local retro gaming shop, Jay Street Video Games. I got the same original style controller. There's a smaller one with six buttons, but I like the bigger one with three. Then I traded some stuff and got Pokemon Conquest for DS. I had a talk with the saleswoman about the game and 999 for DS. These were both hers originally it turned out, and she knew both well. I was torn as to which to get and went with Pokemon Conquest, but I really wanted 999 too. Maybe next time. Here's a pic:

I started the day with Little Nemo: Dream Master for NES. It's a platformer and I generally dislike platformers but this one has neat features. I like feeding the animals candy so you can get into their skins and be them for a while. Sounds sick worded like that but it's totally cool, and cute as heck: wear a frog to jump high, wear a mole to dig. Neat!. The graphics are super charming too. I love the intro cinematics and the whole design of the game. I die a lot though. That pisses me off. I have no patience when it comes to games. Patience is for real life. Not for games.

Started out today on Xbox 360 and downloaded the Games with Gold: Saints Row IV and Sunset Overdrive for XBO.

I didn't know there was a different AV cable for the original Genesis. The Genesis 2 and 3 use the same one though, and I have a Genesis 3 that my friend Mark gave me. My orginal one is lost to the void of time. Here's a pic: