Posts Tagged ‘megadrive’

Wow.

What. A. Weekend.

Sorry this didn’t get done Sunday night, but I think you can probably forgive me for doing 3 x 10+ hour days in a row relating to Armageddon. I slept from 9pm-10am last night so am suitably refreshed and my back is sore from standing up all that time.

Anyway, onto the write up!

We ripped down our timetables, and just let people play what they wanted, kicking off the day with Sonic and Mario Kart (which never failed to draw a crowd). I was seriously deluded in thinking Sunday was going to be a quiet one, and I couldn’t have been more wrong with the Cosplay competition kicking off the day in the main area an hour after the TSB Arena opened to the public.

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Wow, another massive day. It was way less stressful than Day 1 of the expo, but still madness nonetheless. Last minute calls at midnight last night to solve a staffing issue and hit jackpot with having my friend Hamish come to help out the second half of the day while our other temp staffer for Armageddon Chris, went off to play in a Magic Tournament. None of this is his fault, I honestly thought it woudn’t be so busy at our stand so didn’t bother getting a 2nd person on till the very last minute before I went to bed. Biggups to Hamish, you did yourself good.

Today was very much a day for meeting people. Plenty of conversations had and people pointed not only to here, but various stores that sell retro games (one guess where They are in Petone…also pointed to Cash Converters). Met a few people from England/British Isles who remember owning the never released in NZ, SNES Super Scope.

Gallery, day2 roundup and a video with a special interviewee at the con after the jump

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WINTER GAMES ROUND UP

The world has gone nuts in the past few weeks, the Winter Olympics in Vancouver has really brought people together. Even long time bitter rivals, Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog have even put their competition aside for 2 games.

With all this kerfuffle it’s easy to forget about the non Olympic sponsored games, some of which are pretty good in their own right.

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Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle

Platform: Sega Mega Drive / Genesis 

Features: 1 player, continue feature

Release Date: 1989 for Japan and North America, late 1990 for Europe   

“BASH! BIFF! POW! Alex Kidd is punching, kicking and leaping through Paperock Planet, trying to save his Dad! He’s having a tough time, what with scorpions, pufferfish, monkeys, and mummies blocking his way!   

PAPER! SCISSORS! ROCK! Alex gets dragged into a frantic game of Janken.”  

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He's baaaaad (in a Michael Jackson sense)

Platform:  Megadrive/ PSP (EA Replay Collection)

Features:  1 Player

Release Date:  1993

This game was recommended to me by someone as a game she used to play a lot back in her childhood. It sounded like my kind of game too- the simple premise is to scare an annoying family out of their houses. No real reason, you just don’t like them. You also have a bad jacket and mean haircut and you are greener than Captain Planet.  You also have sick dance moves which you bust out on occasion.

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Star Wars style scrolling text on the title screen is just a bit tacky…

System: Sega Megadrive

Year 1993

Players: 1

Features: Password Save Function, terrible cheese related puns.

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It's a bit....bad...

Platform:  Megadrive/ PC(DOS)/ Amiga / Spectrum / PSP (EA Replay Collection)

Features:  2 players, none of the action of MMA as seen on Sky Sports.

Release Date:  1989/1990

Well. This was one of those games I always wanted as a kid, but never got around to buying because of there being other games to spend my pocket money on.  After about 2 hours of actually playing it now,  I’m glad I didn’t. None of my friends owned it, the video store never had it for rental, and now I know why.

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