Bought a box filled with some stuff from a guy in Sweden. The main reason I bought the box where for the Super Mario bros. 2 and 3 boxes with instructions to go with the lonely carts I had. So now I have those complete. Although I have the Scandinavia cart, and instructions, for SMB 3 and this was German boxes, but still looks better on the shelf. SMB 2 I had the German cart so that is fully complete now.
Also in this box was a box and instructions for the Game Boy game Golf, a complete Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam for Game Boy Advance, Sim City 3000 World Edition, CD and cover, for PC, a still in plastic Pipe Mania for Playstation 2 and the same game complete for Nintendo DS, instructions for Tetris for Gameboy, instructions for the Game Boy, instructions for Baseball for NES, instructions for Wayne Gretsky for Nintendo 64, and a bag for the Game Boy.
All this I bough for 300 sek (about $37).
I also bought some stuff from Tradera (Swedish Ebay). The Sega Mega Drive games Stargate, European Club Soccer, James Bond 007 The Duel, The Ottifants and Pac-Mania. All is complete.
I also bought some German instruction booklets to complete some of the German NES and SNES games I had in box, Rad Racer, Tetris, Track & Field II, and another Super Mario Bros 2 for the NES. Super R-Type. Lemmings 2 and Magical Quest starring Mickey Mouse for the SNES.
I decided to play through Indiana Jones and the Last crusade on Commodore 64. I own two copies, both on cassette. One in big jewel case and one in a collection box with Robocop, Ghostbusters II and Batman, called Hollywood Collection. Both I've had in my collection since I was a kid.
I played this a lot as a kid. Never beat it, so this was my mission as I started it.
The game has 5 stages. The first stage you are in a cave trying to find The Cross of Coronado and is one together with stage 3 the hardest stages.
Second stage you run atop of a train and this is by far the easiest level.
Third stage you are in the Catacombs in Venice also the stage ends with you going up the wall of Castle Brunwald.
Fourth stage you are on board a Zeppelin and needs to find Indy's dads diary and escape the Zeppelin.
Fifth and last stage you have to get to the Holy Grail before the time runs out, to save Indy's father, and try to avoid all the traps.
Each of the stages needs to be loaded after completing the previous stage.
Indy has 5 lives but you are given unlimited continues up until the last stage. If you die and get game over you need to load the game again.
It follows the movie pretty OK. Although you are adult Indy for the first two stages where in the movie it was young Indy that was in the cave and on the train.
I must say I really like the graphics. Very good for C64, I think. The thing that bothers me most is the controls. It's very easy to miss a simple jump sometimes.
I had to play both of my copies. First one I played, in the jewel case, had a bug when I tried to take the Grail in the end. Nothing happened.
The one in the Hollywood Collection was a bit different. First you load the title screen and get a message to reset the counter, probably so you can load first stage faster if you need to restart, then load the first stage.
Also in this copy I experienced a bug. Second stage was totally messed up, but the later stages was good and it was possible to grab the Grail in the end.
I'm also missing the copy protection for the jewel case version, so need to find that some how, but I have it in the Hollywood Collection.
After beating this I decided to try out the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis version, which I never had played before.
The settings of the levels are the same, but level design is different, except that level 3 is just the catacombs and level 4 is Castle Brunwald and there is no Zeppelin level.
Also every level, except the 5th have a boss fight.
This games is also much harder, and you only get 2 continues.
But after some frustrating hours I finally was able beat it.
I liked both versions. Even though I hated the Mega Drive version while playing it. But after beating it I sort of liked it. It gave a challenge.
Down here you can see videos of me beating both versions.
Been away for an awesome Foo Fighters concert, even thou singer Dave Grohl fell off the stage and broke his leg in the middle of the second song but he came back and finished the show, in Gothenburg (read about it here) and came back to find some new games in the mail I ordered.
Gears of War, Gears of War 2, Mass Effect 2 and Aliens: Colonial Marines for the Xbox 360.
Davis Cup World Tour, Champions World Class Soccer (both missing intructions) and NFL Sports Talk Football '93 (complete) for Mega Drive and GTA III for Playstation 2, which I already had a broken copy of. Hope this is better.
I got all the games very cheap from two diffrent guys on Facebook. Only 10 NOK* (about €1,15 or $1.29) each except Aliens wich I payed 20 NOK*.
Today I got some video game stuff in the mail.
A 3.8mm security screwdriver to open up games carts for cleaning etc. Bought cheap on Ebay from a seller in China.
From the same seller I got these two cheap ass Megadrive/Genesis controllers.
They feel very plastic and toyish. But they work, and was very cheap. Just bought them so I have something to play with on my Megadrive, since my original controller is broken. My biggest complaint about them is that the cable is very short. Even shorter then the original controller which is also very short.
I also got the stickers that the guy I bought the Surprise pack from promised.
And earlier this week I also got a AV cable for the Megadrive.
So I just decided to start a blogg about my Video game collecting.
First thing, let me introduce my self. My name is Anders and I'm a 34 year-old swede living in Norway.
I started collecting games about 4 years ago after discovering Angry Video Game Nerd and Pat the NES Punk on YouTube, and I also found my old Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 in my basement at that time, so I thought it would be fun to collect games. I also had a Nintendo Wii, Playstation 1, 2 and a PC, but had sold most of my games for those systems. Stupid!
But yeah, then I decided to start collecting. Mostly bought C64 games at first, cause they are pretty cheap but soon I bought other consoles.
Now I have 12 consoles/computers in my collection. PC, Playstation 1, 2 and 3, Xbox 360, NES, SNES, GameBoy, Wii, Commodore 64, Amiga 500 and my latest console Sega Mega Drive (Genesis).
I also have games for GameCube (which I play on my Wii) and for N64 (my next console to buy?)
I will not do a list of games I have here. Maybe in a future post. But for now you can go to my backloggery page to view my games http://backloggery.com/andyk81.
So what will I write about here?
Not sure yet. But I will write about my recent buys and about the games I play. Maybe do a small review. I'm also in the planning of making a text adveture for the C64, maybe Ill write something about that.
