Pickups September 2021

Not a huge haul this month, but I did get a few games and a couple of boxed consoles so I can’t really complain too much.

Galaxian – Atari 2600

Galaxian is a shoot ’em up in which the player is at the bottom of the screen, with an arrangement of aliens at the top. The player moves left and right to aim at an alien, then shoots a bullet up the screen, and the alien it hits is killed. The aliens are classed as Drones, Emissaries, Hornets and Commanders, with those higher up the screen scoring more points when destroyed. At set intervals an enemy will move down the screen towards you, escorting a bomber, which is a moment of high danger. Clear a wave and another is generated.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £7.99 (Cash Converters)

Dreams – Sony Playstation 4

Dreams is a game creation system for the PlayStation 4. Players can create user-generated content in the form of fully-fledged games, mechanics, assets, sculptures, music, and art, which can be shared or remixed to be used in others’ creations. Other players can indulge in such unique user-generated content.
Explore and play in an ever-expanding Dreamiverse bursting with creativity. Discover amazing creations from players around the world and experience the awe-inspiring story campaign, Art’s Dream.
Learn how to design your own games, animate, make music and more with easy-to-follow tutorial videos –and then share your ideas in an online social network of creativity.
Get inspired with a host of mini-games.
Collaborate with others online to create your own content From the makers of Tearaway and LittleBigPlanet.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £12 (Cash Converters)

Taz in Escape from Mars – Sega Mega Drive

You play as Taz, the famous cartoon-character. Taz is captured by Marvin the Martian and transfered to his intergalactic Zoo! Now it is your job to aid Taz in his great escape from the Zoo-prison and also find a way back home to Earth. To make the escape a little easier, there are items placed here and there, such as cakes which make regain your health. You also find gas tanks, which you can eat and then breath fire.
You will travel through the Zoo, and a big wasteland and many other hostile zones with lots of weird enemies and bizarre bosses.

Rating – Complete (Poor Condition Manual)
Price Paid – £4 (Cash Converters)

Toy Story – Sega Mega Drive

This game is based on the movie “Toy Story”. It sets you as the character of Woody as you jump, swing, and drive to the end of each level. Each level contains familiar scenes from the movie. The gameplay consists of the platform\sidescrolling kind. You use Woody’s pullstring to defeat enemies like sharks, Mr. Potatohead, and Ham. After each level, you are treated to still images from the movie.

Rating – Boxed, No Manual (Poor Condition Box)
Price Paid – £4.80 (Cash Converters)

Dynamite Headdy – Sega Mega Drive

Dynamite Headdy is a platformer… with a difference. You control a little character whose main attack comes from his disembodied head. Yes, years before Rayman appeared, we already had a hero who used detachable appendages to attack his enemies.
Rather than the traditional power-ups, Dynamite Headdy enables you to swap your head for different kinds – such as heads that heal you or heads that stick on to walls. You use your head in order to climb up on platforms as well, as you can grab hold of things with it, and on certain stages of the Mega Drive/Genesis version it is used to turn the game into a side-scrolling shooter, as you gain a propeller, jet, or bird head. Basically, Dynamite Headdy is just a traditional platformer at heart.

Rating – Boxed, No Manual (Poor Condition, Ex Rental)
Price Paid – £4.80 (Cash Converters)

Vectorman – Sega Mega Drive

VectorMan is a side-scrolling shooter with multidirectional aiming. Before the time runs out, the player must traverse a level from left to right and find the exit, possibly guarded by a boss, but not necessarily. While the levels are generally linear, they may have several platforms awaiting exploration, including hard-to-reach areas hiding power-ups. Three specific levels are unconventional because the perspective changes to a top-down view, and the player must defeat the boss while transformed into a train, a cricket or a dancing fool. By killing enemies or destroying television receivers, VectorMan can find power-ups and may reveal morph icons or powerful weapons that replace VectorMan’s standard ball gun for a limited time, such as the rapid fire or the bolo gun (shoots a big energy ball that goes through multiple orbots). The morph icons transform the player character into a new shape, for example a drill (breaks through floors), a jet (flies), a fish (swims faster), and so on.
The game has three levels of difficulty, and it keeps track of the score the player has accumulated by gathering photons and destroying orbots. Depending on the difficulty, every time a set number of points is reached an extra life is awarded.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £9.60 (Cash Converters)

Bandai Wonderswan Console

For more info please see here.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £45 (Ebay)

Wonderswan Game Bundle

Digital Monster Ver. WonderSwan

Digital Monster Ver. WonderSwan is a virtual pet raising simulation game. The player can raise and battle up to eight different Digimon creatures at the same time. The player can also connect the game for other Bandai Digimon products and even to Sony PlayStation.

Rating – Loose
Price Paid – £0 (Ebay, Came With Console)

Hunter X Hunter – Ishi o Tsugu Mono

Hunter X Hunter – Ishi o Tsugu Mono is the first Hunter X Hunter game for the Wonderswan. It is based off the anime/manga of the same name. It is based mainly on the first season of the Anime and early manga volumes.

Rating – Loose
Price Paid – £0 (Ebay, Came With Console)

Ring ∞

Ring ∞ is a spin-off of the cult horror film Ring. In the game you’ll have the unfortunate experience of running across a VHS tape the contents of which will mysteriously kill the viewer seven days after viewing. The tape has been making the rounds at a local high school and students are starting to get used to seeing the petrified faces of their lifeless peers staring blankly up at them from all manner of unlikely places.
After you find watch the video you decide not to be like the rest of those putzes that went down without a fight. You’re going to find out the secret of the video and cheat death. With the help of your classmates and your clandestine crush you might just make it out of this viewing alive. Should you fail, however, you will most certainly fall prey to the videos ghastly creator…
Ring ∞ is a text based ‘choose your own adventure’ game. You’ll be presented with text to read and occasionally get a chance to make a decision. Occasionally you’ll have to make a decision very quickly, e.g. you’ve just thrown a stone at someones window but accidental broken it, you’ll be given your list of action and timed to pick one.

Rating – Loose
Price Paid – £0 (Ebay, Came With Console)

Nintendo Game Boy Console

For More info on the Game Boy please see here.
I purchased this because one of my collecting goals is to have as many different boxed Game Boys as possible.