Pickups February 2021

Sega Mega CD Console

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Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £271 (eBay)

Sol-Feace / Cobra Command (Double Pack) – Mega CD

Sol-Feace is a 1990 horizontal-scrolling shooter video game. Controlling the titular starship, the player is tasked with preventing a malfunctioning supercomputer before it enslaves all of mankind.
The objective of each stage is to destroy incoming enemies and avoiding their projectiles. The Sol-Feace has a pair of dual cannons that can be modified to either point forwards, backwards or diagonally, and can be arranged parallel to each other. Shooting small capsules will leave behind power-up items that upgrade the Sol-Feace’s abilities when collected

Cobra Command, is a 1983 FMV arcade ported to the Sega Mega-CD in 1992.
Cobra Command is an interactive movie and shooter game, where the player watches scenes as the helicopter flies by the conflict zone. The game screen is represented by the helicopter’s cockpit, and the player controls a crosshair that can be moved to aim at the enemy forces.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £0 (eBay, Came With Console)

Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective – Mega CD

The game uses live actors and sets as the player controls Sherlock Holmes and his longtime partner Dr. Watson, trying to solve three separate crimes by visiting various locations, listening to the dialogue, reading the included mock London newspapers, and, when the player gets enough evidence, answering the judge’s questions.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £0 (eBay, Came With Console)

Road Avenger – Mega CD

Road Avenger is an interactive movie video game, the gameplay consists of on-screen instructions overlaid over pre-recorded full motion video animated footage of high-speed chases and vehicular combat. The player controls the cross-hair to steer their car toward the correct directions according to the green arrows flashing and beeping beside it, while controlling the gas pedal, brake and booster whenever they light up.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £0 (eBay, Came With Console)

Blackhole Assault – Mega CD

Black Hole Assault is a fighting video game released for the Sega Mega-CD in 1992.
Forty years have passed after the war between humanity and aliens from the planet Akirov. Humanity has since ventured deep into space to gather resources from the planets once occupied by the Akirovians to replenish Earth’s own natural resources.
However, the Akirovians have decided to restart the war by attacking the resource ships. Earth Command responds by sending in a force consisting of military-grade Heavy DOLLs, the Cybernetic Anthropomorphized Machines (CAMs), to combat the alien threat.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £0 (eBay, Came With Console)

Tomcat Alley – Mega CD

Tomcat Alley is an interactive movie FMV video game. It was the first Sega CD game to feature extensive full screen, full motion video.
The player controls a United States Navy pilot who has to bring peace and stability to the world after the cash-poor former Soviet Union sold off some of its military equipment to an unfriendly government.
The game takes place in a full screen, full motion video, first-person perspective, and the player has to move quickly to launch missiles at enemy aircraft.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £0 (eBay, Came With Console)

Sewer Shark – Mega CD

Sewer Shark is a first-person rail shooter video game. Sewer Shark is one of the first titles for the Sega CD and one of its best-selling games, leading Sega to eventually bundle it with Sega CD units.
Sewer Shark takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where environmental destruction has forced most of humanity to live underground. The player takes on the role of a rookie pilot in a band of “sewer jockeys”, whose job is to exterminate dangerous mutated creatures to keep a vast network of sewers clean for “Solar City”.
The objective of Sewer Shark is to travel all the way from the home base to Solar City without crashing or running out of energy, and while maintaining a satisfactory level of performance as judged by Ghost and Commissioner Stenchler. As in other rail shooters, the ship mostly flies itself, leaving the player to shoot ratigators (mutant crosses between rats and alligators), bats, giant scorpions and mechanical moles.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £0 (eBay, Came With Console)

Microcosm – Mega CD

Microcosm is a 3D rail shooter video game released in 1993.
The game takes place in a dystopian futuristic setting on an alien planet called Bodor, where the galaxy’s two largest conglomerates — Cybertech and Axiom, compete to achieve premier status in the business world, a position known as CORP 1. Because of heavy mining operations on the planet from the corporations, most of Bodor is uninhabitable due to pollution, forcing 87% of the population onto 2% of the planet’s land. Because of this, poverty, crime and disease are rampant in the cities. Axiom also claims that Cybertech is responsible for the death of Axiom’s former president. Axiom injects Cybertech president Tiron Korsby’s body with microscopic droids designed to penetrate his brain and control his mind. Cybertech, however, learns of this plan and injects Korsby with their own piloted submarines shrunken down to a microscopic size to destroy Axiom’s droids and prevent them from controlling Korsby’s mind.
Wow, what a premise.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £0 (eBay, Came With Console)

Sega 32x Console

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Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £316 (eBay)

Doom – Sega 32x

DOOM is a first-person 3D shooter and 32X version of Doom was released in 1994 as a launch title.
The basic objective in each level is simply to reach the exit. Since dozens of enemies stand in the way, the only way to get there is through killing them. Switches and buttons must be pressed to advance at certain points and often color-coded locked doors will block the way – matching keycards or skull keys must be found to pass.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £34.99 (eBay)

Star Wars Arcade – Sega 32x

Star Wars Arcade is a 3D shoot ’em-up set in Episodes 4, 5, and 6 of the Star Wars saga. You take control of either an X-Wing or Y-Wing, and are put right in the middle of the space combat. In some levels, you have to shoot down a specific number of TIE fighters before time runs out. In other levels, your goal is to simply to make it to the end without getting blasted out of the sky.
Some of the missions take place in deep space, around asteroids, or near Star Destroyers. Other missions take place on the surface of the Death Star and re-create the Luke Skywalker’s famous trench run to destroy it.

Rating – Loose
Price Paid – £24.99 (eBay)

Metal head – Sega 32x

Metal Head is a 3D mecha simulation shooter video game by Sega, and released in 1995.
It has been five years after the formation of the Worldwide Federation. Although war has been averted, terrorist cells around the world threaten the stability of the federation. To combat this menace, the Federation has created a bi-pedal armoured tank known as the Metal Head. You are a Metal Head pilot, and you have to use all the weapons at your disposal to take out the terrorists.
Metal Head is a bit of a variation on the usual giant robot combat game. The game’s mission areas bear more resemblance to a first-person shooter than a simulation. The graphics are all rendered in texture mapped polygons, which is unusual for a 32X game.

Rating – Loose
Price Paid – £25 (eBay)

Space Harrier – SEGA 32X

Run… fly… dodge those obstacles, but return fire on wave after wave of attacking aliens. Armed with a really big gun, you have to defend yourself against the alien hordes using your wits to navigate around the screen. But watch out for those end of level bosses!
Originating in the arcades, Space Harrier is a third-person rail shooter with pseudo-3D graphics, set in the same world as Fantasy Zone. The lone titular hero fights aliens with a fireball-launching cannon, which can also be used to transform the hero into a flying rocket. The protagonist is constantly in motion, but the speed of his movement can be regulated by the player.

Rating – Loose
Price Paid – £71.99 (Cash Converters)

Virtua Racing Deluxe – Sega 32x

Virtua Racing Deluxe, was released in 1994 and is an enhanced arcade-to-console conversion of Sega’s 3D racing game. This game is primarily an arcade-style affair; Players compete in a 5 lap race with timed checkpoints. It’s also possible to play with 2 players in a split-screen mode.
The 32X version of Virtua Racing adds a couple of new features. There are now 3 different types of cars to drive, including a stock car and a prototype racer. Furthermore, there are two all-new tracks.

Rating – Boxed No Manual
Price Paid – £29.99 (eBay)

Virtua Racing Deluxe Manual – Sega 32x

I purchased this manual so I could have a complete in box copy.

Rating – Loose
Price Paid – £7.50 (eBay)

Philips CD-i 220 Console

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Rating – Boxed No Manual
Price Paid – £199.95 (eBay)

Mad Dog McCree – Philips CD-i

Mad Dog McCree is the first live-action video game. It originally appeared as an arcade game in 1990.
It gained considerable attention for its live-action video style, bearing similarities to contemporary Hollywood westerns.
The player assumes the role of the game’s silent protagonist, a nameless individual addressed only as “stranger”. The stranger rides into an unnamed Old West town and is approached by an elderly prospector who appeals to him for help. He tells the stranger that the mayor and his daughter have been kidnapped by a gang of outlaws led by the notorious “Mad Dog” McCree.
In a series of stages, the player must shoot enemies before they fire, avoid shooting innocent bystanders, and reload each time their six-round revolver is depleted of bullets. Shooting a bystander or getting hit by a gunfighter results in the loss of one life out of three and is followed by a clip showing the town doctor commenting on the player’s actions.
However, this traditional light gun shooter gameplay is interspersed with “showdowns”, which are fast draw duels.

This is one of the first games I remember playing in an arcade when I was a kid. I loved it, but never made it very far.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £7.99 (eBay)

Striker Pro – Philips CD-i

Striker Pro is a soccer game for the CD-i. The game has a top-down view with the goals at the top and bottom of the playing field. In the game you can choose from 64 national teams to play with. There are various game modes such as friendly, world league and world cup. Optionally the game can be played in a 6 vs 6 mode. The game can be played against the AI or another player.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £4.99 (eBay)

Video Speedway – Philips CD-i

Video Speedway is a racing game for the CD-i. The game is presented in a first person view from inside the fictional Formula One racing cars. Before each race the player has to run a trial lap on the track. Different tracks have different backgrounds such as the sky lines of New York, Paris, Geneva, Monument Valley and London.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £5 (eBay)

Lemmings – Philips CD-i

Your task is to rescue the Lemmings across 120 levels of fast-paced puzzling. These creatures simply walk blindly through the world in the hope of reaching safety at the end of the level – unfortunately these levels include steep drops, gaps in the ground, barriers and rivers amongst other hazards.
You are in control not of any individual Lemming, but of a cross-hair, which can be moved over any of the Lemmings. Along the bottom are a selection of functions which can be assigned to a Lemming, including climbing, floating and bashing. You must click to select the appropriate function, then click on the Lemming to activate it. Each level has a different range of skills on offer, a different amount of Lemmings, and a different percentage target in order to progress.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £5 (eBay)

Create Your Own Caricature – Philips CD-i

A CD-i Title that allowed you to make caricatures of celebrities and your own photos.
Prepare yourself for hours of fun and facial mayhem with Caricature. With a few simple clicks on the CDi controllers you can distort, disfigure or improve some very famous faces from our library of one hundred photos on this disc. Included in these are royalty, politicians, sports personalities and celebrities.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £4.99 (eBay)

The 7th Guest – Philips CD-i

The 7th Guest is an interactive movie puzzle adventure game. It is one of the first computer video games to be released only on CD-ROM.
The 7th Guest is a horror story told from the unfolding perspective of the player, as an amnesiac.
The game is played in first person perspective with a point-and-click interface featuring horror-themed animated cursors (skeletons, bulging-eye skulls etc.) The graphics are fully rendered in SVGA, and real actors and actresses bring the story to life during numerous full-motion video cut scenes. The visuals are accompanied by an original, orchestrated musical score.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £14.99 (eBay)

Philips CD-i Light Gun

This is a light gun for the Philips CD-i console. I primarily bought this so I could play Mad Dog McCree, as well as the various other light gun games on the console.

Rating – Loose
Price Paid – £26 (eBay)

Neo Geo CD Console NTSC-J

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This is the Japanese version of the console and needs to be used in conjunction with a step-down converter when used in the UK otherwise you’ll fry the console. The good ting about the Neo Geo CD is that all the games are essentially region-free, the region is decided by the console. So my intent is to mod this console, which is very easy to do, it only requires a little soldering. I will add a switch to change the region from Japanese to the US.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £199 (eBay)

Real Bout: Fatal Fury – Neo Geo CD

Real Bout: Fatal Fury is a 1995 fighting game released by SNK for the Neo-Geo CD.
The fourth title of fighting Fatal Fury series. Now, you can destroy fight scene objects and the “Fatal Fury 2” fighters are back forming this list: Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard, Joe Higashi, Franco Bash, Mai Shiranui, Bob Wilson, Geese Howard, Billy Kane, Hon-Fu, Ryuji Yamazaki, Sokaku Mochizuki, Blue Mary, Kim Kaphwan, Jin Chonrei, Jin Chonshu and Duck King.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £9.95 (eBay)

King Of Fighters 95 – Neo Geo CD

The King of Fighters ’95 is a fighting game produced by SNK for the Neo Geo CD in 1995. The first sequel in the King of Fighters series picks up a year after the end of the first tournament. Once again, fighters from all over the world receive a mysterious invitation to a team-based fighting tournament. And just like last year, it appears that the notorious criminal Rugal Bernstein is behind it, apparently returning from the dead to raise havok once again…
The King of Fighters ’95 introduces Kyo Kusanagi’s rival Iori Yagami, and firmly places Kyo as the main character for the rest of the series. The gameplay of The King of Fighters ’95 is essentially unchanged from the previous title, though it does introduce the “team edit” concept which would remain as a standard feature of the series. Using the “team edit” feature, it is possible to create a totally customized team using any of the available fighters, or use one of the default teams if you wish.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £9.99 (eBay)

Samurai Spirits – Neo Geo CD

Samurai Spirits is a fighting game released for the Neo Geo CD console.
In early feudal Japan, a man named Shiro Tokisada Amakusa preaches a heretic religion. Little does anyone know that Amakusa is really a servant of the evil Ambrosia, who had possessed and taken over Amakusa’s body, as Ambrosia wishes to shroud the world into eternal darkness. Now, the player must select from out of 12 fierce warriors and plus 3 bonus characters in order to fight for the honour of defeating Amakusa once and for all, while fulfilling a specific mission for each and every warrior in the game.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £14.99 (eBay)

Philips Videopac G7000 Console (Magnavox Odyssey 2)

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Rating – Boxed No Manual
Price Paid – £60 (eBay)

Philips Videopac 11 (Cosmic Conflict) – Philips Videopac G7000

Cosmic Conflict from 1978 is the 11th official game released for the Philips Videopac console.
The player is a legendary hero of the Earth Federation, in command of a Centurion star fighter and must defend the galaxy from the Imperial ships attack.
From a first person perspective, the player must destroy fifteen enemy ships. A counter at the lower left corner of the screen shows how many ships are left. On the lower right, a counter marking, at the start of the mission, 1000 megajoules of remaining ship power. The ship needs one megajoule per second to sustain flight, ten megajoules per laser shot released and fifty megajoules per shot taken, to activate the deflector shields.
The mission ends when all enemy ships are destroyed or when all the ship’s fuel is used.

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

Atari 7800 Console

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Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £114.99 (eBay)

Amstrad GX 4000 Console

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Rating – Loose
Price Paid – £65 (eBay)

Burnin’ Rubber – Amstrad GX 4000

Burnin’ Rubber is a driving game and is the game that was included with every Plus and GX4000 on release in 1990, in a bid to showcase the Plus machine’s new hardware abilities.
“This was the game that got hearts racing and it was the first title that most, if not all, of the console’s gamers played. In a lot of cases, it was also the last due to the lack of GX4000 games available, but its impressive graphics and the brilliant crash scenes showed the capability of Amstrad’s offering and placed it in pole position when it came to finding the best 8-bit racing game of all time, in terms of visuals anyway. As long as you had the stamina to keep going without running out of time, you’d be awarded with engaging fun, the joy of seeing the sky change from day to night and some amazing crashes.”

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

Switchblade – Amstrad GX 4000

Switchblade is a side-scrolling action-platform game with run and gun elements where players assume the role of Hiro on his quest through a subterranean labyrinth in Undercity, fighting against enemies and avoiding hazards in order to reunite 16 scattered fragments of the sacred Fireblade sword and use it against Havok, an evil entity who broke free from his imprisonment.
This game has lost it’s housing, however it still plays fine.

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

Panasonic FZ-1 R.E.A.L. 3DO Console

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Rating – Loose
Price Paid – £249.99 (eBay)

Killing Time Panasonic 3DO

Killing Time is a horror-themed first-person shooter video game.
The player controls an ex-Egyptology student, trapped on a fictional 1930’s version of Matinicus Isle, Maine, within the estate of wealthy heiress Tess Conway. In 1932 Tess, while attempting to use a mystical Ancient Egyptian Water-Clock which purportedly grants eternal life, vanished. The player’s objective is to find, and destroy, the Water-Clock, and discover the secrets of the estate, all while beating back the many horrors that now occupy the island from beyond the grave.
Throughout the game the plot is slowly revealed to the player through numerous cut scenes performed by live actors. An unusual aspect of the game is that live action full motion video characters also sometimes overlap with the real time gameplay, without breaking to cut scenes.
The gameplay follows the standard set by most first-person shooters with the player using an assortment of weapons. These include a crowbar, dual-pistols, a shotgun, a Thompson submachine gun (Tommy-gun), Molotov cocktails, a flamethrower, and a magical Ankh which can be used to wipe out many enemies at a time. The game does not come with any form of multiplay. To beat the game one must collect a number of vases spread throughout Matinicus Isle.

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £30 (eBay)

Super Street Fighter II Turbo – Panasonic 3DO

The 3DO port was of Super Street Fighter II Turbo was released in 1994.
This game was ported from the classic and wildly popular “Street Fighter 2” franchise. Choose from a variety of characters and use their fighting skills to beat opponents and become the world champion fighter.
Advantages over the original Street Fighter 2 include faster fighting speed, 4 new characters, new locations, and more balanced/streamlined moves for the original characters.

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

Off – World Interceptor – Panasonic 3DO

Off-World Interceptor is a third-person vehicular car combat game, released for the 3DO in 1994.
You play a Trashman, a bounty hunter paid to capture criminal scum hiding on harsh alien worlds.
Your job is to race the enemy crime boss to the finish, blasting his goons along the way. Get blown up or drive too slowly and the boss gets away. But if you make it to the check point in time, you block the boss’ escape and trap him on the planet.
You can upgrade your vehicle with the cash from your bounties. You can also go up against a buddy in the vertical split-screen deathmatch mode.

Rating – Game And Manual
Price Paid – £0 (eBay, Came With Console)

Flying Nightmares – Panasonic 3DO

Flying Nightmares is a 3-D flight-sim game that has the player take to the controls of the Harrier jet, flying in a series of missions with realistic controls and weapon systems against a horde of enemy planes and ground units.
The player can also fly alongside three computer wingmen that will help them out during missions, completing certain objectives such as destroying certain enemy units or protecting friendly units. There is a multitude of views to choose from (1st, 3rd and even a missiles POV) and features FMV sequences between missions that tell the story of the game.

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

SD Gundam Gachapon Senshi 4 – Nintendo Famicom

In what seems to be a running theme in my Famicom collection, I have no idea what this game is, I just love complete Famicom games, they’re just so cute. I will eventually play all the games I don’t know what they are, or maybe I wont, who knows?

Rating – Complete
Price Paid – £10.80 (eBay)