Retro Gaming Australia

Just the auctions this week, bit too busy to look around for rare and expensive things.

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes Premium Package GameCube Bundle (NTSC-J)

Yoshi's Story (N64)

Super Smash Bros. (N64)

Fire Emblem (GBA)

HSV Adventure Racing (N64)

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (GameCube)

Lunar: The Silver Star Story and Lunar: Eternal Blue (Sega CD NTSC-U)

Nintendo World Championships Reproduction Cartridge

Mega Man 3 (NES)

Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)

Donkey Kong Country 1, 2 and 3 bundle (SNES)

13 boxed and complete Game Boy games

New, late model Nintendo 64 – Can’t say I’ve seen that slip case before. I hope that isn’t tape.

Super International Cricket Cricket Kit SNES Bundle

LucasArts Archives Volume 1 is a budget package which features three of the company’s best adventure games on CD-ROM: Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max Hit the Road and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, which really made it one of the best deals of all time. As a bit of a sweetener, the company threw in a 3 level demo of Rebel Assault, and a CD filled with demos of various other LucasArts games.

Doom II: Hell on Earth is the follow up to the one of the most influential games of all time, and while it seems like it is treading familiar ground, the devil is in the detail. Doom II‘s levels are much larger and more intense, and the combination of these larger areas with the more dangerous enemies makes for a more challenging game.

For many years, the majority of the Ys series has been restricted to Japan. Fortunately, XSEED has been working hard to bring many of the remakes of the series into English via the PSP, PS Vita and PC. However, one title in the series had been overlooked – Ys V: Kefin, The Lost Kingdom of Sand.

Released on the Super Famicom at the end of 1995, Ys V had arrived much too late to be translated for Western audiences, many of whom were already turned off by somewhat terrible versions of Ys III for the SNES. Ys V was remade for the PlayStation in 2006, but again, interest in the West had already turned to a new generation of consoles, and again, had largely avoided the recent release of Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim. If fans were going to play Ys V, they would either have to wait for another remake, or create a translation patch for the SNES ROM.

Translation group Aeon Genesis has done just that. After a long period of work, the group recently released their patch for the game, effectively making the entire series playable in English. The game is quite a bit different than other games in the series – button based attack and defending make it feel a bit more action-based than its brethren, but it’s still pretty neat.

It’s kind of sad to think about it, but Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was the last universally praised Sonic game. Sega really threw everything they had at the sequel – it was a joint development effort between Japanese and American development teams. It was bigger, better looking, had a great soundtrack and some of the best momentum based platforming you’ll ever see. It was the #1 best selling game on the Mega Drive and Genesis, and may still be the best selling title in Sega’s catalogue.

Christmas shopping season is amping up – hopefully you’ll find something good here.

Sega Dreamcast

Final Fantasy VII Advent Pieces

The Smurfs 2: Around the World (Master System)

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (GameCube)

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)

Discworld Noir (PlayStation)

Mystic Quest Legend (SNES)

Ehgreiz: God Bless the Ring (PlayStation)

Mortal Kombat 3 (Master System)

Virtua Fighter Animation (Master System)

Spyro the Dragon (PlayStation)

Sega Saturn + 5 games

Super Mario All Stars SNES Bundle

NES Control Deck

Grape Purple Nintendo 64

Mega Drive Bundle – Big 6 Pack

Platinum GameCube – Brand new

Pilotwings (SNES)

Ice Blue Nintendo 64

Best of Buy It Now
GameCube Resident Evil 4 Bundle

Eternal Darkness (GameCube)

Metroid Prime (GameCube)

Pokemon Ruby (Game Boy Advance)

Pokemon Silver (Game Boy Color)

Pokemon Ruby (Game Boy Advance)

Rare and/or Expensive
New/Sealed Killer Instinct pack of 6 in original shipping box

Space Channel 5 Part 2 D-Direct Limited Edition (Dreamcast)

Samba Di Amiga Maracas Set (Dreamcast)

NBA Jam Tournament Edition Arcade Cabinet

House of the Dead 2 Sit Down Arcade Cabinet

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4 Player Arcade Cabinet

Virtua Fighter 2 Arcade Cabinet

Fade to Black is the follow up to the popular Flashback. It’s an interesting beast – one of the first 3D third person shooters. However, at that point, developers were still trying to figure out how to make 3D games play well – and Fade to Black is fiddly and clunky.

A day late due to prior commitments, but we managed to dig up some good stuff. A quick reminder that all items featured on Auction Watch are at least good condition, complete with box, manual and supplementary items (maps etc.) unless noted.

Fire Orange Nintendo 64 Console

Nintendo 64 Twin Controller Pack

Mega Drive – The local launch bundle, but it doesn’t include Altered Beast

Grape Purple Nintendo 64

Mario Party 2 (N64)

Mario Party 3 (N64) – Excuse the rather large Myer sticker

Nintendo 64 Game Lot – Includes Conker’s Bad Fur Day and Mario Party 3, boxes aren’t in the best shape

Mario Party 6 Microphone Set (GameCube)

Worms Armageddon (N64)

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)

Tombi 2 (PSX)

Game Boy Micro – UK plug

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (GameCube)

A complete set of Official PlayStation Magazine Australia – No cover discs. If you buy these, you should totally consider scanning them and contributing to Oldgamemags.

Best of Buy It Now

Ice Blue Nintendo 64

Doom 3: Collector's Edition (Xbox)

Rare and/or Expensive

Game Boy Micro Pokemon Centre Edition

Sega TeraDrive – IBM model

Aidyn Chronicles: First Mage (N64) protoype cartridge

This ad is a simple teaser for the home versions of Mortal Kombat 4, perhaps the most maligned entry in the series. Eurocom did a pretty admirable job bringing the game to the PSX and N64, but they weren’t working with the best of material to begin with.

The Dex Drive was an accessory released in PlayStation and Nintendo 64 versions which allowed users to back up their memory card / memory pak saves to a PC and share them with friends and post them online. Being from the late 90s it uses a clumsy serial interface, but they’re still quite sought after.