Spelunker, what a game!

I'm surprised I haven't blogged about this other than when I got it. Spelunker is a fun but hard (and irritating) game. When you first look at it, you think "oh this looks like a kids game!", but I'm sure if you have a young child and they try to play, they wont last more than 15 seconds.

My guess is that the creator of this game wants to make it as realistic as possible, minus the graphics. You cannot jump from far, you cannot jump off things, and you have to avoid touching stuff...

Like steam...

Bats...

And more steam. I personally dislike this part mostly because it takes forever to navigate and you have to be spot on or else you're brown bread. Here's another part I really don't like:

If you don't jump this just right, you're going to hit that, uh, mound and it's going to kill you. I normally just avoid the coin altogether. All it does it give you points anyway.

I like the catchy tune when you get to this part. This happy music plays like it's congratulating you!

I found a jewel in the wall!

Anyway, I'm working on beating this game, but I haven't gotten that far yet. I swear, the jump button works when it wants to in this game, so I end up dying at stupid parts because the character doesn't jump when I hit jump. But I'm getting there. Wish me luck.

Gauntlet 1 & 2

I won these together on Ebay for $4.99. They both look pretty good, just a bit dirty on the outside.

The original Gauntlet is great. It's fast, fun, and has excellent music. It's a much better game playing with two players.

Gauntlet II, on the other hand, is not as good as its predecesor. It's incredibly slow. Sure your character in Gauntlet is fast, but in Gauntlet II, they are SLOW. The cool music is missing. The graphics are pretty bad too. Oh well.

Something I forgot to blog about

I won these in the beginning of the month, but just kinda forgot about them. In case you can't see which titles they are, it includes Super Columns, The Lion King, and Sonic and Chaos for the Game Gear. I won them all for $0.99 plus $3.00 shipping. Not bad, paying just a little over $1.00 a game. They are all in decent shape. The only flaw is that the labels seem to be coming up a bit, which I'm sure is just something that happens after time. Other than that, look good.

That's all.

Finally beat Ren & Stimpy Space Cadets!

That's right, I finally beat it! By the time I realized I took this picture with flash, it was back to the intro screen. Basically you have to climb to the top of this alien building to get to Stimpy's litterbox. They say eachother's name back and forth, and then Ren starts slapping the crap out of Stimpy and calling him an idiot (that's what's happening in this picture).

But I did it. Thank goodness. I've had this game for several years and I finally sat down to beat it. I kept falling down holes in the ground on this last stage and getting hit by alien debris or rocks, but I did it. One more to mark of of the "beat" list!

Super Mario Land for Game Boy

I got this game in the mail yesterday. I won it for $5.49 with the shipping which was a bit more than I wanted to pay, but oh well. It looks great and wasn't very dirty on the inside at all. I have never played it before, but I have always wanted to. It looks like a cute game, one that doesn't follow the normal Mario format.

It gave me the opportunity to bust out my Game Boy Advance SP and play in bed. It has a blue tint to it that looks really neat. I played for a bit and was doing pretty sucky just because I wasn't paying attention. I'm sure after a few more plays of it I could beat it easily. I just need to actually try. :)

Sonic The HedgeHog 2 for Game Gear

 I got this in the mail today. It was purchased for $3. Looks really good. I cleaned it up with some sand paper and it works great. I played it for a bit, but I've never been too great at Sonic games. One more game added to my Game Gear collection! There's an acution I'm keeping my eye on that ends this evening that has 3 Game Gear games included in it for cheap. We'll see how that goes.