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I'm a real pushover when it comes to Tetris games. I'll never be able to resist picking yet another one up. So when I saw this for the JP PS2 I couldn't help myself. Turns out it's a cracker - one of the best versions I've played. It's a port of a Naomi board arcade game by Success - so it's a pity the Dreamcast didn't get this because it's far better than the 3 Tetris games it got.

It was a budget release in Japan but it's full featured and isn't just a straight port. There are home modes and arcade modes with a good selection of 1P variations and it also has versus and co-op modes for up to 4 players. Nice pixel art style and soundtrack too. The controls are excellent - really slick.

Bomberman themed multitap arrived today.

Haven't bought something for Saturn in ages. Haven't bought much of anything to be honest. I used to have SF2A for Saturn in PAL format and  I sold it some time ago; always meaning to upgrade to NTSC as it's a real Saturn classic.

So here it is and as usual, buying from Japan is a delight.  Looks great running full screen on the old CRT too. Gorgeous colours.

Sealed games are not for me but I can see the attraction. It's a natural progression from coins, stamps et al. Anything that has a function but may also have an attractive design aspect to it is ripe for collecting. There's the historical aspect of it too.

But yeah - not for me.  I am a player collector so there are people who think I'm stupid paying money for physical games when I can emulate but I like owning & playing and having what I have in good condition with manual etc.  But no matter how expensive my games are, I like taking them off the shelf, taking them out of the case and putting them into a console, picking up the controller and playing them on an old CRT. It just gives me pleasure and I can't analyse why.

One of the great games of that or any era. The browser version above plays great.

I had the NES version and it's a brilliant port.

The Parker Bros version is a minor miracle in itself. The console was designed to play Tank, Pong, Breakout and a few other similar games. Imagine what modern systems would be like if they were pushed as hard.

It's testament to the 2600 that the only difference between 2600 cart games and supercharger games is RAM. The Atari was capable of rather nice graphics but the 128byte RAM on the console hampered what could be done. RAM and ROM was very expensive back then.

Never saw this in the arcade but played it in MAME. It's a nice game and that's an impressive looking port.

If the gameplay is bad at least they had the decency to not draw it out with a long Story mode!!!!! 

Like complaining in a restaurant about the bad food and also complaining about the small portions!!! 

Loads of people liked GoW - was a huge success. But it just didn't do it for me - I know I'm in a minority on that.

I played a version of the original Star Trek on our mainframe in work. Early 90s that would have been.

My biggest PS2 disappointment ever was God of War.

I really, really wanted to like it. Superb production values. It looks great. I love the settings - that ancient Greece thing. But dear me what a boring , repetitive game. The boss fights were OK but smacked of QTE fests. What killed it was arena style combat sections that were just SO boring. I felt no connection between what I was doing and what the character was doing. It was just mash, mash, mash - repeat.

I put it away and went back several weeks later and it was just as bad. Got rid. 

Never owned one. At the time I kept looking at the games on the shelves for something that interested me and just didn't see it. Went PS2+GC that gen. (DC too if course).

PD Orta looks nice but not worth getting a console for. And I believe a 360 update fixed its BC feature for that game.

I hear it makes a great MAME box.

Pretty much faultless that list.  Gradius should be on it but it's hard to take one out to make room for it.

Heh. Yeah. I also coded up a version as a Java applet. That won't work now because of security features in browsers.  Coding something up in Javascript on a web page is pretty much future proof now.