Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney3DSRelease Date: August 29th, 2014Purchased at: Amazon (Online - $30)The unbelievable crossover game is finally available in the United States, and you bet I…
The House of the Dead 2 & 3 ReturnWiiRelease Date: March 11th, 2008Purchased at: GameStop (Cupertino, CA - $14)When I was growing up, there was an original House of the…
Get ready folks, this is a big one.
After a lovely trip back home to Indiana to visit my family and see some old friends, I’m back in California where it still hasn’t rained in months! Severe drought aside, I have to say this trip back home was a blast, and coming home to The Bay with two dozen new video games to add to the collection is quite an accomplishment as well. I don’t think I’ve picked up this many games in a single week since I grabbed a ton of games right before I actually moved out west. Coincidentally, I went to nearly every game store I went to then, and managed to pick up something from all of them! There are even a couple gems in this mix, so let’s get started!
Earth Defense Force 2017 Xbox 360 Release Date: March 20th, 2007 Purchased at: GameStop (San Jose, CA - $9) My brother is really into the Earth Defense Force series. He…
Wow, what an amazing week! It was my birthday on Thursday, and Laura picked up a few great titles for me to add to the collection. Not only that, she thought about the ones that we could play together and grabbed a few of those as well! My brother actually delivered a few games as well, both of which were very unexpected! Lastly, I checked out a GameStop I hadn’t been to in several months and found two awesome Wii games. I took a couple days off from work, so I was actually able to play some of these games as well. One of the game’s wasn’t as good as I was hoping, but I knew it wouldn’t be great to begin with, and the other really makes me want to play more.
There’s a local place that sells used video games that I’ve mentioned before on the blog. The store owner picked up shop and moved to a bigger (better?) location, but still within reasonable driving distance to our place. I ventured there this week to see how his new digs were doing. To find the directions however, I had to look up his Facebook page. When I was there I noticed a link to another, much further away, used game shop that will be closing down later this month. I had a day off and I was in a video game buying mood, so I decided to check out both places. Though the drive was long and the selection wasn’t as wondrous as I hoped, there were plenty of great finds! (more…)
Tomodachi Life 3DS Release Date: June 6th, 2014 Purchased at: Online (Amazon - $35) Once I got excited for this game to come out, I started having high hopes that…
Mario Kart 8 Wii U Release Date: May 30th, 2014 Purchased at: Target (Sunnyvale, CA - $60) In case you haven't been reading anything about video games lately, Mario Kart…
Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON'T KNOW! 3DS Release Date: November 19th, 2013 Purchased at: Online (Amazon - $15) Oh man, what a deal! $15 for a brand…
Sadly there aren’t any Star Wars games adorning this May 4th Sunday Roundup, but there are plenty of brand new Nintendo games to enjoy! This is the second time that Nintendo has released two, what I would consider, big releases on the same day: Kirby Triple Deluxe and Mario Golf: World Tour. They did something similar in November of last year with The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds on 3DS and Super Mario 3D World on Wii U. While Kirby and golf aren’t nearly as high profile as Zelda and 3D Mario, it’s still two games that probably could have been spread out for Nintendo’s summer lineup. Regardless, I bought them both. (more…)