KOF 94 on ps2

My latest purchase, delivered yesterday, is a Japanese King of Fighters 94 Rebout for the Playstation 2 brand new and sealed. This might seem quite pricey at £45 delivered as the game itself can be found cheaper, but the main thing for me is that this is the special pack which means it came with the Neo Geo replica pad for ps2! I'm a big Neo Geo fan and the Neo Geo pad (originally designed for the Neo Geo CD) is probably the best I have ever used for arcade style games, it's so accurate and just feels right with that lovely clicking sound it makes. I've been hunting for this for a good price for some time, but when I saw the pad on it's own selling for £50+ on ebay I decided to snap it up quick. I'm intending to buy all the Japanese Neo Geo collection games for ps2 over time (I have some of them already) so this will be great for that authentic gaming experience :). I can't wait to try it out with the ps2 shooters I have. The game also came with an art book, all housed in a cardboard slip case - a nice collector's item for the future to be sure.

An introduction

I thought it might be fun to create a little site to keep track of my game purchases week by week. I've been collecting for some years now and have quite a large set of games over a variety of different systems from the Commodore 64 to the Playstation 3. It sometimes surprises me just how much I have accumulated and I still regularly buy a lot of games so it will be nice to see how the collection grows over time. I've started working with lists of must have games for each system and so I'll be looking to buy some nice titles in future to fill in some of the gaps in my retro collection. I always enjoy finding those rare gems and am willing to pay the expensive prices when necessary so hopefully this page will become quite interesting with some unusual and quirky titles.

Let's kick things off with a relatively inexpensive but very rare C64 game of all things. Nobby the Aardvark from Thalamus on cassette (I already have the more common disk version) brand new and sealed. This was one of the final C64 games, published as late as 1993 and is a cracking little platformer by all accounts. Thalamus were one of my favourite companies back at the time when Zzap 64 was my favourite read, and this is one game I have been totally unable to find on cassette until a batch of them popped up on ebay recently. I bought 3 games off the same seller so this one worked out at £4 delivered! It would have been £8 on it's own which is still a bargain for this.