I'm Archie. This is where I post my reviews of various old retro games in my collection. Sometimes I do reblogs of other franchises I love, like Sonic and Eddsworld.
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Sega Dreamcast - Vermilion Desert
Title: Vermilion Desert / バーミリオン・デザート
Developer/Publisher: Riverhill Soft
Release date: 2 December 1999
Catalogue No.: T-5302M
Genre: Team Strategy Simulation RPG
I've not had a chance to play this one. I've had a quick look at the intro and the first battle, and so far it looks pretty good. Can't wait to get into this game.
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Sega Dreamcast - Super Magnetic Niu Niu
Title: Super Magnetic Niu Niu / スーパーマグネチックニュウニュウ
Developer/Publisher: Genki
Release date: 3 February 2000
Catalogue No.: T-30802M
Genre: Magnetic Action
Super Magnetic Niuniu, or Super Magnetic Neo as it's called outside of Japan, really got a hard time when it came to its reviews. I can say that the game isn't half as bad as some of the reviews I've seen written about it, but it does suffer from one big problem, and that is its difficulty level setting. The game is quite easy and fun for the first few worlds, then suddenly it becomes rock hard, making the game tedious and annoying. If it wasn't for this fact, I'd rank Super Magnetic Niuniu as one of the better DC platformers out there, but sadly, the level setting is a real pain. Grab this one if you can find it cheap, otherwise, stay clear of it.
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Sega Dreamcast - Super Euro Soccer 2000 (UEFA Striker / Striker Pro 2000)
Title: Super Euro Soccer 2000 / スーパーユーロサッカー2000
Developer: Rage Software
Publisher: Imagineer
Release date: 6 April 2000
Catalogue No.: T-15006M
Genre: Soccer (Football)
This has got to be the worst football game on the Dreamcast, but that's not too surprising when you look at who made it. There's nothing right about this game. For a start, the computer AI for your team is dumb. Half the time, they stand around doing nothing! Then there's the switching players. Even when you switch a player, there's a slight delay before you can actually control him, which can be very annoying to say the least. Then you have the piss poor audio. For a start, the ambient effects, such as crowd noise, are far too low. Sound effects for menus are too loud, and the commentary, while at the right volume, is best switched off. Basically, the commentator shouts out a phrase every other minute. Not what I'd call commentary.
Over all this is shite! Don't bother with it.
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Sega Dreamcast - Seaman 2001
Title: Seaman 2001 / シーマン 〜禁断のペット〜 <2001年対応版>
Developer/Publisher: DigiToys / VIVARIUM Inc.
Release date: 10 August 2000
Catalogue No.: T-39405M
Genre: Cohabitation Training Simulation
Basically an updated version of the original Seaman release. This is the version that would see a localized North American release.
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Sega Dreamcast - Christmas Seaman
Title: Christmas Seaman / クリスマス シーマン 〜想いを伝えるもうひとつの方法〜
Developer/Publisher: DigiToys / VIVARIUM Inc.
Release date: 16 December 1999
Catalogue No.: T-39403M & T-39404M
Genre: Miscellaneous
This is indeed a special version of Seaman for the Dreamcast. This particular version was only on sale for 10 days!! The pack contains two discs, each in a separate cover, as shown below, which slide into the card slip case shown above.
This is the Christmas Seaman message disc. With this, you enter your personal ID code, then connect to the special server to receive your Christmas message from Seaman, as well as have a festive chat with him.
Below you can see the card case for the present disc. Again, this disc required you to go online to access the presents, but it was well worth it. Also enclosed with this disc was a set of stickers.
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Sega Dreamcast - Seaman
Title: Seaman / シーマン 〜禁断のペット〜
Developer/Publisher: DigiToys / VIVARIUM Inc.
Release date: 29 July 1999
Catalogue No.: T-39401M
Genre: Cohabitation Training Simulation
Raise your very own mutant fish/frog/man-type creature in this unique title by Vivarium. You start out with a little egg, which you must raise until it's a fully fledged adult. Talk to it, smack it, abuse it, and love it (^v^). The face of Seaman is none other than Yoot Sato (the creator of Seaman) himself.
The box shown above is the cardboard box that contains the game and the mic device as well as a clear VMU. The actual Seaman GDROM case is shown below.
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Sega Dreamcast - Jahmong
Title: Jahmong / ジャーマン 音声認識麻雀ゲーム
Developer/Publisher: VISIT
Release date: 31 August 2000
Catalogue No.: T-43401M
Genre: Mahjong
Nothing really much to say about Jahmong apart from it's another mahjong title, but now you can speak to your opponent that you are playing over the net. Not a great innovation, I must say, but still, at least it's got a little something over other mahjong games. Up to 4 players can play at once.
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got gifted a BAB shadow and shadow gens so i've been so preoccupied dhxgnskhs
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Sega Dreamcast - MOERO! Justice Gakuen (Project Justice: Rival Schools 2)
Title: MOERO! Justice Gakuen / 燃えろ! ジャスティス学園
Developer/Publisher: Capcom
Release date: 7 December 2000
Catalogue No.: T-1221M
Genre: 3D Fighting
Better known as Rival Schools 2, Moero! Justice Gakuen is Capcom's light-hearted approach to a fighting game. As the English name of the game suggests, Justice Gakuen's characters are all from rival schools (6 in total), but they are not all students. Some of the teachers get in on the act. Graphically, this game isn't that good. The backgrounds, while in 3D, are kind of plain for the most part, and the characters aren't exactly the most detailed in the world of Dreamcast fighters. But Moero! Justice Gakuen can get away with this simply because of its comical nature.
Justice Gakuen features some outrageous combinations and some downright silly ones that will make you wonder what the hell is going on. The main game is played with two teams of 3 vs each other. During the battle, other members of the team can be called upon to assist in the fight by either helping in a crazy 3-team member combo attack or by giving you the courage to rank up your health and combo meter.
Moero! Justice Gakuen must feature the most modes of play ever for a fighting game. There are options galore that will keep you coming back for months on end until you have cracked all of them.
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Sony PlayStation - Shiritsu Justice Gakuen Legion of Heroes (Rival Schools: United by Fate)
Title: Shiritsu Justice Gakuen Legion of Heroes / 私立ジャスティス学園: Legion of Heroes
Developer/Publisher: Capcom
Release date: 30 July 1998
Catalogue No.: SLPS-01240 / SLPS-01241
Genre: 3D Fighting
Rival Schools is an excellent game for both neophytes and experienced fighters alike. The twisted characters, bizarre special moves, great visuals, and flawless control make it a worthy successor to Capcom’s Street Fighter legacy. Furthermore, the fact that hidden players can be unlocked and many odd secrets are contained within (school nurse Kyoto giving the player a massage, for instance), gives it substantial replay value. It has fast-paced fighting, an easy learning curve, and all of the great gameplay that fans have come to expect from Capcom’s fighting game developers. Both hard-core fans and novices to the genre should give it a try. Comes on two discs, one being the Arcade Disc and the other being the Evolution Disc.
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Sega Dreamcast - Street Fighter 3 Double Impact
Title: Street Fighter 3 Double Impact / ストリートファイターIII Wインパクト
Developer/Publisher: Capcom
Release date: 16 December 1999
Catalogue No.: T-1211M
Genre: Compilation of 2 Fighters
A Street Fighter Fan's dream come true!! Street Fighter III W Impact features two arcade perfect conversions of Capcom's Street Fighter III games, namely New Generation and Giant Attack. Some people rank this as a far better game than the Marvel VS Capcom or Capcom VS SNK games. So what are you waiting for? Go and grab a copy today!!
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Sega Dreamcast - Street Fighter 3 Third Strike
Title: Street Fighter 3 Third Strike / ストリートファイターIII サードストライク
Developer/Publisher: Capcom
Release date: 29 June 2000
Catalogue No.: T-1209M
Genre: 2D Fighting
Possibly the best Street Fighter for the Dreamcast or at least I think so. As you can tell from the title, this is the 3rd in the Street Fighter 3 series, with the other 2 being on the Street Fighter III Double Impact/W Impact disc. 3rd Strike has some of the most beautiful character animation seen in a 2D fighter of its time and even today, 25 years later. Not only that, but Capcom have boosted up the resolution so that this game looks beautiful running on the Dreamcast in high resolution, but of course, Capcom knows that there are those out there who prefer the original arcade screen size and lower resolution. So by holding down START and Y while the game boots up until the Capcom logo fades away will make the game run in its original arcade resolution. Of course, this causes some problems for normal TVs since half the special bar gauge is off the screen due to arcades having a different resolution than normal household TVs.
Unfortunately, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike is quite pricey in Japan and probably will remain that way. Why is this? Who knows. Maybe because this truly is the best Street Fighter game available until Street Fighter 4, 5, and 6 came to modern platforms.
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Sega Dreamcast - Super Runabout San Francisco Edition
Title: Super Runabout San Francisco Edition / スーパーランナバウト サンフランシスコエディション
Developer/Publisher: Climax Entertainment
Release date: 21 June 2001
Catalogue No.: T-22102M
Genre: Racing
This is actually a major bug fix of the original release. In this version, you are now able to skip all cut scenes, whereas in the original Japanese release, you had to sit through them time after time. Controls are tighter in this version plus there are loads of graphical changes for the better. No extra missions or cars, mind you. I heard that this is the same version of Super Runabout that was released in the West (including the US and UK), so if you have that, then there's no real point in owning this version. However, if you only own the first Japanese release, consider checking out this more complete 2nd release.
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Sega Dreamcast - Super Runabout
Title: Super Runabout / スーパーランナバウト
Developer/Publisher: Climax Entertainment
Release date: 25 May 2000
Catalogue No.: T-22101M
Genre: Racing
From the creators of Blue Stinger and Illbleed (for which they changed the name of the company to Crazy Games) comes Super Runabout. But Climax Graphics made a BIG mistake and programmed this game using Windows CE, and as you probably know by now, Windows CE = Shitty end results, in this case, a lack of frames and slowdown. Luckily, Climax has managed to overcome this by keeping the gameplay interesting at all times. Choose between two different scenarios and take to the streets in a variety of vehicles. My personal favorite is right near the end, where you have to invade Alcatraz and trash the place. Another cool thing about this game is the ability to wreck your car by smashing into other vehicles or even buildings around you. Great fun. (^v^)
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Annon-Guy: I was wondering if you interested if I can show you XBlaze? It's a Visual Novel Spin-Off/Prequel of the fighting game series BlazBlue.
XBlaze: Code Embryo
Specifically, I want to show the True Ending Route. This game has a Route for each of the game's four main heroines, but one of them is canon to the sequel and by extension to BlazBlue.
Interested?
Definitely interested.
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