Purchase Stats 2015

The following stats are for all of my video game purchases throughout 2015.

Total number of games: 40
Amount bought increased by 21 from 2014.

9 New games^ (22.5%)
25 Used games (62.5%)
6 Downloadable games* (15%)

16 PS3
Blades of Time^
Mortal Kombat (Komplete Edition)
Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell^
Kamen Rider: Battride War^
Kamen Rider: Battride War II^
Ultra Street Fighter IV^
Guerrilla War*
Ikari III: The Rescue*
Ikari Warriors*
Vanguard*
Victory Road*
Captain America: Super Soldier
Call of Duty: World at War
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

7 PS4
Infamous: Second Son^
The Pinball Arcade^
Injustice: Gods Among Us – Ultimate Edition
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris*
Shadow Warrior^
Watch Dogs
Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection^

4 GBA
The Revenge of Shinobi
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus
Sega Arcade Gallery
Rayman: 10th Anniversary

3 PS
Street Fighter: The Movie
Iron Man / X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal
Ray Tracers

3 GB
Dracula Densetsu II
Adventure Island
The King of Fighters ’96

2 PS2
ICO
Medal of Honor: Vanguard

1 SAT
Outrun

1 WII
Super Smash Bros. Brawl

1 GBC
NHL Blades of Steel 2000

1 SNES
Dirt Trax FX

1 GC
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

10 MISC.
PS2 Component cables
Saturn (import gray)
Saturn S-Video cables
PS2 memory cards (2 red)
PS1 memory cards (2 black)
PlayStation 2 (model 2; silver)
PS2 controller (silver)
PS4 controller (gray)
PS4 controller (white)
PlayStation 4 (black)

Playmore of SNK

A recent PlayStation Network sale was ongoing in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the launch of the original Playsation in 1995. As a result of this I purchased five of SNK Playmore’s “minis.” They consist of their early pre-Neo-Geo arcade titles.

I picked up shoot-’em-ups Vanguard (1981), Ikari Warriors and its first sequel, Victory Road (both from 1986), Guerrilla War (1987), and Ikari III: The Rescue (1989).

All of my experience with any of these games was with their ports released onto the NES. Ikari Warriors, Ikari III, and Guerrilla War, mostly. Vanguard wasn’t released at home outside of Atari platforms. I played the game via emulation after seeing it in the SNK episode of G4’s Icons show (season 3; episode 12).

I remember playing Guerrilla War on NES when renting it at the time. We finished it during our first time playing it because it had unlimited continues. I have this version today, but I don’t think I’ve played it since then.

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HART & USAGI PODCAST #69 – August 24^th 2015 (@HartandUsagi)
Matt and Mike chat top SNES games, cancelled Jak 4, Mafia 3, and more.
https://hartarchive.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/hart-usagi-69-the-super-snes/

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SPACE SUPLEX #22 – August 27^th 2015 (@SpaceSuplex)
Anthony and Matt chat SummerSlam 2015 and more.
https://hartarchive.wordpress.com/2015/08/27/space-suplex-22-summer-takeover/