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11/21/10

Battle Arena Toshinden: On easy difficulty, it still took me around two hours to beat this game.  I remember getting it for my PS1 on launch day back in September of 1995.  Since that day, this game has done nothing but frustrate me because its so damn hard!  Well, after about 15 years, I have beaten it.  I usually take Eiji, but this time around I took Rungo for his power to try and finish opponents off quickly and move on.  It still took forever, but I got it out of the way.

11/28/10

Bottom of the Ninth: My god, what a horrible game!!!  I’ve had it since it was released, and I never really got into it, so it has sat on my shelf collecting dust for about 15 years.  I figured being a sports game, that it would be a quick sim, and I could move on to College Slam, which I was really looking forward to.  Of course not.  I took San Francisco in a 13 game season on minor difficulty.  Why would that take so long?  Because you have to sim each computer controlled game separately.  Luckily you only have to do that for games within your league.  Thats the easy part.  To sim through your own games, you have to physically sit through each game being played, which usually took 30-40 minutes per game!!!  After 13 regular season games, and sweeping the playoffs and only needing to sim an extra 11 games, I had to sit through over 12 hours of shitty looking and sounding polygon baseball!  I WILL NEVER PLAY THIS GAME AGAIN!  In the end, I went undefeated and won the championship with the Giants.  I got like 3 seconds of a trophy screen, then sent back to the main menu.  GOD I HATE THIS GAME!

11/28/10

College Slam: Great!  After over a week spent on the first two games, I got to move on to a game I was looking forward to.  I inserted the game, and it froze up my PS3 right away.  WTF?  I try again, and get the same outcome.  So I take the disc out and inspect it, and it has a nice crack going through it like an equator.  I’m assuming it was cracked along with a ton of my games when my shelves collapsed on top of me a while back.  This makes me want to take a break already.  I’m going to spend a couple days playing some Black OPS and Gran Turismo 5 before I kill myself.  Next up, Descent.  A cluster of pixels and polygons that are pry gonna put me in the grave.

12/1/10

Descent: Wow!  This game will literally make you throw up every two minutes of gameplay.  It plays like a mixture of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Star Wars Dark Forces, and Wipeout.  CAUTION:  Do not eat before playing!  As hard as this was on my mind and body to complete, it wasnt too terribly hard.  I used codes for obtaining all the keys for each level, and invincibility.  With that said, it was still a bitch to navigate through the levels, because the map you refer to is made from Vector graphics, and you cant tell what the hell it means.  Since I had no idea what was going on through the first 5 levels or so, it took me about three hours to complete all twenty some levels.  In the end, I might play this one again, unlike the first two games I had to beat.  If you wanna try out a totally bizarre, off the wall game, then try Descent.

12/2/10

Destruction Derby: One of the classics from PS1.  I played this game to death back in 1995, and recently bought another copy a few months ago and started to play it again.  Its a ton of fun, but theres not a ton of replay value to it.  I did a Wrecking Racing season on Beginner difficulty, and took 1st place in all 5 races and also in the Demolition Derby at the end giving me a championship.  That only took about 45 minutes to accomplish, but atleast it was a blast.  I have never progressed past that point, but Im sure you just replay the same tracks again.  In the end, this game is a blast and everybody should play it from time to time.

12/5/10

ESPN Extreme Games: Thank god I dont own the sequels at the moment.  This was like a stoner/hippy version of Road Rash.  It was extremely redundant, and I finished 9th in the season standings.  The end.

12/5/10

FIFA 96: Luckily I got to sim through a season in this game, cuz I really hate soccer.  Well, I took USA in a league, where I went 27-16 for 3rd place overall.  After that, it went back to the main menu.  I was expecting some playoffs, or anything really, but it just took me back to the main menu.  On to the next piece of garbage…

1/24/11

Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball: I give up.  After sitting on this game for about a month and a half, I give up.  It is so horrible I cant bare to play another minute of it.  I was about half way through a season which I had set on 1 inning games w/ 1 hit at-bats, and I cant finish a 26 game season of that.  This game completely broke my spirit.  Its over for now.  Fuck Frank Thomas and his NBA Jam style garbage!

I have decided to go on a long, and mentally straining journey, to beat all of the games in my NTSC PS1 collection in alphabetical order, starting with the long box games, and finishing with the jewel case games.  All disc only games will be skipped for now, and even if I have duplicates, I am only beating the game once.  At the moment, my PS1 collection is pretty modest due to some bad choices, and issues causing me to deal a few away each month.  First I will list my current collection, and the rule set I came up with to make it through this with as little pain as possible.

Note* As I add more games to my collection, I will just add them to the list to be beaten.  In the end, this journey may never end if I keep buying games!

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Just wanted to make sure everyone knows about this great list on the forum that Kennyrh made:

http://www.playstationcollecting.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=279

It encompasses all non-regular PS3 games WITH pictures and information!

Even the most hardcore of gamers and collector’s needs to take a break once in a while right? Even if you don’t enjoy the sun or the beach, there is probably somewhere you enjoy going in your holidays.

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Welcome to my first article for the Playstation Collecting Weblog. Today I will be talking about something your average gamer probably never really thinks about. Cases. Specifically Playstation 2 cases. Sure it’s probably boring for most, but for the hardcore collector it may be interesting. Please also note that this was written by a PAL collector, so information here may be inaccurate for those in NTSC-land. Continue reading →