Budget Basement
All games listed under £12 are to be found in this basement section
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Merchandise
Merchandise
Sixty high-grade trading card sleeves featuring the strong tank player R0365 that is great in boss battles, if lacking a bit of longevity in terms of up time.
Sega Hardware
Cable
Third party AV cable with the red and white stereo outputs and the yellow visual output. For use with the Sega Saturn.
Sega Hardware
Cable
Third party AV cable with the red and white stereo outputs and the yellow visual output. For use with the Dreamcast.
Merchandise
Accessory
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Soul Hackers, and also sold though a special pop-up store in Akihabara, comes this strictly limited edition round pouch with two faced design and zip licensed by Atlus and Sega.
Merchandise
Accessory
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Soul Hackers, and also sold though a special pop-up store in Akihabara, comes this strictly limited edition key ring licensed by Atlus and Sega. Six different types to collect.
Merchandise
Merchandise
Sixty high-grade trading card sleeves featuring the popular anime series involving plenty of ghostly goings on. Japanese Scooby Doo with spooky eastern ghouls.
Merchandise
Merchandise
Sixty high-grade trading card sleeves featuring a design from the manga and anime series where the protagonists are teleported to a distant galaxy and try to find their way back home.
Merchandise
Merchandise
Sixty high-grade trading card sleeves from the Sakura Wars gaming series. This design features ninja Azami who is a member of Flower Division.
Merchandise
Merchandise
Sixty high-grade trading card sleeves from the Sakura Wars gaming series. Flower Division’s very own Greek goddess Anastasia Palma features in this design with her silver hair, dark skin and penchant to belt out a fine song.
PS2
RPG
Superb and memorable battles as the developers are able to throw off the cloak of Final Fantasy and cut loose in terms of gaming style without the pressure of an expectant audience and sequel syndrome. Bringing down the off shore giant particularly sticks in the memory and the combat is quick and intuitive. A superb story backs up the hard work that has gone into its core engine and the presentation is impeccable.
PS2
RPG
Fine, frantic RPG with colourful as the avatar representatives with plenty of special moves in the combat to surprise even the most seasoned of RPG veterans.
Merchandise
Merchandise
Pixel perfect Dragon Quest themed tape showing the world map and plenty of Slimes. Looks a treat on presents, not that you’ll want to give it away from your inventory.
PS Vita
Simulation
Drops players into the zany world of Osomatsu kun with the array of madcap characters from the series causing chaos. Makes great use of the license with the stars full of colour and backed up by fine voice acting.
Merchandise
DVD
Coming with Guilty Gear X Plus PS2 game in which Sammy proves its no schmuck using Dreamcast based technology to produce an arcade armada in Guilty Gear with which to plunder SNK and Capcom’s war chests. The smooth conversion to PS2 sits proudly as possibly one of the series finest 2D fight fests and this anime DVD is just as slick, albeit fairly short at 5mins.
Wii
A Bit Special
Nine various games to ground you in the skills required to play the console to its full potential. Nintendo takes you by the hand through a Duck Shoot style blast, a round of ping pong, a rack of pool – mimicking the cue action, a race with a herd of cows, a spot of fishing and a game of air hockey amongst others. All good, clean fun and an excellent starter title.
Merchandise
DVD
Television adverts (or commercials), trailers and opening sequences from Japan, America and Europe for Square Enix games from Last Remnant, Star Ocean and Infinite Discovery.
Merchandise
DVD
Highlighting exciting releases of the era with Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo 4 and Siren just a few to whet the appetite in the 90mins of footage.
Famicom Cart
Action
Astro Robo has its own USP in that Sasa utilises its gun to manoeuvre round the screen collecting the items required to clear the level. The momentum physics are excellent and it deserves its success due to its innovation.
Famicom Cart
Sports
Zippy race game from Konami’s arcade roster with very impressive speeds. Sharp reflexes are required to avoid traffic, oil clicks, bikes that seem to target your car, whilst still trying to collect bonuses. Delays will prevent the players car getting to the check point in time.
Famicom Cart
Platform
One of those Japanese titles which never has even heard of the term mass market and goes out to please its native audience. As such its levels look superb with Mount Fuji and Hiroshige style clouds in the background as Oniisan (older brother) jumps over toori gates and avoids mini samurai in the platform sections.
Gamecube
Rhythm
Takes the Bongo controller on a new level by using it to control the platform action. Tap left and right to move the direction, both togther to jump and clap to perform actions. Levels are set against the clock but a minimum number of bananas need to be collected to progress to the next stage. Add to that lush jungle graphics, a score bonus for good use of chimp gymnastics throughout the level plus some frantic tub thumping when delivering blows to the bosses and you have a real storming title.
Famicom Cart
Shoot Em Up
Highly impressive dog fight game which convinces of depth very well as you lead your squadron into the screen. The cloud formation and perspective combine very cleverly and give a real sense of motion. A beady eye must also be kept on the sea in order to drop a skimming bomb into enemy vessels to give them a few problems to deal with rather than taking pop shots at your fighter plane.
PS2
Platform
Spikey, vibrant hero unleashed in a 3D world to explore and utilise its resources such as the electricity charge. Packed with innovations and the packing keeps ticking along nicely bringing Sony a mascot it so desires.
Playstation
Action
Many fine gaming moments have been provided through improper gameplay: playing he game not quite as intended. Crash Bandicoot Carnival has the feel of such a game as players crash crates on top of opponents heads and scrap it out for power-ups in the arena based mash-up melee.
PS2
Action
Sony shows its understanding of the 3D action genre with simple lines in its space theme and good character sizing and camera angles to be able to judge jumps, rather than rely on leaps of faith. The Iron Man mecha level is great fun as players don the Tetsujin 28 suit to wrestle the Ninja Robot.
Playstation
Action
Very impressive results as Namco squeezes every iota of performance out of the Playstation. The ground detail is very high, coupled with plenty of vocal warnings to watch out for missiles on the tail and the like. Use of the radar is a must to be top-dog, yet the arcade roots make this a great title to simply pick up and play.
PS2
Rhythm
Feisty festival title that brings not just the sound but the heat and colour of a Japanese festival to life on the PSP. Buttons (or ideally the drum sticks) must be tapped in tune to the on screen action. Control soon become intuitive though and there is a wide spectrum of songs that are bound to raise your spirits and get you shouting Wasshoi in joy. Undeniably bizarre but when it brings the spirit of a Japanese festival into your home it can’t be bad.
PS2
Action
The stealth requirement distinguishes Metal Gear from more action orientated titles as players slip in and out of the bushes. Kojima deserves notoriety for such dedication to the project, not known since Miyamoto san.
PS3
Action
Konami utilises its experience of all out action titles to good effect combining it like an expert chef with gothic decay and organic backgrounds as players face colossus proportioned bosses (without wishing to give too much away) alongside what looks like an extra from Colossus besides swinging across cliffs. Hats off.
Mega Drive
Puzzle
Puyo Puyo is Japanese onomatopoeia for something soft to touch, such as the jelly like balls that fall from the sky to be aligned with similar colours in this saccharine soaked, kawaii puzzler.
PS3
Action
Snake is starting to develop that thousand yard stare that a veteran of so many conflicts is in danger of. Yet the gameplay is invigorating and far from jaded as it once again ups both the gameplay and visual ante with seeming ease. Granted the action ante has also been upped and some will bemoan the lack of stealth. May will have little chance to notice amongst the strafe and shrapnel.
Famicom Cart
Platform
Fun and fond platform frolics as the chef grabs his buns, cheese, burger and no doubt gherkin, to toss them into a gourmet burger and clear the stage. Simple premise but so slickly done. Just hope the diner doesn’t request no pickles after all that hard work.
Famicom Cart
Platform
Straight from the arcades comes this forced scrolling shooter featuring the Journey to the West Legend and starring Monkey, Pigsy, Sandy and Tripitaka. Well Monkey and Pigsy at least as the others have been kidnapped. The pacing is good and the characters nicely realised. And with Monkey in it.
Famicom Cart
Side Scrolling Beat Em Up
Reminiscent of Master Karateka’s rotoscoped sprites, Ken journeys through a post-apocalyptic world dishing out a few well-timed sweeps and high-kicks like Kung-Fu Master. Boss patterns have to be quickly memorised or the fear is the end of level bad guys will be using the phrase on Kenshiro himself.
Dreamcast
RPG
The second and final release of PSO on the Dreamcast improved and toughened up the AI of its various inhabitants as well as giving the textures a lick of paint, some mighty weaponry, improved NPC robots and new modes of play. Touched on online gaming nirvana for a while, but now that Pandora’s Box has been opened the Holy Grail quest for the ultimate online experience continues.
Famicom Cart
Action
Master piece in animation moving as slickly as Prince of Persia on your quest to rescue the kidnapped princess. Hardcore old school difficulty ensures you must be able to block your opponents assaults as well as dish out your own flaying fists. The ultimate showdown with Master Karateka will have your palms sweating, but the thought of having to fight all those tough nuts again to get to him will spur you on.
Super Famicom
Platform
Yoshi’s Island was a late Super Famicom release around the debut of the Playstation in Japan, yet its timing seemed to ask what all this 32Bit fuss was about. The crayon-like, colourful gaming world is charming with delightful, forgiving gameplay that relies on ability without any cheap shots from unseen enemies or blind leaps of faith. Yoshi’s flexibility came to the fore with eggs being launched using the intuitive targeting system to reveal secret areas – all very well providing Baby Mario didn’t stray for too long. A superb way to bow out for the SFC; a veritable ace up the sleeve from the former Kyoto playing card maker.
PS2
Shooter
Its surprising how intuitive controlling a massive mecha can become and, with a good range of movements to master, players soon can strafe with the finest before unleashing a powerful rocket into an opponents mid rift.
Nintendo 3DS
Action
Beast battling game with quite a legion of followers in Japan so it is with some pride Nintendo bring it to the 3DS. Its easy to see why though with expertly rendered ogres to lay into with precision planned armouries all looking very easy on the eye and making the very most of the hardware. Oozes with the Capcom polish of a triple A release.
Nintendo 64
Platform
N64 exclusive release of Bomberman in 3D platform mode that utilises his well loved bomb weapon as well as more innovative features such as flying copter style, snowboarding and jetpack to keep the action super fly fresh. Some very simple puzzle elements involving finding the odd key, but all in all this a predominantly action based update to the third dimension.