New Arrivals - Games & Hardware
All the latest games, hardware, figures, merchandise, gaming magazines etc that have recently arrived in store are here. Use the filter below to select your console and narrow your search
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Sega Hardware
Accessory
Bold venture at the time from Sega to get gamers online for virtual stand offs on Virtua Fighter Remix which is included in the pack. Also included are the Sega Saturn Internet Vol. 1 disk to boot up and Pad Nifty which helped the Saturn communicate with PCs. Not wishing to treat it as the Holy Grail, but quite a rare find and a very collectable curio.
Sega Hardware
Controller
Very slick, off white controller which can have the angle adjusted to suit your set up. Makes race titles far more enjoyable as your car power slides into pole position. Re release as the initial release was in black.
XBOX 360
Sports
Namco once again works hard on its football dream of a first person take on the action. So players can use this mode to target space on the pitch and giving defenders the slip as well as being able to feel the defenders breathing down your neck and beat them one on one. Makes a refreshing change from the big twos rivalry with solid arcadey action.
Super Famicom
Sports
Full of Kunio class right from the start as a knock of the ball causes one off the players to take one in the firecrackers. The players are always full of mischief with plenty of expression on their faces in the true Techno’s style of the series. Anime cut scenes crank up the tension in a school baseball based precursor to the hit Rookies series with solid slugging mechanics.
PC Engine HU Card
Platform
Set in a Japanese flavoured hell like world, Tarosuke must try and find his way past spooky, limbless ghouls and angry devils to meet King Enma with nothing more for sustenance than hell rice bowls and steamed buns.
PC Engine Super CD ROM
One on One Beat Em Up
Excellent cinematics make this a must for fans of Takahashi’s mad Ranma universe. All the favourite characters are present with their unusual, incredibly wacky special moves. Starts off innocently enough at the local public bath before mayhem breaks out battling a bath stool tossing Jiisan, then its off to the gym to take on sempai’s sister in a gymnastic martial fest. All nicely interspersed with animated sequences. Just steer clear of gambling with the King of Hearts who pops up – he knows the cards too well.
Nintendo DS
RPG
Just like with Mystic Quest for the Super Famicom, Square have gone back to their roots and produced an entry level RPG for those with little experience of the genre. Yet there is little here that will offend the grizzled RPG veteran – few will complain at the intuitive stylus controls and absence of excessive HP battles. The look is stunning – breath takingly refreshing and a clear triple-A release. Not a sequel to the PS2 version, but more of an off-shoot allowing interested parties to find out what happened to Vaan et al after the PS2 FFXII.
Sega Saturn
Simulation
Futuristic sci-fi simulation with a fast paced storyline and plenty of instalments making this Imagineer’s rival to Sega’s Sakura Wars.
Sega Saturn
A Bit Special
A collectors item for fans of VF: watch Pai in different situations – including the breakfast bar and cycling. Owners of five or more of the series were rewarded with a special Dual disk.
Playstation
One on One Beat Em Up
Plethora of zany characters from the anime hero Dam Dam to a fish head on legs which have to jump on each others shadows to win the bout. A glimpse of the creativity Sony harnesses when its developers are given a free reign.
PS2
Sports
Utilising the official license well with the proper stats and imagery to scan on the faces, this version oozes Major A quality. Promotion and relegation effect the next season’s play and you can adjust the players stats – even the manager. Includes the Yamazaki Cup for a welcome brink to those struggling on the edge of relegation to J League 2.
Playstation
Action
Nicely themed action title taking the player through various eras including prehistoric (armed with clubs), feudal Japan (complete with obligatory throwing stars and samurai swords), the wild West, The American Civil War, the Roman Empire and also into the future. Each era is well represented and adds to the shifting diversity. Time is the essence and a meter gradually decreases throughout the game – only collecting power ups can replenish it.
PS2
Shoot Em Up
Combines two releases together of Psyvariar Medium Unit and Psyvariar Revision on this bumper disk. The original conversion of Medium Unit was most welcomed by shooter starved PS2 gamers. Introduced the much vaunted ‘buzz’ system where bullets can be deflected away by the ships wings to boost scoring and powering up the ship. As such it is only the core element of the ship which can be destroyed encouraging you to dice a little more. Revision mproves on the prequels visuals crisping them up as well as adding the multiple buzz system where bullets can be deflected more than once to power up more quickly. With the danger area on your ship that needs protecting smaller than in previous incarnations you can take greater chances and really get involved in some serious projectile patterns. Such ferocious volleys of bullets cause some psychedelic patterns looking great with the lights down low and the stereo rigged up to the trancey soundtrack.
PS2
Action
Looking like a tribute to the mighty Jet Set Radio is a compliment indeed with super fly, fresh, cel shaded graphics full of garish colours and free form surrounds to skate or die for. Comes with a finger board attachment for the Dual Shock to make the skate moves players pull off all the more sweetly rewarding. A quirky skate title that stand out from the crowd and Koei should be applauded for that. Also known as Yanya Caballista City Skater.
Gamecube
A Bit Special
Subtitled ‘A Wonderful Life’, Genki would rather not be running around after the horses, chicken and sheep everyday in this farm management game. Still the prospect of golden eggs helped Genki out of bed at the break of dawn. Freedom to visit others in town including the archaeologist, barmaid and little tree people (only after eating a special mushroom.) Miyamoto san would be proud. Highly original.
PC Engine CD ROM
A Bit Special
PC Engine CD ROM magazine loaded with features making it an intriguing collectable. Features a love simulator, original RPG, some smooth anime along with an art gallery.
Dreamcast
RPG
One of the Saturn’s finest RPGs (which is more than sufficient recommendation given the plethora of on the system) gets a Dreamcast update. Painstakingly detailed towns to explore in this ‘Skies of Arcadia’ style RPG.
Game Gear
Sports
Whilst not always obeying the laws of physics, Super Monaco 2 has some fine circuits to hone the drivers handling skills, even if its firmly arcade in its approach. Includes the World GP with its mighty challenge to make sure its you spraying the champagne, not down in the pits.
GameBoy Advance
RPG
Take contol of the funky Jiisan (or middle age man) in this off beat action RPG quest to find the missing manga in which our main man can transform into fourteen different and comical Jiisan variations. Captures the madness of the manga excellently. Four player link up play possible. Subtitled ‘Ikari no Oshioki Blues.’
GameBoy Advance
RPG
Playable as Gash, some familiar faces from the anime series pop up along the way including Megumi and Folgore. Lavishly illustrated as you’d expect from an anime license and suiting the GBA perfectly, Gash can collect bookmark power ups to be used later to battle the big bosses awaiting.
Playstation
Platform
A compilation of mini games all tied together by the pretext of Rocky and Hopper being private detectives trying to rescue Pinkyfs cat from the mad scientist poodle. The mini games include frantically dialling phone numbers as quickly as possible, games of snap with animal sounds requiring pairing up, bursting balloons, taking aim at a shooting gallery, a game of escalating simple simon and even gobbling up as much popcorn as possible from an out of control popcorn maker. As with most mini game compilations multiplayer is where it comes into its own. But the premise of unlocking some bizarre penguin adverts should hopefully be ample motivation for most gamers.