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 Saturn
Simulation
High school dating game where attending the right class is essential to woo your heart throb. Lovingly created, candy sweet graphics.
Sega Saturn
Simulation
An unusual title sampling music and interviews for its sound novel concept. Collectable demo of the game.
Nintendo 64
Action
Fun title from Hudson with a series of mini games to use the B Daman’s prowess for projecting spheres from their mecha skeleton. Includes playing pool, hammer the mole arcade action, dinosaur hunting, a rally section and an all out battle with a bunch of rogue pandas. Very enjoyable, superb for a quick blast.
Famicom Disk System
Action
A game a few decades ahead of its time as the hero charges head on into the 3D scrolling screen giving adversaries a wide berth and making long jumps that would put Chris Tomlinson to shame. The end of level boss requires a bit of the old school shooting skills to be tested as Square defines another genre early in its development. Known in the West as 3D WorldRunner.
Super Famicom
Sports
Taken from the J League in its prime, Namcot blend a zippy, arcade style football game with some crazy cut scenes as players must outwit their opponent and nick the ball past them.
Sega Saturn
Puzzle
The Japanese title translates as ‘Big Tile Fort’, a puzzle game using the mahjong tiles.
Playstation
Shooter
Fine tribute to the Namco tongue in cheek light gun games with players going up against a fair array of enemies including ghosts in the graveyard and plenty of whacky, Nippon inspired adversaries. Great fun and a real arcadey fresh feel to proceedings.
Compatible with the Gunkon.
Playstation
RPG
Bonus disk to the well-loved series with beautifully animated sprites that give this board game a wonderful isometric appearance. Fantasy Japanese creativity at its best.
Soundtracks
Soundtrack
Quickman, Hardman, Dr. Wily, Frostman and not forgetting Mr. X all guest in this Techno fest from the Rockman series. Suited to the musical genre in the relentless beats keeping the adrenaline flowing, the CD also features some slick and pretty sick samples from the series.
Miscellaneous Hardware
Console
A clever, value hybrid console at a great entry price for starting an import collection. Utilises USB ports for the controller with an AV output, the console has three different cartridge slots for Famicom, Super Famicom and Mega Drive modes. Think of it as neutral Switzerland during the 16Bit console wars. Nice, retro Famicom colour scheme.
Playstation
Simulation
The airplane sim is not a genre with many releases on any console format, so Airline Pilot provides welcome relief for all to enjoy the freedom of flight. Just watch for the turbulance in the thermals…
Super Famicom
Puzzle
Genki has whittled away many an hour playing Bombuzal. Sadly not so many hours are on offer to whittle away, but it it one of those games that could prove not all hours pass at the same rate. The reassuring lift music may help, but the crux of the action involves detonating all bombs on screen. Action can be viewed from an isometric or overhead viewpoint to ensure the detonation doesn’t take out the player too or that the crumbling path that can only be crossed once is the right order to proceedings.
Soundtracks
Soundtrack
Club mixes of some sublime Eighties chip tunes classics from the Family Computer system. Twenty toe-tapping tracks including Gradius, Ganbare Goemon, Son Son, Salamander, Twinbee, Contra, Dracula II and Ghouls and Ghosts. Geek chic at its finest.
Nintendo Hardware
Accessory
Useful gadget to boost the light for the original GameBoy as it had no back light for the screen. So sneaking a go under the covers became a distinct possibility.
Famicom Cart
Action
RPG elements in the way the mystic, spiritual world is explored inter-spliced with side scrolling boss levels where the demon must be levelled by the sword. Known in Japan as Ankoku Shinwa.
Famicom Cart
RPG
Explore the vast gaming world in what looks like a deep sea divers suit, more likely a space suit with Jarvas having come from the future.
Famicom Cart
Platform
More shurikens than you could shake a stick at as this ninja themed platformer journeys through feudal Japan and into the spiritual realm at times too. Imaginative levels such as the extending and contracting bamboo pole section and bizarre bosses drawing on Japanese ghosts and folk stories.
Sega Saturn
One on One Beat Em Up
Collectable sample version that draws on legendary Chinese characters and a couple from its own silk sleeve of fighting titles to add extra characters and soup up the graphical appearance. Fine fight mechanics and a good ol’ 2D game of fisticuffs.
PC Engine HU Card
RPG
Played from the cockpit of a Mech with the view being out into the tunnels in which scores are settled with alien and enemy troops. Its possible to visit the shop to stock up on new kit, get a few repairs with the mechanic or even get oiled at the bar. Success mean the release of a Playstation version too.
PS2
One on One Beat Em Up
Including a character named Tony Tony Chopper, you’d be excused for thinking this a 70’s top flight football game. Yet as anime experts will be well aware, One Piece is based on an invigorating nautical quest to find the legendary treasure. Grand Battle 3 boasts sixteen playable characters and seven stages all full of the series high tension energy. The arenas open up as the fight requires and the look is distinctive and very slick. A title to treasure.
Playstation
RPG
With a mightily impressive full 3D polygon world, Konami produced a sleek RPG to cast a spell over Square. But as all good RPGers worth their hit points know it’s the story where such titles flourish or fall on their sword and the crack Nagoya team has come up trumps again. Full of tactical, strategic battles with a sense of foreboding and menace that all is not well in the Vandal Hearts world.