Topic: Your latest retro purchase

Time for a monthly update. Back with more PS games because why not? The most I'm excited on is clearly Thousand Arms. Took me a long time to finally get this bad boy to come home with me at a respectable price. Wouldn't be surprised if anyone here hasn't heard of it. A real gem this game is!

Today I finally received a package containing a game that in a few months will be 20 years old. And I have a hard time accepting it.

It is a CIB copy of Jump Super Stars for the Nintendo DS.

Unlike Jump Ultimate Stars, this one isn't as import friendly. You can still get the gist of what to do or use a translator, but to evolve a Help character into a Support or Battle character you have to fill empty panels with 1, 2 or even 3 characters, figuring out what empty panels belong to who is the real challenge. Jump Ultimate Stars mitigates this by having an evolution tree for each character in its place.

Back again, this time I got a cheap copy of Tingle's Balloon Fight DS that just popped up in my area out of nowhere.

A Japanese Club Nintendo Platinum reward from 2007. Back then it was either this or a Wiimote with your Mii's face on it.

Apparently it's not just Balloon Fight with Tingle on it, there's a gallery with unlockable images. The last one is of Tingle going out with two Nintendo secretaries.

Anyway, after this purchase, I hope to not buy anything else if I want to get a Switch 2, not at launch though.

It is not a purchase, but my cousin gifted me the PS2 of his kid because he was not playing it anymore and it was juts collecting dust. He knew that I am only missing a PS2 from my console collection and today when we were going home from visiting them for Easter, I saw the PS2 and its accessories in the trunk of the car

Now I have all generations of Playstation YEAH!!!

Still, I have to clean it really good as it is really dirty and never been opened!

Today I got 2 new additions to my Castlevania collection! Castlevania The New Generation better known as Bloodlines and Super Castlevania 4! Really happy about those 2!

@Zuljaras I always preferred the European box art for Bloodlines. Nice purchase there. Is that an actual cart or a repro?

@Tasuki Always authentic. I do not buy reproductions.

Even if the seller is top rated, I always open the cartridges when I get them to look at the circuit board to confirm the authenticity

@Zuljaras Nice that you were able to get an authentic cartridge, are they still really expensive? I manged to get a repro a few years ago because I just got tired of the real one being at a ridiculous price. Still my favorite of the Classicvania ones.

@Tasuki
Castlevania The New Generation costed me 213 EUR

Still less expensive than my import of N64 + StarCraft 64 from the US

And Super Castlevania IV costed me only 87 EUR

I got this beauty today:

Of course, Mario Tetris was included

P.S. Apologies, I forgot how to embed images

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Btw in Imgbb you have the option to get embed codes.

Found two GBAs at a yard sale with a copy Super Monkey Ball jr. for $25 each, game included. Now I can finally play my copy of Sonic Battle! SP not backlite, FYI.

(Don't mind the KO dolphin transformer)

@Zuljaras Thank youuuu, updated! Didn't see at first, obviously impaired in my vision

My latest Retro related purchase would be an Atari Flashback Portible console, essentially a modern handheld made only to play Atari 2600 games some of them are installed on it but then it also came with an SD card with more on..... it was £20 second hand and ermmm its ok.

NBA Jam on Super Nintendo. Been wanting to play this game lately so a trip to my local retro game store and I now own a third copy of the 90's NBA Jam. In case you're curious I own the Genesis and Sega CD versions as well.

Azure Dreams on Playstation. Also picked up from the same store this quirky RPG. I played it years ago when I was a teenager and really enjoyed it. It is a pricey title but I finally bit the bullet and bought it.

Just got minish cap for GBA : )
It feels so awesome to play this game on the original hardware. I've played about half of it on switch and I was so impressed with how they designed the tiny things. It holds up extremely well and looks fantastic on a GBA SP with a backlight. I just started a fresh new file, and am ready to spend an afternoon with this one.

A friend was selling Gamecube games and I bought him these, both CIB.

Luigi's Mansion
Years ago, I let another friend keep my original because her collection was small. And yes, I'm still friends with her.

Star Fox: Assault
I played the multiplayer years ago, but never the main story.

If by the end of the month he still has it, I might buy his copy of Baten Kaitos as well.

May 30th, 2025 EDIT:
Yep, I bought from my friend his copies of Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean as well as Tales of Symphonia, these were the last games he was selling. Never played a game from either series, so this will be a first.

I'm hopeful one day I can get that copy of Baten Kaitos Origins I saw in my city last year.

Finally, I have it! The ultimate masterpiece in its original form

And I also got the rare Castlevania Legends

@Zuljaras Very nice. Still my favorite Castlevania of all time and there's just something about the original PS release of that game that makes it my favorite version. Its probably the cheesy voice acting but come on it gave birth to some of the most iconic lines in gaming.

I fire up my original copy once a year for a playthrough just to hear those lines.