Mickey Mania

It’s with mixed emotions that I present to you my most recent Sega pick-ups!

I found a pile of Sega CD games for sale on Kijiji (classified) which weren’t very local to me. Admittedly the advertised prices were not amazing with everything priced a bit higher than what I found at PriceCharting.com. The seller was willing to include shipping which did help some but I feel I got a little over excited and I should have tried to work out better prices.

Cobra Command was priced at $50 CAD (~$38 USD) while it’s listed at $30 USD on PriceCharting.com. The condition is reasonable for a collector like me and the game works.

Wolfchild is in really good condition and cost $100 CAD (~$76 USD, with a PriceCharting value of $48 USD) and despite a pristine looking CD the game will freeze as it loads level one.

I’m going to get the Wolfchild CD buffed once I can find a place with a proper machine for the task. I’m hoping this will do the trick.

Mickey Mania came in at $70 CAD (~$53 USD, with a PriceCharting value of $46 USD). It’s in good shape and works… but, there is a scratch on the data portion of the CD and when held to a light the light will shine through. I’m guessing that once the Sega CD tries to read this portion of the CD the game will crash. No amount of buffing will fix this issue.

I sprung for the Sega Classics 5 in 1 with Manual for $30 CAD (~$23 USD) because I was curious to try out games that were originally on cartridge and now on the CD format. The games are the same for the most part but I did notice that Golden Axe has a bunch of ‘enhanced’ sound effects that I’m not very fond of. Ecco the Dolphin on the other hand was treated to wonderfully atmospheric CD audio music. Even though not pictured Ecco came with this compilation on it’s own CD.

Because of the problems with Mickey Mania and Wolfchild I did ask the seller if he’d be willing to return $20 CAD to me. I thought that was just a small token to acknowledge the problem. But so far I’ve been met with radio silence. I’m not going to fuss much. I’ve done what I can and I’m sure there was no ill intentions on the sellers part. I sent him money and in good faith he mailed me the games. It is was it is; the CD format is not as reliable/durable as cartridges.

Next up, I felt like I was going back to my roots with some cool Japanese Sega Mega Drive games direct from Japan!

Kyukyoku Tiger (Twin Cobra) cost me $70 USD (~$92 CAD) and I was a bit disappointed to find the cover is sunfaded. The seller did send me pictures but I couldn’t really tell until I had the case and manual in hand and side by side.

Despite this I’ll definitely be doing business with www.facebook.com/Japantiquity/ again. I explained that next time I’d like games in better condition and he was very receptive and understanding.

Bad Omen on the other hand is in great shape and I’m very pleased with it. Bad Omen cost me $55 USD (~$72 CAD). Both of these Mega Drive games included shipping.

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My first impression of Kyukyoku Tiger is that it does not look very pretty. But as I played I could tell the gameplay is good… and tough! Bad Omen is also a hard game that feels like it’s going to be easy but it’s just not. I really do like it and I’m looking forward to playing more.

I’ve seen Battle Golfer on ebay quite often but was never at all interested because I saw the golf club and I knew it was a golf game. I’m really not interested in collecting sports games so I always dismissed this one. By chance I found out that Battle Golfer, while still a golf game, is also an RPG. It sounded insane but… it is Japanese.
Your character is one of two school girl friends. Both are abducted but you mange to escape before the brain washing and now must enter the golf tournament in order to save your friend and I think the world too. Got it?
Now I was interested in Battle Golfer. It’s bizarre, an RPG , in excellent condition… and I won it for 99 cents (well, not really but more on that below)!

Battle Golfer RPG!

Next up is Lord Monarch and Mickey Mania. I’ve always liked the artwork on Lord Monarch and passively wanted to add it to the collection for a long while. It’s a strategy game that can take advantage of the Mega Drive mouse. Not that I have the mouse, know Japanese or will ever play this game but I’m still enjoying this addition.
Mickey Mania on the other hand is a game I could play and I hear it’s very good. And for the other two?… they were cheap and in great shape, perfect filler for the collection. Actually what I like most is that Ichidantoaru (the one with the tittle that starts ‘Puzzle & Action’) has the newer packaging style with the blue Mega Drive bar along the left side. Aside from the posterity edition of Pier Solar this is the only Mega Drive era game I have with this styling.

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