The co-worker with all the games didn't physically have them, they were all at his old roommate's house and old roommate sold everything. That explained why it was taking days just to grab something from ten minutes away.
So I ordered some NES games from ClassicGamingOutlet via Amazon (stellar prices, but killer shipping where a $25 order became $50 but it got here on Wednesday after ordering on a Saturday morning): Ninja Gaiden II, TMNT II: The Arcade Game, Mario 3, and a Mario/Duck Hunt cart for five cents (!) which doesn't work but they're going to make it good for me. I also discovered a store locally that has loads of old games but their prices are about 30-40% than I consistently find online so I bought a pair of wrestling games for ten bucks: World Championship Wrestling and TECMO WORLD WRESTLING-!
Impressions after not playing 8-bit games since about 1993:
WCW: Holy shit on a shingle this is frustrating. Even after I looked up how to do things since I was getting rocked the beatings continued and morale did not improve. Good thing the first game I popped in reminded me quickly how fairness is a fairly new concept in video games. This motherfucker CHEATS. It's tragic as fuck too because you can do stuff like make a four move grapple moveset from a list each guy has before each match. Sting, despite
eight attempts, never came close to beating MICHAEL HAYES. Hell, in one match we ended up outside of the ring and someone in the crowd threw a wrench pretty much right to Hayes which he proceeded to kill me with and the sound of getting biffed with it was pretty sick.
That reminds me, the sound and music is all pretty decent, and the first thing you hear when you turn it on is Paul E. Dangerously proudly and clearly announcing the title. If it wasn't so ridiculously slanted against you it might be enjoyable with the moves and twelve (all palette-swapped guys in pants) wrestlers. You can have Flair/Steamboat on this game, which is probably unique in the world of wrestling games. Too bad it's too much of a fucking bear to play and it all comes down to one single problem: your opponent makes contact with everything almost and your own limbs might as well be holograms because they sure as hell don't hit anything. Why not just grapple then? BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO HIT YOUR OPPONENT TO BE ABLE TO GRAPPLE. You gotta punch or kick them a couple of times to make them woozy or whatever, and *then* you can grapple. Since you can't hit them even though they're right there and clearly in range because YOU keep getting punched and kicked, you can never grapple. Since you can never grapple, those spiffy moves you picked out all go to waste and you do so many jobs you'll start a union for yourself. ** for all that potential and the "YEAH!" the winner of each match lets out.
I was gonna post about the other games I got, but I'm pissed just talking about this one! Good thing all the others are much better.
EDIT: When I went to Google Images for a shot of the cover, results came up but I couldn't click on any of them. Even Google knew this sucked. Thanks, Wikipedia!
