07.13.1999

Woop! back after a great week in Spain (Mallorca), hot as hell there. Anyway I managed to find a few NES thingies down there. NES stuff is getting quite hard to find, atleast the cool European releases and so. I managed to find a NES/Famicom (has both 72 and 60 pin slots) which has the shape of the old style US/EUROPEAN NES (the clone is only about half size). It has a 9999999in1 built-in with the usual lame multi titles. It's produced by NASA, and to prove how great quality NES clones are, it blew up when I powered it up. I also found a Micro Genius IQ-1000 Famicom clone. It quite cool and the manual writes stuff about a disk drive and keyboard which can be attached to a port on the right side of the clone (either you need a cable for the FDS to attach it there, or Micro Genius made their own disk system). I tried attaching my FDS to the clone, but it wont run (Famicom disclaimer screen appears and the clone stalls). The clone came without multicart or lightgun, but has this extremely cool infared joypad along with a normal one. I havent tested the infared, so I dunno how it works yet. I saw a few NES multicarts there, but priced at 6500 pesetas (around $46) they were a tad too expensive. I did pick one up tho, getting the guy to lower the price to 4000 pesetas (although I told him I only wanted to pay 3000, I guess 4000 is ok, it's around $28). It's a 52 in 1 much similar to a 64in1 I once bought for $75 from a guy in the US. Besides this 52in1, the seller had a 42in1 and a 32in1 (I think). None with kickass games tho, but this 52 having 52 different games is ok. Now to the kickass part. Just before I was about to leave (friday 9th) I went to this mall which were close to my hotel. I noticed this small videogame store selling N64 and PSX stuff, I decided to check it out and... wait!... whats that?!?! hmmm, there in a small glass cabinet were two unopened copies of RODLAND!!!!!!!!! It was released by Storm (Sales Curve) back in 1993, and developed by Jaleco. I guess it only made it to Europe, cause I've never seen it on any US release list. They were 4000 pesetas each, but being a bit short of money, since I had to leave in a few hours, I could only afford one of them. Lucky the rest of the family had some left, so I picked up both, a surprise to the guy in the store a little. Besides the two Rodland carts, the guy had a few old NES joypads manufactured by "QJ" who also made the Game Action Replay. But being totally out of money I couldnt get any of them (plus they were around 3000 pesetas each). In the same cabinet were 4 shrinkwrapped MEGACD's priced 990 pesetas (about $7). I kinda wanted those, ah well. Moved June updates to the "Q2 Updates" page. Added Rodland box to the Boxart page. Well I'll try to have an update tomorrow.

07.02.1999

Since I'm leaving for Spain in a few hours, I tought it would be nice with a small update huh? Well it's been lying on my HD for a week now, so it had to be added sooner later. Anyway, I'll be back in a week. CROSSBOW: Remember the infamous unreleased American Game Carts Inc. game called Crossbow? Even advertised in-game in Wally Bear and the NO! Gang, released by American Video Entertainment. Well AGCI bought the rights to all Exidy arcade games and released Chiller as their second NES released (released after Death Race). The 3rd game announced by AGCI was Crossbow, another Exidy game, but something happened and they didnt finish the game, making Shockwave their third and final NES game. Actually this was their fourth game since they sold Wally Bear to AVE, but their own release number 3. Anyway, Crossbow I've been given a copy of the PC version of Crossbow (it was released for the Atari2600 too) and it turns out to be very similar to Chiller. You have one, or more, characters who you have to protect, from meteors, ghosts, lightenings etc, while they walk across the screen. The graphics are quite bad, but the game is VERY addictive and kept me in front of the screen for an hour or two. Chiller was very popular, but if Crossbow had been released it would've beaten Chiller by far. Amazing Zapper game, but what happened to the NES release? is still unkown (ack). Click here to view some screenshots from the PC version of Crossbow. BOX ART: A small update of the boxart page, added scans of Batman (pal), Silent Assault, George Forman's KO (