[FKW'07]Post your bargain/used/new bin Konami pick-ups here

charlie · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

The goal is to pick up a Konami game. Any Konami game. Preferrably from the bargain bin, but since it is FKW, you can splurge and buy a new game! Suggestions? Post them!

Wall of Beef · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Fart Beach

I would recommend Gradius 5 for the Sony Playstation 2. Its not obscure or anything, but its fucking boss. Plus Treasure developed it, and they started from being folks that ditched Konami! So its got more Konami history than most.
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Wilkes · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:56 pm

I went to the vintage game store and bought two today.

I am writing a thing about them now and am considering playing them at some point in the near future.

Toups, what is your policy on the frontpaging of FKW articles?

Wilkes

Wall of Beef · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Fart Beach

another coma · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:43 pm

I may clear out a few old games by selling them to EB and pick up Lunar Knights.

hmm...

Wilkesama tell me what I should do.
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Wilkes · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:50 pm

Wilkes · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:52 pm

Wilkes · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:54 pm

charlie · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

So after rummaging through the used-bin for an hour, I came out with :

Shadow of Destiny (PS2)
Metal Gear Solid (Gameboy)

WTF...I didn't even know they made a Metal Gear Solid for the original gameboy...or is this Ghost Babel, just without the actual words Ghost Babel on the front of the cartridge?

charlie · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

SCORE! It is Ghost Babel. And it was $9. And Snake is a motherfucking carpenter when he's not saving the world.

Toups · tyranically banal Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: Ebon Keep

the frontpaging policy is the same as it's always been. exceptional threads will be put on the front page.
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haircute · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:22 pm

BotageL · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:23 pm

If any of you have Gametap, Silent Hill 2 and 3 are now both available for play. You should be subscribing to get the new Sam & Max episodes early anyway, so take advantage of one of their frequent deals to get your first month for even less than the usual $10-12 and survival your horror (if your PC can handle it).
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another coma · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:37 pm

Judge Ito · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: IA

I picked up Nemesis GB for $6. I'm enjoying it far more than I thought I would!

After playing this and watching someone else tear through Operation C, I'm really beginning to appreciate how well Konami used the original Gameboy's resources back then.

Baron Patsy · whiny, oversensitive, socially awkward Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Wilkes · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:50 pm

Gironika · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Dragon Range

Rage Racer-tracks, better-than-GT4-cars, an arcade-esque soundtrack and I got mine for about 8-10 bucks.
Enthusia Professional Racing, featuring level ups for every car for the price of a mediocre racing-game - what are you waiting for? There isn't another racing-game out there that delivers THAT much for 10 bucks.
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Lasakon · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Oregon Trail

I picked up Axelay months ago for 5$ dollars.

I still don't know what to really think about it, maybe If I could get past stage 3 I would have a more defined opinion.

haze · la belle poney sans merci Joined: 04 Dec 2006

I picked up ZOE2 a few weeks ago. this must be the time when I try to finish it. I never played the first ZOE, is that okay? already the story makes no sense

I thought I would watch the title screen FMV for backstory but it went on for like 5 minutes before I realized it was tons of advertising trailers mashed together.

DonMarco · graphics fucker Joined: 06 Dec 2006

MGS2 - PS2 - $5
MGS2:Substance - Xbox - $5
Zone of the Enders - PS2 - $5

fundogmo · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Neo-Contra is very nice, at a very tiny price ($8 or some garbage like that). It only REALLY fun if you try to s-rank stages with the impossibly powerful weapons they give you, but it definately makes it worth the price for a budget pickup.

Also, I purchased the original Zone of Enders, and my PS2 read the disc until I got to the first non-tutorial mission, then refused to load it ever again.

The intro was nice in an 80s-anime kind of way.

Baron Patsy · whiny, oversensitive, socially awkward Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Churippu · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:07 am

I have picked up TWO Konami games for cheap in the used bin/bargin bin.

One is absolutly fantastic and when I say this I am talking about me some Suikoden! I got Suikoden 1 for 7 bucks at Toys R' Us! I said "Ah this looks like a nice RPG, eh might as well try it out" and this is what started my whole Suikoden phase.

One is PRETTY DARN GOOD just really frustrating! Azure Dreams. I got this for 5 dollars exactly from EBGames. Around this time I also picked up Castlevania: SOTN for pretty cheap too (for the time) I got it for 15 dollars. So I think I have pretty good luck when it comes to cheap Konami games. I also have gotten Silent Hill 2 and 3 for under twenty dollars!

mechanori · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

I think I got Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 together for about $25.

That was a good day.

I think I'm going to have to go to the store this week!

haircute · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:27 am

Duckzero · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Microsoft Land

I got Lunar Knights. Better than Boktai simply because I live in the Seattle Area and there's not enough sun around here.
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charlie · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

This thread has found a path of it's own, so I have updated the topic and OP accordingly.

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Churippu · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:14 am

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The Drunken Samurai · tedious Joined: 13 Dec 2006

i thought this thread was about pickup lines based on konami games
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Pat the Great · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

metal gear solid 1 - $7
metal gear solid 2 - $5
metal gear solid 3 - $10
metal gear solid 2 (again, because i lost the other one) - $5
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shrugtheironteacup · *man of tomorrow* Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: a meat

Gamestop nearby had exactly one used Konami game.

Neo Contra.

$9

This is bringing back a traumatic childhood memory.
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The Ichiban Crush · Joined: 09 Feb 2007

Managed to get both Subsistance versions of MGS 2 & 3 for about $10 each after they were discontinued. MGS3 Sub I'm really happy about since I was holding out playing the original until that version came out.

And then when it came out I chose Suikoden 5 over it. But I saved money in the long run.
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Leau · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Metro City

Yeah, I'll second that Neo Contra reccomendation since the world abandoned the game sometime ago. Not that it wasn't deserved, but few stores sell it for over $10 and it's totally worth it for the wtf factor. For example....

A. You fight a battle on top of a helicopter. Not on the nose of it or something, but literally on top of the spinning blades. You're running fast enough to keep up with them.

B. You fight a giant bi-peal Vagina. There is no way to construe this enemy as being something other than that; a vagina is what it is.

C. One of the bosses you fight is a talking dog in a jet ski mech. He is not played for laughs.

D. A reversable cover featuring crazy art from American comic book legend Jim Lee.

E. and this is to say nothing of the INSANE intro video. I will mention nothing of it so as not to spoil anything in it for those who haven't seen it.

Overall I rather enjoyed the game, but I predict it will be the last time we'll see a brand new Contra game for many years. Primarily because the gameplay just isn't to modern tastes. It's just not.
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