A thrift store haul

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• Frog Frenzy 2 (with Frog Frenzy 1 on the same disc), from Cosmi
• Sammy’s Science House, from Edmark
• Carmen Sandiego’s ThinkQuick Challenge, from The Learning Company
• Intel Video Phone Software (multimedia software that will be useful on my other blog)

Recent Auction Acquisitions

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• Grandia II (Dreamcast), from Ubisoft
• Championship Snow Boarding 2004, from Activision
• Cabbage Patch Kids: Where’s My Pony, from D3Publisher
• NHL ’99 (PC), from EA Sports

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• Rune, apparently published through Global Star Software as part of a CD-ROM shovelware set, perhaps titled Pack 5; this is presumably disc 3 of a multi-disc set and encompasses action games
• KAR Racing, from Cosmi
• Nascar 2000, from EA Sports

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I thought that this would be “Fantasy Pack 6”, as in, there were 5 other packs before this one. Some Googling reveals that the proper title for the set is “Fantasy 6 Pack”, which means that my set is incomplete since I only got 4 unique games. But deeper searching and squinting at the box image available on Amazon reveals that I do, in fact, have a complete set since one of the games actually counts as 3:

• Disciples II (2 discs) — this is the one that counts as 3 games since this includes Dark Prophecy, Servants of the Dark, and Guardians of the Light
• Prince of Qin (3 discs)
• Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood
• Dragon Throne: Battle of Red Cliffs

I was on a Dreamcast kick a few months back and one result is that I went in search of a bunch of Dreamcast stuff on eBay. Here are the results of a few different hauls.

First, I collected some games, mostly disposable sports games:

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Games included:

• NFL 2K
• NFL 2K1
• NHL 2K
• Sonic Adventure 2
• Spider-Man
• Sydney 2000
• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2
• Virtua Tennis

Further, I procured a collection of 9 different volumes of Sega Dreamcast magazine. I seem to be missing 2 volumes and I’m not sure sure if there were more than 11 issues as the last volume was issued on February, 2001.

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• November, 1999 — this doesn’t list a volume number but I think this is volume 2
• January, 2000 — volume 3
• May, 2000 — volume 5
• July, 2000 — volume 6
• September, 2000 — volume 7
• November, 2000 — volume 8
• December, 2000 — volume 9
• January, 2001 — volume 10
• February, 2001 — volume 11

That last issue was published around the time that the Dreamcast was being discontinued in North America.

Though this blog has been quite dead for some time now, I continue to collect old, forgotten, unloved games on the cheap. While I may not have time to play and write up many of them, I have wanted to at least post pictures of them on this blog along with a little text for search engines’ benefit.

This seems like as good a day as any to finally get rolling on this goal. I went to a large church rummage sale event today. They had a small area for electronics / software / games. In the pile of CD-ROMs I found mostly CD-ROM data collections (I picked up a wrapped copy of “The Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous Cookbook by Robin Leach” on CD-ROM). But I also found 3 issues of MacAddict demo CD-ROMs from 2003. I like collecting these because they tend to be jam packed with computer history, time capsules that the editors probably didn’t realize they were assembling.

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• December 2002, number 76: Heavyweight Champs; Try before you buy: Photoshop Elements 2, FileMaker Pro 6, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Flash MX, NetBarrier X, Chimera, CandyBar, Desktastic, Audion, and 78 more apps
• January 2003, number 77: Bugdom 2, Photoshop 7.0 30-day trial, SFX Machine, Carrara, Image Doctor, VideoClix, StickyBrain, Jotz
• February 2003, number 78: Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, Whamb, iHook, Photologist, Key Xing, iPod It, ResPloder, Rax, Sync-Hole, Xounds

Lots more to come in this Acquisition Log series, ideally.