I went out shopping with my girlfriend on Saturday and managed to snap up two pieces of retro gaming goodness.We hit all of the regular shops, including the pawn shops, the antique shops and the just plain junk shops. What I'd call the junk shops paid off this trip.
The Super Scope, the Super Nintendo's official light gun accessory cost me $10 in the box. It is however missing Super Scope 6, the pack in game. I've seen those pretty cheap by themselves in pawn shops however. The Super Scope was somewhat of a commercial failure in its own time, having only 11 titles published that could make use of it, one being the pack in Super Scope 6. A few of these titles only implemented the Super Scope in a cursory fashion, notably The Hunt For Red October only used the Super Scope for its bonus stages. Contributing to its unpopularity was undoubtedly the units bulk. The Super Scope measures roughly 2.5 feet in length, making it quite unwieldy. It also killed batteries like red rings kill 360s. Rechargeable batteries cost at the time made them prohibitively expensive to use in wireless gaming devices of the day.
I remember renting the Super Scope, along with Super Scope 6 from a local video store as a kid and having to persuade my parents into making the obscene $75 deposit. Other than that, I've never played another game that utilized it.
Day Dreamin' Davey is an action game developed by Sculptured Software and published by HAL Laboratory for the Nintendo Entertainment System. I've never played it personally, so I'm going to have to phone this one in. From what I can gather it is an action game in which players make their way through periods in history, to eventually arrive at a final showdown at the OK Corral. In any event, it's another NES game that I didn't have. It's rated at a B+ rarity on the Etler list. For $3 I'll buy about anything.
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