@Welshleopard The label on that one says it's "European Packaging", which likely means the box and manual are in French or Italian, but the game itself has English as the default language. I hear that some UK copies exist, but if so they must be significantly rarer than even the European versions.
Hah, Rule of Rose is one of the games my wife and I always look out for in CEX as it's one of her favourites. Fortunately the hunt is just a game for us as I found her a copy for less than this a couple of years back.
I have an N Gage! I won it at a games exhibition at the time, one of the Game On exhibitions I think, that was touring the museums of the country. Nokia had a stand to promote it, and were giving away one N Gage each day to whoever got the fastest lap in some motorbike game.
I made it my aim for the day to get that N Gage, so checked back in incessently over the afternoon and jumped on to set a new time everytime someone beat my previous best. Then right at the end of the day, there was a time above mine on the list! I started pleading to get just one more go, but the staff then said they'd made it up to tease me! A few weeks later my N Gage arrived!
I mostly ended up using as a radio though, as there wasn't much in the way of games that I wanted to play on it. I played a bit of the pack-in skateboarding game, and made some comedy phone calls on it. I was even able to participate in sidetalkin.com
Years later, I found a copy of Pocket Kingdom in a bargain bin which was purported to be one of the better games. I bought it so I had at least one game for the system, but I still haven't played it!
Australia has often counted as part of Europe for video game releases, so maybe that covers this case? It seems weird but I think it stems from Australia's use of the PAL format.
I picked up a copy of this and a Saturn in the mid 2000s, but due to an unfinished modding project that left the Saturn running in Japanese mode (and 50Hz, weird!), I didn't get to play it until last year, when I finally got round to finishing it.
I did recall Nuts and Bolts when I saw Link in a cobbled-together car. I got a few worlds into it on the 360, but think I got frustrated after clipping one-too-many sharp edges while going after some sort of race or chase challenge.
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@Welshleopard The label on that one says it's "European Packaging", which likely means the box and manual are in French or Italian, but the game itself has English as the default language. I hear that some UK copies exist, but if so they must be significantly rarer than even the European versions.
Re: CeX Retro Watch: November 2023
Hah, Rule of Rose is one of the games my wife and I always look out for in CEX as it's one of her favourites. Fortunately the hunt is just a game for us as I found her a copy for less than this a couple of years back.
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I have an N Gage! I won it at a games exhibition at the time, one of the Game On exhibitions I think, that was touring the museums of the country. Nokia had a stand to promote it, and were giving away one N Gage each day to whoever got the fastest lap in some motorbike game.
I made it my aim for the day to get that N Gage, so checked back in incessently over the afternoon and jumped on to set a new time everytime someone beat my previous best. Then right at the end of the day, there was a time above mine on the list! I started pleading to get just one more go, but the staff then said they'd made it up to tease me! A few weeks later my N Gage arrived!
I mostly ended up using as a radio though, as there wasn't much in the way of games that I wanted to play on it. I played a bit of the pack-in skateboarding game, and made some comedy phone calls on it. I was even able to participate in sidetalkin.com
Years later, I found a copy of Pocket Kingdom in a bargain bin which was purported to be one of the better games. I bought it so I had at least one game for the system, but I still haven't played it!
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@TransmitHim
Australia has often counted as part of Europe for video game releases, so maybe that covers this case? It seems weird but I think it stems from Australia's use of the PAL format.
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I picked up a copy of this and a Saturn in the mid 2000s, but due to an unfinished modding project that left the Saturn running in Japanese mode (and 50Hz, weird!), I didn't get to play it until last year, when I finally got round to finishing it.
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I did recall Nuts and Bolts when I saw Link in a cobbled-together car. I got a few worlds into it on the 360, but think I got frustrated after clipping one-too-many sharp edges while going after some sort of race or chase challenge.
The opening was hilarious though!