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Post by kyouki on Jul 12, 2006 17:32:28 GMT -5
Hi everyone,
I was thinking back on "the good times" and reminiscing about my Sega Saturn and thought it would be interesting to get some anecdotes from people here.
What was your first experience with imports? And if your first experience was through someone else, what was the first import you bought?
My first experience was through a kid I knew in high school. He had imported a PSX and had SOTN, Soul Edge, and Tekken 2. I was floored by the graphics and I went out soon after that and got a US PSX with Soul Blade and Tekken 2.
My first import purchase was from Buy Rite Games (awful company). I purchased one of those 5-in-1 carts for the Saturn, along with Xmen vs Street Fighter, King of Fighters 95 (or maybe 96?), and Samurai Spirits 4. Popping in SS4 for the first time, after seeing how awful 2d fighters were on the PSX, was a revelation! At the time I worked at Software Etc, and I brought my Saturn in to work to show off all the import fighters. We had a bunch of regular customers that were big into fighting games, and soon after that they all had ordered the carts along with several games. Around that time, believe it or not, Software Etc started experimenting with selling import games in certain stores. Our store was chosen as a test store.... but unfortunately, everyone who was interested in those kinds of games by then already had them! So the import game test was a failure.
It was neat going into a chain store and seeing a handful of Saturn imports, though.
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Post by ed on Jul 12, 2006 17:45:03 GMT -5
Possibly the Japanese version of Contra: The Hard Corps. Only a few years ago.
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Post by ma201 on Jul 12, 2006 18:13:38 GMT -5
I got Metal Slug Second Mission and Last Blade for Neo Geo Pocket Color (by the time I was buying them, people had stopped selling those games at their stores...)
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Post by Malroth on Jul 12, 2006 18:18:24 GMT -5
First experience was a year ago at college. Some guy had a modded PS2 and a bunch of imported shooters like ESPgaluda. Actually, it was because of him that I became interested in shmups.
Later on I imported DreamMix TV, which was a pretty poor knockoff of Melee. Since then the only time I import games is for the PC Engine CD.
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Post by MRSKELETON on Jul 12, 2006 18:27:39 GMT -5
DreamMix world TV fighters
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2006 18:33:02 GMT -5
My first video game import? Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys (PC Engine)
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Post by joesteele on Jul 12, 2006 18:44:33 GMT -5
Gulity Gear X for the Dreamcast (I didn't know much about importing during my NES/SNES days)
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Post by Discoalucard on Jul 12, 2006 19:41:02 GMT -5
I guess technically it was a bootleg cartridge of Boku Dracula-kun for the Famicom. Back when I was actively updating the CV Dungeon my junior year of high school, this one kid from Brazil offered send it to me, along with a Famicom converter, in exchange for a copy of Super Castlevania IV and Link's Awakening. This was also back before the emulators could run it properly, so it was pretty cool. Not long after that, I got talking to Rob Strangman, he got me onto Gradius, recommended a place to get my Playstation modded, and also ordered a copy of Gradius Gaiden. My local EB sold imports during the waning days of the Saturn. I got Radiant Silvergun there for $60.
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Post by ReyVGM on Jul 12, 2006 21:38:53 GMT -5
Final Fantasy 5 and Seiken Densetsu 3.
Stupid Gamefan made me buy SD3 with all the pretty pictures in their magazine.
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Post by Gilder on Jul 12, 2006 22:10:46 GMT -5
Although I don't think you can call it importing, when I visited Ireland two years ago I went to their game store actually called "Game" and purchased Dancing Stage Euromix, Dancing Stage Fever, and Dancing Stage Party Collection, all for the PSone. I would only play them twice however as I didn't actually own a modded PSone and I only knew one person with a TV convertor.
Party Collection disappointed me the most because it was DDR Konamix with 5 extra liscense songs. (although the songs were interesting choices).
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Post by kal on Jul 12, 2006 23:12:46 GMT -5
Oh wow back in Primary School (Which is before High School for people in US) I had a friend who'd got a PSX with a mod chip from..somewhere and he had copies of a bunch of games but only two stick out in my mind. Resident Evil 2 and Destrega (This was when Destrega and Resident Evil were Japanese only).
Good thing too since those two games are great.
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Post by Weasel on Jul 13, 2006 0:22:09 GMT -5
Gyakuten Saiban: Yomigaeru Gyakuten, from Play-Asia, last month. First import I ever bought, and so far the best.
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Post by munchy on Jul 13, 2006 1:44:51 GMT -5
First one I ever got would have to be NitM for the Saturn. They actually had a copy of it in a Software Etc. in the mall I go to; they used to carry quite a few import Saturn games. This was also back in the day when the backs of gaming magazines would have those awesome little Japanese Import catalogs, which was where I got my Action Replay for the Saturn.
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Post by grad on Jul 13, 2006 10:27:27 GMT -5
First import experience: Super Mario 64, at some hip electronics store in the mall. High school kids, decked out in grunge, were crowded around, playing and pointing at the screen. SMRPG had just come out, and I thought, "Wow, video games sure are getting better graphics these days--" not realizing that the game I saw was for an entirely new system.
First import purchase: Mother 2, not too long ago.
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Post by Shadax on Jul 13, 2006 19:50:28 GMT -5
Vib Ribbon, probably. Which was impossible for me, since back in the early days of high school, my musical tastes were entirely industrial and black metal (I can't even begin to describe how happy I am to be one of "those people"*. I think my second import was the Megaman 3 PSX port shortly afterwords.
*in this context, "those people" is the one guy or girl in any social circle who just without any precedence burns people mix cds that go from Add N to (X) to a six minute long track of central asian throat singing. At least I managed to realize that most people hate my taste in music.
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