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Follow young Goku as he searches for the seven mystical dragon balls. In this side-scrolling action game, you must use your special fighting skills to defeat a host of enemies. ...

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On a beautiful day in Celesteville, Babar's two sons, Pom, Alexander and his cousin Arthur are playing hide and seek with the monkey Zephir. In the courtyard of the castle, two huge hot air balloons are tied to the ground and Pom and Alexander decide to use one of them as a hiding place. Suddenly the rope holding the balloon is accidentally loosened and the balloon slowly rises up, high into the sky, drifting away with the wind. When Babar finds out, he quickly gets in the second hot air balloon and flies off into the wilderness to rescue his two sons ...

Welcome to the third volume of our classic gaming update. We are continuing with another few hundred of brand new and never played before classic gaming additions made to our product catalogue. Be sure to check back for updates frequently

If you are interested in Classic Games, and you wouldn't read this otherwise, we know you are interested in The Encyclopedia of Game.Machines. Covering 33 years of video games history on 224 full colour pages. Ships within 24hrs as well and makes a good addon to an order of any classic game.

Dreamcast™:
Advanced Daisenryaku 2001 JPN US$ 59.90
AeroWings JPN US$ 29.90
Dreamcast Controller - Sakura Taisen Version N/A
Dreamcast Gun US$ 29.90
Evolution 2 JPN US$ 29.90
Fighting Vipers 2 JPN US$ 39.90
Get Bass: Sega Bass Fishing JPN US$ 29.90
Kiteretsu Boy's Gan-Ga-Gan (w/ Microphone) JPN US$ 39.90
Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes JPN N/A
New Japan Pro Wrestling: Toukon Retsuden 4 JPN US$ 19.90
Renai Chu! Happy Perfect (DreKore series) JPN US$ 34.90
Rent A Hero No. 1 JPN US$ 39.90
Sakura Taisen 3 JPN US$ 34.90
Samba de Amigo JPN US$ 39.90
Sega Tetris JPN US$ 39.90
Shanghai Dynasty JPN US$ 39.90
Soccer Tsuku Tokudaigou: J League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! JPN US$ 24.90
Sonic Adventure International JPN US$ 39.90
The King of Fighters 2000 JPN N/A

Sega Saturn™:
3D Baseball: The Majors JPN US$ 9.90
Air Management '96 JPN US$ 14.90
Bakuretsu Hunter JPN US$ 14.90
Baldy Land JPN US$ 14.90
D no Shokutaku (Sega Saturn Collection) JPN N/A
Daikoukai Jidai II JPN N/A
Dark Hunter: (Ge) Youma no Mori JPN US$ 14.90
Darkseed JPN US$ 9.90
Druid JPN US$ 14.90
Earthworm Jim 2 JPN N/A
Funky Fantasy JPN US$ 14.90
Gaia Breeder JPN US$ 14.90
Hyper Reverthion JPN US$ 14.90
Impact Racing JPN US$ 14.90
Krazy Ivan JPN US$ 14.90
Kumitate Battle: Kuttu Ketto JPN US$ 14.90
Kururin Pa! JPN US$ 14.90
Mahoutsukai ni naru Houhou JPN US$ 29.90
Moon Cradle JPN US$ 14.90
Mouri Motonari Chikai no Sanshi JPN US$ 14.90
Popoitto Hebereke JPN US$ 14.90
Prisoner of Ice: Jashin Kourin JPN US$ 14.90
Revolution X JPN US$ 14.90
Rox JPN US$ 9.90
Sangokushi IV JPN US$ 14.90
Sangokushi Returns JPN US$ 14.90
Sorvice JPN US$ 14.90
Sotsugyou Album JPN US$ 14.90
Soukuu no Tsubasa: Gotha World JPN US$ 14.90
Space Jam JPN US$ 14.90
Striker '96 JPN US$ 9.90
Tekkyu: True Pinball JPN US$ 19.90
Transport Tycoon JPN US$ 14.90
Ultraman Zukan JPN US$ 14.90
Whizz JPN N/A
Willy Wombat JPN US$ 14.90
Wizardry Nemesis JPN US$ 19.90
Yellow Brick Road JPN US$ 9.90
Zero Divide: The Final Conflict JPN US$ 14.90
Zoop JPN US$ 14.90

Nintendo64™:
Animal Crossing / Doubutsu no Mori (Controller Pack) JPN US$ 84.90
Ascii Pad 64 Grip US$ 19.90
Doraemon 2: Nobita to Hikari no Shinden JPN US$ 29.90
RockMan Dash: Hagane no Baukenshin JPN US$ 49.90
SimCity 2000 JPN US$ 39.90
Super Robot Taisen 64 JPN N/A

PlayStation™:
Front Mission History JPN US$ 109.00
Oha Star Dance Dance Revolution JPN US$ 39.90

Gameboy Advance™:
F-Zero for Gameboy Advance JPN US$ 19.90

Virtual Boy™:
Vertical Force JPN US$ 24.90

More info at Play Asia ...

Welcome to this week's Movie/Music news roundup, containing all new Japanese and Hong Kong Video and Music releases from this week listed at Play-Asia.com. Over 250 new items are covered in this week, including new J-Pop, Anime as well as Japanese, Hong Kong and Western movie releases and much more.

Here's a summary of all new releases that were published between Saturday, May 27th until Friday, June 2nd. If some specific item that you are looking for is missing, please don't hesitate to contact our customer service with your request.


J-Pop Music releases (80)
ENKA Music releases (3)
Video Game Soundtracks (6)
Anime Soundtracks & Drama CDs (11)
Hong Kong Version Music releases (7)
Hong Kong Version Movie releases (19)
Japanese Movies (22)
Non-Japanese Movies / Japanese Version (81)
J-Pop DVD releases (6)
Anime DVD releases (29)
Video Game related DVD releases (2)
Idol DVD (19)

Much more info at Play Asia ...

Another week, another PS3 rumor fire quickly decimating rational thought on the internet. We should start billing Sony for putting these things out. This time, British computing tabloid, The Inquirer, is running a piece titled, "PS3 hardware slow and broken." It's full of the usual Inquirer stuff: bad spelling, horrible grammar, and (most importantly) specious arguments. So, before we even get to what they're claiming, understand that anything published on The Inquirer should be considered entertainment, much the way the Enquirer is. Here goes:

An Inquirer writer had the good fortune to sit next to Anonymous Guy on a recent flight to Japan who dished about the PS3's new Cell and RSX chips. "Oh my God, did you hear? Cell is like, totally broken and junk. It's MBs are all, like, messed up where the GBs should be ... and stuff." Alright, that's not a direct quote, but a decent approximation. It isn't worth going through and breaking down the arguments since a little common sense would go much further.

Alright, internet, I know we're all still upset about "The Price." I know sometimes Sony says funny stuff that we all laugh at. (Too cheap? You kill me Kutaragi!) There are some kinds of rumors we're willing to believe. Yields are low? Alright, that happens. One of the largest and most well respected chip developers in the world, whose new, custom-built, ground breaking chip architecture has a huge design flaw that we extrapolated from a slide and a single-serving airplane buddy? See, it just doesn't seem as plausible.

In regards to a system as unique -- and uniquely complex -- as the PS3, this level of "journalism" seems woefully inadequate to tackle what may or may not be actual design problems with the processor. Places to look, if you're so inclined: Sony's Cell page. Too biased? How about one of Ars Technica's famously exhaustive looks at the thing ... in two parts. The Ars guys are part processor, it appears, and they didn't manage to identify some singular shortcoming that will doom the PlayStation 3 as an also-ran.

So go ahead. Read it, enjoy it, but please don't take it as Truth. The console wars are already ugly enough without the rumors.

Via Joystiq ...

News via Eurogamer

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I love Theme Parks even though the robbin basts take the piss with what they charge but anyway heres a nice bit of news from CVG:

Frontier Software (the team behind RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 on PC) and LucasArts (the publisher that cancelled Sam & Max Freelance Police, boo) have announced a brand new console theme park sim, Thrillville.

As with its PC cousin, Thrillville promises to combine "elements of social interaction, party gaming and simulation like nothing before", as well as enabling gamers to "experience the joys of creating and playing within their very own theme park. At the same time, it offers the necessary depth to reward those who want to tweak and customize to their heart's content."

Thrillville features 150 unique attractions (including roller coasters, thrill rides, stalls, videogame arcades, hover-car soccer, trampolines and bumper cars) and 15 different environments (five parks with three themes each, it says here). The twist is that you'll be able to experience the park first hand, ramming friends on the dodgems, playing the mini-golf courses you lay out, taking on other players at first-person shooting games and so on - experience "at ground level what you've created as a playable character who can actively chat, joke and even flirt with every single park guest".

It sounds rather grand to us - but then we've been suckers for theme park games since Bullfrog's title all those moons ago. Thrillville is set to arrive on Xbox, PS2 and PSP this Christmas. And we've got one solitary screenshot to tide you over until then.

Screenshot Via Comments ...

Somewhere, there's a dizzy parallel universe where there's no Radio One. No Capital Gold. No Magic FM. Where the soundtrack to everyday life throbs with manic day-glo doo-wop pop thrills and the words you hear have never been heard by mortal ears. It's a world where the smiling bubble offspring of Jeff Minter's perverted Corona dreams have to pass their fizzical by warbling joyous high pitched odes to MDMA and the wonders of surging serotonin. These amorphous blobs grin themselves to death for the love of plants. It's a happy, albeit brief existence.

Full Review at Eurogamer ...

If you were to come up with an all-time puzzle top ten, it's a sure bet that Bust A Move (a.k.a. Puzzle Bobble) would feature somewhere near the top. Like Tetris, and Bejeweled it's one of those absolute corkers that is so utterly perfect in its initial conception that it's become timeless. Trying to match three bubbles of the same colour by firing up the screen while they slowing descend, row by row, is one of those games we'll always have time for; they're just so moreish.

But much like anything timeless, tinkering with the formula only gets you so far. You might come up with numerous variations on a theme that sound good on paper, but after the short-lived novelty has worn off, you're back wanting the classic version you always loved.

Full Review at Eurogamer ...