I Bought A Bunch of Random Stuff At Too Many Games 2024

Today we're taking a look at my pick ups from my recent trip to Too Many Games. I went in looking for retro games and left with a couple surprises.

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[ishyaboyk]

You’re a good pal, Jon. Taking care of the drunken elderly

[Martinj]

I love attending too many games. I have been there 4 out of the last 5 years. I missed this year because I had my son’s funeral. He also love going there. Last year he found a copy of lunar for the GBA and was super happy. RIP SAM

[Fester]

Amazing to see how large this convention has gotten. I went four years straight, both before and after the rebranding. Snagged me a copy of one of my favorite Sega Saturn game the last year, Off-Road Interceptor in it's case! Probably spent way too much on it but I couldn't resist.

[nfmjcn]

I’m not kidding seeing flasebound kingdom on the cover of a video is such a great feeling. Fucking love this game and play it still! Top 3 nostalgic game for me, yugioh back in the day was so fun for me as a kid in elementary and middle school. This game was different from a lot of them

[jarrodjob]

Too Many Games Timestamps
2:30 - 🎁 Pixelated Samus Art - Melted Plastic Beads / Ironing
3:19 -🎁 mega man x command mission Japan release
4:20 - 🎁 For kiddos - Kirby 🧸 🍴

GameCube 🧊
4:56 - R Racing Revolution - x Pac Man Vs (pack in)
5:59 - Pikmin
6:53 - Pokemon Channel
7:58 - Time Splitters 2
8:44 - Yu Gi Oh - Falsebound Kingdom
9:57 - Need for Speed Underground - Players Choice

10:48 - ShadowBoxes -
11:15 - Zelda: A Link to the Past
12:08 - MegaMan x3

For future vids
13:30 - PS4 Slim

14:38 - Summary

[raspberrydva]

Sean has a drama video today, while John is like look at these neat things I bought

[NappaAbridged]

It was so nice meeting you there! I was in the Hawaiian shirt! Thank you for taking photos with me!

[ItsBeenTooLong]

That yugioh falsebound kingdom is I just enjoy the monster collection feature, recruiting characters and strategizing how to move your teams. I can see most people not liking it cause the battle system is a bit basic

[martinholden]

I had r racing Evo with the PAC man disc. I actually got it back in the day for the PAC man disc. It's a multiplayer game where 1 player plays on the GBA via a link cable as PAC man who can see the whole maze while 3 others played as the ghosts with a limited view around them on the TV screen who all chase him.

[ryanknight]

I hooked ya up with the pokemon channel and pikmin at my friends booth. If you’re ever in NJ check em out! Kill screen games in Asbury park

[SamPeiffer]

I was unable to attend this year. But my friend Matt was able to meet you and the other Spawncast members at the panel. He mentioned the wait time and he was glad he waited! Very cool of all of you to do that.

[RetroNirvanaGaming]

I also went to Too Many Games. Picked up a Watermelon N64 Funtastic Console! Very happy with it! Picked up a lot of great Gamecube games aswell! Great finds!

[MedalionDS]

Shadowbox Video game scenes look amazing, I am gonna check this out

[Mysticalturkey]

Im glad i got to meet you the years i worked for TMG. Always a pleasure to have you. 2018/2019 defender here.

By far a favorite convention of mine.

[grahf]

I love Yu Gi Oh: The Falsebound Kingdom. I always bring it up in recommendations whenever I can. It's a weird real time tower defense with turn based battles game.

You start by setting up your "marshals" with a team of up to three monsters based on Yu Gi Oh cards.

You'll then begin a campaign where you have a goal to either beat everyone or to capture a certain base.

You'll start in your base and you'll send your marshals out to capture other bases. The second monster is the one that will be displayed on screen. This will affect walking speed and the size of your contact radius. There's also a terrain bonus.

If you bump into an enemy marshal or are ambushed by monsters you'll switch to a turn based battle screen. There you'll have a limited amount of moves for each monster based on their star levels. The higher the star levels, the more moves you'll have each battle. The battle ends when a team is wiped out or no more moves can be made. In which case there's also a scoring system that will determine the winner.

You gain experience for winning battles for the monsters and the marshals. Stats and star levels go up for monsters and they'll learn special attacks are certain levels depending on the monster. You can also unlock unite attacks between certain monsters as well. The marshals can gain passives as levels increase. The monsters and marshals have colors associated with them. It's best to try and match the colors. However constant fighting will begin to change the colors to match.

You can equip each monster with up to three items. Armor, weapons or consumable items. Some items can even "evolve" a monster into a stronger monster. Some monsters have equipment only they can use that will boost their attack by a ton or will unlock special attacks. There's an item that can even fuse your monsters together in battle to form a new monster but it's only for that battle.

When you take over bases, you can spend money to unlock up to two facilities. Tower defenses, extra healing, stores and so on. Each base's store has different stock and you might have to go out of your way to find something good. These items are expensive though and money is difficult to come by. However you can input the Konami Code at any time while on a map to gain money. But you'll have to do it repeatedly. There's a ton of time to kill anyway so might as well just keep doing it.

The whole game works as a new game plus. In that after you beat one character's story, you can take all the monsters, items and levels you gained and start the other story. Marshals don't carry over though. Once you do the second, a third story will open up. You'll need to do this to get all the monsters as some you only get in one route and their partner in another. Or you'll want to regain monsters you upgraded previously. The best thing is that the enemies will scale to you so you'll always have a challenge.

The scoring system for battles is a tad unfair at time. You can kill two enemies and knock the third down to one hit point while taking no damage yourself and still manage to lose the battle due to the score. If you miss to many times for instance.

A neat trick is to know which monsters fuse and put them on a team equipped with the fusion items. When they're down to one star, fuse them together and you'll have a new monster with a bunch of stars to continue the battle and you'll gain a lot of points.

Admittedly it's slow and plodding though and is kinda dull to look at. But I really enjoyed the battle system in it.

There's two similar games on the PS2. Similar in the fact that they have nothing to do with the actual card game or even the dice spin off game. Capsule Monster Coliseum and Duelist of the Roses. Capsule Monster Coliseum is a tactical turn based RPG. The monsters move similar to chess pieces in that they each have their own moment style instead of just moving them in any spot in their movement range. It also scales as you keep replaying. Duelist of the Roses is difficult to explain. It's card based in general but not in a "normal" way. It's map based again and you'll have a "deck master" which is a monster you'll set as it. You'll lay cards out on the map that you can move around, even magic and trap cards. The point is the move along the map and beat the opponent. The map squares each have something terrain effects. It's been a while since I played that one though.

They're an interesting trio of games. Games before and since have all been based on one of the two Yu Gi Oh associated games (cards or dice) in some way. Some of the earlier games did have different takes on the card game but they still played mostly the same. The rest are just simulators of some sort. But that trio of games (Duelist of the Roses, Capsule Monster Coliseum and The Falsebound Kingdom) were great and quite different. Most probably passed on them thinking they were just more card game simulators of some sort and they weren't. They were different styles of turn based RPGs.

[DPcom]

Time Splitters 2 for the win. I still own my GCN copy. Sunk in LOTS of hours playing it with my younger sibling. Absolute classic.

[WeavePap]

It was great getting to meet you and the rest of the Spawncast! I didn't get too many games that are noteworthy, just a lot of stuff that I have had on my list of games to buy for a few years now. Also picked up a bunch of Nintendo Power Magazines. Hope to see you again next year!

[AndrewO]

The artwork with the depth is super clean. I think I love these over the games. Great picks too.

[chrisvw]

I love following all of the Spawn Cast follow up videos. That Patreon video showing up in my inbox was a pleasant surprise.

[Alexander-srfg]

Falsebound Kingdom is such a fun game!!! So was Timesplitters 2, a couple of my faves on the Gamecube!