#740 & 741 - Stack Up & Dragon Fighter

#740 & 741
Stack Up & Dragon Fighter
NA & eBay
5/7/12

It's times like this where the whole 'collect every game' thing gets weird.  There have been games that I have no interest in playing (anything where you take turns to fight each other) or are duplicates of other games (Donkey Kong Classics), but at least those were games that I could play if I wanted to.  See that Stack Up game?  I can't even play that one.

See, Stack Up was the second and last R.O.B. game (Gyromite is the other) and it requires a special set of pieces to play it properly.  There are round blocks (if you can call a round shape a 'block'), special claws for R.O.B. and little trays that you hook onto him.  I have none of that stuff.  I don't intend to ever get any of that stuff.  Stack Up is, therefore, an unplayable game for me.  Yay?

On the bright side, Stack Up DOES finish off the 'black box' set - I have all but 4 in their actual black boxes (no Stack Up, DK Jr Math, Urban Champion or CluClu Land boxes).  So that's pretty cool.  Plus, I can just let R.O.B. play with the cartridge.  See?  He's having fun.

The other pickup is Dragon Fighter, which I got from eBay by offering and counter-offering and realizing I had a few bucks left on a gift card.  The 10 minutes of it I played was a decent experience.  You walk along, slashing monsters and snowflakes when suddenly...you become...a giant green fucking dragon!  Every play Michael Jackson's Moonwalker and get the comet to turn into Super Mecha-Michael Jackson?  Same kind of feeling you get in Dragon Fighter.


Cross your fingers, as I may have ANOTHER cart coming in the mail in the next week or so.  We're coming down the home stretch and this shit's getting REAL now.