Dragon Quest IX At Goodwill?!

There is a certain sort of game that one expects to find when trolling Goodwill. That's not to say that I never expect to find good games there, but it usually more offbeat or older stuff. A good example of the sort of stuff I've bought from Good Will is the PC version of NBA Hangtime, which is a fun game, but it is pretty old and I wasn't even aware there was a PC version. I never expect to see newer games, with the exception of abject failures like Tony Hawk Shred, so I was quite surprised to see two basically new copies of last year's Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies. It may not have been the highest selling game, but it did pretty well for a Dragon Quest game in the US.

Newsflash: Deep Labyrinth Found To Contain Many Subterranean Levels

I bought Deep Labyrinth because it was a five dollar DS game that wasn't some licensed crap or Imagine: Baby Surgeriez or whatever all that DS shovelware was. It may be a very generic game, but it still somehow has the second-most generic name for a dungeon crawler on the DS, losing out to Hudson's Dungeon Explorer. Deep Labyrinth was made by a company known as Interactive Brains, which mostly makes games for Japanese cell phones, so it does not come as a huge surprise to find out it is actually a port of a cell phone game.

The Advent of Mega Man's Recent Fall

With the recent cancellation of Mega Man Legends 3, the last known Mega Man game to currently be in production, a lot of people have realized that the Mega Man franchise isn't doing too well. While it seems a bit alarmist to declare that Mega Man is dead, it is plain to see that he isn't doing as well as it was twenty, ten, or even five years ago. While this is a great blow against the prospects of charming games everywhere, and undoubtedly a dick move on Capcom's part, I'm sure we'll see more blue bomber some day.