Oh yeah, this is mine. Just got my PSP yesterday. Haven't even hooked it up to my PS3 yet. I was too busy playing SF Alpha...love it.

Like several other collectables of recent memory, it's just doing a repaint of one coin figures from Japan.

From this series actually.
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-92-77-9-49-en-15-shooter+classic-70-2f9n-43-d.html

This is why Japan is the promise land for nerds. They get this, and we get Homiez.

Just watch your ship....don't watch the action to the left or the top...just watch your ship and it's surrounding...and dodge the hell out of all those bullets. Great stuff.

I think its the added complexity of being able to use your ship's attachment thingy to do different stuff that distracts me. It's like too many options for me or something. I'd rather have a shmup where the only thing you have to worry about is blasting the shit out of everything with increasingly powerful beams and shit; and not about which configuration your shit is in.

Or maybe I am just a big pussy. Also a distinct possibility!

Haha, I couldn't pass the first level either, but then I was playing it on an emulator on my DS.

No, some of those Japanese shooters are a real bitch, so don't feel bad.

Sometimes I just get in this "zone" and all of a sudden, I'm dodging like hundreds, if not thousands of bullets. I don't know how I do it, I just do. Must be all that training from the Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Asteroid days.

Jerk Face---
It's for that reason alone that I'm glad games like IKARUGA were never released on handheld. I'd end up throwing the PSP/DS through the wall in frustration. It's one of those "Love-to-Hate" type of games for me. So amazing and cool for a shooter title... but damn, if it isn't one of the hardest I've played.

Ha ha... nice! : )

Good post, Fidlious. I was going to point that out too. This is not a shoot'em'up, it's a space-based tactical combat game. There's a demo on the PC store for it, looks pretty cool.

Yeah, excellent point.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to squash my pre-order. Strategy based games aren't my thing.

I have several...

In fact, I think I'm over 40.

Heh, yeah, finding games I want to buy on the PSP is not the problem, it's finding money for them all.

way to lower the bar

Here's my secret to that... WAIT.

Seriously. I knew I would have a blast with portable Dynasty Warriors (yes, I'm one of those people who actually PLAY that series), but not at $40. Most PSP games I snag are at $10-$20. Unless it's an import, I usually snag it on the cheap. Of course some exemptions exist like Crisis Core and Field Commander...

My problem now is not having PSP games, but the time to beat them.

40?! I can think of maybe 7 or 8 solid PSP titles, but I've already beaten several of them and many are already available on various other platforms. I can't possibly imagine having even remote interest in 30-odd more.

Then again, I get that Sheppy is a collector, as well as an importer, so I can understand why he has so many games for PSP and PS3 that most people wouldn't even pick up off the shelf to look at the back of the box. Personally, I still can't justify picking up another PSP (sold my launch model to buy a DS) even after all these years.

You see, here is the thing. A game for $60 has a high quality bar to pass. It must either be really good, or set in a genre that I really like. A game for $50 may as well be $60 in my "purchase tolerance."

A game at $40 has to be good, just not great. That, or in a genre where I know copies will evaporate and end up on Ebay later for $80+.

A game for $30, my standards start lowering. There still has to be quality there but I won't nitpick.

A game for $20 can be average.

A game for $10 is hard to argue against. Because even if it sucks, you can get most of that back on Goozex or something similar.

Over lunch, if people are interested, I can snap a picture of my PSP rack to show what has made it into my collection. I think I have more PSP games than DS. As for the whole importing thing, I do it on occassion. Like I'm really looking forward to Final Fantasy Fight... errrr, Battle Fantasia.

I don't tend to buy a lot of "budget" games. Every once in a while, I'll snag a Bards Tale for $10 or a Feel The Magic for $6 or so, but I tend to stick to mostly AAA titles or solid word-of-mouth sleepers (like Okami or Hulk: Ultimate Destruction). I just don't have the time to put into anything else. I fear and respect your collection, however, Shep. I seem to remember seeing pix of it a while ago.

Oh it's grown since then. Like I added a few classic games and recently got a lot of 100+ Sega Genesis games (currently sorting to find doubles). Last time I took picks, I was a little under 800. I think I'm approaching 1000 now. Craigslist helped me with that Genesis lot. Essentially got $.50 per game but doubles and sports did exist in it. For the most part it was largely a flop but then I found titles like Pirates, Subterrania, Streets of Rage series, a few classicly horrible titles, and the ultimate gem to find in something like that, two working copies of Warsong...