I visited my family for the weekend, and thanks to my brother - who's a fan of unbirthday gifting and totally awesome btw - I finally had the chance to try out the augmented reality feature of the physical TCT cards...
AR Nina doing her default fighting stance movement on infinite loop is a neat little feature. The big surprise though - also pictured above - were the two factory sealed Japanese copys of Death by Degrees, the official Japanese Death by Degrees demo in an unopened cardboard sleeve, and a factory sealed, absolutely mint copy of the 13 years old (NTSC-version-with-Nina-on-the-cover-)Tekken Tag Tournament, the latter of which I was never able to hunt down myself (Well I did, one time, but it was 300 $ on eBay, and therefore a pass). I love my brother! I also love the 364 unbirthdays I have each year!!
Ooh, nice haul!
ReplyDeleteI admit I've never quite seen the point of getting other-formats versions of the games like this (even when, as with the Jap DbD, the cover is more to my liking), but props for sheer completionism anyway.
And no, I haven't had the chance to get more cards yet. :( The end of this month is sticky financially, a few big toy buys plus Saints Row 4 and mum's birthday...bah.
:-D Hope you didn't cheap out on your mum's birthday gift.
DeleteWith the other-formats versions I'm solely interested in the ones that have Nina on the cover. The JP and EU versions of Tag1 only had Kazuya, and if I had the means back then, I would have bought just the US one.
A factory sealed copy of Tekken 2 (US or EU) would be the absolute jackpot for me; after all these years it's still my favourite Tekken/Nina cover. Tekken 3 was shit, and 4 was by far the shittiest. After Death by Degrees' critical failure I thought I'd never see Nina on a cover for a Tekken game again. Then Tekken 6 happened, and TTT2 followed suit.