Well, this update will in no way compete with OatBob's additions to his Dreamcast collection for August, but I had wanted to keep track of my growing collection each month so here goes. Besides, maybe he and I will help motivate each other to further our collections even more.

August was really my first full month getting back into seriously collecting Dreamcast stuff. And when you look at it that way, it was a pretty impressive month even if I was only mostly picking up commons (read: cheap stuff).

First up is the big batch of additions to my US licensed library:


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Most of these were obtained via trades, with just a handful of them being purchased from a friend. This purchased lot includes Mars Matrix which was one of my top priority wants for the system. Though I think maybe Gunbird 2 makes me slightly happier, as I now have the US version whereas before I had the Japanese import which meant I couldn't actually follow any of the story.


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Inhabitants is one of the indie games released by Goat Store, and picked it up in that same lot that included Mars Matrix. Last Hope and Cheats N Codes were via trade. Last Hope is of course the recent-ish import shmup that was also released for Neo Geo. I managed to get the original release (complete with spine card) which is less sought-after than the Pink Bullets re-release. But it was a good deal. The Cheats N Codes disc is a Gameshark release with all kinds of cheats on it, but more importantly it's an easy import-loader disc. I prefer to use a commercial import-loader rather than burning one.



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And a couple of strategy guides... I'm not usually a big collector of guides, save for fighting games for easy access to move-lists. However, I do find something appealing about collecting DC guides as they remain part of the time-capsule. These two are both exciting additions to me. Half-Life is obviously awesome as the game never officially got released. And House of the Dead 2 is probably my favorite lightgun game of all time.


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Finally, I found this little guy at KMart for $5. How could I pass him up?

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