I liked a little series called StarFox from Nintendo. I really loved StarFox 64. In 1998 like many picked up my monthly issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly. My hype was already soaring for Dreamcast. My hype could not and still cannot be contained. Then I saw this article. (My actual scan of my issue..scan is from 2003)
Now Dreamcast in it's games to the consoles aesthetics looked so sleek and so futuristic right in that late 90s design. When All electronics tried to go for something unique sleek and white or colorful. Before that electronics were beige,black or wood grain and rather boring to look at. Dreamcast felt like the future like no other system has before in my eyes at that time. Geist Force with it's amazing graphics and slick UI completed the look for me. It took me out of the crappy cluttered house I lived in and imagined something nice to match the DC. To this day even tho I live in a nice apt,I still get the feels thinking about seeing the DC and Geist Force.
Of course when I got a DC I kept looking for the game but eventually realized it was cancelled. I was so bummed out that every time on a gaming forum about cancelled games you want,I always pulled out that scan. In 2010 Assembler games (RIP) said they got the rom and were putting together the game as best they could then printing some discs with cover art and everything and selling them for 50 bucks. Again I was bummed out..for more reasons than not getting GF. You see I was dying. I mean actually dying. I was in a tough situation where I could not afford a hospital but was not poor enough to get treatment at a free clinic. I had no idea what was wrong but I knew I was dying. So 50 bucks may as well been 5000 dollars when I was often below the 0 mark in my bank account and this was with a job. Now I did finally get help and now disabled for life but that's a story for another day.
I thought that was it. Never going to be able to get the game. In 2014 I made a video on my channel My Lost Treasure. Months later a guy said he would send me a copy. I was so ecstatic! We even made Skype call showed me the copy. Well 2 years gone by and tried to contact him and nothing. So I got trolled. In 2016 I finally gave in burned a ISO made a video My found Treasure and even tho I finally played it after 17 years. It still did not feel right.
That finally brings me to last night. I was browsing Ebay and what do I see. Ok so maybe not the Assembler games package but still professionally done. A price I can afford. Even if the game is incomplete. I finally have what has eluded me for almost 20 years.
Last night I bought this and feel after 18 years can finally put an end to this chapter as a gamer.
