0 to Z of Playstation 1 Games - 10101: "Will" the Starship

                               

10101: Will the Starship was a Sci-Fi adventure shooting RPG according to the information I have been able to pull out of the net, the game developed by either Suntech Japan or Sound Technology and was released exclusively in Japan for the Playstation 1 in November 1997 the game has a full voice cast with voice actors Ai Iima Ai, Kyoko Onika, Masayuki Iizuka, Toru Okawa, Akira Ishida lending their vocal talents to the game

10101: Will the Starship is a space combat adventure game, the game is set on the bridge of your star ship the games camera is set to the back of the bridge looking forward  the combat has the player moving a target reticule over enemy ships and shooting them the missions are interspersed with anime style still cut scenes with characters talking over the cut scenes

Apologies in advance here I have no idea what is going on (see above for Gameplay video)

10101: Will the Starship reviews are hard to find I have managed to find one  GameFAQs has the game rated a 3.63/5 out of a total of 17 ratings for the game with the vast majority rating the game 3.5 or 4 stars with them standing at 26.67% and  33.33%  respectively.

Another 13.33% scored the gane 4.5 stars while 6.67% gave the game a full 5 out of 5 stars, at the other end of the spectrum 13.33% of reviews gave the game a 2 star rating with 6.67% giving the game a 2.5 out 5.

This is the part of 0 to Z where is visit four online retailers and see what the availability of the title is, and what price you would be looking at if you wanted to pick this title up the sites that I will be using for this are Amazon.com,  eStarland.com, retrogames.co.uk and Gamedude.com I know the last one is very location specific but from a podcast I listen too I have heard they have a huge stock of older games.

So lets get down to business we may as well start with Gamedude no real surprise here the California based store has no copies of the game, the game is not even on their list of ps1 games which is not a surprise with the game not having a North American release the same for eStarland.com and the UK based Retrogames.co.uk neither have a copy of the game

No real surprise then is Amazon is the only place to find this game and likely any other Amazon like site with prices for a used copy starting at $8.49 which is about £6.46 with an additional $3 for shipping this is of acceptable quality, if you are looking for a better quality used version of the game then you will be looking at something like $10 up to $14 dollars or £7.60 and £10.65 in you are in the UK.

Be careful though there are a couple of acceptable used copies on sale at Amazon.com at the time of writing that are overpriced with price tags of $17 and $24 which is not much cheaper than a new copy of the game once shipping is added in.

On to the new copies of the game which seem to be holding value very well the cheapest will set you back $26.99 which is about £20 with the price of a new copy going as high as $46.33 which is about £35 a plus for most of these new copies they do include free shipping

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P J Gibbon