I'm sure most of you had heard about the newest codename for the upcoming Playstation console "Orbis." For those of you who haven't there are two big rumors associated with this new name. First off there will be zero backwards compatibility for Playstation 3 games. Secondly there will be a lock out for used games. Now, before I get started and go off the deep end, I will begin by stating that I have always been against Sony and everything they do. I find little to no pleasure in anything they do. They have repeatedly reminded me why I have always stuck by Nintendo throughtout the years. So if this comes across as a little coarse towards Sony, it's supposed to.
I'm confused. I always thought that Sony tried to keep up with the market. They've seemingly looked at all the things that made their competition successful and done the opposite. The numbers don't lie. The Wii is 100% backwards compatible with the GameCube, the Xbox 360 is about 80% backwards compatbile with the Xbox and the Playstation 3 is...well who knows? Some consoles are with PS1, some with PS2, some with Blu-Ray it's too much to figure out. And look at the numbers. Nintendo has a huge lead in sales while the PS3 is waaay behind. I'm not saying backwards compatibility is the reason for it, but it helps. I've heard some say they won't be buying a PS4 to play PS3 games. I get that. But why keep both consoles around. People seem to trade in their old consoles to get a price break on new ones. Why give up your PS3 if all those hundreds, if not thousands of dollars you spent on games are now useless? Heck backwards compatibility should be standard in this era. It's been done since the Game Boy Color! Every Nintendo handheld has been backwards compatibile with the previous and Nintendo is the industry leader.
As for used games...I don't even begin to comprehend it. I get that they're trying to kill GameStop. But considering they are the leader in game sales locking out your biggest distributor is a killer in and of itself. If GameStop stops selling their games and hardware, they are done. And they would alienate alot of the consumer base.
Call me a cynic, but I sort of hope these rumors come true. I will enjoy watching Sony crumble. I of course wouldn't be buying the console anyway, but for every one they sell I'm sure there are 5 people who boycott the system for these reasons. If either holds true for the new Xbox console, count me out on them too. I'd love to hear every one else's thoughts on this one though. Another review is coming soon too!
As you've probably noticed, we are now Android Generation. We feel this change will make us better suited for the future of gaming and technology in general. We're confident in that in a few short years, everything will be Android powered, so we're jumping on board sooner rather than later. Soon, our entire database and collection tools will be optimized for Android devices. However, since all of our development time will be going into that, we will no longer have the time or resources to update the current versions, the ones designed for your PC, whether you use Windows, Linux, or Mac, you'll soon be unable to visit Android Generation, or use our collection tracking tools. So, if you don't already have an Android device, you better go get one ASAP.
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They're outrageous! Downright scandalous, even! But what I'm about to show you are actual, honest-to-goodness images of noted video game characters flaunting their nudity like the disturbed and perverted sickos that they are! So have the kids leave the room for a while, and get ready for some righteous indignation when you take a gander at these disturbing snapshots!
Let's start with...
Downright sickening, isn't it?
But it wasn't bad enough that Sonic was cavorting around in the buff...
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Holy crap, Tails, Pedobear's heading this way!
...he also went and indoctrinated an innocent child into his twisted, loop-de-loopy world of pants-free hijinks. Well, at least the lady folk of the Sonicverse have some sense of modesty. Although I do find Amy's enabling of her crush's pathetic fetish rather abhorrent.
But there ain't no modesty whatsoever when it comes to this reptilian monstrosity:
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Please tell me you're not "getting happy" to this pic.
He's platformed his way through three different continuities over the last decade or so, with nary a stitch of fabric to be found on his person in any of them. Even more disgusting is the fact that the latest Spyro series is a big hit with the young'uns-- just as those demonic minions of Satan over at ActiVision had planned-- making Video Game Jesus weep tears of blood.
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I live only to carry out your every whim, Lord Spyro.
If you're a parent who's letting your kids play Skylanders, you'd do well to turn yourself in to child protective services right now, and throw yourself upon the mercy of the family court. But before you do, please send all of your child's Skylanders figures to me-- especially the "Dragon's Keep" adventure pack and the Toys 'R' Us-exclusive legendary 3-pac-- and I'll dispose of them in a discreet and environmentally responsible manner. Thank you for your cooperation.
And now, the worst offender of them all: POKEMON!
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Rule 34 will commence in 4... 3... 2...
Get a load of this:
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It's so ugly, it oughtta be wearing a freakin' burka.
Then there's this:
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Quite frankly, I don't care if he looks like he's wearing clothes. Dressed or not, Mr. Mime is a horrid crime of nature that needs to be exterminated with extreme prejudice, for the greater good of all mankind.
Otherwise:
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Finally, dare you cast your gaze upon--
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--d'awwwww, isn't it the most adorable thing you've ever seen? How can you get angry at that disarming smile? You can't, that's how! Who's my little deerling? Huh? Who's my bestest friend in the whole wide world? That's right, you are! Now go play with the other wholesome and innocent Pokemon critters, you silly thing. Say hi to Mr. Mime for me, willya?
Speaking of Pokemon: although I 've plenty of reasons to despise the whole "pocket-monster" phenomenon, a Cracked.com featurette gave me one more appallingly disturbing reason:
That's not what you kids are calling the clitoris, is it?
Sheesh... that little whack-job has three fully functional GBA SPs, and I'm still stuck with a glorified paperweight:
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Oh God, I think I'm gonna be sick...
I gotta find out where that kid lives, break in, gank one of his GBAs-- no wait, all three of 'em-- keep one for myself, and find a nice home for the other two.
Homes where they'll be treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.
Homes where they'll never be forced to endlessly run that g0dd@mned Pokemon cr@p, ever again.
Homes where they'll never get screamed at by an adolescent lunatic.
If you'd like to join me on this most merciful rescue mission, please drop me a line and we'll hammer out a plan. I'll throw ya one of the GBAs and his silver edition TI-84 calculator as payment.
Come on, you know it's the right thing to do. Who's with me on this?
'Course, it'd be a good idea to pick up a few supplies for the mission. Looks like a trip to T.M. Leon's Boom-Stick, Firewater and Vuvuzela Emporium is in order.
Now where did my rewards card go off to?
'Late
Over the last few years nintendoage has had a community challenge where they see if its possible to have members of their forum beat each and every NES title in the span of one year. They have never been able to acheive this yet. This year they changed it up a bit and just went with licensed titles to see if that would help a bit. I've been contributing what I can withing my challenge, but I'm finding several overlapping titles that others have finished before I get to them.
Because of that I've decided to change it up and see if I cant help them achieve the goal of a community completion on licensed games over a years time. Not many people seem to have interest in the RPGs on the system so thats going to be my first focus.
Before I dive into the Ultima series I decided to play 1 game that I've been looking forward to for a long time and another thats given me trouble in the past.
The one I've been looking forward to is The Krion Conquest. I'm a big fan of Mega Man (who isnt?) and when I found out how Mega Man-esque the gameplay is I knew I needed to try it out. It finally arrived in the mail when I got back from my trip to Florida and I've been dying to try it out. I couldn't wait any longer and started playing a couple days ago. It was just what I expected and didnt disappoint in the slightest. I was looking for a less polished version of Mega Man and it delivered just that. My 2 complaints would be that it was too short and there was a gameplay glitch where you cant jump immediately after shooting a bullet. Otherwise it was very solid. And the music in Round 4 was AMAZING! Very cool and definitely one of my favorite NES tunes now.
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A couple years ago I tried my darndest to get Adventures of Dino Riki to loop, but the last couple levels proved to be too much at the time. With my NES skills sharper than ever I decided it was time to give it another go around. I practiced up the jumping mechanic which is the part of the game that gives me the most trouble by far. I noticed that the game was significantly easier if I skipped over ALL the speed upgrades. By running around at the slowest speed the game became much more managable. The last level is still pretty intense, but otherwise the game was a lot easier to navigate.
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NES Games Finished In 2012
(click on a title to view the video)
Silver Surfer
Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones
Ghosts n Goblins
Tetris
Pro Wrestling
Gradius
Zanac
Adventure Island
Karnov
Trojan
Excitebike
Baseball
Spy Hunter
Adventure Island II
Tennis
Battletoads
Shadowgate
Battletoads/Double Dragon
Pinball Quest
Section Z
Godzilla
Hydlide
Marble Madness
Back to the Future
Darkman
Terminator 2
Robocop
Total Recall
Predator
Robocop 2
Robocop 3
Hudson Hawk
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Batman Returns
Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters
Die Hard
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Krion Conquest
Adventures of Dino Riki
Future Plans - I'm going to be hitting the Ultima series hard over the next couple weeks. Starting with Exodus and moving onto Avatar and Warriors in that order. Wish me luck as I've had zero experience with the Ultima games up to this point.
PS - Here is a link to the nintendoage thread I was referencing. Please contribute if you can. We are already over halfway, but its going to be way slower getting the second half of the list widdled down.
http://www.nintendoage.co...threadid=61651&StartRow=1
Hey everyone! I am trying to get a Ducktales 2 box for the NES, not a custom made one but a real one. If anyone out there can help with that it would be very much appreciated. Message me or let me know on the blog. Thanks!!!
2011 is over, I don't know if you know but it left us awhile ago. So it is time for me to play catch up with some of the stuff I bought but didn't post about earlier.
I somehow became a Spyro fan? It's confusing because I still have not played a single Spyro game yet own three of them. How does this happen? You can tell me in the comments section. I think I paid $2 for this:
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Continue reading 2011 catch up blog
As some of you may know I've been slowly gathering licensed NES carts over the last several years working towards my goal of a cart only licensed set. When I first started getting into collecting NES games it was because I scored a lot of around 50 games on ebay for a low price back in something like 2005-6ish. It amazed me how many interesting games I hadnt even heard of.
The collecting bug took hold and I scoured ebay for a similar lot, but with different games. After several months I ended up with about 100 games, for around $100, and a new found passion. Going to school, getting married, and having a son put a bit of a strain on my finances shortly after. I was still very interested in pursuing new games for a variety of systems, but with a special interest in the NES.
After looking around online for more info on these games I stumbled across racketboy, and through them, rfgeneration. Learned tons of tips on finding games both locally and online that fit my budget made my interest in collecting explode even further. Every day on the way to work would involve a quick stop at local pawn/resell/thrift stores and my saturday morning eaten up by relentless garage sale-ing.
Because of the poor area I live in for picking up games I decided to learn to supplement my local finds with some online purchases and trades. Ebay had been getting less and less appealing as I honed my new penny-pinching skills over the last couple years. Buy/Sell/Trade forums became a great resource and I owe thanks to dozens of members from sites like racketboy, rfgeneration, nintendoage, and gametz. These forums supplied me with cost effective, reliable, trustworthy and equally passionite gamers and collectors to deal with. Much more satisfying than buying from a faceless ebay seller on all fronts.
So you may be wondering whats promting my wave of nostalgia and praise to these communities. Well its thanks to conversing and dealing with the fantastic people across these forums, and feeling that I'm a part of a community, that helped lead me to the conclusion that I need to dive right in and work hard towards completing a goal thats important and enjoyable to me. With that in mind I've been snatching up the generally obscure NES titles over that last couple years. The ones that are generally in most peoples last 10-20 games. I've picked up already: Flintstones 2, Little Samson, Bubble Bobble 2, Snow Bros, Power Blade 2, Bonk's Adventure, Duck Tales 2, Chip n Dale 2, Panic Restaurant, Zombie Nation, Fire n Ice, Contra Force and others. Most of the games left were obtainable withing a certain amount of time with the one obvious exception.....Stadium Events. After dicsussing it with my wife and spending the last several years being quite frugal we were finally in a situation where I could justify the expense.
So in short I just want to thank all of you for assisting me in the formation of my conclusion that is ok, even rational, to spend a large sum of money on a game that I can not only buy a variant of for less than $10 any day of the week, but play for free through a computer. I really appreciat it guys!!!! Should be smooth sailing from here on....
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Like I mentioned last time I was feeling like busting some ghosts. So I did!
Started with Ghostbusters, but got quite frustrated with the 23 floors of stair climbing and jumped over to Ghostbusters II for a break. Now Ghostbusters II was a game that my best friend in grades 2-4 of elementary school owned. Little bit of an embarassing story involving that one. Short version is we were told by parents to stop playing Nintendo and play outside for the summer, we spent 1 day hatching a plan to get back in to play Nintendo. Next day at least one of us was playing...... Anyway I havnt really played it since and got a massive wave of nostalgia from it. I had a lot of fun with. We were never quite able to finish it I dont think though. We definitely made it to at least the first Statue of Liberty stage, and possibly to the first or second area after that. As crude as the game looks it actually felt pretty smooth. I hope its not just the nostalgia talking, but it felt pretty tight in that respect. It was also a little refreshing to not have a single boss battle. 3 different types of stages and no bosses was pretty neat I thought.
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After being very satisfied with my Ghostbusters II experience I went back to the first one to finish the set. After a few hours of playing it became apparent that I was wasting a lot of time saving up for the expensive items. I was also very tempted to break my personal No-Turbo rule for the painful climb. Before I resorted to that I looked online for a bit first to see if anyone else had come up with a solution to my problem. Turns out if you purposely let a ghost hiding in a door knock you down for the third time (which would kill you and end your game if it was a regular ghost), instead of a game over screen you are rewarded with a couple hundred more knock downs! So after that it was a piece of cake..... a long winded, button mashing, forearm tiring, sleep inducing piece of cake. At least I was treated to a delightfully poor translation on the ending screen.
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Aside from the secret santa I took part in over here at rfgen (thanks again Tynstar!) I participated in the annual one at nintendoage. My generous partner over there sent me a copy of Die Hard which I have been neglecting since X-mas. Movie-Game Marathon seemed like the perfect time to check it out. First impression was that the combat is insanely hard. After figuring out a few tricks it became much more managable though. Out of all the games I've played so far this one by and far followed the movie the closest AND surprisingly still turned out to be a very interesting title.
Right off the get go you have access to 5 floors of the building (with 2 more and the roof accessible later on) and several objectives to complete. The building has 40 terrorists for you to dispatch, including 2 boss characters, and several key items to find, some of which are randomly generated. The really cool thing about Die Hard is that you can play it in many different ways. You can call the cops in for back up, or you can completely miss that part. You can blow up the main computer console and delay the enemies, or you can completely miss that part. You can try and hunt down all the baddies so that the road to the last boss is barren and simple, or you can head to the final floor all guns blazing! By obtaining or missing objectives (some of which are time sensitive) you can alter the game and get several different endings. I found that pretty awesome for a NES game. Definitely check out Die Hard if you get the chance. Its one of the harder to track down games, but I felt it was actually worth the price tag in terms of gameplay(unlike several others in the same price range).
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Went with the horror themed game A Nightmare On Elm Street to finish up my playtime last night. I've always heard it was a decent game and exceptionally fun with 4 players so it was time to check it out. While just playing solo the game was ok. The hand-to-hand combat was a little sloppier than I would have liked, but the boss fights with your dream alter egos were a lot better. I could see the potential for multiplayer fun and I hope I get the chance to check it out with a few others one day.
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NES Games Finished In 2012
(click on a title to view the video)
Silver Surfer
Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones
Ghosts n Goblins
Tetris
Pro Wrestling
Gradius
Zanac
Adventure Island
Karnov
Trojan
Excitebike
Baseball
Spy Hunter
Adventure Island II
Tennis
Battletoads
Shadowgate
Battletoads/Double Dragon
Pinball Quest
Section Z
Godzilla
Hydlide
Marble Madness
Back to the Future
Darkman
Terminator 2
Robocop
Total Recall
Predator
Robocop 2
Robocop 3
Hudson Hawk
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Batman Returns
Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters
Die Hard
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Future Plans - Time to hit some lesser discussed movie games like Hunt for Red October and see if they turn out to be turds or not.
The site is going down again.
Now, breathe.
This is planned downtime and it's for the better. Our host recently merged with another company and, along with this, they are changing our server configuration. We were on a VPS with 1GB of RAM and a meager 20GB of drive space. We are moving to a dedicated server with 4GB of RAM and dual 500GB drives! More everything! This should allow us to remain stable and hopefully lessen the database connection issues we have been experiencing.
This all goes down Saturday night at 10PM Central US time (3AM GMT). We will be placing the entire site in a maintenance mode. We did it Saturday night in case there were problems so we could have Sunday to fix it, again, if needed.
If you need your fix right away, please go ahead and bookmark this page to get to the IRC room.
See you when we're back!
Hey Everyone! My brother and I did a little browsing yesterday at a few places like a couple of Goodwills, Gamers, and some other Thrift Stores. But we hit a pretty good mix and found some more NES games to add to our seemingly growing collection that we have started this year! The Year of NIntendo as I put it for my brother and I. We will be selling some of the games we bought just CART Only. Last week I purchased a few things that won't be pictured like Mass Effect 3 N7 Collector's Editin for PS3. I love the fact that we are finding so many boxed NES Games in the wild and at this point nothing has passed up our most recent from my last post Mega Man 6 Pristine condition. So here is the list and prices we paid for each NES Game in their boxes.
List:
*After Burner - $5.00
*Clash At Demonhead - $3.00
*Major League Baseball - $1.00
*Pinball (Nice Condition Black Box Game) - $5.00
*Road Runner - $8.00
*Rolling Thunder - $2.00
*Super Mario Bros. 1 - A WHOPPING - $2.00!!!!! CIB
*Super Sprint - $6.00
*Toobin' - $8.00 (We will be selling just a cart of this game)
*Vindicators - $2.00
*Wheel of Fortune - $6.00
*Winter Games - $3.00
Item that won't be pictured is a box only Sega Genesis 2 6-Pack Edition - I have all the items to put in it though to make it complete the Box was on $2.00.
We went to Half Price Books and purchased Final Fantasy Tactics - NON Greatest Hits Guide for $6.00 and a Children's Hint book For Super Mario Advance for $2.00!
Then we went to an Electronics Store and purhcased a Commodore 128 complete in box for $45.00! Then we went to a couple of Goodwills and picked up a few other things:
A-Train PS1 - Complete with Everything - $2.00, Tekken 2 PS1 Greatest Hits for $3.00 and get this Die Hard Trilogy PS1 Greatest Hits - FOR $0.34 yes that's CENTS! A while back my brother bought Civilization II Multiplayer Gold Edition at a Flea Market for $3.00 and yesterday he bought Civilzation II at Goodwill for $3.00.
Here are the pictures:
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Hey, you! Yeah, you! I'm talking to you, Yankii! Are you a Badass?! I'm a Badass, and I'm gonna teach you how to be the Top Bancho in all of Japan!
......I might be milking this thing a little. Heh.
But seriously, everyone. This is Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble for the PSP, which I've been playing on my newly-acquired PS Vita. (Don't ask. I just thought it would be cooler.)
Anyway, this beat'em up was obviously inspired by River City Ransom, as they share some similarities. The game gives you the "Main Goal" of beating up 46 Banchos from all across Japan, who ALL just happen to be in the fictional prefecture of Kyouto. (Not to be confused with the real prefecture of Kyoto.)
However, there's a lot more to do than just kick ass. You can customize your Character with all kinds of different gear, hairstyles, and so on. You can also try and find Romance if you don't feel like fighting. Still, no matter what you end up doing, your gonna end up fighting SOMEONE. That is, unless you spend the whole week in your Hotel Room. (The only real point being to earn a Title.)
Overall, this is one excellent game, and if your pining for a game like River City Ransom, then this is for you. Give it a try!
So I have an interesting piece of hardware from a local thrift store. All of my Google powers have left me with no information about this strange piece and little more based on the manufacturer. My plan is to give some history of the product (if I can find any) and then review it based on the many things that would be relevant to this style of control scheme.
Do I have you in enough suspense yet? So what am I planning to review you ask? Well its an interesting little arcade stick called the Pro Player. It was manufactured by Naki International in 1993 according the box. What makes it interesting? It is compatible with the SNES, SFC, Genesis, and Mega Drive. So any gamer in the early to mid 90′s would have an easy time finding a use for this stick which was the Choice of Fighting Game Experts! And thats about all the information I have for it, every detail coming from the box I bought it in.
Does anybody have any information on this to help me out? I would like to keep pictures secret until the video comes out so everybody can see how nostalgic the box design is.
http://whydidiplaythis.wordpress.com/
I'm not even going to butter you up or lead into this one. This game is a 10. Even if you only have passing interest in role playing games, this is a must own title. I will be looking back on what the original Super Nintendo version, titled Final Fantasy II (IV in Japan) has to offer.
In overall terms of Final Fantasy games, this is actually the fourth installment in the series. Since it was only the second released in the US it was given the II subtitle. This is the most simple complex RPG of it's time. By that, I mean that while the turn-based battle system, items, equipment and story are very detailed, they are all very easy to grasp. There are so many things to do and explore in this expansive world but they follow a generally linear path which takes out any grinding or wandering aimlessly. The plot is intense for it's time and the characters are memorable. Who can forget Cid and his hijinks or the crusty old sage Tellah and how they have their own little turmoil amongst themselves? I know I can't. You learn to love and respect these characters and learn alot of their backstory during the game while they carve out their futures.
The replay value is massive. I personally have played through this game over 20 times...in it's entirety...without skipping a thing. Not a dungeon, optional boss fight or sidequest. Even though the story never changes and requires no input from the player other that to execute their next moves I find myself blowing the dust off the contacts of this now valuable game again and again.
This is a must own game. And you have no excuse. This game has been remade and rereleased...get ready...5 times! Besides it's original format on the SNES it was re-released on the Game Boy advance and given a graphical overhaul on the Nintendo DS. It is also available in the Wii's Virtual Console service for 800 points. Not a Nintendo fan? Good news! It's also available on the PSP which includes the previously WiiWare exclusive sequel: The After Years which continues the story. "I don't care for Nintendo and don't enjoy handhelds" Good news! It was also made available on the original Playstation in the Final Fantasy Cronicles bundle which also included Chrono Trigger (which itself was rereleased three times since it's original inception.) You have no excuse. I repeat, if you have even passing interest or have never tried an RPG before, go get this game.
Score: 10/10
Frequently I check the local craigslist for old video game stuff. Rarely do I buy anything, but sometimes good things come up. I've gotten a PS2 and games, a Neo Geo pocket color and a couple of other things, but it doesn't add up to much for all the looking I do.
Awhile back I got a pretty cool lot, the ad said it was a C64 but when we got there it turned out to be a Vic-20 and TI-99 4A with games and cords and stuff. So I've been keeping my eye out for a C64.
Today I didn't have work because of snow and happened to find a C64 listed on craigslist.
This is what I got for $30 today:
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Continue reading A Great Commodore 64 Find
Turns out I wasnt in the mood for a military gorefest like I thought I might be. Instead went for a pair of delightful (thats debatable) Family Comedies, with Home Alone 1 & 2.
The first Home Alone game is probably the game that follows the plot of the show the most closely out of any of the movie games I've played so far. Make bad guys slip on ice, check. Hot Iron to the face, check. Spider attack, check. Sounds like fun, right? I think they must have had a big board meeting when developing the game and brainstormed ideas to make these funny sounding pranks into the most boring possible gameplay known to man. The game consists of you picking up traps from around your house and laying them down for Marv and Harry to fall on. All you do is pick up squares and drop said squares for 20 minutes (real time) stunning the theives until the cops show up. Each square only has a limited number of uses so it gets pretty tough near the last 5 minutes onward when the baddies dont get stunned very long and your typically low on traps. I got caught many frustrating times in the last 2-4 minutes of this game. Argh!!
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Home Alone 2 couldnt be any worse so I jammed it in immediately afterwards. Home Alone 2 is not a great game by any stretch of the imagination, but because it was following the first one so closely it felt like a beautiful dream......and then it was over. It was also only about 20 minutes long. Nothing to write home about either.
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It was starting to seem the all movie games would only be mediocre at best. Would I be able to find a ray of light in this darkness. Not yet, but I did find a pretty sweet, and dark game. Batman Returns was a game I initially wrote off as lame after testing it long ago after its initial cleaning and indoctrination into my wall of NES carts. I was sorely mistaken though. It was a fun and challenging beat'em up. Probably one of my favorites on the system now. The levels are all kind of blah, but otherwise I have no complaints. If you like TMNT 2, Double Dragon or Battletoads this'll probably be up your alley too. Only single player, but if you dont mind going it solo its a blast.
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NES Games Finished In 2012
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Silver Surfer
Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones
Ghosts n Goblins
Tetris
Pro Wrestling
Gradius
Zanac
Adventure Island
Karnov
Trojan
Excitebike
Baseball
Spy Hunter
Adventure Island II
Tennis
Battletoads
Shadowgate
Battletoads/Double Dragon
Pinball Quest
Section Z
Godzilla
Hydlide
Marble Madness
Back to the Future
Darkman
Terminator 2
Robocop
Total Recall
Predator
Robocop 2
Robocop 3
Hudson Hawk
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Batman Returns
Future Plans - Going to go with another game thats hounded me since my early childhood. Ghostbusters 2. Might as well check out the first one while I'm at it too.
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