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Like we have been doing every year for more than 10 years, five of my friends and me met in late February in a restaurant, each of us with a list of our 20 favorite movies released in the previous year. We then talked and ate and combined all our lists to form the Top 20 movies of the year: the...

He is one of the very skilled player at the game. As you know, skill level and viewership are not directly related, it's a whole package. The little I have seen of Ninja does not make me feel he is my cup of tea, but I watch a good deal of High Distortion and also some Svennoss. He is a dutch...

Help! There is still some time to save us from the game that killed 2D Castlevania by being the poor man's Metroid! Get these votes in!

I am not 100% sure I have a working Master System, but I have a Golden Axe Warrior cartridge and it's supposed to be a pretty good Zelda clone.

I can pour the content of a blender into a cup :(

I have exactly one US Saturn game: Enemy Zero :) I tried to play it back in the days without much success!

Heh... that was the game I was about to submit, though I have the significantly cheaper japanese version (bought $20 - I think you need to add at least one zero for a US version and maybe at least three for a EU version?). EDIT: Now that I think of it, playing a Saturn game might prove tricky...

I look at my shelf and realize how many Saturn games I have yet to play. I'll not submit one though because I doubt many of us have a Saturn and apparently there is no good emulator for it, so... yeah. As a PS1 game was mentioned I'll add another to the list: Valkyrie Profile.

I hope game publishers will not see this thread: they'll start charging by the hour!

Hehehe NB: All games have been finished except La-Mulana. 1) SEGA Mega Drive & Genesis Classic : 85 h Official emulator, so that covers Landstalker, Shining in the Darkness and Beyond Oasis. 2) Poly Bridge : 73 h Fun physics puzzle (sadly the physics engine kinda breaks in the later levels)...

He was a bit lucky in this campaign because while he played some very good matches (and he had to against Haase and Seppi) he also somehow survived a shocker against Kohlschreiber during which he had trouble finding the court with his ground strokes. He stayed afloat thanks to his serve and he...

In other news, Federer, 36, climbed back to the top of the pile in tennis this week-end becoming the oldest World N°1 in the Open era. Since his return from injury at the start of last year, he won 64 of the 69 matches he played...

I have not played anything new on the Retro front (working on Celeste for PS4 and through Earthbound once a week with a buddy of mine), but something funny happened today. I have a friend who wants to buy a hdmi SNES clone and was asking me about some SFC carts I might have. To limit the back...

City is basically PSG + 3 years (the money dump came in 2008), except in a championship where there are big teams and with a coach that actually won the thing. Also they reached the semi before. So them being among the favorites is more legitimate than the PSG. And @Merrith, what you are saying...

A big pile of Qatari money can win you the french league, it can also book you a ticket to the Champions' League knockout phase (which PSG did every time since their budget exploded), but it cannot buy you the belief that you can win against two or three of the biggest clubs in Europe in a row...

On what planet was the PSG the favorite of the Champions' League?

About Reg Cathey: He had a more substantial part in one of the season of Oz too. He had an amazing screen presence. I saw The Wire before Oz and he had a small (but well written) part in it, but he was so good he lept out of the screen. Not a small feat as he always shared scenes with Aidan...

One of the most impressive thing for me is his will to win. He often makes tennis looks effortless, but when it is needed he is still able to dig deep, to put the blue overall on and work hard. A refreshing side effect of his age is how candid he is now in the interviews. After the final he...

So.... will I need to play the PS3 version of the original before this or will they grace us with a PS4 remake before the release of RDR2?

I was about to say I played Secret of Mana back in the days, beat it and have no desire to play it again, but I actually never beat Seiken Densetsu 3 as I stopped mid way through at the time... I might give it another go.

Very early in the month I played Metroid and now very late in the month I motored through Super Metroid in a day. I had not played it since 94 or 95 (except a bit of the beginning a couple months ago on SNES mini with a friend who did not know the game and did most of the playing) so I set...

I think it takes a special mindset to play Vagrant Story: this game is 99% menuing to craft things. I was so looking forward to this game at the time and I think I lasted 2 hours, if that. Anyway I own 8 of those 10 games and beat 3 of them (Ogre Battle - though with just one ending and...

I may have written a similar post before, but I have the feeling you guys are massively exaggerating Bladrunner's "flop." It certainly under-performed at the U.S. box-office, but between foreign box office, DVD, BluRay, VoD and TV rights, you know this film will be clearly in the black. This...

Last time I accidentally found some weird italian hip-hop, this time I purposefully looked for that russian hip-hop track I heard in a silly russian movie (How Viktor “The Garlic” Took Alexey “The Stud” to the Nursing Home). Considering the 3 million views on youTube I assume it's popular...

They raised $2,267,377.96 this year, so about $45k more than the record that was set last year. 108k came from Twitch chat in the form of subscriptions and bits. It's crazy that about half the total is donated on the last day.

That was actually pretty cool to see. The juggling between the games was fun, the pausing, while meh, allowed for a number of funny frame freeze and, to top it off, he had a supremely clutch fight against Tyson.

It's more than at the same time: it's using a single controller / single set of inputs for both games! It's pretty crazy but I suspect also a bit lame because basically it will be all about avoiding having to play two fights at the same time and using the fact uppercuts on Punch Out pause Super...

I encourage people unhappy with the fact speedruns are speedruns to organize a nostalgia 'let's play' marathon. I would watch that too for sure, but that would be another event. A GDQ is as much about familiarity (games you know, runs you know, runners your know, etc) than unfamiliarity (games...

@Haast I am sorry to inform you that it is very likely your $10 SNES controller clones are not non-garbage :P Also my understanding is that you can update the kernel of the SNES Mini to keep the UI and add other emulators (for NES, Genesis, TG-16, etc - emulation for more recent systems is...

I guess it is also mandatory to remind that a Raspberry Pi 3 + case + SD card + 2 non-garbage controllers + USB cable + HDMI cable is more expensive than a SNES Mini (which you can easily turn into a retropie if you want to, or just add SNES games to its library while keeping the very nice...

There was an interesting bit between runs about the way GDQ works. Basically they are organizing a fundraiser for a charity (Prevent Cancer in winter, Doctors Without Borders in summer), so they make a budget for the event, submit it to the charity and, if they are ok with it, the charity pays...

There are many recent games featured. That being said, devising and optimizing the route for a speedrun is something that takes time, so the most optimized runs are naturally of older games. Also, most games have different categories, the most broken games usually having glitchless, warpless or...

He assumed there was based on what he knew of Tyrell's plan?

When a game that has already been shown in previous years is on the schedule again, it means that the run has changed significantly, that the run being showed is of a different category or that it is an event of sorts (blindfold, 2 players 1 controller, race, etc). I am not sure what the runs...

Wanted to watch a DVD, flicked through TV channels first... ended up rewatching, Nolan's magician vs magician jigsaw puzzle of a movie: The Prestige. I still have minor reservations about the film that I rated 5/6 back then, but the movie is extremely entertaining in the light of the reveals...

So you spend time on you tube and suddenly you find yourself listen to wierd italian rap about Young Trunks coming from the future, being a Super Sayan, having blue hair, eating McNuggets with sweet & sour sauce and getting sucked by C-18... (these ar indeed some of the lyrics).

Reading the thread's title, my first though was the machine gun in Cave Story. The idea is that, thanks to its recoil, you can use it as a kind of jet-pack, so suddenly you fly around levels thanks to your gun. Second idea was Another World's laser pistol. You tap to shoot a laser, you hold a...

You can get the ice beam pretty early and I don't think there is an enemy that can't be frozen (other than bosses). Once you have ice and 15ish missiles, there isn't really any tough enemy (a missile always kill a frozen enemy) other than maybe the lava sea-horses thingies that spit fire, but...

So yeah, I played through Metroid in one go earlier today. It took me a little bit less than 5 hours. I had played it and finished it back in... '89 or '90 and I don't think I replayed it since. I saw some speedrun of it in recent years, but they were of little assistance as they are full of odd...