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Heh! I beat Super Mario Bros for the first time ever yesterday! Being very familiar with the game through speedruns (the route using warps though) and aware of the continue code I thought this would be a walk in the park.... well it kinda is until you reach level 8. The last 4 levels (8-1 to...

I'll start it sometime this week. I need to unearth my Megadrive and check if it works, but before doing that I need to make room for it. On a side note, there are some Megradrive games that have the Genesis version on the cartridge (QuackShot for instance) and my Megadrive is modded with a...

It was a good idea to track down the japanese cover for the game, because it made me realize that there is no IV or 4 on it. So I re-checked my Megadrive collection and found out that I actually do have the game! So... to play it on original hardware on a CRT in lush RGB or to play it on the...

Section Z is a lie! There is no Z section in it! Anyway, there were some controllers and some curse words flew around, but I beat the game. This is a pretty solid game, but there is a number of little things that are a bit annoying that come with the strange systems they use for health, weapons...

@moonarchia There is a notion of exploration / trial & error, but the mechanisms are significantly less obscure: you have a choice at the end of each section as to where to go next, it's just that it's not much of a choice the first time around, more of a shot in the dark (better take notes...

We play both obviously :)

Currently playing Section Z on NES, but before I am done with it let me share this gem from the game's manual: 'SECTION Z created by CAPCOM... premier world-wide arcade game designer... features colorful state-of-the-art high resolution graphics'. That sweet sweet 256x240 resolution!

God gamer still at work: Gremlins II: The New Batch: The Videogame by Sunsoft on the NES got beaten. This is actually a pretty cool video game adaptation of the movie. You get rather impressive cut scenes to tell the story, the theme of the levels, the enemies and Gizmo's weapons (you get a new...

NES game of the day was RoboWarrior a very competently executed game but that sadly is of the school of the asshole japanese game design. The prime example of that school of design is Tower of Druaga. The idea is that the game gives you no clue as to what you are supposed to do to reach the win...

I think the official definition of retro game is being old enough to drink in all 50 states. So Ultima Online is retro in 5 weeks!

@moonarchia In the US version, if you max your level, you have 12 hp, his hits only do 1 damage and you need to hit him less than 10 times, so you can just dps race him without even having to heal. In PAL you have 8 hp, his hits do 3 damage and you need to hit him 30+ times....

As I linked earlier from the Cutting Room Floor, the ending screen has been altered in the US/EU version to feature a less anime looking character, but in doing so, some of its animation (it's animation? :p) got canned. Japanese version here (spoiler obviously). US/EU version here (still spoiler).

Game Over man, Game Over. More seriously, the whole Batman soundtrack is crazy. The drum lines! EDIT: There is a whole level in Rygar where this is the music... That might be taking electronic minimalism a bit too far. This sky castle theme, on the other hand... damn.

I'ma let you finish, but Batman has the best soundtrack on the NES! There are some great tracks in Rygar (the cave music!), but there is also a number of questionable tunes! Anyway, today to test my God Gamer theory I decided to get humbled by Trojan. It's an action game with a combat system...

It seems sleep is for the weak... I thought I would play a little Rygar and ended up "beating" the game several hours later... Rygar is a 2D side scrolling action game with elements of rpg / exploration (levels are connected with each other through a hub map in top down view - a couple levels...

Continuing in my NES backlog I played through Kickle Cubicle an action puzzle game by Irem. It's a pretty sweet and forgiving game since it has unlimited continues and it makes you restart right at the level you were. Should you decide to not continue, you can even get a password for the level...

Getting the game is no issue (couple bucks on Steam), it's just the Murphy's Law effect that I found amusing. I also don't have Maniac Mansion, Nox and Earthworm Jim, but that's less surprising :)

I was checking which game I own and which I don't and of course I have Phantasy Star 1,2,3 but not IV... It also made me realize that I don't own the Beyond Oasis cart, but that I actually beat it on the official emulator! I totally forgot about that!

I did not know MXC, a comedy voice-over of japanese show Takeshi's Castle, but amusingly the exact same concept existed around here in the late '80s/early '90s with some swiss comedians doing some ridiculous voice-over for American Gladiators!

Beat Faxanadu. This game is rough. The least satisfying thing about the game I would say is that everything reset once you leave a screen. So if you beat the boss of a dungeon, a reward spawns, you leave the screen, come back, the boss is there again. This gap between the story that the game is...

I had a friend in high school that could do that, his specialty was jazz improvisation so I guess it comes with the territory. The most impressive thing for me is remembering on the fly all those tunes, even if she gets to pick and choose from the many suggestions in chat.

Zelda: I think the GBA Minish Cap is available on 3DS. Never played it, supposedly very good. Mario: not sure. Dragon Quest: I found Dragon Quest IX a bit lame, but I would recommend the DS remakes of IV, V and VI, especially V, Hand of the Heavenly Bride (a masterpiece of efficient...

Once you get the pattern of the falling blocks, it's not hard but that's so long and boring...The only up side is that it's not an autoscroller so you can turn into a bat with Alucard and get out of there earlier (or almost skip the whole thing if you have enough hearts). Anyway I managed to...

Long story short, I was rummaging through my box of NES games looking for Tetris (don't ask...) and realized, much to my surprise, that I own Castlevania III. 'Cool!', I thought, 'Let's try that!' I am not sure just yet if it was a great idea or a terrible mistake. As a very late NES game...

@McCheese The ring dropping magic one shots the hands, the end of the left to right sword swing of the hero tends to hit twice for some reason and you only need to have the herb equipped when your hp reaches zero. So just stay on the left side of the upper deck, drop rings on the hands, slash at...

What's the girl in front of the mansion game?

I don't understand how showing the outcome of a gerrymandered map is somehow proof that gerrymandering has no effect. I also fail to see how federal level is relevant to a electoral map redrawing discussion unless I missed all these state boundaries changes that happen between elections...

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy?

You gain about 1 atk/def per level and some hp. But unless you skipped a lot of nests and/or did not went back to kill the nests of monsters you could not kill at first, no grinding is needed really.

I am sure that with a rested head you will understand better how the fight works and win with ease. It's really just about understanding what is going on and doing the right thing. When you do you hardly take any damage.

The music in Leo's lab feels like it just misses some lyrics to be some killer experimental hip-hop!

@Ryanz are you playing on cartridge or emulator?

@MightyMadman There is a whole serie of open world samurai games: Way of the Samurai. They are shortish/weirdish/clunkyish though.

Deathtoll status: slain! I did not time myself, but it took three sessions to beat the game so probably less than 10 hours. Things flowed pretty smoothly throughout. The only two hiccups were finding a key item in the castle area and gaining access to the lair of the final boss. For the first I...

Let me tell you what's OP: the double damage bracelet that melts bosses and that lame looking ring dropping magic. You can actually charge that magic and I have yet to find something that does not get one shot by it (providing it's not immune to magic). That game is indeed not very hard and not...

You will notice that a lot of the sound effects are identical in Actraiser, Actraiser 2 and Soul Blader/Soul Blazer (and possibly in other Quintet games). The 'ow' the character makes when getting hurt, the metallic sound of invulnerable enemies, etc... the score is not made by the same...

Killed the bosses of the first two area. As I remembered it's a bit on the grindy side and not much of a challenge (I guess it challenges you to not be reckless). It's not unpleasant though and the town building / dream exploring is charming. EDIT: 4 way movement feels a bit NESish though...

I played the japanese version back in 92 and I remember there was a number of medals with zodiacal symbols on them you could collect and it was a bit of a headache to get them all... I don't remember if it was mandatory and/or what it unlocked though. I also remember grinding on the last level...

The steamstore thing does not show for me. What game are you talking about?