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Hereditary / Doctor Sleep / Midsommar

Hereditary (2018) A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences. The first appearance from filmmaker Ari Aster. Do I think this is one of the greatest horror films of all time, like certain corners of the internet?  No.  Absolutely not. Do I think it's a hell of a good time, with a few key scenes that are effective as hell?  Damn straight.  I've already stated a dozen times that I like slow burns, and this is another one that crawls.  Just be wanred

Little things

I decided to make some small changes to the Stupidman game, which actually IMHO helped the game out somewhat.  Stupidman's feet now face left when he walks left. I think that was a big part of what the game needed. I also made a couple other small changes to the sprites making up Stupidman. Stupidman now looks a lot better than what he did, even though they were small changes. Another thing I noticed were the grocery store aisles being really crappily drawn. So I fixed that: Still cra

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Green Room / Get Out / IT

Green Room (2016) A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar. A24's first appearance on the list.  What can I say?  They've put out a lot of good stuff, including a significant number of the best horror films of the last decade.  Some of the biggest names didn't make this list, but they were pretty close. This terrifying little number is probably the most difficult watch on this entire top 100.  Definitely not a movi

Another return of Stupidman

I was working on my Game Boy game of Superhero Man when it occurred to me that I never finished the game I was basing it off of. So tonight I dipped my toes back into NES C. I have to get re-used to doing stuff, re teach myself because it's been about a year since I did anything. I am not going to get the poor reviews for HERTS to stop me, I still want to finish this project. If it's crappy, so be it. I just want it to be a FINISHED crappy project, Follow my progress of this at the official

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Gamegearguy in Nintendo NES

The Conjuring / The Babadook / It Follows

The Conjuring (2013) Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. The first James Wan movie to appear on the list, and the first of like a thousand movies in the greater "Conjuring universe."  Most of them tend to not be very good.  But they came from a solid foundation. I wouldn't say this movie brings a ton of new ideas to the table.  Even for a Wan movie - Insidious predates it by a few years.  Wha

Drag Me to Hell / I Saw the Devil / The Cabin in the Woods

Drag Me to Hell (2009) A loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Sam Raimi's triumphant return to horror. This movie is so much fun.  And so Raimi.  I can only imagine how many theatergoers went into the cinema thinking they were watching the next Saw or Hostel, and were just completely befuddled by what they were seeing.  In true Raimi fashion, physical comedy is once again the name of the day, almost making th

More X vs. O fun for you

So I had to go back and fix a bug in the zap game. I think I finally got it fixed. While I was at it, I put in some code to go to banks 0 and 1, which I hope will have something in both of them. I got an idea for one of the two banks. It is going to be Whac-a-mole. I know, there is already a whac-a-mole game, but you need to go to a website to play it. I want this one to work on a real Odyssey 2. It will feature two grids and will use the controllers (instead of the keyboard) to play. I made a m

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Gamegearguy in Odyssey 2

Trick 'r Treat / Let the Right One In / The House of the Devil

Trick 'r Treat (2007) Five interwoven stories that occur on Halloween. My favorite horror anthology film of all time.  This.  Not Black Sabbath, not the Creepshows, not Tales from the Darkside, not Cat's Eye, not Tales from the Hood, not V/H/S, not Three Extremes, not Trilogy of Terror, not Body Bags, not From a Whisper to a Scream, not The Monster Club, not Nightmares, not The ABCs of Death, not All Hallow's Eve, not Tales from the Crypt (the movie), not... well, you get the ide

Slither / Pan's Labyrinth / The Mist

Slither (2006) A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters. I cannot overstate how much I love this movie.  Between the stellar cast, led by an in-his-prime Nathan Fillion, playing a wonderful set of characters, with endlessly quotable and hilarious dialogue, and the huge number of incredibly disgusting scenes (which continuously top themselves)... like, I cannot speak enough superlatives about this movie.  It is

There.

More work. I'm at a good stopping point for now. Everything works good. I'd be happy with just this as a game, but I'd like to add more stuff in the main game. And I have the room to do it too. Not so much in the tic-tac-toe bank. Apparently "clearchar" does not clear the quads (score), so the score of the main game was showing during the tic-tac-toe game. I had a real hard time trying to put in score clearing code. I was just going to omit the word "tie" when a tie happened, but then I noticed

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Gamegearguy in Odyssey 2

Featured Member October 2023: DefaultGen

What originally brought you to NA/VGS? I became a collector the day Nintendo announced the Wii Virtual Console and said old Nintendo games were going to be $5. Since the average unwanted physical Nintendo tape at the time was like $2, this was an outrage. This was before even Oblivion Horse Armor. The world placed zero value on digital goods. Shortly after I was bouncing between GameTZ and DigitPress hoarding up Nintendo games, and eventually NintendoAge. Every game I bought for less than $

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28 Days Later / Dawn of the Dead / The Descent

28 Days Later (2002) Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary. Here it is.  The film that changed horror forever. Do I think that change was for the better?  Yes, yes I do.  Seems like a pretty open-and-shut case to me.  Things got real visceral, real fast after this, which is exactly the sort of shake-up the genre needed to keep things fresh. Nowadays, I think the film still stands strong.  C

Left left

Or rather, the way to move it left. So I worked all yesterday and part of today on the game. I had it working fine, but the display crapped out on a real Odyssey 2, plus I couldn't move left. So today was spent restoring left movement, which is tough when you don't know why. I also got rid of the tree. Someone pointed out that the tree should be getting larger as it nears. Since I couldn't, I just decided to get rid of it. I have some more room for more stuff now. Once left movement was res

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Gamegearguy in Odyssey 2

American Psycho / Session 9 / Dog Soldiers

American Psycho (2000) A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies. I remember back in high school, I had a discussion with my mother about this movie.  Since we're both fans of horror, I was convinced she needed to watch it.  She had other ideas.  She had heard stories from her friends about how insanely messed up the book was

Ringu / The Sixth Sense / Audition

Ringu (1998) A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it. I have to be honest, and admit that I was rather torn on whether to include the original Japanese movie, or the American release here.  That may be sacrilege to some corners of the horror community, but I don't care.  The remake brings a lot to the table, including a stellar job by Naomi Watts, and a few subtle changes that amp up the scares.

Scrolling where there is none (part 3)

I've been working on what I have for X vs. O. I added a flying O that goes by. This is what you're shooting at. But the most troublesome part was making this okay on a real Odyssey 2 because the screen part where the score is kept crapping out on me and I had to make it stable. Now after about three hours of programming, my right hand hurts because i've been typing and working the mouse too much. I've been going to sleep later and later. Yesterday I fell asleep at about 2:30 a.m. But i

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Gamegearguy in Odyssey 2

Event Horizon / Mimic / Deep Rising

Event Horizon (1997) A rescue crew is tasked with investigating the mysterious reappearance of a spaceship that had been lost for seven years. Hellraiser in space.  Did I make that up, or was that like a critic's quote used to promote the movie?  I don't remember, but it fits. Actually, lets call it Solaris, but stuff actually happens. Or how about Sunshine, before Sunshine was a thing. Whatever you want to call it, this is (yet another) movie I watched young (in t

Army of Darkness / In the Mouth of Madness / Seven

Army of Darkness (1992)   A sardonic hardware store clerk is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must retrieve the Necronomicon and battle an army of the dead so he can return home. I've bought this movie five times.  Initially, I got the director's cut as one of the very first DVDs I ever owned.  Then I got the edition that came bundled with the theatrical cut.  Then I bought the blu ray.  Then I bought the fancy Scream Factory version of the blu ray.  Then I bought t

Scrolling where there is none (part 2)

I just spent three hours on this: Fortunately, I had the scrolling all done from a previous project I gave up on, I just needed to add a tree and the X. I need to change the colors of the ground (x's can't walk on water and trees don't grow from the top of the water neither). Since I'm sleepy I'll go to sleep now and come back and read any feedback in the morning.

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Gamegearguy in Odyssey 2

Arachnophobia / The Silence of the Lambs / Dead Alive

Arachnophobia (1990) A new species of South American killer spider hitches a lift to a small California town in a coffin and starts to breed, leaving a trail of deaths that puzzle and terrify the young doctor newly arrived in town with his family. Did I mention that I had a fear of spiders growing up?  Because I still hate them.  Wouldn't touch one to save my life.  They're disgusting, they're all hair and legs and fangs, and they give me the willies.  Spiders suck. When I s

Scrolling where there is none

I'm having a bit of a problem here. I want the lines to get the visual effect that the game is moving forwards. Right now I have this: I need some more eyes to look at this. What do you think? I have three grids rapidly changing to create this effect. I was thinking along the lines of an ever-moving Battlezone type game where the Xs shoot at Os on the ground. If this is good enough I'll add some trees to move along with this.  

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Gamegearguy in Odyssey 2

Hardware / Night of the Living Dead / Misery

Hardware (1990) The head of a cyborg reactivates, rebuilds itself, and goes on a violent rampage in a space marine's girlfriend's apartment. Hardware answers the age-old question:  what it would be like if Blade Runner was set entirely within someone's high-rise apartment?  Also, a killer robot slaughters everyone.  And there's also this extremely creepy neighbor who spies on the main character having sex and says some of the most disgusting shit this side of a porno fi

Episode 37: Full Quiet

A Homebrew Draws Near! A blog series by @Scrobins Episode 37: Full Quiet Introduction: I’ve frequently praised new homebrew for both giving us new gems in beloved genres, and for pushing the limits of homebrew closer to the heights of the console’s licensed era. But for all the achievements developers have collectively reached, one peak remained to be summited: scale. While myriad games have proven so addictive, fans will pour hours into them, we have not yet received t

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