Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 (edited) Each game will be worth one point, so the points will be added up as "games completed" in the leaderboard. Feel free to comment as much as you'd like about the games you've completed (or not). Here are the rules: We're beating these games, starting now. All games must be started no earlier than the posting of this thread. (February 12th, 2024) There will be no "resets" at the end of the year; this is a focus on completing the entire library. Photos of ending are required Emulation is OK, but no cheat devices, cheat codes, looking up passwords, etc. Legitimate runs only. If you have questions about what constitutes "beating" a game, bring it up and we'll figure it out. (Typical requirements are to get an ending screen or credit roll, on the middle or default difficulty. Or beat the high score. Or win the tournament.) Some games are more obvious than others. Please respect these rules, but more importantly, have fun! Title Beaten By Notes/Requirements Addams Family, The Crabmaster2000 Defeat Gomez and reach the vault Beyond Shadowgate Crabmaster2000 Present Death with one of the 3 Items for a positive ending (Staff of Ages, Magic Sword or Paddleball) Bonk's Adventure Crabmaster2000 Defeat Evil King Drool Bonk's Revenge Crabmaster2000 Defeat Evil King Drool III Bonk 3: Bonk's Big Adventure Crabmaster2000 Defeat Evil King Drool III Buster Bros. Crabmaster2000 Beat Stage 53 (unlocked by beating stages 1-50 without using level select) Camp California Crabmaster2000 Defeat the Big Cheese Cosmic Fantasy 2 Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes Crabmaster2000 Defeat Naja Dungeon Explorer II Crabmaster2000 Defeat Phades Dungeon Master: Theron's Quest Crabmaster2000 Complete the Demon's Gate dungeon Dynastic Hero Exile Crabmaster2000 Defeat Shimbatha Exile: Wicked Phenomenon Crabmaster2000 Defeat Do-Tar Fighting Street Crabmaster2000 Defeat Sagat on the 4th Loop Final Zone II Crabmaster2000 Defeat Dr. Alif Ruman Forgotten Worlds Crabmaster2000 Defeat Bios Gate of Thunder Crabmaster2000 Defeat the Obellon Armada (Stage 7) Godzilla It Came From the Desert Crabmaster2000 Defeat the Ant Queen Jack Nicklaus' Turbo Golf Crabmaster2000 Beat the CPU in a match game John Madden Duo CD Football Crabmaster2000 Win the Championship in Playoffs mode J.B. Harold Murder Club Crabmaster2000 Solve the murder of Bill Robbins Last Alert Crabmaster2000 Destroy Indra Loom Crabmaster2000 Break the Loom and reunited with the Weavers Lords of Rising Sun Lords of Thunder Crabmaster2000 Defeat Zaggart Magical Dinosaur Tour Might & Magic III: Isles of Terra Monster Lair Crabmaster2000 Defeat High Baroom Prince of Persia Crabmaster2000 Defeat Jaffar and rescue the Princess of Persia Riot Zone Crabmaster2000 Defeat Tora (Stage 5) Shadow of the Beast Crabmaster2000 Defeat the Giant's Foot Shapeshifter Crabmaster2000 Defeat the Dark Ones Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Crabmaster2000 Solve All 3 Cases Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective II Crabmaster2000 Solve All 3 Cases SimEarth: The Living Planet Crabmaster2000 Reach Exodus Event on at least Average Difficulty Splash Lake Crabmaster2000 Beat stage 6-10 Super Air Zonk Syd Mead's Terraforming Valis II Crabmaster2000 Defeat Megus, The Emperor of Fantastic Dreams Valis III Crabmaster2000 Defeat Ramses Vasteel Ys: Book I Ys: Book II Ys III: Wanderers from Ys Leaderboard User # of games completed Crabmaster2000 34 Edited Monday at 12:48 AM by Crabmaster2000 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 (edited) I'm nearly done beating every TG16 game and once I'm finished with that I plan to start working my way through the Turbo CD library. So I thought this would be a great place to keep track of those games while I do so. But I'd also love some company if anyone else would care to join in, either to play/beat some games or even just discuss some of these titles with me I'd love that. I'll probably be a few more weeks to finish up TG16, but if anyone wants to get started on Turbo CD before me I'll be keeping an eye on here in the meantime. And if the numbers seems off that's because I split the bundled games into separate entries: Bonk/Bonk 2/Gate of Thunder and Ys Books I & II. Edited February 12 by Crabmaster2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 4 Author Share Posted March 4 Breaking the seal on this thread with Jack Nicklaus' Turbo Golf since it was still fresh from beating the TG16 version. It is essentially the same except for the saves are even better. On the TG16 version if you save it'll restart you at the beginning of the hole. In the Turbo CD version it saves right before your swing so you could theoretically try as many times as you want until you get the shot. Jack still isn't a very good golfer though in this version so you shouldn't need to rely too heavily on the saves. There are also voice clips before each hold describing a key feature of the hole and some actual music during the game too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 Other than the fancy game select screen prior to playing the game Bonk's Adventure was exactly the same as the TG16 version. Still kind of meh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 Bonk's Revenge is done now. Same as the TG16 version. I like that they didn't try to change the games a bunch like in Super Mario All-Stars and just left them as they were. Those SNES versions of the NES Mario games always drove me nuts for not being quite right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 So much Bonkin'! Finished all 3 Bonk's... again. 3 had a totally redone soundtrack which was kind of neat. It was mostly out of place music, but had a couple really cool track, like this one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 Gate of Thunder is done and it was fantastic. Really love this game and have never finished it before today. Great music, looks awesome all the power ups are amazing and you can swap them seamlessly whenever you want. Not too challenging, but just enough to keep you on your toes. Generous with the lives and continues. I played on Normal and the manual very clearly says that you have to play on Devil difficulty to truly defeat the Obellon armada, but I watched some videos on Devil Difficulty and it is the exact same ending. I think something was maybe lost in translation in the manual and it just meant to choose Devil to really challenge yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 Started working on Splash Lake this morning. Got to level 53 with all of the items so far. Sounds like if you can get all 60 items it'll open up 60 more stages and then if you get all 60 of those items it'll open up yet another 60 stages so 180 levels to go through all together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 7 Author Share Posted March 7 Up to the 70s now in Splash Lake. Puzzles are getting much harder so my progress is slowing down a lot now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red | 437 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 I'd like to join you on this if I can get my TurboGrafx-CD working. I bought a broken one years ago and never made an attempt to get it repaired. It powers on fine, but the disc doesn't spin. Hopefully it's an easy fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,102 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 (edited) 52 minutes ago, Red said: I'd like to join you on this if I can get my TurboGrafx-CD working. I bought a broken one years ago and never made an attempt to get it repaired. It powers on fine, but the disc doesn't spin. Hopefully it's an easy fix. Analogue Duo is the answer here edit: unless it’s that little gear that always breaks or a cable that needs reseating Edited March 8 by a3quit4s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 7 hours ago, Red said: I'd like to join you on this if I can get my TurboGrafx-CD working. I bought a broken one years ago and never made an attempt to get it repaired. It powers on fine, but the disc doesn't spin. Hopefully it's an easy fix. I'd love the company if you can get it running again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 I'm in the 100s now on Splash Lake. Made some decent progress today with my limited play time without getting stuck much. Over halfway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 2nd loop of Splash Lake done. 60 more levels to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 Turns out the last 60 levels just let you level select to the end. I didn't even mean to do it. I played a few levels and then picked End Game instead of continue to see if there were items to collect in the last 60 stages (There are not), and then when I pressed play it just auto started me on the very last level and fed me the credits. The credits for all 3 loops are identical so I don't think doing all 180 stages is even necessary. Just the first 60 should be sufficient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 Buster Bros is one of my all time favorite video games. Asked my son to pick my next game for me and after checking out covers for a few minutes he chose it for me. Love this game so much, good choice kid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 Played through and beat Riot Zone on my first attempt last night. Very easy as far as beat em ups go. Nothing too special, but I havn't played a good beat em up in a while so it scratched that itch. The opening cinematic was definitely the highlight of the game though. Very silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 Got very far into Exile today. My character's level is maxed out and I've now got the best equipment that is mentioned in the manual. Feels like I'm closing in on the end soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 So I was like 10 minutes from the end when I made that last post, lol. Had a little bit of time so I turned the game on and I had it saved right at the end. I love working designs stuff so this was a fun one for me. Exile was a very short and simple for an RPG, but it has that WD charm and as usual a pretty decent soundtrack. Got me hyped up for the sequel too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red | 437 Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 On 3/7/2024 at 7:20 PM, a3quit4s said: Analogue Duo is the answer here edit: unless it’s that little gear that always breaks or a cable that needs reseating I'm hoping that's what it is. I'm going to open it up in the next couple days. The Analogue Duo is something I'm considering, but playing old games on a modern TV never looked quite right to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 1 hour ago, Red said: I'm hoping that's what it is. I'm going to open it up in the next couple days. The Analogue Duo is something I'm considering, but playing old games on a modern TV never looked quite right to me. If you want to call out a few games I'll make sure to leave them for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red | 437 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 (edited) 21 hours ago, Crabmaster2000 said: If you want to call out a few games I'll make sure to leave them for you. It's okay. I'd like to give them a shot regardless if they're still on the list or not. I could still post my thoughts on them here even if they've already been beaten. Edited March 12 by Red 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 12 Author Share Posted March 12 Been playing Exile Wicked Phenomenon and holy crap is it hard. I googled it and the Hardcore gaming 101 page came up and explained the issue I was having. Apparently they accidentally made it super challenging when localizing it by changing the enemy values and it was too close to the end of production to do anything about it so they just shipped it as is. I was looking forward to a relaxing time like the first one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 12 Author Share Posted March 12 Just took down a boss that was a literal 20 minute fight. It was my 4th attempt. This game is a grind!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 501 Posted March 13 Author Share Posted March 13 Finished Exile Wicked Phenomenon. What a miserable experience. Super unbalanced game and not at all fun like the first one. And the music wasn't even that good either. The only saving grace was this wonderful cutscene late into the game: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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