Gloves

Never seen it.

Oh my #1... Binding of Isaac.

Oceanhorn was pretty good.

I have beaten Prince of Persia: Sands of time. Easy to see the influence it has had on other series, but overall it was honestly pretty dull by the halfway mark. It got interesting enough in the last 10% of the game, but it's definitely not something I'll likely ever replay.

Are you the person who made it?

Yeah if you'd like to do so you're welcome to! Here's the repo: https://github.com/DouglasKGlover/gloves-off-games I've not worked on the ReadMe yet so there's crucial details to getting up and running technically missing, but you could probably figure it out. The CMS I'm using is Contentful, though technically any GraphQL capable headless CMS should work just fine as long as you have a schema in-line with the data pulled (see the /graphql/ folder). The framework in use is Nuxt, an open source Vue framework, set to SSG mode for static hosting on Netlify (or similar - Heroku, etc.). If you wanna try to make your own copy and run it, I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. Also open to feedback and criticism on the code if you have any.

Yeah the text shadows might go. They were fun to start but it's definitely a kinda old school gaudy look. Thanks for the feedback!

I've added a few more features to my tracker. Since I have games able to be set to "WTS", as well as for additional archiving purposes, I have added a photo gallery as an option for games. You can see this in action on Contra III which I added today: https://glovesoffgames.com/games/super-nintendo/contra-iii-the-alien-wars I've also added a "Requirements for Completion" field which will outline for each game what I need to do in order to consider the game "Completed", an upgrade from the more obvious "Beaten" (see the end credits, generally). All of the features that I've added will only show up for games I've added them on, so it's not all cluttered. For instance, on Contra I've not written any blog entries, so that section doesn't appear at all on that page. Entries will naturally and progressively grow the more I play them add photos, etc.!

Seriously - no loading screens! I've been a pc gamer for a long time and have always seen the huge difference a good pc makes over consoles with loading speeds. Dark Souls was INSANE when it released, hiding loading behind elevator rides and ladders very cleverly; not the first to do so, but the one to do it best first, it was seamless. We take stuff like that for granted today, but go play PS1/PS2, even simple games, it's day and night. Some games on early disc systems are nigh on unplayable compared to their alternatives, like Chrono Trigger. Ever played that on PS1? It's a nightmare!

It's my wife's birthday today, that's all it's ever really been to me personally. Regarding the terrorist attack in the States, I was in French class in grade 7 or 8 at the time I learned that it had happened. It really didn't directly impact me or anyone I knew at the time.

That's the biggest point though tbh, it's not going to ever be about direct graphics upgrades again, it'll be about more at once, and more quickly, at higher resolutions, with less FPS drop. Frankly I'll be glad to see the conversation move away from how many hairs there are in Kratos' beard and over to how many dudes he can take down at once.

I don't think so. There's always the potential for exciting new games and that's what it's all about. Sometimes it's the indie diamond in the rough, others it's a really well polished AAA title, I'm always open to new experiences.

This is my first time playing, yeah, so I wanna get it as original as I can without being silly about it.

I'm playing Ultimate Doom, bought it on GOG. To my knowledge, this is the original game, plus an extra episode. No bells and whistles, I'm controlling it like you would have at release.

I ended up actually liking it a lot. It's definitely not very polished, there's a lot that you could say about it that's negative. But given the time it came out, I actually think it's pretty good.

A 1CC allows for deaths; a 1LC does not.

Fun fact: One of my favorite 90's PC games is Realms of the Haunting. Yet, as discussed, I've not actually played Doom prior to today! xD

I'm playing the original. Else I won't recognize or appreciate the upgrades on other versions.

Alright I've started playing the PC version. Will report back.

I had planned to play it eventually, but I seem to recall reading that the SNES version was the worst version. Is that true?

xD I recognize its importance of course. We weren't well off, we didn't get new games regularly. Most of my games as a kid were traded for; the first game I owned was FF on NES, for which I traded some Pepsi pens. Eventually I did play some Doom CLONES at a friends house; again though, myself and all of my friends' families were all pretty poor overall. We didn't actually play full PC games, we had shareware and that was about it, so we'd play the same first few levels of games over and over. Growing up I mostly played obscure games, not a lot of mainstream stuff. I've been "catching up" over the last few years playing the "must-haves" for the systems I collect for.

*ahem* Never played it.

By the way, I wanna point out - FINALLY Canadian versions getting the love they deserve! I look forward to selling my sealed super rare games with the extra French manual on the outside of the case.

I refuse to allow it to!

I recalled Mario 64 DS having question mark blocks, but it turns out all but the yellow blocks (red here): Yellow coin blocks are still an exclamation in the DS version: According to the wiki they changed all of the exclamation mark blocks to question marks EXCEPT for the yellow one. Nintendo re-writing their own history AGAIN!