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Yeah I looked at TMR’s run and he played for like 2 hours, then spent the rest of the stream learning the speedrun strategy lol. I’m going to play it for real though. As much as I love this thread, I want to check off the NES Ultima trilogy for my own ungodly gratification.

Does Videodrome on ZX Spectrum count as a movie game?

Drakkhen, this game is kind of cool. I used to play it with my friend as a kid and just crack up when we walked into lakes and our party exploded. As an adult who can take 2 minutes to figure out how a game works, it's pretty chill with fast progression, a map that shows POIs of the entire game, and easy auto-battles.

Man I give up, lol. 20 minute game, literally all the score came from the first 20 seconds of multiball. Can’t figure out anything consistent.

IIRC at least one of the previous Ultimas scaled encounters to the number of people in your party, maybe I'll try it. Most of these games are taking down notes of mantras and whatever anyway and the fighting is just a nuisance.

Unless something happens after spelling SANTA, it's only worth 1M which is absurd considering how difficult/random it is to hit it. So multiball, Christmas Millions, and Sudden Death Millions (whatever those are?) seem like the strategy.

25+ Survivor game badge I like the optimism. @ZeldaFreak get crackin'.

I'm considering taking one for the team and playing Ultima V next year. Anyone have tips to make it less painful? Not that the other Ultimas are painful, but in Exodus the spells Rot, Descend, and Map kind of break the game, so a party of Wizard and Clerics was cruise control. In U4 the game actually gets harder and more tedious the more you level up so leveling up is bad. Anything like that here?

In the few games I've played potentially everything worth less than 1M is basically worthless (especially the bonus X lane and spinner). I can't find a better strategy than lobbing it up top and hoping for random millions from the max lane score or Christmas Millions from multiball. Hitting the double scoring drop target doesn't prevent you from getting double scoring on a Christmas spin Light Kickback might do nothing? I drained immediately out the right outlane after getting this. You might as well reset until you start multiball in your first two plunges because it isn't that hard and it's one of your only avenues for millions. If you start a game after losing, the lock won't be lit. If you reset the console, the lock starts lit. The 3 Extra Ball targets on the right are worth 100k (and a ball!) but every time I tried to control the ball on the left flipper, I eventually ended up rolling it up into the left outlane, so this also doesn't seem worth intentionally going for.

I love The Witness and agree it's gotta be one of the best looking games ever. Proteus feels like someone made a cool art style, didn't know what to do, and just released their map generator.

Don’t actually do that, I like you.

Thief is OP. Go 4 thieves.

6/10, probably tied with my other favorite NES RPGs Ultima 3 and 4. It's good but all old RPGs have an amount of tedium that some newer games have managed to mitigate.

Yeah Malazan really seems like a breezy series to dip in and out of like that.

Listen, he's just appreciating the art of a superior culture ☆*:.｡.o(≧▽≦)o.｡.:*☆

1000009964.mp4 Ponyo

I really wonder what is in the Commando instruction manual. “Shoot da guys!”

Don’t you disrespect my Japanese computers

It's from the SUPPLEMENT to that issue of 1892 La Nature. Don't go buying the actual 1892 magazine

Our time is now

I went 7/10 but I played a ton of it as a kid. It's one of the first games I ever beat.

I didn't do anything? It's just got an S-video input on the back unless I'm misidentifying the monitor.

That thing rules. Lightweight, built in handles, S-video. I use it more than my PVM just because my main use case for a small CRT is to lug it around somewhere.

Poor black metal, you're all just one band now. Do people listen to Arcturus? I bought The Sham Mirrors as a kid and I love that album.

everything, send help