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Also Shatterhand.

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Battle of Olympus is done.

Burnout 2 is done, assuming we're only counting the race mode and not the crash mode. I unlocked all the cars and won all the GPs. Also, I broke the game's physics during one of the police pursuits and fall through the ground(?) into the sky below(?).

SFC beat: Gokujou Parodius This is the second Parodius game for the system. It adds an option to turn off the "roulette" powerup orbs. They can give you any powerup if your timing is good but good luck doing so while focusing on not dying. If you stop the roulette on the "Oh!" space or any powerup you already have, you lose all your powerups. I find them more of annoyance than help so it's nice to be able to turn them off. It also adds an option to respawn right where you die, with a few bells appearing, instead of getting sent back to a checkpoint. These options make the game a more pleasant experience imo. I beat on a variety of difficulties with a variety of characters (there are 11!) mostly with lives cranked up to 9, roulette off, and respawn on, but I did get one beat with default settings (2 lives, difficulty 4, roulette on, respawn off). There is a comically difficult 8th difficulty level accessible by inputting the Konami code on the options menu. I got through that by credit feeding and grabbing a green bell for invincibility after dying (and dying again shortly after the invincibility wears off).

Soldiers of Fortune is done. I had to use a guide to find all the secrets to make it through the second half and I had to restart from my world 4 password a few times. I think there's a kernel of a great game in here but the unforgiving difficulty lets it down. It's probably more fun with a second player.

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Resident Evil 4 is done.

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Terrible beat em up. The safe thing to do against many enemies is jump attacks, which is boring. Larger enemies have some weakness you need to exploit, like doing running attacks. Final Fight would hit arcades later the same year and define what a beat em up should be. Everyone with a positive opinion of Golden Axe seems to be someone who played it back in the day and is wearing nostalgia goggles. 3/10

Madden 06 is done. I took the Giants to the Super Bowl and beat the Colts on Rookie difficulty. Rookie is extremely easy. I was regularly scoring 100 points a game and shutting out the opponent. I'll play again on the next difficulty. Here's Tom Coughlin getting Gatorade poured on him.

Do you have the manual for Phantom Fighter?

I haven't no-deathed SRnR but I have 1cc'ed it. I wasn't even trying to 1cc, just trying to beat, but it ended up a 1cc. If you've got the early stages mastered, you can do it. You just need to keep trying until you get good runs on the ice levels and boss on the same attempt.

Boomer's Adventure in Asmik World is done. That was wayyyyy harder than I was expecting. You move slow, you dig slow, the enemies are numerous, and the bosses are ridiculously hard.

You have me for NFL 2K3 when it should be NFL Blitz 2003.

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If we're only requiring one scenario completion, you can add me for SimCity.

Kirby's Pinball Land is done. I looped the game 3 times and beat my high score from 25 years ago with a score of 6,852,090. After looping the first time I had an amazing run on the soccer bonus stage. I didn't know until now, but if you keep scoring goals and getting the points per goal to 64000, then 99000, each goal after that gives you an extra life. I got 5 or 6 extra lives that way. Nearly every shot went in.

Do you have to complete all the scenarios in SimCity? I completed Tokyo and and it said something about maybe you should run for president. I tried the Detroit scenario and failed several times even though I got crime down. The game isn't clear about what the win condition is. I'm giving up on SimCity.

How does one become president in SimCity? Is that the same as reaching Megalopolis (500,000 population)?

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Super Bonk is done.

That's precisely it. I hate the controls. I really didn't like having your running speed based on how long you've been moving, plus taking too long to get to max speed, plus even the max speed being pretty slow.

@acromite53's beat of Fire Shark is missing from the first post. I just beat it myself, 1cc on Easy, not-1cc on Normal. I'll try Hard tomorrow. Regarding NBA Jam: I don't have either NBA Jam game on Genesis, but I do have Tournament Edition on SNES. It keeps track of which teams you've beaten and iirc something happens when you beat every team. Assuming that's the same on Genesis, that should be the beat criteria imo, not winning a single game. I'm not sure if vanilla NBA Jam has that or just Tournament Edition.