T-Pac

Nobody in my family plays video games, but my parents and my sister are always willing to try out some shoot-em-ups or early arcade-style stuff when I visit them. We actually just had a family vacation earlier this month and I got my sister to play through co-op Life Force [NES] from beginning to end. It was great. [T-Pac]

32/40 - Strider [Nintendo Entertainment System - 1989] Finished: 2024/07/21 Caveats: Used save-states and an online guide / walkthrough. [T-Pac]

T-Pac Arcade : Strider [Nintendo Entertainment System - 1989] This game didn't go over very well with me, but I'm still glad I played through it. And a correction to the video ... I've learned that the final boss guy is not, in fact, Strider Kain. It's a different villain named "Matic." Which makes more sense, but still reinforces my claim that the story here is hard to follow... [T-Pac]

Whoa - this might be the first time on VGS where I'M the one with nostalgia bias haha! Love Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Darth Maul is still one of my favorite fictional characters ever, and I used to draw Anakin in his pod-racer helmet all the time when I was a kid. [T-Pac]

Finished reading The Ox-Bow Incident (1940) by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. [T-Pac]

Shoot - you just made me realize I missed Slurpee Day AGAIN! That's cool, though. And I think we all have hopes and dreams of affordable game-collecting haha! [T-Pac]

Congrats, dude! What was your favorite game that you finished for the backlog challenge this year? Any surprise, sleeper hits? [T-Pac]

I appreciate the suggestions, but as I've explained before: This is just a personal project for playing through my collection, not for reviewing games to actively gain an audience or whatever. If you want more variety and beat-em-ups, you'll have look somewhere else haha. [T-Pac]

Great read, @Hybrid! Although I've gotta say - I learned a lot about misprints but not much about the guy behind them. Like ... What do you do for a living? What's your favorite breakfast cereal? What are your hopes and dreams for the future? What's the most comfortable pair of shoes you've ever had? Maybe you don't care for that stuff - but I'm always interested haha. [T-Pac]

I'm almost inclined to say I'd spend MORE money on a short game - even one with little to no replay value. Time is precious - and I'd love to fill mine with a large amount of great, short, memorable experiences as opposed to a smaller amount of mediocre, drawn-out ones (at least as far as video games are concerned). When I was younger I loved spending my time on endless hours of stuff like Animal Crossing, though. Maybe I'll appreciate that approach again someday - but certainly not today. [T-Pac]

31/40 - Super Aleste [Nintendo Super Famicom - 1992] Finished: 2024/07/14 Caveats: Cleared on Normal Mode (only using save states to pause between sessions.) [T-Pac]

T-Pac Arcade : Super Aleste [Nintendo Super Famicom - 1992] If you mixed the gameplay of Super Aleste with the visuals of Musha Aleste - you'd probably get the best Aleste game possible... [T-Pac]

It's been 4 years and I'm still wondering... [T-Pac]

I haven't played those ones, but I can see how an objective would make the formula way better. Tron Deadly Discs is fun from the brief time I've spent with it, but it might suffer from the same aimlessness haha. [T-Pac]

Dude - I didn't even know the arcade original had voice samples! Too cool. [T-Pac]