Dr. Morbis

Even stranger: no score from grinny or gloves...

Time is short these days and most of my games are packed in preparation for a big move, but I'll throw down participation scores when I can... 38,200

Don't worry, he'll be looking through all of heaven, purgatory, and every last level of hell until he finds the sumbitch that did it...

Certainly not the best Mario game out there, but still a 10/10...

I can't help in terms of playing since I'll be packing up all of my stuff for a big move soon, but I can tell you that Wolfenstein is a really good port and Cannon Fodder is too. As for "exclusives," finding any good ones is definitely going to be a stretch...

Half the Genesis library > Sonic 2

They should have just jumped back into them doing their thing, busting ghosts for a living, then a big "mcguffin / problem / whatever" happens that they have to deal with. Spending half the movie getting them back together and leisurely turning them back into Ghostbusters again was a total waste of time. They even troll the viewer at the start: you're all ready to watch them bust some ghosts, then - bam - it's only a birthday party... All that said, it's still better than all the GB shite that's come down the pipe in the last few years, though.

Read for comprehension, bro! I quoted exactly what he said; here, I'll type it again in bold for you: "Anyone trying to race through the level without knowing where they're going is doing it wrong. It's like trying to speedrun ANY game without having mastered it first." He literally said that racing through a level of Sonic 2 without knowing where you're going on your first time through is like trying to speedrun ANY game without having mastered it first. He literally and actually said that. Read it again - he explicitly states that you have to approach Sonic 2 as a speedrunner learning the game with the intention of mastering it. Read it fifty more times if you have to. PS- the Sonic games were advertised and designed for the player to speed through them; if you're supposed to be going slow from the get go until you're at God level tier, then that's false advertising, terrible game design, and certainly news to anyone who's playing a Sonic game for their first time...

You don't get it: that's the flaw! You're arguing that the game is great if you approach it from the perspective of a speedrunner learning the game for the first time who is hell-bent on mastering it... but what about the rest of us?!? You're right, the game is great if you approach it as a speedrunner, because that's who the game was built for, but it sucks for everyone else. As someone else already mentioned, go and play/master Kid Kool if you think this is such an epically awesome way to design a game, and report back with your comments...

I love seeing Zanac make the hidden gems poll; that's my favourite shooter on the console, bar-none.

Reporting for duty!

My best friend (at the time) was forbidden to watch the premiere episode in 1989, along with several other kids I knew, because the ads made the show seem very disprespectful to parents/adults (my how times have changed...) so a bunch of kids came over to my house and we secretly watched the first episode in my basement. I think the last season I watched was maybe 2000 or 2001, but man, that first decade was a hell of a ride. It's also kind of an anachronism in the modern TV landscape to have a show centered around an all-white (yellow!) nuclear family; kind of like staring through the bars at the last surviving passenger pigeon in the Cincinnati Zoo...

I missed one bonus, but this is all I had time for: 400,950

I can't believe Bloodlines is going to go out to one of those shitty Sonic games...

Of course I agree with your post, but I just want to add that someone who is truly passionate about something in his heart is not going to up and quit just because someone he doesn't know from Adam was a dick to him; sure, he may go his own way and remove himself from the rest of the community, but if he actually loves NES (or whatever) he'll still be enjoying his hobby for years...