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32 minutes ago, Gloves said:

So let's start with something people have probably actually seen. Ren & Stimpy.

I've seen pictures of these characters before. That's where my familiarity with them both begins and ends

Not gonna pretend it looks particularly appealing

21 hours ago, RH said:

FF V is a good balance of what I enjoy form Square but also doesn't feel like you have to be so super-involved into it to get out of the game what all it has to offer.

Yeah, I love FF6 and 5 but for very different reason. 5 is lighthearted and fun. Just go on an adventure and don't think too hard about the plot and characters. The world is cool regardless.

FF6 has a surprisingly gripping storyline with some really engaging events underway. It was the first game I ever played that managed to pull that off on such a scale, and to this date I don't think many other games really come close.

12 hours ago, G-type said:

You would assume wrong. Those are some of my least liked genres. I'm mostly an (single-screen) arcade guy.

In this case you should honestly like Gain Ground (hell, it IS a single-screen arcade game). It's a lot more fun than it looks. 

14 hours ago, GamerSmith548 said:

People say this game is frustratingly difficult, but I was actually breezing through the game. It wasn’t until the last level that it became incredibly difficult (I spent 2 hours on it)

I'm going to take a good guess and say that if you spent 2 hours on one level, you probably got a game over more than a few times. Maybe that's why people say it's difficult?  

Still trying to understand the theme of this thread

54 minutes ago, DarkTone said:

Any tips? 

When you're rolling, you can't take damage. When someone attacks you and you are familiar enough with their attack animation to know how it will play out, roll into their attack with correct timing, so you can counterattack immediately afterwards.

This is really important for an early boss which will gate off the rest of the game until you get a good feeling for this.

Bomberman 64?

This is the most bootleg looking NES cart I've seen in a while. There are no logos on the label, the image is stretched horizontally, and the paper itself looks like a photocopy.

I'm curious what about it makes you think it could be legit?

I rarely buy NES games anymore, because I basically have everything I want. "The complete set" as they say, except across all regions, and without all the garbage shovelware. There's only a handful of the more spicy titles left that I still don't own - Cowboy Kid, Young Indiana Jones, Over Horizon, Cosmo Police Galivan and a few I don't really remember.

But some times there are games I just didn't consider previously, for various reasons.

The Ultima series, of course, is mostly at home on PC platforms, with the console versions being massively simplified - "dumbed down" even. On paper that's not really ideal for a series that's notable specifically for its complex underlying systems.

Ultima 4, however is a game that's often highlighted as one of the better NES RPGs, and I think most people would tell you that this game and the original PC/Apple2 version are two entirely different games, and I feel like my exploration of the NES library isn't really complete unless I've played it. Playing it without playing any of the PC Ultima games beforehand does feel kind of dirty though.

This is also one of those annoying games that aren't particularly "expensive" as just a single cartridge, but which are only available as an import - so with shipping and customs and everything, it ends up costing three times as much, more expensive than any modern PS5 game would have been And I feel like I'm gonna miss the manual for this one particularly.

1 hour ago, GamerSmith548 said:

I honestly wish this one lasted longer. Contra may be hard, but the Konami Code allows you to breeze through the game in under 30 minutes

If you rely on the Contra code to get through the game, and wish you could get more than 30 minutes out of it, there's a really simple cure for that. Practice beating the game without cheat codes and without continuing

Comix Zone isn't even good. The question is whether Splatterhouse 2 is

Agreed. All the games are great, but 4 is where I felt the MM series really coming together in a single flawless package! 

Oh, this game is on my backlog list for 2024, so I'd love to participate. I guess the contest is over already? 

Marble Madness without a trackball sounds like something that just wouldn't work, but I've heard people speaking really favourably about tengen's MegaDrive port as well. Haven't heard that much about the NES port before. 

This game apparently has several levels of "completion", some of them seemingly just to waste your time.

I honestly wish it didn't, because gong for the optional challenges is generally what makes this series fun,and that's true for crash 4 as well. 

Crash Bandicoot 4 is one of those games that you think you're done with and then it goes on for another 180 hours. What the hell was going through the heads of the people who made this. I'm lagging behind on my backlog now 

1 hour ago, Tulpa said:

Burgertime Deluxe on Game Boy. I know it's kind of a Donkey Kong 94 situation, but it's closer to the original Burgertime than DK 94 is to DK. The music is better, the levels have more variety, and the controls are much smoother. 

Have you ever tried Super Burger Time? Sounds like a similar deal.

A rare Never/Never from me.

I actually bought the game, expecting to play it some time. But I've become increasingly jaded with these types of games and David Cage in general... I feel fairly certain that it's not a game that'll realistically ever enter the rotation at this point  

Tower of Doom?

13 hours ago, Knights of Bytes said:

Awaiting your first impressions.

Busy with other games, so only played around on the first two stages.

I try to support any promising looking homebrew, but I'd say so far Sam's Journey has been a very positive surprise regardless! Easily in the upper echelon of NES homebrews.

I'm not a big fan of C64 games, but I do love the C64 look, right down to the music and color palette. And even the attract mode is a loving callback to the C64/Amiga era of European video games. I watched some footage from the C64 version, and obviously the NES one seems to mimick it very closely, just with somewhat more detailed graphics.

The platforming and enemy design so far feels a bit pedestrian, but where the game really shines is how cleverly the secret collectibles are hidden, making good use of thinking slightly outside the box, and maintaining the various skills you can pick up throughout, even on the very first stage finding 100% was very satisfying.

The aggressive vertical scrolling was a bit uncomfortable to me at first, but I got used to it really fast. I do wish the various powerup pickups had had a different sprite indicating which power you get, instead of having to remember which similar color is which.  

7 hours ago, Gaia Gensouki said:

I'm going to say something outrageous: Mega Man and Castlevania games were better on the Game Boy than on the NES.

I agree with one thing, that *is* outrageous.

7 hours ago, Gaia Gensouki said:

Maybe you could also count Donkey Kong since it expands the arcade game to a completely new and original game.

Completely different game, too, barely resembling the original. If it weren't for all the tedious puzzle elements it could have been a lot of fun. I wouldn't count it. But then I wouldn't count Zelda either, but that one definitely is a lot better.

Can't wait to try this out tonight

Really nice production quality too, the cardboard, manual, etc.

Rocket Knight and Sor2 are both absolutely in the run for best megadrive game whatsoever 

It's a classic for a reason. It's often been framed as sort of an underdog cult classic, or a bad movie that's endured through its camp values and loving fanbase, but I'm not really sure it fully qualifies as either. Sure, Tim Curry probably(?) wasn't a big name until after he broke through with this role, but it's also got Susan Sarandon and Meat Loaf on its cast list.

Richard O'Brien getting both the stage production and this movie made however probably still qualifies as quite an underdog story  

In general it's just a fun movie with memorable songs and setpieces, that's ultimately more than the sum of its parts. If nothing else it's an important piece of cultural history. I don't really feel like ever watching it again however. Maybe when my son gets old enough to appreciate it? 6/10

NG Dev Team were selling a small batch of rejected copies of Gunlord X and Razion Ex the other day. I missed the original run of Gunlord X, so picked up a copy to make sure I wouldn't regret it later. (physical PS4 copies are coming later this year though). There's absolutely nothing wrong with the copy I got outside of a tiny crease in the corner of the manual.

So this is my current collection of NG Dev Team releases. Only one is an actual Neo Geo cart - Kraut Buster, which is also the only one of their games which has never been ported yet, so it's the only way to even play that game. (though the Neo XYX port is also famously spotty)