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Great music and visuals. The ninja gaiden wall jumping stuff is cool. I made it to the final bosses but never beat them.

I'm glad Shadow of the Colossus has you following the direction the light glints off your sword, rather than a floating green arrow pointing where to go.

its got a nice variety of objectives: trying to group the animals so you can jump over a bunch at once, rebuilding the walls, collecting the bonus items. My current goal is to break 100k. Right now I can get in the 80-90 range.

love it

New Hampshire is today... if she doesn't get at least better than 30% there's not much point in sticking it out... but she'll be gone after Super Tuesday at the latest.

Highlights: Pinball: Theatre of Magic (unfortunately it was down a lot), Pinball Magic, Venom, Attack from Mars Indie arcade: Line Wobbler, Scraperboard (like a low-fi cross between Tony Hawk Ride and Parappa the Rapper), Haber dasher (tilted a giant hat to make a man walk around) Wacca: cool rhythm game with a 360 degree touch pad around a circular screen. Killer Queen: great fun with a group. Music: excellent shows by Lacey Johnson and Bit Brigade. Gripes: Tron Legacy pinball has really annoyingly positioned upper flipper that is frequently in the way of the shot you're trying to make with the lower left flipper. Discs of Tron: the spinner was so jittery the game was unplayable. bummer because I love that game and rarely get a chance to play it. Wish they would have Ice Cold Beer available for free play more. A bunch of the panels I did check out were kind of duds that I bailed on after about 5 or 10 minutes. Too crowded! They sold out at the start of the first day. There was usually at least 1 or 2 people in line fore every single game I wanted to play. Couldn't get into a couple of the panels that I was interested in, and had to wait in some ridiculous long lines to get into the concerts... Bit Brigade was jam packed and smelly. Saturday was the worst... every lot was closed except to pre-paid parkers.. I was lucky to find a spot at the hotel lot, but horrified that it cost $39. Only 1 session of JS Joust, early on Thursday! (So I missed it) The arcade museum was pretty weak... I honestly don't know what the point of it was when it didn't really have anything of interest that you couldn't find in the main arcade room.. and a generally bad selection / curation. Computer/ console museum had about 50% less stuff than usual. None of the old computers they usually had.. no Vectrex.... bit of a let down Dealer Hall: 90% of it was pins and keychains... not very interesting.

I recently got to try a 2600 homebrew of Zoo Keeper. I'd never played it before and didn't know the rules, so I was kind of confused. I decided to look online to learn more about how it was supposed to play and I came across this really nice port for the Pico-8: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=112308#p I've since gotten quite hooked on it.

Edge of Seventeen is great.

Probably the best solution for both of them to be able to claim "victory". Billy's scores have been reinstated the same way archive.org reinstates defunct websites.

he's had 6 songs in the billboard top 100

I'm pretty sure that part is true. He breaks down the lyrics of the song in this video and talks about commonly hearing gunfire in south beach back then.

I really enjoyed this movie. I thought it was funny and creative.

Sales grew 9.3% to 1.92 billion

I'm sure there was some junk in there, but I've found plenty of good games to more than justify getting it: Celeste, A Short Hike, oxenfree, 2064 Read only memories, Night of Consumers, Overland, Tonight We Riot, Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor. (Celeste and Oxenfree I'd both purchased previously, but I don't mind since its a donation to fundraiser)

Jack Sparrow is an instantly classic character

I had bought this game for the switch, but later picked up as a part of a bundle that included 1700 games... I'm sure I'll never see more than 1% of the games in that bundle.

Its $50 more for this than a Retron 77... but it looks like a 2600, plays 7800 games and includes the 10-in-1... I'd say that is worth an extra 50.

I beat the "classic" Celeste for the Pico-8. I have only played a part of the full release but it seems very well done... I just don't always have the patience for high difficulty platforming.

pretty low score for Indigo Prophecy. That's one that's been in my backlog since it came out... one of my old friends had recommended it to me.

That just reminded I beat Commander Keen Ep. 1 in 2023... time to edit my tier rankings

very tempting...

I made it past the first couple bosses of Milon's but never finished the game. I would definitely need a guide too.

I probably should bump it up a tier, (I played it back in May so it wasn't as fresh in my memory). It's a really hard game. My high score was 25,650, playing on Difficulty 5, using shields, time warp, and penetrating shots, (but no guided shots) I always activated time warp right away to take out the mother alien on the first shot, and then every shot thereafter needs to take out at least 2-3 at a time. Don't use the shields until the time warp is finished.

Majority of the games I played this year were for the NES contest and the Atari High Scores

S Tier Mike Tyson's Punch-Out! (NES) Mendel Palace (NES) Super Mario Bros (NES) Popeye (NES) H.E.R.O. (2600) Ms. Pac-Man (2600) Joust (2600) A Tier Dr. Mario (NES) Legacy of the Wizard (NES) Renegade (NES) Mountain King (2600) Roc'N'Rope (2600) Tapper (2600) B Tier Metal Gear (MSX) Millipede (NES) Palamedes (NES) Commander Keen 1 (PC) Rad Racer (NES) 1943 (NES) Spy Hunter (NES) Tiny Toon Adventures (NES) Fantastic Voyage (2600) Frogger 2 (2600) Crystal Castles (2600) Subterranea (2600) C Tier Metal Gear (NES) Solomon's Key (NES) Battletoads & Double Dragon (NES) Guardian Legends (NES) Communist Mutants from Space (2600) Double Dragon 2 (NES) Ninja Gaiden 2 (NES) Isolated Warriors (NES) Yo! Noid (NES) Flash Gordon (2600) Gyruss (2600) Frogger Starpath (2600) D Tier Legendary Wings (NES) Ice Hockey (NES) Yie-Ar Kung Fu (NES) Pinball (NES) Defender (2600) Rabbit Transit (2600) Lost Luggage (2600) Crazy Climber (2600) F Tier Ski or Die (NES) Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes (2600) Burgertime (2600) Miner 2049er (2600)