G-type

are they a legitimate service or a scam?

bonus points if you recognize Journey of the Sorcerer from a certain TV show.

1 hour ago, The Count said:

There's no way I could even come close to a relevant guess with these mostly obscure systems.

I don't think DOS based PCs count as an obscure system... but the game library is pretty big

Ok nothing obscure this time:

2 hours ago, RH said:

Did you grow up on Amiga?

This is an aside question but did you all play/know about Commodore products much as a kid?  I don't know why, but I didn't even hear of a Commodore 64 until I googled what Strongbad meant by having a computer called a "Compydore".  I only heard about Amigas in late high school.  I mentioned this in the past but as a kid growing up, the Neo Geo was that magical, mystical console that existed some where in the world, then there were a few kids who had Turbo Grafx 16s and it was just an odd fluke, and then there were these computer/consoles that basically were 100% off my radar?  Did anyone else have a similar experience?

You guys can post these games but to me their like obscure, foreign titles.  As a kid I didn't know anyone who owned or played Commodore/Amiga titles. Ever.

I went from TI-99/4A to DOS/ IBM PC Clones... 286>386>Pentium... (we skipped 486) pretty much every  Amiga game got ported to DOS (including Star Goose)... it just looked slightly degraded.

I did know about Commodore 64. My friend had one and we played on it sometimes... (although more often, we played NES)

Its Star Goose

The eyeball was from when the game switches to a 3d view as you travel through the tunnels

fun cartoony animation built on a classic game genre.

unfortunately google search reveals the answer... so try not to do that.

It’s a shooter for Amiga/dos

nope

another image from the same game

its more of a strategic action game (not to be confused with a "strategy" game). I'd put Mendel Palace in the same category as Bomberman

I've gotten as far as the first staff piece. I haven't had to deal with getting lost yet... its mostly just the challenge of timing the jumps and avoiding hazards with the isometric view that is giving me trouble

39 minutes ago, wongojack said:

This is one that I keep de-prioritizing.  I really do want to play it seriously someday.  How was it?

It's worth playing from a historical perspective as a precursor to games like Dragon Warrior. For the Atari, there really is nothing else like it. It's the only actual RPG on the system. (Adventure doesn't count). As for the gameplay itself, its pretty basic. Roam the landscape, picking fights, grinding up your stats and gold enough to be able to clean out all the shops in the second level before facing the dragon. Very RNG dependent in the early part of the game, but once you've built up your attack enough (called "Dex" in this game), its just a simple matter of not letting your HP (called "Str") drop too low.

I've started playing Solstice of my backlog... and given its difficulty, I don't know if completing it is a realistic goal for me... I'll give it a few more days.

just beat Dragonstomper

A lot of these boomer revolution songs are just a sad reminder of how things turned out.

On 2/9/2024 at 3:06 PM, glazball said:

The Goonies R Good Enough by Cyndi Lauper should be on the list!  And maybe Day-O from Beetlejuice.  Bohemian Rhapsody in Wayne's World?  (Are we only including songs made FOR the movie or just notably used in it?)

Majority on this list were made for the movie, although a few were just notably featured. As I mentioned before, this thread was not intended to be a comprehensive cataloguing, so there's no point to nominating additional songs unless those songs are in your top 3. 

13 hours ago, TDIRunner said:

I've been on a Metroidvania kick lately,

You tried Hollow Knight?

Jr Pacman is crazy hard! The maze is huge and ghosts are so fast and deadly. I was shooting for 20k, but this was my best.

Also spent some time messing around with Dragonstomper... this is like Dragon Warrior, but for the Atari:

I was planning to do a larger selection, but I tested and it was google-able

Hagane

I would have liked to get a sequel to Metal Arms: Glitch in the System