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Still some easy 7 pointers out there for somebody. Heroes of the Lance takes maybe 20 minutes to beat. And Battleship... why the heck is that 7 points? Should be more like 2.

Dash Galaxy is done. Good concept, bad execution with terrible controls.

What counts for the "import" games? Licensed games? Unlicensed? Pirates? also, Sachens?

47 minutes ago, nerdynebraskan said:

Dick Tracy is done.

Roger Rabbit and Dick Tracy back to back. Wow, 2 of the worst driving controls ever.

1 hour ago, BriGuy82 said:

A BOY AND HIS BLOB

 

Nice. It was cryptic to me as well when I was a teenager. Sounds like you got farther when you were 7 years old than I did a few years ago. I sat down and thought I was finally going to beat it. I think I gave up halfway through. Guess I still need to do that, with a walkthrough or something.

6 minutes ago, Foochie776 said:

Finally! Rainbow Islands is done, that last boss is SO tedious.

Nice job. I would say Rainbow Islands is an "undiscovered gem" of an NES game, even though there are not really any undiscovered ones.

14 minutes ago, Bearcat-Doug said:

Mine would probably be more standard like SMB, Mike Tyson's Punch Out, Zelda, Contra, Castlevania.

I think mine would maybe be Crystalis, Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, Ultima IV, Dr. Mario ?

Contra, SMB, and Tetris are definitely high up though too

4 minutes ago, scaryice said:

nerdy beat you to it 21 hours ago...

We need to start "Can VGS beat every NES game TWICE in 1 year?"

35 minutes ago, Dr. Morbis said:

I don't know how you play Koei games, but leaving large amounts of empty provinces lying around seems like a really strange strategy to me.  Are you aware that you can delegate provinces so that you don't have to deal with them anymore?  You can also tell provinces to automatically send excess rice or gold to your headquarters (or wherever you want); this is like getting free resources from about the midway point of the campaign onward.  All you do is leave exactly one general in each province behind your front lines, then max out his loyalty and delegate him to run the province on his own.  Easy-peasy...

No I didn't know that... I dunno, seems like I couldn't leave too many generals behind if I wanted to kill them fast. I only left behind the generals low in Power and/or Loyalty. The rest I attacked with, usually in 2-4 groups per attack. Oh well, doesn't matter now.

9 hours ago, Daniel_Doyce said:

Congrats! I don't think it's possible to end up with fewer than 58 generals unless you are ruthlessly executing everyone who opposed you Genghis Khan style, but i can see it being a pain to be done with the game and then have to spend a lot of pointless turns trying to find and recruit free generals.

Luckily I had enough (with maybe 2 extra) that I didn't have to recruit anymore, but it still took an hour or two, moving all the generals around, cycling through every state and passing on the ones that were in the right spot. If I didn't already know there was an ending I would have just stopped there and said it was beat. It will be a little while until I move on to RotTK2, so if somebody gets to it before I do, that's great!

OK, Romance of the Three Kingdoms is done! Really stupid that you have to go back and fill in the states with your guys, once you've eliminated all your enemies.

1 minute ago, Dr. Morbis said:

You have to put one general in every single province and then wait for the end of the month to trigger the ending, and if you don't have enough generals left to do that, you technically cannot "beat" the game.  So hopefully you haven't spread yourself too thin...

Yeah well that sure is annoying. OK, working on it. You can "search" for generals and find more, but you can only recruit them with Cao Cao. I've already gotten back 2 of them. But what a pain in the ass.

I killed everybody on Romance of the Three Kingdoms. But I didn't get an ending? Do I really have to fill every state with a general? There's nobody else left to fight... weird. Anybody know how I get an ending?

8 hours ago, Tablew/chairs said:

@Daniel_Doyce

i did championship pool last month the advice I would give is to just really take your time on each and every shot, you really have to get creative against some of the later opponents.  Basically check all the different power levels with all the different amounts of spin. I would routinely spend ten plus minutes on a single shot to figure out my best option.  Another thing that tricked me was the ghost ball only ricochets like twice so sometimes it looks like it disappears into the pocket but really it’s grazing the cushion and missing.

I was going to say the same thing. This is what I did when I beat it. Just very carefully figure out every shot. It was very time consuming. Pretty sure I walked away at times, leaving the system running. I didn't find Lunar Pool nearly as hard, but also time consuming. Although I haven't played either of them since I beat them several years ago.

2 minutes ago, NESfiend said:

Finished Jordan vs Bird.

Not a great game, but not godawful by any means in my book. I think itd be a crack up to play it 2-player

That's a good point, playing it 2-player might not be so bad. I'll revise my list and just put it in bottom 10 instead of 5.

1 hour ago, Daniel_Doyce said:

@WashYourFace@Crabmaster2000 There is a guy who has a couple of speedruns of Shingen on youtube. Basically, by switching between your two starting territories, you can quickly grind to a high level, then strategically battle each daimyo with a very limited force. It turns a 25-30 hour game into a "quick" 5-6.

Hm, thanks for the tip! I haven't played it in some years, but I'll make note of it in case I play it again!

49 minutes ago, NESfiend said:

Challenge accepted! I played through it last year but cant remember if it was fun. Ill pop it in and see if it meets my weird standards. It was def popular, but I never played it until last year

It's pretty easy to "beat", but I would put it in the bottom 5 worst licensed NES games of all. The graphics are horrible. It barely even qualifies as a "game". I looked back at my notes when I last played it: "There are different "modes" but they are all very simplistic...this is 1 step above Atari Basketball". LOL just my opinion of course, I'm sure some people out there love it!

Also, I am stunned to notice that it's worth 8 points. I should grab that, it really is easy to beat.

4 minutes ago, NESfiend said:

Captain Skyhawk is done. No end screen photo becuase there really wasnt one. There was a mission accomplished message after you beat the last boss. By the time I grabbed my phone, it was on a game over screen. WTH would you put a game over screen in after the end?

Generally though, that game is awesome in my book. All the Milton Bradley (marble madness, California games, captain Skyhawk) games I can think of are great

I would say Jordan v. Bird is NOT great, though. One of the worst actually.

6 minutes ago, Crabmaster2000 said:

I beat L'Empereur in 2018. It was so far the hardest KOEI game for me, but also one of the best ones. 

 

The first Nobunaga's Ambition was one of my least favorite. Would definitely rather play RotTK again over it. I'm starting Nobunaga 2 right now. Probably Bandit Kings of Ancient China after that. I think the only other KOEI game I still need to beat after that is Uncharted Waters which I'll get to at some point this year.

I probably just remember Nobunaga being better because I beat it the same time I beat Shingen the Ruler (which isn't a Koei game), and Shingen required a lot of grinding, but Nobunaga was a lot easier. After awhile all these games blend together. Uncharted Waters is much better than those, though. UW2:NH is one of my favorite games on the SNES.

56 minutes ago, Crabmaster2000 said:

I'll start 2021 off with some KOEI games. Finished Nobunaga's Ambition just today. Going to start on the 2nd one tonight or tomorrow. 

 

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Sweet, those are better than Romance of the 3 Kingdoms that I've been too busy to finish so far. Have you ever played/beaten L'Empereur? It's a pretty good game, hard though.

Yeah I want to say it takes me about 1-2 hours, including 1 or 2 failed attempts and pausing for snacks. I don't remember exactly though, it's been awhile.

2 hours ago, Foochie776 said:

Anyone have tips for family feud? Man this is a damn slog 

Yeah I don't know what to tell you. Some of the questions/answers are strange. But you just gotta get the right answers (or ones that are good enough). There are some "top answers" I've never figured out. A few don't make any sense. Most do make sense though. Eventually, things WILL repeat and hopefully you remember some answers. It takes me a little while to beat, but not that long. Just keep playing and get lucky, I guess.

3 minutes ago, bronzeshield said:

I practiced in an emulator too, and the thought of pausing again to practice did cross my mind! It's such a bizarre game -- you can tell they wanted to do something good, but they didn't put in any of the infrastructure to support it. Maybe they realized at the last minute that they didn't really have enough of a game, so they decided to make the last boss fight such a hassle to stretch things out -- or to discourage renting the game, who knows.

Did you use a pattern where you hit him 10-11 times, then go to the bottom right corner until he backs off? I came up with that one on my own., but I'm sure others have found the same thing.

I don't remember at all, it's been over 8 years. Even though the rest of the game isn't very hard, I find it pretty boring. I guess it's just a case of a bad port/version of an arcade game.

1 minute ago, bronzeshield said:

Ikari Warriors II is done. Pretty easy game except for the final boss, and once you know a pattern that works (which is no easy feat to find!) he's not too bad.

When I beat it, I practiced the last boss in an emulator until I got the pattern down, and then when I played the actual game, I paused and did one last practice on the emulator before unpausing and repeating in the real game. Such a stupid way to make the game though. What were they thinking.

12 minutes ago, CasualCart said:

 

Thanks for the input, dudes.

Yeah, I managed to get the Crystal Ball and the Door by myself on this playthrough, but that still results in the better of the two "bad endings".
Are you guys saying that if I start on the final stage with a second controller plugged-in and select "2-player continue", it'll give me the good ending? I might try that, since I don't have anyone to play with (you know, social-distancing during a global pandemic and whatnot...)

-CasualCart

I think you need to have 2 players in the game when the level finishes. So you need to have an extra guy available, and right when you beat the boss, Pause and hit Select (official use in the manual, not a cheat) to bring in player 2. No need to bring him in earlier. No need for 2 controllers.