PII

Endless fluff surrounding a tiny rock-hard rubbish turd.

This is def. my new favorite Black Box Game.  It's even better than Balloon Fight!  

Also, I thought that Bubbles was a Crab at first because of that claw for turning.  Apparently she's a bubble fish...

LEVEL 16  /  117,630

1 hour ago, mbd39 said:

I'll never get used to how this game controls.

It takes some time to get used to hitting your desired direction just before you get there.

175,600

(124,100 + 50,000 + 1500)

35 minutes ago, Tabonga said:

From about 1917-1926 some young women who worked in watch/clock factories would later die a miserable death due to radiation poisoning.  Their job involved painting clock and watch dials with radium paint.  To get better detail they would frequently moisten the tips of the delicate paint brushes in their mouths.  In addition many would take paint home and decorate their bodies with it to amuse their boyfriends, They became collectively known as the radium girls.

The dangers with radiation really weren't understood - even the eminent researcher Madame Curie would die from radiation induced leukemia.  

Sounds like a good read.  Seems there's a long history of people being led to believe that this or that is perfectly safe until guess what?  You can't, because you're dead.

...or severally maimed....

24 minutes ago, Aguy said:

Licking uranium might not be a good idea, but licking myanium is a-ok.

@BeaIank It looks like there's a  bonus level after the first 5 levels and then after every 4 levels following that.

I also noticed that the Famicom version has different patterns than the North American release...

24 minutes ago, avatar! said:

And as a scientist, my immediate reaction is "seriously, you can't lick gas people"

Sure you can, I just licked the air!  It just doesn't push back much.  

On a completely unrelated note: Anyone for a Helium Smoothie?  You'll probably never use your tongue again, but you can try it once!

...My inspection was not exhaustive, but the part that caught my eye was that licking "Uranium" was only considered "maybe not a good idea."    

4 hours ago, G-type said:

In an interview with the Ninja Golf game developer, he said they were originally intending to make a Caddyshack game and just happened to mix in ninjas because they were popular in the 80s. No mention of being influenced by this movie... Yea, I ain't buying that!

This reminds me of Ridley Scott and Dan O'bannon denying for years, or perhaps it was even decades; I'm uncertain, that they were inspired by the Mario Bava film "PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES" from 1965.  They claimed that they had never seen the film and did not relent for a long time, but then years or decades later finally admitted to having seen the film prior to making ALIEN.  I guess they didn't want to be accused of being rip-offs in the early days of ALIEN and then enough time passed that everyone could simply see it rather for the "heavy inspiration" that it really was.

PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES, too cerebral for a B movie club?? 

Here's my breakdown.  Great movie.  Good Martial arts.  Great Special Effects.  Relatively Coherent Story.

In spite of all my peanut gallery comments I very much enjoyed this film and would recommend it.

In all seriousness this B Movie is probably better than 90% of all the "hundreds of millions of dollars to produce" films that I've seen."

On a scale of 0 - 5 stars I'd give it a very solid 17 1/2.

7 hours ago, Dr. Morbis said:

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...

So weird to see you putting up a participation score on a shooter  

3 hours ago, NESfiend said:

Curious what you and @Gaia Gensouki did for upgrade strategies. I was choosing all Rs, but only playing a couple days, I didnt mess around with all the letter and upgrade them each to see which is best in the end. When I went to check video for level 4 boss strat, the youtuber was going all Ls, but thats a sample size of 1

Basically I tried to level up Lasers and Rings as much as possible while relying primarily on Lasers since they can take out everything in their path unlike a traditional projectile.  By the time I got to the base stage (overhead stage) I had 8 Rings so picked up a couple more real quick so that I could shoot through the walls.  And then relied on lasers for the final stage including the final boss.  For stage 1 boss I did the same as Gensouki by going right under it with the laser.  Right before you get to him there're a couple of floating platforms that need to be dropped, the second of which is really low so you've just gotta barely get under it and then get out of the way for it to fall before zipping in to take out the boss.  2nd level boss was probably the most annoying.  It's kinda easy to get cornered if you're not careful.  And boy that final boss can be a long fight.  Main thing is to make sure you don't linger too close to him for too long or he'll bump ya and it's all over.

Bir-aye sounds about right.

...like Bür-eye.. 

It was a shooter week for me.  I did this, shot a couple of really great games of pool last night with a buddy and shot golf Sunday afternoon.  The shot of the day was on the last hole.  My drive went into a ravine that had a long tarp laid out in it that was held down with rocks on each side about every few feet and my ball hit one of those rocks and bounced really high to land on the green!

...And nice score @Gaia Gensouki, 700K is badass!

579,510

This is why I love playing the weekly.  When you finally get that no death it's such an intense run.  Feels great!

Hard game for sure, but really cool.  I love the level 4 music.  It's very unforgiving of error.  The worst thing in my opinion is that it seems to have more "invisible bullets" than any other shooter I've ever played.  In other words, it has a lot of: "What the heck even got me?!" moments.  That and bullets that seem to appear right after shooting an enemy, which if the enemy was close is a likely quick death.  Love scrolling in 4 directions though and shooting  in eight..

2 hours ago, NostalgicMachine said:

I was literally JUST playing this game all week lmao!

I saw that over at "What Are You Currently Playing?"  Figured you might show up here.   

For me it was that time when the powers that be on this Earth all became horrendously ill as a consequence of willfully cultivating evil and died lickety-split leaving only good people to take over the reins of power in every country, making peace with each other for the benefit of all.

...Oh wait, that hasn't happened yet.

Good luck, everyone!   

1 hour ago, a3quit4s said:

1 hour ago, PII said:

Use a yardstick to hit reset.

It's not so bad.   

Oh I can be even lazier I play on a Analogue NT mini so I just hit select + start

3 hours ago, a3quit4s said:

I probably would have done more runs on this but dying once and then having to enter the password again every time is a super drag  

Use a yardstick to hit reset.

It's not so bad.   

5 hours ago, OptOut said:

I just wanna live in goo, getting fed/jerked off by a robot. Is that a crime?! 

Give me everything you own and I'll keep you in a bathtub full of perpetually warm nutrient rich olive oil.  I'll even refresh it every couple of years or so.  And once a day I'll put on an N64 themed puppet show for your amusement.  

Do we have a deal?

"Nightmare City" from 1980 is one of my favorite B's.  Great example of a film that does some things well but is also ridiculous bad.  It's on Youtube in Italian w/English Subs.  I'll just leave it here for consideration...

"Burial Ground: The Nights Of Terror" from 1981 is also fantastic for much the same reasons..  Also on Youtube, and in English...

I played the crap out of this on Game Gear.  Great platformer.

On 4/3/2024 at 5:37 PM, Daniel_Doyce said:

I just got into the groove and zoned out while playing it by smoking cigars and watching 1990s Playmate profiles on shuffle in the background.

I think you forgot to drink Chartreuse while eating fettuccine alfredo and dove bars while also being in the hot tub at the time...  

2 hours ago, docile tapeworm said:

Me : “Bar-ee fighter”

anybody else?

boo!

 rye
fy-tah!

1 hour ago, Jupiter Jazz said:

I jumped into it today for the first time, and I’m enjoying it. It seems challenging but also fair with how it handles power-ups.