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I'm trying to find as many games as possible that only require the use of a d-pad or joystick - Any Console.  Some leeway is allowed...

What I have so far:

Qbert [NES] ("A" and "B" are used to select controls before the start of the game = 100% YES)

Marble Madness[NES] (Holding "A" speeds up the Marble.  This is mostly a static function so I'm giving it a pass = YES)

Roadrunner[NES] ("A" is jump, but is very rarely essential ie. one level with a few pit-of-doom jumps at the end - gets a pass = YES

Guess I'll double down on the thread with this one now that I've remembered it.

K, I'd say the final scene from "For A Few Dollars More", but that's def. a spoiler if you haven't seen it so here's a double instead from "Return Of The Living Dead."

Trash's Fantasy: Totally cracks me up every time.  WARNING: Approximate Nudity.  Don't worry, the tits are fake and something else seems to have been removed as well....

Which is followed Closely by the succeeding "Party Time Scene" Featuring 45 Grave.

WARNING: possible spoiler alert - someone may die - Click at your own risk.

I guess that wasn't so hard after all.

Wow, I feel like I've got 100 people in me noggin an I've got to get 'em all to agree on the single best pizza topping.  I'll be back later to weigh in if I can ever get this one straightened out.

We love to hate them, but once in a while one comes along that is truly special.  This is my all time favorite TV commercial which also happens to be for a video game.  I first became aware of it while watching the original TMNT Movie that I had taped on a VHS.  I used to rewind it and watch it over and over ;9  It probably had something to do with the fact that "Heavy-Yet-Still-Entirely-Danceable-Music" became a constant in my life.  Post your own favorite any kind of commercial or just a video game commercial that you find cool/unique/funny/interesting/disturbing... you get the idea.

Someone already mentioned Cowboy bebop, so I'll just buttress it w/the specifics: 26 episodes + Mish-Mash Blues (which was only in Japanese the last time I checked) + The Movie.

I've always liked the pilot episode for "Hound Town."  The show was never picked up, which was a real shame.  It was recently posted on youtube...

All the old Warner Bros. Cartoons, Bugs Bunny Road Runner Etc.  If it were me I'd be sure to have all the Roadrunners as well as all the sheep herders with Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog ("Mornin' Ralph   /   Mornin' Sam.")

Also, I rewatched some old Vhs episodes of Garfield And Friends recently - still had me laughing.

Back in the day when Saturday Morning was the shit, I used to watch "Terrible Thunder Lizards", which alternated on the Eek the cat show.  Basic Idea was 3 dinosaurs trying to eradicate humanity that consisted of a couple of 'odd couple' cave men.  One of them was always inventing stuff, like the wheel and the other one would declare it the height of stupidity. lol.  Would be interesting to see that one again.  Don't know if there's a dvd or something out there or not.

Last but not least: Watership Down (Movie, that is overall quite faithful to the book) Great hand-drawn animation and an even greater way to traumatize young children... or so I've heard.

On 7/29/2020 at 10:43 AM, 8bitsupremacy said:

Does anyone know where I can get a box protector for this?  It's my only naked game and I'd love to get it into a proper fitting protector.

1x SEGA GAME GEAR BOX CIB - CLEAR PLASTIC PROTECTIVE BOX PROTECTOR SLEEVE CASE

I picked up some of these recently.  They are taller to accommodate the hangtab/flap on a game gear game box and measure: 4 1/2" (perhaps 4 15/32")  X  7 1/8"

buzzandbingosmooncircus on Ebay

Not sure what measurements you need, but maybe this'll do it...

140,540

Some Serious Tetris Monsters In This Thread, Geeze.  Guess I shouldn't be surprised. ;9

Don't think I was ever marked down for 5-Screw Alpha Mission.  Post was on 7/3 page 7

Been playing Galaxy 5000 on the NES lately.  If you've never played it before it's sort of like R.C. Pro-Am except with Spaceships.  Acquired a Stiletto (the final ship) and made it to the 3rd Pluto Race tonight.  It's certainly not a flawless game, but definitely fun and unique enough to deserve a sequel.  It has a really great level of challenge.  Easy enough to get into right quick, but gets exponentially more difficult as you progress through the inner terrestrial planets.  The gas giants are harder yet, but the curve doesn't seem overly steep once you get good at the terrestrial planets.  Then when you hit Pluto (terrestrial again) it seems to be designed to give you a real whuppin'.  Planet X is last.  I'm guessing the layout'll be particularly weird in some respect, but maybe not as awkward as Pluto.  Definitely a Favorite for me!

On 12/31/2019 at 8:29 PM, scaryice said:

It's not necessary to get every ending or play on the highest difficulty (with a couple of exceptions where you don't play the full game otherwise).

As I've understood this so far, it seems to regard the playing of games like Double Dragon II or Bram Stoker's Dracula, on hard, as necessary because anything less leaves out entire levels; and refutes the necessity of playing a game (say Milon's Secret Castle) twice in a row in order to get the good ending (Ghosts n' Goblins being a technical exception here.)

My question is: In Mighty Bomb Jack, is it considered necessary to save the Queen, Princess AND enter the super-secret Final Chamber to deal with whatever awaits (in addition to saving the King) which grants the final ending?  Or is it only necessary to save the king which grants the player with the first ending?

I'm ciruuos to konw jsut hwo arcutcae teh 55 out of 100 emiiostatn is.  Aslo, is it teh lsat lteetr or teh lsat snuod taht has to go at teh end?  It semes Lkie theer are moer rqerumitnsee to teh wtriing tahn are seattd heer.

@Bearcat-Doug Who's the guy lying down in the Wrestling ring?  I know someone who looks exactly like this guy!

13 hours ago, Gary Hobbesworth said:

It's a pretty sadly underrated game, it holds up much better than a huge chunk of the action games from the NES library. Plus the boss fights were so cool.

I think my favorite part, aside from the chick in the tub, is shoooOOOOPing through the ventilation shafts in the mechanic castles; very bizarre! 

You're not crazy.  Everyone who doesn't understand is just a pus-pus.  When I was a kid eating grapefruit for breakfast I'd pile on the sugar.  Then one morning I spontaneously decided that I wanted to taste the grapefruit - been eating 'em sans sugar ever since.  On occasion I'll eat a whole lemon, but I'll only eat the rind if it's an organic lemon.  Can't say I've ever put tabasco on but I'm salivating here at the thought of it and I just finished eating.  I also like eating pomelos including the entire inch thick pith.  

Some people can't handle spicy food and have no desire to acclimate themselves to it.  They are missing out big time.  As a forager I'm always interested in new foods/flavors and I've discovered quite few that are very odd and probably wouldn't be liked right off the bat by anyone.  Sometimes a given flavor is so different from anything else I don't really know what to think of it until I've had it a few times.  

Also different people are predisposed to different reactions one way or the other.  Many years ago when I discovered ghost pepper sauce I made my way through most of a bottle, putting one tiny dot on each bit of burrito.  Then when I started to get tired of it I took it over to a friend to give it to him.  So what does he do?  He microwaves himself a hotdog and then just pours the ghost pepper sauce (which he'd never had before - nothing hotter than a habanero...) all over the dog as if it were merely catsup and quickly bites off about a third of the dog in one bite.  So I'm standing there with my mouth hangin' open and thinking our friendship is about to come to an end because I didn't warn him and he's just fine.  Said it was hot but that was it, no complaint at all.  I asked him how in the hell he could handle that without ever having had anything that hot before and he told me that when he was a toddler he'd eat whole raw jalapenos without a hitch.  

Thought this was going to be quick one and it turned into a ramble...

Here's some fav. Art for SNES / N64 / 32X

@CasualCart 

Yeah, for sure.  I missed a good deal on a Bomberman box recently.  It's too bad Hudson Soft had about 9 of their NTSC NES releases published by other companies.

Interesting how the PC Engine version of DDII has Marion's Cheeks hangin' outa that skirt.  Not to piss in anyone's cornflakes or anything but I remember thinking this was a super cool piece of box art when I was a kid.  Then a couple of years ago, I noticed that Mister Mustachio appears to be giving Billy an angry handy-J. lol  Anywayz, for a bonus, here's a woman's thong line on an unlicensed NES box.  I sense a possible tangent coming on here....

Once past the Sitar intro it reminds me just slightly of Oingo Boingo.  Interesting.

@Splain

Wow, well done!  I've been playing it here and there and I was still pissin' around trying to beat the boss on the 3rd mission.  I also noticed buggy goings on when facing that boss.  The strangest thing that happened was when I got there the boss just didn't show up.  Nothing I did made a difference, so I just rolled my tank all the way back to the left and let it sit there for a while; still nothing.  Finally, I put the controller down - a few seconds later the enemy showed up and started blasting the crap out of me.  Wondering if you ever ran into that issue?

Just gotta throw it out there: XEXYZ really is a totally cool game, not just something random that happens to be the most pickable X; So Delightfully weird, so Hudson Soft.  I mean how often do you get to walk in on a 12 foot woman taking a bath before flying away in a fish to battle one of these...

Here're my very whittled down cover art favs. for NES games.

8 Eyes (I'm making an assumption on this one that once I figure out how to control the guy and the freakin bird at the same time I'll really like it.)

Adventures Of Dino Riki

Back To The Future

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse

Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones

Eliminator Boat Duel

Faria: A World Of Mystery And Danger

Ghosts N' Goblins

Hatris

Isolated Warrior

Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu

Kabuki Quantum Fighter

Loopz

Milon's Secret Castle

Ninja Gaiden

Overlord

Paperboy 2 (Pinbot is soo jealous right now)

Q*bert (sorry Qix, you really do deserve better...)

R.C. Roadrunner Pro-Am II (aaauuughghghgh, It's driving a wedge through my mind!)

Stanley, Dr. Livingstone's Search For Snake Rattle N' Roll

The Simpsons

Untouchables

Vice Project Doom

Willow

Xexyz

Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

Zen Intergalactic Ninja

31 minutes ago, Californication said:

The music for Once Upon a Time in the West was Great. I think that might be a better movie than "The Good Bad and the Ugly."

I know you guys are talking about music, but I have an interesting tangent for you. Did you know For a Few Dollars More was almost an exact copy of the plot of a Kurosawa film? It's either Yojimbo or Sanjuro (I always get them confused.) And then the plot was used again in Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis and Christopher Walken. All three are good imo.

It's actually "A Fistful Of Dollars" that copies the plot of Yojimbo w/the Stranger in town who positions himself between the two waring families.  I haven't seen Last Man standing though.

Just for shits and giggles, here's a tangent upon a tangent:  The plot of the Kurosawa film "Ran" was acquired from Shakespeare's "King Lear."  Both deal with a monarch in his dotage who, due to senility, makes decisions concerning succession in regard to his 3 offspring which prove to be horribly destructive to the realm.

I just saw "Once Upon A Time In The West" for the first time a few months ago.  That theme is goose-bump city all the way through.  Here is one of my favs.