If you don't think NES games are fun then I feel sorry for you, NES and SNES games are the best man.
Also, shameless plug here, but if you happen to like Mega Man 3 for NES, and have fond memories of it, then I made this for you:
https://soundcloud.com/jacob-martin-28/mm3ts-jacob-martin
Look all I am saying is that they make you pull your own hair out at some point. I have a huge collection of games for both systems, but I would be lying if I said I have not spent a good amount of time throwing my controller at the Tv in frustration.
It's the poor carpenter who blames his tools for his own shoddy work :P
Is anyone here playing Assassin's Creed Unity on PS4? and if so did you get the pre-order bonus from Gamestop? if not let me know I have an extra code.
I have finished Alien: Isolation main campaign and I must say it is the first good game I have played in a while now. And certainly the best Alien game to this date.
真実
I'm thrilled for you.
80 Days (2014)
Wonderfully enchanting experience. Highly recommended.
Since becoming a fan of the 1985 Jennifer Connelly film Phenomena, I learned that the Japanese made a video game for the SNES that was inspired by the movie -- Clock Tower.
Needless to say, I was interested in checking it out. And I did. And gotdang it, if it isn't an incredibly hard sonuvabitch to play. You can't exactly "walk" the character you're playing conventionally -- you either have to move the cursor in the direction you want Jennifer to walk towards then press "Y", or press the "L" or "R" buttons to make her run left/right -- and when this bastard
appears on screen, you have to run and hide until you lose him; you don't have any weapons to defend yourself with -- all you can do is press "B" repeatedly to block his scissors and push him to the floor if he catches up to you, and that's only a temporary solution; he'll eventually spring back up and resume the chase in no time flat.
I've been playing the shit out of Spelunky (the freeware version) lately.
Actually, I spend so much time on it, it's making me realize even more how much of a no-life-having lazy piece of shit I am. I wake up hours after any sane person would wake up, everyone else is out there doing stuff and I lie there like a lump. The rest of the day I only leave the room to eat or go to the loo. I spend my filthy life staring at a screen.
It's the end of January already? 2015???
Oh, sorry, I went on a tangent there. I've also been playing Pinball Dreams 2 and Quake 1.
Some good Star Wars games in this week's Humble Bundle.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
I stumbled upon a glitch in SMB1 I had not seen before.
Koopa stuck in a pipe:
Speaking of Super Mario Bros, Super Mario All-Stars (SNES) gives me such mixed feelings I feel like I might explode. WHY!?!? The graphics and sound quality it gives the games is great. But for SMB1, they fucked up the physics and nearly ruined the game! It's all choppy and hard to get momentum in all stars, in the original it was so smooth and once you mastered it I felt like you could just glide through the levels.
The Super Mario All Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 3 kicks ass though.
Leonardo said:
I stumbled upon a glitch in SMB1 I had not seen before.
Koopa stuck in a pipe
That's cool! I thought I'd seen all there is to see of that game. How do you do it?
Possessed said:
Speaking of Super Mario Bros, Super Mario All-Stars (SNES) gives me such mixed feelings I feel like I might explode. WHY!?!? The graphics and sound quality it gives the games is great. But for SMB1, they fucked up the physics and nearly ruined the game! It's all choppy and hard to get momentum in all stars, in the original it was so smooth and once you mastered it I felt like you could just glide through the levels.
The Super Mario All Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 3 kicks ass though.
Yes! I have the same feelings. I was actually playing SMB1 on All Stars just a couple days ago. I had forgot that they messed the control up.
Yeah... I wish there was some way to extract the game engine from the NES version and paste it into the code for the SNES version.
Because I have an OCD where if somethings a series I want to watch/play the same edition of all of them. For example when I was a kid I had the "Faces" vhs of Star Wars but the 92 printings of ESB and ROTJ (the ones that used movie posters) so I had to buy the 92 printing of SW to make it match.
This raises horrible problems for me with the mario bros series, as the NES version of SMB1 has better play control, but SMB3 for SNES is just awesome in every way. WHAT DO I DO!?!? It causes me way more grief than it should. Should I play SMB1 for NES and SMB2 and 3 for SNES? That's just ludicrous.
There is a ROM hack of Super Mario World that hacks all the levels to super mario bros. 1. It's better than All Stars, but I've always liked the charm of the SMB1 physics and how you can't change direction mid-jump.
The same author made a hack of super mario world that does nothing but replace the graphics in super mario world with graphics from super mario bros 3 (SNES) that is awesome though.
ray_afraid said:
Leonardo said:
I stumbled upon a glitch in SMB1 I had not seen before.
Koopa stuck in a pipe
That's cool! I thought I'd seen all there is to see of that game. How do you do it?
I don't know how or why it appeared, it probably had something to do with the number of enemies that were present on screen before that Koopa spawned. I wish I had taken note of which world it was, instead I just took a couple of pictures with a crappy webcam and then kept playing as normal.
It looks like it's either world 5 or world 7.
DuracellEnergizer said:
Since becoming a fan of the 1985 Jennifer Connelly film Phenomena, I learned that the Japanese made a video game for the SNES that was inspired by the movie -- Clock Tower.
Needless to say, I was interested in checking it out. And I did. And gotdang it, if it isn't an incredibly hard sonuvabitch to play. You can't exactly "walk" the character you're playing conventionally -- you either have to move the cursor in the direction you want Jennifer to walk towards then press "Y", or press the "L" or "R" buttons to make her run left/right -- and when this bastard
appears on screen, you have to run and hide until you lose him; you don't have any weapons to defend yourself with -- all you can do is press "B" repeatedly to block his scissors and push him to the floor if he catches up to you, and that's only a temporary solution; he'll eventually spring back up and resume the chase in no time flat.
That game kicked ass. I had the wonderswan version at one time, and the sequal was also awesome.
Possessed said:
It looks like it's either world 5 or world 7.
Yes. Could very well be world 7, cause I remember repeating this level many many times over.
Next week my internet will be upgraded, more upload speed wich will hopefully result in me being able to stream something basic, say like a crappy webcam propped up in front of my composite monitor hooked up to the Nes. :)
You actually play on a NES? Amazing. Mine quit working ages ago. I then purchased a "retro duo" which played the cartridges reliably, as well as SNES cartridges. But then I made the jump to HDTV and switched over to emulators with a pc hooked to the TV since the use of video filters (especially with SNES and N64 games) made these games look great on an HDTV whereas running a real NES console would either make it blurry or pixelated. SuperSAI2x for super nintendo games makes them look fantastic, *almost* like they are a modern game that was drawn to look retro.
My cousins have an nes 2 (with original rectangle nes controllers for some reason), an n64, a gameboy, a ps2, a couple xbox 360s and a wii. I set up their wii to use emulation so they don't have to plug in the nes anymore. For the most part it isn't a problem (although the first time I used save states, one of them thought I was cheating :P), except for Duck Hunt, because fceugx for some reason doesn't like 1p-zapper 2p-controller. It assumes both ports use the same controller for some reason.
As for myself, I've been spending most of my gaming time plying free and open soruce games, like super tux, super tux kart, red eclipse, dungeon crawl stone soup, freedroid classic (not that I care for it that much :P), pingus, frozen bubble, minetest, battle for wesnoth, etc. I like the feeling of having complete control over my games without worrying about copyright. I run these games on Linux, naturally.
Nobody sang The Bunny Song in years…
I have to play on a crt, my Nes experience isn't complete if I can't use the zapper.
I have this on my desk
and under it, on a nightstand, sits my Nes.
Here's my small collection:
Not counting the pirate cartridge inside my Famiclone, which has a few more. Including Wild Gunman & Hogan's Alley, again, love me some zapper games.
Puchased/Downloaded LucasArts' Indiana Jones game from GOG. Somehow I never got round to playing it back in the day, so hopefully I'm in for a treat.
VIZ TOP TIPS! - PARENTS. Impress your children by showing them a floppy disk and telling them it’s a 3D model of a save icon.
What game are you playing? Depending on the game, you might not be getting the best experience.
Nobody sang The Bunny Song in years…
Possessed said:
You actually play on a NES? Amazing. Mine quit working ages ago.
Ryan McAvoy said:
Puchased/Downloaded LucasArts' Indiana Jones game from GOG. Somehow I never got round to playing it back in the day, so hopefully I'm in for a treat.
If the game is ...last crusade or ... fate of atlantis, I'd recommend you use scummvm with the game data.
Nobody sang The Bunny Song in years…