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Post by ShadowAngel on Jun 6, 2020 15:36:13 GMT
If anybody told me years ago that 2020 would be like this, i would've called for the mental hospital. Crazy times, right? As luck would have it: I actually contracted the faeces and was quarantined. Ever since then i have days with a heavy cough, like a chainsmoker and i don't smoke at all (never did) but at least otherwise this virus seems harmless. Except that our government here in Germany of course went apeshit with a total lockdown on everything and even now mandatory masks, barely anything is open. You go to a restaurant and you have to fill out a notice with your full name, adress, phone number. The dumbest thing is: Restaurants and Beer gardens have to close at 8pm for the outside, indoor is ok until 10pm. Why? Don't viruses spread a lot more indoor, than outdoor? At this point i'm just shaking my head at all this nonsense. And of course, i have a lot of time, on a positive note: I finally got around to watch Das Boot again, the full 5 hour version and getting into Deep Rock Galactic, who knew being a drunk dwarf is that much fun?
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Post by ShadowAngel on Jan 19, 2020 1:41:12 GMT
This is like the first time i create topic here, so i know it will bomb, just like my Gameclub back in the day about Tazmania failed (what happend to gameclub anyway? where is it?) but i randomly discovered a website, some people will know about, some don't called RetroAchievements, that uses an amulator for user created achievements in games, as well as leaderboards, like fastest lap time, round time and not all of you might have heard of it (certainly not ian, there are no Pro Wrestling achievements, or maybe they got rejected because the game puts everyone to sleep ) retroachievements
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Post by ShadowAngel on Dec 28, 2019 23:38:00 GMT
I'd say Enduro Racer, it's non-violent, teaches them eye-hand coordination and it's a quick and easy game.
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Post by ShadowAngel on Apr 25, 2019 22:18:39 GMT
MIND BLOWN (thank you). I have been doing this wrong my entire life. I need to re-evaluate some things. It works in all levels that have 3 Question mark boxes. For example in Level 7 and i think the Helicopter level has 3 if you immediately take the underwater route. The last Castle even has 5, though getting an extra life there is next to impossible because if you open box 2 and 3, you can't jump out of the pit and boxes 4 and 5 are behind a small passage you have to slide through, so escaping the ghost is downright impossible.
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Post by ShadowAngel on Apr 25, 2019 21:59:09 GMT
I don't think this is an uncommon opinion, I've spoken to many people who actually prefer Sonic 1 on the SMS over the Mega Drive version. Another fairly common opinion is that the SMS version of Castle of Illusion is better than its Mega Drive counterpart. Does anyone have any other examples? Shadow of the Beast maybe? That's pretty much my oppinion. Sonic 1 on the MD really isn't that great of a game, to me it always felt more like a "Look what the Mega Drive can do! Blast-Processing! Wooooo!" kind of technical demonstration than a proper game. The level design just feels to generic and the gameplay isn't really great. Sonic 1 on the SMS is impressive for a old 8-bit console. The gameplay is great, there's a lot of variety in the level design (more so than on the MD, just look at the vertical Jungle Zone) and i also think that Yuzo Koshiro's rendition of the Sonic music is actually better, wether it's the funky jungle zone music or the synth wav-ish Scrap Brain Zone, it's really great work. Can't say the same for the other Sonics. Sonic 2 on the MD was a massive improvement and is a lot of fun, while Sonic 2 on the Master System always felt inferior to Sonic 1. Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles then are just killer, still the best Sonic game to day, imo. Compared to that, Sonic Chaos feels just extremely mediocre, not just because of the absurdely low "difficulty". And the same indeed is true with Castle of Illusion. Something about the Mega Drive version just feels off. It looks great but it doesn't play that great and some levels just annoy me (like the spider level) while i really like the MS version. Otherwise, in straight up ports the Mega Drive usually wins (Golden Axe, Super Monaco GP or Bonanza Bros. come to my mind) whereas the Master System keeps up if the developers don't try to just make a "8-bit version" but rather develop something more fitting to the console. A good example is Batman Returns, a rather mediocre plattformer (with bad controls) on the Mega Drive, while the Master System game is actually pretty good.
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Post by ShadowAngel on Dec 19, 2018 13:49:24 GMT
Cyber Shinobi: Whoever made this should be ashamed. Why didn't they just improve on the original? My guess would be because Shadow Dancer (the MS Port) came out around the same time and featured the classic Shinobi style of gameplay so as to not have another game in the same style at the same time they made it different. Sega back then also had that habit of making sequels completely different to the original game: Golden Axe Warrior, Battle Out Run, all the Alex Kidd games, Zillion 2, Fantasy Zone: The Maze and so on. It sometimes worked (like with Golden Axe Warrior) and sometimes didn't (like with Cyber Shinobi, altough i really don't understand how nobody at Sega saw what a atrocious game it is or maybe they just didn't care)
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Post by ShadowAngel on Nov 25, 2018 17:03:09 GMT
I ordered the NES and Mega Drive ones. I'm a bit bummed they aren't "full wood" like their previous Neo Geo (which is just awesome and it always draws attention ) but the quality is hopefully just as good (and you can't go wrong with 8bitdo gamepads)
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Post by ShadowAngel on Sept 17, 2018 14:36:13 GMT
Kinda funny they slap Sonic all over the box but then only include 2 games and one is a Game Gear game. You'd excpect at least Sonic 2 as well. Weird game list overall, lots of wacky inclussions (Machinegun Joe, Satellite 7) and missing classics (Golden Axe Warrior, Phantasy Star...)
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Post by ShadowAngel on Sept 11, 2018 15:33:43 GMT
I hope this one will come out. Over the years there have been so many attempts at a Streets of Rage 4 and all except one (which was renamed as Fighting Force) were cancelled... but i hope we finally get a 4th one and that it will be actually a good game.
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Post by ShadowAngel on Apr 1, 2018 12:19:56 GMT
I think Golden axe uses tiles for some of the characters,you can't display that many sprites on a line. Yes they're Background tiles, 8 pixel, hence why the movement is so "choppy" but it basically killed any possible flickering you would get with Sprites (since it would be limited to 64 Pixels on a horizontal line, hence why so many games have the flicker issue) It has nothing to do with the frame rate. Golden Axe is very impressive considering the hardware it runs on. I was still a bit disappointed when we got it, i played the arcade version on some camping ground first and in comparison the MS version falls short (Where is my Tyris?! No Multiplayer? Bah!) but i still liked to play it. Fun story: I beat the game for the first time on Christmas Eve, we had the tradition of being shoved to our rooms (well my room at that time) with my father, while my mother and grandmother did all the gifts, they would ring a bell to signal we can come down....only at that time i was at the boss fight and i went "rubber duck this, i'm so close to beating the game for the first time!". I probably was the only child in the history of christmas that rather wanted to finish a game then run to the christmas tree for the gifts
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Post by ShadowAngel on Apr 1, 2018 11:51:27 GMT
This is a "we just hadn't anything better" type of game. We (me, my brother, my parents) had fun with it back in the day but nowadays going back to this....it aged really,really badly. I mean as Kaunisto said: We never really understood Bingo, it was just weird. Darts was ok but looking back now, even the darts game in GTA V is miles ahead of this, but it was fun in multiplayer. Billards was ok, not realistic (we play Billard in real life, it can't hold a candle to it), had no real physics, was simple but it was ok in short multiplayer bursts. Another case also where you can see how far we came with games. Compare it to something modern like Pool Nation...
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Post by ShadowAngel on Nov 14, 2017 17:43:15 GMT
It's not really the same, mankind's affect on CO2 levels since the industrial revolution is very clear. Not really and i think the best proof about this is that the Ozone Hole is currently at its smallest since 1988. Remember how in the 80's and 90's everybody went apeshit over Chlorofluorocarbon and there was basically put a ban on it because it would negatively influence the Ozone Hole and our climate? So how does "The hole is small now" work with "OMG we put so much nasty greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, we're responsible for everything"? It makes absolutely no sense at all. And how bad is CO2 anyway? Can't be that bad considering everything on this planet emits CO2. Oceans do it in large quantities, Plants do it and Volcanoes blast a ton of it into the atmosphere and considering that alone. Considering the fact that while we have the so called Ring of Fire, we're living in a time where most volcanoes aren't active anymore and a lot of them didn't go off in a very, very, very long time, most of the really big super volcanoes in fact, like Yellowstone. So we can't really measure how much is "a lot of CO2" and what this planet can or can't handle. Just the fact that there is so much disagreement over this shows me that it's crap. Same crap as when scientists said 40 years ago that in the 80's there won't be any oil left. When they said in 30 years we will fight over water because the planet will be dry or other such nonsensical claims. Currently we have two groups of scientists: Those who think the temperatures will go up because of CO2/Greenhouse gasses and those that say we're heading toward an ice age. Personally, i believe the latter group because again, that is exactly what happened 1000 and 2000 years ago. Overall, to me this is simply just another scam (no wonder Al Gore is at the forefront of all this): give people a bad conscience about something and force them to throw out everything they have and buy "eco-friendly" replacements and let them switch from cheap nuclear/coal energy to more expensive water/wind/solar created power (that only leads to flickering lights and short power outtages, at least that's what i'm experiencing here since 2015)
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Post by ShadowAngel on Nov 10, 2017 16:40:06 GMT
Xenon 2 was just an awful game, classic example of how European developers fail to understand how to do shmups. The SMS version was no better or worse than the others really, I can only assume reviewers were well paid to give the game positive coverage. It's a typical Bitmap Brothers game: Style over anything. To them graphics and sound always were more important than the actual gameplay. In my oppinion, they only made one good game: Speedball 2. Everything else is just really weak (altough if you say that to Amiga fans you get lynched ) and Xenon 2 even looked like a joke to me when i first played it in like 1992 on the PC (which had the good design change of the background being completely black, so you actually can spot the enemies, something that is more difficult on the Amiga and downright annoying on the Mega Drive) The biggest joke in the game is the ability to buy this really ridiculous overpowered Supershot that adds various guns and small ships to your ship - but it only lasts like 20 seconds and in all levels there are no enemies for the first 10-15 seconds, so it's a complete waste. I think after a couple beers today i'm gonna try out the MS version, i never actually played it.
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Post by ShadowAngel on Nov 6, 2017 18:03:39 GMT
Such a disappointment that game was. The heavy flickering, the unfair boss fights, the monotone gameplay everywhere else, the glitches.... But the worst thing is the memory of that day. Me and my brother went out to buy games. We came back with Running Battle, Bart vs. the Space Mutants and World Cup Italia '90 thinking they would be great fun games...shoot me
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Post by ShadowAngel on Oct 30, 2017 20:49:20 GMT
Lol 😝 the world is 4.54 billion years old - then again if you believe Noah's ark, you will believe anything 😬😂 Same as the current CO2 stuff, global warming by ignoring the fact that the same global warming has been happening 1000 and 2000 years ago (at least) and has been a normal occurence but now everybody goes apeshit and thinks the planet is dying and exploding and whatnot unless we buy "eco-friendly" stuff and drive electric cars (the madness has been so insane that i get nasty looks because of my cars, not just looks, i got held up a couple times by some idiots saying how much my car destroys the planet Also since 2012 we "survived" quite a few doomdays, the latest i think was October 15th with David Meade saying Planet X (Nibiru) shall destroy us (or actually an asteroid named Wormwood that travels alongside Nibiru), that came after the September 23rd prophecy of Doom didn't happen. I like all this doom porn, it's entertaining though a bit disturbing that some people actually believe in it
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