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by AndrewElmore
March 24th, 2024, 9:37 pm
Forum: Volume 13
Topic: 623: Lunar Lander and Lunar Rescue
Replies: 1
Views: 16265

Re: 623: Lunar Lander and Lunar Rescue

I have a strong emotional connection to Lunar Lander, and I'm not even sure that I could tell you why. I played it in various emulation collections as a kid, and countless clones, I'm sure. But it's the arcade cabinet that I'm particularly drawn to. One day in the earlier part of the previous decade...
by AndrewElmore
February 14th, 2024, 10:40 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Super Mario Land
Replies: 8
Views: 13787

Re: 611: Super Mario Land

I just want to say that this is the first game I beat entirely on a TI-89 Titanium graphing calculator in the back of geometry class. Well this needs more info! Were you running emulators on your calculator? That's pretty cool. Wonder if it could run Doom... Not emulators, people were just making a...
by AndrewElmore
February 3rd, 2024, 2:35 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Super Mario Land
Replies: 8
Views: 13787

Re: 611: Super Mario Land

I just want to say that this is the first game I beat entirely on a TI-89 Titanium graphing calculator in the back of geometry class.
by AndrewElmore
February 3rd, 2024, 2:34 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Replies: 2
Views: 12718

Re: 612: X-Men Origins: Wolverine

I remember this title being touted as a "better than you might expect" sort of experience in its day, but I never actually played it until somewhat recently, when I was revisiting a lot of Western action games and shooters from the 360/PS3 catalogues earlier on in the pandemic. I'm not int...
by AndrewElmore
February 3rd, 2024, 2:19 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Bruce Lee
Replies: 4
Views: 18611

Re: 608: Bruce Lee

I don't have any experience of my own with the game (my Bruce Lee game was an original Xbox-exclusive and the less said about it, the better, I'd imagine), but I'd like to drop a link to a very personal video from one Jeff Gerstmann about his memories with it as a very formative game from his youth....
by AndrewElmore
February 3rd, 2024, 2:15 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
Replies: 14
Views: 18638

Re: 607: Castlevania: Rondo of Blood

Hoping I find the time to come back and write some more here before the recording, but I want to at least state that after many years of very careful deliberation, Castlevania: Rondo of Blood is my favorite 2D action game, period. I determined that to be the case for myself at some point at least a ...
by AndrewElmore
February 3rd, 2024, 2:07 am
Forum: Future Console Specials
Topic: Our next console special podcast recording (TBC) - PlayStation Vita
Replies: 19
Views: 221974

Re: Our next console special podcast recording (TBC) - PlayStation Vita

I really wish that I loved the Vita. The PSP was a monumental paradigm shift for me, and I continue to discover new gems in its library even to this day. But there's precious little for me on the Vita, it seems. When I think of the PSP's library, my imagination is bursting at the seams and I don't e...
by AndrewElmore
January 1st, 2024, 9:08 am
Forum: Volume 13
Topic: 646: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron series
Replies: 5
Views: 28548

Re: 589: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron series

I spent a few hours late last night playing Rogue Squadron on N64 to revisit it for the first time since childhood. I played a great deal of that game back in its day. I remember the first time I beat Rendezvous On Barkhesh early one morning, I was so excited that I ran into my parents' room to wake...
by AndrewElmore
August 3rd, 2023, 4:50 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: OutRun 2
Replies: 9
Views: 31603

Re: 594: OutRun 2 series

^^ wow that's quite long, even for me. I'm so, so sorry! it's a game that inspires Big Feelings. ^_^
by AndrewElmore
August 3rd, 2023, 4:50 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: OutRun 2
Replies: 9
Views: 31603

Re: 594: OutRun 2 series

I have had the tab to this forum page open in my browser for almost a year as I try to figure out how to put my feelings on OutRun 2 and its antecedents into words. It can be an oddly intimidating collection of games to talk about in a formal context! A conversational setting is one thing, but commi...
by AndrewElmore
July 6th, 2023, 12:37 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Halo Infinite
Replies: 11
Views: 28850

Re: 593: Halo Infinite

This one is difficult for me to talk about given my knowledge of what went on internally during the development process, but suffice it to say I'm amazed at what the final product ended up releasing as. The story felt strange to me, but I don't think there's a lot they could have done after the even...
by AndrewElmore
July 5th, 2023, 2:10 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Replies: 10
Views: 42743

Re: 592: Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

I don't know that I particularly like Metroid Prime 2: Echoes very much, but I do know that I love it. It's a bit of a complicated relationship, because there are aspects of the entire Prime trilogy that I quite often find a bit exhausting, in addition to everything that endears me to them. But Prim...
by AndrewElmore
July 2nd, 2023, 11:44 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: F-Zero series
Replies: 5
Views: 25801

Re: 591: F-Zero series

F-Zero: An incredible statement of intent for a new generation of hardware, and a wonderfully fun game to this day. The sense of speed is unrelenting, and the controls are finely tuned to match. The art and music are as good as they are enduring, and it's still a blast to play to this day. A perfect...
by AndrewElmore
June 25th, 2023, 1:08 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Super Castlevania IV
Replies: 5
Views: 22469

Re: 588: Super Castlevania IV

Super Castlevania IV is a fascinating expansion of the original game. It's got problems, but they only add to the sense of charm for me. The sprites are too big, the freeform whip renders sub-weapons nearly redundant, all the hardware tricks of the new console (it was a very early Super Famicom game...
by AndrewElmore
June 25th, 2023, 12:57 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Ridge Racer series
Replies: 6
Views: 6237

Re: 587: Ridge Racer series

Having been born the same year as Ridge Racer's arcade debut, one of my earliest memories is of seeing the PlayStation port running at my cousins' house. The vibrant colors, energetic music, and blistering speed certainly captured the attention of my stimulus-craving toddler brain. But there was som...
by AndrewElmore
June 4th, 2023, 9:01 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
Replies: 3
Views: 7213

Re: 586: Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge

There's something interesting about distinctly western flight-combat games as compared to something like Ace Combat. Crimson Skies (High Road to Revenge, at least--I've never played the PC original) feels more akin to something like Factor 5's Star Wars: Rogue Squadron games, at least in structure. ...
by AndrewElmore
June 4th, 2023, 8:33 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Radiant Silvergun
Replies: 4
Views: 2867

Re: 574: Radiant Silvergun

Radiant Silvergun is one of those special cases where a game's spirit and personality rise above even the sum of its excellent parts. It's a Treasure game, it's an STG, it's a Hitoshi Sakimoto score for the ages, it's a legendary Saturn import, it's a triumph of arcade game design, it's a magnificen...
by AndrewElmore
April 14th, 2023, 9:21 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master (The Super Shinobi II)
Replies: 3
Views: 2001

Re: 578: Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master (The Super Shinobi II)

I have a running list of my favorite examples of expertly tuned action games, and whenever I'm considering a game for that list, Shinobi III for the Genesis/Mega Drive is the first measuring stick that comes to mind. That's not necessarily intentional, it just happens to have occupied that space in ...
by AndrewElmore
April 1st, 2023, 3:52 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
Replies: 8
Views: 5473

Re: Our next podcast recording (1.4.23) - 563: Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin

Jim Jarmusch's Strangers In Paradise: Final Fantasy Oranges is the kind of game I fall in love with at first sight. What a beautifully, gleefully stupid work of art. A celebration of the PlayStation 3, and 35 years of Final Fantasy. I don't care for fan service one bit, but Stranger of Pair Of Dice ...
by AndrewElmore
February 4th, 2023, 8:26 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Yakuza 5
Replies: 4
Views: 1892

Re: 560: Yakuza 5

My wife and I have been playing through Yakuza 5 together, and at the time of writing this we're in the second "half" of Chapter 3. At this point it's become quite clear that the bulk of this entry is made up of these individual characters' respective minigame-oriented campaigns, for lack ...