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- April 27th, 2024, 6:58 am
- Forum: Volume 13
- Topic: 626: The Ninja Warriors series
- Replies: 1
- Views: 21407
Re: 626: The Ninja Warriors series
I've played the PC Engine and Super Famicom games here and there over the years, but never quite clicked with them. It wasn't until Tengo Project's release of Ninja Saviors/Warriors Once Again/etc. that I understood the entire point, and I began to appreciate this series. I don't much care for belt ...
- March 24th, 2024, 9:37 pm
- Forum: Volume 13
- Topic: 623: Lunar Lander and Lunar Rescue
- Replies: 1
- Views: 21524
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...
- February 14th, 2024, 10:40 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Super Mario Land
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16555
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...
- February 3rd, 2024, 2:35 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Super Mario Land
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16555
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.
- February 3rd, 2024, 2:34 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
- Replies: 2
- Views: 15639
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...
- February 3rd, 2024, 2:19 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Bruce Lee
- Replies: 4
- Views: 23997
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....
- February 3rd, 2024, 2:15 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
- Replies: 14
- Views: 24333
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 ...
- February 3rd, 2024, 2:07 am
- Forum: Future Console Specials
- Topic: Our next console special podcast recording (TBC) - PlayStation Vita
- Replies: 19
- Views: 237755
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...
- January 1st, 2024, 9:08 am
- Forum: Volume 13
- Topic: 646: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron series
- Replies: 5
- Views: 29144
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...
- August 3rd, 2023, 4:50 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: OutRun 2
- Replies: 9
- Views: 33117
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. ^_^
- August 3rd, 2023, 4:50 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: OutRun 2
- Replies: 9
- Views: 33117
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...
- July 6th, 2023, 12:37 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Halo Infinite
- Replies: 11
- Views: 29260
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...
- July 5th, 2023, 2:10 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 43775
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...
- July 2nd, 2023, 11:44 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: F-Zero series
- Replies: 5
- Views: 26754
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...
- June 25th, 2023, 1:08 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Super Castlevania IV
- Replies: 5
- Views: 23016
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...
- June 25th, 2023, 12:57 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Ridge Racer series
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6524
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...
- June 4th, 2023, 9:01 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7640
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. ...
- June 4th, 2023, 8:33 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Radiant Silvergun
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3354
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...
- April 14th, 2023, 9:21 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master (The Super Shinobi II)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2266
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 ...
- April 1st, 2023, 3:52 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6321
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 ...