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- February 26th, 2022, 9:21 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Games Completed 2022
- Replies: 405
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Re: Games Completed 2022
6 February: Steel Empire (Mega Drive) 8 February: Commando (Arcade) 14 February: Taiko no Tatsujin: The Drum Master! (Xbox Series X) 26 February: Batsugun Special Version (Arcade) Another beginner-friendly schmup down, although a couple of weeks on Steel Empire was more educational than inspiring. T...
- February 20th, 2022, 6:15 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Whatcha Been Playing?
- Replies: 11721
- Views: 7382109
Re: Whatcha Been Playing?
Still completely obsessed with early arcade bullet-hell shoot ‘em up Batsugun, and I’m doing alright at it now! Elsewhere on MAME I also became more briefly obsessed with Ninja Commando, a 1992 Neo-Geo vertical run and gun shooter that has you time travelling to what I think is three randomly ordere...
- February 14th, 2022, 3:10 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Bringing back your favourites... Which is it?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 26109
Re: Bringing back your favourites... Which is it?
I'm surprised no one has done an HD remaster of Silent Hill 2. Was the beautiful HD Collection not good enough? They even made it sound better!!! Seriously though, have you seen the Enhanced Edition fan project? Not what we’re both looking for, but interesting all the same. http://www.enhanced.town...
- February 13th, 2022, 8:45 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Whatcha Been Playing?
- Replies: 11721
- Views: 7382109
Re: Whatcha Been Playing?
I’ve become obsessed with early arcade bullet-hell schmup Batsugun. Last week I dabbled but this week I got serious, and it’s beautiful! I’ve spent hours and hours on it, and I’m literally doing the first three levels in my sleep now! Not sure I’ll be good enough to see the end in one credit, but I’...
- February 11th, 2022, 5:41 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Bringing back your favourites... Which is it?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 26109
Re: Bringing back your favourites... Which is it?
I’m mostly happy with playing old games on old systems, but Nightmare Creatures on PS1 is hard to endure now, and a spruce-up of some old arcade shooters - DoDonPachi, Progear, 19XX: The War Against Destiny and Batsugun in particular - would be nice.
- February 11th, 2022, 5:36 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: The Nintendo news and discussion thread
- Replies: 4231
- Views: 2109093
Re: The Nintendo news and discussion thread
I bought Mario Smash Football / Strikers on GameCube, had a quick go then never played it again. I did the same on Wii but have never even fired that one up. Like both of those at the time, I really like the look of the new one, but I can’t do it again! Can I…?
- February 6th, 2022, 8:37 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Whatcha Been Playing?
- Replies: 11721
- Views: 7382109
Re: Whatcha Been Playing?
I’ve spent a load of time with Toaplan’s top-down vertically scrolling Rally Bike arcade racer from 1988 this week. I’d never heard of it before, but it’s great! Simple, polished, addictive as hell and a rare instant classic, albeit decades after the event! My shoot ‘em up for idiots journey continu...
- February 2nd, 2022, 10:52 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Let's remember stuff from about 20 years ago...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5914
Re: Let's remember stuff from about 20 years ago...
Not sure what this talk of 2002 is about - 1985 is still 20 years ago in my eyes! Anyway, 2002 was the year I got married, so money for games was a bit scarce, but there were some highlights… SSX Tricky on PS2 was undoubtedly what I was still playing most for the first part of the year, probably unt...
- January 30th, 2022, 10:34 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Whatcha Been Playing?
- Replies: 11721
- Views: 7382109
Re: Whatcha Been Playing?
All new stuff on Game Pass this week! Windjammers 2’s depth is really starting to reveal itself, but not at the expense of any of its immediate disc-tennis fun. That said, I have now beaten the arcade mode, and while I’ll no doubt still be going back to it for a long time for the rest of its charact...
- January 29th, 2022, 7:04 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: What's Out This Week?
- Replies: 2653
- Views: 1623579
Re: What's Out This Week?
Taiko no Tatsujin: The Drum Master! arrived on Game Pass this week, though if you’re on PC you’ll have to make do with the title screen until they fix it!
- January 29th, 2022, 7:01 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Games Completed 2022
- Replies: 405
- Views: 240531
Re: Games Completed 2022
1 January: Star Wars Squadrons (Xbox Series X) 3 January: Dizzy the Adventurer (NES on Evercade VS) 5 January: Gates of Zendocon (Atari Lynx on Evercade VS) 19 January: Star Parodier (PC-Engine Mini) 23 January: Windjammers 2 (Xbox Series X) 24 January: Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Arcade) 28 January: B...
- January 23rd, 2022, 8:35 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Haunted Castle (Akumajō Dracula)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3227
Re: 509: Haunted Castle (Akumajō Dracula)
This is the most unwelcoming game I’ve ever played, but I really wanted to experience the sights and sounds of Castlevania on arcade hardware and stuck with it for way longer than it deserved! Then the Konami Arcade Anniversary Collection came along with its Japanese version update and suddenly it w...
- January 23rd, 2022, 8:13 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Whatcha Been Playing?
- Replies: 11721
- Views: 7382109
Re: Whatcha Been Playing?
I loved Windjammers and have been waiting for its sequel for years, and so far it hasn’t disappointed, although (quite predictably) the same can’t really be said of my performance in its online modes! Don’t really care about those though, and I’ve had a great time with Windjammers 2’s frantic Tron-P...
- January 22nd, 2022, 7:03 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Resident Evil Village
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6223
Re: 538: Resident Evil Village
I’ve not been as hyped about a game as much as this one since the mid-eighties, and while it’s not perfect and it’s definitely not Resident Evil 4, it was easily my game of 2021. Castle Dimitrescu is just jaw-dropping to me, and while I could happily stay there forever, the rest is well-paced, occas...
- January 22nd, 2022, 4:16 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Hollow Knight
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8142
Re: 505: Hollow Knight
I 90% adore Hollow Knight, and I’m talking favourite games of all time “adore,” but the rest is pure, undiluted hatred! It’s beautiful, and exploration and progression are brilliantly realised, as is everything about controlling him. And then there’s some of the bosses, and some of the checkpoints j...
- January 22nd, 2022, 4:06 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Hades
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9031
Re: 532: Hades
I played this for a few hours when it arrived on Game Pass but really don’t get the fuss. It’s alright and that’s about it. I must be missing something in the glare of all that polish!
- January 22nd, 2022, 4:02 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Contra Spirits (Contra III: The Alien Wars/Super Probotector: Alien Rebels)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3432
Re: Our next podcast recording (23.1.2) - 503: Contra Spirits (Contra III: The Alien Wars/Super Probotector: Alien Rebel
I think I’d have got way more out of this if it had been the only thing I’d had to play as a kid, but that wasn’t the case when I eventually got to it a few years ago and I’m afraid I just didn’t have the patience to properly get to grips with the weird Mode 7 stage two! I’ll still play the first st...
- January 16th, 2022, 5:23 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Your Top 50 Games of All Time Lists
- Replies: 303
- Views: 185251
Re: Your Top 50 Games of All Time Lists
This thread set me off on a journey that is still resulting in my retroarcadia.blog site, so I’m always happy to provide a latest update! 1. Feud (Spectrum) 2. Kick Off (Atari ST) 3. Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) 4. Renegade (Spectrum) 5. Silent Hill 2 (PS2) 6. Shao-lin's Road (Arcade / Spectrum) 7. Ol...
- January 16th, 2022, 5:19 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Whatcha Been Playing?
- Replies: 11721
- Views: 7382109
Re: Whatcha Been Playing?
I played a bit of the Dead Cells demo on Switch a couple of years ago, and I stopped because I thought it was great and I’d play it properly one day, and that day finally came this week! It was actually one of the first games I downloaded from Game Pass when I got my Xbox Series X last year, but it’...
- January 9th, 2022, 9:00 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Punch-Out!! series
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3683
Re: Our next podcast recording (9.1.22) - 551: Punch-Out!! series
If I want an 8-bit boxing game it will always be Frank Bruno on the Spectrum, but what I soon realised when I became totally obsessed with Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream on the NES Classic Mini is that it’s not really about boxing at all. It’s about rhythms and patterns, and while I had fun becomin...