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Posted: 1/18/2021 7:10:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryStrider didn't have a save feature. I know this because my brother was playing one day, got all the way to the end stage, and he moved his leg and accidently hit the RESET button on the front of the NES. It's been 30 years and I still laugh at that. |
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Posted: 1/18/2021 9:24:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ninja Turtles was not on the NES Classic. That made me sad. I never made it past the underwater stage with all the electric seaweed and the timer... That was the fucking level that I never got passed either! Ugh. |
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Posted: 1/18/2021 9:26:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryCame to post this. |
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Posted: 1/18/2021 9:29:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/18/2021 9:44:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The key to beating Tyson is surviving the first round. It's near impossible to beat him the first round, so bet best is to just dodge and keep from getting KO'd. He's easier in the 2nd and 3rd round, but you have to get him TKO inside one of those rounds. If it goes to decision, you will lose always. Figure out his pattern and I would have his crazy ass on the canvas in under a minute. His eyes and your reflexes work together. 
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Posted: 1/18/2021 10:00:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That fucking water level in TMNT. I almost threw that cartridge out the window. Always ran out of time. Even as a kid I knew that game kinda sucked, but Turtle Power was life. |
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Posted: 1/18/2021 10:03:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I need to change my favorite NES game. River City Ransom.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7xeGpoCScsGreat game. Finally got a chance to sit down and play it all the way through during the summer. I could never figure out the boss sequence as a dumb kid. |
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Posted: 1/18/2021 10:11:10 PM EDT
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 Brewstew - Old School Nintendo 8 bit NES made me the man I am today. And also almost caused an aneurism in an 8 yo me. |
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Posted: 1/18/2021 10:19:05 PM EDT
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It's the games that were brutally hard with no save feature. 3 hours of work and boom you're dead after 1 mistake. Nowadays we have games that are still that hard but they have saves and restarts and difficulty adjustments that mean you probably only lose 5 or 10 minutes before you get to try again. Some games ghosts and goblins were just brutally hard. I remember beating some like Bionic Commando that I considered to be extremely difficult, but never had the patience for the insanity class games like ghosts and goblins. I could beat Ghouls and Ghosts on the SNES but the nes original, fuck that.
SNES was peak 2-d console imho. Platformers and RPG games of better quality than we see today. We have far superior games nowadays of course, but the storytelling and attention to detail of some of those games like US Final Fantasy II and III... they were made by people dedicated and passionate about their craft. Not just big studios shitting out blockbusters. |
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Posted: 1/18/2021 10:22:24 PM EDT
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Yeah, never made it a minute into ghosts and goblins, a friend had it and I tried about 10 times.
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Posted: 1/18/2021 11:52:39 PM EDT
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I felt like it was a major accomplishment when I beat Super Mario Brothers. I really felt awesome when I beat it on my first life, without warps or power ups. I moved on to other games after that.
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Posted: 1/19/2021 12:02:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I think my favorite NES game was Bionic Commando. I mean, what's not to like about a game where you get to shoot an unfrozen Hitler in the face with a rocket launcher? I'm just glad the cutscenes were not vital to gameplay, the translation on that one was the worst I can recall.
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Posted: 1/19/2021 12:36:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Get a Shield Pro, Kodi, and Diggz build. Every NES game available. Is the play really the same? Every emulator I've had was close enough for casual use but you weren't beating contra without the code on that shit. Not if you were trained in the old ways. 
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Posted: 1/19/2021 12:41:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: All I had was a 2600 growing up. Had to go to the rich kids houses to play NES and SNES. I traded a rich kid one of those stupid cheap survival rambo knives for his NES and a bunch of games.. The ones with the matches and shit in the handle and the compass on the pommel. Honestly at the time it seemed like an even enough trade, I was pretty fucking attached to my rambo knife and that kid lorded it over me for a year afterward. In retrospect, I was a goddamn little swindler.
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Posted: 1/19/2021 12:46:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It's the games that were brutally hard with no save feature. 3 hours of work and boom you're dead after 1 mistake. Nowadays we have games that are still that hard but they have saves and restarts and difficulty adjustments that mean you probably only lose 5 or 10 minutes before you get to try again. Some games ghosts and goblins were just brutally hard. I remember beating some like Bionic Commando that I considered to be extremely difficult, but never had the patience for the insanity class games like ghosts and goblins. I could beat Ghouls and Ghosts on the SNES but the nes original, fuck that. SNES was peak 2-d console imho. Platformers and RPG games of better quality than we see today. We have far superior games nowadays of course, but the storytelling and attention to detail of some of those games like US Final Fantasy II and III... they were made by people dedicated and passionate about their craft. Not just big studios shitting out blockbusters. You could beat Ghouls and Ghosts on the SNES?!?!?  |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 12:48:18 AM EDT
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1942 began my love affair with the P-38 Lightning.
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Posted: 1/19/2021 12:51:59 AM EDT
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My brother got me one of those "all the games in 1" mini NES systems for Christmas.
Set it up and played with it for a few hours and was reminded how horrible most of the games were. I still have my "real" NES around here somewhere too (and C64, Sega and Sega CD) |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 12:52:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 1942 began my love affair with the P-38 Lightning. The Pizza Hut a town over used to have that. Great game. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 12:54:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My brother got me one of those "all the games in 1" mini NES systems for Christmas. Set it up and played with it for a few hours and was reminded how horrible most of the games were. I still have my "real" NES around here somewhere too (and C64, Sega and Sega CD) Yes a lot of them are shit but the classics like Legend of Zelda can be played today and they still hold up. But yeah, there was a shit ton of bad ones. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 1:03:09 AM EDT
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I member.
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Posted: 1/19/2021 1:05:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes a lot of them are shit but the classics like Legend of Zelda can be played today and they still hold up. But yeah, there was a shit ton of bad ones. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: My brother got me one of those "all the games in 1" mini NES systems for Christmas. Set it up and played with it for a few hours and was reminded how horrible most of the games were. I still have my "real" NES around here somewhere too (and C64, Sega and Sega CD) Yes a lot of them are shit but the classics like Legend of Zelda can be played today and they still hold up. But yeah, there was a shit ton of bad ones. I wound up playing Asteroids and Excitebike more then anything. Oooh, that reminds me, I gotta see if Zaxxon is on there. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 1:06:23 AM EDT
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I was able to land the plane and refuel it as well.
This is one case where I think it might actually be easier in real life. 
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Posted: 1/19/2021 6:50:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Fans of Bethesda games are probably one of the most prolific at that, though the janky code has a lot to do with that. I never realized just how extreme they got until 76. The number of exploits, and how quickly they were discovered and abused, was insane. Some were bad enough to induce a server crash (the strangler heart dupe). Now I dont do stuff like that, and do not know how. But a little reading I did a couple years ago suggested that the reason people were able to do it so quickly on 76 is because Bethesda is lazy as fuck and just keeps rehashing the same code, and only adds a little here and there. That said, any news on TES6 yet? |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 7:04:28 AM EDT
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Quote History This dude is hilarious! I need to watch his other vids, if he has any more.
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Posted: 1/19/2021 7:16:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I need to change my favorite NES game. River City Ransom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7xeGpoCScsgood choice. I loved that game |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 7:30:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Famicom/NES is still the best system ever made. Waverace 64 was, and still is, a very addicting game if you are the type who likes to try to put in a "perfect lap/race" in racing games. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 11:28:30 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That carrier landing was a walk in the park compared to beating Section "Mother fucking" Z I never could beat it. That game was hard as shit. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:22:26 PM EDT
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I went from a 2600 to a Colecovision, then in the 90s I got myself a PS1 and am up to a PS3. I will probably buy a PS% soon. I played some NES while overseas but that's it.
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:26:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lets rock 40+ year old men  https://www.planetb.net/livejournal/tom%20turbsc20%20fat%20getting%20old.jpg 
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:31:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: PS1/PS2 IMO. It was in that stage that hardware limitations finally opened up enough to allow for story heavy games, but still limited enough that gameplay couldn't take a backseat, and prior to the corporatization of the entire industry. There are a metric ton of great games published by smaller studios out there for those consoles before the merger, acquisitions, bankruptcies, ETC. hit. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I would vote SNES, personally. I loved RE3 and Castlevania SOTN on PS1. I have SOTN on Xbox and play it so my 4 and 6 yo can watch, they love the music. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:33:09 PM EDT
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Stupid question as I'm pretty technically dumb, but is there a way to play the OG resident evil games and Starfox 64 on Xbone? I would assume no, especially on Starfox as Nintendo seems to have that franchise locked down tight.
The RE3 remake, while beautiful, was complete shit. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:34:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The frustration of having to constantly blow into the games to get them to work taught that entire generation how to persevere and "stick with it". Does anyone else remember finally getting the thing to work and having to walk around on egg shells to prevent it from freezing? You'd walk around like a ninja or else you'd lose your game. Then your fucking little brother trips on the cord, and you gotta blow it again AND start over... |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:05:15 PM EDT
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Remember having to take notes while playing RPGs?
Mission Log? Yeah, you had to make that yourself with a notebook. Dungeon Map? Get some graph paper. Objective Waypoints? Ha! Want the game to play itself for you or something? |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:42:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You could beat Ghouls and Ghosts on the SNES?!?!? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It's the games that were brutally hard with no save feature. 3 hours of work and boom you're dead after 1 mistake. Nowadays we have games that are still that hard but they have saves and restarts and difficulty adjustments that mean you probably only lose 5 or 10 minutes before you get to try again. Some games ghosts and goblins were just brutally hard. I remember beating some like Bionic Commando that I considered to be extremely difficult, but never had the patience for the insanity class games like ghosts and goblins. I could beat Ghouls and Ghosts on the SNES but the nes original, fuck that. SNES was peak 2-d console imho. Platformers and RPG games of better quality than we see today. We have far superior games nowadays of course, but the storytelling and attention to detail of some of those games like US Final Fantasy II and III... they were made by people dedicated and passionate about their craft. Not just big studios shitting out blockbusters. You could beat Ghouls and Ghosts on the SNES?!?!? Someone else posted Contra on NES but that game was not hard at all. I could play through that game and gain lives every play through. Only other one that sticks out to me is the arcade version of Gunsmoke. Had one of those at one of my high school jobs with a lot of downtime and I got to the point of being able to beat it on a quarter. There's absolutely no way I have the reaction time to do that anymore, though. I've had legit top 10 leaderboard spots on a few PS3/PS4 era non-fps games here and there over the years, but I'm nothing compared to some of the memorization / twitch reflex freaks out there. |
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