Thanks. I'm always interested in your gaming as well, and the ranger stuff too.
The reversed second table is a neat feature of Black Hole. I really need to hit my local pinball arcade to see if they have that one. I've never played it in the wild. Lucky you.
Blood Dragon was great. It was so funny. I never beat it though. Something stopped me later on in the game.
Yes. My gaming buddy and I have played the remake to heck and back. He actually beat it, but I got frustrated. I've beaten the original though, but these days I just don't have the patience for it. And yeah, those spots that turn you in a random direction are super annoying. I think I reexperienced that on level 3 recently, but there are more farther down if I remember right.
I played a bunch of 2D platformers today, and even though many of them had great music, design, and nifty mechanics, I just can stick with them. Most of them have too many hazards to overcome even in the first level. I like DKC though as it doesn't try to kill you every darn second and you can accumulate bananas for more lives. I did play a Shantae game once and liked it. I'll give one a chance next time I get one to play.
Emulation is way cool and maybe one day I'll go that route. Console hardware takes up a lot of space I don't have.
I actually went back to the first Farm Together for a bit to see if I had the stomach to get that last achievement, but I found out pretty quickly the grind is a little more intense in that one and I don't want to sink another 300hrs into it.
I enjoyed Color of Magic and what I got to in The Light Fantastic but I was always a little confused for some reason I've yet to figure out. Maybe they way the characters are lifted from one crazy situation to another so frequently. I want to read at least the first three books.
The first book of the New Sun was pretty great. I've been naming all my gaming characters the main character Severian after reading it. I found the first two books bundled together at my library, but yeah, they aren't around in the used books stores I go to for some reason. Maybe one will turn up sometime though. I'll be looking for them to own. Oh, if you read it, have a dictionary nearby. I looked up a lot of new words reading The Shadow of the Torturer (the first book in the New Sun series).
Yeah, my friend mows that thing down 'cause he maxed out his gun. It ends up being really easy. I was probably boosting the wrong stuff, as usual, but I read a kind of cheat online that if you just walk up to it, dodge it's stomp move, and hammer it with punches, it goes down pretty easy. I may try that when I go back to it.
A lot of big franchises were beginning at that time for sure.
I get the Toaplan collections when they go on sale especially the one with my favorites on it.
Yeah, I just played 1942 and '43 back to back in the Capcom Stadium collection and '43 is such a step up.
Puzzle Quest is my favorite of the match-3/RPG games even though it seems to cheat into rage quiting every time.
Wow. That's a long time. I think I'm going to split up the 90s into two seperate months next year so I can spend a whole month on SNES/Genesis and then PS1/N64.
