BlueSquid0741
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- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 4 days ago:
Also did this with the first Monster Truck Madness and Big Red Racing. And Motocross Madness. Seems these games were just built for that. Only had demo versions though, so just the one stage to explore.
- Comment on 15,000 Retro Gamers Voted And Chose The Best Retro Handheld Of All Time 1 week ago:
I think DS should take the final round - plays the DS and GBA library + relatively easy to emulate GBC if you really want to.
And still the only way to play some games - Contra 4, Sonic Rush for example, are horrible to play on emulator but still really fun games.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 week ago:
Borderlands 2 was fun, but Borderlands 1 is the game I replay.
- Comment on Just a ES-DE android tip that I found out the hard way. (Black screen when loading games) 1 week ago:
Just keeping in mind that Mesen is a cycle accurate emulator (last time I checked it was the most accurate). So the ideal solution here would have been to install Mesen.
- Comment on Mapping Australia by the Nearest City with a Population of 100,000 or More 1 week ago:
Wollongong, Newcastle and Geelong are cities, but not Bendigo?
- Comment on What are some of your favorite Master System memories? 2 weeks ago:
Going to the video store and looking through the racks full of the checkerboard master system boxes for a game to hire. Ghouls n Ghosts, Altered Beast, Penguin Land, Ghost House, Golvellius, Aztec Adventure, Fantasy Zone 2 come to mind.
Watching mum and dad play My Hero for hours, trying to get just a little bit further.
Getting hit by a car whilst taking a game back to the video store. (Not the most magical memory but I can’t think of master system without that)
Finally having double Dragon at home. Throwing the sega box at the second level boss. Years later finding out that the arcade and mega drive versions are unplayable due to slowdown, and deeming the master system version as the best.
My aunty buying me Transbot from the discount bin in Boxing Day sales.
Waking up from a nightmare and being comforted watching mum and dad getting up to the Mouse Man dungeon in wonder boy 3.
Sundays watching my dad and his mate playing Golfamania sessions, drinking and smoking weed and listening to Van Morrison, when they weren’t up to going to the local golf course. (Later it was pga tour 2 on mega drive)
Finding a copy of Action Fighter and Fantasy Zone The Maze from some random person at the local market.
Coming home from school one day to find mum had hired Teddy Boy from the video store. What a game. I don’t go back to it because it’s so lame in retrospect, just stick with this memory of it being mind blowing awesome.
The first time I could play well enough to get to the end of the first stage in Miracle World and seeing that burger waiting for me. Going inside the Octopus’ pot (?) to take the secret shortcut in Alex Kidd.
So many Alex Kidd things really. The dinosaur level in Lost Stars, so exciting for some reason. Swimming under the tentacles in the water level. The ninja forest stages in Hi Tech World. Shinobi World in general, me, my brother and our cousins being like “it’s Shinobi, but it’s Alex Kidd :O” while eating cordial ice blocks in the middle of summer.
Getting Ghostbusters for $2 because the video store was trying to get rid if all their master system games and no one wanted the old junk. Loving that game so much I drew a picture of the driving stage on the blackboard at school before class.
When I got Castle of Illusion for Christmas right before we moved away after my first year at school, and mum and dad let me stay up playing it until I fell asleep.
The very last game we hired before we got a mega drive, and the first time I ever saw him, Sonic the Hedgehog. The same day dad bought home a kitten that I looked after until I left home. That was a good day.
- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 2 weeks ago:
The Master System version is a fun time for a while and improves on the c64. The NES version though seems to have no redeeming factors.
- Comment on What's your favourite menu music in a game? 3 weeks ago:
Deus Ex main menu
- Comment on [Review] Comparison of all the versions of the Bruce Lee 8-bit video game 3 weeks ago:
Me and my brother used to play this on c64. But just two player fighting each other. We didn’t even know there was more gameplay to it until we were older 😔
- Comment on ‘We would reverse it’: Ley writes back to Republicans over recognition of Palestine 3 weeks ago:
I guess they didn’t get blasted enough in the last election.
- Comment on Alliyah 'married' their teacher at 13. No-one else knew 3 weeks ago:
This is one of two really well articles I read this week. One from ABC and one from The Age.
Good work to the journalists who know how to research and put an article together.
- Comment on Supermarkets are collecting soft plastics again, as recycling trial expands 4 weeks ago:
Was redcycle ever effective? I don’t know much about it, wasn’t available near us. Did they make much impact on soft plastic waste?
I’m in country VIC, if they put this in the woolworths that just opened here, I’ll do it. Always interested in reducing soft plastic into landfill.
- Comment on Women go from homeless to 'tiny home' owners with a once-in-a-lifetime deal 1 month ago:
The system is set up to knock people down, for sure.
- Comment on Solar car teams chase ‘dreams of a more sustainable future’ in gruelling 3,000km race across Australian outback 1 month ago:
No mention of the Halle Berry/Jim Belushi classic, Race The Sun
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Also the sorcerer boss you fight towards the end of Act 2 in D2 is the sorcerer from D1.
The lore was really nicely done between these two games.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
But think about the Diablo lore instead. It’s stated that she is a rogue, and in fact she becomes corrupted and is the rogue boss Blood Raven that you fight in the cemetery in Diablo 2.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
The rogue group is different to the amazons. That’s why in D2 you start in the rogues camp, and if you’ve picked Amazon then Kashya will say something like “I didn’t expect to see an Amazon come here”.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
I haven’t played it yet, but I’ve loaded it up on my steam deck and got too the title screen… Far Cry 2 with redux mod
I really loved far cry 3, so I hoped this will be a good time. But some stuff going on with my daughter and I didn’t have time for this.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
I think it’s a great game. I always enjoy playing. I only recently found out people think this game is janky and plays poorly! so ymmv I guess.
I reckon each era you can finish in 30 - 45 minutes, repeat 5 times.
Use emulator save states and you can break it up pretty easily.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
EVO The Search For Eden
- Comment on Josh Taylor: Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands 2 months ago:
Do we want a Shadowrun future? This is how we end up with a Shadowrun future.
- Comment on What are your favourite and go-to gaming websites? 2 months ago:
Gaming on Linux - for news
Hardcore Gaming 101 - when I want to go does a rabbit hole of game series history and trivia
- Comment on Sonic SMS Remake 2 months ago:
Cool remake. I played it as Ray I think, because I played the sms version to death so it was a nice touch to bring new characters in.
- Comment on Going to waste: two years after REDcycle’s collapse, Australia’s soft plastics are hitting the environment hard 2 months ago:
Lack of recyclability shits me. Especially when something that used to be packaged in cardboard is suddenly being sold in plastic.
Also, most plastic bottles are recyclable. Plastic bottles used for juice, flavoured milks, and water from the fridge section, recycle that shit! But not if it’s Ice Break. Those big chunky Ice Break bottles that seem no-brainer recyclable are clearly marked as non-recyclable.
- Comment on ‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse 2 months ago:
We’re not going to make, are we? ‘People’, I mean.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
I couldn’t say. I only played a couple rounds of it when it first released so I couldn’t work out if anything was new.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
I played some 20 Minutes Till Midnight. I like it, but not a lot to say about it.
I kind of feel like I want to give Bioshock Infinite a go soon.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
I started a playground of homm3 on the weekend. First time since in about 20 years. But I only lasted about 20 minutes and fell asleep.
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 2 months ago:
We buy our wood from a guy who delivers it in a mix, some smaller, split pieces and some larger. So need to split probably 3/4 with a block splitter.
The larger pieces are good for an open fire, but ours is closed.
- Comment on Spectrum Holobyte’s 1988 DOS Tetris: the first official release—the start of a global obsession 2 months ago:
Seems like almost nobody has checked out Digital Eclipses Tetris Forever collection, which has a lot of this info too, with pictures and videos, as well as letting you play most known releases of Tetris.