drcouzelis
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- Comment on Recommendations on casual GB/GBA games? 2 months ago:
Hi! I’m a Game Boy collector / enthusiast / reviewer. And this question has an easy answer in my opinion…
Catrap
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfV4MnGfiA4&t=284
- It’s relaxing. It’s a turn based, pure puzzle game. Like, there’s literally no action. The enemies don’t even move!
- It’s big. 100 puzzles that slowly increase in difficulty. I was able to beat them all, over time.
- It’s non-punishing. No time limits. No lives.
- No stress. Catrap was the first(?) game to feature an undo button. Try something out. Didn’t work? Just hold B to undo. You can undo all the way back to the start of the stage, as many time as you want.
- It’s simple. Up, down, left, and right to move. B to undo. I think A is introduced later to swap between characters?
- IT’S FUN. It looks good, plays good, and just feels good to jump around the stage. And completing a stage is so satisfying.
I hope you like it! 🙂
- Comment on GameStop Launches New Retro GameStops Across North America | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 months ago:
higher prices
I’m heavily into Game Boy collecting. I just checked their online prices. They might be the cheapest I’ve seen, in general. For example Pokémon Blue is lower than the common price I’ve seen online (especially considering usual shipping and fees), but not low enough people will buy them up and re-sell them.
www.gamestop.com/video-games/retro-gaming?prefn1=…
No promises it’ll stay that way, but they’re very competitive for now.
- Comment on What are your favorite spooky (but not scary) retro games? 4 months ago:
the difficult game of Fester’s Quest on NES
Fun fact, the European release is vastly easier due to the simple fact that you can shoot through walls!
All enemies and bosses take less hits for them to be killed. The projectiles fired from the gun can go through walls and obstacles.
It still makes me angry for what we got in the US! 😤😅
- Comment on How does DNA decide the shape of the body? 7 months ago:
Richard Dawkins has an entire chapter on this exact topic in his book “The Greatest Show on Earth”. I highly recommend reading it, even just that one chapter! It doesn’t feel like a text book, and his writing is very easy to follow in my opinion.
It’s chapter 8, “You did it yourself in 9 months”. To summarize, many people mistakenly think of genes as a “blueprint”, but he suggests it’s better to think of genes as instructions for origami paper folding. Genes don’t know the whole creature, they just know what to fold next, what to duplicate, what to bend, and so on, kind of like that. It’s been a while since I read it. 😅
But I do remember, humans are so complex, we may never fully understand the complete embryo-to-adult growth process, BUT the author points out that there IS a creature, a very small worm, that we are able to understand everything.
That may not seem like a big deal at first, but think about it. Scientists understand the complete growth process of a living creature, from a single cell, every gene, every cell, everything, up to when it’s fully formed. So cool.
- Comment on Play GB games 7 months ago:
Pokemon Blue
FYI the internal cartridge battery that’s used to save your game is probably either dead or nearly dead!
A multimeter should show the battery at 3.25v. Anything less and it could die any day. Changing the battery isn’t too difficult, but it requires soldering.
This is my favorite tool set used to take the one screw out to open the cartridge, to check the battery.
- Comment on In movies a strong woman is manly. (big muscles, aggressive, punches people, etc.) Is that really the way it is? 7 months ago:
Big willpower. Driven. Uncompromising. That kind of thing.
I think that is the answer. :)
I’m trying to think of examples from famous recent movies with women who have that description…
From Disney:
- Moana from Moana
- Joy from Inside Out
- Anna and Elsa from Frozen and the sequel
- Mirabel from Encanto
Have you seen any of those movies? If not, what movies have you seen?
- Comment on Should I get an NES, Master System; or an Atari 7800? 8 months ago:
What games do you want to play?
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 11 months ago:
That’s exactly right! I wrote about it in another response. :)
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 11 months ago:
Haha it’s true! When my Malaysian friend asked me for a torch, I was running around for five minutes looking for a lighter, like this one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aKrxd1q3Mw&t=8
It’s all I could picture, no one ever asked me for a TORCH before. Like in Indiana Jones?? 😅
Until I stopped and asked, “Wait, what do you need it for?”
“To look at my car, something is wrong with the engine.”
…and that’s when I realized. We had a good laugh.
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 11 months ago:
Thank you, I didn’t know!
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 11 months ago:
Interesting, thank you!
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 11 months ago:
Thank you!
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- Comment on What android phones do you recommend and why? 1 year ago:
I was just pointing out the differences in goals.
Does Graphene OS come with microg, the open source reimplementation of Google Play Services, installed by default like it is on /e/ OS?
- Comment on What android phones do you recommend and why? 1 year ago:
They have different goals. I use /e/, where the focus is removing all communication with Google while providing a OS that’s as user friendly and ready to use as the competition.
- Dangan GB2, a new boss-rush, bullet-hell, shoot 'em up game for Game Boy Color, was just released to celebrate the console's 25th anniversarysnorpung.itch.io ↗Submitted 1 year ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on What were some movies you had to look up explanations of after watching? 1 year ago:
The more I read about 2001 and the more I watch it the more I love it!
- Comment on What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about? 1 year ago:
No problem, I actually have a copy of Zoop for the original Game Boy! 😄
- Comment on What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about? 1 year ago:
Also pretty much the highest valued Game Boy Advance game at this time! 🤯
- Comment on What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about? 1 year ago:
I got this game recently and could not put it down! I ended up accidentally beating it. 😆
And that soundtrack… 😩
- Comment on What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about? 1 year ago:
That was actually one of the first games I ever got! I’ve been meaning to try it again as an adult. It’s so hard, but the music and graphics are outstanding.
- Comment on What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about? 1 year ago:
I am interested in Rolan’s Curse 1 and 2. It’s too bad they’re so expensive!
- Comment on SMB3 Roulette & Card Matching Games Explained - RGME [Not OC] 1 year ago:
It’s so strange… I’ve heard that Japan culture in general likes games of random chance (like gashapon vending machines…) but this just seems cruel. 😅
At least I can finally stop stressing about the timing of my button presses.
- Comment on What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about? 1 year ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6rFyPKXGaw
Moomin’s Tale is beautiful.
- Comment on What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about? 1 year ago:
Radar Mission is the only US game I have a boxed copy of, it’s one of my favorite pieces in my collection. ❤️
And yes, the music gets stuck in my head every time I play it!
- Comment on What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about? 1 year ago:
That game is so good! “Zelda with guns”. I got it back when it came out and have played through it many times. It has such a good vibe.
- Comment on What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about? 1 year ago:
I actually got Vegas Stakes a few months ago! It’s such a relaxing game to waste some time with. :)
- Comment on What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about? 1 year ago:
I have! I picked up a copy a couple of years ago. It took me a little while to realize, it’s not about clearing the screen, but about getting a high score. It’s very clever, and a little addicting!
- Comment on What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about? 1 year ago:
Not weird at all! It’s actually my favorite Zelda game too. 🙂 I think I’d actually say Majora’s Mask is even more not-Zelda. 😄
- Comment on What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about? 1 year ago:
Did you mean Kingdom Crusade?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiwuRlvXM_c
I actually have a copy, but haven’t really played it yet. It looks incredible!