The Gamer's Quarter

SuperWes · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:14 am Post subject:

Today's games!

Punch Out!! (not Mke Tyson's Punch Out!!) (NES, 1 player, 500 points)
Bonk's Revenge (TurboGrafx16, 1 player, 600 points)
Virtua Fighter 2 (Genesis, 1-2 players, 800 points)

Hella awesome shit here. I'll be picking up Punch Out!! and Bonk's Revenge. Is Virtua Fighter 2 any good on Genesis? Seems kinda silly to be playing the original 3D fighting game in 2D.

Also: Carcassonne, a board game, is due out on Xbox Live Arcade on June 7th. AWESOME! I've been waiting patiently to try out a good digital version of a geek-board game. I've always wanted to get into that whole culture, but I've never had anyone to play with.

-Wes
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:22 am Post subject:

SuperWes · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:27 am Post subject:

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SuperWes · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject:

Two more downloadable games hit Xbox this week. A Gyruss remake for $5 and 3D Ultra MiniGolf Adventures for $10.

I'm hella interested in MiniGolf. I'm a MiniGolf fiend, but at $10 the demo will have to be pretty impressive.

-Wes
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aerisdead · . Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 254 Location: Toronto, Canada

I purchased Punch-Out!! Without hesitation.

I have only played it for 8 minutes but it's pretty hott, still.
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SuperWes · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:50 am Post subject:

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Hey, can anyone explain what the hell the 1.7 PS3 firmware patch does? I read it about three times and all I get from it is that I can use my PSP for PS1 save games (for games I don't play!) and I can use rumble on controllers that I can't hook up to the system...

What exactly is this update giving us?
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aerisdead · . Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 254 Location: Toronto, Canada

Herpes.
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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:54 am Post subject:

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dessgeega · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject:

attention virtual console thread: i finally finished splatterhouse. now i must play hard mode.
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JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

Yay!

We should totally do that soldier blade score thing you suggested a while ago, dess.

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject:

yeah we fucking should. i should get that shit together.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Starfox 64- sorry, 'Lylat Wars' just came out in the UK. It's great, but the Gamecube controller seems to lack the nuance the 64 controller had. You don't have that fine grading of control with the analog stick- craft movements are either 'barely movin' or 'sudden lurch'. Is it better with the Wii classic controller? Please tell me it is!

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject:

the control stick(s) on the classic controller are a lot better - they were clearly designed with n64 emulation in mind - so i'd be surprised if it wasn't.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Cool thnx

Ethoscapade · . Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 276

but! on the classic controller you don't get the "wow this is better than the original" button mapping that you do with the wavebird.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I would totally go for the soldier blade HS thread, but it would look like this:

Deets >>Dess>>>>>>>>>ME >:-(

Anyways, if anyone wants we should do it. Three people is enough to start! Actually, this is kind of making me wish that the Wii were more like the 360, because then we would be doing this w/o needing to create a thread for it.
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JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

Creating the thread is half the funnnn

Also I totally fucking suck at Soldier Blade. Your ship is insanely fast considering the size of the screen and it seems like everything that kills you is some gigantic sprite twice as big as your ship.

Edit: actually uhhhh nevermind. I went and finished the game after continuing a bunch, then started a new game and cleared it with one miss. The game is a lot easier once you know what it's going to throw at you! I'll check out hard mode next.

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JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

Soldier Blade hard mode is really interesting. The enemies in stage 1 alone are more aggressive than the same ones in stage 6 on normal, the formations of popcorn enemies fire aimed suicide bullets at you when defeated, that kind of thing. Unfortunately, while I enjoy the increased challenge after finishing the game on normal, the higher difficulty just exacerbates the balance issue that one faces after dying - if you don't have a weapon pod, you're pretty much fucked, regardless of how many lives you have in stock. It was fairly manageable on normal difficulty, but... hmmm. I'll see how I feel about the game when/if I see what the last 3 stages are like.

SuperWes · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:51 am Post subject:

Mo' shit today!

* Gradius III (SNES, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
* Wonder Boy in Monster World (Genesis, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
* Battle Lode Runner (TurboGrafx 16, 1-5 players, 600 Wii Points

So I've got a few questions! Will Gradius III have the infamous slowdown? Is this Wonder Boy the same game as the Turbo one that came out a few weeks ago? Is Battle Lode Runner worth getting if I've already got Lode Runner on both the N64 and GameCube?

-Wes
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:51 am Post subject:

battle lode runner is multiplayer lode runner. multiplayer. it is no lode runner you've ever played before. and it was one of the titles that made me jealous of the japanese virtual console.

what you need to know about battle lode runner: the single-player isn't worth touching. the multi-player, however, is great. it's based on bomberman's multiplayer, but with lode runner's mechanics. so if you can picture five lode runners running around, trying to blast the ground out from underneath each other without getting trapped themselves - and then they let the monsters in, who start chasing after whoever's closest - it is pretty crazy and pretty great. made for parties, like most hudson multiplayer titles, and the wii should suit it just fine.
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Well, the game that was relased for the Genesis in the united states as "Wonder Boy in Monster World" was released in Japan as "Monster World III," while Dragon's Curse was a port of Monster World II and my head just exploded

JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

The PCE-VC site bestows upon us a vision of the future, and it has Ninja Spirit and Blazing Lazers in it.

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:12 pm Post subject:

blazing lasers / gunhed bores me, but ninja spirit is still one of my favorite pce titles.
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SuperWes · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:35 pm Post subject:

I downloaded the demos for Pinball FX and Eets last night. Eets was disappointing. I was expecting something really good and indie and instead I got The Incredible Machine mixed with Lemmings. Both of those are good games individually, but put together they're kind of meh.

Pinball FX is pretty great though. I'm a big fan of good video pinball, and this is certainly good. The tables feel like they're tilted toward the player a bit more than usual, making the game play a lot faster than real pinball, but aside from that the physics are really, really tight. I ended up buying the game ($10, maybe a bit too high), and one of the tables is a lot better than the demo one while the other is a lot worse. I tend to play video pinball a lot more when it's on portable systems, so we'll see how much this gets played!

-Wes
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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject:

yeah, eets is bleah. i have no idea why it gets the kind of praise it does.
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Lestrade · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject:

Yesssss, Ninja Spirit. This is the number-one TG16 game I wanted.

ApM · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:40 pm Post subject:

player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

Castlevania, Legend of the Mystical Ninja, and Shocker this week. The first two games I want to buy, but the last one... I don't know wtf it is. Anyone else know?
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SuperWes · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:06 am Post subject:

Lestrade · Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject:

Yessssss, Ninja Gaiden is coming! Now as soon as Ninja Gaiden II comes out, I will be very happy indeed.

SuperWes · Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 1:10 pm Post subject:

Today's games are Final Fight, Mighty Bomb Jack, and Ordyne. As usual, I have no idea what the hell the odd Turbo game is on the list, but luckily I can abandon the orange site now and use Nintendo's own site to figure it out.

Wait a minute, I guess it's not up there yet. Let me check the orange site.

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dessgeega · Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 5:23 pm Post subject:

"curvey curves" is an amazing phrase.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

I really like Ordyne, I own it even though I don't own a system to play it on. So I just use emulation.
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Yeah, Ordyne is good times. Had I a Wii, I'd probably get ahold of it.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Hey everyone with a PS3 (wes!) Calling all Cars is out. I may play it this weekend.
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

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SuperWes · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 9:24 am Post subject:

Lestrade · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 9:30 am Post subject:

OH MY FUCK. Ninja Gaiden AND Ninja Spirit? SHIT FUCK SHIT FUCK I need Wii points!

dessgeega · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 9:39 am Post subject:

ninja spirit is better than at least 90% of the games you own, wes.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

I think I've finally found something to put my last 800 points towards. I'm looking at you, Ninja Spirit.

I was having fun in Military Madness until the computer broke out the artillery. Ugh. I still love that game. Despite having bought a TG16 with a few games (Bonk, Dungeon Explorer, and some hockey game) for $20 off ebay some years ago, I never put much time into it. I was aware of Military Madness though, but its high price scared me away, so high-five to VC for this.
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