mbd30 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 What games do you keep returning to because they're not too frustrating, not too easy, and they just feel right? NES "Batman" is one of those games for me. I love how everything comes together with the moody NES soundtrack, dark visuals, cool level design, and great controls. I can get to the Joker fairly quickly, but I've only managed to beat him twice. I'd love to eventually one credit clear this beast. But I know that I even if I make it to the Joker without continuing that I'd screw up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutsy Doodleheimer Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Batman is a pretty tough game for me. For a game that I live to return to and play often would be Super Castlevania 4 for the SNES. It is my second favorite SNES game behind The Legend of Zelda a Link to the Past. The soundtrack is superb, the difficulty is perfect not too easy and not too hard. Whipping in multiple directions plus the ability to dangle it to kill frogs, bats, and fireballs is a neat touch. And most importantly they made the controls more forgivable, and changing directions when jumping is a great touch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatPix Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Silent Hill (PS1) Resident Evil 1/2/3 Code Veronica and "rebirth" Zelda Twilight Princess; Turtles in Time, Parodius Da, super Mario Bros 2, Stunts 4D Sports Driving, Jill of the Jungle... errr. others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Intellivision Burgertime TG-16 Legendary Axe 2600 Midnight Magic, Dig Dug & Ms. Pac-Man 7800 Dig Dug & Centipede TI-99 TI Invaders Jaguar Tempest 2000 CD32 Pinball Fantasies 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Old game comfort food: HERO, Megamania, Cosmic Ark - atari Tarzan, Lady Bug, Frogger, Cosmic Avenger, Tutankham - CV Oils Well, Trolls & Tribulations, Bruce Lee, Conan, Montezuma's Revenge - C64 Tecmo Bowl, Ice Climber, Xevious - NES Super Castlevania IV, Street Fighter II - SNES Road Rash II, NHL Hockey - Genesis Suikoden 2, Silent Hill or Resident Evil 2 - PS1 Warcraft II, Heroes of Might & Magic III - PC I have a lot but those are the one's I like to throw on fairly often and play around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Superman on the VCS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 (edited) Great thread idea! It's a nice contrast to the thread about games that make you want to throw your controller against the wall. My "comfort games" are: Castlevania (NES or Game Boy Advance) Centipede (Arcade or Atari 2600) Doom (Game Boy Advance) Kirby's Dream Land (Game Boy) Mortal Kombat (Sega Genesis) Ms. Pac-Man (Arcade or Atari 2600) Project S-11 (Game Boy Color) Resident Evil: Director's Cut (PS1) Solar Striker (Game Boy) Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Sega Genesis) Super Mario Land (Game Boy) The House of the Dead 2 (Arcade or Wii) Thunder Force III (Sega Genesis) They're all games that I've played through dozens of times over and know that I'll always be able to beat (or play reasonably well, in the case of Centipede and Ms. Pac-Man) any time I pick them up, even if I'm not giving the game my full attention while playing. Games that I've played so much that my muscle memory knows what to do at any given point in the game, even if my brain is zoning out and giving some of it's attention to something else. It always makes me feel really good to be able to relax and play through these games with relative ease, especially when it comes to some of the more difficult ones like Castlevania and Thunder Force III. Edited August 28, 2015 by Jin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bohoki Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 i like popping in castle of illusion for sega genesis shipwreckers for playstation rc pro am for nes donkey kong for gameboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd30 Posted August 28, 2015 Author Share Posted August 28, 2015 Speaking of"Castlevania", I bet it would be one of the toughest NES games to beat just using the whip and no weapons. Someone is an excellent CV player if they can manage that. I have to be cheap and use the holy water on Frankenstein and the Reaper. As a kid, I could beat the Reaper with boomerangs but I don't remember how to do it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd30 Posted August 28, 2015 Author Share Posted August 28, 2015 (edited) i like popping in castle of illusion for sega genesis shipwreckers for playstation rc pro am for nes donkey kong for gameboy I've been trying to beat "Castle of Illusion" for the past couple days. There are some surprisingly tricky parts for being a cutesy Mickey Mouse game. Edited August 28, 2015 by mbd30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutsy Doodleheimer Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Speaking of"Castlevania", I bet it would be one of the toughest NES games to beat just using the whip and no weapons. Someone is an excellent CV player if they can manage that. I have to be cheap and use the holy water on Frankenstein and the Reaper. As a kid, I could beat the Reaper with boomerangs but I don't remember how to do it. I'm great at Castlevania, but there is no way that I can beat it with the whip only in a legit playthrough. As for using the boomerangs against Death in the first game, you need to use triple shots. And as you enter the section that he appears just immediately without hesitating jump up and fire three boomerangs. That is 6 hits right off the bat. And then move around avoiding the scythes and wherever he lands just repeat the process. That was how I used to beat him and thought it was the best way before the triple shot holy water trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 (edited) Speaking of"Castlevania", I bet it would be one of the toughest NES games to beat just using the whip and no weapons. Someone is an excellent CV player if they can manage that. I have to be cheap and use the holy water on Frankenstein and the Reaper. As a kid, I could beat the Reaper with boomerangs but I don't remember how to do it. Now that would be amazing! I like to think of myself as a pretty good Castlevania player for having cleared the game without ever dying once, but I've always had to use the triple holy water trick on Death. I've never been able to beat him "fair and square", though I was pretty astounded when my wife (having never played Castlevania before) managed to beat Death with just the whip and boomerang on her first try last Halloween. My reaction was something along the lines of "Holy ****! I've beaten this game dozens of times and I've never been able to do that!" I'll have to try my hand at beating Castlevania with just the whip the next time I play it, but man is that ever going to make some of the bosses difficult. I honestly don't think I can do it, but I'll still give it the old college try. Edited August 28, 2015 by Jin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 (edited) Many pre-crash games - those are what I play and keep going back to. No ramp-up time, no remembering what the controls were, and always the possibility of doing just a little bit better than the last time.... I don't usually reach for games that do have an ending (platformers) if I know there's no way I'll ever see it. It's a bigger time commitment than I want to put in. Demon Attack (2600) Pac Man (5200) Adventure 2 (5200) Miner 2049er (5200) Food Fight (7800) Asteroids (7800) Crossbow (7800) Thunder Castle (Inty) Space Hawk (Inty) D&D Cloudy Mountain (Inty) Frenzy (CV) Venture (CV) Rescue Mission (SMS) Edited August 28, 2015 by BydoEmpire 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Superman on the VCS. I know I just said that a few posts back, let me expand on that. I would typically play this on Friday evenings, shower nights. After a hot bath I'd come downstairs and load up on potato chips and soda and sit my butt down on the beanbag, those ones filled with tiny Styrofoam balls. And I'd play this on one TV and try watching cartoons on another. Something like that. Other games would be Miniature Golf and Adventure and E.T., VideoChess, Backgammon and other really slow-moving games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bohoki Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 i love superman you cant die you can just explore i spend most of my time finding the quickest route to jail or the chasm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hookem Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 (edited) Any vertical shooter -- Galaga, Demon Attack, Space Invaders, Phoenix, Tac-Scan, Gyruss(ok, not vertical but in the same ballpark) ... 2600 through 7800. Especially Galaga for the music. Kaboom. Qix & Robotron (5200) Then horizontal shooters... Defender, Scramble, Choplifter, etc. MAME arcade ROMs: Tempest, Tron, 1942. Edited August 29, 2015 by hookem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland p Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 Sokoban/Boxyboy on the turbografx: - No timer - No enemies - Rewind button So you can't 'die', the game is as honest games can get, yet the levels can be really difficult. Some levels are simple (only a few boxes to move) and difficult at the same time. This must be the slowest, yet difficult game, It's almost like programming. Roadfighter Just drive in a straight line (with some bends) through colorful landscapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLic0ne t0aD Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 Berzerk, HERO, Keystone Kapers, - Atari 2600 Astrosmash - Intellivision Frenzy, Venture, Spy Hunter - ColecoVision R.C. Pro-Am Racing, The Black Bass, SMB, Bases Loaded 3 - NES Super Mario 64, Zelda OoT - N64 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameGirl420 Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 KANGAROO for the 5200!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey.shake Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 I have 20 minutes to kill and need to blow off some steam or whatever, a Konami-coded Contra run usually clears my head a little bit. (I never need to use more that the first set of 30, but don't think I could make it past Base 2 without The Code.) Loads of others, and lots of 2600 due to the "grab 'n' play for a few minutes" style. Megamania, Kaboom, Pac-Man 8K, Seaquest... the ones where you really get "in the zone" and I can zen out and get blissed. It's like meditation sometimes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 (edited) Megamania (2600, 5200) Frostbite (2600) AD&D Cloudy Mountain - (INTV) Fast Eddie (2600) Adventure Island (NES) Flicky (Genesis) Elevator Action (NES) Night Stalker (INTV) Boggle (4 Game Fun Pack) - (NDS) Rampart (NES) Lock 'n' Chase (INTV) Edited August 29, 2015 by darthkur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubufubu Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Speaking of"Castlevania", I bet it would be one of the toughest NES games to beat just using the whip and no weapons. Someone is an excellent CV player if they can manage that. I have to be cheap and use the holy water on Frankenstein and the Reaper. Do you mean just the Vampire Killer or are you including the Morning Star + Chain Whip upgrade and extension? I'm great at Castlevania, but there is no way that I can beat it with the whip only in a legit playthrough. As for using the boomerangs against Death in the first game, you need to use triple shots. And as you enter the section that he appears just immediately without hesitating jump up and fire three boomerangs. That is 6 hits right off the bat. And then move around avoiding the scythes and wherever he lands just repeat the process. That was how I used to beat him and thought it was the best way before the triple shot holy water trick. Using Holy Water is super effective, but it renders Death incapable of doing anything at all. Same goes for The Monster & Igor, Big Medusa, The Mummies, and Dracula's second form. It eliminates the possibility for them to actually fight you. Good for survival and speed, but takes too much fun out of the game. You don't even need the Triple Shot as Double will suffice. That's what I would suggest when using the Cross weapon. Get the Triple Shot. Jump and throw them immediately to the right as soon as the screen locks you in for the fight scene. Death's movement pattern is reminiscent of an infinity symbol. Now that would be amazing! I like to think of myself as a pretty good Castlevania player for having cleared the game without ever dying once, but I've always had to use the triple holy water trick on Death. I've never been able to beat him "fair and square", though I was pretty astounded when my wife (having never played Castlevania before) managed to beat Death with just the whip and boomerang on her first try last Halloween. My reaction was something along the lines of "Holy ****! I've beaten this game dozens of times and I've never been able to do that!" I'll have to try my hand at beating Castlevania with just the whip the next time I play it, but man is that ever going to make some of the bosses difficult. I honestly don't think I can do it, but I'll still give it the old college try. If you decide to undertake this, then let me know. I could provide you with some help. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Algus Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 River City Ransom The Legend of Zelda Super Mario Bros 2 Final Fantasy Mega Man X I also play The Sims 2 a lot when I just want to turn my brain off and not think to much. I'm in retail management so I can play Open For Business and dick with all of the Sims at my in-game store and do the things that would get me fired IRL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaperman Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 (edited) My big one is Aero Fighters 2 on Neo Geo. There's nothing special about the game, most people seem to think it's below average. However it's a game that I'm always in the mood to play for 5-10 minutes at a crack and put away. It's what I play when I don't really want to play games all night. If I ever actually get any better at AF2, and start living too long, I suppose I'll have to pick another quick pickup game. Edited September 2, 2015 by Reaperman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 My comfort food is any Mega Man game on NES, except perhaps Mega Man 4 because I find it less fun than the others (but still fun in its own right). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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