Here's a new category for my blog: Lynx Reviews. I hope to review all 80-some-odd games released for the Lynx. I hope to review these by the real thing, except when the rarity is something like 7, then I'll resort to the emulator. This time around, it's Toki.
Toki
Rarity: 3 / Reviewed: on real Lynx
Either I suck at Toki or the game itself sucks. The premise is simple enough: It's a platform game involving a monkey trying to rescue his girlfriend. That's all good and nice, but how can I
Well, I helped move my dad into his nursing home type place. We had to move all his furniture and stuff from his apartment into room #48 (one away from 47! Imagine my disappointment that Dad didn't get room #47.) Well, anyway, he was sick and kept vomiting and stuff, he wasn't doing too well, he couldn't walk at all. So we had to lift his walker/chair type thing down the stairs with him in it. He got enough strength to plop down into the car. With a TV in the back seat, I had to ride over there
Here we go again, folks. Not too excited about having to play Mega Man Battle Network (and that's putting it mildly.) But first, this. This game just flat out sucks. It's too difficult. I can't get past the first level. Yep, it's one of those. And let me remind you: the franchise is meant for kids. If any kid were to play this, they would get frustrated as I did, say the game was crap and never play it again. And that's what I intend to do, unless I feel like making my day a lot worse. And worse
Today me & mom went to K-Mart (they didn't have anything i want), and Value Village (unfortunately no 2600 games.) Empty handed, we went to Borders, where I saw Yes's album Tales of Topographic Oceans on CD. I have it on vinyl, but I really wanted it on CD and thought it wasn't, so i was surprised to see it. So I bought it. Here's another crossword with the answer to the last one.
I'm surprised I haven't done this one before. I'm guessing the one reason why this game was made was to show off how the Lynx can handle a whole bunch of sprites without flicker. The gameplay itself is very difficult, and if I were to make it past wave 7, it would be a miracle. It is very hard to grasp all the different things going on on the screen, whether to shoot them, avoid them, or touch them. I can't handle 40 bazillion things all on the screen at once, and getting an extra life at 25,000
Not wanting to get rusty on my programming skills (what little I have), I decided to work on my Virtual Boy game, even though there's no new pictures for me to work in. So I changed the title screen music. You can see my program here: http://www.atari2600land.com/banana/ic.html It works OK on real hardware. although Gi-Ant's and Behe-Moth's themes need to be sped up. Not a huge change to make, all I have to do is change a tempo number. Luckily even though it had been a couple months since I last
I thought the sprites for Rumblebee's wing looked pretty odd and uneven so I changed it and designed a sprite myself. I wanted it to have stripes like a bee would, so I put that in, I also ended up making the wings even now. This is what I ended up with: Of course, the stripes are transparent, so they ended up being green in the game. A problem which I could easily fix on the Virtual Boy, but I don't think there's a way to make transparent spots black on a non-black background, so I'll just hav
Whenever there's enough stuff to make an 8-page magazine about it, I make a parody of Mad magazine called Dam magazine. While thinking of things to make fun of, I thought the government shutdown. Hopefully this doesn't delve too much into politics, but I then thought of the Beach Boys' album "Shut Down." And so this is the cover for issue 7. I couldn't think of five liberals, so there's just three people on the cover (as opposed to five beach boys): Pelosi, Obama, and Reid. I thought this cover
This is quite possibly the dumbest game I have played for this blog. Yes, kids, it's even worse than the Castlevania debacle I experienced. I think there are two main problems I had with this game. #1 - I never watched the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers so I had no idea who anyone was. #2 - the game is just so damned hard. I mean, there is this mine in a level where there there is a hole. While you are supposed to fall down some holes to progress in the level, once you fall down this particular on
Why does it have to add two seconds of silence after every track? Why in the hell did the programmers think that was a good thing to do? It especially sucks when you're trying to have a time limit for songs. I had looked over my files and found an album of songs ten seconds or less I had never finished. There was just one track left and so I wrote and recorded it, and when I had burned the CD, it sounded horrible and filled with pops and hisses, which WASN'T the way it sounded when I had played
Dr Manhattan's status post was weird. It mentioned a system I never knew existed. So I Googled it. Action Max is a gaming system that uses the VCR and was released about the same time as the NES (1987.) I actually had an ad for it on one of my old tapes. It's at the 3:16 mark at this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HI_CIGzCyU How odd is that?! I was wondering if this could be a system to make homebrew games for, but I have conflicting reports. Wikipedia says:
"The console can
So I finally got around to testing that psuedo-cardboard paper on my printer. I cut it to an 8.5x11 size and stuck it in there. My paper cutter likes the stuff too. It cuts it well. Well, one at a time anyway. Anyway, I printed out some cards my Odyssey game needs and it worked out well. I look on the wrapper the paper came in. It says it works on ink-jet printers. Well, I guess all that wondering I did for nothing. Now I need to do that nine more times and I'll have the cards done. I need a new
I got a magazine in the mail about the Nokia N-Gage. It's issue 3 of the official N-Gage Trade Magazine called the "Insider." I wonder why they didn't call it the "N-Sider." The date is May 2005. Here's a few things I was able to glean by scanning the issue:
+ They seemed so hopeful that 2006 would be a great year for the N-Gage.
+ There's a 2-page spread about a game called Payload that was never released. It's "street date" was listed as 2006. Yeah, well...
+ Another game that was mentioned
I said on June 1 that I had hoped to work on Mr. Ultra 2 more often than I did. Well, I've been thinking about the game, but I can't think of any new level themes. Sure there are some that I can think of right now, like a mechanical world, but I think that's too similar to the computer world. Or the toy level, which I think would be kind of similar to the candy world. So what I have now is a sort of writer's block for Mr. Ultra 2, where I can't think of a new world to make. And it is time to sin
So I went to the game store after my hair cut and I walk out with a boxed Fairchild Channel F. It's a System II. I don't know what that means exactly, but I never saw one anyway, so I bought it. Hooking it up was easy, but I discovered that the game is selecting #2 automatically. I tried to unscrew the system, but only saw two screws. I unscrewed them but the thing didn't want to come apart. Hidden screws? Well, at least I have this thing. I can select different games if I act quickly, but the G
That's it. I give up. I am done trying to make games only to have them not work. It's not fair. As it turns out the problem I had with Insecticide came back. I am just so sick of failing every time I try to do something. So that's it. I'm done coding. I'll still make games that don't involve any programming whatsoever though. Those are Odyssey 1 and ActionMax games. Those are the types of games I like to do because I cannot fail at them. It's just not fair. Life isn't fair, thus I hate life. And
I must admit, I didn't watch the movie. And even if I did, it was released nine years ago, so I would have probably forgotten what it was about. So I was going into the game knowing nothing of the characters and plot. What I found was typical of platformers: Difficult, although I was able to get past level 1, I gave the game three chances to get past level 2, but it didn't want me to get past it, so I quit. I could just look up the passwords on the internet, but I don't want to for two reasons:
OK, since yesterday marked 47 more days to go until the end of the year, I've decided to have a 47 sighting blog entry. Well, about a week ago, my hometown paper reported that there have been 47 people dying so far in the state of Oregon due to traffic fatalities this year. Making the rounds on Google News, we find that smartphone sales as well as Petco's sales are up 47%. A new Ford Fusion hybrid car gets 47 miles per gallon. And in college basketball (which apparently has started already!) Duq
Has anyone besides me been following Sonic Adventure 2 prices on eBay? Well, apparently they're going down now. I just bought one. This one isn't like my old copy that just was disc only. And it was cheaper than the one I had bought even though it's complete. I don't know, I'm running out of games to get for the Dreamcast because I have all the ones I could possibly want. I need to get out of making video games and just playing them because I tried to make a Jaguar game and it's not doing so wel
So my Game Gear Everdrive came today. As it turns out, I can't use it yet. No, god forbid I don't need to open a Game Gear cart to use it. I tried putting the stupid Everdrive in the Game Gear slot but it will not fit. So now I have to wait about 10 MORE days, and order some stupid tool that they're all in China for some reason, just to open a Game Gear cart. Is this really necessary? Why bother making a Game Gear cartridge unopenable? What's the point? The worst thing that could happen is you'd
I got three 3DS games today. I put a review up of Asphalt 3D on the http://www.atari2600land.com/3ds/ 3DS reviews page. I also went into a Buyback$ store for the second time and this time I actually purchased a couple used cheapies: SpongeBob SquigglePants 3D and Steel Diver. Got them both for under $30, not only that, the stickers are really easy to get off. If only Gamestop's were that easy (grr.) But I can't review SBSP and SD right now because my eye began hurting (which is regular) and I ne
Hey gang, saw 47 in the news a lot recently. There was a feast in Mexico for Children's Day that sickened a couple hundred of people. 47 kids remain hospitalized. And guess how many wins the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder got this year. That's right: 47. There was even a stock on the NYSE that had a value of 47.47 a few days ago. Someone on AA (I forgot who) had their 46th and 47th knee operation. And last time I checked, the temperature here was 47 (it has been a cold May so far. I have a feeling
So I went to the video game store again. I wasn't thinking about picking up a N64 game. It just happened. Then I thought. I thought about all the fun times I had reviewing games for myself about the N64. I even had one article in the middle school newspaper where I reviewed N64 games. So I was born to do this. Since then I have made about 30 issues of Nintendo Stuff, a magazine I used to write for myself from 1997-2002. I kinda went crazy over how stupid the Gamecube was so I stopped making them
I just don't get it. Every Sonic game I've ever played is too difficult for me to get very far in. In yesterday's blog, I mentioned I was back to thinking about the N-Gage. So I put Sonic N in. I haven't played every single one, but I'd venture to guess the game is one of if not the most hardest platformer on the whole N-Gage. For a long time I couldn't for the life of me beat 4-2. I'd get as far as the stupid robot boss and then die trying to jump up the ice platforms to try to bump the boss en
I remembered in elementary school playing on a computer where on the monitor the only color was green. Well, I found my drawings and stuff the teacher made me do in kindergarten and lo and behold found the answer to everything. It was an Apple II. That must have been the computer I remembered. I had made a few pages in my kindergarten journal called "Computerland" (this was in 1990) where there was a picture of Megaman (perhaps I got him confused with Mario? I've never heard of Megaman at the ti
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