Well, GoSub will be in the store once Al gets back from the Midwest Gaming Classic (so that'll be around June 11.) Here's a question for anyone who has released a game: Have you had any horrible phobias about your final product, like you may have missed some horrendous bug or something? I'm pretty sure mine doesn't have one (from all the comments I've been getting). This is my first game and I want to make a good impression on everyone by having a quality product here.
In other news, I have
While I'm sitting here next to the fan without air conditioning in a house made of tin and it's 85 degrees outside, I somehow managed to make a program in batari Basic using only 2k. While I've made 2k games using bB before, they were crappy. This one I think is a lot better, but there's no real challenge to it. It's called "Outta My Way" and it involves ramming people with a shopping cart in a grocery store. Enjoy!
I've never been that big of a fan of Klax to begin with. When it comes to color-matching brick games, I'd much rather have Tetris 2. But there is no Tetris 2 on the Lynx. There's Klax. And I don't like this version. Here's why: Waves (levels) 1 & 2 are too easy, and then once you get to Wave 3, it gets insanely hard. And even if I do get past wave 3, look what's on wave 4:
See, there's TOO MANY COLORS and TOO MANY BRICKS COMING MY WAY! If there had been 4 colors, that would make the game
Chip's Challenge is a puzzle game that plays like a platformer. Its top down view is reminiscent of Zelda II, but it has a whole bunch of puzzle elements like Fire & Ice for the NES. There are a set number of chips for each level to collect, but that's not as easy as it sounds, for the programmers put in keys, warps, switches, enemies, fire, ice, water, and even tanks for you to avoid or go across. While the first levels are OK, the later ones are just too hard for me, and there are over 150
Pinball Jam is a pinball game with only 2 tables: An Elvira-themed one and a Police-themed one. While it has excellent music and graphics, as well as the standard speech samples (lots of Lynx games seem to have these), one downplay is it has too many colors on screen at once, making it kind of hard to tell where the ball (a white circle) is, which could get lost in the eye candy. Other than that, it's a fairly accurate pinball rendition, and a pretty good one at that. I give this one a . It kind
After five billion trial programs, I think I've found the right program to program. It's easy to program, yet interesting. I want to limit this to 4K, so there'll be few SFX. It's kinda like AStar, only there's only one fruit to get, but (hopefully) hard to. It's called BStar (name could change.) There's three screens so far, but there will be more. (BTW, I found the AStar ROM in the 2005 Minigame Compo page.)
This is a Mario Bros. knock-off I started working on after I got mad at Mario Bros. for the 2600. Right now there's a few bugs
rem : bug list
rem : if fireball is touched, cat goes down and is ready to kick
Plus probably some I don't know. And yes, it's a cat. It could be anything. I was trying to make it look like the green thing and it ended up being a cat. The sprite could change (and probably will). Oh, and there's no coins yet. If the fireball is touched and the cat is down, the ca
I just went and got my 150th Atari 2600 game. What is the "magic" game that got me to this milestone, you may ask? Realsports Volleyball. Not a terrific title, but now I have 149 others to play. Now, to get 200!
At a little corner of the web sits Snowflake Studios, a site that I give comics and have been for almost two years now. Check out the Archive dropdown under "Current Favorites" for "47 Meatballs" and "Pierre Banana" for all my comics. Well, just yesterday, I drew cartoon #200, which will go on the site sometime in August. Well, I'm giving you a sneak preview of it. Consider yourself warned.
This is just me messing around. Maybe I can really make something like this someday. I'd really like to. Press the reset switch to go to an opening (before the table of contents would appear, if this were an actual book cart.) Does anyone know what the channel and frequencies of the opening do-doo-do-doo of the 2600 Pac-Man game is?
Nintendo just rolled out its summer schedule, and DK King of Swing DS is now called DK Jungle Climber, and will be released Sept. 10. Also, Chibi-Robo: Park Patrol (which has been listed at ds.ign.com as Dec. 31!) will be released way sooner at Sept. 24. Two games I've been wondering about will be released in September.
In other news, I live in a trailer park with a pool, and if the managers are nice, they'll open the pool this weekend (Memorial Day weekend, like always), but I don't know wh
Well, finally Comic Genesis got their act together and fixed their stupid little problem. And my comic, dated yesterday (I draw my comics about a month in advance), was just shown TODAY. I have all the Sun. and Wed. ones done until June 17. I could just as well wait until June 16th to do the rest of the month, but knowing me, I'll probably be drawing a couple more tonight. Oh, and if you're up, tonight on the Tonight Show, Jay's doing Headlines (or at least he's supposed to, today being Monday
Well, guess what? It's down, *again*. And what day did it decide to go down? The one day of the week where my new comic uploads. It's a weekly comic. Sometimes twice a week, like next month. At least it's stuck on a somewhat funny one. And by funny, I mean not funny. See, Brad says to Jessica "I still can't get a Wii." and Brad's dad pops in and says "Maybe you need some Detrol LA." Why did they name it that? Maybe Nintendo of Japan should do some research on English slang before they name a con
Along with release dates (I don't think anyone cares, but what the hey):
5/22 - Death Jr,
5/22 - NYT Crosswords
6/4 - DS Browser
6/26 - Flipper Critters
6/26 - Nervous Brickdown
8/21 - Namco Museum DS
9/2007 - DK King of Swing, Garfield's Nightmare, Phoenix Wright 3
10/2 - Sonic Rush Adventure
10/2007 - Simpsons Game
11/2007 - Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
BTW, I also got a Sega Saturn along with a CIB of Hyper 3D Pinball earlier today. I brought back the old post from the
I got Final Fantasy Chocobo Tales and Touch the Dead for DS. The box for Touch the Dead is funny. "Rob Steiner has been jailed for a murder he has not committed. Suddenly he finds himself surrounded by bloodthirsty zombies!" I can just hear him go "Oh, great. Not only am I in jail, now there's zombies!" But the funniest part of the box has to be this: "Some games want to train your brain. We just want to eat it." It's the second game for the DS I know of rated M (the other is Resident Evil.) Oh,
While researching the number of albums out there named "Up", I discovered a fourth one by ABC made in 1989. So that brings the total to four, although I doubt this one made its way to CD, though. I could be (hopefully) wrong. A pretty popular name for albums. If you know of any more bands who made an album called Up, please post a reply. So far I have:
1.) Shania Twain (Up!)
2.) Peter Gabriel
3.) Great Big Sea
4.) ABC (the band, not the network)
This makes me thirsty for some 7-Up!
Continuing with this theme, I was looking 'round the 'net and found that Peter Gabriel has not one, not two, but three albums with two letter titles: Us, Up, and So. As I'm writing this, I'm listening to the Presidents of the United States of America's II album, so there's at least 2 albums named "II" and "Up." Question: Did U2 release a self-titled album? Now next time I go downtown I have to look for three Peter Gabriel albums! Right now I have three 2-letter titled albums: II (PUSA, Boyz II M
I am fascinated by really short titles for things. Take for instance, Coldplay's album titled "X&Y" or Shania Twain's "Up!", or Boyz II Men's "II". Or TV shows such as "24", "Ed", and "ER". Or songs, like Pink Floyd's "If", Neil Diamond's "Be", or Faith Hill's "Me". Or even shorter, like movies called "Q", "M", or "O", or Paul Abdul's song "U". One-letter titles have more "mystique" than two-letter titles, but any other album with two letters would be appreciated. I'd like to start a collect
I just got 7 games in the mail today (6 Lynx, and Strat-O-Gems Deluxe), for a total of 504 video games, which puts me over the 500 mark! 10 total for the Lynx, and 149 for the Atari 2600. I love Strat-O-Gems Deluxe, by the way. I didn't get an AtariVox, though, so I'm probably missing something. I've yet to read the instruction booklet though I already know how to play it. It's a tight fit for my 2600, so it must have been a red label in the cart's previous "life." See, I've been here for almos
Yet another game based on a movie I don't intend to watch. (#6 for the year.) Games based on movies are usually bad. That's the ideology I had in mind when starting to play Shrek the Third. It's a platform game, borrowing many elements from Arthur & the Invisibles, but this is a better game than that is. The controls are good. A to jump and B to attack. Now if every game was like that, I'd be happy. In some levels, though, you control both Donkey and Puss-In-Boots, toggling between each for
Get this: I was at Best Buy earlier today. I was about to get Petz Vet for GBA and leave (for part of my GBA 07 collection), but then, I noticed Shrek the Third for GBA out, which is weird because IGN says it's supposed to be out on the 15th, and today's the 12th. So I bought it, and I'll have a review and page up soon for my website (probably Monday.) Just thought it was kind of weird that it was out sooner and IGN was off by about 3 or 4 days. It must have came out yesterday, the same day as t
I'm wondering what my next project will be. Probably "Ball," and I think it will be 8k, because it relies heavily on playfield drawings and they can only be called in the last bank in Batari Basic (the second bank in an 8k game.) I don't know exactly when GoSub will be in the store, but it will be at the upcoming mid-west gaming expo thingee in early June. I won't be there, but the game will (so someone will have to take pics of it for me. ) Albert and I are still hammering out the details. If I
Another review about another game with a short title. Next time, I'll try to review something with a long title, like "Todd's Adventures in Slimeworld" to make up for it . Anyway, I can compare this one to the one on Game Boy. That's what I'll do here. The first thing you'll notice right off the bat is that the Lynx one has color (duh.). Another thing is that the controls are a bit awkward. I was wondering why I wasn't getting past level 1, then I realized I was drawing the lines on the slow set
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
Here's another update of the roulette game I'm working on. I know a roulette game using Batari Basic shouldn't take up 8k, but here it is anyway. (note: It's actually more around 5k) Added the odd/even number option. Up next: Choose your own number!
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