Cafeman
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Played again! 27,200. Looks like a tie right now.
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PS2 Tomb Raider Anniversary. 14 hours. I think I spent 5 hours on just one stage, the one with that infuriating rope grapple jump in the Damocles sword room, which itself took 1 or 2 hours. Otherwise I am enjoying the game. It took me a while to understand how to beat the Centaurs at the end of Saint Francis Folly in this version but once I got it, it wasn't hard. I'm in Egypt now shooting Panthers and mummies.
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I am impressed with the PS5. It has the horsepower to produce high resolution games at a great frame rate, which is always welcome. But if I understand things, its design and SSD are going to eliminate lengthy load times and allow more variation of graphics in levels. That sounds pretty cool. I watched the trailer for Horizon forbidden West, and it looks sweet. I can't wait to see what the accomplish with Spider-Man 2!
That being said, I will certainly not be an early adopter. Maybe in two or three years I'll pick one up.
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Played again. 23,300.
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Great story, nice haul, and I hope your treatment goes well and is over soon.
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Yes I do. 5200 and 7800 into VCR RF , then VCR to flat screen via RCA composite cables. Looks great, usually rock solid picture.
Trying to hook up 5200 directly to my flat screen barely works, with terribly weak and static filled picture.
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I never played Avalanch but I've heard it is basically like Kaboom. Hope the game lives up to that artwork!
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I've been stubbornly sticking with Axel, playing on Hard. I play 1 or 2 rounds every evening. I need extra stars and lives to finish each stage at this point, so I'm not getting full points rewards. But its still fun.
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My first "Hello" program was on a TRS 80 using basic in 8th grade. My first useful program was in Atari 8bit Basic in 10th or 11th grade. Simple inventory management programs, and attempts at games. Made a Kaboom style, a mazegame style, and and Airwolf interactive story adventure game back then which was fun for exactly 2 plays.
Majored in Computer Science in college, and was in MIS / IT field ever since.
Edit - it's funny how memories start to return after I start thinking about something. I now remember I did a Blackjack game in Atari Basic. And some kind of space game, ripping off Star Raiders. I spent some time on this one but only partially recall it. It had a hyperspace sequence where you tried to keep the scope centered. I remember at the beginning of each stage there was an animated sequence where a vector space structure approached you , redrawn bigger frame by frame... But I cannot recall the main gameplay at all now. Crap, this is going to bother me now. Maybe I never finished it.
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Coincidentally, this is a new feature on the game.
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My memory tells me that the highest scoring opportunity comes from ringing the bell and collecting all the fruit again. However you will likely get killed more often trying to do this until you are skilled and familiar with the game enough.
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I can't see any reason to buy it, since I have it on Dreamcast. Never finished all the races either, it got too hard. But the visuals and sense of speed were pretty good for the day.
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4 minutes ago, jhd said:Was that a physical pack-in (rather than just a coupon)? How did someone select the size?
I didn't buy MASH, but I remember seeing them for sale and theyre were a pile of t-shirts next to them at the counter. This was at a department store called Big Wheel in the early 80s. So I assumed you would pick from what they physically had at that store, good luck!
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The inflation calculator says $40 in 1977 = $169 in 2020!
And $45 in 1984 = $111 in 2020.
Pretty steep.
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I've been stuck on level 6 Hard difficulty, trying to finish it with Axel. It starts off pretty easy with useful weapons like the boomerang , then the meat cleaver. But then several mobs start to take my health and lives away. When it starts to go bad, it can be very bad.
I checked, on PS4 the latest update for me is still 1.2. When are the 1.3 adjustments getting pushed out? Those weapon carrying walking guys are near impossible to escape!
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You know what, I cannot get Popeye.bin from the OP post to work on either Altirra or Win800. I'm using the newest non-beta version of Atirra. Other games work. Can somebody post a ROM of 5200 popeye that works in Altirra ?
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Dreamcast, Skies of Arcadia. 8 hours. Finished the game.
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I remembered the site you were referring to, but for the life of me I also could not remember its name. It's bugged me since this thread was posted so I too am glad to remember The Retrogaming Times.
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Favorite:
- racing games of all types, although I enjoy arcade style racers the most.
- I dont know if its a genre, but I enjoy science fiction adventures of various style of gameplay. Compare Genesis Flashback with Metroid Prime, Star wars Fallen Order, and Horizon Zero Dawn.
- 2D vertical and horizontal shooters. From Space Invaders and River Raid to Darius Gaiden and Giga Wing, etc.
Least:
- first person shooters, and online competitive frag fests.
- Horror survival games don't interest me.
- Basketball games - the appeal has eluded me, strange because I've loved some other sports games.
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The bigger enemies have “invincible” frames of animation. If you start a combo during these, you will get clobbered. Lots of tips are out there online to help a new player recognize some patterns. Personally I really enjoy SOR4.
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I devoted much of June to playing through SOA for the first time, the DC original version. Over 40 hours of game later, I finished it today. Now I remember why I'm not an RPG fan! These games are too long!
SOA has great characters and a long epic story about the Air Pirates and various nations of Arcadia. Great colors and art, good music, and I see why some people fondly remember it.
I'd rate it 8 out of 10. I'm glad I finally got to experience it, but I will never play it through again! Some of it is near perfect, but 2 things really came to annoy me and bring the experience down. First, the oft-mentioned frequency of random battles is enough to drive me batty! I had more than usual free time this month so I came to accept it, and I did select the RUN option more and more frequently towards the end to avoid some battles.
The other negative is the game makes you go through some long stretches between save points. The final battle is actually 3 back to back boss battles. I really didn't want to play 3 hours straight, but I had to, to finish it. This happened a couple of times in the game, it was getting late but I had to keep playing so as not to waste my progress and save the game!
The fighting role playing strategies/gameplay seemed to have some flaws. In the end I came to ignore many otherwise cool powers and attacks, because it so much more effective to use a certain 2 or 3 moves repeatedly among the characters. At first the boss battles seemed impossible and daunting to me, such as the 1st Gigas battle . But once my party and ship got leveled up enough all the challenge was gone, until the final bosses.
But I don't want to speak of only negatives, much of the game was fun, exciting , filled with surprises, and with an unusually optimistic tone.
Post your thoughts of Skies of Arcadia in this post!
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@Tanooki you weren't playing as Axel, were you? He isnt too fast and is a bit nerfed, not easy to finish the game with him until you learn some patterns. If so , try again with Blaze. Or check out some strategy vids on YT. The commissioner isn't as hard when you figure out how to avoid getting charged and thrown by him.
Anyway, SOR4 is pretty hard, but at least you can continue next time from the stage you left off.
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That's how I started to feel, too. Once I understood how to jump , when to punch, and the timing, I started to enjoy it more. But on the first couple plays, I was frustrated by falling 1 inch and dying and other things. But once you realize you have to jump down, instead of falling down that inch, then it isn't a problem.