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ha! i've got several games on the Switch like that now.

Streets of Rage 2 is one that I play a lot as well, though sometimes it gets edged out by Final Fight. The graphics, music, and control make it my favorite of the 3 original SoR games. I guess one could make the argument that games like Rastan and Altered Beast are side-scrolling beat-em-ups, but where is the distinction drawn between platformer and beat-em-up? (i'm just thinking out loud rhetorically-like). The presence of *platforms* probably makes it more of a platformer than a beat-em-up, huh. lol

A mobile version of paper.io has over 300,000 monthly active users. How will Amico gather stats to get feedback on what people like?

i keep intending to pick this up but get distracted with other games instead. Darn you, other games! /shake fist

I've got a soft spot for the Capcom beat-em-ups too, particularly Final Fight; I still play the game a lot now. I always turn up the volume after the car-smash minigame because my wife and I laugh like crazy after- 'Oh, my car!' I wish the arcade port let you pick between that and the SNES 'Oh, my God!' line, though. hehe

Excellent! I look forward to seeing what you pick.

Thanks! I usually give a breakdown but was just too tired this week to provide anything of real use. Moonlighter is a pretty niche-y title, though it satisfies several itches depending on the kind of game you like. At its heart, there are two main cycles of game play: 1) Going to the dungeon-crawling to get loot and 2) Selling your loot in your store. There's a 'story' of sorts, but it's largely lost I feel in the cycles of the gameplay. It's compelling to me because of the grind involved; there's just enough difficulty that you have to upgrade your gear (which means more dungeon-crawling and more selling stuff, because you have to have mats to build the stuff and its EXPENSIVE to upgrade your gear), and there's grinding a bit because you have to upgrade your shop to make the most efficient work of your dungeon-crawling (which means.. more dungeon-crawling and more selling stuff). I guess, too, if you want to imagine what it's like to be an NPC in an RPG it'd be pretty apt!

I caught Moonlighter on sale for the Switch so I, of course, got sucked into it and didn't play really any other Modern game. Switch: Moonlighter -- 1340 minutes

Final Fight (Arcade) Moonlighter (Switch) Street Fighter Alpha (Arcade)

mixing it up a bit. Arcade: Final Fight -- 42 mins Street Fighter Alpha -- 67 mins NES: Double Dragon -- 27 minutes River City Ransom -- 15 minutes

i'll agree with that! I'm not sure where my savegame is at time-wise, but I'm pretty sure it's 140+ hours. It's a fantastic game.

anecdotal, again, but at least one store in the Springfield MO area has reduced their business hours to 11am-8pm. The other stores now close at 8pm as well, I'm pretty sure.

lol- the world may never know.

Less is More!

looks like they'll be at some esports show thingy in NYC this weekend with 'two fully playable and ready-for-action VCS'.

This one came as an unexpected surprise last night- Dead Cells (Switch) - after apparently 100 runs, i managed to finish the game and get my first Boss Cell. I consider this a pretty decent accomplishment for me!

Street Fighter Alpha (arcade) -- I dusted this one off again and finished with Ken then Sagat. For some reason no one at the house will play SF with me, lol.

I mentioned this on the Tracker thread, but I really liked it too. One of the only places I had trouble with initially was with the Slug Vacuum- sucking them up versus obliterating them, lol.

Switch: Lego: Jurassic World -- 430 minutes Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle -- 424 minutes Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch -- 1707 minutes I beat it, I beat it! Finally finished Ni No Kuni yesterday afternoon after having it hurt my feelings before lunch. I was at the final boss with probably 5% health but ran out of MP, then got smacked down pretty hard. I ended up grinding off and on after lunch then finally finished the darn thing. I spent some time last night poking around post-game Bounties and side quests. Plodding along with my other games, nothing much to say on them.

I have Yoku for the Switch- it's a pretty fantastic game. Some of the parts were a little tricky for me till I got the hang of them, but overall I enjoyed it.

weird to think that the Dreamcast falls in the 'Classic Games' tracker category, hehe. For all its warts, though, I still have a soft spot for the Saturn.

A couple of games on the Classic tracker this past week! NES: Double Dragon -- 128 minutes River City Ransom -- 150 minutes I spent some time reacquainting myself with these games- some of the glitches you can use in Double Dragon are pretty funny.

Double Dragon (NES) - I played through Double Dragon this weekend- it's as short as I remember when I played it way back when. I love that Double Dragon has a couple of funny glitches you can exploit (like not having to fight the second boss at all), plus it's just a fun game for me.