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I played through the campaign stories in Battlefield I. You may remember that I had finished several versions of the game Wings earlier in the year, so I stuck with the WWI theme and pushed through BOne. I also played some of the multiplayer operations which are certainly impressive, but I don't have the patience to actually improve in multi-player. Among the campaign scenarios, I enjoyed being thrown into the Dardanelles campaign in "The Runner" the best, but they were all pretty engaging.

X360 Wolf ot Battlefield: Commando III 176 Jetpack: Refuelled 16 XOne Battlefield I 225 Beholder 62 Catastronauts 606 Fallout 4 66 Forager 40 Jeopardy 16 Knights and Bikes 90 Lonely Mountains Downhill 105 Monster Train 91 Walking Dead: A New Frontier 183 Wheel of Fortune 202 Xenocrisis 63 Lots of variety this week as I had some time off and went achievement hunting. They are having a rewards special this week where you get rewards points for every achievement. The highlight is Catastronauts which is an Overcooked clone. I also finished Commando III on the hardest difficulty without losing a life.

Arcade Avalanche 22 Black Widow 16 Crystal Castles 14 Fire Truck 49 Magic Sword 20 Monte Carlo (Atari) 29 Skydiver 21 Space Duel 37 Sprint II 8 A2600 Air Sea Battle 15 Astroblast 14 Canyon Bomber 12 Centipede 15 Crystal Castles 6 Frogs and Flies 7 Frog Pond 7 Haunted House 10 Robot Tank 15 Star Ship 9 Yars' Revenge 20 Most of these times were played on the Atari Flashback collections on XBox One. I REALLY wanted to get 'extended play' on 2 player Fire Truck, but my wife and I came up short despite quite a few attempts.

Right DAI let you answer the questions or update a further list of questions on your Origin profile . . . something like that, but it did NOT import your save info. Same concept as ME, but slightly more work for the player.

X360 Wolf ot Battlefield: Commando III 310 XOne Battlefield I 278 Forager 158 Knights and Bikes 62 Lonely Mountains Downhill 167 Wheel of Fortune 55 I finished the campaign scenarios for Battlefield I on normal difficulty. Also, my wife and I tried to find the 'secrets' in Commando III. They are baffling. I swear I have found a few that I just can't seem to find every time I play the levels - weird.

A2600 3D Tic Tac Toe 36 Activision Decathlon, The 11 Adventure 5 Air Sea Battle 5 Amidar 15 Astroblast 44 Blackjack 12 Breakout 26 Bump n Jump 24 Centipede 18 Crystal Castles 59 Defender 87 Night Driver 32 I continue to be focused on playing physical carts. Got into Defender early in the week and also Crystal Castles. The good and bad of Atari 2600 Defender have been discussed A LOT. Overall, I think what struck me on this playthrough is that it is an enjoyable game that offers a compelling high score challenge. That's more than I can say for some other 2600 arcade ports. As for Crystal Castles, this game is always sort of an underrated game no matter which version you talk about. Even the arcade version is kind of hidden despite it being a relative success. I guess ultimately it was bad timing for Bentley who came around at exactly the right moment to be (mostly) forgotten. And a note about 3D Tic-Tac-Toe . . . I don't think I have ever seriously tried to play this game before. I found it quite good and had a hard time beating the computer even on level 3 (out of 9?). I think I will probably go back to this one.

This is TRUE. I much preferred ME1. Granted, it needed some improvements, but not the complete overhaul we got. When ME2 first came out everyone was praising it and I was scratching my head. It was a totally different game and the KOTOR formula that Bioware had blazed before was completely gone. I liked that formula and kinda thought that ME2 shouldn't have even been called a sequel. Still the story and universe they built was absolutely great and the three game arc might feel in retrospect like it has no consequences, but I don't think there's been another series to even attempt the same type of direct game to game progression while taking into account player choices and face imports (that mostly work). I kind of expected more companies to follow that format, but it hasn't really happened. Even Dragon Age backed off of all of those things. It makes me wonder if we will ever get a game series like Mass Effect again.

I am VERY tempted. This might be my favorite game series of all time, but I have already purchased this stupid thing so many times already - LOL

Are we collecting nude 7800 photos in this thread? I can add one.

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Honestly - I somehow missed the entire "On Rails" shooter genre. People talk about rail shooters now like they were some huge moment between 2d and 3d gaming, but I never knew anyone who played one. If they did, they never mentioned them to me. Of course the internet wasn't what it is now, and I was never one to flip through all the pages of all the gaming magazines. Fast forward, and I first heard of Rez when it was included on a compilation disk for the X360 (as Rez HD with Lumines and Every Extend Extra Extreme). I played it like 3 times. All you do is move the cursor around. The art style also kinda makes it hard to see what is going on. I guess I could give it another shot, but I don't really get it. The most notable thing about this game is that vibrator attachment that apparently exists. (Tokyo Thrift: The Rez Trance Vibrator is gaming's most intense peripheral - The Verge)

I've never used a system III, but that is NOT normal compared to my use of other Intellivision models.

It is nice to read an old thread like this that goes back all the way to 2003 and my own posts from 2014. I can confirm that if you play Empire Strikes Back in B&W that the end explosion is still in color. I think that is neato, but it probably won't change anyone's overall opinion of the game.

I really enjoyed Ori BF when I played it on XOne a few years ago. I agree with everything you said - it is a great game. However, the thing that kept it from being perfect for me was one stage where you had to escape rising water from below. The difficulty spike right there was higher than at any other moment in the game. I think they even added some additional checkpoints and an "easy" mode that changed that section, but it was baffling to me that there could be such an imbalanced point in an otherwise almost perfectly balanced game.

There are A LOT of versions of this game, and if you consider unofficial versions, you get even more. Here are two threads on this topic Best Defender home conversion - Classic Console Discussion - AtariAge Forums Best Home Version of Defender? - Classic Console Discussion - AtariAge Forums Somewhere in there is the worst version, but I think you might be the first person in any of these threads to mention a PC/DOS version as the worst. No one else even mentions it which means you've probably nailed it. As for worst unofficial version. I vote for this game that ended up on a disk in my C64 collection when I was a kid: GB64.COM - Defend Honestly it is quite tempting to say the 2600 version is the worst, but unlike some other arcade games on the 2600, there is a compelling game in there. You can play it, improve, beat your high score and have fun doing it. It is way better than Pac-Man and especially Donkey Kong which was mentioned earlier.