@ThanosReXXX - Times certainly are weird enough. I listened to one of my pods yesterday, and the host, in his early 50s, said this is the weirdest time in his personal history. I think I agree. HIV/AIDS, the Millennium Bug, and 9/11 were wildly different experiences, but all had a little bit of this weird “free fall with no bottom” feeling. This being a real, world wide situation that is completely upending everyone’s way of life takes that feeling and amplifies it tenfold.
@Tyranexx - Yeah, picking a favorite LOZ or Mario title for me is a bit like choosing a favorite pet or kid. There’s no wrong choice, but BOTW is my straight A kid who’s taking college courses in high school, plays a classical instrument, volunteers at a pet shelter, just says no, won’t bend to peer pressure, and always obeys the speed limit while driving, even if that’s a tad bit annoying.
@HobbitGamer - One of my favorite old songs is about that guy by a musician named Son House. Who’s that writing? It’s John the Revelator, he wrote the Book of the Seven Seals. It’s super eerie. I don’t hear his name much. He’s kind of a deep cut. My grandpappy was a big born again and revivalist. He talked about John and that book all the time. It was a lot to digest for young me, and made me kind of anxious for a while.
I have a long running joke with some friends about that TMNT game. We joke that anyone who says they can beat it is a liar because every one of us believe there are more barricades than rockets in the Turtle van level after the miserable pink seaweed level. I made a level in MM1 called Shredder’s Electric Pink Seaweed. It was an homage to that level, but Nintendo removed it forever after nobody played it in the first five minutes.
@Zuljaras tmnt was a childhood favorite of mine. But rarely would i get past the water level with dissarming bombs. I liked tmnt2 arcade a heck of alot better though. I need to get my nes fixed. I have so many games I've been wanting to play but can't. It turns on but my controllers don't register.
@Zuljaras - Have you played that cart yet? I’m not sure about the conversion you played, but the game on that cart has an infamous swimming level that puts all other difficult swimming levels to shame with its brutality.
@NintendoByNature - That dam level (and game in general) remains the most soul crushing experience I had on NES. I got it when it came out as one of my one or two games a year, so it was a massive decision. Loved my NES, loved the Turtles, and Nintendo Power hyped it up for probably a year straight. I was at an age where I would have rather been in suspended animation than live in a world where that game exists, but I didn’t have it. And then the dam level. It’s basically a harrowing version of Flappy Bird with bombs that were suuuper difficult to diffuse, all within a time limit that didn’t allow for a single mistake. Rage dude. And then I could never find all the rockets for the Turtle van on the next level. I don’t think I could ever play it again.
@bimmy-lee Yes. The Dam level. I played it so much that I have no problem with it. Only 2-3 times I have died or run out of time. Once you know where the bombs are it is easy
The real difficult levels are the Technodrome caves and inside the Technodrome. This is where the difficulty starts to make you question your own existence.
@Zuljaras yea it was definitely in the early stages. You can tell because the cover art showed all red bandanas and wrist bands. That was an early design of the turtles and it wasn't until the show that they made them distinguishable.
I have a couple of those games. The nes is what got me into gaming like most. I was about 3-4 when I started playing with my older brother in 90-91'. We had the power glove too, which never seemed to work. It was fun acting like you know what you're doing though. You should check out the original Punch out with Mike Tyson, rygar, gauntlet, and once i go through my stash I'll send you some others @bimmy-lee yea dude it was hard. It's been a good while since I've played it, maybe 15 years or more. Raph and Mikey were always gimped though and last resort turtles. So once you died with Leo or Donnie, You were doomed. The music though was always great. It looked good. Just hard as hell..tmnt2 was hard enough but the beat em up style was more fun. I also loved cracking a sewer lid into an enemy, or a parking meter.
@Zuljaras - Yeah, I eventually memorized it, but even then it was rare for me to get through without a casualty. It didn’t matter though, because I could never find all the rockets on the next level, and there was no internet or even a guide that I knew of that had the locations. It was a straight decade of this. None of my friends could find them all either. We all knew the same locations. One guy said he could find them all, but mysteriously could never do it while anyone was actually watching. That game is infamous to a lot of people. The dam level was more difficult for me than other well known difficult sections/levels like the hover bike section in Battletoads.
@NintendoByNature - Yeah, you have to use Leo and Donnie through the bulk of the levels to keep all the regular bads at a distance, but I always switched to Raph or Mikey for bosses that can’t be cheesed and just used a bum rush strategy because they were more powerful since they had zero reach (or at least that was the rumor). All the beat em ups are stone cold classics. If I owned five cabinets, the first beat em up would be one of them. I played it endlessly with my buddies at the roller skating rink.
I think that TMNT game was the first one I ever played on the NES. I remember it being frustrating, but it’s not a bad side-scroller for the time.
I remember my brother teaching me that trick where you jump up on the boxes and hit Rocksteady with Donatello’s staff. That felt like payback for a lot of the cheap deaths you get in that game 😅.
There’s a guy down the street from me with a crazy stereo system in his car. He’s been home all week, and every afternoon he goes out to his car, cranks up some bass tracks, and then he just sits there for a solid 30-40 minutes. I guess it’s a little break back to the normal for him. He can rattle the weird feelings out.
@NotTelevision - That’s a critical boss cheese early in the game. You really can’t afford to drop a life that early, so it’s incredibly valuable. Good ole Donny with the reach.
@NintendoByNature - Yeah, those little cabs are incredible. I’m always so tempted by stuff like that. I’ve never looked into the quality of those machines, but they look pretty legit.
[quote=bimmy-lee]There’s a guy down the street from me with a crazy stereo system in his car. He’s been home all week, and every afternoon he goes out to his car, cranks up some bass tracks, and then he just sits there for a solid 30-40 minutes. I guess it’s a little break back to the normal for him. He can rattle the weird feelings out. @bimmy-lee LOL, What music is he playing ,
@bimmy-lee i hear they're great and light weight. We just don't have the space for it until we move. We need a basement first. My little guy is napping now so he may be up later than usual. I'll still try to sneak on tonight with you and hobbit even if he's awake. We can still plan on 830pm central if that works. @hobbitgamer
@Ninfan - It’s just bass tracks. If someone has a big speaker system in their car (like amplifiers pushing boxes with multiple mounted speakers and subwoofers), they often play music made specifically for featuring their speaker system. There aren’t any lyrics or traditional instruments. Imagine electronic club music, but stripped all the way down to the rhythm and bass and making music out of only those two elements. It’s head rattling when you’re sitting inside it like that in a vehicle.
@NintendoByNature - I should be good to go, we’re pretty much holding our regular schedule, it’s just a little bit later on average. My son naps, but my daughter doesn’t really. Every once in a while she’ll lay down for an hour, but she rarely sleeps. She stopped napping really young, but she goes down early at night.
@Woomy_NNYes - Hey, I missed a reply to you yesterday. Yeah, defiantly wrong is a hard one to handle. Seems like GameStop is a special place for it. Just look at @HobbitGamer . I think he managed one for a time, and he’s almost unbearable.
@NotTelevision - It’s become a comfortingly predictable part of the day. I hear him a lot on the weekends, but it’s funny to hear it in the middle of a weekday. Wonder what he’s thinking about in there.
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