Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Anti-Matter It probably varies by developer on what they want to put into a game. Just wondering, which Jimmy Neutron game was it? The console ones I know are Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Jet Fusion, and Attack of the Twonkies.

@MarioLover92 Early on Sega and THQ worked out a deal to publish GBA games early on in the GBA life. Yeah, it was a good version of the game too. I also have it on Steam, actually, it was the first time I ever bought a game during a Steam sale. I think the Steam version is the only time I ever beat Spinball. I'm usually pretty decent at the game in general.

@Sunsy
I heard some bad review from Jimmy Neutron Jet Fusion for lack of Double Jump, awkward controlling and some really difficult certain missions. I saw the graphic was okay but I was concerning the action execution and controlling schemes, I don't want to see something impossible to continue the storyline due to terrible controlling.

@Anti-Matter It's possible to play through it, all the jumps are doable. Though I would make a backup of the save before the volcano level. There's a game breaking glitch in that level if you reach the end before collecting everything.

As mentioned in the past, I feel Attack of the Twonkies is the best of the three. It captures the series humor and style, while just being a good game. That's just my personal opinion on it.

@Sunsy
Gosh...
Thanks for the little warning for Jimmy Neutron games.
So I guess I will watch more the gameplay video of Attack of Twonkies.

@Sunsy That's good. Sonic Spinball is a pretty decent game I think, though just like with pinball in general, the ball (in this case, Sonic himself) tends to go all over the place. So it feels luck-based at times, especially when you're trying to finish these tables and beat Eggman. Speaking of pinball, I went ahead and downloaded Space Cadet Pinball on my Windows 10 laptop a while ago - I play it from time to time. Too bad it wasn't included. Pretty sure the last time it was included was on Windows XP.

@Anti-Matter You're welcome. I remember getting the glitch the first time I played. At the end of the Volcano of Doom level, if Jimmy misses an item to finish the level, the door at the end of the level won't open when you attempt the level later, making it unable to finish the level. Usually to avoid it, you have to collect every key item (invention parts, ignoring optional collectables is fine) before the level ends. Which means if you don't backup your save via GameCube (or PS2) file management to another memory card, you end up starting the game all over again.

Do that, I always found that to be the best Jimmy Neutron game personally. Will say, I like the GBA version of Jet Fusion more. I find it kinda cool someone made a metroidvania game based off one of my favorite cartoons, though it uses a password to save. Still a fun little game IMO.

@NintendoByNature Hah! I'm not sure if there's a distinct medical field just related to the butt (or posterior, rump, etc.), but I'd hope it's something some doctors-to-be are trained on! Otherwise, I'm not looking forward to when I reach the age for a colonoscopy...

@MarioLover92 Yeah, I didn't really see them out in the wild much. It was my first true smartphone, paid for by my work at the time. I was allowed to use it for personal needs too. To be fair, I chose it since a coworker was singing praises about his own, but we both eventually had to concede that the app market for it wasn't amazing. iOS and Android already had too much of the market cornered. I've heard the story of Sega's console downfall, though I admittedly don't have any experience with their machines outside of the Genesis.

Where I grew up didn't have much in the way of physical comics; a grocery store's revolving rack was pretty much all there was. I mostly read kid's comics, like some Disney offerings, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, and Scooby-Doo. Still have a few of them actually. I did occasionally read some superhero material as I got older however, and I still own a couple issues of Batman Beyond. Unfortunately, that store stopped stocking comics around the time I finished high school. I also inherited a couple of old Archie comics and digests from my great-grandparents when my great aunt was cleaning out the house to live in. I didn't realize my great-grandpa read them in his retirement until then.

@Anti-Matter Welcome back! ^_^

Proctology.

@Tyranexx
Hiya. 😀
I got some new games to keep busy on.
After spending 155+ hours for Yokai Watch 3 Tempura, I played Skylanders Spyro's Adventure and Swap Force on PS3 for the first time.
Also, I continued to play Go Vacation Switch again to finish all the activities as I can and have some trip to enjoy the scenery. Marine resort was my favorite resort to visit, already traveled more than 740,000 feet according to my number records. The other resorts were around 600,000+ feet.

Pokemon Direct will be on 18 August 2021. I don't expect much for BDSP and Legend of Arceus as I played Pokemon games very casually, still prefer to play Yokai Watch games on 3DS with 3 vs 3 battle style.

@Eel well theres a lot of mexican action figures that never made it here, rather cool looking actually.
and thats my history on my half race!

Luchador figurines kinda look like muscular skeletons.

Well technically luchadores are muscular skeletons.

You want to hear this the fact checkers took down the pokemon direct post

@Tyranexx I thank you again for the kind wishes. And right-on as per usual, I didn’t realise I needed that holiday until it was over. Glad I agreed to go though; it gave me a much needed rest after all the nonsense we had to go through last year (both we as a civilisation and we as in my family). A bit of a godsend that we didn’t get sick, but something could have incubated during our domestic flight, where vaccination isn’t mandatory to board, being domestic. So we’ll get a second (mandated by the government) test on Tuesday. Almost felt like they’re getting more and more painful every time I do it, unfortunately…

Frankly the internet at the hotel proved we were spoilt back at home. The service is incredible, and the reliability is second to none (though that means little compared to a country where we had to move out of our house and stay at a hotel just because the power cut for three days). Unfortunate policy but understandable considering the droves of people coming in. But relaxing by the pool (and sometimes by the beach) made me pick up “A Clash of Kings” again (the second book in “A Song of Ice and Fire” by George R.R. Martin). Really engrossing but really hard to digest. Took me a year to get through fifteen chapters.

Speaking of chapters I’ve had a good go at writing some more of my Xenoblade… (dunno what to call it) novel… fanfiction? Eh, it’s up for debate but the point stands. I’ve had a fair bit of practice writing non-fiction already but fiction’s a completely different beast altogether as I’ve found. I’ve written about forty pages so far, until the point where the Mechon begin invading Colony 9. Sometimes it’s a fun way to relax.

I also thought playing virtual golf would at least help a bit but nothing beats the real thing, for almost any sport. But after getting a few good rounds in last year the practice advantage evaporated since I didn’t manage to play in over a year before this time. After four games I only managed to lose… four balls. Out of twenty that were given out between me and Dad, I’d say it was a decent rate. As for the Olympics; I’ll admit that I freaked out when I heard the Dragon Quest overture, the first video game song that was played during the Tokyo opening ceremony. Recognised it very quickly, and then a few more that made me very happy indeed. Shame Nintendo pulled out but I’m sure they have their reasons. But some of the stuff choreographed during that show was amazing. Watch it in due time to see what I mean, trust me, you will be surprised.

Humans’ll have excuses, but whether they’re genuine… people don’t have very good track records. “As soon as humans began to think, they began to lie,” musings of the great philosopher… me. It’s been… sort of relieving to get back to a stricter mask environment, because as restricting as it sounds, for me it makes me feel much safer. Though half the time it’s so hot here wearing a mask makes me wish I was dead. Seems that’s a problem that’ll persist for another six weeks at least for me, it can get to over 110 degrees in the afternoon. I’m surprised I don’t pass out after five minutes. Not that I’ve been silly enough to be out that long.

Made the… interesting choice of sprinkling chocolate chips into my jar of peanut butter, to create a new “blend” of sorts. Unfortunately it’s a bit too sweet, unlike the kind of chocolates I like. At least you have tried Lindt confections, I’ll share your sentiments that their truffles are dangerously addictive. I’m feeling peckish now; I had lunch a few hours ago, but not dinner. Time to try that sickly chocolate-peanut butter spread. Glad to know you enjoyed them however, perhaps you’ll be able to have a few more come the holiday season.

I’m no superfan of the MCU but the best thing about them is that jumping in is very easy. First one I saw in cinemas was Endgame, probably one of the ones that you’d want to see last out of all the MCU movies you’d see in cinemas. But I came away feeling it was a great way to end it all. I’ll list three films I think are important to watching Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame; Thor: Ragnarok (because the ending for that movie is the beginning of Infinity War), Captain America: Civil War (because the main characters have backstory from that film), and Black Panther. Those three, and then you can jump into the two aforementioned films without being out of the loop too much. Watch Black Widow after you finish all that; for dramatic effect.

I died almost instantly when fighting the final boss the first time, I still have no idea how the first phase works. It’s dependant on one’s reaction time, and I’m a bit slow when it comes to finer movement. The stakes, music and scale of it all makes it an incredible fight, so I’ll make sure I’m ready before tackling it. I’m now in a bit of gaming limbo, because I’m just waiting for some games to come out; namely the new Life is Strange, Ghost of Tsushima’s PS5 version (and Death Stranding’s too), and a few more here and there. Have you heard of the whole “Abandoned” conspiracy? Because I’m a fan of Death Stranding (and therefore of Kojima) I’m naturally very intrigued by it all.

Funny you mention moving stuff around; I got a nice MIDI controller for making music. I have no experience with keyboards so it’ll be hard to completely rely on it, but for things like drums I’m now… covered. Bad joke aside it’s pretty small, with only two octaves of keys, so it’s an example of thinking to the future, and moving and all. Physical games are actually cheaper here than in the UK so I have more reason to get them here instead of spending money on shipping. But… yes, DDLC was vastly engrossing. Funnily one of the features I thought on paper was useless was quite the opposite; the music player. The music is great; and something worth listening to while reading, or browsing the web on a laptop while having the TV play it. Why so specific? Because I did that!

@Tyranexx Ah I see, goes to show how much more successful the other mobile platforms are. I wanted a Dreamcast back when it came out (really wanted to play Sonic Adventure back then), but I think it was too expensive at the time so I ended up sticking with the N64 before the GameCube and GBA came out. I did get one from eBay, but later on, it started to reset itself in the middle of gameplay. The game would stop, then it would go to the console menu and reload the game. I pretty much had all the Sega consoles from eBay during my Sonic phase when I was 12, lol.

Ah, so they stopped selling comics, sorry about that. Besides the Sonic Archie comics, the ones I've been familiar with were the ones on newspapers and stuff like that. I have read a few Garfield comics back then, and my dad's a massive fan of Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes.

@MarioLover92
What was that thing which can reset itself ?

@Anti-Matter My Dreamcast had a habit of resetting itself while I was playing it. I don't have it anymore.

@MarioLover92
Wow, first time i heard kind of issue like that from video game machine. 😲

@Anti-Matter Yeah, that was a pretty frustrating issue. It doesn't even have a reset button to begin with.

@MarioLover92
BTW, little question just for curiosity.
When I finished playing Gamecube game from my Wii, I pressed the Reset button first then I pressed the Power button to turn off the machine, then I pressed Eject button to eject my Gamecube disc from my Wii, after that i plugged off the Wii power cable from electricity. Did I do right or wrong to eject Gamecube game from Wii machine ?

I forgot to mention in my post last night that only Jet Fusion on GameCube and PS2 have this game breaking bug. The other Jimmy Neutron games don't have it and play from start to finish.

Apologies for leaving this info out.

@MarioLover92 Yeah, I find Spinball a fun twist on pinball, it does get easier on where you need to hit the ball on the flipper, and where to go. I also enjoyed Sonic Pinball Party, Pinball of the Dead (basically House of the Dead 2, but in pinball form), Pokemon Pinball, Zen Pinball 3D, and Pokemon Pinball. I've always liked playing pinball video games. I think I have Pinball for NES via e-Reader cards (yes, I still have this).