@LaVelle - an hour? Try thirty-forty minutes! The enemy AI is not bright and it's incredibly easy if you follow all the game's patterns, and the boss fights in the basement? Even the boss fights are anemic in terms of strategy (or lack thereof)
@KingMike - I could never finish Virtual Bart either. The farthest I got was literally halfway through the normal game, with three events done out of six. Still, its cutscenes are humorous to watch (both good and bad) and well-animated, plus we get to hear our favorite yellow characters outside of the Minions talk
@Tasuki: I still have a few of mine (multiple pokemon, harvest moon, tamagotchi, etc), and have been replacing their batteries in preparation. Too bad it can't play GBC games, that would've been even better.
The cartridges are getting sensitive and any sudden movements of my GBA SP makes them fail, so having them away from the buttons should help a bit.
Okay, final verdict on Home Alone 2: Lost in New York for the SNES (warning: awkward attempt at restrained summarization to follow):
Imagineering has crafted a better-looking sequel to their Nintendo 16-bit Home Alone predecessor (awful-looking digitized stills during cutscenes notwithstanding), and some of the additional gameplay elements are interesting, but ultimately it suffers from the same problems as the first game: it's still pattern-based and the enemies don't have bright AI (if not that, then the powerful weapons can take them down) which makes it easy, the awkward backwards controls are back, and ultimately comes up very short in terms of length (once more, four stages). But Home Alone 2 is slightly worse in this regard as this time there are no continues if you get a game over, it's more complex in a couple instances (but not impossible), and despite a handful of moments when it showed promise it still ends up being a lesser platformer that ultimately tried too hard to 1-up the first SNES Home Alone when sadly that ended up becoming its own undoing.
...Bubsy II is still the worst SNES game for me in the long run; I have to yet to play a Nintendo 16-bit game I deem worse
The Tick stands as the worst SNES game I can remember renting.
(when you were kid and rented a bad game you were stuck trying to play it.
I suppose if you're an adult and buy a bad game, you probably just resell it if it's worth it or just throw it in the back of the closest if it's not )
I know the PlayStation Portable is almost eleven years old, but I don't give a crap: last night I got Taito Legends Power-Up, a collection of over twenty-plus Taito arcade games from the '70s and '80s. Yeah, I'm a sucker for compilation games sometimes; the games I liked the most from it thus far are Elevator Action, The Legend of Kage, and The NewZealand Story. Yeah, it sucks that Bubble Bobble is not in it, but from what I played the compilation's okay. Oh, and funny I alluded to Altron's contribution to Kiki Kaikai the other day, as the original Kiki Kaikai is one of the games available to play in Taito Legends Power-Up: and from what I played it is rather underwhelming (thank God Taito let Natsume handle the two SNES Pocky & Rocky games, as they are 100% better, entertaining, charming, and polished than the arcade predecessor that started it all) .........At this point I'm starting to have second thoughts about trying the non-canon Heavenly Guardian some time in the future
I haven't played Heavenly Guardian although I bought it long ago since it was a cheap game (Wii version).
Around that same time I also got The Monkey King. Haven't played either but I read that was a budget remake of another Taito shooter, Chuka Taisen (aka Cloud Master for the Master System port).
Among a bunch of N64 Japanese carts I got was the exclusive first Pokemon Stadium. I hear the price I paid (pretty much just the shipping) reflects its usefulness , though it sounds like I would get slightly more use if I had a GB Transfer Pak and one of the Pocket Monsters games (I have the Yellow manual but no box or game ).
It took it about five whole days to get out of Virginia, it went and went from city to city, I was getting used to the idea it would take a whole month for it to reach my country.
Today however, it went from Chicago to Houston and is currently in Mexico DF right now, hah that's quite the distance for a day.
Not that I'm complaining though.
In other retro purchasing news, I plan to get a few games for the GBA this black Friday. We always buy stuff online those days and have it shipped to my uncle's house in Arizona, its like getting Christmas gifts from us to us. I'm thinking maybe Yoshi's island and sonic pinball party.
Man, I wish Crusader of Centy (Soleil in Europe) didn't cost so much, 'cause I really want to play it given my affinity for Tenchi Sōzō (Terranigma) and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Going to take a chance with a "lightly scratched" CD of In the Hunt PS1.
I remember playing the original arcade machine at the pizza place when I was a kid. Looks like it's getting to be a pricey game, so I figure I should take what I can get, or I wouldn't bother unless it was "mint". Saw a cheap boxed copy on ebay but I passed as "water damage manual" and lots of box damage is a bit below my comfort for disc games.
Musya for the SNES seems to have shot up lately so I also ordered a yellowed SFC cart while I can still find it cheap. Even though it doesn't seem like the game is that great anyways.
Super Star Wars Return of the Jedi on SNES, i never got these games when i was younger because my parents HATE Star Wars so there was no Star Wars in the house of any shape and it wasn't until The Phantom Menace came out and i was old enough to pay for myself that i was able finally watch them
"I pity you. You just don't get it at all...there's not a thing I don't cherish!"
"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!
Okay, so being motivated by the countless nights I've been watching Tom and Jerry on Boomerang (the good ones; and by "good ones" I of course mean '40s/'50s Hanna-Barbera and Chuck Jones, everything else is either meh, bad, or crap) helped me decide what my next SNES game should be. Of course, who doesn't like Tom and Jerry? ......well, aside from people who don't like Tom and Jerry (cough Gene Deitch hack)
Anyway, Tom and Jerry on the SNES is my newest Nintendo 16-bit game and... I've no idea how to feel about it It's... all right, I guess? I haven't gone far, but it's ... ummm. But then, I just got this game, maybe the more I play it my thoughts on it will improve... he says hopingly
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