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Re: LEGO Expands Its Retro Gaming Collection With A $270 PAC-MAN Arcade Set

IceClimbersMain

@-wc- Lego set pricing is all over the place, especially with licensing.

For example, there are some Lego sets out there with 2,000+ bricks for less than $125. Now Lego Pac-Man comes rolling around with ~2,600 pieces for nearly $300. I agree with some of the other comments. You can buy an 3/4 scale Arcade1Up cab that actually plays Pac-Man for the same amount.

Heck, there's an officially licensed Metal Slug 3 arcade cabinet from a Chinese Lego alternative for 80 bucks on Amazon with ~1,500 pieces, it has just as much functionality as this and looks better too. Goes great with my Neo Geo Mini on my shelf.

Re: Oops! Images Of A Lego Pac-Man Arcade Machine Appear Online

IceClimbersMain

I held off on the NES and the Atari for the price and the fact that I am more of an arcade guy than a console guy, but this looks cool especially with the rumor that it will be fully controllable/playable.

Actually, I just picked up the Pantasy Neogeo Metal Slug 3 "Lego" set to satisfy the building block arcade urge for about $70 on Amazon. This will look great next to it.

Re: Nintendo Wins Court Dispute Against Pirated Game Hosting Site

IceClimbersMain

I haven't emulated anything in a while, been buying the official rereleases when possible but dang it really makes no sense to me.

All Nintendo has to do is port games they own with emulators they already have. They would make so much money for practically no effort. Instead they drip 1 or 2 retro games a month for a $50 annual subscription (which I ended up buying anyways for Mario Kart DLC, but still).

Re: Best Nintendo Switch DLC

IceClimbersMain

I didn't know that Captain Toad had more content on Switch, maybe I need to find it on sale.

For Smash Ultimate, there are actually 12 DLC characters, including Plant, since FP2 has 6. (You could even count Pyra/Mythra as two for 13).

Just figured I'd be that guy.

Re: Square Enix Adding 'The World Ends With You' Music Update To Theatrhythm Final Bar Line

IceClimbersMain

I've only played the FFVII series of games but I'm still loving Final Bar Line. Such a great song list, and it's yet another rhythm game for my Switch.

Feels like a much better Melody of Memory. I wish MoM had an option for circles instead of that weird combat thing, because Bar Line does the RPG elements excellently while keeping the traditional rhythm game layout.

Would it be unrealistic to hope for FFVII Rebirth DLC??

Re: Talking Point: Which Gaming Moments Made You Question Your Intelligence?

IceClimbersMain

I've been waiting for a post like this...

The year is somewhere in the late 2000s. Little ol' me got a Wii for my birthday and a couple of crappy games. Pajama Man Sam was one of them.

It was just one of those simple point and click adventures, about this kid who's scared of the dark.

So I play through the game and get to the point where the final boss (Darkness) is on the other side of the door. Problem is, the door is guarded by two magical trees who give you a quiz on the past environment you've encountered.

The final question was something along the lines of "what did the sign in the mine say." It was referring to a sign, in the mine. That I explored earlier. I knew it said DANGER because the other answers were the obvious silly ones, but it never worked! "Whoops! Wrong answer!" The trees would reply, as they shook me upside down.

I tried the other two. Nothing. Me and my dad used the internet and nothing. Hours upon hours, trying and trying. I could never get the door to open, and I would never know what Darkness looked like.

Flash forward to about a year or two ago, I'm going through my old Wii games and I find Pajama Man Sam. Figured I might as well try again with my quest for the elusive quiz answer.

My save point is at the trees, of course. I answer the quiz, exactly as I remember, and then the mine question comes up. I select DANGER, and surprise! It doesn't work.

At this point, I'm still stumped. I decided to leave the final area and actually backtrack to the mine. Go through it and yep, the sign says DANGER all right. I click it to interact with it, and the little prompt says something about the quiz. I return to the trees and select DANGER...

It works.

All I had to do was to backtrack to the sign to read it and interact with it to prove that I had seen it. My jaw literally dropped to the floor, and I turned off the Wii. I put the disc back into the case, and the case back into the box.

I will never let myself see what Darkness looked like.