Jayenkai

Multiplayer Scrabble.. there's your game.

Mmmm.
Dark, gritty and muted colours.
Just like the Robocop I loved.

This was my first full FPS, back in the day. Friends all switched to PCs, just as I'd finally saved enough to get my first console.
Bah, humbug!
But, yeah, this was great back then. It hasn't aged, though, and I don't think modern FPS Gamers should dare attempt it if they don't already have those special rose-tinted spectacles!

"we introduced the information security management system in 2017"
... Well, that worked...

@Nancyboy Either that or he's being forced to sit like that because years of crouching at a computer has knackered his spine up something awful.
.. he says, out of experience

Cool!
It'll be a shame not to have the odd Activision game, though.
When I think Atari 2600, I immediately think of HERO and Pitfall.

Aww, that's...
...
..... I haven't really played any multiplayer stuff.
Carry on!

Yes yes yes!!!
Have it on my PS4, but remote played it. (Can't play games on a big telly due to bizarro brain-surgery motion sickness.)
Also have it on Xbox GameCloud, but again, less than ideal.
I'll be grabbing the Switch, and also the upcoming Mac version, though I expect a Mac version to trigger off my motion sickness just as bad as playing it on a big telly.
That's a bit worrying, isn't it?
4 versions of the same game!!

.. wonder I could meet them all up, and have a big cheese and wine party, off on some random planet somewhere..?

I've played these games to death, from the time I rented Sonic&Knuckles 4 or 5 times from the local video shop, so I could complete it with my own copy of Sonic 3, all the way to the numerous re-releases over the years.
I've played them enough.
I won't be buying this.
... maybe.
.. but I probably will, though.

Yeah, I had a couple of 6-button pads back in the day. Hold Mode to play!

Also, Retro-bit have been doing 6button pads for a fair while.. I bought one about 4 or 5 months ago for my Amiga. Sure, only the B buttons works on an Amiga, but. You try finding a decent 9-pin joystick on Amazon!

https://socoder.net/uploads/1/2022/25/4BDE97AD-C1E0-471A-AD16-671F65093507.jpeg

"It's me, Mario!"
A two second clip.
That's literally all we've needed for the past year or so.
The fact that we still haven't, yet, is exactly why we're all so worried about how bad this might turn out.

There's a soundtrack available?...
... Opens Apple Music ...
Cool! There's a soundtrack available!

@HIGHscores85 oh yeah, I still need to do that.
I broke it quite badly, when I tried doing it!!
Maybe a complete rewrite might work better?

"Fight back Centipedes with a Pong paddle"
The thieving [REDACTED]

Oh that one.
I was thinking the stairs one from the PS1. (IQ..?)
Hmmm.. Isn't that on the PlayStation Classic Mini thing? Might have to plug that in and have a play.

Bring back the frequently updated version of You Don't Know Jack!!

Where are the dancing cats?

Having random seeds generate the world and villagers never hurt Animal Crossing.
.. and let's be honest, every ounce of randomness would be a breath of fresh air, each time you replay the game.

@UltraZelda64 I think it's all a case of "we asked MJ to do some music, this is what his team sent us."
It probably doesn't matter who originally created it, and all the things we've learned since. It's still under the license that has a big red "let's no longer use this.." sticker on it!

Don't use the Sonic4 instrument set!!!!

My overriding memory of the original is its bug.
If they made the "not really the sequel" into some kind of fourth-wall breaking, purposely glitched out bug fest.. .. you know. That actually might redeem the original, for me.

You could always play the wonderful Xoc cover from SMW
https://open.spotify.com/track/4xFKKZME9zZj7K5wQC71BE

It's like they went "Look at Hyrule after Calamity Ganon.. What would happen to Sonic's World (whilst point-blank refusing to call it Mobius) after Eggman has done the most damage he possibly can to the landscape..?".. Whilst also forgetting that this would end up with a technically-overwhelmed robotised landscape.

I've not been able to enjoy a 3D sonic since my motion sickness stuff kicked in.
The rapid camera movements in that footage make me kinda worried.
fingers crossed

[deleted due to mis-memory!] Jay is getting too old to remember things properly.

Knuckles' Story Mode for the first two games would be "continue to sit on the Master Emerald..."

Wait. Hang on..
If this is a prequel, then McSwampy's won't exist yet, and we won't get a new version of the Burger Life song...

... I'm disappointed now..

@SwitchForce You must've missed it.
A cracking game, with or without Rimmer.

Awww...
So.. um..
..
.. I'll wait for the reviews.

Having tried on multiple occasions to make a decent version of Centipong that works with a controller.. These kinds of games DEFINITELY need a mouse.

@GX_64 I know, right!? Everyone's so focused on the MJ stuff that they've apparently forgotten that this alternative soundtrack already existed decades ago!!

Being mostly stuck indoors, I absolutely adore the aimless wandering and free roaming that I can do in BOTW.
That game's helped me a ton.

Donkey Konga FTW!!!!

Imagine if the Rhythm Tengoku franchise made use of the bongos...

I'm not sure we need it, do we?
It was "supposed" to be the Wii-Sports of Switch, but was utterly disappointing.
And now we have the real "NotWii" Sports, as well as Mario Party and WarioWare bringing the minigames.

Give us that SNESRemix, instead.

Not Ninty, but I got Pen Pen Tri-icelon with my Dreamcast. Good grief, that was a regret..
I don't think I have any issues with my Nintendo systems. Well, except maybe the Wii U, but that wasn't an immediate disappointment, more of a gradual one.

Me and my mother play about half an hour of this practically every day, and the only reason we're sticking with the original is that O's Alt-Voice just isn't angry enough in the sequel.
It really is one of the funniest voices I've heard in a game in a long time.

Seriously though, how hard is it to put music onto iTunes and Spotify!?!

@OrtadragoonX Depends on multiple factors, including brand/type of tea, and how well it's been made.
.. though I do tend to drink coffee more, I switch to tea whilst in hospital. 'Cos hospital coffee is the worst coffee imaginable!

Our home's baseline is at 4p per hour. It goes up to about 7 if we turn on the living room lights since we still haven't got around to installing a proper dimming setup in there, and the LED bulbs don't like oldskool dimmer dials.
There's an NAS, two routers, a bunch of mobiles on charge and about half a dozen consoles plugged in.
Yeah, it definitely adds up, but a full day of it is easily usurped by boiling the kettle a few times a day. That's the real killer.
The world needs to find a better solution to boil water!!

@LuigiBlood But which one gets to be Titanic? VirtualBoy or WiiU??

Sloop? Really..? Hmm.. Must've heard that word at some point last week, and had it rattling in the back of my mind when I started doing my SmileBASIC game for the week!

A sloop, btw, is a small boat with a single mast. Not really sure what that has to do with a gameboy, unless one of the devs once spent some time along on a boat with only a gameboy to keep them company..?

I absolutely adored that the game carried on without ever stopping to load. The first game, at least, was set in a large tower, and any level loading was done in real-time as you traversed from floor to floor.
As a kid, I found that downright amazing!!

Hurray!
Ok, I'm in.

If Taxman : o/yeayo/
If not : Dubious... nightmares of Sonic Genesis on the GBA

My o/yeayo/ doesn't work in NLife comments.. sadface
.. asterisks to show "doing" also doesn't work in NLife comments. A world void of joy

Struggling to code a fast level generator on the Amiga, so gave up and opted to chill out with some Breath of the Wild - Aimless Wandering. Haven't done that for quite a while.

I ended up taking my horse (Bob) for a short trip between a few stables. Nice and steady. Calm and soothing.
We said hi to a few NPCs, shot arrows at a few birds, and carried on, through our endless journey.

Chilled...

No classic Sonic shoes?

A logo that screams "We've given up trying to make anything new. Here's Pac-Man again."

"Subscriptions boxes are all the rage these days."
You say that, but almost every box I've been subscribed to has popped its clogs and gone bankrupt!!!
I think they managed to release 3 Doctor Who boxes before NerdBlock went the way of the dodo.

Degustabox is probably the only one still going, from my past favourites, but they've been struggling post-brexit, since a lot of their unique foodstuffs were European in origin.

@Marios-love-child It's more 3DWorld than a proper 3D.
Give the demo a try!

It's Amy's Human-Form. The Frontier is the multi-verse!