Jayenkai

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!

Hating the music from this movie is the new Hating any recent game that Sonic Team have made.
..
..Because we have good taste.

I always feel the same way seeing projects like this... And that is.. I'd really like to see what talented developers like this could REALLY do, if they weren't cloning someone else's work.
Make something new and unique. Use that EPIC amount of skill that you quite clearly have, and amaze us with your own projects.

If I had to choose between original Movie Sonic and crazy Sanic, I certainly know which I would prefer to have a movie of.

@Gs69 Yep! Best use of the keyboard.. .. except maybe Q3Arena.

I'm holding out for the Typing edition.

"New Game" just the one... pick one before you enter. don't look at two. If you look at two, you're banned for life.

I haven't finished it yet.
The battles, with the camera panning around rapidly and endlessly, kicks off my motion sickness.
As much as I "have" managed to complete, I haven't yet risked the end battle, because I know it's going to be a lot of swirling and nausea and .. Bleurgh..
There's other things I can't do in the game, too, but for the most part I can aimlessly wander and explore, and things aren't too bad in general gameplay.

I'm over 350 hours. Which is pretty dang lame considering I haven't beat it yet! But I'm ok with that, because I've really enjoyed my time with it.

I "kinda" look forward to the next one. But I'm worried that I might've explored the map to death already. I do hope there's LOADS more to do in the next one.

1st Day Switch, still working just fine. 1st Day Joycons have been replaced, as they started drifting, though it was only a few months ago, so they certainly held up.
It's had over 360 hrs of BOTW, and I've written over 135 games in SmileBASIC.
... and other games, occasionally, a bit.. maybe..

Yep, yep, yep.

Be absolutely certain you have
1. A good enough network to handle the switch online, AND simultaneously enough mobile devices for all the players, also being online.
2. The ability for all players to occasionally understand the weird Americanised references that often crop up.
3. Other players around you, or via a twitch stream or whatnot.

Then they're fun.
If you're a sad and lonely gamer like me, you'll wish they still made more single player-able games.

Where's my 3DS-style Themes!?!?!
And Folders.
Dag-nabbit, the Switch is a failure!!!

@westman98 gosh, it really doesn't feel like that long ago.
Iwata's presence is still felt, almost a decade later.

I've been reorganising my room, and at some point ended up sitting playing the original WarioWare on a surprisingly still-charged GBAsp for about an hour.. oops!!

Oh, how I would love to aimlessly wander a huge world like that.
Do it, BOTW2! Go on, go on, go on...

This is utterly ridiculous. The sheer audacity of only giving us a full year to make our purchases for consoles that we've mostly already replaced. Sickening. What will Nintendo do next? Make it so I can't nip into town and buy a new NES game? For shame.

Match Point today, Zorro the other day. When's Beach Head popping up?

If you don't now have the 8bit Zorro game's theme in your head, you're too young!!
Bloomin' young'uns!

Exec 1 : See, I told you..
Exec 2 : Dang.. How far is GTA VI?
Exec 1 : 3% complete.
Exec 2 : SHIP IT!!

It's based on the ITV gameshow Lingo, which was resurrected on New Year's Day January 2021, after a hiatus of about 40 or so years.

I know this because I instantly saw the potential of it as a videogame, and made my own clone of it way back in January 2021, whereby I added it to https://ShoeboxOfGames.com ...WAY before Wordle popped up in October.

Cool. So, with my housebound situation, I oughta be able to watch it via iTunes in.. oooh, roughly 2024 or so..?

But how many of those are in the hands of gamers?

"Wii"
A name is only dumb until you're used to it.

There are two sides to this argument.
On the one hand, it's not theirs to post it to YouTube, and it's entirely within reason for Ninty to take it down.
On the other hand, Ninty should probably give us access to this stuff, somehow.

Only one of those will be a guaranteed win in court.
Choose your battles wisely, people.

What would be lovely would be the soundtracks playable on your Switch for any games you've purchased.
Like how Smash Bros does it.

....Who's preordering games from Curry's?!

... these are all words I've heard before, usually just before the release of the newest Worst Sonic Game Ever..
please don't mess it up

How long from turning it on, to being able to aimlessly wander around a sprawling world without repetitive tutorial guff?
Have any of the reviews mentioned that yet?

Act One : Scene Five
At a shop. Buys am alarming amount of bubble gum.

Act Two : Scene Three
Picks up gun. Puts down bag. Tries gun. Enjoys gun. Wanders off, leaving bag behind. Bag contains bubble gum.

Act Five : Scene Eight
Blasting at alien creatures, reaches for a stick of gun, but realises he's all out of bubble gum.

Give me more shops, crafting, and different economies.
Let me build a chair from a rare wood in one land, paint it with dyes made from colourful mushrooms in another area, then sell it for a fortune in a third.
Mmmmm....
Still can't bring myself to do the final fight. Motion sickness vs swooping battle camera = bad times. But I LOVE the engine and it's world.
Basically, more to explore, and more to do once I get there.
That'll be me happy for another 360+ hours.

Their website says "Elasto Mania (or as commonly known: Elma)"
.. which definitely rings more of a bell than Elasto Mania does..

I miss having buttons on my phone...

Nintendo starting early, for the "Most deleted game of the year" award.

I've played a ton of Monkey Billiards.
... it's perfect!

Obligatory "it's just a rip off of the TV show Lingo. And the TV show Lingo goes back DECADES!!" comment.