SpeedRunRocks

I missed the "Gen" part and was like, yep, ten games in a year sounds about right.

It's fun when they do it for fictional products, like the play-by-play commentators doing ads for Chork in Triple Play '99.

"Therapists"

If you know the SNL bit, you know.

To answer in the form of a question: What is the reason voicechat doesn't exist on Nintendo consoles?

This is the way.

@Bustacap

The US link wasn't there when I first read the article. Looks like it's been changed. Cool!

UK only?? I thought that was primarily Master System territory.

@MrGawain

They missed out by not calling the sequel "Love-ees"

• All of World 3 in Mario 3
• The water level music in Mario 64 is choice.
• Breaking the glass tube in Super Metroid
• Level 2 in TMNT Manhattan Project, which also has a rad tune to go along with it. It's on top of the water, but it still counts!!
• Dive Man in Mega Man 4. Another sick song.
• Launch Octopus in Mega Man X. Yet another sick song!
• Anytime you go underwater in the Metal Slug series. Might as well tack on the entirety of In The Hunt while we're at it.

Ha! Shiver is Team Sit Back And Wait To Die. Might go with Really Really Big Man on this one.

My favorite used shee-it shop in Indianapolis replaced their VHS section with a pile of Funko trash. It made my heart hurt.

Sees Fire Emblem Fates Special Edition

Gets triggered

I managed to get a cartridge only version though, so I didn't fully miss out, but it's still The One That Got Away.

Ninja Taro

and some old Jaleco jams:
Banishing Racer
Fortified Zone and its sequel

Guns... lots of guns.

Action cat-former, if you will!

Goes great with canna-cookies!

Lose the sales quotas, bring back retro games, bring physical items back to the reward system, and staff the stores with attractive women. Blam, problem solved!

GET BILL GATES IN HERE

Xenogears and Octopath 2

Bah, who needs real drums when you can just program fake drums into a keyboard?? Lack of faith in humanity restored!

Doom Eternal while blasting To Hell With The Devil by Stryper and See You In Hell by Grim Reaper.

Name that Cockle-related tune!

"Folks, I'd like to sing a song about the American Dream
About me, about you
About the way our American hearts beat way down in the bottom of our chests
About that special feeling we get in the Cockles of our hearts
Maybe below the Cockles
Maybe in the sub-Cockle area
Maybe in the liver, maybe in the kidneys
Maybe even in the colon, we don't know"

....Cockle!!

Go the opposite direction. The multiple-titles-with-barely-any-difference approach has been a cash grab since Day One. It might be the main thing that turned me off to the series (Goes back to playing the Zelda Oracle games).

The music in the first one was more guitar-and-drums oriented, more of an indie punk, garage band-y kind of flavor, so I'll always have a soft spot for the OG Splatoon. Things got more and more bleep-bloop as the games went on.

Sees word, "cosy."

Mutters like Sideshow Bob

The only "cosy" I have time for is Cozy Powell. Dude is a total badass, or "was," I guess I should say... RIP

Not far enough west!! PlayAsia it is, then.

So is there a retro game awards show for titles that have withstood the test of time called the LAFTAs? That stands for Long AF Time Ago. I nominate Moon Patrol.

A hard drive isn't fully discarded until it goes to the gun range and gets blasted by Barry Burton's .357 Magnum Colt Python.

I can't really explain why, but I get tickled pink whenever someone from the Commonwealth uses the word "beastie" to describe an enemy in a video game. I find it to be quite hilarious.

I often refer to a chonky feline of mine as Beastie using the most embarrassingly over-the-top British accent I can muster. It's a fun time....

(On topic) ....much like this game!

@Ryan_Again

(In Jerry Seinfeld voice) What's the deal with the statue of Shiva the Destroyer outside of CERN??

This place is basically the real-life version of the UAC researching Hell Energy in Doom 2016. Look it up!

@rjejr

I believe you are thinking of RCMADIAX. I swear I recall seeing the actual person commenting on nlife articles back in their heyday about 10 or so years ago.

Really quite good at absorbing tears!

Man, it doesn't look like they will press an actual GBA cartridge of this, but I'll be pleasantly surprised if they do.

The animated bit makes it seem like this will get the River City Girls Zero treatment: the plain-old rom bookended by an animated and possibly voice-acted intro and ending. No original cartridge re-press, but now with added rewind function!

Easy games? Cute games?? Pah! They're for the birds! (Goes back to playing the extremely easy and extremely cute Yume Penguin Monogatari.)

They kinda phoned in the boxart, but I'm pretty stoked on this one!

One of the bosses from Deathsmiles says hello. That game might not be 'cozy' enough though.

Updates from the dairy farm: milk, milk, milk....

Matt Booty's license plate

@LikelySatan

That is an unfortunate fact about the singer. Definitely have to separate the art from the artist on that one, yikes!

@-wc-

New games?? Trying to think....... I got nothin. The two I came up with are pretty old at this point. Brutal Legend and that time we had both AC/DC T.N.T. and Maiden Number of the Beast on Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4. What a time to be alive!

🎵 We didn't know what we had
'Til it was gone 🎵

"Personal and heartfelt story"

Maybe I just watch too many Chuck Norris films, but I prefer a story featuring Unflinching Steelheartedness and Unmitigated Badassery. You know, like Metroid pre-Other M.

Looks like fun, though!

@-wc-

It's mostly on the NES. The harshness of the square waves gave the music that good old-fashioned Hard N Heavy edge.

Special props go to Tecmo for programming a full drumkit into their game music. Tecmo Super Bowl and Ninja Gaiden 1-3 go pretty damn hard.

Everything got all softened up starting with the SNES. Although the Megaman X series, Uniracers/rally and Rock N Roll Racing hauled some ass.

Most everything post SNES had the synth orchestra vibe, so you kinda had to dig to find the good stuff. I recently discovered that Shock Troopers for Neo Geo rips pretty hard.

Electric Assault just started somewhat recently. We have a Facebook page and a couple videos on YouTube. I'll have a fresh one up on Saturday, actually.

Our first record won't be out until May, but if you search YouTube for 'Clint Wheelman' you might have better luck finding Electric Assault. Early 80s Speed Metal, baby! Our guitarist is a huge Coroner fan and our other guitarist loves Vektor, so I feel like you might dig it!

Imagine being an elderly Kickstarter backer and dying before the game you backed finally gets around to being released.

No Pikmin 3? Arcade Archives? Neo-Geo? At least there's the Capcom Belt Action Collection. Best title screen song of 2018, hands down!

Looks decent, I think Mario Wonder had a couple rhythm-based levels. Maybe 3D World and the Galaxy titles as well... anyway, I recall my classic heavy metal drummer self ace-ing the hell out of them and having a good time while I was at it.

But with that said, Morpheus from The Matrix asks, "What if I told you it wasn't necessary to drop-tune your guitars into the basement in order for music to be considered 'heavy metal'?"

In my world, that style of heavy music is referred to as Butt Chug. Sorry, Doom 2016 music guy, but it is what it is!

Look up the band Electric Assault, take two of these and call me in the morning!

These guys are really good at announcing a physical version right after a game goes on a deep holiday discount and I pick them up for like 5 dollars.

It happened with the Blaster Master Zero trilogy, Bloodstained Curse of the Moon 1&2 and the Gradius / Contra collections.

What, no BloodStorm or Zero Divide??