SpeedRunRocks

🎵 "Pixel Rain..." 🎵

Looks fairly decent!

A tripwire and a couple of claymores would have made quick work of that. Or maybe a trap door into a punji spike pit in the basement. Sorry, been watching a lot of Vietnam War movies and television shows.

Megadeth - Good Mourning... Black Friday

Def Leppard - Saturday Night High N Dry

and a tie between The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday and Spanky & Our Gang - Sunday Will Never Be The Same

Dang, no Young Link.. the only one I'm missing. Blast you, retailer exclusives!

Still on the fence on this one. I know for a fact I will dig the gameplay mechanics, I'm just not sure about everything else. The whole "mental health" angle seems a little, I don't know... pandering? Can't quite put my finger on it. It seems to have earned all of its accolades, though.

Now if it was about Metal Health--of the axe-grinding, pile-driving variety--I'd be all 'bout 'bout it!

The taped fists, hot glue and broken glass flowed like water!

🎵 You got your Drills to the Ground, man!
Drilllls toooo the Grouuuund! 🎵

Where's Bobson Dugnutt from Fighting Baseball?

Cats number one! Go Team Cat!!

@Uncle_Franklin

You beat me to it! Coming soon: Reverse Cowgirl Peach and/or something involving My Little Pony.

There's room for a sippie cup, but what about my baggie of Cheerios??

Welp, off to ebay to finally pick up Live A Live and Triangle Strategy before they quadruple in price.

Can't wait for the sequel, "Turnip Boy Uses Cryptocurrency to Traffick Humans".

"Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved an all-digital future."

Panderverse was already taken by South Park.

Great list! Plenty of legit slappers in here.

Ninja Warriors, but no Wild Arms?

Also I'm gonna beat these to death until Nlife acknowledges their existence:

Prison City and Curse Crackers, dangit!!!

@rushiosan

Mystic Warriors just came out! It's Sunsetriders with ninjas.

Curse Crackers
Gravity Circuit
Prison City

Curse Crackers isn't on the list, but it's down to $9 right now. Gonna 'have a punt' as they say in the ol' commonwealth. Another retro gem that this site kind of overlooked on the review front.

I too have the PS3 collection, but my disc drive went to hell!

Fun fact, MGS1 and VR Missions weren't on the disc, it was an insert with a couple download codes.

So we still have yet to see a complete release for this run of titles. It seems about as likely as a Parodius collection at this point.

I'm stoked on all of this, but the 2D ones look like a Flash browser game from 20 years ago. They didn't go far enough backward!

Pixels lovingly crafted into animated sprites and backgrounds demonstrate a lot more soul and skill than running a series of sketches through a scanner. Unless you go full Cuphead it just looks cheap.

My only concern with a new Crazy Taxi would be the soundtrack. Not a whole lot of 'popular' rock music has come out since 1999 that isn't hot garbage. If they keep it pre-2000, it has a chance.

The gameplay for all of these will still be awesome, even if they bork the audiovisual aesthetic.

This got a review but not Prison City.. Is it because you got a copy for free?

StarCraft Ghost HD comfirmed

That'll show him for taking away my 3DS!

Breaking Bad simulator.

🎵 Crystal Blue Persuasion
ahhh haaa
It's the new vi-bra-tion 🎵

Ha, that's great!! And if you're not down with that, he's got a message for you:

Demake Fire Pro World down to Saturn or PS2 standards. The HD sprites just look strange to me.

Search for SpeedRun on bandcamp dot com if you want to hear a nearly decade-old recording of us blundering our way through the entire MMX soundtrack, title screen to end credits, on rock and roll guitars and drums. It's a fun one!

Ahh, DLC, so the physical version is still like a year or two away.

Roll on, Super Easy Mode, wooo!!

Just finished Xenoblade 3: Future Connected last night.

Xenoblade X back in 2015 was my first foray into the JRPG realm, followed by 2, 1, then finally 3, with a tangent into Xenogears at some point in between.

Over 1000 hours of gameplay later, I gotta say.... What a ride!! Favorite game series for sure.

When people ask what my favorite anime is, since I know next to FA about the genre, the Xeno series tends to be my answer. I'll take it over 1000 hours of One Piece any day of the week!

This morning I hit up the Wayback Machine and dug up the old Iwata Asks interview for XCX, now I want to start that one over again.

The Skells in that game we're extremely badass and in hindsight I had no idea what I was doing during my first playthrough when it came to combat.

I have a request:

Put down Dreamlight Valley for two seconds and give us a review for Prison City!!

[Mutters like Sideshow Bob]

That word looks like how the FBI (Full-Blooded Italian folks) say 'capicola'.

Cool, now bring back Winter CES in Vegas and Summer CES in Chicago.

Reminds me of the NA release of Earthbound with the scratch and sniff. "This game stinks!"

🎵 Well you're not hardcore
(No, you're not hardcore)
Unless you live hardcore
(Unless you live hardcore)
And the legend
Of Z-Targeting
Is way hardcooooore! 🎵

Renew the Daytona license, re-release the old titles in enhanced form, then bring in Eric Martin to inject more 80s Hair into the theme song for a Brand New Daytona title!!

@Anachronism

It's not getting old, it's getting wise! I have noticed the same thing in the past decade.

I love shooters! Vertical, horizontal, doesn't matter. I would consider myself "better than bad", but most of them are too difficult, even on the easiest setting.

My favorite might be Crisis Force, mostly because I can usually manage to beat the dang thing, even with a couple beers in me.

So.. Young Link confirmed, then?

We got our Dankey Kang, now we just need Legend of Zorldo.

Just conquered this one. It nails the PC Engine CD vibe pretty well!

It keeps a score and rank for every level, but it doesn't combine them all after the game is beaten.

It's not really that difficult, the jump kick and the portal weapon are your best friends. I'm honestly having more trouble with Panzer Paladin than I had with this.

It would be rad as hell if they ported this to PCE CD or maybe the Sega CD / Saturn. I don't think they would have to change much.

This image seems fitting:
Death: The Sound of Perseverance
Very, very good record if you haven't heard it.

Best Zelda 2 memory: growing up watching my oldest brother play through most of it with Def Leppard High N Dry and Ozzy No More Tears playing on repeat. I also watched my neighbor's dad actually beat the dang thing.

My personal best for Zelda 2 on original hardware, no Game Genie, is just over 3 hours.

Never had Castlevania 2 growing up, but a more recent memory involves having the band Night Demon crash at our place. We partied all night until it was just the singer Jarvis and myself still awake.

It was right after the NES Mini came out, and Castlevania 2 was the title he chose to play. It was pretty damn rad.

Check out Night Demon, they rule!

@ArcadianLegend99

Daaaaang that reminded me of a manga I came across in my anime warehouse days. It took me forever to remember the title.

It's Nyankees! Street cats occasionally depicted as hard-azz street gang humans. Now that would make a sick game! Kunio Kun x CATS

There's another one on Switch that hasn't been mentioned. It's Demon's Tilt!! The sort-of spiritual successor to Alien Crush and Devil's Crush. Great stuff.

Also, special mention goes out to a title that will likely never be re-released in any form. I'm talkin about Crue Ball for the Genesis! Published by pre-Madden Electronic Arts.

It doesn't play the best, but it came with this badass Motley Crue sticker, sooo.... worth it!