SpeedRunRocks

There was a month delay for this an the Dread set showing up in stores.

Almost like the nerdbots were sitting on a pallet of them trying to scalp, then returned them all back to the retailer within 30 days for a full refund.

That's the 'small business' their rich dad helped them set up.

Worked at a used game shop in 2010 and I was too broke to buy GBC Metal Gear Solid for 15 bucks. Finally picked it up last year for way more than that. I regret nothing.

Edit: Oh yeah and my older brother giving me our GameCube after getting a Wii, but keeping our full run of Resident Evil titles. 6 months later he moves to a new place and LOSES THEM ALL.

So yeah, I regret being the youngest brother and having zero say in any kind of application of logic or decision making when dealing with a FIFA drone.

Never have, never will. One of the few, the proud.

"Battles are accompanied by cries of pain, impact sounds, and screen-shaking effects."

Background music also exceeds a certain threshold of intensity that may cause uneasiness and discomfort.

'Member Mega Man Legends 3?

Pepperidge Farm 'members.

Dang, hardly any love for Cyber Shadow. Too much badassery for modern society to handle.

Holding the drift and doing that little shimmy before the final turn is interesting.

Cyber Shadow?

Ahh, the Rock Band drumset.

To actual drummers it played like garbage, but a generation or two grew up thinking that's what real drumming was, and now most drummers I know are obsessed with matching the zero-action, zero-resistance nature of the Rock Band bass drum pedal and electronically triggering every component of their kit.

The human element has all but been removed from music since then.

Guitar Hero 3 was fun though. The last time classic-style hard rock was viewed in a positive light before society as a whole became too weak to process the sound of the electric guitar without having a panic attack.

Love me a good orchestra, but

Go Team Electric Guitars and Acoustic Drums played at Maximum Volume!

4 because of playable Eddie from Iron Maiden with all the classic album covers for the decks.

And they use TNT by AC/DC in the opening video.

The FDS version of Metroid had a Zelda-style save file system. Was it NOA that implemented the password system?

@Deppasois

An individual of impeccable taste.

Sons of Angels shortened attract mode arrangement is 90 seconds of pure solid gold sounding like a B-Side from Whitesnake circa 1991.

Anyone here in or around Denver, Colorado, or planning to go there, there's a place on the north side called Akihabara that has a couple rows of Sega Astro cabinets.

One of them has the "Black Label Another Ver." version of this along with Deathsmiles, Pink Sweets and Muchi Muchi Pork.

There's also a giant screen NeoGeo sit-down thing with Blazing Star in it.

Paul F. Tompkins says, "Stick around if you don't mind some cream in your jeans."

XCX Complete: Now with Actual Ending!

Not sure what the bottom one is, but it looks like Mr. Clean merged DNA with the construction foreman from Breath of the Wild that says, "Remember that time you dazzled me? Well it's dazzling time again!"

100%-ed this last week. Fun as hell, but I'm good for a while.

I paid waaay too much to import the Famicom controller set. I don't regret it a bit.

@Rohanrocks88

Yeah dude where in the heck is Turtles III?

Tecmo Super Bowl.

Fixed it for ya.

KAZE NI NARE!!! You can only scream this. Even in text form.

Any of us here know what this phrase is from?

Bowser's Fury being 2-3 hours is a total myth. It's easily in the 10-15 range to 100% it, which is how long a $40 PS1 title was back in the day.

Nintendo Power #4: Link with rad MacGyver mullet.

Knight of the Round looks to be the only true representative of the Heavy Metal genre in this group.

SpeedRun has played with them a couple times. A little computer-dependent and 'modern' for my tastes as far as Metal is concerned, but they're pretty damn good.

The number of solo artists on this is slightly discouraging. But this is coming from a drummer looking for musicians that happen to like old video game music but aren't creeps or flakes, and aren't going to look down their nose at the fact that I've developed a unique talent on my own despite never attending music/art college.

Turns out that's pretty difficult. Anyone out there dig the music of Priest and Maiden and Megadeth as much as Zelda 2 and Mario 3 and Tecmo Super Bowl, and also play guitar? Asking for a friend.

This jamoke isn't a 'songwriter'. He's a pederast.

Intelligent Qube. That is all.

Plenty of good stuff goin on here, but where in the heck is Fire Pro Wrestling World??

Ahh, glad I'm not a Chinpokomon fan, though it can at times seem like both a blessing (saves $) and a curse (can't relate to ANY other gamers my age).

@readyletsgo @SimplyCinnamon53

A friend giving me a Saturn and my subsequent dive into the internet Saturn rabbit hole is what finally tore me away from Octopath.

Been rocking Fire Pro 6men Scramble. Looks pretty good through my early HD-era Samsung that still has an S-Video port.

Virtua Fighter 2 and Dynamite Deka should be in my hands this week. Sexy Parodius and the Nights Into Dreams 3D controller combo are next on the list.

@Agramonte

"Never meet a grown traditional artist who has nostalgia for "crayon aesthetics" from when they were 6."

Come to Des Moines, Iowa. That's all this town has, and the art school rejects gobble it up.

HD-2D-itize Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana

@Sabroni
You can switch between the hit being registered on either the swing (for non-drummers) or the sudden stop.

I bought the JP version thinking there's no way this will come to the US.

Nobody over here cares about:
a) classical music
b) heavy metal in standard tuning
c) music played on real instruments
d) the drums in general
e) any combination of the above.

If anyone here in the states can dispute that in any way, please hit me up and let's start a band. I'm the 'real deal' on the drums.

Good lord, I've seen write-ups like that--written non-sarcastically--about the Des Moines music scene.

The neckbeards and granny-glasses take their mediocrity seriously over here.

Aaahh, I wish the jacket was one of those baller satin Badstreet USA lookin things from 1987. Just some basic thing instead.

Man, my parents were lame...

Official licenses don't prevent Fire Pro from being the best wrestling game out there by a wide margin.

Even if they took away the New Japan agreement, you could still set up a "Benny Ortega" vs. "Kazucha Okama" feud with relative ease.

Go Team Cat!

Here's hoping they do another run of the Neon S2 set in NA. At launch I could only find them for an additional $5 shipping per figure, so I waited.

Only ever managed to find one since. Haven't seen a nowinstock message in forever. But you can still find original Splatoon figures in stores. Weird situation.

Didn't they colorize the GB titles for a never-released GBA collection? Maybe they're holding everything else back for a hidden gems compilation or something.

@Tarolusa @UnknownReader

That makes three! I 'retired as champion' after I conquered all of my friends with Kirby in OG Smash at a birthday party in like 2000.

I was the only non-N64 owner, instead I did some owning of my, um, own.

A lot of moves from Kirby Super Star we're the same button combinations in Smash. Otherwise I suuuucked at that game. Still do!

Reading the part about the music being too 'extreme' made me cringe. Do you even Warriors, bro?

Over-the-top renditions of the source music is one of the main defining aspects of these games.

Do people not realize that True Heavy Metal is the modern-day equivalent to classical music? All of the elements are there, now with electricity!

You pulled the same crap on the FEW review. "The music is too much!!" Dude, no it's not. Listen to Iron Maiden. Listen to Judas Priest. Know what the hell you're talking about before bashing it, then go back to your Ed Sheeran records.

@bimmy-lee @Shiryu

Don't forget Davey Boy Smith muttering to himself in disbelief, "He fell flat on his arse!"

Bowser's Italian-food-centric alliterations when referring to the Mario Bros are the best. And Capn Lou 'doing the Mario' against a green screen backdrop.

What's with the piss jug that appears to have been superimposed over the foreground of the header image?

Okay, time to actually read the article.

@AG_Awesome That would rule!!

Also waiting for someone to bust out Foreplay/Long Time by Boston

Labo and 1-2 Switch haters don't seem to realize there's such a thing as "The Disabled".

Insert cynical "you'd have to be [removed] to think this is fun" crack here.

Mega Man Legends 3!! Or a collection of sorts.

Mikey would win the bong ripping contest, but The Don would win the bong engineering contest. Raph and Leo are too busy being on opposite ends of the straight-edge-nerd spectrum.... Tough call on this one.

Splatoon 2 3-pack, please.

Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess Link, also. They left money on the table pulling that retailer exclusive crap on something so sought after.

@Agent721 I can second that. I've gotten my $60 worth from two particular alcohol-fueled all-nighters with my roommate and his brothers.

Fake Draw, Samurai Training, and the sword fighting one got over pretty well.