So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

that is a great game, still fire it up occasionally on my GC, but i can't even get past the 1st level on hard, it's super tough (or maybe i'm just ****!). brilliant multiplayer and co-op game too

Have started playing the Japanese release of Contra: Hard Corps and it’s so much more forgiving than its counterpart in the West. 3 hits on a health bar and infinite continues, you can pretty much guarantee you’re getting an ending. This might take the fun out of it for some but it’s an absolute banger of a game, can’t believe it took me so long to discover it.

I tried Contra 3 for the first time last week and the game treated me like I had just smacked its dad. The first level has no mercy in it, but I’m told the difficulty winds down a bit thereafter. I’ll probably never find out, it’s not like you can savescum either since you never get a second.

There's one really annoying level/boss in Contra 3, but the rest is pretty doable. I found Hard Corps really tough, I must fire up the Jpn version.

The shmup level in Earthworm Jim 2 is the single most fucked thing I’ve even seen placed into a B-tier video game. That must’ve ruined childhoods in its day. Just watched a longplay of it and even the runner cheesed the thing by getting the double health bar bonus and tanking all the hits.

You weren't kidding — Puppy Love, Part 2 actually just turned my stomach this morning with how mental unfair it is.

Just go for it, and forget about it. It'll be a nice surprise next year then

Finished all the single player campaigns on the Halo 20th Anniversary collection, kinda Halo'd out now for a bit..

Loving the quick resume feature on the Xbox, probably less than 30 seconds from pushing the power button to blasting Covenant..

Wario Land 3 on Gameboy Colour. Trying to find all those treasures is tough!

Got a new laptop recently with a 3070, so have been getting stuck into Shenmue 3 finally. I'm actually amazed how 'Shenmue' they've managed to make a modern game, right down to the way the voice acting is delivered.

I'd imagine someone going in with only modern game experience would not get it at all, really is an ode to the Dreamcast games.

I had a bit of fun last night going through all of my handhelds that have been in storage to see if they all still work - they do!

Highlight was finding my original red Gameboy Pocket that I got on a family holiday to Gran Canaria in 1996, along with the dodgy multicart it came with :D

I tell you what though, we really are spoiled with backlit screens now, no idea how we saw anything on these back in the day!

One of the consoles was an original, hardly used GBA in it's box. There might as well be no batteries in it at all for the amount you can see on screen when it's switched on.

It was quite amazing doing a comparison of the same game in that and an AGS101.

Playing through Lemmings (DOS version) on the 3ds. I'd forgotten just how frustrating some of the levels were.

I'm nearing the endgame of Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Tara's Adventure. I know the DQM series is regarded fondly enough, especially for something that is so readily described as a clone, but it really does not get enough credit for being a better Pokemon game than anything prior to Gen 3. Team-building, especially, is so much user-friendly than Pokemon to this very day — not once did I have to consult a spreadsheet to discover that a monster's optimal output is locked behind an event/breeding/transfer that was only available in Azerbaijan on a single wet Tuesday in July 2001.

Finished Metroid Prime - my 2002 save was stuck on Meta Ridley where I left it in a huff.

I think I’m a better or at least more patient gamer now. While I found Ridley and Metroid Prime annoying, it didn’t take too long to clear them.

So that’s the GBA Metroids, Dread, Samus Returns and Prime done. On the fence about Prime 2 right now.

It uses the DOS game files but uses the 3ds touch screen, it's as handy as the mouse, maybe easier. Selecting individual Lemmings can be a bit tricky (due to screen size) when they do the 88 at once drops. I've had to step away, I was getting way too irritated :pac: