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Post by Sarge on Jan 11, 2020 17:42:51 GMT -5
A little over four hours. Thankfully, the game has passwords.
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Post by toei on Jan 11, 2020 18:19:01 GMT -5
The whole time I thought Sarge was talking about Super Buster Brothers. I've been confusing these games for literal decades.
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Post by Xeogred on Jan 11, 2020 19:13:49 GMT -5
Think I found the best PC version of Lemmings I didn't know you enjoyed Lemmings on SNES. I guess that one along with The Lost Vikings were your SNES puzzlers of choice.
I tried the DOS version of Lemmings back in the late '90s. I had a typing class when I was a senior, which I always finished my work super fast in, because I already knew how to type. So I mostly spent that class playing computer games in the very back of the room. Lemmings was one of the games I tried, though I never got very far in it. I prefer static puzzles that don't move/aren't timed. Lemmings is basically the opposite of that.
My fondness for the original and SNES version is probably amplified by it being one of the rare games my dad liked. There was a weird era during the mid 1990's when my dad and two of his friends would play some SNES games, I recall Lemmings and The Lost Vikings being the two major ones. There were times when my dad would put up a piece of paper to try and map/measure out the stair building path in some levels in Lemmings. I think my dad and one of his friends legit beat Lemmings SNES, minus the exclusive bonus world that was just 5 insanely hard levels. I'm not sure if he ever beat those but honestly, to this day... I think my dad still has me beat on Lemmings. I'm not sure if I ever finished all of it or surpassed how far he could get. The SNES version also had a cool split screen multiplayer mode actually.
EDIT: I actually beat a dozen levels in the 95' version last night. When you hit the speed up button in this one, if everything is set to finish out the level properly, it completes it nearly instantly haha. Apparently it's because of modern OS's or something and didn't normally do that, but that's fine.
My dad read me ActRaiser while I played and beat that game, before I could even read myself. This is a bizarre one, considering the religious themes Quintet loved to dabble in and you basically playing as God. My dad was a Christian nuthouse growing up, maybe my parents just thought it was a Bible/Christian game?
For some reason Earthworm Jim was a popular one with my dad too, along with Super Ghouls n' Ghosts. Which again is a little surprising considering how gothic and disturbing that one looks.
The brief moment in my life when my dad at least attempted to relate a bit with my hobby. After the 16bit era, there was an obsession with SSX for some reason, but he never took to the 3D switch well and hasn't cared since.
EDIT: I also like how Donkey Kong 94' and "Bust-A-Move" naturally came up in this topic too. I grew up playing both of those at my aunt's house. I think that was the first time I saw a Super Gameboy as well. As a kid, even just being able to change the color palette amazed me.
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Post by Sarge on Jan 11, 2020 21:36:16 GMT -5
The whole time I thought Sarge was talking about Super Buster Brothers. I've been confusing these games for literal decades. I've done the same thing, and I've also done it with Bust a Groove. And when you think about it, Bust-A-Move does sound like it should be some sort of rhythm game.
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Post by toei on Jan 11, 2020 22:18:09 GMT -5
I've mixed them both up with Bubble Bobble too, but that one's related to Bust-A-Move at least. Which does definitely sound like a dancing game. I mean, it's literally the title of that Young MC song. Why not Bust-A-Bubble?
Anyway, I've started playing some Super Buster Brothers. I never knew the original arcade game was made by Mitchell. Has to be one of their biggest games, as I recall the SNES game being very well-known when I was a kid. I made it pretty far in single-player, I might just end up finishing it.
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Post by Sarge on Jan 11, 2020 22:20:28 GMT -5
Weirdly, I never saw Super Buster Brothers as a kid. Go figure!
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Post by Ex on Jan 11, 2020 23:03:19 GMT -5
I think that was the first time I saw a Super Gameboy as well. As a kid, even just being able to change the color palette amazed me. Yep both Donkey Kong '94 and Mole Mania use the Super Gameboy in a colorful way. Nice bezel graphics and hue shading. It's cool stuff for its time. There were only two video games my dad ever liked. The first was the arcade version of Defender, which he was really good at in his youth. And DOOM. I got my dad to sit down and play DOOM one time, and he played it for about ten minutes. He thought it was great, but he never played it again. Still, that was amazing, because my dad was always anti-video games. He acted like they were a complete waste of time, and chided me for playing them in my youth. Though he still would buy them for me, and did not try to limit my access to them. I do recall he saw me fighting mother brain in Super Metroid, and he thought the graphics in that fight were really impressive. That was a long-assed time ago.
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Post by Ex on Jan 12, 2020 3:26:53 GMT -5
Tonight I spent an hour and a half playing Guru Logic Champ. It's a 2001 GBA puzzler by Compile, only released in Japan. This game is very humorous and uses a unique puzzle mechanic. It's similar to Picross, kinda sorta. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Logi_Champ )
Guru Logic Champ consists of "Rescue" missions which house many stages within. Before taking on the key puzzle of a rescue, you must first have cleared a certain amount of stages. I beat 47 stages tonight, to make it to the 5th Rescue area. I then took a break to see how many Rescues/stages there actually are. There's 12 Rescues and over 300 stages in this game. Well, I'm not up for that! I enjoyed playing Guru Logic Champ, but not enough for that level of commitment.
Well here's how the game looks in play if you're interested: But! Tonight I remembered a puzzle game I've been meaning to play for years. I'm pretty excited to finally get around to playing it. I'll keep it a secret for now though.
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Post by Sarge on Jan 12, 2020 13:30:49 GMT -5
Speaking of puzzlers, or at least puzzle platformers, I thought the GBA Klonoa games were quite fun.
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Post by Ex on Jan 12, 2020 16:01:01 GMT -5
Speaking of puzzlers, or at least puzzle platformers, I thought the GBA Klonoa games were quite fun. Never played the GBA Klonoa entries much. I tried them via emulation long ago when they first released. I remember the first one did a nice approximation of the PS1 Klonoa's style.
There are quite a few GBA puzzle games for sure. I might try some more of them out, just to see how they play. Though I don't plan to finish any puzzle games which are simply a continuous string of exactly the same kind of puzzle over and over. I've realized I get burnt out on that design very quickly.
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