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Wow, winning this year's 7800 HSC is going to be tougher than I thought. We just finished Donkey Kong Jr. and the top score beat the best score in the world, ever. (For 7800 DK Jr. obviously. The arcade DK Jr. record is probably a bazillion and three). It's funny though, as I'd bet 90% of everyone who would care about those 7800 records is...
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Top of the heap
Okay, so I missed the last game. I bought Xenoblade Chronicles and forgot every other game existed for awhile.
Anyway, I'm back for Donkey Kong Jr.
Playing this one last night reminded me of something about playing games in the '80s (and early '90s). Games used to be silly, silly things. The good kind of silly. Like the Muppets. Or the...
Anyway, I'm back for Donkey Kong Jr.
Playing this one last night reminded me of something about playing games in the '80s (and early '90s). Games used to be silly, silly things. The good kind of silly. Like the Muppets. Or the...
As I was playing Moon Cresta again tonight, I had to wonder how this was ever a popular arcade game (and, for all I know, it wasn't). In the arcades this must have been an actual quarter muncher, which is something I don't think I've ever seen before.
See, what a lot of modern gamers don't realize is that arcade machines weren't...
See, what a lot of modern gamers don't realize is that arcade machines weren't...
Okay so my climb to the top of the heap began a couple days ago in the 7800 HSC. The first game was a game I had only ever heard of, but never played or bothered to look up: Moon Cresta. For anyone else who has never played or read up on this game, here is the long and the short of it: Moon Cresta is hard. Not like "Return of Shinobi" hard. ...
So my old blog (all of it still here I guess) was about taking the Donkey Kong 7800 world record. I stopped posting to it because I realized something. Beating a world record for a game like Donkey Kong (even with a fairly obscure version like the 7800) means you have to basically play nothing but that game. I mean, by the time I'd finish two or...
So I haven't updated the blog in over two months. Here's what happened: I got bored. I played so much Donkey Kong I couldn't stand it anymore. So I stopped. I barely even turned on the 7800 in that time as I was so tired of it. I played Rygar on the Lynx, Viva Pinata 2 and Bajoo Kazooie on the 360, and a bunch of other stuff. I basically...
Okay, so I haven't updated the blog in a couple weeks. The problem is, making it a nightly thing was a poor idea. First, I have a wife, a thesis, a full time job, and a new baby. My ability to make time to both play this game every night, and then to write about it does not exist. I was having to choose to not play anything else at any point, and...
My heart really wasn't in it tonight. After two weeks, I'm getting a little tired of it. However, that record isn't going to break itself, so I need to do something to keep interest up. What I usually do when facing this problem is start to work on other versions of the game. It's good practice and sometimes helps you find some part of...
No update yesterday and a brief posting tonight. Sorry (to whoever reads this, all one of you), but last night me and my wife had a babysitter for the first time in ages, so I could hardly say "Hey beautiful, fantastic wife who is way out of my league but has somehow never realized it, let's pass on Valentine's Day festivities so I can play a...
So I should have beat my high score today. I had 144,500, was on my final life, and had only one rivit left to grab, and all the Fox Fires trapped. And then I notice that all the Fox Fires are at the top of the same ladder, and that that ladder is directly over the hammer. Well, I decided I just had to grab that quick 3000 points. And, hey, what are the...
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