Game Vids You Watched Today

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I’m playing the PS3 version of 3rd Strike and I miss the option in the DC and PS2 versions to turn those bonus matches off. ; )

Powermonger and Syndicate, two tiny people games by Bullfrog that I played on Amiga back in the day. The PC versions look a little nicer, of course. Both excelled at conjuring an engrossing atmosphere. The scope and detail of Powermonger’s lush, hilly, procedurally generated worlds fascinated me; you could watch a sheep graze on hillside, see a tree change through the seasons, follow any townsperson through their daily life–each one had their own procedurally generated name and details!–or use any of those as resources with which to expand your roving gangs of armed men out to conquer the world.

I even had the WWI expansion for Powermonger, but the brown and gray battlefields didn’t have the appeal of those little green idyllic islands in the original.

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When videogames were invested in simulationism as a concept

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watch out for abrupt volume changes, but: i would recommend watching footage of this apparently real wii u game for exactly as long as it takes to recognize the background music

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Another game I sorta didn’t want to play but wanted to see some of the set-pieces from so I just skimmed through the video real quick

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Fighting Mania is a Kung Fu Jesus Simulator that should be played bare-fist or not at all

EDIT: Speaking as someone who has boxed the only machines available in Lowestoft and (Once Upon A Time) The Trocadero. Not even shrooms allowed for the level of concentration required for The True Fist

EDIT 2: Raoh remains the FITNS and it angers me that a rematch is way overdue

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I love the narrator’s voice in this one. “If you make it past Donkey Kong’s shower of trash…”

Donkey Kong for Game Boy, aka “Donkey Kong '94,” “was the first Game Boy title designed with enhanced features when played on the Super Game Boy.”

The lavish Nintendo Power review showed a screenshot featuring a giant squirrel boss, and no Donkey Kong ape or puzzle elements–a stage not in the released game:

Sources

Donkey Kong (1994 video game) - Wikipedia
Donkey Kong (Game Boy) - Super Mario Wiki, the Mario encyclopedia
Nintendo Power V61 | Nintendo | Fandom

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two of my least favourite flavours, together at last

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Yahtzee “Bob” Crishaw

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Oh god selectbutton is not identified by name in this is it

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No, neither essbee or Tim get name-dropped.

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Somebody linked this on twitter as it was, like, premiere-streaming? I liked what I saw of it:

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If anyone is on the fence about watching this.
I think the r-word jokes make this the worst Zero Punctuation in years.

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A milk-hater who says “yo momma”, a JRPG character I can get behind

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