Ultima mapping continues whenever I feel like it.
I fucked this one up early and had to redo most of the outline, so it’s taking a while. I’m working on it with a headlamp for lighting and I told my wife I feel like some kind of bizarro monk making my manuscript.
FWIW when it worked it was highlighting things in other rooms on the other side of the map, so I don’t think it is due to that.
Taito really got a lot of mileage out of Psychic Force. I knew that they made one for PS2 based on the Rozen Maiden anime, and just found out that there’s one for X/1999. I know nothing about X other than I think I need to watch it now.
He’s hurt! Badly! He’s in pain! But I think he’ll make it! He’s Rasta!
This is what his wound looks like in later versions lol
God damn it Rasta
liking psychic force (and by extension, the x game) led me to buying the first few volumes of the x manga a few years ago. even the concept of the fights happening in big floating transparent cubes comes from there!
The movie version of X is one of my favourite anime films, it’s like if Clamp made their version of Akira.
I have played the FPS Hazama Queen a lot recently, it’s fun.
I seem to remember not being real impressed with it when I played it at a classmate’s house back in the day–which I guess according to certain theories would make me partly responsible for the video game crash of ‘83 ; D–but Atari 2600 Pac-Man is actually pretty fun. ^ _^ (Ghost phosphor fade ^ simulated w/ Photoshop; the game only draws one of the four ghosts per frame.) (I don’t normally use “filter” options but it does help reduce the ghost flicker’s impact on the ol’ eyeballs. 'p ')
This was the only Pac-Man I had as a kid so I didn’t know any better, but I always liked it. The sound effects especially.
Well, I also had the cartoon on Saturday mornings of course.
Those sounds do their own thing but it definitely works. : )
If you eat the dots wafers in a certain rhythm it kinda sounds like Pac-Man is laughing evilly. ; D
2600 Berzerk is good, if you happen to have that one.
Don’t know how available it is but in Racing The Beam it describes every little trick they pulled to make Pac-Man for the Pong machine (2600). And then how every single Atari 2600 game is this twisted hack of Pong.
One of the few good books on video games.
Someone gave me a tip for Fallout 1 and it turns out that yes, gambling is just straight up busted and I now have like 80k bottle caps with which to I guess spend on stuff to let me pay even less attention to combat, the system works~
it’s hilarious how easy it is to get incredibly good shit in the first two fallouts. You can pickpocket combat armor and a combat shotgun the second you find the hub and be set for most of the game
Clamp’s Metropolis imo
(Rintaro directing is always a toss up between garbage and classic and X rides that line)
X is the best thing Rintaro ever did (especially compared to Kawajiri’s below par work on the series) and Metropolis is misguided at best but at least it’s not harmageddon.
Replayed Darius Chronicle Saviours DLC which is the kind of thing I wish they were still making to this day, all the modes feel so organic and it’s a shame they couldn’t merge it with the main game without ruining the leaderboards. Fantasy Zone levels are a doctoral thesis in their own way.
sorry I think you meant to write “Galaxy Express 999 is the best thing Rintaro ever did”
That would involve me telling a lie which I am incapable of doing. Hyperdrive scene from Adieu alone is better than anything in that.
Edging closer towards an akai katana shin 1cc, I can feel it.
I will not forget Rasta.
There are a number of video interviews with the 2600 Pac-Man programmer, Tod Frye, in the DLC. I sorta skimmed one of them. I like this YT video where he geeks out over the later homebrew Pac-Man that had a double-sized (8K) cart to play with:
I don’t have the other DLCs. I hadn’t even checked them out so lemme do that… Yeah that Berzerk version looks all right; I’m on a no-gun-games kick these days though which eh conveniently or otherwise ends up saving me a lot of game-buying money.
