the actual best part of the last level is if you fuck up and die, the princess has a death animation too
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augh! i bought the famicom one a few months ago, hoping for another cute platformer, but it’s some text-heavy board game thing. at least the cartridge is cute though, it’s teal and has rounded corners on top
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Marvel Land rules!
I was just looking at El Viento and Magical Taruruto-kun repros, Viento looked a little rough graphically.
High Seas Havoc looks tite.
Played Valis III? I love Valis III. It is not “good” but I love it.
Id like to mention Cool Spot. It was a fave as a kid, cant really say if its actually good, its too deep in my psyche. The tunes ROCKED my 9-year-old face off.
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real talk, if you like Valis III on the Gen/MD, give the PCE version a play, it’s a better game with more content and a nicer soundtrack (the soundtrack is fine in the port, I guess, but the arrangements do the compositions no favors)
just, uh, ignore that slide is down+run
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Man I sure hope the Genesis Mini is hackable like the Nintendo ones. All this MD talk is making me thirsty.
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I sorta wanna get that repro console that takes the real carts that just got released a while ago.
I say this as someone who was a die-hard Nintendo kid. I just feel like if I’m going to go through the trouble of collecting game cartridges, Sega stuff at least has some outsider appeal
hi
you should buy Genesis stuff now before everyone else stops huffing Nintendo and realizes that Sega has good game (even then, a few notable titles have had their prices inflated, like CV Bloodlines and Hyperstone Heist)
it’s telling that Phantasy Star IV goes for less now then it did when it was new (note: PSIV was a hundred bucks in 1994/5)
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Not…everything here was strictly something I played. But I felt like this still seemed the best place to dump all of these (sorry if this fucks with the flow of the thread but I took soooo many pictures and I wanted to share).
I was gonna write up some impressions but…eh…I might still do that but you can kinda get the idea of what @wonder_momo and I were up to just from the pics. We played a lot of stuff.
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IAN and SKULL DRAGON
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'specially that last TMNT one, many smoke and dust filled neon evenings circa '90
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What’s the driving game in the second image?
Lucky and Wild !!!
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It’s LUCKY and WILD. It’s a co-op driving and light gun game (best term even though I think the guns are mechanical and not light based) about two…I’m gonna say cops…chasing down crime cars by shooting at them. One player steers and tries to stay on the road (Lucky, played that day by @wonder_momo) and the other player has two pistols they are shooting at the screen (Wild, played that day by yours truly).
It’s chaotic, and weird, and the graphics look like all those recent fake super scaler games more than they actually look like other contemporary super scaler style ones.
Was it good? I dunno, was it worth the fifty cents to flail wildly in a buddy cop driving sim? Probably.
(You can theoretically play it in single player with one hand on the wheel and one on a single gun)
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Whoa cool
I should probrobably mention that the arcade I’m showing off is Ground Kontrol which had previously been the more boring barcade of the two in Portland.
But they remodeled and have started using the increased floor space for more weird shit and have kinda shifted to being my favorite of the two?
That said, Quarter World is still pretty great. They have a lot of eclectic stuff including occasional appearances by an F-Zero AX machine, and Ninja Baseball Batman.
And a porn game room.
If you want to play porn games.
In public.
At a barcade.
Because you can at quarter world aparently.
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it’s me
I’m the guy who would walk past all the actual games and see how much of Dragon’s Lair I remember
the last time did not go well.
There are a lot of Dragon’s Lair machines in Portland.
There are even more Baby Pac-Man machines though. Just loads of those. Pretty sure PDX has the highest number of Baby Pac-Man tables per capita of any city in the world.
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my nearest arcade is on the other side of the country 
but i might ask a girl i know on tumblr to go there together, that’d be nice, and they have a panic park machine 
Wait I always thought the intent was driving + 1 gun, and then the other player gets 1 gun, not driving and the other player gets 2 guns
What kind of chump 2p would allow themselves this disgrace?
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