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wasn’t bad tbh. the limited computing power meant i spent no time playing games and instead binge-composed electronic music albums. i only wish i could be so unhealthily productive these days

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I got a need for some Android on a computer screen. Anyone got any advice on a PC Android emulator? I am pretty sure I’ll need to access the Google Play store…

I remember using MEmu to play Lara Croft GO and it was functional?

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Another approach would be to use a Chromebook that supports Android Apps. That’ll have Play Store access.

I think BluStacks was the one once recommended to me at one point butthat was a while ago. I would go through this:

http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Android_emulators

In Earthbound, there’s an arcade. In that arcade are arcade games:

The left is clearly a riff on Donkey Kong, the right is Space Invaders/Galaga/Whatever. Does anyone recognize what the middle game would be?

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tapper?

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stair is my favorite arcade game, i remember stair always being the best game at roundtable pizza.

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Sky Skipper? I’m going on the assumption all three are Nintendo arcade games so the Space Invaders cab is probably one of Nintendo’s clones too.

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internet seems to think it’s just generic arcade shit because itoi only commented on space invaders and donkey kong. i say bomb jack.

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it is bashful Inky after being spin-thrown into the screen like a foot soldier in Turtles in Time

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Looks like Sonic.

The middle one is whatever game you want it to be. I say it’s Fantasy Zone.

it’s probably the ship board of Popeye

yeah, I called it a board, what of it

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It could be a cheeky nod to the first mother, with that distinctive grass color and all

It reminds me of Missile Command, if I assume that the squiggle in the middle-right is a background element or something.

am i right in thinking the best way to play lightgun games in mame etc. right now is a mayflash wii sensor bar and a wii remote?


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This design irks me. It’s got a lot of ray-gun going on but just enough regular gun that it ends up clashing.

I think it looks like a hair dryer

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