It was ffvii rebirth
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I donât remember if I posted about fata morgana before. I wasnât too crazy about it, but itâs hard to quit a visual novel when you paid 39.99 for it. Most of my playtime was Nov-Dec of last year.
I played most of the story mode levels in mario maker before I started up my nintendo online subscription again and besides 1 or 2 levels it was absolutely miserable. Just everything you could put in a mario level that I hate, back to back. When I did finally get online I found other peopleâs levels to be sort of depressing in a different way. Just bad times all around!
I wonder how many of those 101 hours were spent looking for cave entrances. Not enough to find the sphinx apparentlyâŚ
This game refuses to die from my year in review, it was super high last year too. Itâs some kind of bug I think. As you can see I beat it in February, so ainât no way I spent 28 hours in less than 2 months.
Guess what game I like to play whenever Iâm stoned 
also as we can see from Yakuza, 15% isnât the highest percentile, itâs not a made up number, so if 7hrs = 15% that means thereâs quite a lot of ridge racer 6 happening in the world these daysâŚ
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My personal GotY is the PS3 version of Demonâs Souls, played in RPCS3 with mods and ReShadeâs LumaSharpen shader. Woo!
Runner-up is Pac-Man Championship Edition, the NES demake made by Japanese retro game port hobbyist coke0774 and polished by M2, from Namco Museum Archives Vol. 1 ^ _^
Honorable mentions to VF3tb, VF5FS, Angbandâspecifically the DOS-VGA-style version I compiled for Windows and put on archive.orgâPac-Man, Darkstalkers 3, SSF2X, Tetris, Dragonâs Lair, and Space Ace, all of which I got back into this year. ^ _^ And PS3 SSX, which so far seems really coooool haha see what I did thereâbut no actually pretty chill. ; D
In a year in which I tried and mostly failed to get myself into platformers and shmups, others that stand out in my memory are save-spammed play-throughs of Gun Frontier, NES Ninja Gaiden 1 & 2, Ghosts 'n Goblins, Ghouls 'n Ghosts (those last two played in Capcom Arcade Stadium on PC but if I was gonna do it again Iâd play them in Capcom Generation: Dai 2 Shuu Makai to Kishi on PS1 in DuckStation where I could use actual save states from hotkeys which would go a lot faster than having to go through Stadiumâs save menu each time ; D), and various Gradius and Darius games, especially the horribly scrolling Gradius games and offshoots in the Konami Antiques MSX collections for PS1.
Oh yeah also to all the Sonic games and fan games I tried this year, including
Sonic Advance
Sonic Advance 2
Sonic Advance 3
Sonic Adventure 2: Trial
Sonic and the Fallen Star
Sonic CD Trial
Sonic Classic
Sonic Classic 2
Sonic Generations
Sonic Heroes
Sonic Legends Trial Version
Sonic Mania
Sonic Origins
Sonic Smackdown
Sonic SMS Remake
Sonic SMS Remake 2
Sonic the Fighters
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II (Trial Version)
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I (Trial Version)
Sonic the Hedgehog - Blasting Adventure
Sonic the Hedgehog: Pocket Adventure
Sonic The Hedgehog SMS-GG Final Demo
Sonic Triple Trouble 16-bit
Also tried and failed to get myself into wrestling games, probably coming closest with Fire Pro Wrestling World for PC.
This was also my year for REALLY getting into game dumping/ripping/extracting and emulating, so thanks Sanni Cart Readerâparticularly the NGPC and PCE HuCard custom add-on boards I got/had made for it, game-extraction-toolbox, RED-Project, Mednafen, Mesen, DuckStation, Mupen64Plus, Flycast, PCSX2, RPCS3, MAME, and the various tools I used for jailbreaking my PS3. I spent WAY too much money on old games so 2025 is going to be about eBaying a lot of games I donât play anymore, including probably a big chunk of my PCE collection. ; D
Steam is probably a somewhat small percentage of my game time so Iâm not pasting my Steam Replay in here, but it is public at Site Error
Pretty much all my gaming hours could be added up from the 400+ videos I put out on YT this year but uhhh I shouldnât take the time to add those up. I THINK Ds1 probably wins at about 73 hours for the playthrough.
Super shout-out to the DualSense controller I got this year (for use in Windows), which pretty much solved all my controller-related ergonomic problems. = D
New games or game-related entries in my game notes so far in 2024:
1 on 1
4 in 1 Super CD
8BitDo Mod Kit for Original PlayStation Classic Controller
8bitdo Ultimate 2.4G Wireless Controller
Abarenbo Tengu & Zombie Nation
Abarenbou Tengu
ACA NEOGEO Art of Fighting
ACA NEOGEO Burning Fight
ACA NEOGEO Fatal Fury
ACA NEOGEO Karnovâs Revenge
ACA NEOGEO Mutation Nation
ACA NEOGEO Robo Army
ACA NEOGEO Sengoku
ACA NEOGEO Sengoku 2
ACA NEOGEO Sengoku 3
ACA NEOGEO Shock Troopers
Acer S271HL 27" monitor
Antonblast Demo
Any Video Converter
Arcade Archives Darius II
Arcade Archives Gun & Frontier
Arcade Archives Hopping Mappy
Arcade Archives Knuckle Heads
Arcade Archives Mappy
Arcade Archives Mouser
Arcade Archives Rug Rats
Arcadeâs Greatest Hits â The Midway Collection 2
ares
Atari 50
Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja
Baseball Stars 2
Baseball Stars II
Battle Circuit
Battle Garegga
Black Knight Sword (demo)
BlastEm
Blazing Star
Broadband Adapter
Capcom Beat âEm Up Bundle
Captain Commando
Carpathian Night Starring Bela Lugosi
Caveman Ninja
Caves of Qud
CDâROM2 Super System Card Ver.3.0
CHDMAN
Coreupt Demo
Cryptmaster Demo
Darius Cozmic Collection Arcade
Dark and Darker
Dell UVDEL1 USB Optical Mouse
Descent from Arkovâs Tower
Descent from Arkovâs tower â prologue
Dig Dug
Donald Duck: Goinâ Quackers
DOOM + DOOM II
Dragon Buster
Dragon Spirit: The New Legend
Dragon Tail
Dragonâs Lair II: Time Warp
Dragonâs Lair Trilogy
Druaga to Nou
DS4Windows
DualSense wireless controller
DuckStation
Duggy
Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara
Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara
Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara Demo
Dustforce Demo
Fantasy Zone II Trial
FightâN Rage
Fighting Vipers 2
Final Fight
Fire Pro Wrestling D
Flicky
Foolâs End Classic
Galaxian
Galaxian
Gals Fighters
Gate of Doom
Gradius II
Grandia
Guilty Gear
HEBEREKE Enjoy Edition
Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds Demo
ImgBurn
Ironclad
Jet Set Willy
Joe & Mac Returns
Just Platformer 100
King of the Monsters
Konami Antiques MSX Collection Vol.1
Konami Antiques MSX Collection Vol.2
Konami Arcade Classics
Kung Fu
KungâFu Master
Life Force
Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
Logitech B100 Optical USB Mouse
LosslessCut
Mandragora Demo
Manic Miner
Mappy
Mappy
MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics
Media Preservation Frontend (MPF)
Mega Man 10 (trial version)
Mega Man 9 (trial version)
Memorial Series: Sunsoft Vol. 1
Mickeyâs Dangerous Chase
Midway Arcade Origins
Midway Arcade Treasures
Midway Arcade Treasures 3
Mighty Final Fight
MilliâPede: Kyodai Konchuu no Gyakushuu
Mizeria
Mobile Light Force
Monty on the Run
MSYS2
Namco Museum Archives Volume 1
Namco Museum Vol. 1
Namco Museum Vol. 2
Namco Museum Vol. 4
NBA Jam: On Fire Edition
Neo Turf Masters
NeoPop
Night Slashers
Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos
Nuclear Throne
Once Upon a Dungeon Infinity Demo
OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast
PacâLand
PacâMan
PacâMan Championship Edition
PacâMan Championship Edition DX+ demo
PacâMan Museum+
Pang Adventures
Petit Hedgehog
Phantasy Star Online
Phantasy Star Online Ver.2
PowerISO
psxtractâ2
Pulstar
Q*bert
Razer DeathAdder V3 Wired Mouse
ReShade
Resident Evil: Revelations 2
Retro Classix: Bad Dudes vs. DragonNinja
Retro Classix: Gate of Doom
Retro Classix: Joe & Mac Returns
Retro Classix: Joe & Mac â Caveman Ninja
Retro Classix: Night Slashers
Retro Classix: Two Crude
Retro Classix: Wizard Fire
Rez Infinite
Ribbit King
Rise of the Eternal
Rocket Knight (demo)
RPCS3
Sager NP6858CQ Gaming Laptop
Sakura Wars Complete Box
Salamander
Salamander
Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.16: Virtua Fighter 2
Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.19: Fighting Vipers
Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.20: Space Harrier II
Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.24: Last Bronx â Tokyo Bangaichi
Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.33: Fantasy Zone Complete Collection
SEGA Genesis 6âbutton Arcade Pad with USB
SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics
Sega Rally 2
Sega Rally Championship
Sega Superstars Tennis Demo
Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi
Shinybow 4x2 Component Matrix Switcher
Simple 1500 Series Vol.10: The Billiard
Simple 1500 Series Vol.18: The Bowling
Simple 1500 Series Vol.1: The Mahjong
Simple 1500 Series Vol.26: The Tennis
Simple 1500 Series Vol.5: The Igo
Simple 1500 Series Vol.6: The Hanafuda
Simple 1500 Series Vol.8: The Solitaire
Sky Kid
SNK 40th Anniversary Collection
Sonic Advance
Sonic Advance 2
Sonic Advance 3
Sonic and the Fallen Star
Sonic CD Trial
Sonic Classic
Sonic Classic 2
Sonic Legends Trial Version
Sonic Smackdown
Sonic SMS Remake
Sonic SMS Remake 2
Sonic the Fighters
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I (Trial Version)
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II (Trial Version)
Sonic The Hedgehog SMSâGG Final Demo
Sonic the Hedgehog â Blasting Adventure
Sonic Triple Trouble 16âbit
Speccy
Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti
SSX
Star Raiders (Demo)
Street Fighter V
Super Arabian
Super HangâOn
Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania
Super Monkey Ball Deluxe
Super Puzzle Fighter II X for Matching Service
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle
The Crazy HyperâDungeon Chronicles Demo
The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match Final Edition
The King of Fighters XIV
The Misadventures of Tron Bonne
The Simpsons Arcade Game
The Simpsons: Hit & Run
The Simpsons: Road Rage
The Super Shinobi
Turbo OutRun Reimagined
Two Crude
Ulead GIF Animator 5
Valkyrie Profile
Venkazoid Blast
Victory Heat Rally
Virtua Fighter 2
Virtua Fighter 3tb
Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. Open Beta
Virtua Tennis
Virtua Tennis 2009
Virtua Tennis 3
Virtua Tennis 3 demo
Virtua Tennis 4
Whoa Dave!
Wizard Fire
Xbox Wireless Controller
Xevious
Yakuza 6
ZEsarUX
Zombie Nation
Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Ghoul Patrol
Zoo Keeper
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Helll yeah Zoo keeper.
Wish I had a game tracker for emulators. Maybe I can rig a launch box plugin or something
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I should specify thatâs the old PC flash game âZoo Keeperâ
later become ZOOO on GBA, PS2, mobile, etc. Actually I did play the old arcade âZoo Keeperâ in Taito Legends for PS2 this year as well
which seems like a really fun game but I couldnât hang with it due to the screen flashing FX.
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zoo keeper was also an early ds release as zoo keeper
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That one was handy for having an English translation of the Quest mode. ^ _^
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ahh ok
Zoo Keeper arcade is a horror game.
Those animals want to kill.
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i started to write something a couple of times. maybe next year
canât resist to ask:
whatâs
Luta 2D
2D Fighters Iâd guess.
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aaaahhh⌠thatâs⌠kinda disappointing. Was hoping for looting 2D or something wild!
I donât have anything that tracks my gaming time.
If I was to guess my most played games
I barely played anything in 2024.
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I was very depressed for a portion of the year and didnât use my steam deck enough to generate enough stats
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it has some of the loudest most in your face sound effects too its one of the best games ever for it
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i played skyrim for the first time, and x-men origins wolverine uncaged edition, and alien isolation, and replayed half-life 2 with the new developer commentary
all-in-all pretty regrettable. hoping to start off 2025 with the harebrained schemes shadowrun trilogy
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yeah, what vodselbt said. its my â unfortunately brief â stint with street fighter 6
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Thatâs right
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excluding game night games (unless we beat them) really did play some all-timer new favs in 2024
Metroid (1/8) - 
Room Map (1/20) -
Metroid Dread (2/3) 
Kingâs Field (2/22)
Babbdi (2/23) 
Kingâs Field II (3/6)
Apt. Map (8/18) 
Map (8/18)
Gardenarium (8/18)
Metal Slug 3 (9/28, rebeat) 
Contra: Hard Corps (9/28, rebeat) 
Dark Souls II (12/14) 
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