One of my favourite point and click adventures of all time has to be the completely brilliant The Day of the Tentacle from Lucas Arts. I cannot count the number of times I have played through this fantastic game.

As most people know, Day of the Tentacle was a sequal to the very first SCUMM adventure worked on by none other than the famous Ron Gilbert, first and foremost known for the Monkey Island games. Tim Schafer was also involved in both projects, and I am talking of course about none other than Maniac Mansion.

Some illuminated heads over at the AGS community has made it their task to remake Maniac Mansion in the style of the fabilous Day of the Tentacle. Maniac Mansion has been remade before, but not in the hilarious graphical style of its sequal.

From what has been released of the material, it looks like a crispy, yet classic looking version of the beloved masterpiece. The developers are wished the best of luck.

This ought to be good new for any nostalgic fan of the old school adventures. The developers are German, but they promise to create an English version once the production is finished. I, for one, can’t wait to play Maniac Mansion DOTT-style.

Now there’s a Maniac Mansion 3D remake work in progress!

As far as I can see, they’ve done that with a game creator tool named 3D Gamestudio and its programming language Atari lite-c.
I surely have to check THAT out if I get further into C/C++ in the next time. It looks very interesting and seems to be the right tool for us “casual” programmers.

The game creators also put a YT video up:

Nice work, let’s see how and when the final version performs.

Es increíble cómo mi blog ha vuelto al número de visitas con el que partió, es decir, cero patatero. Supongo que será porque no lo actualizo o porque cuando he entrado había una pelusa habitando debajo del botón de “Nuevo post”. Sea lo que sea, tampoco creáis que he vuelto para quedarme muchas horas.

Ahora mismo vivo en una cabaña de madera, aislado del mundo moderno y me ducho en un barril con dos asas. ¡Ja! ya me gustaría.

Sinceramente, si dejé de escribir en este maravilloso blog fue porque comencé nuevos proyectos como ya avisé. En estos momentos soy redactor de un portal cultural hiperlocal mientras lo compagino con el programa de radio Rompepistas, y el tiempo que dedico a leer relatos de Bukowski.

Por otra parte, he vuelto para poner deberes a quien me quiera hacer caso y desee introducir diversidad en su vida.

Sin más preámbulos, comienzo:

He descubierto una serie llamada Mission Hill, producida en los 90 por varios guionistas de los Simpson y que a pesar de no triunfar en su momento, me resultó muy entretenida y graciosa. Trata sobre el típico estudiante esnob con un hermano nerd, que marcha a la gran ciudad para ser dibujante de cómics y la dura realidad le obliga a vender muebles en una tienda del centro.

Los dibujos guardan cierto parecido con el videojuego Maniac Mansion (recomendado), por lo que me resultó muy familiar e hizo que me animara a verla.

Yo la tengo en español, y vosotros, si buscáis también. De momento, me he tomado las molestias en poner un enlace con los capítulos online subtitulados.

Siguiendo con dibujos, he vuelto a ver parte de la primera temporada de Kevin Spencer. Otra serie que no veía desde que ponía tv3 y me quedaba hasta las 2 de la mañana viendo la tele. Gracias a Series Yonkis uno puede abastecerse de toda la basura temporal.

Finalmente, desde que me he enterado que Google sacará un sistema operativo nuevo dedicado única y exclusivamente a Internet, el futuro de la red peligra.

Sigue estos pasos si quieres salvarte como haré yo:

• Descarga una copia de Ubuntu y Wifiway para ser libre y robar internet, aunque posiblemente esta última sirva de poco el día de mañana
• Imprímete el libro de cocina del anarquista y aprende a robar cabinas y fabricar explosivo casero como Tyler Durden
• Elimina todo rastro que tengas en la red y usa cuentas de correo atemporales como Guerrilla Mail o Dead Fake
• Migra tu correo Gmail a una cuenta a iEspana o Mixmail. Servidores suburbanos.
• Practica meditación Budista o lee acerca del Taoísmo
• Pasa el mensaje a tus allegados. El 2012 será el año del cambio.

The Secret of Monkey Island

 Developer: Lucas Arts

Genre: Point n’ Click Adventure

  Release date: 1990

My name is Guybrush Threepwood, prepare to die! The immortal words of Guybrush Drinkwater, um, Thrinkwood, eh, never mind. Squinky, just call him Squinky. 

The Secret of Monkey Island can be seen as one of the greatest point and click adventures of its time, and possibly of all time! It remains in the hearts and minds of all dedicated adventurers since the beginning of the classic pirate series from Lucas Arts, and more specifically Ron Gilbert, master of dialogue behind The Secret of Monkey Island. Guybrush’s adventures continue to this day, with some of the original team returning, in the Tales of Monkey Island from Telltale Games.

Guybrush is the wannabe pirate hero of the adventure, our pony tailed protagonist doesn’t realise that his arrival on Melee Island couldn’t have come at a worse time as its inhabitants are being terrorised by the fearsome Ghost Pirate Le Chuck.

To begin his dream of adventure on the high seas, drinking grog, and getting “a-head in navigation”, Guybrush must seek the three grog swilling, foul-mouthed pirate Captains who reside in the SCUMM bar, aptly named for the games interface system explained below. Guybrush must complete the three trials given to him by the pirate Captains to succeed in becoming a pirate. Sword mastery, thievery, and eh, treasure huntery. With cracking dialogue, cut scenes and some very funny moments Guybrush’s adventure goes from wannabe pirate to captaining his own ship and crew in order to find his way to Monkey Island and rescue the woman he loves from the evil clutches of the ghost pirate Le Chuck!

 The Secret of Monkey Island is an adventure game that utilizes the command verb-based system SCUMM (Script Creation Utility of Maniac Mansion), the kind of point and click interface first introduced in Maniac Mansion and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The technology was used in all subsequent Lucas Arts adventure games, with the exception of Grim Fandango and Escape from Monkey Island. The branching dialogue system allows you to talk to characters in different ways without fearing a wrong choice, (if this was the not the case Guybrush’s’ further adventures could see him working down at the local fire station) after declaring to the pirate Captains “I wanna be a fireman”. The game play itself revolves around inventory-based puzzles to solve. Items are picked up and saved in the players’ inventory until needed; they can be used with each other or with an object, place or character within the game.

One of the most memorable of the three trials (for its longevity) is to defeat the island’s sword master Carla, an expert in the art of sword play and insults. A notable contributor to this very clever and funny part of the game was author Orson Scott Card. Orson wrote the insults and answers that the player has to collect by fighting stinking and bloodthirsty pirates on the road, and to  use the insults and answers collected to defeat the sword masters own unique brand of verbal abuse.

Along the way Guybrush meets many other great characters; including Captain Smirk who trains Guybrush, used ship salesman Stan, Otis the prisoner, and most significantly, the love of his life, Governor Elaine Marley, who Guybrush meets whilst attempting to steal the Idol of Many Hands (it really does belong in a museum).

 Le Chuck’s ghost crew kidnaps Elaine and takes her to the fabled Monkey Island. Gilberts dialogue throughout is funny and timeless, allowing new gamers who have not had the pleasure of the Monkey Island experience before to appreciate the superior humour and the great characters in a new light rather than focus on the outdated graphics and linear story line. The hilarious repartee between Guybrush and Meathook sticks in my mind to this day. If this situation arose in real life I’d be tempted to use it, although calling someone cannonball head may not result in the correct verbal reply I’m anticipating. Guybrush is busy insulting the people who will eventually crew his boat, (Carla, Meathook, and Otis), who all set out to find the mysterious island and free Elaine.

A brilliant game and still one of my all time favorites, it all culminates into a timeless game with humour and characters that stick in the mind to this day, playable and simply one of Lucas Arts, (or more accurately Ron Gilberts) greatest point and click adventures, nothing yet in my opinion has beaten sword fight insults and the pirate ghost ship shuffle. For similar experiences in humour and game play see other classics like Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle and the Last Crusade. Monkey Island sequels Curse and Escape (the 3^rd and 4^th in the series) have tried to sustain the template set out by Ron Gilbert but are missing the subtle humour and charm of the first two. Guybrush’s newest adventure from Telltale Games however raises the bar, and with a few familiar names on the production team recaptures some of the magic which made the first game such a classic.

by ChiefJimbolaya:

©2009 Aaron Klein

“What do you do with a bunch of kids who don’t know how to do anything but bang their heads all day long?”

“We start a revolution!”

Perhaps no greater tribute has ever been offered at the temple of an entire genre of music than Brütal Legend. This game idolizes the power and energy of heavy metal, creating an entire world with metal as its central mythology.

The world of Brütal Legend is steeped heavy metal symbolism; with every scenic vista looking like it belongs on an album cover.

Brütal Legend is a game with a lot of star power. First, it bears the name of one of the most critically acclaimed video game developers: Tim Schafer.

Schafer spent more than a decade at Lucas Arts working on games like Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island and Grim Fandango before founding his own studio, Double Fine Entertainment, and creating games like Psychonauts. He has earned the reputation as being one of the funniest writers in the industry.

The game’s second big name is Jack Black, who voices Riggs, and whose enthusiasm for rock music evident in movies like School of Rock and Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny made him a perfect advocate.

In addition, heavy metal icons like Ozzy Osborne, Lemmy Kilmister from Motörhead and Judas Priest’s Rob Halford lend their voices to some of the game’s main characters. In another stroke of genius, Schafer secured the diabolical voice of Tim Curry as the game’s main villain.

Brütal Legend is a third-person, open-world action game where you play as Roadie Eddie Riggs. Riggs laments what passes for music nowadays, asking a fellow roadie, “Do you ever feel like you were born in the wrong time, like you should have been born in a time when the music was better?”

Soon enough he finds himself magically transported via his cursed belt buckle to a land of Nordic fantasy where demons have enslaved humanity. Only the power of metal–and Eddie’s superior organizational roadie skills—can save them.

In this world, Eddie can melt his enemies’ faces with a scorching guitar riff and allies can be healed with the soothing vibrations of a bass note from a steel string made from a giant spider. Eddie’s guitar launches special attacks, and behaves in a way similar to Link’s ocarina in the Zelda franchise.

The story lampoons various aspects of music culture. Eddie’s first roadblock, General Lionwhyte gets around by using his massive hair to fly, and represents the glitz and glam of corporatized hair metal in the 1980s.

Other enemies clearly mock the emo culture, as they don black clothing and mascara while saying things like, “you don’t understand my suffering.” These guys get their power by drinking from the “Sea of Black Tears.”

Eddie’s roadie skills particularly help in the massive “stage battles,” which are duplicated in multiplayer mode. Stage battles are a mix of third person action and real time strategy.

Here Eddie sprouts wings and soars over the battlefield, setting rally points and commanding his troops. Two opposing stages vie over fan geysers, which supply resources needed to build more and more powerful troops to take out your opponent’s stage.

Some RPG elements are evident in that Eddie earns flame tributes by pleasing the gods, which he can give to the Guardian of Metal (Ozzy) in exchange for upgrades to his vehicle and weapons.

Side quests are good ways to earn extra flame tributes. There are around a half dozen varieties, including ambush attacks, races, hunting wildlife and searching for collectibles.

If anything bad can be said about it is that it is too short. However, it could have just seemed that way because it was so much fun.

©2009 Aaron Klein

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“Average press score according to TestFreaks: 6.3/10″

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With pumpkin season upon us, I remember a year I hosted a pumpkin carving contest on set. The parent company wanted to have multiple carved pumpkins for their (amazing and one-of-a-kind) halloween party, so we supplied the production with a collection of pumpkins, and we held a contest.

As host, I knew I wouldn’t have time to carve one myself, so I nabbed some black camera tape and decorated my oh-so-orange sweater with the face of a jack-o-lantern. I figured it would be good advertising, a obvious in-your-face reminder for the crew to find and carve a real pumpkin on set.

So, a  pumpkin carving zone was set up in craft service, and during the hurry-up-and-wait of set, all kinds of folk lent their hand and creativity to carving a slew of fantastic pumpkins: scary ones, comic ones, traditional ones. They were great!

The producer reluctantly accepted the job of judging the winner of the contest. A tough job, because in this creative industry you can imagine how imaginative and diverse the pumpkins were. How could he choose one winner?

So, he surprised us all… he judged me to be the winner with my homemade jack-o-lantern sweater! Nothing quite like being the “pumpkin of the set”…

Happy pumpkin carving!

Cheers
Deb

They may have been young when they first entered the teen drama world, but many of the actors had careers in the industry already.

This week I’ll go show-by-show to highlight what some of them were on before they were teen drama stars.

TODAY: Beverly Hills 90210

JASON PRIESTLEY (Brandon)

Seven episodes of Sister Kate.

SHANNEN DOHERTY (Brenda)

Starring role on Little House on the Prairie and Our House.

IAN ZIERING (Steve)

Had a recurring role from 1986-1988 on one of my favorite non-teen drama shows, Guiding Light.

LUKE PERRY (Dylan)

Was in several episodes of Loving and Another World.

BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN (David)

Appeared on seven episodes of Knots Landing.

Was in one episode of Good Morning Miss Bliss, AKA Saved by the Bell: The Junior High Years (pre-Tiffani Amber Thiessen).

GABRIELLE CARTERIS (Andrea)

Several episodes of Another World.

Was in CBS and ABC “after school specials.”

TIFFANI AMBER THIESSEN (Valerie)

Kelly on Saved by the Bell.  Duh!

KATHLEEN ROBERTSON (CLARE)

Starring role on Maniac Mansion.

LINDSAY PRICE (Janet)

Recurring roles on Days of Our Lives, All My Children and The Bold & The Beautiful.

DANIEL COSGROVE (Matt)

Recurring role on All My Children.

VANESSA MARCIL (Gina)

Starring role on General Hospital.

Come back tomorrow for part 2!

Wie vor einiger Zeit berichtet, habe ich ja als neues Spielzeug das Nokia 5800. Das schönste an dem Teil ist immer noch, dass es sich eher wie ein PDA “anfühlt” und durch das Betriebssystem Symbian S60 in der 5. Generation auch einige Spielereien ermöglicht. So zum Beispiel auch die Verwendung der ScummVM.

ScummVM steht für Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine und ist eine Laufzeitumgebung für viele (ältere) Adventure-Spiele. So laufen z.B. die alten Lukas Arts Klassiker wie Maniac Mansion, Day Of The Tantacle, Indiana Jones-Teile , Loom, Adventures On Monkey Island 1-2 oder Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders größtenteils ohne Probleme sowohl unter Linux, Windows, Mac OSX oder eben Symbian.
Dafür muss man auf dem Nokia 5800 einfach auf der Download-Seite von ScummVM die Symbian S60 version 3 binary (4.4M .sis) runterladen und installieren.
Auch wenn das Paket eigentlich für die 3. Generation des Betriebssystems geschrieben wurde, funktioniert das Programm auch problemlos auf der Touchscreen-Variante von Symbian. An die “Tastatur” und die Steuerung der linken und rechten Maustauste muss man sich gewöhnen, aber das geschieht relativ schnell.
Durch einen kleinen toten Rahmen um den Bildschirm des 5800 gibt es leider einen kleinen Bug z.B. in Beneath A Steel Sky, der einem nicht erlaubt an das Inventar zu kommen, wenn man das Nokia im Querformat verwendet… Doch glücklicherweise schaltet ScummVM automatisch um, wenn man das Telefon dreht und im Hochformat ist wieder alles verwendbar.

Aktuell befinden sich auf meinem Spielzeug

• Beneath A Steel Sky
• Broken Sword 1 (Baphomet’s Fluch)
• Day Of The Tentacle
• Flight Of The Amazon Queen
• I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
• Indiana Jones and the last Crusade
• Loom

Eine Liste aller Unterstützten Spiele findet sich auf der Kompatibilitäts-Seite von ScummVM.

Si bien underdistrict está direccionado a un costado musical, también pensamos que el recreo es buena parte de la vida diaria de cada uno y que nunca viene mal, te puede interesar o no, pero el segundo post de Juegos Lisérgicos era inminente y aquí está: Abandonmac!

El tema es asi:

Un dia te enteras que existe algo que se denomina “abandonware” y que esto significa que vas a poder descargar aquellos juegos que te desquiciaron en tu pre adolescencia (claro está, si sos clase 81 o similares como quien escribe). Te dispones a bajar locamente “The Secret of Monkey Island” y de repente, recordas un gran detalle… Tenés un MAC.

¡Fuck! Los juegos que iban a transportarme a un mundo de antaño, a esos sueños de Elaine y Cerveza de Raíz se acaban de ir como llegaron… Te dispones a buscar tu viejo 386 y te das cuenta que desapareció al igual que esa vieja impresora de matriz de puntos que buscaste un dia para samplear y usar en tus producciones…

Empiezan a caer las primeras lágrimas  cuando te percatas que actualizaron el blog que mas te gusta (underdistrict, obvio) y que publicaron nuevamente la sección “juegos lisérgicos” y que en esa sección… ¡HAY UN POSTEO SOBRE ABANDONWARE EN MACINTOSH!

Si señores, al fin una persona pensó en nosotros, la ultima generación cuerda, la que jugaba Monkey Island y Day of Tentacle y que ahora, preferimos Mac…

Ayer me topé con Abandonmac.com, un sitio increible, donde hay una videoteca grandisima que contiene los mejores juegos de la epoca modificados para funcionar en MAC y sin grandes desafios de instalación, los juegos vienen en un .dmg autoinstalable que te depositan en un mundo increible, como dios manda y perfecto para nerds como nosotros (alguien dijo NERD?)…

Les dejo el link a la felicidad absoluta versión macintosh (si, los usuarios de PC, hoy se quedan a gamba…)

www.abandonmac.com

I can easily state that The Day Of The Tentacle is one of the 5 most spectacular games I have ever played. It can claim to be the first PC game I ever played (although not the first game – that honor goes to Duck Hunt.) Three time lines, wonderful witty dialogue and amazing visual styling. The graphics don’t really hold up today and the voice quality is pretty low but the game play is solid and mark my words, the game will be remade in the vein of the Monkey Island games. These are also wonderful.

Some time ago, I stumbled across a Symbian Version of the SCUMMVM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine). This is a kind of software platform which a certain type of game originally lived. If you’ve played an old Lucasarts adventure game, you will have done so on SCUMM. Think of it like a console emulator platform, and the games are the ROMs. The Symbian SCUMM port just didn’t want to work on my 5800XM so I forlornly gave up and went back to Solitaire. Recently however, it appears that the authors of the software, a team of programmers, have made the software work on the phone – with full touchscreen functionality. It is as you would expect – tap the stylus (or your fingernail) on an object, and your protagonist will walk over to it. Change the active verb (Talk to, for example) and tap again, and your character will converse with the object of your clickings. There is the option to save your game, and the save game will reside somewhere on your phone’s memory. The SCUMM interface allows you to change video appearances (EGA colour or VGA I think) amongst other things. There is an onscreen keyboard that can be closed or opened with the click of a pixel and what shows on the keyboard can be toggled to show numbers, letters and Function keys. You can also toggle Ctrl. Right, technicalities out of the way, loading a game is as simply as dumping the right files in the right place, but I am getting ahead of myself. Lets install the application first.

First of all, you need the SCUMMVM .sis file, which can be found HERE

Assuming you are able to install it without trouble (I installed it to my memory card), you can test to see if it works by running it. You will find that if using a 5800, the interface will be on its side. This can be easily remedied by clicking the small grey square in the very corner of the screen (should be above the green physical button). Using the stylus, tap Ctrl, and then the number 2. This will orient the UI the correct way up. You may find the application reverts to this older setting, so remember this trick to right it. Once things are working, exit the app and we can move to step 2 – installing the actual games.

Right, now we are here I will say this only once – Don’t ask me how to get hold of these games. If you have them, you have them. If you don’t, go get them. Buy them! I am going to use Sam and Max: Freelance Police as my example, but it should be the same with all the games and FAQs to this end are on the SCUMMVM website anyway. I moderate all comments, so requests for pirated versions will be vetted and not answered. Praise and glory will be suitably absorbed however so you are welcome to send that in.

Connect your phone to the PC and navigate to a suitable place on your memory card. You will ideally want to create a folder under another folder. I have a folder called Games, and I created a folder called “Sam and Max” in there. Put in the CD (or floppy!) and navigate to it. You will need the .SOU files and the .001, .002… files. Put them in to the folder you just created on the phone. Disconnect from the PC and run SCUMMVM. You will need to select “Add Game”. This gets a bit hard now as it is difficult to navigate using the SCUMMVM interface, but its not impossible. My memory card was designated drive E: so use trial and error until you get the right one. Navigate to your directory and select the folder you created. Click “Choose” and if it finds the right information, a small window will pop up with information about the game. Change what you want and select Ok. The game should now appear in your list. Click the game and it will launch. Voila! You are playing a classic.

There are a few things to know when you are playing and they all relate to the virtual keyboard that you will need for most of the time. I found it frustrating that so much of the screen was taken up by the damn keyboard when so few keys were needed but I found it more annoying that I needed to use the damn thing every seconds so I kept it on the screen all the time, and I rued the wasted space. Full screen is a sight to behold on these old games but you get used to it. Firstly – the * on the numerical keypad is the options key. Second, the key for changing your “verbs” is strangely:  <->  You will be using it a lot if you are playing a fullscreen game like Sam and Max; less so if you are playing an older game that has the verbs at the bottom of the screen. In this case, you can dispense with the keyboard for most of the time.

Escape is escape (and passes cutscenes etc) and Space is pause (although helpfully, the screen lock key on the side of the phone does the same thing).  Savegames need to have a location defined for them, and this option can be found in the “paths” tab of the options screen. I put it under the SCUMMVM folder, but you can create a folder for the save games anywhere you want. Remember that ALL your savegames will be dumped in this folder, so be careful where you put them.

For a list of compatible games, check out the SCUMMVM site and get digging for your old dusty boxes of The Dig and questing for your King’s Quest discs. Ho ho. Bear in mind that there is limited compatibility of certain games but as long as I can thwart Purple Tentacles and Zombie Pirates, I’ll be happy. I hope you will be too.

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Grant’s Topics 

• Movies Without A Monday: Closer, Once, Boogie Nights

Marty’s Topics

• Bluebrickery: The Explosion 
• Weekend Galavanting
• That’s some sweet bud…

Podcast of the Week

• The Film Vault

Wikipedia Article of the Week

• Maniac Mansion 
• PowerPC

Plugs

• GrantBrunner.com
• Macgasm Forum
• They Said Server Closet
• MEK Photos

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge (Original artwork by Steve Purcell)

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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (Original artwork by William Eaken)

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The Dig (Original artwork by William Eaken)

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Sam & Max Hit the Road (Original artwork by Steve Purcell)

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Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (Original artwork by Steve Purcell)

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Day of the Tentacle (Original artworks by Peter Chan)

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Maniac Mansion (Original artwork by Ken Macklin)

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Vous êtes fan des jeux de chez LucasArts ? Vous adorez les Point & clic ? alors courrez visiter ce site, consacré entièrement à tous leurs jeux.

LUCASARTS MUSEUM

Mon surnom ne peut que me trahir, je suis bien évidemment un grand nostalgique de tout ce qui peupla mon enfance et adolescence, c’est pourquoi aujourd’hui je passe mon temps sur des sites comme :

Retro junk : My memory machine et ScummVM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine)

Si vous en avez aussi dans ce genre, faites passer !

okay. matt recently made a post asking for lists of completed video games. i’ve played exactly 1,000,582 games in my lifetime, so the idea of making a complete list of every game i’ve beaten made me feel a bit FAINT. (also… i have a really bad memory for stuff like this) instead, i’ve decided to make a list of completed games IN MY COLLECTION.

let’s go!!!

NES:

the adventures of link: i only just beat this game a few months back. i remember hating it as a child. i think mostly because it wasn’t much like the legend of zelda. however, upon revisiting it in my old age, i’ve decided that this game is really really good, and i wish that nintendo would make another zelda game in this same style. it won’t happen, but i would play it if it did.

bionic commando: one of my all time favorite games. it’s just great. they’re remaking this for xbox 360. check it out/watch the trailer.

castlevania II: simon’s quest: i didn’t remember beating this one, but after seeing ryan beat last month, i feel like i actually had beat it back in the day.

contra: such a fun game. i’ve beat it quite a few times.

deja vu: i’ve beat this one a few times as well. i used to love these old adventure games.

jackal: the classic drive-around-in-a-jeep-and-shoot-things game. very few can compete.

the legend of zelda: beat this one FOREVER ago. either late 80s or early 90s. i want to pick it up again sometime soon

maniac mansion: oh boy! i think i’ve beaten this game every way possible.

metroid: i beat this game back when i was really devoted. also, i didn’t have the internet. i drew my own maps throughout the game. i may still have them laying around somewhere.

nintendo world cup: does this count? do sports games count?

shadowgate: i’ve beaten this one a few times too, but always with many years in between each conquest. the latest was just this year, and i had forgotten almost everything about it. that’s the beauty of a poor memory, i guess… it makes old things new again!

spy vs spy: this is probably more fun as a two player game, but when you’re young and only have a handful of games, you take what you can get.

super c: like contra, this game is great for picking up whenever, and it really doesn’t take much to beat it.

super mario bros. 2: this was one of the favorites as a child. and then mario 3 came out…

super mario bros. 3: probably THE BEST game ever made for the nes. i’m sure there are people who will debate this, but for me, growing up when i did, super mario bros. 3 was so fucking great that all other games pale in comparison. the guide that i got through nintendo power was read to death. i remember taking it everywhere. at the end, it was being held together with a million pieces of tape.

tmnt 2: the arcade game: this is another game that is way more fun with 2 players. playing it now bores me. jump kick, jump kick, jump kick, etc., but back when it came out, this game was the bee’s knees.

tmnt 3: the manhatten project: basically a continuation of tnmt2, but with some special moves. blah blah blah.

uninvited: another kemco/seika adventure ported from the macventure collection. not as good as deja vu or shadowgate, but still quite fun.

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some nes games i’m pretty sure i’ve beaten, or at least got very close to beating:

castlevania III: dracula’s curse: i like this game.

double dragon: i think i may have only beaten it on the sega master system, but… maybe…

mega man 2: i’m pretty sure i beat this one, as well as a couple others, but they all run together in my head.

mike tyson’s punch-out: i know i’ve GOTTEN to old iron mike, but i honestly can’t tell you if i’ve beaten him myself.

ninja gaiden: dunno. just dunno.

ninja gaiden II: i’m pretty sure i beat this…

wwf wrestlemania: i don’t even remember if there is a definitive end to this game, but if there is, i can gaurantee i’ve made it.

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SNES:

secret of evermore: i remember really enjoying this game, but at the same i time, i remember parts of it being rather time consuming and tedius. i probably will never try to beat it again, but if you have time and patience, please give it a try.

final fantasy II: this was one of those “summer vacaction games”. we didn’t have strict bedtimes during summer breaks, and by this time i had an old tv in my room, so i would stay up all night playing rpgs while a cool summer breeze blew in through the open windows. because of when i played it, i don’t remember this game having any music.

actraiser: i always liked the mixing of genres in this game. it’s a pretty quick game, so give it a shot.

super castlevania IV: this was one of the first games we had for the snes. that being said, you can imagine that i’ve beaten it quite a few times.

contra III: the alien wars: contra games are good!!!

disney’s goof troop: a very short puzzle/action game. i got this a couple years ago because it was on sale for zero bucks or something. it’s quick and easy, but it is fun. i think allison would like it at least.

donkey kong country: when it came out, this was THE GAME to have. so we got it. and i beat every aspect of it. but i never really got into the sequels. maybe i burnt myself out.

judge dredd: i liked the comics, and i found it on sale. not the best game, but it’s fun. probably wouldn’t play it too much these days.

killer instinct: another “GAME YOU NEED TO GET” when it came out. and we got it. i think i’ve played this game more than any other fighting game ever. not cuz it’s the best or anything, but cuz it was the only fighting game we had at the time.

lester the unlikely: this was a game that i’m guessing didn’t sell very well. i got it at KAY-BEE toys on sale. it’s one of those action/adventure games like prince of persia or flashback or whatever. the one thing i really liked about it was that as you progress through the game, your character turns from a weak, dorky guy into a rather fit, capable guy. the end.

ranma 1/2: hard battle: i really liked anime back in middle school/early high school. especially ranma 1/2. that’s probably the only reason i played this game so much…

shadowrun: this was another “summer vacation game”, but this one was a different year, and the tv was in the basement. i spent a lot of hot summer afternoons playing this while listening to “maximum perversion” by the mephiskapheles and hellcat records’s “give ‘em the boot vol. 1″.

super bomberman: great game. it’s bomberman. so… it’s like most of the other bomberman games

super bomberman 2: another great game. etc.

super mario world: OH LORD!!! i talked about a couple other games being “THE GAME TO HAVE”, but none of them compared to this one. i’ve beaten this game quite a few times, and it’s a game that i wouldn’t mind beating again. it’s just great.

super mario all stars: meaning, the lost levels. i like it better than super mario bros., i think.

super metroid: oh wow! i love this game so much. seriously. everyone needs to play it. it’s beautiful.

street fighter II: i don’t think i necessarily beat THIS version of street fighter II. i think it was turbo or super, but regardless, i’ve beaten it with multiple fighters, etc.

tmnt IV: turtles in time: more arcade style fighting. this is a VERY short game, and one i probably won’t care about playing again, unless i’ve got an excited buddy to play with.

zombies ate my neighbors: i really like this game. but it’s another game that is more fun with 2 players. give it a shot.

the legend of zelda: a link to the past: quite possibly my all time favorite snes game. i don’t think there’s anything about this game that i DON’T like. it’s just so very good. ryan meier doesn’t know shit.

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some snes games i’m pretty sure i’ve beaten, or at least got very close to beating:

flashback: the quest for identity: i know i got pretty far, but i’m not sure i beat it. this was all during one weekend when we rented it. i haven’t played it since then.

ken griffey jr. presents major league baseball: dunno if you can “beat” this game, but i remember playing it a lot. doing the seasons and stuff. blah blah.

the legend of the mystical ninja: i really doubt that i BEAT this, but i know that we got pretty far, and i remember really enjoying it. give it a shot.

nba jam: can you beat nba jam?

super adventure island: pretty sure i beat this. it’s not a hard or long game.

starfox: i don’t think i beat this every possible way. i know i beat it at LEAST one way.

wwf royal rumble: not sure you can “beat” this game either…

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NINTENDO 64:

super mario 64: my all time favorite n64 game. fuck you if you don’t like this game.

shadowgate 64: yeah… not sure why i beat this. it’s really not worth the trouble.

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some n64 games i’m pretty sure i’ve beaten, or at least got very close to beating:

starfox 64: who knows?

star wars: shadows of the empire: i remember playing this a lot at friends’ houses and renting it, but i can’t remember actually BEATING it.

mischeif makers: pretty sure i beat it. coulda just got distracted near the end, though.

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SEGA GENESIS:

contra hard corps: i have only beaten this one way, and that isn’t the “complete every level” way. so i don’t know if this counts?

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some genesis games i’m pretty sure i’ve beaten, or at least got very close to beating:

mega bomberman: i think so! it has animals you can ride!

revenge of shinobi: pretty sure. the game’s tight cuz you fight spiderman, batman, and a cross between the hulk and the terminator

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PLAYSTATION:

bushido blade: if this game has an ending, i can gaurantee i got to it.

fear effect: i remember enjoying this game. it’s an action/adventure sorta like a resident evil or something. probably won’t bother playing it again anytime soon. and if i do, i doubt i’ll bother trying to beat it again. HOWEVER… you could play it if you want to.

rival schools: united by fate: i beat this quite a few times with different characters. does that count?

super puzzle fighter 2 turbo: this is one of my favorite playstation games. it’s also my favorite puzzle game.

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some playstation games i’m pretty sure i’ve beaten, or at least got very close to beating:

brave fencer musashi: i can’t remember the ending of this game, so that makes me think i didn’t beat it, but i know i spent a lot of time on it.

castlevania: symphony of the night: i think i beat it, but not COMPLETELY beat it. like… no inverted castle…

echo night: i don’t remember an ending.

front mission 3: i don’t remember an ending for this either. makes me think i probably didn’t end up finishing it.

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PLAYSTATION 2:

metal slug 4/5: this is one of those games where you just have to hit continue a lot. so… it’s not a really great accomplishment or anything, but i like metal slug games.

katamari damacy: natalie and i just beat this a couple weeks ago. very fun game. very addictive. also very unique. A+

scott

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Sortie : 1987

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