Didn't it have a big blank page at the end that wasn't entirely blank? Pretty sure it has a joke (probably funnier to my adolescent mind than it is now) but I'm not entirely sure.
I could never find Bagu and get Riverman to open the bridge to get that far as a kid. I actually found the hint accidentally trying kill the blue blob in town. Lol.
Zelda II definitely was one of those games where they made it hard on purpose to lengthen the game. I’m doing some research for my review of this game and the director admits as much.
There was a lot of that in that era. Arcade games had financial incentive to be hard as players would tolerate to eat as many quarters as possible. The home ports carried this difficulty over, and many console originals picked up on it. (See Battletoads.)
I think this is a tie between Bloodborne and Panzer Dragoon Saga. Absolute masterpieces, both. I replay both of them at least once a year, but it would be wonderful to go back in fresh.
I own multiple consoles right now, but I also have a Switch that I often put away and cancel my NSO subscription because where I live online functionality is limited in the countryside.
I had learned not to play ‘the latest and greatest titles’ of the current generation out of stigma.
Because modern games sometimes flop too.
Most of my consoles are older, but I have different reasons to put them up though because
it’s not healthy to play to frustration with games.
Or the games typically do something I don’t like.
For example, I had played Ocarina of Time to the point where Phatom Ganon is just too much for me excluding all the minigames I avoided because I wanted to advance the plot.
And in FFVII, apparently Cloud Strife gets told by Aeris to…dress like a girl and enter an adult entertainment place…just to reach a friend?
And the game is rated T for some reason?
But that’s my take on the PlayStation that some if not all of the games are too mature for my tastes.
What I’m trying to say is this: I resonate with your post though I’m divided over my own systems.
I do have an Atari 2600 and Sega Genesis though that I enjoy personally and I collect my own titles for each system depending on my current mood.
You would probably enjoy my systems because not all of them have Internet besides my own Dreamcast, which connects with a DreamPi and private servers that I had help with years ago.
Though I made a living playing PSO before, I just
couldn’t get back into it anymore so I put that up.
My other systems matter to me as well, and not even they have Internet for the most part.
I totally validate your experiences with games.
I may not play NES like you, but that’s because
I was ripped off by mine (the expansion port case broke on me) unlike my own Atari 2600 instead.
That system worked out better in my opinion.
But it’s okay that you like games from the 80s because you grew up on that in the first place.
Considering the routine fake heroics ascribed to pig both in games and in movies, you'd really have to go out of your fascist bootlicking way to get your game called "most reactionary."
meh, im discouraged to pay money to nintendo anything because they will use that money to take out each and every fan project i like. currently blasting through pokemmo before the inevitable c&d then bye.
once again people that buy an apple product will pay nearly double to have less features and will have to pay for an emulator that offers you to buy games that were free in the first place.
seems convenient.
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