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scribblemacher

@scribblemacher@mstdn.games

Posting mostly about old video games, board games, programming-related stuff, and occasional parenting-related nonsense. Don't expect anything serious.

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OutofPrintArchive, to retrogaming
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Review for Mega Man 2 on Game Boy from Club Nintendo Volume 5 Issue 2 - 1993 (UK)

This magazine can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/clubnintendo.html



Review for Mega Man 2 on Game Boy from Club Nintendo Volume 5 Issue 2 - 1993 (UK)

scribblemacher,
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@OutofPrintArchive I find it interesting where esteem for this game seems to have gone down since it was released. I think contemporary reviews give it something of a pass simply being on Game Boy. Like, the music is literally programmed incorrectly and plays incorrect pitches. It's a pretty messy game (but I secretly still like it).

Hoping you post some reviews of 4 and 5 too.

OutofPrintArchive, to retrogaming
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I've been looking for Mega Man reviews on the Game Boy, as they were all added to the Nintendo Switch Online service this weekend.
But besides the first 3, I'm having a hard time finding any.

Review for Mega Man 1 on Game Boy from Club Nintendo Volume 4 Issue 4 - 1992 (UK)

This magazine can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/clubnintendo.html

#retrogaming
#Nintendo
#GameBoy

scribblemacher,
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@OutofPrintArchive oh God, that European cover art is something else! Never seen it before. We had the smoothed out style in the US (lifted almost exactly from the MM3 cover)

Mega Man 3. North American box art scan

scribblemacher,
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@OutofPrintArchive That's beautiful! It looks like the poster for a 90s direct-to-video life action movie (in a good way).

Japan had consistently great cover art for this series. I didn't know Rock Man was anime AF until Mega Man 8 came out.

scribblemacher, to random
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With Rock Man World I - V now on Switch Online, here's my review of the bad/weird/interesting one.

https://www.honestgamers.com/15190/game-boy/mega-man-ii/review.html

OutofPrintArchive, to retrogaming
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Big feature on the Tokyo Game Show of 1997 from CVG 187 - June 1997 (UK)

This issue can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/computerandvideogames7.html

#retrogaming

Big feature on the Tokyo Game Show of 1997 from CVG 187 - June 1997 (UK)
Big feature on the Tokyo Game Show of 1997 from CVG 187 - June 1997 (UK)
Big feature on the Tokyo Game Show of 1997 from CVG 187 - June 1997 (UK)

scribblemacher,
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@OutofPrintArchive the section on SaGa Frontier is something else. Who the heck are the "legendary" Shinjuku Jacki and Bun Bun Maru? I've never heard of them and a quick search turns up nothing. And FF7 as an action RPG is prophetic given Remake. And of course whoever wrote this didn't seem to know what SaGa was. Oh those pre-Internet days...

OutofPrintArchive, to retrogaming
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Review for Sonic Drift 2 on Game Gear from Mean Machines Sega 30 - April 1995 (UK)

This issue can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/meanmachinessega1.html

#retrogaming
#sega
#GameGear

Review for Sonic Drift 2 on Game Gear from Mean Machines Sega 30 - April 1995 (UK) score: 92%

scribblemacher,
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@OutofPrintArchive I always loved this game more than other Sonic games for some reason. I think comparisons to Mario Kart are a bit unfair--it plays more like Outrun or Rar Racer. It's also a technical achievement when you consider the Game Gear is basically just a Master System.

I have a monkey paw wish where they add GG and SMS games to Switch Online, and hack online multiplayer into Drift 2!

scribblemacher, to random
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Wife: "you keep showing the kids movies with dead moms! I'm picking a movie!"

Me: "ok, what did you want to see?"

Wife: "let's go see 'IF'"

(Movie starts. Enter mom into hospital room with cancer headscarf)

Wife: "oh for f--"

scribblemacher, to cooking
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What's a good use for wild rice other than soup or pilaf? Looking for somewhere where wild rice is the star of the meal. #cooking #vegetarian

renwillis, to JRPG
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SO. MANY. BOSS. FIGHTS!!!!!

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scribblemacher,
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@renwillis it might just be me, but when evenly matched, bosses in this game take forever. The first final chapter boss took me over an hour.

(Then you get in this weird state where the bosses are too easy because they didn't scale with you)

OutofPrintArchive, to retrogaming
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Review for Nintendo Touch Golf on Nintendo DS from NGC Magazine 115 - January 2006 (UK)

This issue can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/NGCmagazine.html



scribblemacher,
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@OutofPrintArchive I always find the text around the reviews just as interesting as the review. I can't imagine a review today casually making a comment like that about a female athlete in its tagline (but maybe I'm giving the industry too much credit).

mdmrn, to Podcast
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Friend: Do you listen to (NAME) podcast?
Me: No, I...
Friend: Oh, you may like it (proceeds to describe podcast)
Me: Uhm, I don't listen to podcasts. Podcasts are basically talk radio for Millennials and I can't get into talk radio.
Friend: Oh
Me: :akkoShrug: You do you, tho.

#Podcast #Podcasts #TalkRadio #Opinion

scribblemacher,
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@mdmrn @MeganThomasPA I've found many podcasts on topics I'm interested in, but they have like 10 minutes at the outset of intros and chit chat, and the rest is 50% off topic nonsense. Sort of the difference between listening to chatty talk radio vs a long-form story on NPR. Maybe audio documentaries is a thing...

scribblemacher,
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@mdmrn @MeganThomasPA what if--hear me out--a podcast, but they sing everything instead of talking?

scribblemacher, to Disney
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My son tends to pick a kid's movie and watch it repeatedly for a few weeks. His current binge is . These are dark days

scribblemacher,
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@Hundstrasse haha, my son latched onto "I did it with my butt" which is much more fun

riikka, to random
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I started Dark Souls 3, but it didn't feel fun to me for some reason. I switched to Yakuza: Like a Dragon instead, a game I've played earlier but abandoned half way through. I don't know why I did that. The game really seems like a blast this time around too. Also the cinematic bits at the beginning are loooonng.

scribblemacher,
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@hk @mforester @COMPU73E @riikka @Sobtanian Demon's Soul > the rest (but I only played Demon's Soul so I might be uninformed)

scribblemacher,
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@Sobtanian @hk @mforester @COMPU73E @riikka haha, I debated if it was plural, possessive, or neither before posting that. It was a very revolutionary game no matter what you call it, though admittedly I had to cheese some parts of it.

MURRRAAAAY, to Nintendo
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I did! I Remember playing on my Street Fighter 2 Tiger handheld as a kid! ❤️🎮🔥
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scribblemacher,
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@MURRRAAAAY I had Sonic 3, Mega Man 3, and probably a few others. As a kid, I had a Game Gear and the batteries in it were always dead, so I ended up playing these Tiger games a lot. I have a weird monkey paw wish to have a collection of these on Switch (the licensing to make that happen would be hilariously complicated)

nsonic79, to gaming
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End of an era. Final days to play online on the Wii U & 3DS. Enjoy while you can.

scribblemacher,
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@nsonic79 I wonder if it will be technically possible for 3rd parties to step in here like they could with the original DS wifi servers.

OutofPrintArchive, to retrogaming
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Review for Sonic R on Sega Saturn from GamesMaster 64 - January 1998 (UK)

This magazine can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/GamesMaster.html

#retrogaming
#Nintendo
#N64

Review for Sonic R on Sega Saturn from GamesMaster 64 - January 1998 (UK) score: 90%
Review for Sonic R on Sega Saturn from GamesMaster 64 - January 1998 (UK) score: 90%

scribblemacher,
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@OutofPrintArchive @feyo Sega could rectify the situation by giving us Saturn games on modern hardware :blobcatdrakeyes:

I love it when weird games get redemption arcs. Maybe it's in the cards for Sonic R one day (the OST already rips!)

vga256, (edited ) to random
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jeff vogel's Spiderweb Software website, in march 2000. creator of the Exile and Avernum series, jeff previously took mail orders and telephone orders. the web site introduced the concept of ordering shareware games over the internet to his fanbase.

5 years after its disappearance from general use in HTML, it is surprising still using a server-side imagemap to handle navigation clicks on the menu 😆

site: https://web.archive.org/web/20000301030543/http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/

scribblemacher,
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@vga256 I misread this original post and thought it was saying Spiderweb Software disappeared!

scribblemacher, to retrogaming
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After 30 years of ownership, I've realized that: (1) I will never beat that last level, (2) the memory of playing an older game is more valuable to me than the actual game. #retrogaming #castlevania #nes #nintendo

scribblemacher, to Zelda
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I wish more games were like and and shut up. So many games have their head stuck up their butt about talking about themselves and not letting me play.

renwillis, to ShinMegamiTensei
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I don't mean to judge, but holy hell the English-speaking narrator of the Nintendo Direct showcases has GOT to be one of the whitest sounding voices ever. Like, when POC comedians do a purposefully bad "white person" voice... it's this voice. lol

With that being said, Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance was announced!!! =ooooo

https://youtu.be/KDiRwSeXbZM?si=kRvI2FvY5NdENqD-

#shinmegamitensei #nintendo #nintendoswitch #jrpg #videogames #games #gaming #nintendodirect

scribblemacher,
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@renwillis haha, I wouldn't have thought of it that way, but that's a very accurate description of the narrator.

SMTV Vengeance was the only announcement I was excited about. Looking forward to dumping another 100+ hours into that world.

I had hoped for some Etrian Odyssey related, but oh well. It would be on par with Atlus to release EO6 after the switch is dead

scribblemacher, to totk
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Playing last night, I was walking out of a cave at the same time one of those swarms of eyeball bats was flying in. There were torches near the entrance. I don't know what happened, but I shot an arrow into the swarm, there was a fireball then all the bats were dead and it was raining eyeballs.

Hundstrasse, to ps1graphics
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Because I love my little grey rectangle, I've just picked up what looks to be a serviceable backup #PS1 for the inevitable moment my own one fails. Just wondering, how do other original hardware #RetroGaming folks manage spares/backup hardware?

scribblemacher,
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@GamesMissed @Hundstrasse I wanted to do the same thing (I have an OG 2DS and wanted to get a 2DS XL) but they were gone before I even had a chance and prices never returned to normal. So I guess I am forever stuck with this 2DS that my daughter dropped on the floor multiple times and my wife super glued the directional pad to itself (facepalm)

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