Greets come with something that was a bit of a droolsome thing for a teen Sharka seeing them advertised and demoed on Bad Influence: The Amstrad Mega PC!
DOS gaming AND Mega Drive gaming? All wrapped up in the beige-iest of boxes and controllers?
Damn cool then and still today!
The PC side clocked in at a 25mhz 386SX, 1MB ram, and 40MB HDD - not the snappiest of specs for 1993, but there was some wiggle room for what it came with. And at a price of £500-600 in the UK, similar to some of Amstrad's other budget PCs, it was a viable option for a best-of-both-worlds and to get in on DOS gaming without forking out a thousand or more.
I have never been into Beat 'em ups but have some of the classics like Streets of Rage 2 in my collection. 🥊
Are there any titles you suggest trying out although I am not the biggest fan of the genre? 🤔
For some time now I was thinking about presenting #RetroTrivia not only via pictures but short video clips that don't exceed the Mastodon server's file size limit. 🗄️
Finally I arranged to capture, edit and publish my first video directly here on Mastodon. 📼
When you've got 40 seconds and want to know what going too fast in Sonic can lead to, give the video a try and me some feedback. 👌
...of Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country was released, which resulted in its computer-generated graphics becoming the norm for contemporary SNES games. 🤩
It was too late for the graphic designers to incorporate such a style into Yoshi's Island; instead, they pushed the hand-drawn style further as a way to "fight back". 🖍️
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
All of my friends owned a PS1 but I went for the N64 because I wanted to play Mario Kart 64 and nothing else. 😆
I played many PS1 games on my friend's consoles. That way I experienced the birth of fundamental game series like Tekken, Gran Turismo, Silent Hill, Resident Evil or GTA. :underheart:
Did you also have to make a choice for one of the two consoles? Which one did you pick and why? 🤔
...Two Multitaps could be used at the same time for up to eight controllers and memory cards, although very few games allowed for more than five players. 👨👨👦👦👩👩👦👦
Mainly sports games ⚽ have supported the Multitap due to the multiplayer aspect of some sport games, though some role-playing video games like Tales of Eternia ⚔️ have taken advantage of it.
Did you have one of these back in the days and what games did you use it for? 🤔
...Mystic Quest in Europe. Sword of Mana was the fifth release in the series. 🏹
The gameplay of Sword of Mana is an expanded and modified version of the original gameplay with elements added from later games in the Mana series. ⚔️
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
...by the limitations of the 8-bit NES, Nintendo chose to remake them for the 16-bit SNES. 🕹️
The developers based the updated designs on those from Super Mario World (1990) and strove to retain the feel of the original games. 👌
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
I finished my first run in #LiesOfP after about 36 hours. I felt a bit overpowered in most places, but I found the boss balance a bit strange at times.
Apart from that, a really excellent game, I'm already looking forward to NG+ and the path to platinum :owi:
...James Bond in Licence to Kill, but his likeness is used in the game, most notably the opening screens, thus making it Dalton's last appearance as Bond to date. 🍸
It was also the final Bond game to be released by Domark, who had released a series of Bond themed games beginning in 1985 with A View to a Kill. 🕵️
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
...future Nintendo systems since the Nintendo DS. 🎮
What's your favorite controller❓
I really like the PS3 controller because it still delivers all the functionalities a controller nowadays should have without being to complex or special.
...praised for its tight control, unique and non-linear gameplay and bright presentation, and is often regarded as one of the best titles for the NES. 🤩
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
...when that system launched in North America and Europe in 1988. 🌍
Later all of the available consoles instead included Sonic the Hedgehog, which replaced Altered Beast in part over concerns the latter's themes of zombies and magic were not popular.
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Altered Beast was ported numerous times in addition to its Genesis conversion, including for the Master System by Sega, the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Game Boy Advance. 🕹️
...specific parameters like the life count or the number of coins. The Xploder already has cheat codes for a lot of Game Boy games. The number of codes depends on the game.
For example Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle only has one cheat code for unlimited lifes because the game has no more values to manipulate. 🐰
Games like Super Mario Land have more codes due to the fact that values like the ♥ life, 🟡 coin and ⏳ time count can be manipulated.
...techniques of the eight main characters from the original game were further balanced for competitive play. 🥇
The Mega Drive/Genesis release has a size of 24 Megabit and includes an additional game mode based on Hyper Fighting with a turbo mode. 🥊
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
🎙 Im Finale unserer achten Podcast-Staffel besprechen wir „Murder on the Mississippi“ (C64, NES). Packt die Notizbücher ein und klärt mit uns den Mordfall auf! Jetzt anhören – Link in der Bio!
...Konami of America senior vice presidents discomfort with the religious connotations of the title Akumajō Dracula, which he believed translated as "Dracula Satanic Castle". 🧛
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
New Karl Jobst video about Team 0% efforts to ensure that every user-made course in Super Mario Maker has been completed before the closure of the games online services in April '24. 🏆
A good opportunity to recap for those who missed all the drama about tool-assisted level uploads. 🎭
Will start a little series here about me browsing this Club Nintendo issue from July 1995 (Nintendo Power in the US). 📖
I explicitly bought this one recently because I have so fond childhood memories. It must have been one of the few I owned and therefore read endless times. I still remember so much of the content and now I'm excited to refresh these memories.
The cover shows Asterix & Obelix, a PAL exclusive game series. 🐗
Club Nintendo magazines often came with guides about the presented games. So it is with Mickey Mouse V: Magic Wands! in the issue I have in front of me. 💫
Do you remember using one of these guides to successfully proceed in a game you were stuck before? 🔍