SNES - Act Raiser - It’s quite literally a mix of RTS and 2d action platforming. You build and manage your villiage while protecting it from monsters. Highly recommend!
N64 - Kirby 64 - Kirby is a game series that lets you eat enemies and gain their power. This one lets you combine powers! You can make fun combos, like rock + fire to make yourself a volcano, or electricity + bombs to make yourself into fireworks. Really fun and easygoing game! Worth playing through at least once.
PS2 - Parappa the Rapper 2 - A fun and weird game, Parappa 2 is a rhythm game where you have to repeat the raps your opponent dishes out using the face and L&R buttons. The setting and story make this game more than worth it, as you’ll be saving the town against shrink rays, a mad hairstylist, and a noodle-hungry maniac. It’s another fairly short game, you can beat it in two sittings if you’re good. There’s also a fun vs multiplayer mode.
Kind of mixed on this one for me. On one hand it’s a win against microtransactions, since a big name like Marvel isn’t enough for people to buy it, so much that it has to be delisted. I think that’s a huge win and I think it’s worth mentioning.
On the other, preservation is a thing and I’m wondering if this game could somehow still be played if it’s taken off the store. Granted I’m not familiar with this game so I don’t know if physical copies work, or if they’re just codes with a plastic shell. Or even if this game would be playable once the servers go down. I know it’s not the best game to keep around, but history deserves preservation, etc
I disagree. I think games are definitely worth preserving, even if they aren’t that fun. Regardless, this game has historical significance and should at the very least be playable after it’s delisted.
I had the VHS copy of this and the little kitten softly "meow"ing for help as he was about to be eaten by the rats was very disturbing. Especially when he was trapped in his own home and his mom and aunt couldn’t find them.
EDIT: Here it is in full! God what a throwback. As messed up as this story is, I loved it as a kid and would watch it all the time.
Nah man. The mom even mentioned that earlier she found 7 of those rats and they ate them for dinner, but couldn’t get the “father rat”, the fat one in the picture. We can only assume they were his kids that she ate. So it’s no wonder they would maybe want some payback.
Jeff Porcaro was definitely one of the greatest drummers in the industry. That drum pattern is called the Rosanna Shuffle, and it’s notoriously difficult to pull off.
Living Books were a series of CDs you would either play in the computer lab or buy in book fairs or wherever you could get your hands on shareware. They were essentially interactive picture books that would read to you and you could click on stuff in the pictures and see what would happen. They were pretty ingenious because any kid could have fun with them. Even if you already knew how to read, it was fun playing inside the story or making your own fun sentences from the words up top.
They had all sorts of books from the Berenstain Bears to Dr. Seuss, but Stellaluna was my favorite. They tried to keep with the realistic style of the books, which was a massive undertaking. By far the best looking CD out of all of them. It also taught me real things about bats, like how they are not blind and how a lot of them eat fruit. It was a real misconception-buster for me.
A fun activity game. I remember there was a game similar to Hangman where you had to match the notes of a well-known song in the right order and if you didn’t win, a gorilla would kidnap a cat from a tree and put them in a sewer. It’s about as scary as it sounds. Most of the game was fairly pleasant, though.
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Top games for emulator?
Got RetroArch setup and working, got a controller, got PS2, N64, SNES emulators currently but likely get all old systems at some point....
Toto - Goin Home (1989) (youtu.be)
Marvel's Avengers goes on sale one last time before being delisted forever (www.pcgamer.com)
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 - Grandma Gertie Gameplay Reveal Trailer! (www.youtube.com)
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Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle (1976) (youtu.be)
meow_irl (sopuli.xyz)
Toto - Rosanna (1982) (youtu.be)
Living Books - Stellaluna (youtu.be)
Lenny's Music Toons (youtu.be)
Big Job (youtu.be)
Anyone remembers this one?
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