The original Splatterhouse, not the PS3-era one (and on TG-16 not the arcade or wherever else it was available). It's a brutally hard platformer based entirely around memorization. Brutal is also the only way to describe the graphics, with zombies splattering into goo, severed hands, mirror-spawned clones, flesh eating worms, disembodied heads ( Read more... )

This was the pack-in game that came with my TG-16 way back in the day. It's an okay platformer with some cool looking enemies (the one with the GUN for a head is a favorite), but nothing really special about it (i.e. it's a terrible pack-in game ( Read more... )

...Not much to say about Enforcer. It's a pretty mediocre third-person shooter. It plays okay. The first five or six stages that I blew through were pretty fun, but then I looked and saw there were 40-something stages in the game and... I don't think I want to go through all of that. You can tell they rushed it, it's missing a lot of polish, ( Read more... )

Post Apocalyptic Mayhem has been pretty fun in single-player. It reminds me of a cross between Twisted Metal (vehicular destruction) and Hydro Thunder (...I think just because of the nitro boost ( Read more... )

OpenXcom is a nearly complete (so complete I haven't noticed anything non-complete yet) port of the old X-COM engine to modern OSes. All the assets rely on having a legit copy of X-COM to load the graphics and sound. The gameplay is just what you'd expect, and I've been having a blast fighting aliens again ( Read more... )

I beat La-Mulana, and then I did the bonus dungeon, the Hell Temple. If I ever play the game again, it will be too soon. Also blindly stumbling around for 2/3rds of the game, then resorting to help for increasingly cryptic puzzles got me almost but not quite to the achievement for speed running it. So close, yet, so far.

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Is completely awesome.

We're all played Doom, I'm sure. Well ... maybe not everyone. But Brutal Doom takes Doom and makes it the gory, exploding bodies, machine-gunning game that I remember it being. I have it all set up for modern shooter controls (WASD instead of arrow keys) with mouselook.

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I just played through Episode 1 this afternoon and ( Read more... )

I just watched Wreck-It Ralph today. (I know, a year or so late.) It was a lot of fun. Good pacing, funny, actiony when it needed to be. 10 out of 9 points.

So I'm only 20 years behind the curve here. I finally played and beat Super Metroid. I had fun with most of it. There were... 3 places I think where I got kinda pissed off. The noob bridge (Look I didn't know there was a dash button okay?), this one crazy room with an acid floor in Norfair that took me forever to get past, and then the entire ( Read more... )

Quoth the Positron: Sometimes we make Alts because we are bored. That is a terrible reason because our focus gets split among two characters.

He's right, we should just stop playing instead and move on to something else.