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This guy is giving me a hell of a time: http://i.imgur.com/veCGJ.jpg Sorry about the horrible image quality. Does anyone have any tips for taking pictures of an old TV?
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| # ? Oct 17, 2012 21:35 |
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I will give this a try.
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Katana Gomai posted:you seem to have found the reason why the other thread went to shits on your own (hint: it was that terrible Simpsons game). Bart Vs. The Space Mutants was a test. Oh, you'll get a bunch of cock-sure, braggabrocios swagging around after beating Little Nemo, but you throw an NES Simpsons' game at them and they'll go running back to their "Halos" and whatever game the Playstation has quicker than you can say, "No Checkpoints." Regardless, in the interest of Retro Game Mastery, I support this endeavor. I just hope you don't molly coddle these fledgling gamists too much. Now... Bart Vs. The Juggernauts for the Gameboy...
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| # ? Oct 17, 2012 21:53 |
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gently caress the old NES Simpson games... had Bart VS the world when I was a kid... beat it, but goddamn was it pain every single step of the way, trying to master the dash jump... all one button, gently caress that. Got to the same boss as the previous poster up there, nifty game, not tried for the treasures yet just been wanting to get used to the stage layouts. Such a nice game... also a stinkyhole. That Boss is drat obnoxious.
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| # ? Oct 17, 2012 22:01 |
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orochi posted:This guy is giving me a hell of a time: http://i.imgur.com/veCGJ.jpg In the spirit of the challenge, you should try to keep all pictures like that. I'm excited to get in on one of these, I'm off of work tomorrow and my girlfriend got called in. We'll see if I can beat this before I get to drunk to play it. Edit: Dog Toggle Switch posted:Bart Vs. The Space Mutants was a test. Oh, you'll get a bunch of cock-sure, braggabrocios swagging around after beating Little Nemo, but you throw an NES Simpsons' game at them and they'll go running back to their "Halos" and whatever game the Playstation has quicker than you can say, "No Checkpoints." I beat Little Nemo as a kid but I'll be god damned if I ever got past the third level of Bart Vs. the Space Mutants, and I played the gently caress out of that game.
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| # ? Oct 17, 2012 22:01 |
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Mercury Crusader posted:Hey, Kid Chameleon was an awesome game, you take that back! Neither did I. People complain about it, in this very thread still even, but I managed to beat Bart vs the Space Mutants twice for the previous thread, and I still haven't gotten to the second boss of Kid Chameleon.  I'm not calling Kid Chameleon a bad game because it was hard, by any means, but rather because it was unfairly hard.
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| # ? Oct 17, 2012 22:10 |
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I didn't know about the last thread, but this sounds really fun. Not calling myself in yet, I'll see if I can find it first, but I'll definitely be watching this thread for future challenges at the least.
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| # ? Oct 17, 2012 22:46 |
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Oh my god this game is so goddamn hard. I'm stuck on the second boss and have been for like an hour. Bitch keeps blocking with his sword, and I finally got one of the red flame ball things from one of those bobomb looking things, and he just deflects it away. It's taken me like 3 hours to get used to the regular attack, and like Pure Rock said the whole game is like running on ice. At least it is fun, but getting knocked down a screen is frustrating as hell.
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| # ? Oct 17, 2012 22:55 |
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Oh heelz yeaa... http://i.imgur.com/Lri5b.jpg I feel like beating this guy alone was a bit of a victory for me. (he's exploding in the picture) Only took like 2 hours..jeez. By the way, that's the wrong time in the picture. It's actually about 7:00 pm right now and that was a few minutes ago. edit: Just had a moment where I killed what I believe to be the true final boss the same moment he killed me. My hands are very sweaty... I'm not giving up yet. edit2: Just wasted a really good opportunity and then I beat the boss at the same time he beat me...AGAIN! I feel like Arino or something. Except he would probably be doing better. Haven't seen that episode yet actually. orochi fucked around with this message at Oct 18, 2012 around 00:15 |
| # ? Oct 17, 2012 23:01 |
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I'll give this a try. Is it alright if I decide to stream this?
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| # ? Oct 17, 2012 23:39 |
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Go for it! If you do stream it, link the stream so we can watch. I'll add you to the spreadsheet.
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| # ? Oct 17, 2012 23:41 |
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Oh man, I love these things even though I rarely finish. I'll give it a shot though. Does anyone know if there's any particular difference between the Japanese and European releases?
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 00:02 |
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The European release starts you with 7 lives instead of 3 and doesn't have as high-quality music as the Famicom version.
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 00:18 |
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Shlapintogan posted:The European release starts you with 7 lives instead of 3 and doesn't have as high-quality music as the Famicom version. That's interesting. Sure could use those extra lives right now. The version I have only gives you 3. edit: I beat it. Took me long enough. I got the bad ending and I barely snapped this horrible picture in time: http://imgur.com/RKG3W.jpg It's gimmick thinking about his girl. Right after the credits. Sadly I think when there's that much black on the screen it messes with the camera so it sort of looks like a white blob. You can look up the ending and compare though I guess. orochi fucked around with this message at Oct 18, 2012 around 01:01 |
| # ? Oct 18, 2012 00:37 |
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The next new episode for GCCX is Pulsman for the Sega Megadrive. How about doing this for the next game challenge. It was originally released for the Japanese Megadrive only, but has a release on Virtual Console for NA, JP, and EU.
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 01:21 |
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I have been playing for like an hour, entirely frustrated at not being able to reach some of these items, and I just found out by accident that you can ride your stars  . THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING. Starting over.
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 01:25 |
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Is anyone going for the good ending? I may start attempting that tomorrow. I think I'm ok with the bad ending I got for tonight though.
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 01:31 |
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I think maybe Mr. Gimmick was too hard of a start, especially for less than a week. If I'm remembering correctly, the YouTube video I saw when I first heard of this game was by a guy who was quite obsessed with it, saying he played it for years and years (and it showed, too). He also said he never legitimately got the good ending.
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 01:42 |
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orochi posted:Is anyone going for the good ending? I may start attempting that tomorrow. I think I'm ok with the bad ending I got for tonight though. I'll mark you down as having completed the challenge (with the bad ending) for now. If you get the good ending, make sure to tell us!
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 03:06 |
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OK. Going to start streaming this on Twitch now. http://www.twitch.tv/spacepopelive
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 03:40 |
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orochi posted:This guy is giving me a hell of a time: http://i.imgur.com/veCGJ.jpg Trying to beat this boss for the past hour and a half has left my hand a broken claw. I don't know if I can beat this game.
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 06:00 |
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Myriad posted:Trying to beat this boss for the past hour and a half has left my hand a broken claw. I don't know if I can beat this game. Don't give up hope! You can collect 3 bombs outside the entrance to the boss. A jar will come out of that thing the black balls come out of now and then. I found that made the second phase of the boss a bit easier. If I shouldn't be posting tips like this just let me know. I'm under the impression we can help each other out as long as we don't use walkthroughs and the like to do so? Not that anyone couldn't just look up a walkthrough anyway, but to keep to the spirit of retro gaming, and the day and age when these games were popular. orochi fucked around with this message at Oct 18, 2012 around 07:05 |
| # ? Oct 18, 2012 06:21 |
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I think I've figured it out, I just need to get a gameover so I can go back and farm some potions or something. Edit: Even a bad ending is an ending, right? http://i.imgur.com/Ku3sV.jpg Myriad fucked around with this message at Oct 18, 2012 around 08:57 |
| # ? Oct 18, 2012 06:40 |
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What is GCCX?
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 11:21 |
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chippy posted:What is GCCX? It's short for Game Center CX, a Japanese show where they have a comedian named Shinya Arino play, and attempt to beat, old video games. Generally he has to beat the game in one sitting, although he can call for a second-day extension if he can't finish the game in a single day. They have some other assorted segments themed on retro gaming, where he playtests more obscure systems, or visits mom 'n' pop candy stores to play their old arcade machines. There's a SomethingAwful fan translation effort at this thread. kimpira fucked around with this message at Oct 18, 2012 around 19:13 |
| # ? Oct 18, 2012 11:32 |
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I'm a little late to the party, but I think I'll jump into this too. I have played it a little bit (just to check out the modified sound chip), but I never beat the first level. Also, is it ok that I'm going to do this on my PSP? I'd play on my computer, but I only have a 360 controller for it, and we all know how wonderful the d-pad is.
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 13:55 |
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Oh man. So, I loaded the game up to give it a "test run" and see if I wanted to participate, and it turns out this game is great and I accidentally sorta played five stages in. So... count me in! Havin' a lot of fun figuring out how to get some of these secrets... gotta get that good end!!
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 14:22 |
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I just put Gimmick on my PowerPak a few days ago and this is a good excuse to go play through it. Shooting for a bad ending to start, I made it to the stage 6 boss a couple of times but couldn't finish him off before I needed to sleep. This really is a good game, and entirely beatable. I'll probably get through it on the weekend.
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 15:15 |
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Ok, so I decided I was going to go all out and try to get the good ending, so I was making sure to find each special item. I'm currently on stage 3, and was able to find all of the items so far.http://imgur.com/a/kAwDB Anyways, stage 3 is a total pain in the rear end, and I'm on my 5th or 6th continue. All of a sudden, I had a horrible thought. What if the game doesn't count you getting the special items in previous stages if you continue? And guess what? It doesn't.  So anyone trying to get the good ending, you have to do it without continues.edit: When you clear a stage after collecting the special item, on the world map, that stage marker's enemy is waving a red flag. If you don't get the item, it's waving a white flag. If you continue after getting the items, they wave white flags. ryden fucked around with this message at Oct 18, 2012 around 16:14 |
| # ? Oct 18, 2012 16:10 |
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This whole thing sounds like fun, so count me in. I've heard of Gimmick for quite some time, and this is as good an excuse as any to give it a shot.
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 16:57 |
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I am so in. Keep hearing good things about Gimmick, so I'm excited to see how it is. May I recommend Ufouria and Gargoyle's Quest II for future challenges? edit: wow this game's loving hard JSnake fucked around with this message at Oct 18, 2012 around 17:34 |
| # ? Oct 18, 2012 17:19 |
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Not sure how much time I can put into this, but I'm giving it a shot. Going into this game almost completely blind, and I'm already at world 4. The falling blocks in the cave can go right to hell. If I finish, I'll make a trimmed down video of the whole playthrough. edit: also, this game is goddamn amazing. Hard to believe this came out on the NES.
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 17:20 |
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Second day of the challenge and we're up to 29 challengers. Spreadsheet should be up to date with everyone taking on the challenge. Let's see some more completions, I know you guys can do it!
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 18:31 |
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Wow, I really need to do this given my raging boner for anything related to Game Center CX. Good thing I get the weekend still! Count me in!
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 18:37 |
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Still trying to beat the game (haven't get past the third stage yet  ), but I wish to share something funny that happened while I was playing.SPOILERS for the second stage boss. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trm8yHPjC7k Unfortunately it didn't count as a win, but I still got two extra lives  which lasted me exactly two minutes 
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 19:08 |
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Mikl posted:Still trying to beat the game (haven't get past the third stage yet That's fantastic. I thought it was going to be when his sword flies down after you kill him, you can get hit by it - I did, it killed me, and it counted as a win. Also, gently caress level 5. gently caress level 5 so hard. If there's one thing I HATE in video games, it's conveyor belts.
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 19:30 |
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orochi posted:This guy is giving me a hell of a time: http://i.imgur.com/veCGJ.jpg I've beaten the game before, so I'm sitting this challenge out, but I remember that by far being the hardest boss.
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 19:30 |
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orochi posted:This guy is giving me a hell of a time: http://i.imgur.com/veCGJ.jpg I like this thread and the spirit behind it, I've never played Gimmick before and it's pretty enjoyable when not frustrating.
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 21:23 |
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My computer auto shuts off at 2AM so with the zero save state policy that gives me a true GCCX experience of trying to beat the game before the end of the night. No AD's Allowed! should be the motto of this thread. Got to the stage 4 boss last night and lost, so maybe I'll get the bad ending tonight?
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| # ? Oct 18, 2012 21:28 |
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Holy poo poo, after over 4 hours, I finally beat stage 5. My thumb hurts so bad now
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