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Welp, this is going to have to do. If I try for the good ending again I will probably kill myself.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 04:54 |
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I got a copy of this for my 5th birthday  . Don't think I actually ever finished it as a kid so this'll be a good chance to bust out the Megadrive.I got all excited and set everything up but I'm apparently missing both my controllers and an AV cable, this is the biggest bummer. 
Myriad fucked around with this message at Oct 22, 2012 around 05:29 |
| # ? Oct 22, 2012 05:04 |
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Awesome, I rented Rocket Knight Adventures a few times as a kid, but I never got very far in it. I just remember thinking Sparkster there looked pretty cool.  I'm definitely gonna try to beat it now.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 05:20 |
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Ah, RKA! I love this game. In fact I loved it so much as a kid that I already beat it So, no challenge. I do need to get my rusty skills in this game back up to speed, though. For reasons.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 05:42 |
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I want to do Rocket Knight Adventures this week, but I am planning on challenging Pulseman this week so that I can try it before I watch Arino challenge it later this weekend on GCCX. I may do RKA later if I have time. I was really hoping that you would choose Pulseman this week because of the new GCCX episode this Thursday(Oct 25). You should add the controls or list the link to the manual. Also, are we able to play either the SNES or Genesis version or are only allowed to do the Genesis version? Edit: Nevermind! The SNES version was cancelled. joek0 fucked around with this message at Oct 22, 2012 around 06:23 |
| # ? Oct 22, 2012 05:55 |
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Finally got round to putting the time in for Gimmick though just the Bad End. Came across a few weird things, the weirdest being having the pirate captain fall off the ship when I died, resulting in MASSIVE points that earned me two extra lives. So yea, not really feeling it for trying for the treasures and a good end, but Gimmick seems to have a better idea of how to reach the final level. 
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 06:57 |
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Did a test run of RKA. Burned a couple continues on the stage 2 boss trying to work out a strategy for the part with the hands. Eventually cleared it on my last life and hit a game over at the start of stage 3. Not sure I'll have a lot of time during the week to dedicate to it, but I'll be giving it a go. Fun game.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 07:17 |
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Hit my first brickwall with this game in hard mode, got two gameovers as I keep loving up jumps . At least the boss before this one is waaaay easier then I remember. Yeah normal is definitely the way to go. http://i.imgur.com/wgXVH.jpg Myriad fucked around with this message at Oct 22, 2012 around 07:33 |
| # ? Oct 22, 2012 07:20 |
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^The first time I hit that boss he wasted me, but he didn't touch me at all the second time. I guess you just have to get used to how the platforms speed up, and always use the top ones.Chows posted:Did a test run of RKA. Burned a couple continues on the stage 2 boss trying to work out a strategy for the part with the hands. Eventually cleared it on my last life and hit a game over at the start of stage 3. Not sure I'll have a lot of time during the week to dedicate to it, but I'll be giving it a go. Fun game. If it's the one I'm thinking of, what I did was wait all the way to the right and do a spin move when the second hand hits. The first one can't reach you. Then you can rocket back to the left when he does the two-handed move, and repeat. I had 6 lives and no continues lost until the end of Stage 5 with that awful Rock'em Sock'em Robots part. Finally figured out what worked (goading him to the left until his pattern changes, then after goading him to hit and quickly closing the gap to counter) but it is still really lame considering his reach is longer and he has a lot more life than you. Right after that I hit the terrible, long bullet-hell part. There's no autofire so my hands are killing me. Only got to second form of the ship (the robot) twice. This game has some interesting ideas about hitboxes. Doom Goon fucked around with this message at Oct 22, 2012 around 07:36 |
| # ? Oct 22, 2012 07:32 |
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Doom Goon posted:Right after that I hit the terrible, long bullet-hell part. There's no autofire so my hands are killing me. Only got to second form of the ship (the robot) twice. This game has some interesting ideas about hitboxes. That the one with all the rockets firing at you? I don't think I was ever able to get past there.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 07:45 |
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No, it's like a stage or two past that one. Not the one that is over the city.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 08:13 |
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I am giving up om Gimmick. Off to play Pulseman.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 10:42 |
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Turns out I did have enough time to beat Gimmick, without the good ending though. Good game but by golly the attack system could get really frustrating, especially if you accidentally got on the star you just threw and it took you to pit or a bunch of spikes. E: The soundtrack was pretty badass though, especially on the ship level. Let's see about this next one. Kanfy fucked around with this message at Oct 22, 2012 around 11:55 |
| # ? Oct 22, 2012 10:48 |
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Oh boy, Rocket Knight! I love the hell out of the SNES sequel, Sparkster. This is going to be a lot of fun, I think.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 13:03 |
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Welp, I failed the Gimmick challenge because as I was playing, I moved to get up, but I tripped on the power cord and my laptop actually fell off of my bed and blue screened on me. It's fine now, but I had just reached stage 6 after some frustration and that progress is all gone. Hey, this really does feel like the retro game thread, it's just like when I was little and I had finally made it to World 8 in Super Mario 3, and then after going to bed I find out there was a power outage during the night and all my progress was lost.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 13:24 |
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That was a Monday night well spent, finally managed to finish it in normal mode after a few failed attempts. Overall a really good game with probably my favorite music on the megadrive but I am pretty mad at it after my constant game-overs at the stage 6 boss and don't want to look at it for another few years. http://i.imgur.com/i4HiT.jpg gently caress you game this is not happening.  
Myriad fucked around with this message at Oct 22, 2012 around 15:06 |
| # ? Oct 22, 2012 14:23 |
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I'm giving up on Gimmick. I've been stuck at the third boss way longer than is advisable for my mental health. I'll give Rocket Knight a try, hopefully it will go better.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 15:59 |
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Even though it is not the official challenge, I am playing Pulseman beacause Arino is playing it in the new upcoming GCCX episode. I just finished the 1st stage and find it fun. Not to o hard yet. Waiting to see how hard it get. Still to determine how much it will fustrate Arino.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 16:33 |
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Myriad posted:gently caress you game this is not happening. Is it asking you to try European hard mode or American hard mode? Because if it's American Hard, that's actually Crazy Hard and ahahaha no. I like it when fruit still works.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 16:52 |
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Sign me up for Rocket Knight Adventures, I remember playing it a little bit on the Sega Channel way back in the day. Looking forward to this one!
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 17:13 |
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joek0 posted:Even though it is not the official challenge, I am playing Pulseman beacause Arino is playing it in the new upcoming GCCX episode. I just finished the 1st stage and find it fun. Not to o hard yet. Waiting to see how hard it get. Still to determine how much it will fustrate Arino. That's great and all, but Shlapintogan posted:Keep all other retro game discussion in the Retro Gaming thread, which can be found here. I just want to keep this thread clean and on the topic of whatever challenge is at hand. If you're not playing Gimmick (for the remaining few hours it's active) or RKA, take it to the other thread, please. ALSO, I talked to AxeManiac and he's told me that posting old manuals wouldn't be a problem, so here is a high-quality scan of the manual for Rocket Knight Adventures, complete with ads in the back for Sparkster merchandise. Shlapintogan fucked around with this message at Oct 22, 2012 around 17:59 |
| # ? Oct 22, 2012 17:38 |
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Streaming Rocket Knight Adventures all day until i beat it at http://www.twitch.tv/funnyfatguy.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 18:45 |
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I really like this idea because it gets people playing old games that they wouldn't touch otherwise. I have never played Rocket Knight so I don't know what to expect but I'm in for the challenge when i get home!
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 19:00 |
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After playing Pulseman for a few hours, I decided to play it later after watching Arino play it this weekend. I am in for the Rocket Knight Adventures.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 20:41 |
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I tried to beat Gimmick but between the inertia and the fact that the stars are hard to use, I'm not realistically going to beat it in the next 50 minutes. I give up on this one. I was awful at this. 4 game overs on the second screen alone. Rocket Knight adventures seems like it will be fun.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 21:09 |
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gently caress it, count me in on this. I failed on Gimmick, although I got as far as the 4th boss. Count me in for Rocket Knight, please, I'll have a go tomorrow.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 21:11 |
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I tried to do Rocket Knight Adventures, but the emulator I was using was absolute poo poo. I'll try again later on a different one.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 21:14 |
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drat, that final boss is brutal. The whole final stage just doesn't end. You'd have to be pretty crazy to beat this game on the hardest difficulty. I like the amount of variety in the stages though, all sorts of stuff in there. And after Gimmick the amount of control over your attacks is lovely. The music is nice but most of the time it feels a bit... out of place, somehow, like the rave in the final stage.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 21:18 |
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JetGrind posted:I tried to do Rocket Knight Adventures, but the emulator I was using was absolute poo poo. I'll try again later on a different one. I recommend the emulators they use at TASVideos.org. They update them pretty often and they have to work since they use them. It's what I use.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 22:03 |
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Oh jeez, this game is actually really tough, but not in a way that feels like (total) bullshit. I got to the second boss of Stage 2 though, those hands are what get me every time.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 22:35 |
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JetGrind posted:Oh jeez, this game is actually really tough, but not in a way that feels like (total) bullshit. I got to the second boss of Stage 2 though, those hands are what get me every time. IIRC You can dodge them when they extend by basically just holding left or right, they're slower than the thing you ride on so going from one side of the screen to the other avoids them easily. When they're hovering you can just blast them with the charged attack when they get near.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 22:44 |
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I did not complete the Gimmick! challenge. It took me forever just to get it to work. I think I'm going to have to just play along at home with these because I'm not going to have the time to do these games. Also we should make Knights of the Round another lightning round or a regular challenge at some point, the arcade around where I live actually has a machine for it and I've played it quite a bit.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 22:50 |
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Jibo posted:Also we should make Knights of the Round another lightning round or a regular challenge at some point, the arcade around where I live actually has a machine for it and I've played it quite a bit. I like the idea of revisiting challenges for a shot at revenge, especially in a case where only 3 out of 16 managed to succeed. Making it a regular challenge would probably kill the thread, but a lighting round would probably be fine.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 23:12 |
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I'm in on RKA. Never played it because I was a SNES kid but always wanted to. The XBLA/PSN remake lost all the charm of the original character designs.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 23:40 |
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Goggle Fox posted:Is it asking you to try European hard mode or American hard mode? Because if it's American Hard, that's actually Crazy Hard and ahahaha no. I like it when fruit still works. It was the hard mode with the one shot kills which is complete bullshit.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 23:41 |
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Hammond Edgar posted:I like the idea of revisiting challenges for a shot at revenge, especially in a case where only 3 out of 16 managed to succeed. Making it a regular challenge would probably kill the thread, but a lighting round would probably be fine. I think it'd be fun to revisit challenges as future lightning rounds with special conditions. For games like Knights of the Round that few people completed, it could be something that makes the game easier or different rather than tougher, like co-op. For games that are popular and have lots of completions, it might be fun to revisit them as lightning rounds with special challenge rules, like Gimmick 2.0 (only the good ending counts). Anyway I participated in this thread back in the day and beat The Clash at Demonhead and Batman (NES) for the first time as a consequence. Never played Rocket Knight Adventures. This could be cool. Also, some game suggestions: Street Fighter 2010 is a weird and underrated one that's pretty difficult but also pretty unique. If we want to venture into doing an RPG this time around I think King's Field would be a great choice to see how new players respond to the pre-Souls Souls. Zombies' Downfall fucked around with this message at Oct 22, 2012 around 23:51 |
| # ? Oct 22, 2012 23:47 |
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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For Gimmick!, 44 people participated, 23 succeeded in reaching an ending, only 7 reached the good ending. Great first turnout. I'd like to get some final thoughts on Gimmick! from people who didn't manage to complete it. What did you like about the game, if anything? What did you dislike? Would you challenge this game again if a shot at revenge was offered? Shlapintogan fucked around with this message at Oct 22, 2012 around 23:57 |
| # ? Oct 22, 2012 23:53 |
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 Not a bad start. This was American Easy mode. Going to try for Normal next.
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| # ? Oct 22, 2012 23:54 |
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I'm in for this challenge as well. Hopefully I can make up for my poor showing on Gimmick. (Only made it to Stage 4)
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| # ? Oct 23, 2012 00:07 |
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| # ? May 21, 2013 19:56 |
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What the hell, I have a couple days off. Sign me up for RKA.
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