Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Monday, August 20, 2007

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I'm still between jobs for the moment, but that doesn't mean I don't have money to spend down at my favorite local pawn shop.

Some of you know that I own at least one famicom multicart from the two-part drunk video I did on the 31-in-1. Well in actually I owned two. Now I own three.





It doesn't take a course in oriental languages to know a lot of those names look the same.

Features:
-Contra
-Super Mario Bros.
-Tengen Tetris
-Unknown Ninja game by Jaleco
-Binary Land
-Antarctic Adventure
-B-Wings
-Field Combat
-Ice Climber
-Battle City
-Galaxian
-Bomberman
-Road Fighter
-Circus Charlie

I don't have my own copy of Contra, so this multicart foots the bill for that. Not to mention two of my favorite games from my 42-in-1 (which is corroded and has graphical issues) being Field Combat and B-Wings are present on this cart.

What's odd though is even though the cart advertises it has Star Force, it does not.

Another oddity is that it is very difficult to get the menu to appear without graphical issues - yet you can select any game and they look just fine.

I'll probably take some footage of it sometime.

Video time. IrateGamer reviewed MUSCLE, one of the games features on the 31-in-1 and dissected while I was drunk.



I finally reviewed Rise of the Robots.



And this video doesn't get enough love.

Thursday, August 9, 2007

The Bastard Incestuous Lovechild

Lately I've been gaming and job hunting. I figured I'd spend this as my last true summer break before joining the daily grind like everybody else.

The pawn shop in town had a lot of $3 NES games and I felt obligated to buy out as many of them as I could, regardless if they were crap. Somebody else actually bought a copy of Athena there before I did. That's frightening.

One of the games I got which I've been trying to comprehend is Rocket Ranger. Without going too far into it, I would bill it as the bastard incestuous lovechild of Risk and the Three Stooges NES game.

It will be getting it's own video with commentary, although I may not bill it as a full-scale review, moreso just a display of how screwed up it is.

The following is a video of a cheat (or possibly glitch) to get to the last part of the game. See the way to do the code here.



This is also the third NES game I can think of where Nazis were blatantly censored and replaced with something stupid.



Also, IrateGamer has a new video out. It's a good retrospective of Super Mario Bros. 2.