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Post by twinegarden on Jul 3, 2008 17:26:20 GMT -6
This little jewel of a website is pretty awesome for anyone who spent a good chunk of their childhood playing Nintendo games: www.virtualnes.com/ |
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Post by socal on Jul 3, 2008 21:57:06 GMT -6
Damn you twine... Now I don't plan on sleeping tonight...
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Post by ignatiusreilly on Jul 7, 2008 9:36:06 GMT -6
My cell phone ringtone is the 1st level of ghosts and goblins music. I'm thinking about changing it to the Excitebike title screen song. That or the punchout song when ever you are getting ready for a Title Bout!
Sadly, my greatest achievement in life is being able to beat Contra without using the 30 lives code.
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Post by MoHawk on Jul 7, 2008 9:41:02 GMT -6
My cell phone ringtone is the 1st level of ghosts and goblins music. I'm thinking about changing it to the Excitebike title screen song. That or the punchout song when ever you are getting ready for a Title Bout! Sadly, my greatest achievement in life is being able to beat Contra without using the 30 lives code.  |
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Post by Mr Olympia on Jul 7, 2008 12:33:02 GMT -6
Sadly, my greatest achievement in life is being able to beat Contra without using the 30 lives code. did you do it without continuing? |
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Post by Saggitariutt Jefferspin (ith) on Jul 7, 2008 12:37:46 GMT -6
Twinegarden sent me this link around Christmas...things were really slow around work. I rediscovered Metroid. What a great game.
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Post by ignatiusreilly on Jul 7, 2008 13:20:59 GMT -6
Sadly, my greatest achievement in life is being able to beat Contra without using the 30 lives code. did you do it without continuing? Normally when doing it I end up with more than 3 guys left. Sometimes as many as 11. When I have that many guys I'll go up and blast the brain like most people who use the code do. If I am running low on guys on the last level, then you have to dodge all those f*cking spiders and shoot the brain while jumping. I can sometimes get all the way to level 6 without dying even once. If I die before level 4, I usually hit 'reset' out of frustration. That or throw the controller. Beating Contra without the code is sort of like The Matrix. Once you understand it you are able to easily dodge every bullet and other misc projectile while jumping over gaps. I attribute my Contra prowess to growing up in a relatively poor household. I only had 3 NES games. Contra, Jackal, and the Mario/Duck Hunt/Track Meet game. I rock at Jackal too. All my friends were spoiled little sh*ts, so I still played a lot of the games though. I ended up amassing a huge collection of about 70 NES games when I was 17, around the time of the Playstation's dominance. My friend has since stolen (I mean borrowed) those games, and he then loaned them to others. I think all he has left is maybe 20 scattered around his house. |
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Post by twinegarden on Jul 7, 2008 13:34:10 GMT -6
I used to play the crap out of Battletoads and had pretty much every motion memorized until the 11th stage then couldn't get any farther. I probably played it well over 1000 times.
I hear what you are saying about dying in the first 5 levels or so then resetting, knowing it wasn't even worth trying to go any further without having all of your lives. I remember a couple of times having about 15 or so guys going into the dreaded 11th level only to make it about half way through. I'd say that was the hardest game I have ever played. But it does truly kick ass.
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Post by ignatiusreilly on Jul 7, 2008 13:53:55 GMT -6
Yeah battletoads... that game was a bitch. I have no good BT skills. It always kicked my ass. Sort of like Ninja Turtles would kick it (the first one, or the Arcade-like ones).
I remember now why I always reset Contra if I died before level 5... it's because you lose the spread gun. One key to beating Contra is getting and keeping spread. As the game goes on, it becomes harder and riskier to get spread. So you just have to make sure you never die.
My second choice for a gun, and this sometimes comes as a surprise to people, is Laser. Most people find it useless, but in skilled hands it can tide you over until you find spread again.
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Post by Saggitariutt Jefferspin (ith) on Jul 7, 2008 15:30:42 GMT -6
Beating Contra w/o the cheat code is actually pretty impressive.
In addition to getting into Metroid, I had a couple late nights with Double Dragon.
My biggest accomplishment is beating Mike Tyson's Punchout without getting hit, from start to finish. I'm pretty much a loser (I still know from heart the Mike Tyson code - 007-373-5963).
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Post by ignatiusreilly on Jul 7, 2008 17:08:04 GMT -6
Beating Contra w/o the cheat code is actually pretty impressive. In addition to getting into Metroid, I had a couple late nights with Double Dragon. My biggest accomplishment is beating Mike Tyson's Punchout without getting hit, from start to finish. I'm pretty much a loser (I still know from heart the Mike Tyson code - 007-373-5963). Beating Punchout is a good accomplishment. When I first played Nintendo at age 5 (neighbor on the corner used to fence stolen goods and had all the launch titles when it first came out... he got busted a few years later... SWAT team raided him), I got knocked out by Glass Joe. And used to have a hell of a time with the 1st Don Flamenco (before I used the left-right-left-right cheat). King Hippo used to beat my ass too. And it would be years before I consistently could beat that asshole with the jewel on his turban. Sandman, Super Macho Man, Tyson the one-hit knockout machine... those guys used to f*ck me up too. As for Contra, I used to play with my friends and I'd have to give em charlie horses for stealing my guys. It wasn't my fault I had 28 guys and they were all out. The only reason I had 28 was because they advanced the screen too far on level 3 and I had no where to jump but to my death. |
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Post by idrinkthereforeiam on Jul 7, 2008 21:53:24 GMT -6
Nothing beats playing NES on a 60" HDTV... well, that is unless you pwn your in-laws all night long at Rampart.  |
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Post by Saggitariutt Jefferspin (ith) on Jul 8, 2008 10:29:04 GMT -6
Forgive me for my ignorance, Spank...what game is that?
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Post by ignatiusreilly on Jul 8, 2008 11:32:55 GMT -6
Forgive me for my ignorance, Spank...what game is that? Rampart... it's like a cross between Castles and Tetris. Haven't played in years, but I believe you get a few seconds to build walls around your cannons. The trick is you can only use the tetris-like wall pieces and they must fit perfectly and the cannon must be completely enclosed. Then the round begins and you try to blow apart your opponents walls. I can't remember how the cannons aimed... I think it might have been random? Then after the battle, you rebuild again. The losing team is the one who fails to enclose a cannon. I could be wrong... These old games were awesome. Gameplay was king during the NES era. When it comes to sports games, I'll take good NES ones anyday over the newer ones. IMO... Tecmo Super Bowl > Madden 2015 (or whatever year they're on) Little League World Series > MVP 2010 Blades of Steel > NHL 2009 Double Dribble > NBA Live 2025 It was the simplicity that made those games so great, and the complexity that makes the new games unapproachable for me. They look nice, but just aren't as fun to play. |
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Post by lpcalihawk on Jul 8, 2008 13:21:42 GMT -6
Yeah battletoads... that game was a bitch. I have no good BT skills. It always kicked my ass. Sort of like Ninja Turtles would kick it (the first one, or the Arcade-like ones). I remember now why I always reset Contra if I died before level 5... it's because you lose the spread gun. One key to beating Contra is getting and keeping spread. As the game goes on, it becomes harder and riskier to get spread. So you just have to make sure you never die. My second choice for a gun, and this sometimes comes as a surprise to people, is Laser. Most people find it useless, but in skilled hands it can tide you over until you find spread again. I preferred machine gun over laser, but I do understand how laser could be more effective on certain levels. |
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Post by NotMyKid on Jul 8, 2008 14:05:37 GMT -6
Nothing beats playing NES on a 60" HDTV... well, that is unless you pwn your in-laws all night long at Rampart. I love that game!!!!!!!!!!!! As for playing it at work I am screwed since we moved to our home office servers. No videos, no game sites, and only a handful of sports sites. Total BS, I swear it seems like they actually want us to get some work done. |
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Post by idrinkthereforeiam on Jul 8, 2008 17:00:33 GMT -6
Rampart:
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Post by idrinkthereforeiam on Jul 8, 2008 17:04:12 GMT -6
Nostalgia:
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Post by hawkeyedug on Jul 8, 2008 20:25:07 GMT -6
As for playing it at work I am screwed bince we moved to our home office servers. No videos, no game sites, and only a handful of sports sites. Total BS, I swear it seems like they actually want us to get some work done. I run an NES emulator called JNES ( jabosoft.com/?categoryid=1). Then you can to www.freeroms.com/nes.htm (or a bevy of others, google it) to download ROM files of whatever game you want. I have virtually every NES you could want. Over 1600 ROM files. You can do the same with SNES or Genesis Emulators and ROMS as well. Happy gaming. |
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Post by idrinkthereforeiam on Jul 9, 2008 7:29:22 GMT -6
NESticle works well as an emulator, as well.
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Post by Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Heywood) on Jul 9, 2008 7:37:14 GMT -6
NESticle works well as an emulator, as well. That was my favorite PC emulator. Now my favorite is my Wii, with the limited NES games available. |
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Post by NotMyKid on Jul 9, 2008 10:22:31 GMT -6
As for playing it at work I am screwed bince we moved to our home office servers. No videos, no game sites, and only a handful of sports sites. Total BS, I swear it seems like they actually want us to get some work done. I run an NES emulator called JNES ( jabosoft.com/?categoryid=1). Then you can to www.freeroms.com/nes.htm (or a bevy of others, google it) to download ROM files of whatever game you want. I have virtually every NES you could want. Over 1600 ROM files. You can do the same with SNES or Genesis Emulators and ROMS as well. Happy gaming. both of those are blocked. |
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Post by ignatiusreilly on Jul 9, 2008 13:07:35 GMT -6
I used to code Gameboy Advance games as a hobby. I actually won a contest once and had a game published on a real cartridge.
But anyways, in order to test the game on the actual hardware you had to have a flash writable development cartridge. I had a 256 megabit one (about 32 Megabytes). With this, you could put GBA roms on it and play them (like the ones I was making or even commercial ones). Someone coded an awesome NES emulator for it that allowed you to play NES roms flawlessly on a GBA.
I still have that Dev Cartridge and it's loaded with a few hundred NES games, including all the classics of course. I don't play it too much anymore (too busy), but its awesome. I once had it sitting on the back of my toilet and over the course of several months, I beat Dragon Warrior from start to finish. I took it camping once to Apple River and demo'd my Contra skills for a whole campsite of non-believers who crowded around. I actually think it got me laid that weekend because after I showed this girl a game I was working on she seemed to be turned on from that point on. LOL.
Anyways, that's the emulator I used, called PocketNES. I have used Nesticle before, with the bleeding severed hand as a pointer. Nothing beats the real thing though. I think blowing in the cartridge first makes it more fun.
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Post by hawkeyedug on Jul 26, 2008 3:09:08 GMT -6
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Post by Gumbyhawk on Sept 11, 2008 12:16:58 GMT -6
I knew some guys in college who would routinely complete Super Mario Bros upside down. They'd just hang over a chair, couch, whatver and complete the game from start to finish. Freaking losers. Then again, not like they were spending time banging chicks...  |
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