Holiday Gaming

[vestcoat]

Yesterday I had a chance to spend some quality time with my Duo for the first time in several months.  After playing Bard’s Tale on the NES and Gauntlet on the SMS, I beat The Addams Family and rocked Last Alert for a couple hours.  Then I finally figured out how to play the Populous SCD  I got from D-lite.

The Addams Family is a strange game.  It deserves the bad reputation it’s acquired, but it’s not as bad as, say, Impossamole.  It actually would have been better if it wasn’t a CD game.  The worst things about the game are the voice acting, the worthless music, and the absolutely terrible load times that hopelessly mire whatever momentum starts to build.  A fast-playing hucard would have solved these problems and the play control is somewhat bearable once you get used to it.  Ever so, there are tons of better platformers.

I do really like Populous.  I’ve always been under the impression that it’s an unpopular game, is this true?  Any fans here?  I had never played it before and I couldn’t figure out what the heck all of the icons did so I ordered a SNES version with manual to help me learn.

Anyone else had time to squander with their TurboGrafx this week?

[nat]

I've actually had significantly less time to play video games this week, with crazy shit at work, and about 18.6 families to visit for Christmas.

[Sinistron]

I like the Populous disc- especially the Bomberman world.  It takes some time to beat a world though- as I've only beaten one and haven't played it since.  I remember being captivated by Populous when a friend had it on Genesis back in the day.

[rag-time4]

Yesterday I had a chance to spend some quality time with my Duo for the first time in several months.  After playing Bard’s Tale on the NES and Gauntlet on the SMS, I beat The Addams Family and rocked Last Alert for a couple hours.  Then I finally figured out how to play the Populous SCD  I got from D-lite.

The Addams Family is a strange game.  It deserves the bad reputation it’s acquired, but it’s not as bad as, say, Impossamole.  It actually would have been better if it wasn’t a CD game.  The worst things about the game are the voice acting, the worthless music, and the absolutely terrible load times that hopelessly mire whatever momentum starts to build.  A fast-playing hucard would have solved these problems and the play control is somewhat bearable once you get used to it.  Ever so, there are tons of better platformers.

I do really like Populous.  I’ve always been under the impression that it’s an unpopular game, is this true?  Any fans here?  I had never played it before and I couldn’t figure out what the heck all of the icons did so I ordered a SNES version with manual to help me learn.

Anyone else had time to squander with their TurboGrafx this week?

I like Populous, though it's not a game I play all the time.

I hear that the SCD version has a Wild West level... I believe it's a level unique to the SCD version. If you've played it, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it as I haven't had a chance.

[D-Lite]

I've actually had significantly less time to play video games this week, with crazy shit at work, and about 18.6 families to visit for Christmas.

Is that the in-law portion?

[shubibiman]

I've opened and played the John Madden DUO CD Football I received from TZD and it was hilarious. Not that the game is bad (well actually I haven't played so many US Football games) but the video cutscenes...OMFG! It's like TTI/Hudson/whoever had such a low budget that they asked friends to do the acting. When you see the crowd cheering, it feels like it's a bunch of 4 or 5 drunk guies sitting on countryside stadium's stands with nobody around.
Still I think the game is quite good as the controls are easy to get used to.

[Necromancer]

Load Madden with a 2.0 card to see the best fmv sequence.

[Ninja Spirit]

On New Year's Eve I.....

> Attempted Salamander on Difficult Mode. Damn rings in stage 5 appearing out of thin air....
> Almost beat Double Dragon II on Hard

[esteban]

Last night I finally hooked up PS2 + DDR2 that I bought for my wife over a year and a half ago. I played it for a bit -- AWESOME. I have to get another pad for it.

I also have to find my XaviX and hook that bad boy up as well. I haven't played Jackie Chan XaviX in nearly 2 years, I think...