I used to equip my party with Coma Darts from the gorillas and Gold Staffs from the Oasis shop in the desert in Dragon Slayer, use the whistle or whatever to make extra enemies, elastic band a rolling die on the 'positive' Turbopad button with the turbo switch on and leave the game on evernight to go up 10 - 20 levels.
I'd wake up the next morning, see what levels I made it to, save and then get ready for school.
The only thing that sucked about it (
other than if you consider it cheating), is that you have to set the leveling to auto and you don't get to custom make your characters into identical powerhouses.
Of course, I only started doing this occasionally after playing through the game like 20 times(literally) and to see if I could actually make it work (like my Dragon's Curse and Shapeshifter game breakers).
The game has some kind of invisible luck limit that you eventually reach at one point and instant death weapons stop working. But not before you can set the game up to automatically go up 50 levels.
I remember spending a lot of time at my mother's house one week that my younger brother was renting Shining Force. One afternoon, he woke up on the couch after playing the game all night and immediately in one motion sat up, hit the power on, picked up the control and lied back down to continue playing. He stayed on the couch for a few more days, only getting up for quick food and bathroom breaks.
The coolest part, is I'm pretty sure that he was skipping school the whole time.
Over the years, I've found myself, my brother, my girlfriend and another friend do the exact same thing during multi-day gaming sprees. Each time the exact same way: eyes open, sit up to console or TV power on + controller pick-up and straight back down.
What a bunch of losers huh?
Topic: night of old school gameplay (Read 331 times)
