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I beat ET as a kid. I just wanted to share that. No cigarette afterparty occurred, though.
And here’s me replaying some of those and using save states like a mad man
I beat DuckTales without getting hit.
Awoohoo
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The tough ones, especially. OG NES TMNT conqueror here (as you can tell it’s still in my list of life achievements).
Battletoads was the badge of honor
That game is hard to beat even with a fucking game genie, it’s insane.
You’re totally right and its one that I never beat. I haven’t gone through it with an emulator either. There are some games I have since gone through with an emulator using save states that I didn’t beat legitimately back in the day, like Castlevania, that I recognize would have been HAF to beat without assists. I still may try Battletoads the old fashioned way because I have a lot of respect for that game. I’m pretty sure if I or one of my friends had owned the game we would have beaten it, but we never managed to over the course of several rentals.
3 lives left.
Mario Bros was the first souls-like
laughs in Contra
I think I also hear Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden laughing.
The Hyper Tunnel in NES Battletoads is laughing like The Joker
I almost used Contra instead lol
I still maintain that the first Goomba in 1-1 probably has the highest kill count of any single creature in the universe.
This is bullshit.
I was there and we sure as fuck didn’t use pussy ass filters until we were old enough to understand the health benefits.
and a swig of Maddog 20/20 was also in order. Or some Night Train Express if one of your buds was already in their 30s.
I have ridden the Night Train. I have looked the Devil in the eye.
There are no health benefits to the filters, they only keep you from getting tobacco in your mouth.
Pssst, that was part of the joke. Don’t tell anyone.
In my day we played like men!
Also me:
I could complete Robocop and Midnight Resistance though.
I’m going to pretend you only used that for the pause feature and taking screenshots. Otherwise, we’re going to have a problem.
– Video Game Police
The best feature was being able to back the entire memory up to disk so I wouldn’t have to wait ten minutes to load it from tape.
Even with infinite lives, half these games were close to impossible to beat.
Well, there’s your problem. You’ve plugged a Romantic Robot into the place where your Kempston joystick should be. Never going to win at Daley Thompson’s without perfecting your waggle. Also, the Speccy will probably crash from hammering the keyboard if you try.
Midnight Resistance is one of those weird games where the first level is the hardest; it’s not too bad to finish it if you do the first bit. Fair play on Robocop, though - that’s a hard game.
Treasure Island Dizzy only had a single life. One of my earliest memories is of my sister losing her shit as she accidentally dropped the snorkel while she was cycling through her inventory underwater.
Holy crap I totally forgot that game existed. Me and my best friend were obsessed with it, drawn 3 tomes (yes, tomes) of comics about its characters.
Super Mario Bros in the NES for me, the excitement if you reach a later level for the first time, only to die and have to try it al over again.
Totally not this 80s kid.
This was me after finishing Majora’s Mask 100%.
