N64 Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon

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It's Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon! This is one of my favourite games of all time, in my opinion it's both the best N64 game and the best 3D platformer ever. It's also hilariously Japanese and has a lot of funny dialogue. It's really just an amazing tale with almost infinite replayability.

It's also much longer than any game I've done before, so I have to split this one into parts. This video is comprised of 20 individual parts, but the playlist will allow you to watch them all back-to-back.

So sit back and enjoy, this is one heck of a game.

Something Big is Coming

Okay, I spent most of tonight recording a new video, but I'm not posting it yet for a mysterious reason (and no, it's not ENTIRELY just to build suspense).

To tide you over until next week, here's a filler post. I'll probably get around to writing up all the systems I've spent a fair amount of time with eventually.

Tero's Top 10 - NES

The question "what are your favourite games" is one that comes up a lot in games communities (I've even joked it's the gamer's equivalent of "What's your sign"). My answers change constantly, both because I'm always playing new games and because I can't remember what I answered last time.

Still, it seems like a good thing to go in a blog about Classic Gaming because blogs are supposed to be vaguely personal and it's something I've made reference to a lot of times. It also buys me several posts worth of filler. Don't be surprised if these posts randomly change in the future.

And of course, you'll probably disagree. That's not surprising. Note that it says "favourite games", not necessarily "what do you think are the best games".

I'll start with the NES, because it's the system I've covered the most here.

1 - Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
2 - Snake Rattle n' Roll
3 - Bubble Bobble
4 - River City Ransom
5 - Double Dragon 2
6 - Super Mario Bros
7 - Kirby's Adventure
8 - Stunt Kids
9 - Mega Man 3
10 - MC Kids

Apart from the top 2 slots, this is very difficult to choose, but I forced myself to only pick 10. One pattern is that the top 5 games all have simultaneous co-op - the NES is one of the greatest co-op systems available, and you can see that dominance reflected here.

Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers has always been my favourite NES game, and it's definitely the single game I've beaten the most times total. It's a very easy game, but it's extremely well made and is still fun even when you're extremely good at it. I always recommend it to anyone who is just starting at gaming, because I believe it's the best game ever at what it does.

Snake Rattle 'n Roll is pretty much on the opposite end of the spectrum. Where CnD is just extremely solid but conventional, SRnR (what is it with NES and 'n?) is extremely unique. It's an isometric platformer with gameplay that can really only be called bizarre. Still, it's very fun, and most people I know who know what it is rate it pretty high. It's also pretty hard, actually, I only beat it for the first time a few weeks before I made the video of it and I've had it since childhood.

Of course, I'm sure I'll take some flak for including MC Kids and not Super Mario Bros 3. I've always slightly preferred MC Kids to SMB3, mostly because of its emphasis on exploration. I prefer SMW to SMB3 (and to MC Kids, for that matter) for mostly the same reason.

Most of the rest of the choices should be familiar to NES fans. Astute viewers may notice that I eventually subbed out DuckTales for Kirby's Adventure, it just didn't feel right leaving Kirby off the list after I went back and played it again.

PSX Pocket Fighter

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Pocket Fighter is a fun little fighting game. It's incredibly simple, but it's still kind of entertaining. Hopefully you'll be entertained.

Also, Happy Valentine's Day, Internet land. You can follow Felicia's search for fame and romance in this video (here's a hint, she doesn't have any success either).

I initially picked this as a test video for Veoh. However, I've sinced moved it over to Youtube. Since this was fun to do, I've added a second playthrough using Tessa.

SNES Megaman X

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It's my 30th upload spectacular! Megaman X!

Of particular note is the fact that I now own a capture card, and as such, this video was not created using an emulator. Nothing against emulators, mind you, but a game like Megaman X is significantly harder to play with a keyboard. Now you can really get a good feel for my abilities (though not at the very end of the video, ugh). This also allows me to get around all further emulator compatibility problems, so it's a handy thing to have.

Megaman X is one of my all-time favourites, but it's hard to play with a keyboard because the shoulder buttons are really important. As such, it was a natural choice for my first capture card video. The game is also fairly easy so I wouldn't have to attempt it a ton of times.

There's still a couple bugs to work out in the process, though, the card really doesn't like the explosion effect used by this game and the video gets a little wobbly after it happens. Sometimes it takes the card a little while to lock back on to the signal, which is worst in Boomer Kuwanger's level. I've been fiddling with the settings and have managed to reduce how often this happens, but not totally eliminate it. Thankfully, this problem doesn't seem to exist on systems from the N64 era and onward. Must be something different about how the SNES sends the signal.

On another note, this will probably be my last video for Google Video (see the post below this one). It's a shame GV is closing, it was a good service for this kind of thing. I hope I'll be able to find something else that works as well. At least this is a good note to end on.


This video has now been completely redone, eliminating the video distortion effect, and the death that was in the previous run.