NES Double Dragon 2

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Here's an old favourite - Double Dragon 2! This is a great example of old-school gaming, it's just you, 4 lives, some nasty jumps, and a mountain of badguys in an all out war for beat-em-up supremacy.

Actually, I had kinda forgotten how tough this game was on the hands. This game is a gauntlet in more ways than one.

SNES Sparkster

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So, I finally decided to check out a recommendation from an old friend, and I really should have done so sooner. Despite looking like your average 90s Mascot platformer, Sparkster (for SNES, the Genesis game is totally different) is an awesome high-speed platformer with great play control.

There's one part of the game I really don't like (and you'll see why), but this is otherwise a very solid game. I'll have to ask my friend if she has any more obscure platformer recommendations the next time I see her.

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It was a crazy week which left me little to no time to play classic games, but I figured I could update the photo thread with a few pictures of new stuff.

Still nothing from GB or GBA, mostly because of how the games are stored.

PSX Snowboard Kids Plus

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Those who've been following this site carefully may have noticed that I've mentioned the PSX version of Snowboard Kids a few times. For a while, I was intending to do a run of this game for comparison with the N64 version (which is already up), and here it finally is.

You'll notice that this version is much easier than the N64 version, and that the frame rate isn't nearly as good. Still, I like the fact that there's a lot more content to the game, the N64 game is a lot of fun but it's pretty short.

SNES UN Squadron

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A while back, I posted a run of the game "Biker Mice From Mars", a hidden gem I found through a thread discussing Capcom vs Konami on the SNES. This was the other game I bought from that discussion, a relatively unknown shmup made by Capcom.

I don't do shmups often, because I'm not as good at them as I am at some other genres, and there's a lot of people out there who dedicate their entire lives to shmup games and make the rest of us look like complete hacks. So enjoy this run while you can, who knows when another game of this type is coming.