star tropics is good stuff.
was able to get aaaall the way to the technodrome in tmnt and some sadistic shit w an autoscrolling screen where you had to diffuse bombs in battletoads. could never beat either, and man, did i ever waste a lot of time trying.
god, even thinking about these games is basically giving me an aneurysm!!!
― original bgm, Friday, 23 March 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
also getting mad at youtube for not letting me watch 'shredder's many jabs at krang' in my region of the world
― original bgm, Friday, 23 March 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 March 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
How were you able to beat the speeder stage? That part is impossible. Game-breaking bug and they never expected anyone to beat the game.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Friday, 23 March 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
the other levels were nearly impossible - i never did beat the final tower, even using the warps to get there. but the speeder stage could be memorized and doable if you did it a million times. i probably still have it committed to muscle memory, considering how many times i died over and over again. i vaguely remember pausing a lot, training to learn the placement of the blocks and such
now the snake and unicycle levels, forget it.. i think i maybe beat them once ever, if that
― Nhex, Friday, 23 March 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Battletoads_cartoon_title_screen.jpg
wtf
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Friday, 23 March 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
I REMEMBER THAT SHIT
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 March 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
dude on the right is totally on roids
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
fuck yeah i'ma play me some battletoads right now
http://www.1980-games.com/us/old-games/nintendo/b/Battletoads/big-game.php
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 March 2012 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
yknow mikey bay should make a live action 'bubble bobble' movie that shitd be real
― Lamp, Saturday, 24 March 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
omg yes the whole point of bubble bobble is explosions basically
― ♆ (gr8080), Saturday, 24 March 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
bubble bobble is about FRIENDSHIP
― original bgm, Saturday, 24 March 2012 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
used nhex's method of pausing and memorizing nintendo power maps to beat the speeder stage of battletoads iirc
― original bgm, Saturday, 24 March 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
which turtle is Shia Lebouf playing. also what percentage of the Turtles' dialogue will be an offensively awkward attempt at street lingo as filtered through alien amphibians
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
as part of mikey bay's homage to silent classics like 'the artist' the turtles won't have any dialogue
― Lamp, Saturday, 24 March 2012 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
the pause music in battletoads is better than 99% of other music
― humba (NZA), Saturday, 24 March 2012 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
i think i always lost in in the speeder stage on one when you were supposed to jump twice?
― humba (NZA), Saturday, 24 March 2012 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
turtles in time was at aladdin's castle in the mall, many a quarter rolled into that machine...it was right next to samurai showdown
― humba (NZA), Saturday, 24 March 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
fuckin loved BattleToads
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
fuck yeah brb still playin battletoads
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 24 March 2012 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
I spent a lot of time playing the original ninja turtles arcade game at bowling alleys . First video game that I ever beat!
― Large Sack (Empty) (latebloomer), Saturday, 24 March 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
me too!
kind of felt like it was the day i became a man.
― ♆ (gr8080), Saturday, 24 March 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
i'm still mad that the first time i ever played it I was getting my ass kicked by one of those robot-machine thingies and my friend (who was Michaelangelo) was nearby and his sister was screaming KURT SHOOT HIM! over and over but the dude kept jumping for whatever reason because he apparently couldn't master both buttons at the same time and finally after I died he figured out what he aws doing wrong and vaporized it.
I burnt his house down in retaliation. hope he's fucking happy.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago) link
My family started a Christmas tradition a few years ago where we sit around and eat Christmas snacks and watch my brother beat the NES Ninja Turtles game.
― Marilyn Hagerty: the terroir of tiny town (Abbbottt), Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
the OG one? aws that even possible? that game was insanely difficult
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that's why it became a tradition. That game lead to so many fights between me and my siblings growing up. If my brother got a game over, he'd throw the controller at me and have a tantrum. Day ruined.
― Marilyn Hagerty: the terroir of tiny town (Abbbottt), Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
Like most video games, I really only liked the part where you're walking around on the overworld map (where you can still get your ass killed, wtf).
idk Mario Bros 3 might have been amusing if Mario could be struck by a vehicle while attempting to select the next World to enter.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Hammer bros. kind of approached this, but it just led into a RPG-style battle
― dies irate (loves laboured breathing), Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
do they even have wheels in the Mushroom Kingdom?
― Number None, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
hey hey hey let's not take a swing at the not-so-well to do, they may be third world, but WE made them that way!
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
They have that sweet little boat in world 3.
― Marilyn Hagerty: the terroir of tiny town (Abbbottt), Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
All the islands off the mainlands had mushroom houses and matching games...
― dies irate (loves laboured breathing), Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
Also some of the best parts of the game IMO.
― Marilyn Hagerty: the terroir of tiny town (Abbbottt), Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
Would like an iOS battle toads reboot.
― Jeff, Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
World 3 is def one of my favorite levels (alomg with World 5)
― dies irate (loves laboured breathing), Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
i was just playing the original NES game and guess where i game over'd?
― grimes - (the elder scrolls iv:) oblivion (diamonddave85), Saturday, 24 March 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
if your NES was anything like mine, before the damn thing even loaded
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
was your nes a cereal box
― Large Sack (Empty) (latebloomer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
irl lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 05:27 (twelve years ago) link
hahahaha
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 25 March 2012 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/nes/file/teenage_mutant_ninja_turtles_nes_hudson_bomb.gif
― grimes - (the elder scrolls iv:) oblivion (diamonddave85), Sunday, 25 March 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
Michael Bay apparently bringing more creative reinventmentisation to the table, making the turtles not only alien, but non-teenaged, too.
meanwhile longtime main Turtle artist Jim Lawson has been posting pisstake art on the facialbook:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s720x720/535273_244637528964997_155495057879245_505751_588748507_n.jpg
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/375094_243496805745736_155495057879245_502508_1838993457_n.jpg
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s720x720/549062_244637788964971_155495057879245_505753_520910028_n.jpg
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Sunday, 25 March 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
hahah! Now that I would watch
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 March 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
title may be shortened just to "NINJA TURTLES"
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/03/24/scoop-michael-bays-alien-turtles-apparently-arent-teenagers-either/
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 26 March 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
Next Week: Just ninja aliens but they're still green.
― Lil T the Bowed Jet (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 March 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
"NINJAS!"
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 March 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
yeah when i was older all the post-desert worlds except world 8 were such a revelation to me cuz when i was a kid i would always use the magic flute trick to skip past them. i think world 7's jungle archipelago was my favorite tho
― Lamp, Monday, 26 March 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
Gah I was not patient enough for World 7; I think it was 7-1, with the undergrouynd pipe maze that sent you all the way back down to the bottom w/ one wrong move. It was such a pain in the ass and the level with its utilitarian 'black background and shitloads of pipe' aesthetic just didn't reward the ton of time I inevitably spent there. Pipe world just too draining...
World 6, the ice world, was even worse, bcz you couldn't maneuver for shit, but for some reason I loved the idea of ice world, so I tried to hang with it as long as I could before being o'ertaken with despair and double warping to level 8...
― dies irate (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
i liked the cartoonishly menacing minimalism of those pipe levels, all the black and green and space. i hated the cloud world tho the secrets in those levels were too punishing and unrewarding (all those finnick-y jumps!)
but i also really liked the snakeman levels of mega man
― Lamp, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago) link