The last area in Dragon Spirit PCE is rahther rubbish. It's not so much the tight corridors that make dodging fireballs difficult unless you're small, the sucker punching frog enemies, the false sense of security you're led into by having a section full of enemies that give great prizes alongside the power down icons, the brief skewer section with ground enemies shooting at you, but they also made Zawell behave differently from the ARC and NES versions. The problem is that when he's closer to kicking the bucket, his crescent boomerang can swiftly chase you down and it's pretty difficult to dodge, almost as if you have no chance unless you're speedy or small.

Anyway yeah, it's really no wonder I had to use suspend points to finish it the first time, because I just spent the last half hour on this one area. Ah, I'll try again eventually...

The PCE version is too hard, the NES version is too easy, but the arcade version is just right.

Hey let's go in a different direction. Let's do songs that are associated with "hot." Desert, volcano, oil plants, you name it! Let's try.

[Link] Dragon Spirit - Volcano [Link] NES [Link] PCE (Track 4)
[Link] Gradius II - Burning Heat [Link] NES
[Link] Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The - Gerudo Valley
[Link] Prince of Persia Super NES - Stage 5
[Link] Tails Adventure - Poloy Forest
[Link] Twisted Metal 2 - Amazonia
[Link] Wonder Boy III - Island

More to come over the next few weeks!

See what a mess that whole thing was? Yet SEGA was still able to release Shinobi games in Europe without compromise, weren't they?

Well B.O.B. is definitely a 7 at best. You can see that there's good work done innit, but not so extraordinary that you need to go outta your way to play it. Just another notch in the era of mascot platformers. Let's not forget, EA also published James Pond.

Hey Donut Fwibbles, did you play Murtop yet? It's Dig Dug meets Bombuhman (or mebbe Eric and the Floaters?) You play as a wabbit and you squeeze out bombs and blow up foes. I do believe it's done by the same company that did Donut Dodo? Also they letchoo choose color palettes and one of them's a foir color CGA mode. I like that. Reminds me of playing Jill of the Jungle on a very old computer that could only handle four color games.

Two crushing defeats I just had! Dragon Spirit PCE and Gradius PCE. The freakin' instant I lost a life in the last level in Gradius was when the rest of my lives were pissed away. I was this close to finishing it. How could this happen, Master?

It always surprises me how not very good Dragon Spirit PCE is compared to the NES version. Less bombastic audio, more obnoxious difficulty (but the NES game is very easy), less stages... sixteen bit? Gimme a break.

But, I'll turn a negative into a positive, I did manage to make it pretty far on both games. Mayhaps there's hope for me yet.

Addendum: Maybe, but man that CPU speed. It needs blast processing.

Could Electronic Arts' B.O.B. be described as Turrican Junior? Youse-a mechanical dude, but with sass! And you can explore levels and find goodies to help youse along the way. What do you think? Is B.O.B. the burried treasure that's just waitin' to be dug up? I'm actually surprised they don't put it on Switch Online, because it could definitely benefit from being put on Genesis Online, butcha know, gots to hold em out and wait to see if they can be whored out in a collection. Come to think of it, didn't they ar'redy try that in the PlayStation Portable days? EA Replay I think it was called?

Wait, Ninja Gaiden SMS was only released in PAL territory but it retained the Ninja Gaiden name and didn't use Shadow Warriors? That's stickin' it to the parliament! Guv! Whatever!

Well I know I haven't finished my run of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and man, I tried to the other night and I got, like, seven game overs in that ice dungeon. I'm real tempted to hold out my hands and say "I'm good." It's weird, after playing Breath of the Wild for so long, Twilight Princess feels... stiff? No, it couldn't be.

Persona 4 Golden does sound kinda tempting. I think my friend is wanting me to play it, he asked me about it the other day. I really should do something about all these smaller games I got. Lookit this, Panic Porcupine, Belle Boomerang, Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider, and there are good looking randomized games like The Last Spell, Spelunky 2 (was on sale), and Enter the Gungeon, which SamuraiSam loves, but that's not all, there are the games that are minimalistic in presentation but loaded with content like n++ and Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon.

"Play whatcha feel" certainly goes a long way, just gotta figure out what it is I feel a lotta the time.

Dude! Dude, dude! A new shootie is coming, Star Gagnant, and it was supervised by the legendary Takahashi Meijin! Holy jeebies! The Takahashi Meijin! The former Hudson Soft executive producer and master trigger finger guy. That rules! I'm gonna wishlist it and hopefully it'll be worth the asking price of $38 US!

Fwibbs, I just cleared The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It was great! It starts out ruff, but it's actually lovely. As far as these open world games are, it's definitely one of the ones that stand above the rest. Not sure about other games like this, but I'll definitely be playing the sequel! There's a reason that it's heralded as one of the best games from the last decade. And you should've seen it! Full voice acting in a Zelda game for the very first time and the characters are also not stilted. Indeed, it was a lovely game.

[yawn] I'm tired. I've played this game nonstop for the last few days. At least fifty hours was put into it. I definitely can't be playing games like this regularly 'cause it would kill me, but again, I will be playing Tears o' the Kingdom, man.

Whaddya think I oughta be playing next? I mainly wanna get back to NES playing because I got a good amount of games plus replays (though there are some I got on Switch like those JaJaMaru RPGs), but I need a game for the sake of playing during work. Hmm, I can either get into Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero or Persona 4 Golden, or, ooh, Darksiders II, MotherKojiro loved that one, or maybe I can try playing Portal. Didn't the Internet dwellers of the past love reciting lines from that game? Naturally, there's also all them indie games, but I tried playing Gungeon and Tunic during work and it didn't work, so maybe not those. Still need to finish CrossCode sometime...

You're right, it gives to much sparkle to your hair! HD sparkle!