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Here's to the console that pulled us back from the brink! o7

Ooh new levels, I'll check them out. I've made a lot of progress on my Bubbly Clouds stage, too.

Not sure if sarcasm. I like Mario's Picross but I wouldn't say it was a hit, at least not in the west. Was it?
Fun fact, if playing on a Super Game Boy, you can change the colour of the border using certain button combinations: [Link]

"To obtain the transparent Gameboy Border, rotate the Control Pad continuously in a clockwise direction until you hear a tone. Hold the Control Pad in that direction and press Start to get the border."

What. There are Game Boy games with features that only emerge when inserted into a Super, but that's the only one I know of with secret button codes.

It's October 18th. A happy 35th birthday to the NES. Keep on playing with power!

Rayman!? You should be playing this, instead: [Link]

We shall see...I'm not out of Level 1 on that yet, so I've yet to see anything too difficult for me.

Ya still playin' Super Mario Brothers 35? Here are some power tips from someone who won 27 times:

- Gather up as much coins and time as possible. Coins allow you to get items via pre-match or item roulette. In a pinch, it can make a difference. Know where the 1UPs and bonus areas are? Find them. As for time, Goomba hordes with the Super Star does well.

- After a while, the timer turns red and will start rapidly going down. This is why it's important to gather as much time as ya can.

- At the climax of battle, try not to give the remaining players opportunities to recover time. Instead, focus more on sending annoying enemies or keeping your own survival with Fire Flowers (when already Fire Mario) or finishing the course as fast as you can. If pressed, you can stomp on a few Goombas.

Yeah, Charlotte's the half human, half elf smol girl with the big floof hair. Even though she's fifteen, she talks and acts like a child, probably because no one ever lets her grow up. Despite the whole "tawking wike a widdle girl", she's actually a pretty decent character (IMHO). I find her manner of speech endearing. Her counterpart, Kevin, is a half human, half beastman with really stiff dialogue, probably because he doesn't know basic language skills. They're still adorable, though.

Confession time, I suppose.

I'm not really a River City Ransom fan. I didn't grow up with it. I get why people like it, but I had Super Ninja Boy growing up for that sort of gameplay. When I finally did play it, I found it enjoyable enough, but it wasn't there to shape my childhood, I guess.

I was, however, a "Crash n' the Boys Street Challenge" fan as I did have that growing up, so I like the Kunio series from a graphics and sound perspective. That's largely why I bought the retro bundle on the Switch: to get exposure to the series, specifically from the Kunio side of things (that, and I support the idea of game companies releasing official translations of unlocalized games). I can safely say however that Renegade is not fun at all (but that main theme is super catchy).

I have both River City Underground and Girls in my collection and I suppose I'll get to them someday.

I enjoyed the new courses, specifically the Fly Like an Eagle one, though the Dark Tower was neat too! I'm just sort of a fan of auto-scrolling shooting levels with the flying Koopa car I guess. I took the death route in Bloody Swamp (love the tribute to Kid Chameleon by the way) and didn't regret it. I'd say you've still got it.

The only one I've played is River City Ransom EX, and... I'm not sure if I should recommend it or not. I played it a while, and it just reminded me of all the things I don't like about River City Ransom. If you liked the original, it's a good excuse to play it again, I guess, but if you ask me, the Scott Pilgrim game (which is going to be rereleased, by the bye) takes what was neat about River City Ransom and makes it work a lot better.

Of all those, I've only played Double Dragon Advance, and I'd argue its one of the best games in the series.

I really really liked Tokyo Rumble. The old games are really good, too. Some can be played in co-op and some others in vs. mode. Avoid the western-made games.

Super Dodge Ball is one of my all time favorite games

ATTN: Hardcore game players: Are any of these Kunio games worth playing? As in, to go outta my way to do so:

River City Ransom EX (and I guess Double Dragon Advance too.)
River City: Tokyo Rumble
River City: Rival Showdown
River City Knights of Justice

I played Stay Cool, Kobayashi-san and thought it was alright, but couldn't get past one part. But anyway, yeah, those aforementioned games any good?

I started playing it based on your recommendation

Would be happy to. I'll take a look after work tonight!

Nay, I'm more of an Angela than Charlotte.

*looks at your Pokemon Crystal name* Now I know you're effing with me.

Copypasted from the DBwiki:
The song was written by Yuriko Mori, the music was composed by Takeshi Ike with the arrangement from Kōhei Tanaka, and it is performed by Hiroki Takahashi.

Huh! He did Alundra too!

Yeah, From The New World has definitely gone far past my expectations. It actually probably reminds me more of EarthBound than the earlier Shadow Hearts games, honestly. They both do the same sort of zany, surrealist take on American city life which is just great.

I tried to go through it years ago but things came up, I got distracted and forgot everything that happened. Now that I'm working on it actively, I'm really enjoying it, the music and combat system mostly. Really love the strange world and look of everything. Did you know the composer of PQ/Lennus I is the same composer for One Piece, and worked on the arrangement for the original Dragon Ball intro/outro?!

To be honest, part of why I started PQ was so that I could finally play Lennus II.

I wouldn't mind finding a way to play the 2nd one, if I can ever finish the 1st! I'm struggling hard now with Haggleman 2 and Star Prince. I'm trying not to use cheats but I might just cave and use left+start.