30 Years of Nintendon't
released on Dec 31, 2018
In 1988, SEGA released the Megadrive home console in Japan. In 1989, the machine was released in the USA under the name Sega Genesis. To convince players that the 16-bit Megadrive / Genesis was better than the then-ageing Nintendo NES console, Sega created ads with a brilliant headline: "Genesis does what Nintendon't". "30 Years of Nintendon't" is a tribute to the Megadrive / Genesis console and this wonderful marketing campaign. As a Sega evangelist, you'll have to convince players to leave their NES console and avoid the SNES because "Genesis does what Nintendon't". How much market share can you earn thanks to your knowledge of the Megadrive / Genesis games library?
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THE BLAST PROCESSING ACHIEVEMENT CAN KISS. MY. ASS
The rest of the game here is pretty decent. A fun little high score based game with some nice pixelart and addictive gameplay, but MAN, they just had to fumble the bag with the retroachievements entries.
For those of you who don't know, the objective is, and I quote "Correctly ship 15 consoles in 20 seconds or less. (From start screen)". Now that sounds like it's not that big of a challenge but it's a LOT and I mean a LOT easier said than done.
First there's the "from start screen" shit, which I choose to assume means from the title screen of the game, meaning you have to wait around 5-10 seconds to even get an attempt, and you might say "Well why don't you use the speedup feature in Retroarch?" but that thing moves way to goddamn quickly to the point that you'll either end up wasting to much time on the menu without even knowing or you'll jump into the gameplay sooner than you'd want and lose that way.
But then there's the actual challenge itself, which is just as bullshit. I tried everything, from letting the guys come to me, to coming for them as soon as I could to even just straight up pressing buttons randomly but nothing seemed to work, because by the time I actually got the score I needed, the time had already run out. But the main issue comes with the way the game plays.
30 Years of Nintendon't is a reaction based game, you have to pick the right option as fast as you can and if you get 3 right answers in a row you keep playing. In a normal playthrough, that's fine, but when your trying to do it with barely any time left it's an absolute fucking pain because when your trying to read the goddamn things you gotta hurry up as much as you can and sometimes the adrenadile makes you answer wrong and you have to restart the entire game again and even when you think that you did it all right, the timer's gonna have run out by that point. Not to mention that due to the way the people spawn in randomly, one run you could get like 3 in a row and have one guy spawn at the other end of the screen, another you could be going for one dude and then 4 spawn on the other side and you miss a big chance to win, and so on and so forth.
This achievement is genuinely so fucking awful in the things that it requires you to do that it bumped down this game's score from a 7 to a 6, for fucks sake even the goddamn tutorial video on the page of it makes it looks like if the person playing is just spamming buttons and praying to god they get the first few consoles, that's how bad it is.
The rest of the game here is pretty decent. A fun little high score based game with some nice pixelart and addictive gameplay, but MAN, they just had to fumble the bag with the retroachievements entries.
For those of you who don't know, the objective is, and I quote "Correctly ship 15 consoles in 20 seconds or less. (From start screen)". Now that sounds like it's not that big of a challenge but it's a LOT and I mean a LOT easier said than done.
First there's the "from start screen" shit, which I choose to assume means from the title screen of the game, meaning you have to wait around 5-10 seconds to even get an attempt, and you might say "Well why don't you use the speedup feature in Retroarch?" but that thing moves way to goddamn quickly to the point that you'll either end up wasting to much time on the menu without even knowing or you'll jump into the gameplay sooner than you'd want and lose that way.
But then there's the actual challenge itself, which is just as bullshit. I tried everything, from letting the guys come to me, to coming for them as soon as I could to even just straight up pressing buttons randomly but nothing seemed to work, because by the time I actually got the score I needed, the time had already run out. But the main issue comes with the way the game plays.
30 Years of Nintendon't is a reaction based game, you have to pick the right option as fast as you can and if you get 3 right answers in a row you keep playing. In a normal playthrough, that's fine, but when your trying to do it with barely any time left it's an absolute fucking pain because when your trying to read the goddamn things you gotta hurry up as much as you can and sometimes the adrenadile makes you answer wrong and you have to restart the entire game again and even when you think that you did it all right, the timer's gonna have run out by that point. Not to mention that due to the way the people spawn in randomly, one run you could get like 3 in a row and have one guy spawn at the other end of the screen, another you could be going for one dude and then 4 spawn on the other side and you miss a big chance to win, and so on and so forth.
This achievement is genuinely so fucking awful in the things that it requires you to do that it bumped down this game's score from a 7 to a 6, for fucks sake even the goddamn tutorial video on the page of it makes it looks like if the person playing is just spamming buttons and praying to god they get the first few consoles, that's how bad it is.