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Super Dodge Ball
1989
even as far as nes sports games go, this is kinda trash. it's just not even a little fun.
sonic 2 is perfect. transposing knuckles into it is a fun novelty but it makes the game feel a lot lonelier, and honestly it feels a little worse for it? (sonic & tails 4ever.) but i mean it's still sonic 2. it's not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination.
Tetris
2009
have you ever wanted to play tetris with a bunch of battery-draining ads? this gives u the chance to play tetris with a bunch of battery-draining ads! a perfectly fine way to pass the time while you're waiting for a table at applebee's or something.
this let you make your own custom league from scratch and that was super awesome to young me. the game itself was pretty horrible with horrible graphics compared to madden games of the time, but eh.
The Sims 2
2004
this game meant a lot to me because it let you be gay at the time when i was first realizing i was gay.
Super Mario Bros.
1985
this is so much easier as an adult??? i played this in one sitting in bed while my nesting partner snoozed next to me. i didn't use level warp pipes because i wanted to experience the whole game. i think this is the first time i've actually beaten this??? still very nostalgic, though, as this is the first video game i really remember playing.
for lthe longest time if you asked me to name my favorite video game of all time it was a dead heat between this & ocarina of time. and it's not really that they were ever surpassed. (well... i think wind waker surpassed ocarina of time, actually, but that's another conversation.) it's just that our understanding of what a video game can be changed drastically.
but like... in terms of what we understood video games to be in the 90s, this is still (and always will be) the absolute pinacle to me.
but like... in terms of what we understood video games to be in the 90s, this is still (and always will be) the absolute pinacle to me.
Fight'N Rage
2017
this game rules! all the enemies are hot buff furries or dominatrixes!! my only complaint is that i'm expected to fight back instead of just letting them beat me up? seems fake.
this movie: [proposes a complex & multilayered causal framework with complex relationships between reality & the movie]
me: lol sure
this movie: [a character offers another character drugs]
me: [waiting for the edibles i took earlier to kick in] ... wait...
me: lol sure
this movie: [a character offers another character drugs]
me: [waiting for the edibles i took earlier to kick in] ... wait...
i played this game a ton as a child & found it again on a website that has lots of abandonware on it! so much nostalgia. so glad i finally figured out what game it was.