14th June 2006, 7:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 14th June 2006, 8:03 PM by A Black Falcon.)
Conclusion: Old games are HARD!
... Contra: Hard Corps, Lightening Force, and Mega Man & Bass (I got a GB Player today... $30 used... needed something to replace my failing old original GBA (badly scratched screen and barely functional dpad make playing anything more action-packed than Fire Emblem barely possible...), and I got that. I thought about a used original GBA (since those are just $25, while SPs are quite a bit more), but got this. ... I might get another GBA also (since playing GBA games on a portable is the point, and being just tied to a TV isn't good, no matter how awesome it is...), we'll see, but for now, this is awesome... fullscreen GBA games? They look amazingly good in fullscreen mode... shows the advantage of a console made with a TV aspect ratio instead of the square of the older GBs. :)
The only question is, "would buying a GB Player for $55 or $60 (most of the ones I've seen new are in this price range for some reason) when I saw them months back have been worth it, given how great it is"? I'm not sure... probably, but... $30 is very nice...
It's a double-edged sword, though. Now I can play them on a big, bright TV... but now I have to play Mega Man & Bass... and it's probably the hardest Mega Man game ever... ack... like the aforementioned other two (Genesis) games I got recently... games that are so hard that it's a serious accomplishment to beat the first level... and then you realize that there are seven or eight more and you have only five or so continues until you're sent back to the Sega logo! ... oh wait, at least MM&B isn't quite THAT evil -- though when you're playing it you don't notice, with a difficulty level that high... (Lightening Force: I haven't beaten two levels in one game yet. Contra: Hard Corps: same. MM&B: beaten the intro level and one robot master... the easiest one...)
Even so, all three have to be called really, really awesome games... just ones where most people who play them will probably never see the later levels, unless they put a lot of time into the things.
... but hey, it could be worse! I could be trying to play Battletoads... (no, I don't have it, but I played Battletoads in Battlemaniacs for SNES a few months ago, and it's every bit as hard as advertised... was playing it two player, and after four or five attempts at level one we gave up. Just insane.)
So no, I'm not complaining. One reason for GETTING old games, after all, is to play games that have a serious challenge, in genres that are less popular today... it just gets very frusterating.
So how soon can I get a NES? :D
... Contra: Hard Corps, Lightening Force, and Mega Man & Bass (I got a GB Player today... $30 used... needed something to replace my failing old original GBA (badly scratched screen and barely functional dpad make playing anything more action-packed than Fire Emblem barely possible...), and I got that. I thought about a used original GBA (since those are just $25, while SPs are quite a bit more), but got this. ... I might get another GBA also (since playing GBA games on a portable is the point, and being just tied to a TV isn't good, no matter how awesome it is...), we'll see, but for now, this is awesome... fullscreen GBA games? They look amazingly good in fullscreen mode... shows the advantage of a console made with a TV aspect ratio instead of the square of the older GBs. :)
The only question is, "would buying a GB Player for $55 or $60 (most of the ones I've seen new are in this price range for some reason) when I saw them months back have been worth it, given how great it is"? I'm not sure... probably, but... $30 is very nice...
It's a double-edged sword, though. Now I can play them on a big, bright TV... but now I have to play Mega Man & Bass... and it's probably the hardest Mega Man game ever... ack... like the aforementioned other two (Genesis) games I got recently... games that are so hard that it's a serious accomplishment to beat the first level... and then you realize that there are seven or eight more and you have only five or so continues until you're sent back to the Sega logo! ... oh wait, at least MM&B isn't quite THAT evil -- though when you're playing it you don't notice, with a difficulty level that high... (Lightening Force: I haven't beaten two levels in one game yet. Contra: Hard Corps: same. MM&B: beaten the intro level and one robot master... the easiest one...)
Even so, all three have to be called really, really awesome games... just ones where most people who play them will probably never see the later levels, unless they put a lot of time into the things.
... but hey, it could be worse! I could be trying to play Battletoads... (no, I don't have it, but I played Battletoads in Battlemaniacs for SNES a few months ago, and it's every bit as hard as advertised... was playing it two player, and after four or five attempts at level one we gave up. Just insane.)
So no, I'm not complaining. One reason for GETTING old games, after all, is to play games that have a serious challenge, in genres that are less popular today... it just gets very frusterating.
So how soon can I get a NES? :D
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