I finally did it

maximaz said:
Damn. That sounds crazy to me because I remember Game Gear and playing that thing was like staring at laser pointers. It had that particularly terrible display which you had to really squint at and hold at a certain angle to still not quite see shit. Oddly, Sonic 2 was the only game I played on it and after a couple of levels I was freaking done. Or maybe it was the batteries. All I know is I never went back to that thing.
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Hmm, that doesn't sound right. I have the distinct recollection that the Game Gear screen was actually pretty great at being crisp and visible no matter what angle you held the device at to view it from, unlike just about ANY laptop nowadays. Probably because it was effectively a CRT screen crammed into such a small space... next to impossible to "not see it"? I do remember that holding it at different angles would change the brightness that the screen looked, so sometimes I'd hold it at an angle when I was sneaking binge runs in the middle of the night (when I should've been sleeping), and other times when it was hooked up to the cigarette lighter charge (remember when it was UNUSUAL to power devices with those things?) in a car on a long family trip I'd hold it the other way so the light wouldn't disrupt the rest in the car. It was a remarkably versatile device. Yet another testament to how radically effective Nintendo's marketing was, because they always put out the inferior products, with Gameboys and even Gameboy Colors falling so far behind Sega's hardware, yet they made money hand over fist in their sales. Poor Sega... =(

That being said, it MUST have been how unforgiving Sonic 2 was that led you to curse the handheld and leave it behind forever! XD
 
maximaz said:


I have owned Super Mario Bros, in one form or another, since I was a kid. Like many older gamers, I have come to memorize the first few stages down to the number of floating bricks, over the years. From time to time, I'd be repeatedly baffled to realize that I had never actually finished the game but my every attempt had resulted in my ass being handed to me quite fiercely... until moments ago!
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just wanted to let you know, from the bottom of my heart...



fuck you! i never beat this game :(

and it has always been a thorn in my side as a point of embarrassment.

so in closing, fuck you!


grats dude! some day i may load up emulators and roms and try to salve this ancient wound.
 
SnapSlav said:
maximaz said:
Damn. That sounds crazy to me because I remember Game Gear and playing that thing was like staring at laser pointers. It had that particularly terrible display which you had to really squint at and hold at a certain angle to still not quite see shit. Oddly, Sonic 2 was the only game I played on it and after a couple of levels I was freaking done. Or maybe it was the batteries. All I know is I never went back to that thing.
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Hmm, that doesn't sound right. I have the distinct recollection that the Game Gear screen was actually pretty great at being crisp and visible no matter what angle you held the device at to view it from, unlike just about ANY laptop nowadays. Probably because it was effectively a CRT screen crammed into such a small space... next to impossible to "not see it"? I do remember that holding it at different angles would change the brightness that the screen looked, so sometimes I'd hold it at an angle when I was sneaking binge runs in the middle of the night (when I should've been sleeping), and other times when it was hooked up to the cigarette lighter charge (remember when it was UNUSUAL to power devices with those things?) in a car on a long family trip I'd hold it the other way so the light wouldn't disrupt the rest in the car. It was a remarkably versatile device. Yet another testament to how radically effective Nintendo's marketing was, because they always put out the inferior products, with Gameboys and even Gameboy Colors falling so far behind Sega's hardware, yet they made money hand over fist in their sales. Poor Sega... =(

That being said, it MUST have been how unforgiving Sonic 2 was that led you to curse the handheld and leave it behind forever! XD
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hmmm maybe it was the batteries after all. The screen might have been dying as I played it (I never actually owned a Game Gear). I'm pretty positive that it was a Game Gear though and that it was Sonic 2.

TheWesDude is mad
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You're telling me that I pissed someone off in the process? That makes it all the more sweeter. But get that shit done.
 
Finally beaten FoNV four path ! ! !

Took me 14 month and 200 hours.
Never took so much time to finish a game. (except those i left hanging for many years)
I definitally convinced me to not do any 100% completion, unless not purposly.
Too long is too long...
From now on, no 1st/1rd person open-world RPG until TW3 and only for the quests.
 
Impressive.

I wonder whether there is a childhood game that I tried and failed to finish and eventually forgot about....


Probably not, I was a persistent bastard when I was a kid. I recall forcing my way through several excruciatingly difficult games (Difficult for a young kid, anyway.) and thinking "I won't let this beat me!".

In retrospective it was a pretty great attitude to have, really.
 
Probably not, I was a persistent bastard when I was a kid. I recall forcing my way through several excruciatingly difficult games (Difficult for a young kid, anyway.) and thinking "I won't let this beat me!".

In retrospective it was a pretty great attitude to have, really.
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Yeah. I kind of started getting back into that mode for some reason. I try to beat every game I play and get 100%, on achievements at least. Given the fact that I have absolutely no time to play games, it takes me several months to get done with one nowadays. My back log is so huge, I don't have to worry about buying a next gen console/laptop for a long long long time. If ever.
 
AlphaPromethean said:
Probably not, I was a persistent bastard when I was a kid. I recall forcing my way through several excruciatingly difficult games (Difficult for a young kid, anyway.) and thinking "I won't let this beat me!".

In retrospective it was a pretty great attitude to have, really.
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Same. Although I was "beaten" by this game because I never owned a Nintendo and my parents would always drag me away from the pizza places that had Mario playable there before I could beat it. Same reason I never finished Final Fight and other great arcades, even when my family OWNED the pizza place that held the arcades; not enough quarters, stingy parents. =(

EDIT: Speaking of Immersion and Super Mario... =D
 
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Man, Rooster Teeth is the best.

I haven't really checked any of their content other than their Podcast in ages, are they still doing the Immersion show?
 
I'm behind on their podcasts, myself. They were saying that they'd updated news that Immersion was in some in-between period with Immersion being a show or something? All I know is they made a second season of Immersion that wasn't as many episodes, and I didn't find quite as brilliant nor hilarious as the first season, but was still pretty good. So if they recorded more episodes and they're going to be part of a TV show or something, that'll be cool. But I gotta catch up on their podcasts where they talk about what RT's been up to, since I don't watch their news videos... XD
 
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