PixlBit

Started early yesterday with River City Random on NES. This is a brawler, but unlike most brawlers of the time, you feel surprisingly free to do what you want. I think it's from the variety of things you can do and places you can go. You can kick, punch and throw enemies; pick up items and use them as melee weapons or throw them. There's the usual street fighting stuff like sticks and chains, but there are also every day items like baseballs and just blocks of stone or building matterial. You move in a 2D side-scrolling world but you can open doors or enter passageways in the background and enter a park or shopping district. This gives the game a good illusion of being in a 3D world.

Tested out my replacement Genesis controler on Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side today. Eternal Champions is a fine 1v1 fighting game. The graphics are nice and the music too. I just don't go for the 1v1 fighting games that much. I'd rather scroll through environments while I fight ala Final Fight. So onward. 

I exchanged my broken Genesis controller for a working one at my local retro gaming shop, Jay Street Video Games. I got the same original style controller. There's a smaller one with six buttons, but I like the bigger one with three. Then I traded some stuff and got Pokemon Conquest for DS. I had a talk with the saleswoman about the game and 999 for DS. These were both hers originally it turned out, and she knew both well. I was torn as to which to get and went with Pokemon Conquest, but I really wanted 999 too. Maybe next time. Here's a pic:

I started the day with Little Nemo: Dream Master for NES. It's a platformer and I generally dislike platformers but this one has neat features. I like feeding the animals candy so you can get into their skins and be them for a while. Sounds sick worded like that but it's totally cool, and cute as heck: wear a frog to jump high, wear a mole to dig. Neat!. The graphics are super charming too. I love the intro cinematics and the whole design of the game. I die a lot though. That pisses me off. I have no patience when it comes to games. Patience is for real life. Not for games.

Started out today on Xbox 360 and downloaded the Games with Gold: Saints Row IV and Sunset Overdrive for XBO.

I didn't know there was a different AV cable for the original Genesis. The Genesis 2 and 3 use the same one though, and I have a Genesis 3 that my friend Mark gave me. My orginal one is lost to the void of time. Here's a pic:

Picked up Ratchet & Clank for PS4 on Tuesday. It's a $40 game. I traded in some stuff and then preordered Valkyria Chronicles Remastered for next month bringing the total to $18. Not bad. Here's a pic:

I tried my N64 on my newer TV over at Mark's place, and it wouldn't come up. The TV couldn't connect to it for some strange reason. I've connected my PS2 and Gamecube with the same type of RGB plug, and they worked. I don't get it. But my N64 does work on my older flat screen TV at home. That makes no sense. Well, what can I do but play on my other systems while I think of a solution. 

I had some trouble with my N64 at the beginning of the day, but I just fixed the problem this evening, so I'll be starting Monday with that. The AV cable wasn't transmitting a signal it seems. I swapped out the cable and it worked. Thankfully it wasn't something internal. This is the N64 I had way back in the 90s. It's still working fine. 

I took the day off work today (Saturday) in order to be at my mom's birthday dinner, so I spent the afternoon with a few games. First was Microsoft Pinball Arcade for Game Boy Color, played on my Gamecube Game Boy Player, and then Destiny on Xbox 360.