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[roflmao]

I have been playing mega man 2 a lot recently. Lovely game store is having a speed run contest tomorrow. Prize is $50 store creadit.

I don't know what to expect as I have never participated in this sort of contest previously. However, I currently have my speed run down to 32 minutes no continues. Not that great as speed runners who know all the glitch ways to by pass parts of the game could do the game in the low 20 ish minute mark. But for an average joe like me I fee good about my times. Here is hoping I don't fluffed butter it up when I have a group of people watching.

That's awesome! I don't think I've ever even finished Mega Man 2 (and I know it's considered one of the easier ones)!

I had absolutely nothing to do the other day so I played Neutopia I from start to finish in one sitting. Will probably tackle II here in a few days.

Good googly moogly. I miss days like that.

When I'm not playing Skies of Arcadia with the lil, I've gotten back into playing Morrowind (GotY) on the original Xbox. Still so addicting.

[esteban]

I had absolutely nothing to do the other day so I played Neutopia I from start to finish in one sitting. Will probably tackle II here in a few days.

That's awesome. I never finished those games in one sitting. Never.

[Medic_wheat]

Mega Man 2 contest update.


Well I came in second place. It's was fun though. I wish the baby sitter actually came, but she didn't and I had to take my son with me. I didn't think I'd get to play but the game store was okay with my two year two year old (this April) to be present. My son only took the controller away once saying MINE. Which lead to a death on Heatman.

Contest:

Mega buster only, three lives per stage. You loss all three lives you get dropped from the contest. And it's buster all the way through no options or anything. Unfortunately they used a Retron 5 hooked up to a projector. So there was a never noticed delay. It was very frustrating when playing mega man of all games.

The prize ended up being $25 for first place and $15 for second due to only 5 people registering.

I was very surprised to see one kid who was maybe 14 and another maybe 9 or 10. The youngest also impressed me as he was missing one arm and played similarly to my wife (also missing one arm) where she used on hand for the d pad an the nubby arm for the a and b control (My wife does it opposite as it is her left arm she is missing).

The lag is what really messed up everyone. In fact instead of a semi round befor the final t was only me and the other guy who ended up winning simply because we didn't die on crash mans stage. I might have won if I didn't get frustrated in crash Man during the boss fight and die two times in a row as I got all spastic.

We ended up doing the semi round (heat man) and the first Willy stage (specials allowed) where we played both stages and then added the time for each stage together. The guy ended up being 30 seconds faster.

At the end I was just hanging out and the kid who was maybe 14 who was with his father was talking to one fk the video game employees. I over heard the kid say there NES he had wasn't working.

So I offered the kid a free NES. Kid said yes and the father followed me to my place which was near the store. I have the kid a extra NES and threw in a extra Mega Man 2 game. The father kept asking to reimburse me for my trouble and wouldn't take no. I didn't want to insult the man and took the $20 he offered.

Over all it was fun. I was generally impressed with the younger kids showing interest and skill with older games WAY before their time.

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[esteban]

Ha! That was kool to give the kid NES and MM2.

Also, I had never thought about what it would be like to use a standard NES controller with a "nubby arm" (prosthetic arm?) so it was interesting to read about that in your post. Forgive my ignorance... I originally assumed prosthesis was involved, but then I realized I could be wrong.

[Medic_wheat]

Ha! That was kool to give the kid NES and MM2.

Also, I had never thought about what it would be like to use a standard NES controller with a "nubby arm" (prosthetic arm?) so it was interesting to read about that in your post. Forgive my ignorance... I originally assumed prosthesis was involved, but then I realized I could be wrong.

Perfectly ok. As I was making up words.

No prosthetics where used by either the kid or my wife. They just used what was left of their malformed arm.

The difference being my wife was born with part of her arm unformed just past the elbow. The child at the contest (spoke with his mom) was borne just fine. However, he seems to have some sort of immunodeficiency which causes his body to attack itself. Resulting in his right arm being amputated semi recently above the elbow.

The kid did great showed the ability to be very patient during his run. I honestly thing both of the younger kids would have made it to the semi finals had it not been for the lag with the projector.

If I remember the rounds/stages where

Woodman
Airman
Crashman  (everyone had trouble with the boss due to the lag)

Heatman
Willy stage one (puff the magic dragon 🐉)

[Gypsy]

Almost done with Shining Force III. Last chapter I believe. Nice game.

[roflmao]

Great read, Medic! Thanks for the update. You're a kind soul for giving that kid an NES and MM2.

[Serega81]

Replaying Mafia 3 on the PS4, one of the best storylines ever, too bad the game itself is a bit repetitive.. 8/10 also playing through Yakuza 0, 0 and 4 IMHO are the best in the series.

[esadajr]

Meikyujima, a bit more difficult than the western release but at least I get to pick the stage.

[roflmao]

My son and I finally completed Skies of Arcadia on the Dreamcast. Man, what a fun game! Next up, Grandia 2.

[TR0N]

My son and I finally completed Skies of Arcadia on the Dreamcast. Man, what a fun game! Next up, Grandia 2.

It's a shame sega can't be bother to revisit for a sequel.

[Gypsy]

Replaying Mafia 3 on the PS4, one of the best storylines ever, too bad the game itself is a bit repetitive.. 8/10 also playing through Yakuza 0, 0 and 4 IMHO are the best in the series.

I really need to get a PS4 to play 0.

My son and I finally completed Skies of Arcadia on the Dreamcast. Man, what a fun game! Next up, Grandia 2.

Nice,  Skies is a good one.

It's been many years since I've played Grandia II, I remember thinking it was ok but not great. There is a sequence later in the game where you will need to go to a weird equipment set-up to make it a lot easier. Teenage me figured it out w/o checking the internet so it can't be too tricky but if memory serves... You need to use a tight dress and then an item to make the enemy target the character wearing it. Don't recall the name of that item, but you should see w/e it is naturally, it's not hidden or anything. This is pretty late in the game. I believe I was pretty frustrated before I thought of this.

Nearing the end of a Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn playthrough. 5 or 6 missions left. I was going to try it on hard after finishing PoR on hard earlier this year then I was like NOPE, don't have time for this shit. So I went back to normal instead. Later found out that apparently hard was cut from the US release (to make room for easy) and is actually Maniac.

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It's a shame sega can't be bother to revisit for a sequel.

Yeah, I wish they'd make a sequel too.

I picked up Starpoint Gemini 2 on Steam yesterday hoping to scratch that Freelancer itch and so for is does not disappoint! I'm only a couple of hours in, but almost thought about calling in sick today so I could stay home and play it.

[Strider77]

Sexy Parodius (Saturn)....       it's the best one right? It has the word "sexy" in the title.

Showed up with PC Denjin in the same package. It was a good day (Monday), both exceeded my expectations by a good bit.

[Gypsy]

Sexy Parodius is hilarious.

Just finished up Radiant Dawn.