(Retro) What have you been playing this week?

[Colin]

City Hunter...great music,and good fun but it's certainly not better the Rolling Thunder.

Agreed, not even in the same league.

[Leon Retro]

I've been playing Daytona Dreamcast as well. After getting obsessed over the Saturn version I have revisited the DC version. The handling isn't as tight, but it is still a decent game. Not up there with the best, but if once you get used to it, it's a nice racer.

As much as I want to like the game, the controls drive me nuts. It's such a shame, because it's a nice looking game with everything going for it. I heard it plays well with a wheel, but I've never tried that.

If only they'd just stuck with the same control style as the Saturn edition.

[davesol]

I just started playing flashback on the snes this morning. never played it before so looking forward to getting into it. finding the controls a bit fiddly though

[losersclub]

Finished Mana now, moved onto:

Link To The Past (Snes) - just done the skull woods dungeon

Batsugun (Saturn)

Kingdom Grandprix (Saturn)

[jonathan.ladd]

Super Mario 3 and The New Zealand story. Love those games.

[fallenangle]

Just started The Adventures of Link LoZII GC Zelda Collection.

OMG I'm hating it - much of this is due to the plinkity-plink music which you can't turn down as I normally prefer to do. It is seriously doing my head in but the difficulty level also seems remarkably high too. The, apparently unique for LoZ, RPG element in the gameplay almost necessitates you do quite a bit of boring and not that easy levelling up before going anywhere interesting.

I wasn't that taken with the original Zelda from this collection either. If these are representative of old school Nintendo gaming I'm beginning to think I'm not unhappy about having missed out.

[samanosuke]

I just started playing flashback on the snes this morning. never played it before so looking forward to getting into it. finding the controls a bit fiddly though

Brilliant game and very underrated, probably due to it having been developed in Europe. Played it up to the end of level two on the Amiga back in the day but as it was a dodgy crack, and in French at that, the third level would never load. I'm gonna give the Mega CD version a bash some time in the future.

[Cauterize]

Brilliant game and very underrated, probably due to it having been developed in Europe. Played it up to the end of level two on the Amiga back in the day but as it was a dodgy crack, and in French at that, the third level would never load. I'm gonna give the Mega CD version a bash some time in the future.

Bloody hard on the Amiga version too. Its not until you play with a Megadrive or SNES pad you realise how much you need those extra buttons.

The beginning of Level 2 is all I could manage to get to on a one button Joystick

[nintastic]

I've been playing on all my games before I sell them !

[Cauterize]

I've been playing on all my games before I sell them !

Ill take the bait Marcus...

WHY?

[BigDeadFreak]

As soon as I've finished Resident Evil 4 I'm gonna try complete Battle Garegga on the Saturn using the smallest ammount of credits I can manage. I know I'll never be able to 1cc it but I'll try for 3 and see how it goes.

[JazzFunk]

Been playing Shadow Dancer on my DS Lite via jenesisDS (illegal ROM-scowlers don't worry, I own the original Jap MD version). Fantastic emulation for this game and it looks brilliant on the DS screen.

It's a quite hard thing for me to say, given how close Revenge Of/Super Shinobi is to my heart (one of my favourites of all time), but this has definitely aged better than that game. Where I used to look at the graphics in 1991 and find them somewhat grainy and underdeveloped compared to Revenge/Super, I'm now focusing on how slickly it plays, how responsive it is, how challenging it is, and I think that it is - in retrospect - one of the true 'great' Megadrive games. It actually looks great - well, flawed-but-great (the 'outer game' presentation isn't so hot, the title screen, the appalling between-level mission font, and many of the backdrops aren't attention-seeking) - but there is a consistency to it, it has this rough-edged identity that has a pure perfection to it, visually, sonically, and the gameplay is spot-on, like Solid Snake sniping on Diazepams. And, the music is mainly awesome, brilliant, scuzzy, ninjitsu bass-heavy.

First time I've put this much time into Shadow Dancer since about December 1991, and I'm so glad I have.

Bad thing, though, I got to the Statue Of Liberty boss stage (3-3, I think) and my DS ran out of charge, gah.

[losersclub]

As soon as I've finished Resident Evil 4 I'm gonna try complete Battle Garegga on the Saturn using the smallest ammount of credits I can manage. I know I'll never be able to 1cc it but I'll try for 3 and see how it goes.

It's easier with the bonus ships mate

[losersclub]

Finished Zelda Lttp now i'm splitting my time between

Super Metroid (Snes) - timeless game

Albert Odyssey (Saturn) - been wanting to play this for years but never got round to it, i'm slightly unimpressed to be honest, it looks nice but it just feels a bit lightweight. Plus it has an extremely high random battle encounter rate which is making navigating the dungeons a bit of a pain

Still i'll stick with it and see i guess

[samanosuke]

Been playing Shadow Dancer on my DS Lite via jenesisDS (illegal ROM-scowlers don't worry, I own the original Jap MD version).

No need to justify using ROMs. We all use them, it's just some openly admit it whereas others don't.