Games

Post by **vom** » Sun Jun 06, 2021 11:05 pm

It will not be £3

Post by **dng** » Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:23 am

Hey look theres another one of those "seven bilion itch.io games for a fiver" bundles

https://itch.io/b/902/indie-bundle-for-palestinian-aid

i have still not actually played any of the thousand games i bought this time last year in the last one

Post by **vom** » Mon Jun 07, 2021 5:53 am

I played a few from the last one but I think at least two of them I bought again to play on the switch

Post by **dng** » Mon Jun 07, 2021 10:04 pm

I am still rubbish at Spelunky

Post by **richschnauzer** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 7:32 pm

Post by **dng** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:01 pm

They are all looking past the Vectrex at something actually exciting situated somewhere off screen

Post by **richschnauzer** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:37 pm

Zandy Eggmilk 5000

Post by **richschnauzer** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:38 pm

ha ha ha http://razstar.brinkster.net/goaste/stu ... /zandy.htm

Post by **dng** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:05 pm

beautiful

Post by **dng** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:08 pm

dng wrote: Mon Jun 07, 2021 10:04 pm I am still rubbish at Spelunky

i almost opened the shortcut to the final level (which i've never done before), but then getting the key from the first level one millimetre from the final exit on the twelth level i got picked up by a yeti and hurled into a wall for all eternity until dead

Post by **dng** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:09 pm

i also am still totally unable to get absolutely anywhere in the ruins levels at all. i don't think i've ever even cleared a single screen on that bit

Post by **dng** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:12 pm

anyway the best bit of spelunky is the music on the graveyard level which i really love for some reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhAyScQA1tA

Post by **vom** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:31 pm

I wish they'd included the music from the old free Spelunky in the remade Spelunky because it was so catchy and i loved it

But also yes the new music is good

Also I'm probably currently in my longest spell of not playing Spelunky since the original release of Spelunky, as I didn't bother installing it after upgrading to Windows 10 at the start of the year and it isn't out on Switch yet

Gonna get back into it HARDCORE when it is

Maybe go down an actual mysterious hole to play it

wear a hat

punch a snake

the full experience

Post by **vom** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:32 pm

also play Spelunky 2 I guess although I'm a bit frightened of it

Post by **dng** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:37 pm

I heard spelunky 2 was even harder than spelunky 1 so i'm not sure i'd be able to cope with it at all

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 11:14 pm

I am now in the all-time top 1000 at Pacman 99. What am I doing with my life.

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 2:04 pm

richschnauzer wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 7:32 pm

My neighbour had one, and I thought it was really cool. I never quite understood why there were so many 2D games on it - You'd have thought 3D would've been its major selling point.

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 6:29 pm

Bruce Sato wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 11:14 pm I am now in the all-time top 1000 at Pacman 99. What am I doing with my life.

It's something to tell the Grandkids, Bruce!

Should I have any grand childer, then I will regale them of the time I outscored the Pole Position high score as printed in Zzap 64 magazin!

Post by **dng** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 6:37 pm

dng wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:08 pm
dng wrote: Mon Jun 07, 2021 10:04 pm I am still rubbish at Spelunky
i almost opened the shortcut to the final level (which i've never done before), but then getting the key from the first level one millimetre from the final exit on the twelth level i got picked up by a yeti and hurled into a wall for all eternity until dead

I did this today and I also then got to the boss

Post by **dng** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 6:37 pm

Then I died

Post by **dng** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 6:38 pm

a thousand times

Post by **richschnauzer** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 7:33 pm

vom wrote: Sat May 08, 2021 2:43 pm still seems so weird that you could buy computer games in Boots

Post by **dng** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 10:48 pm

vom wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:31 pm I wish they'd included the music from the old free Spelunky in the remade Spelunky because it was so catchy and i loved it

i just listened to this on youtube and its wonderful

Post by **dng** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 10:50 pm

especially the ice levels

Post by **vom** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 10:58 pm

ves

lovely Spelunky

Post by **dng** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 11:15 pm

I got to Olmec a few more times and bombed some nice big holes for him to fall into and then while trying to lure him towards them fell in instead and died. every time. uselessy

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Jun 10, 2021 12:57 am

richschnauzer wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 7:33 pm
vom wrote: Sat May 08, 2021 2:43 pm still seems so weird that you could buy computer games in Boots

I'm not saying Wolverhampton is behind the times, but our high street branch of Boots still stocks VIC-20 software...

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 10, 2021 4:44 pm

Hooray I completed spelunky

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 10, 2021 4:44 pm

On my 490th go

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 10, 2021 4:44 pm

(Not including how many goes I had before on the Xbox)

Post by **vom** » Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:42 pm

hooray

now do it again in under 10 minutes for an "achievement"

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:43 pm

It's under 8 minutes on the PS4. It took me longer than that to coax bloody Olmec down my carefully dug hole

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:47 pm

My only two major problems with spelunky are that the dark levels are no fun at all, and also making Olmec fall in the lava is pretty tedious.

Also that some of the configurations in the temple levels genuinely seem impossible (especially ones where you start with mummies on both sides of you, and maybe even one of those stupid anubises above or below you)

Also those worm levels but I suppose they're supposed to be annoying

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:48 pm

Also that I'm rubbish at it

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:48 pm

Also that was four gripes not two

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:48 pm

I'm too hot to count now

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Jun 10, 2021 11:36 pm

(Nicked from CaB)

A kooky portable games console with a crank controller?

I think I like it. I think.

Post by **endar** » Fri Jun 11, 2021 12:40 am

is that a wind-up charger?

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 11, 2021 1:09 am

No its some sort of controller, for when you need analogue input, bafflingly

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 11, 2021 1:11 am

its super twee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeWGukDrc1U

and presumably designed after someone watched too many epiosdes of adventure time and fell in love with beemo

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 11, 2021 1:11 am

I'd buy one if it was 50 quid

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 11, 2021 1:11 am

but it is four times 50 quid

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Fri Jun 11, 2021 5:31 pm

It's beautiful, I would like one.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Fri Jun 11, 2021 5:31 pm

I would play it once then place it proudly in a draw.

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jun 11, 2021 6:24 pm

Have they just released a b&w one, so they can release an updated model with colour six months down the line?

NOTE: I haven't listened to their spiel, so it might be covered there.

Post by **Chortle Hound** » Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:07 pm

I looks excellent, but lack of colour is annoying. It is a "1-bit" console, did I hear that correctly? So by design presumably. But maybe you can't fit colour in to 1-bit games. Given the massive amount of memory fitted to mobile devices these days it does seem a bit weird. The black and white is a turn off.

Post by **Chortle Hound** » Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:09 pm

Oh, it's the display that's 1-bit. Yeah they'll defo do a colour version in future.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playdate_(console)

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Jun 12, 2021 12:42 am

Or mebbe they could 'do' a Vectrex and just provide coloured overlays for the games!

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jun 18, 2021 1:32 am

blombluss wrote: Thu Jun 10, 2021 11:36 pm (Nicked from CaB)

A kooky portable games console with a crank controller?

I think I like it. I think.

I will NEVER stop posting that image!

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:45 pm

On the recommendation of Vom about a week ago, I've been playing hyper light drifter, which is sort of a 2D Zelda game with Fez style aesthetics. I'm enjoying it, but then I just got to a boss which I died on a thousand times so now I'm in a huff.

Actually maybe this reminds me also of axiom verge, which was a good metroid clone with absolutely infuriating bosses that were no fun at all as well