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It will not be £3

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

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

I am still rubbish at Spelunky

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

Zandy Eggmilk 5000

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

beautiful

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

Then I died

a thousand times

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

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

especially the ice levels

ves

lovely Spelunky

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

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...

Hooray I completed spelunky

On my 490th go

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

hooray

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

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

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

Also that I'm rubbish at it

Also that was four gripes not two

I'm too hot to count now

(Nicked from CaB)

A kooky portable games console with a crank controller?



I think I like it. I think.

is that a wind-up charger?

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

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

I'd buy one if it was 50 quid

but it is four times 50 quid

It's beautiful, I would like one.

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

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.

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.

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)

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

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!

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