What games are you playing this week? 2017-05-15

[CodeDrawer]

When was the game made? Are there any other space shuttles?

[obsidianspider]

@CodeDrawer The original Pokemon games were released in 1996, years before Columbia disintegrated in February 2003. Damn. I still remember where I was when I found out that happened.

Six shuttles were built. Five were operational orbiters. Four are currently on display.

• Enterprise (built for approach and landing tests, not an operational orbiter) - on display at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
• Columbia - disintegrated during re-entry on February 1, 2003
• Challenger - disintegrated 73 seconds after launch on January 28, 1986
• Discovery - on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum
• Atlantis - on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
• Endeavour (built to replace Challenger) - on display at the California Science Center

[meleu]

I think I'm done with Operation C. Don't have enough time/patience to get all the cheevos, though.

I think the hardest cheevo I got was The Only Gun You Need - Complete the game using only the default gun.

[obsidianspider]

I think I'm going to put Pokemon down again for a while. It just seems like a bunch of grinding, and it's just not fun. I mean, is there more to it than just walking around and picking up more Pokemon? I haven't seen any missions, or really anything. Granted, I only beat the first gym, but I did give it a solid go for a few hours.

[mediamogul]

@obsidianspider

It just seems like a bunch of grinding

I was excited when I got a good deal on a physical cart of Pokemon Yellow a few years ago. Pokemon was the biggest Nintendo franchise that I had never tried before. After a few days I was disappointed to come to your same conclusion. From what I hear the later games are an improvement and there's much more to do. I'm particularly looking forward to playing the GBA hack, 'Pokemon: Snakewood' sometime in the near future.

[meleu]

@mediamogul looks like a good option for halloween.

[mediamogul]

@meleu

That's a really great idea. I already pick a retro horror game to complete every Halloween. Last year was 'Super Castlevania IV: Uncensored' and before that was Capcom's amazing first entry into the horror survival genre, 'Sweet Home'.

[obsidianspider]

@mediamogul I bought Pokemon Yellow when it was new along with my Atomic Purple Game Boy Color. I never got very far in it back then either. :-/

[backstander]

I missed out on the Pokemon games as well. I wonder if you would had to play them when they're new to really get the impact of them. I do remember my college roommate would play one of the N64 Pokemon games a lot. I was busy playing Half-Life, Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament at the time.

[obsidianspider]

@backstander I never got into FPS or fighting games much either. I'm more of a platform/JRPG guy.

[sirhenrythe5th]

@hooperre Diablo on PSX is great!
Only issue that i have is that the background music randomly stops sometimes.
Besides of that the conversation of Diablo for the PS1 is well done imo.

[hooperre]

@sirhenrythe5th Thanks. Sweet. I'll give it a go then.

[sirhenrythe5th]

@hooperre you are welcome and enjoy splattering demons in the dungeons 👍☺

[space cadet]

I need to check out the psx version of diablo. I played the pc version way back.

[obsidianspider]

I just stumbled across Mariachi Entertainment System and it's incredible

[Omnija]

Turns out after playing bubble bobble part 2 and reaching level 24, we (as in me and my g/f) went into donkey kong and beat king k roll.

[meleu]

Just to keep the same feeling, I've started Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX (GBA). Really fun and has cheevos: retroachievements.org/Game/2424

[Darksavior]

I just got a free pi3 from ordering ~$20 worth of stuff from arrow.com (deal's over if anyone was interested), so I can finally run a couple games my pi2 was incapable of running at fullspeed like the sega system32 games Arabian Magic, Golden Axe 2, and Spider-Man. Demon Front as well. Though, I had to downgrade to fba2012 for that one because even with an oc'd pi3 @ 1.3ghz, it still wasn't fullspeed in lr-fba.

[lilbud]

@meleu Are you just going to play all of the contra games and get achievements?

[meleu]

@lilbud something like that. Are you coming too?
I still have "Beat Contra (NES) without using Konami Code" in my ToDo list.