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    What games are you playing this week? 2017-08-07

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    • Starcade2084S
      Starcade2084
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      None so far this week, too busy at work & getting out late is cutting into my game time before my gal gets home. I need to get back to Metroid (hooray for save states!!) So much still to do in the game, haven't gotten to the first boss yet!

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      • tashmanT
        tashman
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        Turbo Esprit on the Spectrum and Football Champ on MAME.

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        • pjftP
          pjft @tashman
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          @tashman Both great choices!

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          • tashmanT
            tashman @pjft
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            @pjft

            I used to spend hours on Turbo Esprit. It was probably the first "open world" driving game. Maybe I should have spent more time trying to nail the drugs car and less time deliberately causing traffic jams.....

            As for Football Champ - there's nothing like a spot of controversial rough play. It's a very humourous game with some great detail.

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            • pjftP
              pjft @tashman
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              @tashman Much to my shame, even though I heard a lot about Turbo Esprit when I was growing up, I never really played it until fairly recently. I did have a ZX Spectrum as my main platform, but there were always so may games to play :)

              Playing it was quite a nice experience, I'll be honest.

              As for Football Champ, I only learned of it in the past year, but it is a fun game. Some of the versions (maybe all?) will have your captain perform some super shot under specific conditions, but I don't really know how to trigger those consistently.

              Still, fun game.

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              • tashmanT
                tashman @pjft
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                @pjft

                I saw my mate do a super shot (somehow) on the real arcade version back in the early 90s. It was a complete fluke. I've completed the game several times** recently but never managed a super shot.

                ** Not on one credit though!

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                • tashmanT
                  tashman @pjft
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                  @pjft

                  Looking at your icon - I never completed Manic Miner properly. For Jet Set Willy a poke was required...

                  In fact these days I find Manic Miner quite difficult. I don't think that's so surprising for a 40-something year old! What is surprising is that I could remember the 6031769 cheat code thirty years on.

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                  • pjftP
                    pjft @tashman
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                    @tashman I haven't completed Manic Miner either, though it was the first game I ever played on my ZX Spectrum... It came as a pack-in with my ZX Spectrum +, in a "10 Best Games" compilation of sorts. I think I still recall most of them:

                    Manic Miner
                    Fighter Pilot
                    Match Point
                    Bomb Jack
                    Match Day

                    Hyper Sports
                    The Way of the Exploding Fist
                    Theatre Europe

                    and two more, I think.

                    I didn't know about that cheat code, though!

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                    • CapemanC
                      Capeman @lilbud
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                      @lilbud said in What games are you playing this week? 2017-08-07:

                      Still practicing to get my learners permit.

                      I suggest the most realistic driving simulator of all!

                      Vector Artist, Designer and Maker of Stuff: Laser Cut Atari / Pixel Theme Bartop

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                      • tashmanT
                        tashman @Capeman
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                        @capeman

                        I think I learnt to drive playing Hard Drivin' in the arcades. At the time it was very real to me, a clutch, a gear stick (with four gears), ignition key and steering feedback.

                        Then came the ports.....hugely disappointing.....and almost impossible to stay on the track.

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                        • tashmanT
                          tashman @pjft
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                          @pjft

                          I've played most of those. Match Point - I wonder if there's a tennis game/simulator out there (old or new) where the player doesn't just run past the ball swinging the racquet wildly. Love-15, Love-30, Love-40, game.... (switch off). Maybe it's just me....

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                          • pjftP
                            pjft @tashman
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                            @tashman Hah. My exact experience recently, though I don't recall it being as difficult back then! Might be my mind playing tricks on me, though. :)

                            Another game that was on that tape was Pole Position, and I'm still struggling to find the last one but it should come back to me at some point. I wonder if it was Spy Hunter? Anyway, enough off topic from me, unless I'm planning on playing that this week :)

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                            • obsidianspiderO
                              obsidianspider
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                              While not really a game (though it does have XP) I've started using Duolingo to try to learn Japanese so I can play some of the cool games that never had English localizations.

                              It's not easy.

                              📷 @obsidianspider

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                              • pjftP
                                pjft @obsidianspider
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                                @obsidianspider It's a slow grind. Slow leveling up, low XP gain per battle, and lots of random encounters.

                                Best of luck with that.

                                ;)

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                                • obsidianspiderO
                                  obsidianspider @pjft
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                                  @pjft It's really hard. At least when I've learned a bit of Spanish and German in the past it was the same alphabet. I am slowly memorizing the characters, even if I don't quite know what they mean.

                                  📷 @obsidianspider

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                                  • pjftP
                                    pjft @obsidianspider
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                                    @obsidianspider Yeah. I tried Katakana about 15 years ago, precisely for the same reason as you, but ended up giving up. Katakana was manageable was, even though it was a different alphabet, if you read it out loud you could almost make out what they meant, as it was frequently used for English-words-in-different-alphabet.

                                    Kind of like "oh-bo-see-dee-ah-noo-suh-pie-dah-roo".

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                                    • LeftyRocL
                                      LeftyRoc
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                                      american gladiators--NES
                                      tecmo super bowl--NES
                                      Zelda--NES

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                                      • lilbudL
                                        lilbud
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                                        Beat Ninja Gaiden and playing Ducktales now.

                                        But none of the achievements unlocked for those games.

                                        @meleu Does enabling cheats have something to do with that

                                        Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                        Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                        • meleuM
                                          meleu @lilbud
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                                          @lilbud said in What games are you playing this week? 2017-08-07:

                                          Beat Ninja Gaiden and playing Ducktales now.

                                          But none of the achievements unlocked for those games.

                                          @meleu Does enabling cheats have something to do with that

                                          Sure!

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                                          • lilbudL
                                            lilbud @meleu
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                                            @meleu So enabling cheats will turn off the ability to earn achievements?

                                            Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                            Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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