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

Starcade2084

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!

tashman

Turbo Esprit on the Spectrum and Football Champ on MAME.

pjft

@tashman Both great choices!

tashman

@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.

pjft

@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.

tashman

@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!

tashman

@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.

pjft

@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!

Capeman

@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!

tashman

@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.

tashman

@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....

pjft

@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 :)

obsidianspider

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.

pjft

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

Best of luck with that.

;)

obsidianspider

@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.

pjft

@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".

LeftyRoc

american gladiators--NES
tecmo super bowl--NES
Zelda--NES

lilbud

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

meleu

@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!

lilbud

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