dudes I just beat Battletoads

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prob the only game (Ghosts & Goblins and other "classically" hard games included) I never beat on 8-bit!

the dragcycle stage is seriously impossible without save-state.

 

[ChromeLife]

That game was so friggin hard man... hats off to you good sir.

 

[Helm]

save-state -> no, no you did not.

 

[pixiesfan]

yeah, this game is so intense.

i beat it, but i think i had to do it with my brother. i'm not sure because it was a long time ago.

did you ever play the original Rampage?

Whenever you beat it, it just starts over again. It's so dumb.

 

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dude we beat Ghosts & Goblins without save-state back in the 80s so i think I'm allowed to save-state the dragcycle stage on freaking Battletoads.

 

[Helm]

Sure you're allowed. But you didn't beat it, you just finished it.

 

[xfer]

semantics!

 

[Helm]

Yeah. But still.

 

[Post_Scriptum]

I love that game! :'(

 

[xfer]

save-state can be fun to use just to expedite easy games. like, I can beat Super C with my eyes closed, but with save-state it takes like half an hour instead of an hour and is significantly less frustrating.

 

[Helm]

I save-state for various games all the time, especially stuff from my childhood I couldn't beat straight back then (like your case here with Battletoads) and sometimes it's a good FINALLY. CLOSURE. I HATE YOU. YOU TOOK AWAY MY CHILDHOOD note to some games that were absurdly difficult, like Shadow of the Beast or Eternal Champions for the Genesis.

But beating a game is mastering it and bending it to your will by your superior vid skillz (I roll my twentysider against nerddom. Lost.) not barely making it with save-states.

 

[azal]

Helm, your level of geekiness makes me embarrased of the historically good relations between Greeks and Serbs.

 

[xfer]

oh, those relations were just based on mutual Turkrape-victim feelings, anyway.

 

[Helm]

azal, me and my friends cut up two full sets of Hero Quest boards into smaller corridors to use as rooms and connections for our D&D campaign when I was about 12. I spent a few hours in advance furnishing the dungeon with the little tables and stuff Hero Quest had, and also had devised a way to make multi-level rooms. It was great.

 

[pixiesfan]

Hero Quest?

 

[Helm]

Hero Quest.

 

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i've played hero quest several times. it's pretty fun! kind of shallow so it gets old after a bit but it's fun to sit down for a couple of hours and run through five or six quests in a row.

 

[mindspell]

I had Hero Quest too. It gets old pretty quick.

 

[pixiesfan]

Oh shit.

That had a video.

I loved that game.

 

[xfer]

Are you sure you're not thinking of DRAGON STRIKE?

"Right on!"