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  1. i am pretty convinced that most Sega Genesis games are unbeatable. Exceptions include the Sonic games, of course, and a handful of others. But there's a lot of tough ones out there. i remember the day i brought home Comix Zone. i was SO excited, based on the comic book presentation, the way you traveled from panel to panel, everything. and then i played the game. i thought, "man this is pretty tough. i need to practice." so i played it some more. and then a bit more. and then my thoughts were more like "man f- this game. i'm gonna play Sonic & Knuckles"
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  2. My brother strikes again: http://retrogamingmagazine.com/2016/09/07/fifteen-most-difficult-genesis-games/ If you're OK with his off-brand humour and the occasional naughty word, have yourself a read and a laugh at his descriptions of these 16-bit monstrosities from the Sega world. Those of you who enjoyed his take on difficult NES games, this is more of the same. *huggles* Areala
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  3. Hey everybody, over the last few weeks I've been working on a project and was wondering if it would be of interest to anyone else. I've been scouring the net and collecting all kinds of old video game instruction manuals, mostly for the NES but also some for the Genesis, SNES, Playstation, and a handful for the Atari 2600, Dreamcast, Gameboy, Sega CD, PC, etc. I've compiled several hundred and put in a lot of time to improve each one. I added the official box art to each game's manual, using scans of the actual boxes whenever I could find them (which results in a nostalgic collection of lightly worn box covers that feature the occasional crease, shrinkwrap, or vintage sticker). The front page of a pdf is typically what's used for the file's icon, so when you put these on an ebook reader that has a virtual shelf display you get what looks like a bunch of game boxes sitting on the shelf of an old rental store. In addition I ended each manual with a scan of the game's rear cover, again using a shot of the real thing whenever possible. The result is a digital collection of classic video game manuals that are bookended by images of the packaging material that you'd have if you owned complete physical copies. The collection will seem pretty random since it's not all-inclusive, but is rather a collection that represents my own personal history of games that I own, have played, or am otherwise interested in. It takes hours upon hours to find, download, and edit multiple images into hundreds of pdfs and I had absolutely no desire to do this with games that I've never played or don't care about. There are a couple of old torrents and packs out there that do include more complete collections of manuals for a dedicated system, and there are also a couple of sites that archive some of the manuals in my collection as well. The difference is that some of the manuals in the torrents are arranged as multiple jpegs, many of the ones on the download sites are stamped with watermarks, and none of them have the cover art or rear packaging shots that I've added (because I prioritized scans of physical boxes when adding front and rear cover art, it was unavoidable that a few of those covers do have small watermarks. The manuals themselves don't). I'm assuming that there's no place for the manuals here on the site itself, but maybe some of you guys are like me and would simply like to have them for your own digital book collections as a curiosity or nostalgic keepsake. If any of you are interested let me know and maybe I could pack them up on mediafire or something. Here's NES classic Castlevania as a sample. http://www.mediafire.com/download/9r2th9ougbscphx/Castlevania_I.pdf
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  4. Awesome Idea! I loved reading the manuals. I'd always take them to school so I could read them on the bus. It was like getting to "play" the game when I couldn't Really play it. I missed my stop one time reading the manual for Adventures Of Tom Sawyer.
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  5. Anyone have any personal videogame artifacts? I have a few and am figuring how best to archive them. Here's one of my favorites: Imagic was my favorite publisher during the first console war. I know this is essentially a form letter but gotta love the embossed logo!
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  6. Ok it was on the list. I would question SOR 3, Gaires, and Ghouls and Ghosts inclusion. But the rest is pretty solid. He knows his hard Genesis games.
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  7. In before I read it. But Target Earth better be on that list.
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  8. Well then I am happy you threatened him then. lol. Chakan is a good game just really hard.
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  9. If anyone could do the Highlights for Children magazine that'd be so so awesome.
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  10. I always loved playing volleyball with the followers/worshippers. I know it gets no love from most but I've always loved this game especially the fatalities.
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  11. Fair enough, you make a solid argument there. However, getting it out there is enough to get it into the discussion, my whole point all along.
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  12. Yeah, I guess I should have been more specific and said VIDEO game, but if there was a "best movie based on a board game" thread, I would refuse to accept any answer other than "Clue."
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  13. What better way to celebrate Halloween than practicing necromancy? Tootsie Rolls? Malted Milk Balls? Candy corn? Three Musketeers? Man, some of the people in this old thread hated some really tasty stuff. I hated the waxy gobs of stickiness that got stuck on your teeth which Howard mentioned. And like Areala, I too hated Bit 'O Honey. Never a fan of Mike and Ike's either. Or were they Good and Plenty? Whatever. Whichever ones were the pill form of black licorice. which is about the most god-awful yet still-edible substance I can possibly think of. You know what the worst was though? Pennies. Yeah, great, that's what every kid wants. Some heavy things that you couldn't even eat, the literal monetary equivalent of maybe one third of an actual piece of candy, just because some asshole felt that it was it was the marginally superior alternative to throwing away the disposable pieces of virtually unspendable currency that were cluttering up his house.
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  14. Bah. She bought those things. Nothing to applaud. But yeah, you know, I love boobs as much as the next guy. More than the next guy, actually. More than most men combined, I think. But every time I see a big stupid rack on the thumbnail image of a Youtube video - which usually have nothing to do with the video itself with titles such as "Funniest TV news fails!" or "Strange facts about XYZ" or "Here's a video that I want everyone to look at, please click on it" - it's ALWAYS accompanied by millions and millions of views. Doesn't matter that the video likely has nothing to do with boobs. Doesn't matter that anyone viewing the video on their electronic device can use that same electronic device to uncover an entire universe of the most naked, savagely pornographic material imaginable. Doesn't matter that they're being played for suckers by manipulative sociopaths who are lazily exploiting the easiest male instincts that you can exploit in a man. There might be boobs - clothed boobs in a sexually neutral environment, sure, but boobs nonetheless. So they must click. Alright, I'm done complaining. Now if you'll excuse me, I feel the need to play Super Mario 3 for some reason.
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