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| Yes, ladies and
gentlemen. I am a VDO game addict and i don't see a remedy for
it soon. The
links on the right of the title
indicates what i got something for it, like on the gameboy, there's
the emulator and a ROM for Bionic Commando. Note though, most of these will
be just commentaries of old favourites and links to other
sites. |
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Game Boy
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[ Helo GB Emulator ] |
| Bionic Commando |
[ ROM ] |
| - exhilirating adventure using your grappling hook. really
cool. play it. |
| Bionic Commado 2 |
[ ROM ] |
| - sequel to the first,
obviously. now you can choose which gender will go about the misery. good thing it is
now in Technicolor |
| Pokemon Gold |
[ ROM | goto PsyPoke | goto Poke US ] |
| - a simple RPG that caught me
playing it for hours. you go around the Pokemon world
collecting Pokemon and use them for fights. I loved doing
different team ups, of which my favorite team composed of
Gogon (Typhlosion), Boom
(Primeape), Groo (Victreebell),
Rufus (the racoon-like Ootachi), and
Manta
(Maintain) finished
it |
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SNES
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| Chrono Trigger |
| - the only RPG i played on the SNES. it didn't get
good reviews from magazines though, but i loved it. i played
it the whole summer of my 3rd year college at Virra Mall.
character interpretation done by none other than Akira
Toriyama of DBZ fame |
| Dragon Ball Z |
| - what caught me in these games
was the size of their fireballs. it makes Street Fighter look
like weaklings. peace to all SF fans out there ! |
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Playstation
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| Tekken |
[ goto ... wait i dunno where yet ] |
| - it has no fancy fireballs.
all it has are hard-hitting moves and blood pumping combo action.
i always loved these games, and the Mishima family always
intrigues me. Long live Kazuya !! |
| Guardian Heroes |
| - yes we are all heroes, but each
move you make may have a different ending, or thinking a little
deeper, would have a better way to go about an ending. ok, so
you're Hans who discovered a sword owned by a dead hero. well,
the hero won't stay dead becoz you stole his teddy bear. so
you and your friends (with the dead guy as a hulking zombi aid) go
find things out eventually reaching heaven and bring about (the
dead guy)'s salvation. anyway, this game is nice action with
great replay value. you'll get to see a lot of good 2D effects
on this one. nice anime too ! |
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PC
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| Doom |
| - the first hit by iD
software. i remembered the time when i borrowed disks just to play
this game. it is almost carbon copied by each of the
first-person shooters today |
| Hexen |
| - the logical sequel to Heretic, this is one of my
favorites. you play as either a mage using his weenie long
range weapons, a cleric using his holy cow weapons, or the barbarian
using his meat cleavers :) |
| Heretic |
| - here you just play as
a mage where each of his weapons can get hyper by reading
a medieval playboy magazine (it's hardbound?!
really?). my favorite weapon is the Hellstaff. it acts much like a
gatling gun, and when it gets hyper, you melt the ettins with a
red bolt that turns into a hot shower of acid rain |
| Quake 1 |
| - rated as bloody by the censors,
i didn't get quite finish this coz i dunno how to kill that big
barnacle at the end |
| Half-Life |
[ goto Planet Half-Life ] |
| - a great doc who found his
instinct for warfare. what can be greater than aiming for your
enemies' eyeballs instead of their balls? |
| Warcraft |
[ goto Blizzard
] |
| - what can i say? those
times in the student-infested rentals comes back to me all too
suddenly. Blizzard had a real hit with this one, as it grew
into a cult following of human-turned-orcs put up tribes just to
glorify it |
| StarCraft |
[ goto Blizzard
] |
| - one of the most played games i know of (even during
office hours hehehe), you simply have to see it to know what i
mean. i'm not sure if the engine used here is based on
WarCraft, but most of the mechanics are the same. after all,
this is also a Blizzard creation. |
| Betrayal at Krondor |
| - the memories of Gorath the
moredhel still lingers in my mind. one of those hit RPG games
of 1993, this medieval/fantasy adventure based on Raymond E. Feist's
works really did something to me. i ended up dreaming lands
and lores that could put as addition to the story line up. and
ofcourse, how can i forget the vivid artifacts in the game like the
Guardia Revanche and the Valheru Armor and the spells like the
Unfortunate Flux and Evil Seek. although i can settle for
a Tsurani crossbow, a Lims-Kragma-blessed rapier and a pack of
rations while calling it a day. or maybe i can talk of my
adventures on how i gutted a Black Slayer while drinking ale in a
bar at Highcastle ... or ... or ... |
| Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers |
| - the adventures of our favorite
bravo, Gabriel, as he goes about New Orleans seeking the reason
behind his nightly nightmares. well at least he's blessed with
the animal sex appeal |
| Fantasy General |
| - you go about in this world in
hexagons, which puts the strategy to the point. build an army
with you as the Fantasy General and crush the evil that
has spread to several continents. you can even
pick-up heroes along the way. i like the way units are made to
upgrade, which can be classified as Cavalry, Infantry, Magical,
Tech, etc. calls for real strategy here, and some good memory
recall because you'll find that some of the hours of your time are
missing |
| Warlords II |
| - another strategy game based on
steps. it has various themes too with plenty of options to
change as well as a random map generator for the weary
conqueror. i mostly played the Elemental theme, because i like
the sprities here the best. i don't recommed this game to the
impatient though |
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Video
Arcades
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| Games still in the arcades: |
| Spawn: In the Demon's Hand |
[ goto Spawn.com
] |
| - can't find any material for
this awesome game. the only thing you can do is visit its
official site. i most
especially use Brimstone and Tremor here ... they do a lotta damage
:) |
| Power Stone 1 |
| - not as violent as the other
games nowadays, this CAPCOM creation got me playing it for a few
months. here you can get items, bounce on walls, all for the
sake of pounding your opponent. as the title implies, if you want
more ruthless fun, get three power stones, transform into a hi-powered
juggernaut and do what you love doing best. i love playing
as Jack the ripper in this game. he's the one
in the wraps and the knives with the most ballistic wall bounce. he
also had a role in the old hit Captain Commando |
| Power Stone 2 |
| - here instead of just playing
one on one, you'll be in fours, and the victorious two will go on
to the next level. it's fun, until you go to Dr. Erode and say
to yourself ... who the hell is this ugly retard? |
| Psychic Force |
| - didn't get good reviews either,
but i loved it nonetheless. the story here is much like that
of X-Men, where the psychickers (psychics seem like a different term
right?) get in trouble with the rest of the normal race. this
3D-like game is kinda cool, where you fight inside a cube and
get pasted to the wall if you're hit hard enough. i like using
Burn with his Fire Curse attack, but reviewers say the guy with the
Ice attacks is the most effective |
|
Virtual On |
[ goto HardCore Compendium ] |
| - this game must've been a hit in
1995. and yet it is just now of which i had the courage to play it. here you control
a mecha of your choosing and turn your enemy into a blazing scrap. you have three
types of weapons at your disposal (different for each type of mecha),
and you need to use effective tactics. i use Viper II
simply because he has the coolest body structure, not to mention his
superior aerial maneuvers |
| Extinct games: |
| Dark Edge |
| - i missed this game real
badly. it's been several years since i last saw this in the
arcades and i didn't quite get to play
it well. set upon a post apocalyptic earth i think, you play
in a 3D arena using 2D characters. pretty impressive at that time, but
the characters get pixelated up close. A few names i remember are Blood (Mhondski
like using this one coz it looked like a
Predator daw), and M.E.K, while the unnamed are: the guy who
looks like Neo with a set of samurai swords, the cyber-babe, and
the baby in a cyber-simian suit |
| Captain Commando |
| - four heroic members of the
galactic police force out to destroy the grip of the evil, tyrannic,
omnipotent Fungu ... Fungo ... Fungicide (Fungosaur?). you
play as either Captain Commando with his Flamethrowers and Electric
Bomblaster, (that Ninja) with his slicing-dicing katana, Jack with
his set of RipperTM
knives, or
Baby with his Suit-O-Crib. fun to play really, especially when
you get to cream a lot of hench men with one stroke |
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FamiCom
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| Strider |
| - this is where i first saw Hiryu before i saw him
appear in Genesis. the sliding moves, the charging cypher, and
the crescent slash really took me on at that time. especially
his base of operations which resembles a mecha-dragon. |
| RockMan |
| - nothing like switching your weapon best suited for
the occassion. i especially liked Rockman up to Rockman 3
(that's becoz i haven't played the later sequels) with Magnet Man,
Snake Man, Shadow Man and Gemini Man. i think their weapons
are cool. like many others, i invented my own bot, LockMan
with his main attack, the Padlock ! hehe, yeah right.
come to think of it, i think i'll put him up here somewhere |
| Castlevania |
| - ever thought when you were a kid you get easily
frightened by disembodied medusa heads floating around? well
that's what happened to me. thinking i was the hero didn't
help. |
| SuperMario 3 |
| - this mario version appealed to me because of the introduction of new powerups besides
the Fire Flower. the theme is kinda cute with
the Racoon, Bear (turns into a monk! funny!), and the Iceman
powerups. |
| Gradius |
| - the starship adventure where
you don't have to stalk the weapons in space, but actually need only
enough power cells to activate it in your systems ! this is
where i get to look at the first galactic menaces where it seems as
if it is organic in origin. ew. |
| Ninja Rhuyukunden (Gaiden) |
| - the urban ninja out to rearrange another city
conqueror's face. didn't quite get to play this one
either. i thought that was Shredder at the intro
animation. |
| Castro and Guevarra |
| - based on real historical figures Fidel Castro and Che Guevarra, this
is the game where enemies actually aim at you! but then,
you'll ask yourself, what is that boss made of? you use
anti-tank missiles and napalm flame throwers on naked skin and
it still seems like the boss needs more than that to bury him in a
grave. |
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