I did come across the competitive scene there about 2 years ago. Honestly I found it both fascinating and a bit disheartening. There was I happy with my occasional dad game where I was regularly beating the AI on one of the higher levels. Nope. Apparently still a noob after 25 years.
The speed and accuracy that they move and build at is astounding.
Oh man I bet you can get doom running in the scenario editor. The new devs may even be willing to enhance it somehow so that you could.
Although I have not really played or watched competitive since The Viper left for Facebook.
I recently tried Aoe II definitive edition. they managed to massacre the UI so much it hurts my eyes… that alone made me issue a refund also £15 for a 25 year old game. you’d expect it to be better in every aspect at the very least
Man, I miss being all agitated about the thing I bought, ordered or took as a gift. Idk if it’s depression or just an aging thing, but I do miss being tempted like that. 1-day delivery and digital purchases kinda ruined it and I want an option to intentionally slow delivery down. Waiting and anticipating something that’d arrive on the X day added a lot to the value I see in a product.
I still get that with anything that I don’t buy from Amazon, also game releases that I’ve been following for a while (currently sitting patiently until the Elden Ring DLC finally drops for my time zone).
I still get that when I buy things secondhand, from Mercari, Abe books, or other online thrift stores. I’m waiting for a cute tokidoki vinyl figure to show up. Maybe this week, maybe next. Who knows?
The 8 year old me would be overjoyed! This was one of my favorite NES games, and there were enough good NES games that the title of “one of my favorites” means it was actually cream of the crop.
The 45 year old me would probably not be as happy, since I’d rather go to bed at a reasonable hour and crappy quality fast food pizza sounds like it’s going to make me feel miserable if I have more than a slice or two anyway. Plus as awesome as SMB3 is and was, there are modern games I’d rather play at the moment if I were going to stay up all night.
Super Mario World was peak SMB for me. It took everything they did in SMB3 and refined it.
The only thing I think SMW was lacking was variety of powerups. You had fire and cape, plus Yoshi stuff. SMB3 had fire and raccoon, but also the weird, rare stuff like hammer, frog, tanooki, and the boot.
I’ve been following an indie dev working on a Mario-3-ish-clone and nothing excites me more than that it seems like they brought Kuribos boot back. Why is that stupid fucking boot power up from one level in SMB3 still so beloved? I don’t know, but I feel it.
It’d be great if the spring on that particular model isn’t crap out, forcing you to either use a game genie to have the console keep working or shove something inside to depress the cartridge.
It’s a subversion of expectations because these posts are often about a time in your life where you wouldn’t have a care in the world, so they end with “it’s 1999 and you’re 12” and instead it’s saying “you can still enjoy those things, take some time to be happy”
I didn’t have it myself either (until years later), but a neighbor down the street did. I remember all the kids in the neighborhood playing on that system.
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