Yo Elkin, I'm really sorry to hear about your grandmother, but relieved she's recovering well. I'm sure she was comforted by your company in the hospital. That's really touching that you took off work to be with her.

Hope she heals up swiftly!

AJ is right. I think we can agree we're all the winners here. So, I've been plugging away at Phantasy Star IV for the past day or so in the hopes of socking away one more game this summer. I bought PSIV sometime last year because 1) I loved Phantasy Star III and 2) I kept hearing that this installme...

I appreciate the kudos, but folks, AJ has been cranking out the wins. AJ is MVP always. pook99, congrats on all your gaming this summer! I have to admit you've caught my attention with your Cybernator breakdown. I don't know anything about it, but now I'm curious. pierrot, Xanadu sounds so freaking ...

Folks, it's finally done. After all these years, I watched my last lemming squeak through the gate to freedom with zero time left on the clock. I actually thought I hadn't done it; the stage was already fading to black as he dashed over the hills. The feeling of closure that washed over me! Aghgsfsh...

Thanks for the input, Maru and Bone. And thanks for redacting information, Maru -- that's exactly why I was afraid to look anything up about the difficulties! (I also love that you would dream of the Lemmings' tousle-haired silhouettes. Those sprites have sooooo much personality.) I think I am going...

I have cleared Lemmings' Mayhem difficulty. T___T Oh my GOD, that batch's last level! It was just... I spent at least two hours on it, possibly more. It was one of those setups where you have seemingly too few jobs to assign to your Lemmings to see them through, so you have to get weird about how yo...

Double-post to say that I've officially started dreaming about Lemmings. This happens to me with every puzzle game I play. Puyo Puyo, the Witness, Portal... I eventually start playing levels in my dreams. This is actually a bit stressful, because I just bumped up into the MAYHEM difficulty bracket i...

Congratulations, Ack! Enjoy the celebration, and enjoy married life.

Also, invite Bone over for game night sometimes as you play through your new gifts. Sound like he needs it.

I also recognize how much of a hypocrite I'm being, right now I'm crying about having to memorize the cave level, but a few posts ago in a different thread I gush about how wii punch out is one of my all time favorite games and the entire title defense mode is dying until you memorize the enemy pat...

All this recent activity is amazing. pook99, I'm so sorry you had a bad time with Thunder Force III, and I'm sorry I fed into the "it's easy!" narrative. I've only played three shmups for any length of time (TFIII, Parodius Da!, and Life Force), so I don't really have a good basis of compa...