Summer Games Challenge 2016

[prfsnl_gmr]

DOUBLE POST!

Summer Games Challenge

1. Adventure - Broken Sword (PC/iOS)
2. Beat 'em Up - Guardian Heroes (SATURN/360)
3. Fighting - Virtua Fighter Remix (ARCADE/SATURN), Virtua Fighter 2 (ARCADE/SATURN/PS3), and Fighting Vipers (ARCADE/SATURN/PS3)
4. FPS - Perfect Dark (N64/360)
5. JRPG - Dragon Warrior II (NES/GBC)
6. Racing - Virtua Racing (ARCADE/PS2), Daytona USA (ARCADE/DREAMCAST), and Sega Rally Championship (ARCADE/SATURN)
7. Rail Shooters - Virtua Cop (ARCADE/SATURN) and Virtua Cop 2 (ARCADE/SATURN)
8. Run 'n Gun - Ikari Warriors (ARCADE/PS3)
9. Shmup - Galactic Attack/Layer Section/RayForce (ARCADE/SATURN/XBOX/iOS)
10. Sports - Decathlete (ARCADE/SATURN)

Daytona USA is down. It is great, and I am really glad I spent some time with it. Now that I am pretty good at the game, I look forward to the next time I see an arcade machine.

Sega Rally Championship is up next!

[alienjesus]

Played some more Fire Emblem the other night but died an awful lot on the map I'm on. Enemies have alarmingly high evasion on this map, so it's causing a lot of gambles due to inaccurate hit rates.

I might start up something else alongside Fire Emblem as I want to take it slow and a palette cleanser to play in between would be nice. I was thinking Mario Golf.

[Markies]

- Shining Force (Genesis) - I have finished 11/30 battles as my game erased and I had to start over.
- Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast) - I have beaten the game!
- Thousand Arms (Playstation 1) - I have beaten the game!
- Metal Saga (Playstation 2) - I am at about 75% of the way through the game.
- Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - I have beaten the game.
- Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic - I have beaten the game.

Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic is off the list.

The last two are going to take a while. I'm hoping to beat both of them in August in the closing moments of this challenge!

[Key-Glyph]

Dang, guys! Is this one of our most productive summers yet? I only started last year, so I'm not really sure how it's been in more distant times. But I feel like a lot of you are already more than halfway to the goal!

As for me, I started playing Bases Loaded II today because I was in a baseball mood - but I forgot that it's not actually on my challenge list!

The question is: can I substitute Bases Loaded II in for Tecmo Bowl? Is BL2 enough of a classic to pull this off? I'm curious what you guys think.

[Exhuminator]

The question is: can I substitute Bases Loaded II in for Tecmo Bowl? Is BL2 enough of a classic to pull this off? I'm curious what you guys think.

Sounds fair to me. I mean, I already modified my list once after the fact. I think this was the first time I officially attempted the Summer Challenge. I didn't really know what I was doing. I'll be sticking with five games at a time for now on.

[prfsnl_gmr]

The question is: can I substitute Bases Loaded II in for Tecmo Bowl? Is BL2 enough of a classic to pull this off? I'm curious what you guys think.

You can substitute Baseball, Baseball Simulator 1.000, Baseball Stars, Home Run, RBI Baseball, or Super Baseball 2020...but I am not sure I will allow Bases Loaded II...

[Ack]

Well, Might and Magic III is now done. My girlfriend has picked out my next game: Alone in the Dark!

About time I got around to playing this one...

THE SELECTION POOL

Alone in the Dark -- NOW PLAYING
Broken Sword
Castlevania
Crusader: No Remorse
Dragon Warrior
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Magic Carpet
Mortal Kombat 3
NBA Jam
Sanitarium
Silent Hill
SimCity 2000
SNK vs Capcom: Card Fighter's Clash
SNK vs Capcom: Match of the Millennium
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Super Punch-Out
Super Star Wars
System Shock
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Ultima II
Ultima IV

BEATEN:

Call of Duty 2
Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra
Thief Gold
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

[Exhuminator]

If you're talking about this one:

You're in for a helluva time. That game used to scare the piss outta my brother when I played it.

[Ack]

Yeah, the first one. I've played a bit of New Nightmare but never finished it(my Dreamcast kept freezing up). And no way will I ever consider the mid-2000s Alone in the Dark to be a "classic."

[prfsnl_gmr]

Yeah, the first one.

If I recall correctly, the original Alone in the Dark is one of the two Together Retro games for October. I have a copy of the game installed on my iPad, and I plan on playing it then.