Snickerd00dle's Summer Game Challenge 2011

[alienjesus]

Been planning as list already too! Pleasantly surprised to see Banjo Kazooie on your list Snicker, as I'm planning on playing through that one myself! I was also be joining dsheinem in playing Blazing Lasers (Gunhed). Here's my list:

1. Wonder Boy in Monster World (VC - Mega Drive)
2. Secret of Mana (VC - SNES)
3. Final Fantasy IX (PS1)
4. Metroid Prime 2 (GC)
5. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
6. Blazing Lasers (TG16)
7. Banjo Kazooie (N64)
8. Panzer Dragoon (Saturn)
9. Punch Out!! (NES)
10. Faselei/Ganbare Neo Poke Kun/Double Dragon/AdvanceWars2/something else


I had a bit of trouble rounding out my list - not many of the games I've not beaten are both 'classics' of the system and underplayed by me - so I kinda have a mixture of games I'm half way through anyway, and more cult classics or hidden gems to choose from for game 10. Any suggestions? You can see I was struggling when I chose Punch-Out - kind of a masochist choice. Needless to say, I'm skeptical about beating that one.

[NeverGoBak]

I'm up for it! Looking through my games to see the big titles I haven't played.
Didn't include Wario Land 4, because I'm very close to finishing it anyway, but it's still going to take up some of time.

1. Zelda: Link To the Past (SNES)
2. Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
3. Pikmin (Wii)(Whatever, I consider it necessary reading for GC/Wii owners)
4. Okami (Wii)
5. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
6. Megaman Battle Network 5: Team Colonel (GBA)
7. Sam and Max Hit The Road (PC)
8. Perfect Dark (N64)
9. Super Mario Brothers 3(All-Stars Version)
10. Sonic The Hedgehog 1 @ 2(Mega Collection Versions)

Bonus: Super Mario Bros (All-Stars Version) That's right, I've never beaten the original SMB title.

Took me a good while to put that together.
Started over half of them, but barely got anywhere. Good ways in for the top two though.

If I manage to clear it, I should get into the current back burner games. Zelda: Twilight Princess and Sonic Heros. Far into both of them, not interested in playing either at the moment though.

[dsheinem]

6. Megaman Battle Network 5: Team Colonel (GBA)

I get the rest, but I didn't know this one was considered a classic...is it?

[Flake]

6. Megaman Battle Network 5: Team Colonel (GBA)

I get the rest, but I didn't know this one was considered a classic...is it?

I'm personally in the 'F*** Battle Network' camp as far as Mega Man fans go. But I understand that for those who like such things, the 5th game was supposed to be one of the peaks of the series.

[dsheinem]

Here we go!

- Super Mario Land (GB)
- Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land (GB)
- Metroid II: The Return of Samus (GB)
- Burning Rangers (SAT)
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (GEN)
- Tales of Symphonia (GCN)
- Sonic Colors (Wii)
- Resident Evil 4 (GCN)
- Bangaio (DC)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Pilots Locus (GCN)

The only iffy ones are Tales of Symphonia and Resident Evil 4. Tales might just be too damn long for me to handle. And Resident Evil 4 might be too bloody. My two back up choices if I have to ditch on those:

- Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

If you are still debating I'd go with Prime 2 over Colors. Not sure that Colors is really a "classic" by any stretch of the term...

[Flake]

If you are still debating I'd go with Prime 2 over Colors. Not sure that Colors is really a "classic" by any stretch of the term...

I was thinking the same thing myself, actually.

[final fight cd]

i could easily make a list but i don't know if i could stick with it.

i am always finding new games in the wild or my gaming mood changes on a daily basis. hell, i was in a rpg mood for about two weeks, which is rare for me. now i don't even want to think about playing an rpg.

[boltfanSD]

Cool, I was already planning something similar this summer so this will be a good way to stick with it and keep track of my progress. Here it goes:

Metroid Prime
Beyond Good & Evil
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Shenmue
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
Final Fantasy VIII
Xenosaga

As for those last three I'm at least halfway through each of them, just need to sit down and finish them. Can't wait for the end of June when my summer classes end so I can really dig in to the old backlog.

[noiseredux]

http://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/noise ... e-1748.php

Last Summer on the http://Racketboy.com forums a member by the name of Snickerd00dle came up with a Summer Gaming Challenge for himself. He decided he would compile a list of ten classics that he had never beaten and attempt to beat them all during the Summer months. The thread was popular enough that not only did many of us follow is progress, but several members even joined in with him. About a month ago he mentioned he was planning to do it again this year, inspiring some of us to come up with our own lists -- myself included.

The hardest part was of course coming up with the list. My list went through many major revisions over the course of the month. My original idea was to try to pick so-called classics that I had never played, representing ten unique genres and stretched over many systems from 2600 to PS3. However a funny thing happened. Once my first list draft was done I noticed that it was basically a bunch of PlayStation games book-ended by a handful of older and newer games. You see I had just finished reading the wonderful GameSpite book chronicling the history of the PlayStation. Not to mention the PS1 seems to be the console I've been focusing my collecting on the most these days.

I then decided that I'd just make my whole list PlayStation games. That would at least help me narrow things down. And I'd stick to keeping it ten different genres. But classics? That was tricky. As an early adopter of PS1 back in the day, I really knew a lot of classics. Really this list should be games that I personally always meant to play, but had put off for some reason or another. I figured how about a list that finally gives me an excuse to play some of these games that I had always planned to.


So here's the list I finally decided on:

Chrono Trigger
Dead Or Alive
Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown
Mega Man X4
Metal Gear Solid
Mr. Driller
Myst
Ridge Racer
R-Type Delta
Silent Hill


For the most part, these are all games I have never played at all. There's a few small exceptions. For instance I've of course played many Mega Man games, just not X4. I have briefly played DOA2, but never the original Dead Or Alive. I've played Duke Nukem Advance, but never the classic Duke Nukem 3D. And I have tried both Ridge Racer and Silent Hill, but not for any expanded period of time. So my attempt to seriously sit down with these games and try to beat them all will be a very new experience to me with each of them.

As far as time-frame is concerned, I decided to start playing during Memorial Day weekend -- the unofficial start of Summer as they say. And I suppose I'll aim to wrap it up by the first of September. So three solid months to get ten games under my belt. For the most part I think that's reasonable, with the only really long games being Chrono Trigger, Metal Gear Solid and possibly Myst. I also have no sequence in mind. Originally I thought maybe I'd do them chronologically, but I've decided I'll just play them as I wish. If I feel like focusing on one until it's beat, then fine. If I want to work on Chrono Trigger and R-Type back and forth, so be it. If I want to juggle them all at once until something gets beaten, whatever. This is just supposed to be fun, right? And of course I plan to keep the blog updated with my progress on each. Stay tuned!

[Flake]

I just realized that with two exceptions, everything on my list can be played on the Gamecube, after a fashion.

Looks like ol' Spice Orange is getting quite the work out this summer.