Gaming Confession Booth

[Erik_Twice]

Oh yeah, and I'm addicted to N64. Surprise!!

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[BoringSupreez]

Oh yeah, and I'm addicted to N64. Surprise!!

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How about this one? It's already the perfect size if you want to use it.

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[Bikeage]

Enjoyed and beat Final Fantasy Tactics, FF Tactics Advance, Tactics Ogre GBA, but have had Disgaea since 2007 and never played past the tutorial.

[ExedExes]

I hate Compile

I had played on an arcade cab less than 10 times before buying my own.

The first time I ever played a shmup was only 2 years ago.

Noooo. (great classic developer)

Noooooo. (somehow that's hard to believe)

Nooooooooooooooo!!!!! (somehow that's ALSO hard to believe seeing how good you are)

I think the original Deus Ex has aged horrifically and is also overrated.

I have to disagree. I only discovered that a few years ago, and the concepts it added to the FPS genre were groundbreaking at the time. Yes, the Unreal Engine 1 makes it age, but the game itself added a lot of dark atmosphere and style, and also a good story. The SEQUEL, on the other hand.....

Oh, if this is a confession booth...

I asked for it on Christmas,

enjoy it,

and still play it from time to time..

E.T. on the Atari 2600.

Forgive me brothers, may this not excommunicate me from RB or invalidate any of my opinions

[dunpeal2064]

I hate Compile

I had played on an arcade cab less than 10 times before buying my own.

The first time I ever played a shmup was only 2 years ago.

Noooo. (great classic developer)

Noooooo. (somehow that's hard to believe)

Nooooooooooooooo!!!!! (somehow that's ALSO hard to believe seeing how good you are)

I was actually feeling quilt while posting that first one, and thought specifically of you and Brunoath. I just... can't pretend anymore, I just don't like their shooters.

I do like some classics though, especially Toaplan. If it helps, whoever makes their music is very talented. I listen to the MUSHA soundtrack all the time. I just won't ever play the game again.

As far as arcade gaming goes, my dad just hated games when I was growing up. He's a sports guy. So, it was pretty lucky that I even got a SNES growing up. Very rarily would we get to go to an arcade, and when we did, I would get maybe $1 to play games, which lasted me about 5 seconds.

When I ended up going to my first local shmupmeet, I was blown away at how great games looked in arcades (Never payed attention to things like that as a kid), and I knew I had to get one, to make up for all the great arcading I missed out on.

And yep, just two years ago I was attempting to clear Castle Shikigami II with the 9 credits they gave you, and I had no idea what Rank was, or that I should play for score rather than just feed the game until I beat it.

Now, I'm fully addicted to chasing score, and playing 5 stage games for hours and weeks on end, just to improve my play style and score.

... which is what led me to dislike Compile so much.

[Protronrob]

I didn't realize till last week that 1943(nes) has a power up shot if you hold the fire button down instead of spam it with a turbo controller

[dunpeal2064]

I didn't realize till last week that 1943(nes) has a power up shot if you hold the fire button down instead of spam it with a turbo controller

Ha ha, this happens to me too, usually with a shmup.

I didn't know for the longest time that there was bullet grazing in each Raiden Fighters game, as well as Raiden III

[ExedExes]

I was actually feeling quilt while posting that first one, and thought specifically of you and Brunoath. I just... can't pretend anymore, I just don't like their shooters.

I do like some classics though, especially Toaplan. If it helps, whoever makes their music is very talented. I listen to the MUSHA soundtrack all the time. I just won't ever play the game again.

As far as arcade gaming goes, my dad just hated games when I was growing up. He's a sports guy. So, it was pretty lucky that I even got a SNES growing up. Very rarily would we get to go to an arcade, and when we did, I would get maybe $1 to play games, which lasted me about 5 seconds.

When I ended up going to my first local shmupmeet, I was blown away at how great games looked in arcades (Never payed attention to things like that as a kid), and I knew I had to get one, to make up for all the great arcading I missed out on.

And yep, just two years ago I was attempting to clear Castle Shikigami II with the 9 credits they gave you, and I had no idea what Rank was, or that I should play for score rather than just feed the game until I beat it.

Now, I'm fully addicted to chasing score, and playing 5 stage games for hours and weeks on end, just to improve my play style and score.

... which is what led me to dislike Compile so much.

I can see your fondness for the later end of the shmup spectrum now with the reasons you gave. You started on the modern ones and you like the systems and mechanics and rank and score and all that (and therefore how you can be so good at them too). I would have honestly maybe never played Battle Garegga, 19XX, or Dragon Blaze as hard as I have had it not been for the threads and discussions here. I can't hardly wait to see what other hidden gems Raizing and Cave have to offer this year on RB.

If anything, playing them here has also stopped me from endlessly continuing on them and focusing more on 1-credit performances, which is what the standard seems to be these days everywhere you go here. My arcade 1ccs belong to light gun games rather than shmups however

Good call on Toaplan. Something about Truxton and Truxton II -- amazing music everywhere in all their games.

I grew up with Compile. therefore, my non-hate for them -- I still think The Guardian Legend was one of the finest NES games ever made. Much respect for Zanac and the Aleste series too.

[Key-Glyph]

When I was a little girl I think I had a crush on the Asterite from Ecco the Dolphin. And no, I don't entirely understand that either.

I have a ton of Apple IIe games, but 95% of them are pirated. I did not pirate them personally -- they came with the computer when my family bought it in the 1990s and we weren't forewarned -- but it still bothers me ethically that we paid somebody money for them back then (even though I'm grateful to have grown up with those copies).

Just last week I managed to install Windows 95 directly on my 2004 HP Pentium 4 processor laptop (no emulator) and am ridiculously proud of myself. Perhaps more appropriate to this thread, however, is the confession that I actually spent money on an original Win95 CD-ROM and boot disk from eBay. Whatever, I'm totally a futuristic techno-wizard, I wanted the legit experience, it was worth $10, I'm gonna catch Carmen Sandiego and you're not, shutup.

[foxhound1022]

I have never played a CDi.

I hate both Zeldas for DS.

There are very few games for Genesis I actually enjoy, Yet I love tons of Saturn and Dreamcast titles.

I have beaten every FF from Mystic Quest to lX, but never the original.

I absolutely HATE point n' click games.

Yes, I hate Mischief Makers. (I got in trouble for this when I first joined.)

I have every KOF, Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury, and Samurai Shodown, because I fucking love SNK fighters. (Just played KOF '98)