Post your happy gaming up in here.

[Exhuminator]

Ah, I see, they've changed the name:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... room&hl=en

Installed like a mofo tho.

[prfsnl_gmr]

It's called the Ensign, also a 99 cent game on iOS only for now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ensig ... eo_game%29

I grabbed The Ensign immediately after beating A Dark Room. I have not yet dived into it yet, however. (Knowing how quickly death came in the RPG segements of A Dark Room, it sounds absolutely grueling!) Amir Rajan, the artist/developer behind those games also has several other games which sound compelling, but since he appears to develop games primarily for smartphones, I do not think he is as well known as some other indie game developers.

[MrEco]

Last night I found out some good (for me) news. Apparently all pre-orders for the Special Edition of Fire Emblem Fates that were put in after the 18th got cancelled.

I got mine in on the 17th.

[Key-Glyph]

Sometimes I plug my Comix Zone cartridge into my Sega Genesis and connect my stereo just so I can listen to the groovy music. It makes me smile. Then I usually follow up with Streets of Rage 2.

Mmm...tunes.

So much this! I finally got my own game space to set up this year (we call it the Retro Room), and something I was able to do was put my old stereo close enough to feed all the audio through it and place the big speakers on either side of the itty bitty tube TV. I had the greatest time testing each system out after I got the switches daisy chained, blasting WCW for the NES and Ranger X for the Genesis to the extent that they have always deserved.

I also often hook up my chiptune-filled MP3 player and dance around and sing in the basement to certain OSTs of choice. This can change the entire trajectory of a day in ten seconds flat.

EDIT: I also just dug out one of those old CD player car adapters the other day, because the teeny stereo we have upstairs in the living room doesn't take any inputs -- which is nuts, but whatever, I've loved that thing since I was a teen -- but it does have a tape deck. So now I can pop in ye olde adapter tape, plug that into my chiptune MP3 player, and blast the jams upstairs while I do chores.

Ahh. The good life.

[samsonlonghair]

Sometimes I plug my Comix Zone cartridge into my Sega Genesis and connect my stereo just so I can listen to the groovy music. It makes me smile. Then I usually follow up with Streets of Rage 2.

Mmm...tunes.

So much this! I finally got my own game space to set up this year (we call it the Retro Room), and something I was able to do was put my old stereo close enough to feed all the audio through it and place the big speakers on either side of the itty bitty tube TV. I had the greatest time testing each system out after I got the switches daisy chained, blasting WCW for the NES and Ranger X for the Genesis to the extent that they have always deserved.

I also often hook up my chiptune-filled MP3 player and dance around and sing in the basement to certain OSTs of choice. This can change the entire trajectory of a day in ten seconds flat.

EDIT: I also just dug out one of those old CD player car adapters the other day, because the teeny stereo we have upstairs in the living room doesn't take any inputs -- which is nuts, but whatever, I've loved that thing since I was a teen -- but it does have a tape deck. So now I can pop in ye olde adapter tape, plug that into my chiptune MP3 player, and blast the jams upstairs while I do chores.

Ahh. The good life.

I approve of this. There's too much hurt feelings and negative reciprocation around here lately. We all need to chill out and groove to some good music.

By the way, I've done the same tape adapter trick with a few cheap old stereos. It's surprisingly effective. How very Macgyver of you. I'm impressed with your resourcefulness.

[Sarge]

That's what I did in my old vehicle that didn't have a CD player. I'd use a cassette tape adapter with an portable MP3 CD Player, and later an Archos AV500 that just happened to come into my possession. I also had a cheap Espresso player that had an FM transmitter that I used for a time as well.

Now, I don't have to sweat it, since my vehicle has a CD player and an USB stick hookup for MP3.

[Key-Glyph]

That's what I did in my old vehicle that didn't have a CD player.

Yup -- in fact this setup is a holdover from those days. Same one I used all throughout high school and college.

By the way, I've done the same tape adapter trick with a few cheap old stereos. It's surprisingly effective. How very Macgyver of you. I'm impressed with your resourcefulness.

I think you mean "I'm impressed with how long and carefully you hold onto outdated technology." Except perhaps not, because that's what we pretty much do as a group here.

Also, I listened to Comix Zone for my hour commute today because of you. I usually listen to it in the summer for some reason, but it had to happen after you mentioned it -- even with snow on the ground.

[fastbilly1]

I know I have mentioned it several times in the past, but when I was in college a group of folk would meet every Friday to play PC games in one of the labs. Well we started hanging out during the week at the Student Union and it just became a large gang of people where everyone knew everyone else. There were about sixty of us. Well over a decade later, the majority of us keep in touch, and at any given time there is atleast one of us on Steam. Saturday morning I tried to play Payday 2 with three of them, not my normal Thursday night crew. The four of us are spread across the world - China, Budapest, Alabama, and Tennessee, and while the game did not work, we still had fun chatting and trying to figure out the problem.

Over a decade later and we are still all connected and still (attempting to) playing games together.

[Key-Glyph]

The four of us are spread across the world - China, Budapest, Alabama, and Tennessee, and while the game did not work, we still had fun chatting and trying to figure out the problem.

Over a decade later and we are still all connected and still (attempting to) playing games together.

I love this story. That's so awesome.

I thought of another one (I love sharing happy gaming stories). This time last year I was spending a week with my best friend in California. Whenever we're able to see each other we play a ton of video games together, so we had it planned way ahead of time that we'd tackle the co-op portion of Portal 2 while I was visiting.

The interesting twist to this is that although we'd played games together, we'd never played cooperatively -- so not only did we have all the fun as usual, we actually got to witness in real time what we were individually good at (or sucked at) and how we functioned as a team. It was fascinating!

I am terrible with spacial stuff, but she excels at it. So I would find myself stopped in the middle of a light bridge after we'd discussed a plan at length and have to ask, "Uhhmmm... so which color portal am I supposed to put down again?" And she would tell me (possibly for the fifth time) without missing a beat. On the other side of things, timing is not her strongest suit -- but that's where my strength was. So we'd set up an entire plan that involved her pushing a button and sitting back while I jumped off a ledge at the right moment, shot a portal at the approaching ground, launched around in some ridiculous chain reaction, then grabbed a falling cube mid-flight and landed on a distant ledge.

SO MANY HIGH-FIVES WERE HAD. Man, that game just makes you feel so great about being a team.

We didn't finish, unfortunately, but the save file is there for my next visit.

[Forlorn Drifter]

It's called the Ensign, also a 99 cent game on iOS only for now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ensig ... eo_game%29

I grabbed The Ensign immediately after beating A Dark Room. I have not yet dived into it yet, however. (Knowing how quickly death came in the RPG segements of A Dark Room, it sounds absolutely grueling!) Amir Rajan, the artist/developer behind those games also has several other games which sound compelling, but since he appears to develop games primarily for smartphones, I do not think he is as well known as some other indie game developers.

Ooh, we should do a thread about text based, and other lo-fi phone games. I personally always found those better on phones than trying for something big and fancy.