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dsheinem wrote:I would think that most arcade titles (or ones in an arcade genre) should be subject to difficulty comparisons within their genre

I agree.

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What about Legacy of the Wizard, The Goonies II, or F-Zero X?

Legacy of the Wizard = Challenging.
The Goonies II = I'll defer to other judges.
F-Zero X = Not really challenging, I beat it left right up and down in one day. F-Zero GX on the other hand...

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Current participants:

CFFJR
dsheinem
Exhuminator
Fastbilly
Laurenhiya21
Prfsnl_gmr
Sarge
strangenova

We're at 8! Just 2 more and we'll call this a thing.

If we do get up to at least 10 participants, I will edit the OP to make it official (and easier to read).

Remember folks, it doesn't matter if you win*, it's about challenging yourself and doing some legit retro gaming.

*Unless you truly want a swanky certificate signed by an insane person certifying you as a super legit oldschool gamer.

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And yes, Ack is the judges' judge. No one but a smarmy simian can judge me.

Life Force is a good shmup for people who aren't fans of the genre. It is much better than Gradius. It also isn't that hard, but if you are new to the genre, it will be tough.

Adventure Island is tough, but mostly because it is so unnecessarily long and repetitive. The sequels are much better, but they are also a lot easier. (I actually need to finish up all of those games, and I may try to run the series - along with the Wonder Boy and Monster World series - at some point.)

Ack wrote:

fastbilly1 wrote:

Ack wrote:Heh, if you are willing to give me the potential for deciding whether something is hard, sure. But I did eat PC GRAW for breakfast and find the System Shock games ridiculously easy, so don't forget that.

And yet, he cant win in UT99 Deathmatch.

Against you, no. But then I didn't cut my teeth on it against Fatal1ty like you did.

No one here but you and me know who that is. And that was UT2k3.

fastbilly1 wrote:

Ack wrote:Against you, no. But then I didn't cut my teeth on it against Fatal1ty like you did.

No one here but you and me know who that is. And that was UT2k3.

I thought Fatal1ty was known for Quake games....no?

I'm not sure I'd consider myself "new" to the genre, but it's definitely outside my wheelhouse.

I know of the ones mentioned in here, I've beaten The Guardian Legend and Lords of Thunder.

fastbilly1 wrote:No one here but you and me know who that is. And that was UT2k3.

Ha. I remember him. He destroyed me in Quake 3 one time. Had no idea who he was until I looked it up later after people started complaining.

dsheinem wrote:

fastbilly1 wrote:

Ack wrote:Against you, no. But then I didn't cut my teeth on it against Fatal1ty like you did.

No one here but you and me know who that is. And that was UT2k3.

I thought Fatal1ty was known for Quake games....no?

I stand corrected. You are correct Fatal1ty played Quake mostly, but he was the best player in the world in UT2k3 (the one year it was a CPL tournament). Shogun and Astro were his main training partners, but through chance I ended up a regular on a private server he trained on. But that was a long long time ago, I doubt he would even remember me.

fastbilly1 wrote:No one here but you and me know who that is. And that was UT2k3.

He has had his name plastered on gaming oriented PC parts since like the early 2000s...I think ASRock is using it these days.


As for the challenge, I may participate, not sure. I tend not to be great at aligning what I feel like playing at the time with particular forum challenges/Together playthroughs.

fastbilly1 wrote:I stand corrected. You are correct Fatal1ty played Quake mostly, but he was the best player in the world in UT2k3 (the one year it was a CPL tournament). Shogun and Astro were his main training partners, but through chance I ended up a regular on a private server he trained on. But that was a long long time ago, I doubt he would even remember me.

I was unfamiliar with his post-Quake career. I mostly heard of him in association with Quake, and because of that was amused to see his handle still attached to gamer-focused PC hardware. I had some Fatal1ty RAM in my PC a couple builds ago.

isiolia wrote: I tend not to be great at aligning what I feel like playing at the time with particular forum challenges/Together playthroughs.

That is indeed the hardest part.

Hell, I have that problem even without the challenge structure.