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Pandemic console playlist?
newmanfamilyvlogs:
Humble Bundle has a pretty strong offering for the next 6 days for PC players:
https://www.humblebundle.com/conquer-covid19-bundle
A fair bit of it has been in bundles before, but I think it's easily worth the $30
KenToad:
Thanks for that link! It's an amazing deal, especially as the money is going to Covid-19 related relief efforts.
opt2not:
Oh man, the PC-Engine is a fantastic system. I don’t need a second controller. Most of the games I want to play on it are arcade style games. I.e., single player, don’t-take-all-the-powerups----uvula---!-Mode. Plus the unit itself is so small and sleek looking. It was hilarious when they released the mini recently and the size difference is no that smaller.
I’m one of the fortunate ones to be in an industry where we can work from home. So I’m still doing my full work-week, minus the commute, showering often...but added a screaming kid and nagging wife to my work day.
So, I’m still in the same boat, gaming wise. Lots of games to play, no actual time...
pbj:
So I spent like 3 hours in my garage, it’s oddly cool in Houston right now. Filled a trash can full of crap. Could probably fill another 5 before I lost that hoarder feeling. Decided my friends were never getting Pi Carts, so maybe it was time to un sacrifice that copy of 10 Yard Fight for NES and actually play it. You all know this game, it’s at the top of all of our rom lists just in front of 3 Ninjas Kick Back.
And damned if the NES board in my retro Duo didn’t start acting up. So I open it up, and two wires of the 10 I soldered in there to replace a looose ribbon cable managed to unsolder themselves. Which puts the console in this weird place where the B button simultaneously sends down, left, B and start to the game. That’s what I get for leaving it on for over a week recently, I guess.
So, no screaming kid and wife isn’t nagging and I’m still not playing anything. At least I know how to repair it.
Coronavirus killing the TG 16 mini I guess has me playing the games more. I couldn’t figure out why the CD games weren’t really any better until reading revealed that all the CD drive did was make more storage available. (No extra ram, graphics, or cpu). The Castlevania game is really good, though. I wouldn’t say it looks “better” than the SNES or Genesis games but the style holds up very well.
EDIT: and the two wires have been resoldered and my Retro Duo is back in business. :cheers:
KenToad:
We're working from home, as well. But the social distancing aspect of the shelter at home has left us with basically no social life. Myself along with wife and two kids head out for daily exercise, but we never have friends over or go out beyond essential shopping during this time. Generally, I've had more time, basically more excuses, to play video games, despite nearly normal work schedules and keeping the kids busy.
I got the Covid-19 humble bundle linked above and tried out Undertale. It's sort of funny, but I'm not loving it so far. Also, playing it on Steam, I had input lag that got worse and worse, basically rendering it unbearable. I'm downloading the Witness to give it a try.
Oh, and my son and I have started playing a Co-op campaign of Halo: Reach. That game should be rated teen, at most, very mild sci-fi violence, at least through the first five missions or so. And it's really fun.
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