GENITAL JOUSTING JIM PC

You will take damage, but it's fine because you can recoup some here and here. Looking back on the likes of Cool Spot, Mickey Mania etc - games I enjoyed to varying degrees as a kid - this cyclical chip away/replenish health system was indicative of poorly designed gameplay. It's one of those games where you have a large pool of health, with various health pick-ups scattered throughout the stages. Without save states it would have been unbearable. The offshoot of this is that the clunk is exacerbated on the SNES, resulting in required leaps of faith, or enemies more or less hitting you before they're even on screen. Anyway (to quote Richard Leadbetter's younger self), I digress. Maybe that's because I only read the Sega mags, but I would've thought that would've been the most likely place to see it. Retroking confirmed that this is exactly what happened with many MD to SNES ports but I don't remember this being a known or widely acknowledged thing at the time - I certainly don't remember it being touched on at all in the gaming press (or playgrounds) #backintheday. From the opening screens it feels like a poor GBA port - you know the ones that were fundamentally solid but the screen was cropped and too close to the action (like Idunno, the Ecco port). I defy anyone to play through What the Heck? without asking themselves that very question. After reading a recent Retro Gamer article I thought I'd double check the validity of my hot take.Īnd after playing two stages of the SNES version it was pretty obvious I was right. A couple of badgers weren't avvin' it and I got my legs taken out by Nasty Nick & Chopper Byrne. I mentioned in the retro thread recently that Gargoyles, which I attempted to play on a MD, 'felt a bit like minus the shooting', after having described it as clunky. Only one of those is still good, so it's not like I'm about to be overly mean on DP's first Shiny effort (which would now sit at no.2, FTR).

My appropriately named Virgin Games list, as it would have looked in 1993/4: For reference, in 1994 this would've been a Moot 93%. I managed to finish it back then but Christ knows how. Earthworm Jim (MD, 70 mins)ĭisclaimer: I was big into this game when I rented it at least twice in the latter days of the early 90s.

GENITAL JOUSTING JIM PC

Last two games I played on a PC were A Short Hike (laptop struggled, shortcuts locked the game up) and an hour of Far Cry at launch.ģ0. PC gaming is the one true win in fairness, at least when it comes to indies.

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