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[+..••] As for gaming this week in Emulationville I played [+..••]
Arcade
Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters (1996 Capcom) - Arcade (Boss Rush)
Console
ESPN NFL 2K5 (2004 Sega) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Football)
International Superstar Soccer 2000 (2000 Konami) - Nintendo 64 - Sports (Soccer)
Madden NFL 2003 (2002 EA Sports) - Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Football)
NASCAR Thunder 2003 (2002 EA Sports) - Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Racing)
Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (2006 Konami) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Soccer)
Summer Athletics (2008 Conspiracy Entertainment) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Athletics)
Tecmo Super Bowl 2024 (2023 TecmoBowl.org) - Nintendo Entertainment System - Sports (Football)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000 Activision) - Sega Dreamcast - Sports (Skateboarding)
PC
art of rally (2020 Funselektor Labs) - Steam - Sports (Racing)
NASCAR Heat 5 (2020 Motorsport Games) - Steam - Sports (Racing)
Race 07 (2007 SimBin) - Steam - Sports (Racing)
SRX: The Game (2021 Monster Games) - Steam - Sports (Racing)
This week I have been learning a lot about the Nintendo 64…… Pengling put me onto a N64 youtuber by the name of N64 Glenn Plant…..
The N64 mostly passed me by back in the day…… Even though Nintendo put in a ton of money to market the console here in Australia…….. With a lot of TV and Print ads….. The series of TV ads where actually quite good……. Which saw Tim Ferguson attempting to complete a silly stunt inspired by the game being advertised and failing each and every time is mostly humorous ways……
Super Mario 64
Mario Kari 64
StarFox 64
Wave Race 64
Star Wars Shadows Of The Empire
Later on Nintendo even managed to get Michael Klim to do adverts for the N64 and Gameboy……
N64 Gold Controller
Game Boy Pocket Gold
1080 Snowboarding
So after watching a lot of Glenn Plants videos expect to see more N64 games on my gaming list in the upcoming weeks…..
Summer Athletics …...
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The generic no licence Summer Olympics event you have all been waiting for……..
The graphics….. Bad….. Really bad…… Even for the PS2 this is shit….. Very blurry ultra low res textures and player models that use less polygons than a N64 game…….. The use of colour is also awful……. Dayglo green glass and skies bluer than Sonic the Hedgehog……… Makes me wish I was blind…...
The sounds……. Are as generic and low quality as you can get…… Crowd noise is almost non existent……. The other sound effects are here…… But they are so low qualify you would think its an Atari 2600 game……. And the “music” is sub “lofi hip hop radio beats to relax/study to”…….. Makes me wish I was deaf……..
The controls……... Are so awful…… DONT ever emulate this on a Nintendo Switch……. This will cause stick drift in seconds on the joycons…… Running/Swimming and Cycling require you to move the analogue sticks around like a 4 year old on a Red Bull and Cinnamon Doughnut sugar rush…….. The controls are not intuitive and leaves you flailing around and makes you feel like you dont have any control at all…... They make me wish I had no hands…….
The storyline....... There is no storyline……. So I get the make one up……. The Doritos Pope has kidnapped April O’Neil again…….. And its up to the Ninja Turtles to rescue her…… Pengling appears to finally get recognition for her previous rescue of April O’Neil………
The Doritos Pope says he will release April O’Neil if Pengling plays “Summer Athletics” on the PS2 for 24 hours…… Pengling looks at the game and the manual and sees the terrible control layouts, awful graphics and shoddy music and sound effects…….
Pengling ponders for a moment before making her decision……. She looks up at April O’Neil hanging from a rope and about to lowered into a vat of Nacho Cheese……. “Good luck April” says Pengling…… “Your life is not worth enduring that torture for……. Hopefully the Turtles will be here soon to save you……..”
And with that Pengling leaves as the sound of the pulley squeaks into life and April O’Neil is slowly being lowered towards the vat of Nacho Cheese………...
The gameplay…… Take part in a boring non licenced generic Summer Olympics…… You do get to create your own character……. Every event is really short (thats what she said)……. And with the awful controls these events feels like they take longer to play……. Its so bare bones it might as well be a skeleton…….
The only DECENT event is archery……. That is rather fun……. Although I do find it off how theres hardly any arrow drop off over 70 metres……. While the wind will put your arrow into another area code…… The controls for archery are actually decent as well which is a shock……. But thats about the only praise I can give this game……..
Overall…… QWOP has more gameplay than this piece of shit…….. And there is hardly ANY redeeming qualities about it……. Even if you got it for free you would STILL feel like you got ripped off…….
And that is why my final score for Summer Athletics is a Eric the Eel out of 10……...
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Summer Athletics …..
The Road To PES Penguin 6
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The road to unlock the PES Penguin in Pro Evolution Soccer 6 is at 3000 PES points out of 5000……….
Other Screenshots……...
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Madden NFL 2003 (2002 EA Sports) - Nintendo Gamecube - Sports (Football)
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000 Activision) - Sega Dreamcast - Sports (Skateboarding)
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International Superstar Soccer 2000 (2000 Konami) - Nintendo 64 - Sports (Soccer)
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NASCAR Heat 5 (2020 Motorsport Games) - Steam - Sports (Racing)
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ESPN NFL 2K5 (2004 Sega) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Football)
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NASCAR Thunder 2003 (2002 EA Sports) - Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Racing)
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SRX: The Game (2021 Monster Games) - Steam - Sports (Racing)
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art of rally (2020 Funselektor Labs) - Steam - Sports (Racing)
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Race 07 (2007 SimBin) - Steam - Sports (Racing)
Well thats it from me…… Hope all you tuxers have a good week……
Now for my bad joke of the week……
Q: Why are there Pop-Tarts but no Mum-Tarts??.......
A: Because of the pastryarchy.......
*ba dum.... tssssh…...*
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Along the way, I've ended up discovering an excellent YouTube channel called N64 Glenn Plant (which I also passed Spider the link for, as he notes above!
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My pick for this weekend is 2001's Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64) - the result of what happened when Rareware, a studio famous at the time for making solid family-friendly games, got egotistical when the press said that a then-upcoming family-friendly game would turn out to be a good family-friendly game, and then reworked that game into an adult-only title, taking it from a guaranteed multi-million seller to an absolute sales bomb with a very limited audience.
No, really.
Conker's Bad Fur Day actually started out as Conker's Quest (later Twelve Tales: Conker 64, of which there is more preserved footage), a sweet little 3D-platformer starring a cute little red squirrel named Conker and his chipmunk girlfriend Berri, which was announced in 1997, and which would have been a unique early entry in the genre due to being planned to include co-operative play, which was generally considered to be impractical in 3D platforming titles. They spent years promoting the character and his upcoming game by way of including him in the N64 mascot-racer Diddy Kong Racing and giving him a Game Boy Colour game titled Conker's Pocket Tales, which was intended as a prequel to Twelve Tales.
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Everything that's preserved and known about the original game shows that it was incredibly technically accomplished, and looked like a lot of fun! And this is why it's taken me such a long time to get around to playing Conker's Bad Fur Day - I had been looking forward to Conker's Quest, and resented Bad Fur Day for causing that game to be lost, as well as the immense budget wastage that was caused by spending so many years reworking it obviously impacting the development of other titles as well (such as the much more interesting full original version of Dinosaur Planet, which was originally for the N64; It's really not like the cut-down and reworked Star Fox Adventures that was released for the GameCube). This was one of several factors that helped to foster my disappointment in and dislike of the N64, in fact!
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But, here we are in 2024, when I'm looking at the N64 in a different light and am more able to take it and its games on their own merits, and I'm now playing Conker's Bad Fur Day as it was actually released. And to my great surprise, it's also incredibly technically accomplished and a lot of fun!
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The game handles well, and has fun movement and attacks in a way that surprisingly few 3D platformers manage. The visuals are amazing considering the constraints of the Nintendo 64 hardware - I've constantly found myself impressed by how detailed and expressive the graphics are, and they're (usually) cute, too; There are games I've played in the past where I've suggested not letting the cutesy looks fool you because underneath they're brutally difficult, but with this one, you shouldn't be fooled by the looks because the game is openly violent and gross, instead.
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If you like this sort of thing, Conker's Bad Fur Day is well worth a look. It's a unique experience, and certainly not the sort of game that would be made today!
[+..••] Other stuff that I played this week;
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Rod Land (Arcade; Evercade)
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Space Invaders (Arcade; Evercade)
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Super Bomberman 2 (SNES)
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Super Bomberman R 2 (Proton)
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The NewZealand Story (Arcade; Evercade)
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Worms Armageddon (N64)
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Zool: Ninja of the Nth Dimension (Mega Drive; Evercade)
It's been really fun sharing reviews back and forth this week!
Bloody right!
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At least the video was good, even if the game wasn't.
Only 2000 to go!
I'm not weirded out by the kangaroo, just the giant sheep.
Hahahahaha! Very good!
Awesome! Have fun!
Monster movie costume party & dancing social. They did have some video games on the screens in certain areas of the club.
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Good to see..... Nintnedo got tons of coverage here in Aus....... So I find it odd that the UK didnt get that much coverage.......
I have quite a few games on my list to play in the future based purely on his his recommendation....... And his video was the sole reason I played International Superstar Soccer 2000 during the week....... Expect a full review of that later in the year.....
It might have had a limited audience...... But the game seems to be really damn good..... And I wish more companies would take that approach to games...... Instead of the formulaic mass appeal clones the AAA industry mostly shits out today........ But sadly that cant happen as AAA games so expensive to make they cant afford not to make a mass appeal clone product.......
73%....
I thought that was a bootleg game at first...... Rod Land sounds like a made up game...... But nope...... Its real.......
My favourite version is of Space Invaders is Pepsi Invaders......
GOD DAMMIT PENGLING!!!!........
I much prefer this New Zealand story.......
I really liked the Worms series...... I have never played the N64 version but I can say that the Dreamcast version is very very good....... But it doesnt work on all Dreamcast emulators due to it being a Windows CE game...... As was Worms World Party......
I see him there.... Plotting on how to clog another shower.......
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
That image is great!!!......
Qxir does a lot of really good videos...... Really worth checking out his channel......
Oh god...... Dont remind me.......
Well if your weirded out by the giant sheep..... Then im affraid ive got some bad news for you...... The giant sheep........ IS REAL.......
I knew you would like that one lol.......
Deadfall Adventures - Put Lara Croft and Indiana Jones together in a room. Dim the lights, play some Barry White and this is what you end up with nine months later. An action/adventure FPS filled with tomb looting, nazi killing and puzzle solving. Should be great in theory but it never really takes of. Can't really put my finger on why though. It's not bad in any way and I plan on completing it, but at the same time nothing about it stands out.
The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav and the sequel Memoria - Really great adventure games, Memoria especially. Great writing and art. Great dialogue and voice acting. Puzzle solving that's just at that point where it starts to get frustrating and you're ready for a walk through when you finally solve it.
Besides the usual item combinations the games uses some magical elements. The protagonist in the first one have the amazing superpower of being able to break (small, fragile) things with his mind, and put them together again (without using glue!). In the second game there's a neat ability where you plant ideas in peoples head and have them do or say what you want. Neat stuff!
EA Sports WRC - I continue to make a fool out of myself in the GoL Tournament. But maybe, just maybe improving a little bit (at the driving bit, not the fool part!). These are the current standings:
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There's always room for a trickle of more players though!
During practice i also snagged a TOP TEN IN THE WORLD place on the leaderboards. This is pure talent, skill and good looks.
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It has nothing at all to do with there only being 30 or so players having driven that stage in the rain (people seem to hate the slippy stuff) or me filtering the leaderbords to only show players using no assists and steering wheels....
Now if you'll excuse me, the Statler Brothers and I have some flower countin to get back to. I do believe there's a Steam achievement if I get the count correct!
Yeah we always do! I shared my Ken and my gf's Chun-Li costume someone on here in the past. This time I did a Wolf-Man and my gf did a battled damage Velma.
It was a lot of fun and we got to see Lisa Frankenstein for free.
They did have marketing campaigns, but the TV ones were annoying and ill-thought-out, and some were inconsistent because they would just re-use ads from other regions, and the print ones (which were mostly alright) just didn't go far enough.
Same! The channel's proven to be a big help in seeing the N64 in a new light.
You're spot-on, and I agree - it was an early sign of some folks in the industry who understood that there was a problem looming due to there being too many samey releases and not enough fun. Remember, Conker's Bad Fur Day was released around the time that the video games market as a whole started shrinking, because it had become too focussed on one type of customer to the detriment of all others - the same phenomenon that led to the creation of the Nintendo DS and Wii, which singlehandedly reversed the trend.
It was well-liked on the home-micros over here due to it being in the same vein as the likes of Bubble Bobble, though to be fair it never achieved the same heights as the fairy aesthetic had a slightly less broad appeal than cute stubby bubble-blowing dragons.
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It also wasn't helped by this rather dreadful advert that I affectionately describe as "Demented Rainbow Brite".
COKE WINS, as the game proclaims.
I grew up with the Game Boy version, which went everywhere with me along with Wario Blast and Ms. Pac-Man - it was a very good conversion for the time.
Back when I was a Nintendo Switch owner, I decided to pick up the latest entry, Worms WMD, and I was left very disappointed - it was clunky and inaccessible, with an unwieldy crafting system (because apparently absolutely everything had to have that after Minecraft hit it big), and a heavy reliance on obscure inside-jokes from entries in the series that I'd never played. Where once the series had felt accessible and pick-up-and-play, it now just felt alienating and like you needed a Haynes Manual to make any sense of it. I counted myself lucky that I hadn't paid much for it, and then just gave up on it.
That was why I enjoyed discovering the N64 version of Worms Armageddon so much - it was nice to see that there were entries I'd missed that thankfully weren't like WMD!
Hahaha!
Thankyou, thankyou!
I ended up binge-watching a load of them after that, hahaha!
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I see what you did there.
OH! I remember seeing your costumes from before, now! I'm sure the recent ones were just as great, too.
Sweet!
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