It's time for a light-hearted cutesy-robot game this weekend, with Doraemon: Nobita no Dorabian Night for the PC Engine.


The game is a colourful platformer by Hudson Soft, and it sees the earless robot cat from the future, Doraemon, having to rescue his friends after they misuse some of his futuristic gadgets and get themselves stuck inside the worlds of various storybooks. It's very loosely tied in with the 1991 movie of the same name, which was released a few months before the game.

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Madden NFL 2003 (2002 EA Sports) - Nintendo Gamecube - Sports (Football)

I love the low-poly shadows, here.

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GOD DAMMIT PENGLING!!!……..
The Oregon Trail (1990 MECC) - DOSBox Pure - Simulation

Goddamnit Spider, putting me in a game where I can break my arm! How mean!

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderNow for my bad Oregon Trail themed joke of the week……
You see a man on the side of the road…….... You pull over and ask his name……….... “Terry…..” he replies…….... You start laughing……... “Thats a girls name!!!…….” You say as you continue laughing………. Terry pulls out a gun and shoots you……….. You have died of dissin’ Terry………...
*ba dum.... tssssh…...*

Hahaha, that's a new one - a retro-gaming-themed joke, nice idea.

I've played The Spirit and the Mouse for the second time. The game length is probably exactly right – like last time, I feel like it could be slightly longer. There is still something wonky with the light bulb hints. I couldn't find the last four and had to buy at least eight hints to get the map symbols.

Quoting: PenglingGoddamnit Spider, putting me in a game where I can break my arm! How mean!

It should have healed up by now – it was more than 175 years ago.

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What has happened there? Is that supposed to be snow? Very low-res fog? Ice?

Quoting: KlaasIt should have healed up by now – it was more than 175 years ago.

HAHAHAHA! Good one!

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It's time for a light-hearted cutesy-robot game this weekend, with Doraemon: Nobita no Dorabian Night for the PC Engine.

Ive never heard of it..... Will have to look into that one........

Quoting: PenglingI love the low-poly shadows, here.

Arnt all shadows low poly since they are 2D??.....

Quoting: PenglingGoddamnit Spider, putting me in a game where I can break my arm! How mean!

Not my fault that you didnt read the sign that said to keep arms inside the wagon at all times.......

Quoting: PenglingHahaha, that's a new one - a retro-gaming-themed joke, nice idea.

Its a good joke I had to get it in here somehow.......

Quoting: KlaasIt should have healed up by now – it was more than 175 years ago.

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH
Nearly made me spit out my hot chocolate........

Quoting: KlaasWhat has happened there? Is that supposed to be snow? Very low-res fog? Ice?

Snow and fog as you can see.....

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderIve never heard of it..... Will have to look into that one........

It's a nice chilled-out little game. Slightly weird controls in places, but it's from before certain things were standardised in the genre, so it's easily forgivable (for example, you can catch certain ledges by holding Up on the d-pad, but to climb them you have to mash one of the face-buttons - later on, the genre would settle on catching being automatic and climbing up being done by pressing Up or the jump-button). I'm enjoying it so far.

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderArnt all shadows low poly since they are 2D??.....

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderNot my fault that you didnt read the sign that said to keep arms inside the wagon at all times.......

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderNot my fault that you didnt read the sign that said to keep arms inside the wagon at all times.......

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But robots can read..........

Last weekend I had a bit of a burnout on Factorio (yes, it's possible, who knew?) and instead I decided to finally complete all achievements of another one of my favourites: The Talos Principle. Messed up the first attempt and I was over half way until I figured out that I couldn't get them all. Restarted and ran through the necessary things as quick as I could. Actually shocked myself by completely finishing the game in only 3 hours and 30 minutes. Not bad for speedrunning without practice. In fact, if I leave the story stuff, I'm sure I could do it in under 3. Maybe I'll give it a go at some point.

Since that took me way less time than I expected, this weekend was the perfect weekend to start completing Half-Life 2 achievements. And with the merging of the two episodes, there are a lot more to get than I expected. So this is not going to be a one evening job. Especially considering that there are a few finicky ones like finishing episode 1 while firing only one bullet. But going well so far. Finally got through Ravenholm with only the gravity gun.

I've collected some of the missing gold scores/ski passes/etc in Grand Mountain Adventure, but there are still many more.