Popcorn in Bed - Miracle

 

Is anyone excited about the Olympics? I can't say I am. But "Miracle" is great.

Game Grumps - Ice Hockey Returns 2

Yet more Ice Hockey.

Game Grumps - Ice Hockey Returns!

 

The 2023 edition is less manic and therefore not as good as past versions. Still, it's Ice Hockey.

Game Grumps - Ice Hockey Rematch

Merry Christmas, everyone.

I hope this becomes a Christmas tradition.



All I want for Christmas this year is goalie lessons for Arin. Perhaps even a goalie camp is called for.

Game Grumps - Ice Hockey (2)

If my childhood boiled down to one thing, it would be video games. And if I had to distill the era of video games down to one system, it would be Nintendo. And if I had to distill all Nintendo games down to a single game of my childhood, it might be Ice Hockey. The look of the cartoon sprites, the excitement of the music, the simple gameplay... it's such a special memory.







Dude, guys, this is my favorite Game Grump series...

The reason for the "2" in the title is they played Ice Hockey once before. Part 1, Part 2.

Gaming #1

I recently bought a CRT TV and already owned an NES and SNES so I've been enjoying some retro gaming recently. In addition to playing some of the classics that I own, I've been purchasing other games on ebay and amazon piece-by-piece.

Here's what I started out with...

Obviously it's a classic. There's one weakness though: no saving! Without the chance to save progress, I had to schedule out a Saturday and try to go through it all in a day. I've probably beaten this game several times over the years but this time was different in two ways: 1) It was 1-Player this time and 2) I didn't use any warps or shortcuts.

Any time you re-approach a game after years, you hope that your age will mean you're much better. I was NOT much better. This was hard and I died muchly.

Here's something weird that I never noticed before.... Super Mario Bros. 3 doesn't have any credits. Every game tells you who made it but this one doesn't.

Another classic and another one that I had already beaten several times.

This is where I learned the value of being able to save progress. I could pick this up and play it casually, every now and then, beat a few levels and turn it off.

I beat the game but something weird happened after that... the next time I turned the game on, all my game data was erased. I know that errors happen with computers but I've never seen any data on any nintendo game ever be lost like that. Pretty strange. Fortunately, I had already beaten it anyway.

Lookit how hyped-up that crowd is. That arena is rockin'.

This one is also a classic. It's one of the first nintendo games I ever played and I still love it as much as I did back then... but I've never "beaten" it. I suppose if you play the computer at the highest speed and win, you've beaten the game, in a sense. So far I've managed to win against the computer at Speed 1 but it was tough. USA vs. the USSR, obviously. Classic days. 

I did something that I don't think I ever did in this game... regulation ended with the score tied so it went to a shoot-out. But then the shoot-out ended with the score still tied and it went to overtime. But in the overtime, there are no goalies. That's several layers of weird. I have no idea how to play without a goalie. The best strategy I came up with was just to take a player and try to block the net with him. 

I also found a code that allows you to play with a frictionless surface that I haven't tried yet.