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What's next Dave? Berzerk?

Wait so Dave #1 has combined the alphabet and year challenges? Awesome.

BoneSnapDeez wrote:Wait so Dave #1 has combined the alphabet and year challenges? Awesome.

I did, yes.

Stark wrote:What's next Dave? Berzerk?

No, I don't have it in me to clear 60,000+ rooms. Is there another angle on beating it?

Edit: went with Activision's "Boxing" for the VCS.

Looked at 1980 on my RFGen list.

Intellivision sports games, Space Invaders (scratch that it's a reissue), and Alien Invaders Plus (Odyssey 2)...

BoneSnapDeez wrote:Wait so Dave #1 has combined the alphabet and year challenges? Awesome.

Yeah, but it will get tricky when he hits rarely used letters. I think this places Dave's "Z" in 2005, which means Zoo Tycoon 2 is pretty much his only option.

1. Painkiller - PC
2. Front Mission 4 - PS2
3. Wasteland 2 - PC
4. Arcanum - PC
5. X-COM Terror from the Deep - PC
6. Military Madness - TurboGrafx-16
7. Unreal - PC
8. Shadowrun - SNES
9. Warcraft III - PC

I've owned this game since release, but this is the first time I've legitimately beaten it; previously I had just cheated through the missions to see all the story scenes. I was also heavy into Battle.net at the time and spent most of my War3 time on that. It's interesting how much the gameplay is different from StarCraft and C&C (whereas those two are rather similar). The heros and the general small army sizes (90 food instead of 200, basic soldiers 2 food instead of 1) really changes the general gameplay dynamic and is even more heavily focused on micro and proper army building.

Games Beaten 2015

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call - 3DS
A Bird Story - PC
Quake - PC
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - PS4
Quake: Scourge of Armagon - PC
Quake: Dissolution of Eternity - PC
Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis - NDS
Painkiller - PC
Gungrave: Overdose - PS2
Adventure -Atari 2600 (PS2)
Auto Racing - Intellivision (PS2) [1979]
Boxing - Atari 2600 (PS2) [1980] *new*
The Count - TI99/4A (emulated) [1981] *new*

Total: 13

Previously: 2014 | The First 400 Games

Boxing is such a simple, guilty pleasure. The computer is a relative pushover on either easy or hard settings, but I consider the game beaten when you can TKO the AI on both settings (by scoring 100 points inside of 2 minutes). I played this on original hardware a few years ago but tried it on a compilation here. The PS2 version on the Activision Anthology is pretty faithful and adds a different feel with the Dualshock control scheme.

The Count is a Scott Adams adventure game (the 5th) that I've always had some interest in but don't have the tape attachment for my own TI99/4A to try it on the original hardware. So, I found a way to emulate it and, with the help of some peeks at a walk through here and there, spent a few hours this afternoon working to slay Dracula. I found out afterwards that there are versions with graphics that came out later, so maybe some day I will try to hunt up a cart or disk of the game...

I attempted The Count last year and could never finish it. Certain parts are randomized and Dracula kept kicking my ass. I was playing it on VIC-20 though, dunno if the TI port is a bit different.

BoneSnapDeez wrote:I attempted The Count last year and could never finish it. Certain parts are randomized and Dracula kept kicking my ass. I was playing it on VIC-20 though, dunno if the TI port is a bit different.

Like most adventure games, it has some convoluted things that really require a FAQ. I won't say I loved it, but I will say it was one of the few "C" games from 1981 that could be beaten.

Haha, you only started today and you'e already ahead of me on the alphabet challenge.

Still, i just beat game B (I'll post it here when I have another to add alongside it) so at least I'm making progress.

Now I just need to finish up what I'm playing so I can start up game C too...