1)
Bonk's Adventure (NES)
2)
Little Samson3)
Holy Diver4)
Holy Diver (legit!)
5)
Mitsume Ga Tooru6)
TMNT II: The Arcade Game (NES) (repeat)
7)
Mighty Final Fight (repeat)
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Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (repeat)
9)
Monster In My Pocket (repeat)
You think I'm still playing NES stuff? I haven't had a lot of time to sink into longer games as of late... and the EverDrive is still shiny.
So I actually own legit copies of these games, but whatever. I started just looking for something to relax with, and I have always liked
Mighty Final Fight. In fact, I think I like it better than actual
Final Fight. It's not terribly difficult if you know what you're doing, and there's also a bit of a trick that, if you start with Haggar who starts at power level 3, you can swap to Cody or Guy and keep those levels. It really puts them ahead of the curve.
I come off of that, and I was clearly in the "M" folder. So I decide to give
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! a go. It's been a long time since I played. In fact, I'm not sure I've really done anything with it since I took Tyson down years ago. Apparently playing on the actual system without a mushy XBOX dpad helps a ton, because I managed to get to the third round. So I kept going at it. I'd forgotten a lot of the patterns, though, so he was whacking me in the later rounds. I was actually pretty consistently getting through his Dynamite Punch period with only one knockdown on average. The last run, he didn't even
touch me in the first round. I didn't get knocked down until the end of the second, and even with a massive case of fumble fingers, I took him down with room to spare by TKO in the third. Feels good to know I've still got the chops to take him down, and that my first victory wasn't a complete fluke.
Lastly, the palate cleanser was
Monster In My Pocket, a late effort by Konami that is pretty simplistic overall, but looks good and plays great. I came close to not pulling off the win, but managed to sneak it in. I was
not happy when I realized the game wasn't over at the very end, and had one more surprise boss battle to go. It came back to me when he popped up on the TV... ugh.
I really need to jump into some games I haven't beaten again.
Battle of Olympus is one that I've always wanted to play through.