Maniac Mansion (NES): COMPLETED!
Oh! I had everything I needed! All I had to do was show the purple tentacle the police badge, and I had access to the main lab, and Dr. Fred, and the big off switch! Wendy saved, plot foiled, game overed!
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Maniac Mansion (NES)
So it seems the water from the pool can be given to the plant to make it grow, and by getting one kid caught by Ed you get a few minutes to raid his room. That helped me progress a bit, and I even managed to get the meteor arrested, and have access to the lab! However, I can’t find an envelope (which I think I need to send this demo tape off), and I can’t get into the safe, …
Maniac Mansion (NES)
Isn’t the NES great? Well, aside from mine which keeps resetting, anyway. Thank the baby Jesus for my NeoFami, eh? Anyway. This is another point-and-click adventure that I never completed “back in the day”. I thought I’d see how I fared with Man Brains. Interesting Trivia about Maniac Mansion: I first played the game in Germany, on my German exchange partner’s C64. He had it on disk, and it took fourtyeightyteen weeks to load. The best bit, was it was …
Dude, Where Is My Beer? (Switch): COMPLETED!
Before I start on the game itself, I wish to lodge a complaint. It isn’t about the game itself, and doesn’t affect the game itself, but it is something important and also something I’ve taken issue with before. Dude, Where Is My Beer? is rated PEGI 3. Right here on the Nintendo eShop: PEGI 3 essentially means suitable for all, and isn’t actually that common as any mild language, violence (even cartoon violence), skimpy clothing or most sorts of peril …
Thimbleweed Park (Switch): COMPLETED!
This is a point and click adventure how you superficially remember point and click adventures used to be. It looks like Monkey Island or Day of the Tentacle, but in fact all the fiddly bits of those games have been quietly trimmed off. Moving from location to location has been streamlined. Items have more obvious uses. It’s more accessible, there’s less backtracking (or at least, less annoying backtracking), and there’s a built in hint system for when you get truly …
Grim Fandango Remastered (PS4)
I never played Grim Fandango back in the day. I’m pretty sure I’d have enjoyed it then, as I liked Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion and those sorts of things, but for some reason it passed me by. It was, however, recently on PS+ so I’ve given it a go. At least, I’ve tried to give it a go. I’m not sure if I’ve lost my touch or something, but I quickly got very lost. I had no idea what …
Completed 2007
Viva Pinata (360 12/01/2007) New Rally-X (360 14/01/2007) Super Castlevania IV (Wii 25/01/2007) Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (GBA 30/01/2007) Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (GBA 04/02/2007) Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (GBA 10/02/2007) Super Mario World (Wii 11/02/2007) Kirby’s Adventure (Wii 17/02/2007) The Castlevania Adventure (GB 18/02/2007) Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge (GB 19/02/2007) Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (DS 25/02/2007) Gunpey (DS 01/03/2007) Kororinpa (Wii 03/03/2007) Kirby Squeak Squad (DS 08/03/2007) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (360 14/03/2007) Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (DS …
2007: A Year in Gaming – Part 2
May May was more varied than previous months this year.¬¨‚Ć There was Eledees and Wing Island on the Wii, Crackdown, Lego Star Wars II and Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland on the 360, and the amazing Ouendan 2 on the DS, as well a plethora of 360 demos, XBLA games, and Wii VC titles. I struggled with the original NES Castlevania (on the VC) for a while too, and never did manage to complete it.¬¨‚Ć It’s just too hard! June Oh …