/vr/ Gauntlet: Sega Saturn Edition

[Anonymous No.1796869]

Welcome to the Retro Game Gauntlet, gentlemen.

Start at NES, and work through in the following order:

NES
SNES
GB/GBC OR Sega Game Gear
Megadrive/Genesis
Turbografx16
DOS
NeoGeo
Sega Saturn OR Sega Master System
Commodore 64 OR Commodore Amiga
Playstation 1 OR Nintendo 64

You have three days to complete the game without assistance (each game gets three days, though RPGs are allowed a week due to length). Select your system here:

http://s3kr.it/gauntlet.html

You can also do it manually if you don't trust the random number generator:

http://s3kr.it/systems/

AND BRING ME SCREENSHOTS PARKER

-Do not post screenshots every other screen, make them few and meaningful
-Do not start a new thread before current one bump limit is exceeded

Rules:

1) Savestates are allowed ONLY for the purpose of taking screenshots and ONLY if your emulator/game in question does not have a pause function.

2) Rerolls are allowed under the following conditions:

The game you get requires some sort of hardware functionality that cannot be accurately emulated to complete (eg, Boktai)
The game would otherwise require cheats, hacks, or alteration of the software to complete due to a bug (eg, Cheetahmen II)

3) Playstation 1 games can be given up to 2 weeks to complete if the game is more than 2 discs.

4) If you lose / give up to a game you have to go back one square instead.

5) For Rule 4, if the game you fail is on the same path as another console, you have the choice to roll for that console instead of dropping down a level.

For games that have a high score or no end, the rule is:

If no high score has been established, set a goal and beat it
if you're playing something another anon already has a high score on, beat their high score
If you are playing extended rpgs/pokemon/whatever you get a week [Depending on the game needs to be asked in thread]

http://pastebin.com/uyPu9nC7 <-- Numbered List for U.S. Sega Saturn releases.

[Anonymous No.1797840]

Figured I would restart since its been so long since my last gauntlet.

[Anonymous No.1799146]

Looks like Saturn and Dreamcast while be added on http://s3kr.it/gauntlet.html so whoever makes the next one if I'm not around while have a choice.

[Anonymous No.1799319]

>hardly any replies

wow guess this shit is dead no?

[Anonymous No.1799325]

Starting Gauntlet
>Stuck with Puzzle game god help me

[Anonymous No.1799327]

>>1799319
a little bit, that and the fact we've had 3 different reposts of this recently all with different consoles included or removed

[Anonymous No.1800446]

Well I don't know what Rocketeer is but I guess it's my NES game.

[Anonymous No.1802360]

Well it took a few hours to get the hang of it but I'm finally progressing.

[Anonymous No.1804373]

Half way through.

[Anonymous No.1806956]

Refusing to let this die.

[Anonymous No.1809870]

Hey guys, s3krit here.

Just added Saturn and Dreamcast to the generator.

For the record, I don't care what systems people decide to play. just let me know if you guys want/need a new system adding (via email, preferably). I'd prefer to add too many system, than not have enough.

[Anonymous No.1810130]

>>1800446
Well this game took me by surprise. It's not exactly really good but It's got a lot of good design choices in it.

That being said it's also hard as fuck and tomorrow's my third day playing it.

[Anonymous No.1810264]

>>1810130
These guys got so much easier now that I figured out you can punchstunlock them.

[Anonymous No.1810290]

>>1810264
This fUCKING boss.

Really digging the music in this game.

[Anonymous No.1810324]

>>1809870
you got it. thanks for keeping the page running, dude.

[Anonymous No.1810412]

Well, /vr/, here I go...

[Anonymous No.1812392]

Failed rad racer shame too kinda liked it but i was gone for a whole day. So time to reroll.

[Anonymous No.1813225]

>>1810324
No worries. That box actually does a bunch of different things. The gauntlet page will be there for the foreseeable future. That being said, I'll be publishing what little source code there is for it at some point, because openness is good.

[Ricard/Killey No.1813423]

Uh..
How do I beat Tetris

[Anonymous No.1813437]

>>1813423
shoot it until it dies

[Anonymous No.1813510]

I participated in the gauntlet a bit less than a year ago, had to stop at Megadrive. (rolled Phantasy Star, played for a few minutes and couldn't find the time to keep going) The games I beat up to that point were Sword Master (NES), Street Fighter II (SNES) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (GB).

I have some time off now and I want to try again. Do I roll GB(C), reroll MD, continue the PS run or start over?

[Anonymous No.1813547]

I would do this gauntlet thing but I don't know what to take screenshots for sometimes, or a decent interval. I've seen this thread filling with screenshots of one guy who's trying to keep it alive and all. There should be something different. It's looking like a bad version of screenshot LPs.

[Anonymous No.1813549]

>>1813510
start over

[Anonymous No.1813685]

>>1813510
Shit I remember when someone rolled roger rabbit for gb glad to see you back. Ya I would restart.
>>1813547
When you get a game like rad racer you don't have shit ton of options.

[Anonymous No.1813720]

>>1813547
I take screenshots whenever something stupid/funny/interesting happens (fewer is better than more in my opinion).
And obv, the title screen/first screen of the game, and your win screen.

[Anonymous No.1814351]

Yeah I think I'm going to reroll if it's all right with you guys.

[Anonymous No.1814375]

>>1813685
>I remember when someone rolled roger rabbit for gb
I had a badly scratched screen with no backlight overlay for the GB, so if you remember that then it's definitely me.

NES it is. Genius Bakabon to be more exact. The name is kind of scary, sounds like some unpolished early Famicom game that even Arino wouldn't have the patience for.

Just as I did with Sword Master, I will record footage of my progress. (never uploaded it but I kept the winning run for a while) Since we have the webm format available now, I will upload those instead of individual screenshots.

[Anonymous No.1814435]

>>1814375
And guess what, it is a Famicom game. But late, not early. Still, the size of the cart is ridiculously small for something released in 1991.

So, I found a translation patch. The target language however, seems not to be from this world, vid related. So I'll have to play it raw anyway.

[Anonymous No.1814513]

>>1814435
First attempt. What the fuck am I playing?

[Anonymous No.1814631]

>>1814375
Yep thats you. What a crazy overlay. Did you get the translation for bakabon from http://www.romhacking.net/translations/1180/ ??? I've never had a problem with their translations.

[Anonymous No.1814649]

>>1814631
I did, but the patch didn't work for me for some reason.
The game isn't too text heavy though. I can do without the patch.

[Anonymous No.1815056]

So, after a 3 hour struggle, I cleared the first stage.

The stage was divided into 4 zones, 3 maps each. Time limits are pretty harsh, on top of the character being a slow fat fuck.
If you die, it's game over. You have infinite continues, but you lose all of your health upgrades, which made stage 1-2 impossible to beat without doing a perfect run from scratch and getting all of the upgrades in one go. (thankfully, there were no more parts like that since then)

Either way, this is gonna take a while.

[Anonymous No.1815073]

>>1814375
>>1814435
>>1814513
>>1815056
Oh shit, wait a second.
I just noticed that I picked the wrong game, 759 instead of 795.
What do I do now?

[Anonymous No.1815176]

I'm curious, Settlers 2 is on the list of Dosgames, would the Windows version still count?

[Anonymous No.1815248]

>Demolition Man
>SNES
>WB logo
fuck I wanna mulligan so bad

[Anonymous No.1815263]

>>1815073
have fun with Untouchables. I say fuck it continue on.

[Anonymous No.1815269]

>>1815248
You are fined one credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.

[Anonymous No.1815891]

>>1815176
Yeah. It should unless there are any substantial gameplay changes.

[Anonymous No.1816241]

>>1815269
Oh it's THAT movie. I vaguely remember watching that with my parents when I was younger. This game is kinda challenging tbh, moreso than I thought it was going to be anyways.

[Anonymous No.1816347]

>>1815269
HEADS UP

[Anonymous No.1816364]

>>1815891
There aren't any, it just runs at higher resolutions with better grafix.

[Anonymous No.1816682]

>>1815263
Since the roll was still random despite the mistake and both games were unknown to me at the time, I'll keep going.

Continuing from stage 2 with this password. I'm back to four hitpoints thanks to that.

[Anonymous No.1817127]

This game. I wish I was done.

[Anonymous No.1818149]

Stage 3 of Demolition Man is ridiculous. If I have to see this screen any more... I can't. 10 stages of this shit and I just got to 4. At least the music is kinda boopin'.

[Anonymous No.1818479]

Finally at the end. I'm sure it'll be devastating. I already tried once and got my ass handed to me.

[Anonymous No.1818496]

Never mind that was actually very easy. This time when i killed both of the soldiers they sometimes didn't respawn for about 5 seconds giving me time to take this fucker down.

[Anonymous No.1818546]

That's the end of that shit fest. Time for SNES and I rolled Eye of the fucking beholder. I tried it once before on snes got stuck raged about the shitty controls and quit. Not going to start it right away though.

[Anonymous No.1820003]

I beat stage 2 in one go yesterday, couldn't find the time to post footage. Here's the boss.
I don't think I'll be able or willing to finish this on time. Retroarch breaking its recording/screenshot capabilities due to "muh fullscreen UI" makes it even more tedious to do this thing.

[Anonymous No.1822352]

frog bump

[Anonymous No.1822992]

[Anonymous No.1825357]

Bumping before bed. Got the mouse working for it. Will be starting tomorrow/next.

[Anonymous No.1825407]

>>1822992
Let's all have a moment of silence for our fallen brother.

[Anonymous No.1825412]

i love the gauntlet.
i rarely get to finish it each time, but this is still my favorite thread by a wide margin.

[Anonymous No.1825653]

>>1825412
Yeah.
Gets people to try new games they may not have even known before. I might have failed The Rocketeer, but that doesn't mean I didn't think it wasn't an interesting game. I'm glad I learned about it and may go ahead and try it later.

Speaking of which, I need to reroll.

[Anonymous No.1825692]

Will reroll as soon as i get home.
Getting silver surfer in my first gauntlet draw ever crushed my soul, i'm barely recovered

[Anonymous No.1825887]

>>1825653
This game is neat. It's sort of like a Wizard Chess thing. Enemies are chess-styled and when you enter a battle you have to actually fight it with your guy, so a lowly goblin can at least stand some sort of a chance against a djinn or something.

Also, it's really hard and I'm losing, as you can see.
That being said, I'm totally gonna see if I can 2p this with my broski later.

[Anonymous No.1826018]

SORCERESS
THINE POWERS ARE TOO GREAT. MY LOWLY KNIGHTS CANNOT STAND AGAINST YOU

[Anonymous No.1826020]

>>1826018
I like how if you're down to just the Wizard, you can still go all Rambo on their asses if you're skilled enough.

[Anonymous No.1826025]

>>1826020
Yep, I'm boned.

[Anonymous No.1826027]

>>1826025
Good game, good game.
Well, if at first you don't succeed...

[Anonymous No.1826296]

Since my time for Bakabon ran out, I'm rolling NES again.
...What the fuck is this?

[Anonymous No.1826340]

>>1826296
I seem to have luck for obscure Famicom games. I hope it's not ridiculously hard.

[Anonymous No.1826353]

This doesn't look too scary. I assume I'm not supposed to change any difficulty options.

[Anonymous No.1826372]

>>1826353
Eh? Are those developers really that naive?

[Anonymous No.1826394]

>>1826372
Gee, that was fast. I wonder how many stages this has.

[Anonymous No.1826409]

>>1826394
Okay, this is ridiculous. I'm restarting the game with screen capture on, because I can probably 1CC it on the first try.

[Anonymous No.1826420]

>>1826409
Oh, so this is why it was so easy.
The character select serves as a difficulty setting as well. The girl is overpowered.
Guess I'm playing the guy instead.

[Anonymous No.1828407]

bump

[Anonymous No.1828523]

>>1826353
>>1826372
>>1826394
>>1826409
>>1826420

The funny part is Insector X on Genesis is a "serious" game. I like both.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foYZE_MSt1w

[Anonymous No.1828528]

Never heard about this game, so hope it's playable!

[Anonymous No.1828532]

First time playing. I got Trojan
Let's see how it goes.

[Anonymous No.1828539]

Okay, the game is playable, but it's a bit difficult at first until I get the hang of it. The first stage was really easy but I kept dying on the second stage. Sadly, only 3 lives with game over that takes you back to the first stage.

[Anonymous No.1828541]

>>1828539
I have no idea why my screenshot ended wide like that.

[Anonymous No.1828605]

>>1828541
>>1828539
Happened to me too once when I tried taking a screenshot of SMB3. Dont know how to fix it

[Anonymous No.1828727]

>>1828539
Yep, same problem on this end haha

This guy >>1828532 here. Pic related if fucking hard or I suck hard, I wouldnt doubt it's the latter.

[Anonymous No.1828730]

>>1828727
Actually scratch that I think I figured out how to beat him. Still gotta get through the first stage again though since I died.

[Anonymous No.1828957]

>game over means back to the beginning of the game
I aint gonna make it brahs ;_;

[Anonymous No.1829208]

>>1828957
HOLY FUCK I MADE IT PAST 3RD STAGE
I just know I'm gonna die and have to start over again goddamnit

[Anonymous No.1830075]

>>1829208
Bumping before I leave.
I got to the first part of the last stage. Goddamn that shit is hard. Not sure I'll be able to beat it, and then I didn't even get to the bosses.
Fuck.

[Anonymous No.1830426]

What am I in for

[Anonymous No.1831071]

Looks like it's time for me to try out some Gauntlet fun.

[Anonymous No.1831675]

>>1830075
Back again, I've made it to the last stage.

This fucking guy. I had 4 lives and I'll have lost them all against this fucking guy. I don't think he's even the last boss either since there's one dot left on the map but holy hell he seems impossible.

[Anonymous No.1832007]

>>1831675
Last boss

And here I thought the Roman dude was hard. Fuck.

[Anonymous No.1832618]

>>1832007
I DID IT
I FUCKING BEAT HIM HOLY SHIT
Shit I didn't manage to snap the congratulations text screen but I guess this'll have to do, spoilered since it's after winning the game.

Goddamn I forgot how good it felt to actually beat a game. I usually just start a game and quit at some point never to go back to it, but having this challenge made me actually pull through to the end, even though at first I expected to not beat it even in 3 days no cheats or guides or outside help after all. So thank you OP, and /vr/, for giving me this feeling back.

Now on to the next game!

[KOManiacJim No.1832686]

I have a quick question: Does Famicom Disk System count as NES? I mean it is basically an add on for the Famicom that allowed people to play more complex games.

Also I want to do "Super Mario Bros 2: The Lost Levels" for my first part of this challenge. I will not be using any warp zones and in the Disk System Version you have to beat the game eight times in order to access worlds A through D. If I have to do that, Give me 14 days, tops.

[Anonymous No.1832692]

>>1832618
Way to go anon. Feels good doesn't it?

[Anonymous No.1832759]

>>1832692
Sure does.

Next up is Zool btw, I'd already got the DOS version from abandonia but never tried it. Will be interesting.

[Anonymous No.1832791]

>>1832686
On this list http://s3kr.it/systems/nes.txt the lost levels are not on it. I'm not sure if any famicom disk games are. If that's what you want to do I say go for it.

[Anonymous No.1832819]

FUCK I DONT HAVE THE TIME FOR THIS

[KOManiacJim No.1832823]

>>1832686

Gee thanks! I'll be sure to use the recording function of Retroarch and have that as proof.

Trooper Transform!

[Anonymous No.1832842]

>>1832823
I don't know if you were interested but since you decided to do you're own gauntlet. If you are going to another similarly difficult challenge for the next game. Or would be interested in making your own gauntlet or a different list of one around a central theme/s. Its something I want to get started as another thread as soon as I'm done with this gauntlet.

[Anonymous No.1832854]

>>1832819
RPGs get one week m8

[Anonymous No.1832890]

Here we go.

[Anonymous No.1833291]

>>1832686
>I want to do "Super Mario Bros 2: The Lost Levels" for my first part of this challenge.

The point of the challenge isn't to play the game you want to, it's to play the game the thing gives you.

[Anonymous No.1834310]

Just beat first boss

Zool man, Sonic aint got nothin on this ninja goblin dude the game really isn't all that great to be honest

[Anonymous No.1836364]

[Anonymous No.1837828]

>>1834310
Man this game is hard or I suck, which is likely. I've only made it to this stage so far, this part cant be crossed without getting hurt it seems, or I'm just not skilled enough. There's another part just like this further in. What the hell.

Stage 4-1 by the way.

[Anonymous No.1837852]

>>1837828
nevermind I'm an idiot, it's very possible to get through unscathed

[Anonymous No.1837872]

>>1837828

It's not just you, Zool is pretty well-known for being an extremely hard platformer. Pretty unforgiving.

[Anonymous No.1837886]

>>1837872
Yeah I feel a bit stupid now for bitching about Trojan, at least that one isnt so bad so long as you know what youre doing, Zool just slips around everywhere and you seem to get hit constantly. One thing in particular that bugged me though was that you were supposed to punch a wall to get through 2-2 I think, only I had no idea you could even do that and there was no indication as to how youd do it whatsoever. That was just a bad design choice.

I also noticed the default setting is Easy: 7 lives and 5 continues, so I set it to normal. I should probably set it back or I'll have no chance of beating this game before my time for it is up.

[Anonymous No.1837932]

Always wanted to do this, so why the hell not just start right now, right?

Never heard of this game. Hope it doesn't kick my ass.

[Anonymous No.1838017]

>>1837886
actually continues default as 3 regardless of difficulty setting

[Anonymous No.1838025]

>>1832791
If you find me a complete list of FDS games, I'll add them in there since they're simple enough to emulate.

[Anonymous No.1838042]

>>1837886

zool is shit. Had it on the snes many moons ago. Could get past the humbugger. Awful awful game. Sold it cib for ten quid about thirteen years ago

[Anonymous No.1838045]

Made it to the first boss, the fucker locked me in hitstun and I was dead before I knew it. This ride won't be smooth...

>inb4 scanlines

[Anonymous No.1838161]

>>1838045

Ok, the second stage was somehow easier than the first. Think I might actually manage to do it.

[Anonymous No.1838729]

"So I failed Archon because fuck that AI. I'm bad at Chess anyway. ONE MORE TIME I GOT THIS"
>click
"I DON'T GOT THIS"

[Anonymous No.1840184]

>>1837828
4th level in 7th world which is an amusement park.

I think they might have put these worlds in the wrong order because all 4 levels of this one was super easy, at least compared to the ones leading up to it. Unless the boss turns out to be extremely hard of course. I'm getting pretty tired of this game, I hope it ends soon.

[Anonymous No.1840213]

>>1840184
He wasn't he's about as easy as the rest of this world.

Also before I post the last screen, I really had no idea about this beforehand.

[Anonymous No.1840223]

>>1840213
THE END
WHAT THE HELL
THAT GUY WAS SUPER EASY

This has got to be a mistake, there's no way they could have chosen this as the last world intentionally. Oh well, it's finally over, time for the next game!

[Anonymous No.1840228]

>>1840223
So since the first 2 were for Nintendo consoles I figured I should try a Game Gear this time, besides I have hardly played any GG games.

>Your game is "Sports Trivia"! Now go play it
I'm so fucking boned

[Anonymous No.1840310]

Okay, rolled. First time attempting Gauntlet. Going in absolutely blind on this one.

[Anonymous No.1840331]

>>1840310
The game loops. It's got something to the tune of 120+ levels, in a set of loops...fun, if a bit repetitive.

[Anonymous No.1840452]

Well, I'd say I lucked out. At least, so far. I keep starting up new levels and expecting the bullshit difficulty to commence, but so far it hasn't materialized.

Arkista's Ring, you alright.

[Anonymous No.1840458]

>>1840331
Aahhh, thanks for the heads-up. Will move on after the looping begins.

Also, the opening screen music was pretty nice.

[Anonymous No.1840484]

>>1796869
All the double path options, do i really have to pick just one? can't i play a GB/GBC game and then a game gear game before moving to genesis?

also, starting as soon as i get home. got this. i have never heard about this game before, might be fun.

[Anonymous No.1840702]

>>1840458
Ahh, see, you have to loop, actually. there's like...forty or so levels, but each loop bumps the difficulty. to get the actual "end", you need to do the full tour.

[Anonymous No.1840750]

>>1840228
Fuck it I give up. I'd rather play another SNES game than this.

So, back one step, let's see what I get. inb4 it's another sports game

[Anonymous No.1840757]

>>1840750
Well at least it's not a sports game. How bad could it be?

[Anonymous No.1840782]

>>1840702
Oh god no. I don't think I can handle this game. Got all the way to 61 and the fucking ninjas drained half my continues in one level. The other ninja level already drained the first half of my continues (pic related) and then this shit. There's like thirty stairs and if you go to the wrong ones more ninjas spawn and they're too fast and strong to do anything if you don't have any power-ups. Gotta start over now. Going to give this game some space.

[Anonymous No.1840869]

>>1840757
I see that recommended a bit around here. Hope it's a good time.

[Anonymous No.1842625]

>>1840757
It's pretty fun. You get to play as Spider-Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Iron Man and the Hulk, but one death and they're not coming back, at least it seems so for now. Before each stage I get to choose some items but of the ones I have I can only choose the gem power things and I'm guessing you need at least one gem to use them and well I haven't gotten any so far.

>>1840869
I like it, I just suck at video games in general and fighting games are one of those types of games I'm especially bad at, I usually just stop playing before learning how to properly use the combos and moves of any character.

[Anonymous No.1842639]

>>1842625
Well shit I actually beat one of the bosses. Sasquatch on the Alaska level.

I'll probably have to start over soon though, Wolverine is the only one left and I can't imagine playing through the entire game without dying with him, unless I somehow get the others back or get to use the recovery thing I found.

[Anonymous No.1842651]

>>1842639
>>1842625
No wonder the items didn't work, aside from the gem power you can only use them in the menu. Health isn't replenished after beating a boss.

So I got Iron Man back, yay

[Anonymous No.1842919]

>>1842651
Just started this and i'm still trying to figure out what murdering shittons of birds have to do with comics, or anything. Man this guy really hates birds.

[Anonymous No.1843505]

>>1842919
It's supposedly pretty good but it doesn't have anything to really do with Comics. The game is truly only notable for being the first IBM PC side-scroller.
From the manual:
"The Adventures of Captain Comic started out as an experiment to test the viability of two theories, the first as to whether a real arcade type game can be done on a standard IBM PC with an EGA card, and secondly, given the first can be done, if it is possible to make any money doing it. Well, I've come to a conclusion on the second point, but I'll let you judge the first point for yourself."

[Anonymous No.1843731]

Your game is "Castlevania 3"

I just know I'm going to lose before I even start. Still, at least I got a fun game to play instead of some edutainment crap.

[Anonymous No.1843961]

>>1843731
Me again with update. After two false starts(read:game overs in the clocktower of all places), I finally got my act together. Grabbed Grant, took the top route, passed on Syphia or whatever her name was. Smashed my way through the pirate ship with record ease. Now at the outside of Castlevania with five lives in reserve. I stabbed just as I appeared, and got a heart out of it. Go figure. Using 3x for size, and an NTSC S-Video filter in PuNES, since without a filter things just don't look right. See next screenshot for details.

[Anonymous No.1843967]

>>1843961
And same scene, no filter. The aspect ratio looks off to me. Am I hallucinating?

[Anonymous No.1844003]

>balloon fight
aw shit

[Anonymous No.1844073]

What the fuck I
ok let's get this on the road

[Anonymous No.1844207]

>>1843967
Me again, got a game over trying to pass this level. Finally got past it, Frankie was much easier than I remember. Got a better score than the last go around...I think? Managed to get through with no lives lost on this run so far, but I'll see how long that lasts.

[Anonymous No.1845036]

>>1796869
>tfw just realize what this is
>think oh this is pretty cool
>goto nes just for shits n giggles
>roll
>get gauntlet
>mfw already playing gauntlet
>noface

[Anonymous No.1845038]

>>1843967
aspect ratio does look different

[Anonymous No.1845103]

Athena guy here, couldn't finish the game. Not that it was THAT hard, but it is... bad. It just stopped being fun after a while. Well, NES again for me, I suppose. Hope I got luckier this time.

[Anonymous No.1845104]

>>1845103
Just got this, anybody know what I'm in for?

[Anonymous No.1845130]

>>1845104
puzzles

[Anonymous No.1845751]

Son of a bitch...

[Anonymous No.1845772]

what a coincidence. and beautiful mistake.

[Anonymous No.1845940]

>>1845751
I rented that game once, you poor bastard.
>>1845772
Be glad you didn't get the first one on NES, it's actually beatable, if you can actually reach level 100 with all the letters of the password you get from the secret rooms.

Castlevania 3 anon here. Back to it today, just got to the area I was at yesterday. First time doing water river without the ice spell. This gonna be good.

[Anonymous No.1846206]

>>1845940
Me again. After a few game overs at different places(water river probs, hey lets throw eagles and fleamen everywhere hallway, etc) I'm now within Castlevania proper. And the autoscrolling sections begin. Pic related. Best I've managed to do so far, picked up the 1-up in the clocktower, and got two or three lives from points. Sitting pretty with 6 lives in reserve, and managed to make it to this section without losing one yet. Only a matter of time till I hit a wall.

[Anonymous No.1846441]

>>1846206
And I've found the wall. Death at level 8-03. Anyone who says Castlevania is hard or Death in Castlevania is hard has NEVER played this game. He can't be stunlocked, and he has four of those scythe things flying around at all times.

I've just now FINALLY beaten his first form, but I don't know if I can beat the second form. Pic related. I think I'm screwed.

[Anonymous No.1846447]

The only Castlevania boss that I just straight up couldn't beat was the clocktower boss in 3. For some reason, I couldn't figure out his pattern or anything, and lost against him my first time playing (In public, no less).

It was a humiliating defeat after I went through 1 so quickly.

[Anonymous No.1846452]

>>1846441
With some really damn good luck, I made it past. I don't even know. I doubt I can make it to Dracula with only 1 life remaining, but I'll see how far I can get.

[Anonymous No.1846514]

>>1846452
Next level had another eagle/fleaman segment, which tore me up pretty good. Managed to snag enough points to grab another life though. Might be my saving grace. Maybe. Then I got here.

I remember this place. I've been here once before. This is the place of nightmares and broken dreams. I hate this place. I'm going to give it my best, but once I game over I'm gonna go ahead and reroll. I only have three days left in my vacation, I need to make the most of the time I have.

[Anonymous No.1846681]

>>1846514
That didn't take long. Didn't even make it to the vert section on my last life. Died to the spikes with the usually large hitbox. Dang. I could continue, but I know I'll just be playing it until I hate it, and I don't wanna do that with CV3.

Your game is "Maniac Mansion"
I'm just gonna go ahead and skip to SNES now, I've done everything there is to do in MM, and I have done every win condition before.

I'll roll tomorrow, I need sleep.

[Anonymous No.1847337]

Guy playing Marvel Super Heroes here. I'm on my third day now, not sure I'll beat it but we'll see. I've made progress though and got as far as to beating Magus and all the stages in the second "world", EXCEPT one. I can't remember exactly which stage it was but it had Blackheart as the boss

I like the game and I understand everything better now, but one thing I found weird is the first stages seem to have stronger enemies than the second stages after you beat Magus. In the first stages those little jumping green guys and the flying laser shooting guys take at least a couple of hits, but in the second stages they go down in one shot for the most part. Maybe it's the crystals, I'm not sure.

I've also gotten more familiar with the fighters and their moves and I can at least make basic use of them all, except Captain America. I don't know what it is but I can't seem to use him well at all. He's the only fighter I haven't beaten a boss with.

So here we go, hopefully I beat this game or I'll just have to go back one square.

>>1845104
A pretty fun puzzle game.

[Anonymous No.1847881]

Damn I love this thread. Good luck to all in your respective game-conquering endeavors.

I couldn't stomach the idea of four ninja levels in Arkista's Ring, (which is a shame, because the game's not bad until that and the whole part with the looping) so I rolled again and got Snow Bros.

Snow clue how this game plays.

[Anonymous No.1848007]

Snow Bros is pretty interesting. Keeps surprising me in new ways when I think I've got it figured out. Going to give this a good attempt tonight.

[Anonymous No.1848240]

Let's do this

[Anonymous No.1848258]

>>1846681
Ok, rollin.

Your game is "Great Circus Mystery starring Mickey and Minnie"

This better not be some edutainment crap.

[Anonymous No.1848274]

>>1848258
Ok, this plays exactly like Magical Quest. That game was pretty fun, so I have high hopes for this.

[Anonymous No.1848280]

>>1848258
Nope, it's pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.1848283]

>>1848274
Uh....

[Anonymous No.1848286]

>>1848283
He then shit blocks and gave me a vacuum cleaner. I don't like the implications.

[Anonymous No.1848354]

[Anonymous No.1848363]

Well, here I go.

[Anonymous No.1848457]

>>1848363
Stage 5 and I already feel like Arino playing Tatsunoko Fighter.

[Lakuda No.1848459]

thought this was gonna be a thread about gauntlet, smh smh

[Anonymous No.1848513]

>>1848286
Welp, just finished level 2. Wasn't hard, just had to take off and run some errands in the middle.

This boss was easier than the first boss.

[Anonymous No.1848572]

>>1848513
Level 3 down, onto level 4. Boss of level 3 was a complete joke. The miniboss was more of a threat. I did some grinding for coins, and got the extra heart as well as the 1/2 cost for bullets in the cowboy outfit. The long range can be useful.

[Anonymous No.1848593]

>>1848572
Stage 4 wasn't that bad, the boss was slightly tricky. On to stage 5, the obligatory ice level, with ice physics even on the blocks. Yep.

[Anonymous No.1848609]

>>1848593
Ok, the boss is a giant cloud. I don't even know. Given the batteries, I'm guessing the game wants me to use the vacuum.

[Anonymous No.1848651]

>>1848609
Final level already? That seems a bit short. Welp, here I go.

[Anonymous No.1848680]

>>1848651
I think I just lost track of the plot.

[Anonymous No.1848693]

>>1848680
Not that it matters, Wizard Pete/Dragon Pete is dead, and I got some ball and threw it into the sky. I don't know.

Moving on to the next console, but first I need a break.

6/10 game. Great graphics and gameplay is solid, but it was painfully easy. Maybe if you avoid all power-ups and play on hard it might be a challenge, but still a decent game, worth a play.

[Anonymous No.1848738]

>>1848693
Your game is "Elmo's 123s"
Rather than reroll, I'm just gonna move forward. Time for the Genesis.
Your game is "Great Circus Mystery"
....I'm moving on to the damned TG16 after dinner.

[Anonymous No.1848754]

Only have about a day left. I don't know if I'm half way done or almost done. Haven't really put more than 6-7 hours into it. I like it enough that I may put the gauntlet on hold after this and play the second and third one.

[Anonymous No.1848758]

>>1848738
>Your game is "Elmo's 123s"
>Rather than reroll, I'm just gonna move forward
Why are you even doing this if you dont read the rules?

[Anonymous No.1848797]

>>1848758
To play videogames, why the hell else would I be in this thread? Winning the gauntlet carries no value, since most of the games you can roll are either edutainment crap or sports games. People have long stopped handing out medals for games, very few people even play anymore. Today besides me we've had two people roll, one responded once since starting, and one person playing from the other day.

What exactly would be the point of following the rules if no one is going to play?

[Anonymous No.1850384]

Marvel Superheroes guy here. My time has run out and it looks like I wasn't able to beat it. I have been busy with some things and havent been able to play it as much as I wanted, which is too bad because I like the game.

Since I lost I'll have to go back to square one, but I think I'll put this game of Gauntlet on hold for now until I have more free time. I had a blast though and I hope these threads will still be up when I come back, which likely will be pretty soon. Until then, see you guys and good luck with your Gauntlets.

Pic related is me at some point beating Magus with my favorite character Iron Man.

[Anonymous No.1850418]

Your game is "Trog"! Now go play it

It looks... interesting.

Why there is no 3rd island though?

[Anonymous No.1851152]

>>1850384
FUCK IT LETS DO THIS SHIT

So it says "Classic series" but all I could find was just Blades of Steel, hope that still counts.

[Anonymous No.1851169]

>>1850418
Hey, I remember my cousin renting that game, it was kind of neat. Also, your image is giving me flashbacks...

>Playing tabletop a while back, Fallout campaign.
>Decide to squat in a vault for a while.
>Doors lock behind us, suddenly three killbots are hunting us down.
>Manage to bring down one of them with a rocket, but we're out of ammo for it.
>Catch the other two in an explosion in the generator room, which cuts main power to the vault but gets rid of the bots (It also causes the main lights to shut off and instead the place is lit by sparse emergency lights).
>Check the bots for equipment, they're numbered 1, 2, and 4.
>Spend the next few days trying to escape living in terror that there might be another bot on the loose in a dimly lit vault, hunting us down.

[Anonymous No.1853194]

>>1851152
Alright first match here we go.

Now keep in mind Ive never played hockey in my life and I know nothing about sports. This won't be pretty.

[Anonymous No.1853215]

>>1853194
FUCK

So yeah this is going about as well as I expected. It's pretty straight-forward though and you don't have to know anything about hockey to play this it seems, which definitely is nice for me. Oh and the sound clips are pretty funny since theyre so low quality by todays standards.

[Anonymous No.1853265]

>>1853215
The announcer keeps going GET THE PASS every time someone makes a pass and the crowd cheering sounds kind of like an explosion. Not saying it's bad tough I mean it's really old after all.

I'm not sure if you can change the active player or if it's completely up to the cpu but B seems to pass and A shoot, and that's pretty much all you need to know to play. I like it.

[Anonymous No.1853291]

>>1853265
>>1853215
>>1853194
>Those fights
>Loser goes to the penalty box
>Playing that space shooter game on the jumbo tron after the 2nd period

Why are hockey games the GOAT sports games?

[Anonymous No.1853297]

>>1853265
After the 2nd period, watch all the jumbo tron clips so you can play the mini game.

Also, bump directly into an opponent 3 times to fight. Mash A or B (i forget which one) to go into the real fight animation

[Anonymous No.1853315]

>>1853291
>>1853297
Oh yeah I love this shit, it's awesome. It was a really fun surprise getting it the first time.

Man this game is amazing

[Anonymous No.1853324]

>>1853315
In case you didn't figure it out, the basic mechanics are that you can block normal or block low, and punch normal or punch low. Blocking/punching low is just holding down and pressing A or B. Just punching up and down fast is what always worked for me.

Enjoy the shootout if you end up tied for too long

[Anonymous No.1853336]

>>1853297
>>1853291
It's really cool they added in all this stuff.

>>1853324
Oh yeah I figured that out quickly.

[Anonymous No.1853346]

>>1853336
Okay last screen in a while promise

[Anonymous No.1854158]

Failed eye of the beholder. Kinda enjoyed it so I think I'll finish it soon. I've played this before I remember that it loops over and over so I guess it won't take long to consider it done.

[Anonymous No.1854169]

>>1853291
because hockey is the best sport

i prefer ice hockey to blades of steel, though

[Anonymous No.1854359]

>>1853346
Alright just beat junior league, time for college league and then pro.

[Anonymous No.1854515]

Out of 3,654 possible games on DOS, I end up with my favorite. Not only that, but this is still one of the few games my 60 year old father will boot up on his Compaq and play on a regular.

I wish Carmack stuck to doing vertical shooters.

[Anonymous No.1854530]

>>1854515
Forgot my image.

[Anonymous No.1855016]

Coming up on the loop only lost a couple of lives. Soundtrack is meh and the difficulty is subpar. Switched between above ground and below multiple times. I think I'll call this finished in a few and move back to snes.

[Anonymous No.1855040]

Shit.

[Anonymous No.1855332]

>>1853346
why is it selling itself to you
ou would have already bought it

[Anonymous No.1856969]

fml

[Anonymous No.1859534]

Beat level 2. Three has so much god damn slowdown. Shit will be slow as a snail and then boom it speeds up and my slight movement fucks me over.

[Anonymous No.1859573]

Sounds fun. Let's begin.

[Anonymous No.1859615]

>>1859573
Looks like a decent Zelda clone. I'm expecting a good time

[Anonymous No.1859632]

>>1859573
oh, you're extremely lucky, that's a great game

[Anonymous No.1859636]

>>1859615
You are in for the best time. That game is great. Has a few flaws so it isn't perfect. One hint for you: if you find you can't hurt something no matter what you use, try leveling up first.

[Anonymous No.1859653]

>try this
>keep getting things way outside of my comfort zone that ill never complete in 3 days

[Anonymous No.1859687]

>>1859615
Now that I think about it, this game reminds me A LOT of Ys I and II. The fast paced combat w/ rpg elements, the tower at the beginning, and the projectile feels a lot like Adol's fireball spell in Ys II.

Luckily, I freaking loved those games, and this is pretty freaking sweet so far.

[Anonymous No.1859731]

>>1859687
Finally beat this fucker.

And again with the Ys thing, this guy looks and behaves pretty much exactly like the first boss of Ys I.

[Anonymous No.1859795]

>>1859731
Oooh, spooky.

[Anonymous No.1860278]

>>1853315
I used to play Blades of Steel with my older brother all the time. It's a blast. I have a hard time picking a favourite between this and Ice Hockey. I love the fighting so much.

[Anonymous No.1860281]

>>1855040
>Shit
Super R-Type is radical. Slowdown is a pain, but, the game is great. Have fun, anon.

[Anonymous No.1861787]

>>1859795
Hey look, it's Saturn Vall-err that other place.

[Anonymous No.1861791]

>>1861787
SHit, forgot screencap.
also BUMP

[Anonymous No.1862598]

Failed super r-type. Only got to level three on normal and then after i failed it i went down and still didn't get much further. I've done the gauntlet half a dozen times over the years and have never gotten an rpg. Now this gauntlet i've gotten two. I'll probably start this later tonight or tomorrow

[Anonymous No.1863003]

>Finally decide to try this
>This is my first roll ever

[Anonymous No.1863009]

>>1863003
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAAHHAHAHAAHHA

I'M DEAD

[Anonymous No.1863089]

>>1809870
Hey man, thanks for the gaunlet thing. It has solved my inability to indiscriminately choose a new retro vidya to play (I could play this Batman game, or this obscure neat looking platformer... nah fuck it Super Mario RPG for the 7th time)

I would maybe suggest a section for just the top 25 best/most popular games from each system, all in one, for ppl looking to play the "hall of fame" of retro vidya, as it were.

Of course, this equates to an assload of work for you, so if you don't wanna do it then no worries.

[Anonymous No.1864905]

Bump

[Anonymous No.1865160]

rolled for all systems and I'm now ready to blow

nes: gradius
snes: whirlo
gamegear: gg shinobi
genesis: double dragon (yeah)
turbographx: shapeshifter: makai eiyuuden
dos: clyde's revenge
neogeo: samurai shodown (lel)
saturn: roommate - ryouko in summer vac (at least some eroge)
amiga: wishbringer - magick stone of dreams
n64: nightmare creatures

wish me luck

[Anonymous No.1865271]

>>1865160
Crazy ass nigga

[Anonymous No.1867253]

What are the rules about difficulty?
Can I just play on easiest for a cheap win?

For example, I rolled "Monopoly" on NES and I'm playing a 2 player game against the easiest computer.

[Anonymous No.1867301]

HA!

[Anonymous No.1867359]

>>1867301
And, done.

[Anonymous No.1867450]

>>1867359
>Not doing both quests
>He probably used the world one and four warp zones

Really play it this time.

[Anonymous No.1867459]

>>1867359
>herp herp lookit mah trollanz

Leave.

[Anonymous No.1867460]

>>1867450
Sorry, guy, meant to call out THIS idiot. You just move on to the next game.

[Anonymous No.1868193]

This sounds like fun, I'll give it a shot.

Never heard of this game, hope it's not some unplayable bullshit.

[Anonymous No.1868220]

>>1868193
>Cowboy Kid

It's basically Legend of the Mystical Ninja on SNES, but for NES and with a cowboy theme. If you've ever played that, you're good to go.

[Anonymous No.1868262]

>>1863003
Good luck man.

[Anonymous No.1868351]

First stage done, game is pretty hard so far but I like it, reminds me of a bit of River City Ransom. Only things I really don't like so far are the weird hit boxes and that there doesn't seem to a save/password system.

[Anonymous No.1868409]

>>1868351
It's basically a clone of the Famicom Goemon with a wild west theme.

[Anonymous No.1868426]

>>1868351
>get to second boss
>they ask me to join them
>say yes thinking I'll get some funny dialogue
>MC actually joins, get bad end
>game over

[Anonymous No.1868642]

>>1868426
And done. Don't have much to say about the game but it's not bad, just nothing really stood out to me. I should probably play an actual Goemon game one of these days.

[Anonymous No.1868909]

>>1810290
looks fun

[Anonymous No.1868917]

>>1796869
>Your game is "Ninja Crusaders"! Now go play it!
This game sounds fabulous.

[Anonymous No.1869370]

>>1868642
This can't be too bad, right?

[Anonymous No.1870473]

>>1863089
>I would maybe suggest a section for just the top 25 best/most popular games from each system
Not the guy running the server or anything, but it's funny you should mention that since I've been working on creating tiered lists of games for systems for a special gauntlet I've been planning. The lists are of good games only, no shovelware/edutainment/sports games, so the gauntlet won't be boring crap. I'm planning on having a prize for the first person to beat the gauntlet on hard, but I'm kinda limited on retro game prizes.

Here's a quick look at the Easy/Medium/Hard list for NES.
EASY:
Duck Tales
Kirby's Adventure
Legend of Zelda
Mega Man 6
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
Snow Bros
Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario Bros 3
MEDIUM:
Castlevania
Contra
Duck Tales II
Gargoyle's Quest II
Kabuki Quantum Fighter
Mega Man
Metroid
Simpsons Bart vs the World
Super Mario Bros
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
HARD:
A Boy and His Blob
Batman
Battletoads[JP, I'm not an asshole]
Castlevania III Dracula's Curse
Darkwing Duck
Guantlet
The Lone Ranger
Metal Storm
Ninja Gaiden
Prince of Persia
Shatterhand
Star Tropics

Anyone have any thoughts, suggestions?

[Anonymous No.1870506]

>>1870473

Put Legend of Zelda in Hard, move Shatterhand and Metal Storm down to medium and it looks good to me

[Anonymous No.1870521]

just started Adventures of Lolo 3.
Surpsisingly fun game. Weee~

[Anonymous No.1870615]

>>1870506
>Legend of Zelda in Hard
>Metal Storm in Easy
You really think Zelda is on par with Castlevania 3, and Metal Storm is on par with Kirby?
Are you joking?

[Anonymous No.1870616]

>>1870615
>kirby
I meant Super Mario Bros, or Metroid. Dunno how I messed that up.