Meanwhile, I still haven't gotten past cookie mountain.

Good thing I have w-blue sky lives.

/nothing is obscure on Fark

Great, every game company is now DLC whoring out the software.

I was once told they would make us buy an 80$ video game. They have done it.

I still have trouble getting past world 8-3

kaykordeath: Good thing I have w-blue sky lives.

/nothing is obscure on Fark

Nope. The infinite lives glitch in 3-1 was a godsend.
...Especially if you had to start 8-3 as small Mario.

kaykordeath: Good thing I have w-blue sky lives.

/nothing is obscure on Fark

I'm probably wrong but are you referring to the way the first super Mario brothers displayed lives when you got a ton of extras?

viscountalpha: Great, every game company is now DLC whoring out the software.

I was once told they would make us buy an 80$ video game. They have done it.

Phantasy Star II cost eighty bucks iirc

NaziKamikaze: Relevant

You mean it ISN'T that?

poot_rootbeer: ModernLuddite: Meanwhile, I still haven't gotten past cookie mountain.

Neither has TV On The Radio.

....not to thread jack, but TV on the Radio sucks, and arbitrary references to childhood nostalgia suck.
God, they suck.

I shouldn't be telling anyone this, but this game is actually a test to find the most skilled person earth has to offer. They'll be the pilot of a new top secret drone that's been specifically designed to exploit the weakness of an alien race that recently invaded our sewers. They can only be neutralized by being jumped on in a very precise manner.

Fano: viscountalpha: Great, every game company is now DLC whoring out the software.

I was once told they would make us buy an 80$ video game. They have done it.

Phantasy Star II cost eighty bucks iirc

I paid $95 for Super Mario RPG when it first came out. Think about that. Almost a hundred bucks for a cartridge. But, I still have the game and even play it on occasion, so... there's that.

NaziKamikaze: Relevant

came here for celebratory pushups

Solon Isonomia: pudding7: BraveNewCheneyWorld: I shouldn't be telling anyone this, but this game is actually a test to find the most skilled person earth has to offer. They'll be the pilot of a new top secret drone that's been specifically designed to exploit the weakness of an alien race that recently invaded our sewers. They can only be neutralized by being jumped on in a very precise manner.

I do NOT want to know what kind of Death Blossom a drone designed to operate in the sewers uses.

I'm just wondering how traumatic it would be to watch Toad get his head melted.

Find the Super Mario World hack called Panic in the Mushroom Kingdom (and its sequel). It has some... interesting images in it.

It's also really pretty, for the most part, and its levels are well-designed and more challenging than what you find in most Mario games, but the challenge is almost always fair. The first game had maybe two places tha inspired a little too much frustration.

If you like Mario gaes at all, play these.

kaykordeath: Good thing I have w-blue sky lives.

/nothing is obscure on Fark

This is worse than Anne Coulter.

viscountalpha: Great, every game company is now DLC whoring out the software.

I was once told they would make us buy an 80$ video game. They have done it.

MMOs!

More like $180 plus the price of the game, for 1 year.

Battlefield 2142 was when it all changed.

Mara See Mara Do: kaykordeath: Good thing I have w-blue sky lives.

/nothing is obscure on Fark

This is worse than Anne Coulter.

That's the video we watched in the physics lounge before our Electricity & Magnetism exam. We had all been studying like crazy for hours and were on the brink of insanity when somebody suggested that video to relax us. We really needed the laugh, and I think it helped.

Puh-leez. Anybody who's played Syobon Action or I Wanna Be the Guy will be able to waltz through these levels blindfolded.

Fano: viscountalpha: Great, every game company is now DLC whoring out the software.

I was once told they would make us buy an 80$ video game. They have done it.

Phantasy Star II cost eighty bucks iirc

I believe I paid $80 for Chrono Trigger when it came out.

soporific: Fano: viscountalpha: Great, every game company is now DLC whoring out the software.

I was once told they would make us buy an 80$ video game. They have done it.

Phantasy Star II cost eighty bucks iirc

I believe I paid $80 for Chrono Trigger when it came out.

yeah well I bought Shaq-Fu...NEW!

viscountalpha: Great, every game company is now DLC whoring out the software.

I was once told they would make us buy an 80$ video game. They have done it.

Shh, nobody tell him about the Neo Geo.

/No one is MAKING you buy anything

Mr. Fuzzypaws: Link

Meh, looks a bit easier than "I wanna be the Boshy". At least there aren't a lot of "surprise" traps. I'd say it's probably about as hard as Super Meat Boy was the first time I played through it.

Girion47: soporific: Fano: viscountalpha: Great, every game company is now DLC whoring out the software.

I was once told they would make us buy an 80$ video game. They have done it.

Phantasy Star II cost eighty bucks iirc

I believe I paid $80 for Chrono Trigger when it came out.

yeah well I bought Shaq-Fu...NEW!

Why would you admit to that?!

/actually had fun playing that :P
//Kaori

i was always willing to accept the first princess, even if she wasn't actually 'mine' - that little mushroom headed jerk can just shut up.

viscountalpha: I was once told they would make us buy an 80$ video game. They have done it.

My spent $83 + tax on Final Fantasy 3 for me when I was a young one, so, yeah, they've been able to do that for certain games for a long time.

Mara See Mara Do: kaykordeath: Good thing I have w-blue sky lives.

/nothing is obscure on Fark

This is worse than Anne Coulter.

Goomba, fark you!

StoPPeRmobile: viscountalpha: Great, every game company is now DLC whoring out the software.

I was once told they would make us buy an 80$ video game. They have done it.

MMOs!

More like $180 plus the price of the game, for 1 year.

Battlefield 2142 was when it all changed.

Yeah, I started SWTOR, and it's....not a terrible game, but not a great game either. Nowhere near worth $15 a month, plus the poor bastards who paid the $60 for the game before it went F2P.
Still better than WoW.

I sleep with a woman.

1000 Ways to Dye: viscountalpha: I was once told they would make us buy an 80$ video game. They have done it.

My spent $83 + tax on Final Fantasy 3 for me when I was a young one, so, yeah, they've been able to do that for certain games for a long time.

"3" or "6"?

Because 3? you got ripped off, but 6? well worth it.

/US 3=JP 6

Nothing is as hard as just trying to whip those first farking skeletons in castlevania 64.

Or whipping anything else in that game. Good thing there's a schoolgirl with magic homing attacks out to kick Dracula's ass or he'd rule the world by now.

viscountalpha: Great, every game company is now DLC whoring out the software.

I was once told they would make us buy an 80$ video game. They have done it.

This is not even close to true. Your $60 gets you a game with a beginning, middle and an end. For years we were fine with paying (much more, I might add) for Expansion Packs. Well...a rose by any other name.

/paying for "on disk DLC" is the singular exception
//but anything where the new game data must be downloaded (as opposed to an unlock license) is fine

cretinbob: Still better than the same thing as WoW.

FTFY

Explains it better than I can.

eldritch2k4: This is not even close to true. Your $60 gets you a game with a beginning, middle and an end. For years we were fine with paying (much more, I might add) for Expansion Packs. Well...a rose by any other name.

That's true.

Anyone remember X-Wing and TIE Fighter? Both games had 2 expansion packs a piece, for at least $30 each. That's a $110 game.

/but VERY well worth it.

Some of the later levels in NSMB:U were actually pretty challenging, so it's interesting to see what they've come up with here. I haven't watched the video, but I'd imagine that their definition of "impossible" is that if you don't keep up the natural flow of movement, that you'll land in some instant-death situation.

pudding7: BraveNewCheneyWorld: I shouldn't be telling anyone this, but this game is actually a test to find the most skilled person earth has to offer. They'll be the pilot of a new top secret drone that's been specifically designed to exploit the weakness of an alien race that recently invaded our sewers. They can only be neutralized by being jumped on in a very precise manner.

I do NOT want to know what kind of Death Blossom a drone designed to operate in the sewers uses.

Good. Too many people know about Project shiatstorm as it is.

cretinbob: Yeah, I started SWTOR, and it's....not a terrible game, but not a great game either. Nowhere near worth $15 a month, plus the poor bastards who paid the $60 for the game before it went F2P.
Still better than WoW.

I started SWTOR just before the F2P. I like the focus on storyline rather than full-on PvE crap, and I got a real kick out of the storyline for the bounty hunters. I'm working my way through smugglers now, and it's a riot. Lines like "Saving damsels in distress is my specialty... she is a damsel, right? are so much more satisfying than "Fetch me ten ocelot skins."

can't possibly be worse than battletoads.

tom baker's scarf: can't possibly be worse than battletoads.

two player mode for maximum ffffuuuuu.

dervish16108: eldritch2k4: This is not even close to true. Your $60 gets you a game with a beginning, middle and an end. For years we were fine with paying (much more, I might add) for Expansion Packs. Well...a rose by any other name.

That's true.

Anyone remember X-Wing and TIE Fighter? Both games had 2 expansion packs a piece, for at least $30 each. That's a $110 game.

/but VERY well worth it.

Worthy expansion packs, indeed. Plus it was a bit at a time, so each pack felt like a mini sequel.