"They say graphics aren't important...but every game I've ever played has had them".

I'm more interested to know why the writing in anime has turned to shit in the last 20 years.

That story was a hoax.

Sooo, it's about ethics in game journalism?

Well when someone gets tossed into the losing team at the last minute, it's not his fault he comes away with zero kills.

That song immediately popped in my head when I read the headline.

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Man, tape drives were the WORST. I had a C64 (actually I still have it, it still works too!) and I made sure my parents got me a disc drive. Even with the disc drive it would take time to load, but it was ten times faster than the tape drives.

Should've been an Atari 2600

Somehow he now has a child with this woman, and I can only assume it was the most passionless, workman-like sex ever experienced by humanity.

I LOVE me some Crystalis, but steampunk? Really? There's nothing about that game that is steampunk. It's a post-apocalyptic world and there is lost technology, but none of it is steampunk in any way.

THIS. 11 years ago I worked for an AV rental company and everyone used multitools. I never bothered as we always had tools on hand. Then one day, one of the freelancers who we worked with had a spare that he had received as a gift, still in it's packaging, that he gave to me. I use it almost every single day,…

I had 2600 when I was a kid, at the time I always held on to the manuals because the artwork was so evocative. Love that stuff.

Yeah an Amiga magazine did this bit 22 years ago.

It's all about perspective though, I knew a lot of kids who also beat it and so it never occurred to me that it was SUPPOSED to be difficult, so I think that's why you don't have people saying "Well I beat it but everybody else is full of shit!" I admit that my personal view of the difficulty is biased because it has…

It's difficult to say exactly how hard the game is because those of us who have it memorized think of it as being easy because for us it is, now. But that's simply a matter of putting in the time to learn the game and get better at it. For someone like you who basically played it on an emulator and gave up, I could…

I don't have my NES anymore, but I do still have Contra on an emulator and my muscle memory is still there. I fired it up a few months ago and played through with only two deaths and that was the first time I had touched the game in about 7-8 years.

I have no clue and any guess I would make would be spurious at best, since I don't have enough data. However, since I know I have beaten the game, I had friends who beat it, and there are quite a few people on this comment section and others that claim to have beaten it, I can safely assume that at least SOME people…

Another favorite challenge I forgot to mention was destroying every part of the boss before you destroyed the "core." Konami eventually made that part of the game in Shattered Soldier for PS2. You couldn't get to the final level unless you destroyed every part of every boss. Easily the best Contra since the…

Complete nonsense. Contra was the first game I had for my NES when I was a kid and I beat it so many times I stopped using the cheat code entirely. It really isn't that difficult, it's just a matter of memorization. I played that game so much that I started to get bored with it so I would give myself little…