Badged GG Aleste on Retroachievements. The first time was for Normal difficulty, this time it's for the harder difficult named Special. In Special the enemies shoot revenges bullets when destroyed making the game much more hectic. Great game overall.

Finished Annalynn, a charming platformer reminiscent of Pac-Man but with more mechanics and variety. You have infinite continues but there are achievements for not using them.

I recently created my first romhack! It disables the rings in Sonic 1 for Genesis. It makes the game much more difficult. It prevents acquiring continues, severely reduces lives, and prevents using rings defensively. To ensure the game is beatable I streamed it until I finally finished it.

Blade Chimera, the latest game by Team Ladybug, is in the bag! I quite enjoyed it; great pixel art, good mechanics, good music. The revelations at the end are pretty good.

That's a wrap on Super Alloy Ranger! It's a fun platformer in the style of the Mega Man Zero games. Good control, weapons, music, art and level design. The translation is a little rough but it's still a charming story. I would recommend this to fans of the MMZ games.

Today's pickups: Ratchet & Clank Collection (PS3), Valkyria Chronicles (PS3), Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time (PS3), Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Wii U), Sonic Spinball (GEN), Vectorman 2 (GEN), RoboWarrior (NES)

Hey all, please retweet for awareness and kick him from your own servers from now. ZeeGee got hacked and tried to hack me today, so I kicked him immediately from mine. Don't download anything he messages you about.

I just finished GG Aleste for Game Gear. Pretty decent shmup and it has an approachable difficulty. Cute still cutscenes. The one warning I will give is that it has some high pitched screeching sound effects which you will find in other Master System and Game Gear games.

My copy of Rocket Knight Adventures for Sega Genesis arrived.

It's one of those dreams I wish I could remember better. The setting is a handful of dive bars and the main character is a chatty guy, like Tyler Durden from Fight Club. Through talking people he discovers that everyone including himself is dead. 1/4

Picked up NES Open Tournament Golf and Little Nemo for NES.

A recap on the games I played on Steam in 2024 🧵

I first played Phantasy Star 4 some 20 years ago. Even after all this time I consider it one of the best games ever made and I'm proud to have it in my collection.

I just finished Crystal Breaker, a new indie shmup on Steam and Switch. It's a fun, simple, frantic shooter that avoids some of the pet peeves shmups are known for.

A couple of years ago I beat Ocarina of Time for the first time on Christmas Day. This year, I beat Skyward Sword for the first time on Christmas Eve, although I wasn't intending on it. 1/4

Watched someone play Summoner on PS2 this morning. It reminded me that developer put this easter egg video on another one of their games, Red Faction, for PC. The characters are from Summoner. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvek...

Recently I've been purchasing new music. I haven't done that probably in 15 years or longer. I've mainly just listened to new stuff on YT and bookmarked it. Now I want to support artists who make music I can listen to while working or walking. My nascent collection: bandcamp.com/brigand1851

Picked up Castlevania 1 & 2 and Gremlins 2 for the NES

Thunder Force 4 ("Lightening Force") for Genesis and the Megaman Zero Collection for DS (all 4 GBA games) arrived today.

Today I bought and beat a shmup named Mirage Feathers. It's in the same vein as After Burner and it has the same frenzied pace. It's great and I would recommend it. There's a demo. I will highly suggest turning on Streamer Mode to have the characters wear more clothing.

apnews.com/projects/twe... I only got 3 right. Is that an "oof" or is there a newer word for it? 🤦

Played a few shmups this weekend. On Saturn: DoDonPachi, Radiant Silvergun. On Dreamcast: Under Defeat and Radirgy. On Steam: Dragon Blaze, Natsuki Chronicles, Truxton 2, and Radiant Silvergun. On Genesis: Eliminate Down, Gaiares, Gley Lancer, Thunder Force 4

Modern indie game music appreciation thread: one tune per game, more inside! Aggelos www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibdw... Annalynn www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt8F... A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o2A... Bastion www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcfj... Bleed www.youtube.com/watch?v=vphP...

At long last, I cleared Border Down for Dreamcast. I was introduced to it in college and played it here and there but never quite finished.

I have a soft spot for Wolfteam games. They have their own charm and some great tunes. Their games play well and have something that's just a little bit different than everyone else. For Granada I think it could use a little more variety between levels; either new mechanics, weapons, or the like.

First time clearing Granada for Sega Genesis. I got to the final boss on Normal but I couldn't beat him. I replayed on Easy and finished it. I needed 6 lives per continue. I'll work on that more sometime.

New pickups: Shadowgate (NES), Uncharted 2 (PS3)

New pickups, all Genesis: Ecco the Dolphin, Ecco: The Tides of Time, Granada, Light Crusader

Internet: "But Brig..." Brig: "I know, I know."

@delachancla.com These aren't super hot but pretty tasty

Today's pickups: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Zone of the Enders HD Collection, Uncharted, and Uncharted 3. (I still need to find Uncharted 2)

I had Wed-Fri off so I started and finished No One Lives Forever. I had not played it since it was new and while I liked it back then I like it more now. I find it charming and I appreciate the silly dialog. It took me 19 hours.

I finished Astrolancer, a PC game heavily inspired by The Guardian Legend on NES. Like TGL it's half overhead action and half shmup. It's charming with good gameplay and great music. It has a decent story with great artwork in the cutscenes. I would recommend it to scratch the TGL itch.

Wrapped Actraiser: Renaissance. It adds a few new ideas but doesn't realize them to their full potential. The orchestral soundtrack is good. I found myself waiting around for the citizens than the original. Overall I'd say stick to the original SNES release.

It's Shmupterday somewhere. Let's try some of my Steam shmups with my Retro-bit controller

Cleared Missile Dancer 2. It's a pretty good shmup with influence from After Burner and Space Harrier.

Here's my collection of games on backloggd. It's my physical retro games. I haven't added my Wii U digital library nor my physical PC games yet. www.backloggd.com/u/brigand185...

Today's pickups. NES: Double Dragon II, Gyruss, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden II, Life Force. Gamecube: Soul Calibur II, Dreamcast: Soul Calibur. SNES: Cybernator.

The final boss was a tough fight which took hours but we prevailed and cleared The Guardian Legend on NES!

For Genesis: Ranger-X, Shinobi III, Sub-Terrania, and Sonic Spinball. For NES: Blaster Master. For Wii: Sin & Punishment Star Successor

My new game shelf. Sorry for the blurry photos. There's no room for my PC games.

New pickups! NES: Legacy of the Wizard, Rush 'n Attack, Gradius, Trojan, Strider, and Gun.Smoke. GEN: E-Swat

I can finally set up all my systems. From the top down we have the Gamecube, Wii, retroAVS (clone NES), SNES, Genesis, DS, Dreamcast, Saturn, PS3, Wii U

Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt, Mega Man X, Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country

New pickups: Super Mario Bros 2 & 3, Zelda 1 & 2 (gold carts) for NES. UN Squadron for SNES.

I wish we had these plastic protectors back in the day. I could have spared the damage some of my carts and cases took.

@ecmyers.bsky.social Do you take stream requests for retro homebrew?

Four NES games came in today: TMNT, Super C, The Guardian Legend, and Faxanadu