Now you'll never know.

Longer I think.  Two weeks as a rough guideline, with extra time/less time if requested.

Played a bit of these this evening.  I didn't last long on Puggsy, saw the Game Over screen within a handful of levels.  It's pretty good without striking me as outstanding, but I've barely scratched the surface.  The titular (testicular?) hero is animated nicely, and there's some interesting items physics for an early 90's platformer, but I'm not too keen on the controls.  Will try again tomorrow.  

Lost Vikings is a cracker.  Ignoring the hideous future RAWK thing - that title screen music, such nineties - and some uninspired rubber stamp locations, the switch heroes mechanic works extremely well.  Hopefully it maintains a cleverness to the puzzling without opting for annoying cheapness to halt progression, which is something that tended to let this sort of thing down.  Promising stuff so far though.

I played both and found Puggsy a bit fiddly, graphically a bit washed out and aurally monotonous. There's depth there and I've noticed that it's not just about getting out of the level as quick as you can, there seem to be quite a bit to do to find the best item to leave the level with, but the fidelity in the control isn't there and I got a bit frustrated. I'll give it another go, it may be me.

Lost Vikings 2 though is another level. Really easy to get into, great controls, graphics, lovely characterisation and satisfying puzzling so far. If it does get harder I welcome it as long as moot says it does become to obtuse or platformy!

I will at some point but my mind keeps going blank everytime I put the pie on.

Like when you go into HMV with a voucher and you suddenly forget your entire musical tastes.

Liveinadive wrote:

I will at some.point but my mind keeps going blank everytime I put the pie on. Like when you go into HMV with a voucher and you suddenly forget your entire musical tastes.

Most of what I've played on it so far is utter shite that I delete straight after playing, my plan was to go through everything only keeping the good stuff.

Its essentially an impossible task though. I think I'd be better off deleting everything I've not played and just add stuff when I actually play and decide on keeping or not then.

This thread has and could really help with that. I'd never have played Ranger X for example but now its an MD fav of mine.

Basically I only want about 100 games per system.

@Retro
I'm still enjoying dipping into stuff at the moment, even the shit stuff I find interesting.
I try to imagine what it would be like if this game was one of the 3 or 4 games a kid would have had back in the day.



I will eventually cull though, there is also the favourites option of course.

I should really just delete most sports games though.

Liveinadive wrote:

@Retro I'm still enjoying dipping into stuff at the moment, even the shit stuff I find interesting. I try to imagine what it would be like if this game was one of the 3 or 4 games a kid would have had back in the day. I will eventually cull though, there is also the favourites option of course. I should really just delete most sports games though.

Literally the first thing I did. I kept about half a dozen.

I don't think I need to play Puggsy to know I won't like it. Giving Lost Vikings a blast though. Seems alright.

Perhaps not as a head to head, action RPGs are a bit time consuming for a group retro run, but I'll put it in as a wildcard week.  The one after next?

I'm a huge fan of the game.  First 16-meg MD cart and so on.  Had to work hard as a kid to earn the money to pay for the 2nd hand copy I reserved in Terry's Games, held for one week only.  "What about Friday, dad?".  Nigel said yes.

I'll play some of the current picks over the weekend lads, sorry for not contributing yet.

What is Questor?
Can't find anything about it online, the 5th google link is this bloody place.

Ooh exciting!

It's a robust game name though.

Escape! - LCD maze game

Jon B - Amiga platformer.  Hero has blonde hair and big shades.

Nick MD - DS hospital touch 'em up

Superflyninja/Franticpea - IOS Flappy Birdalikes

g.man - really old gravity battler

Liveinadive wrote:

Puggsy Got stuck almost instantly on level 2. Just looked up how to do it, yeah Fuck this game, I wouldn't have worked that out in a month of Sundays. Lost Vikings I will come back to this when in the mood. Seems a decent game. Is there a way to resurrect Vikings? Seems odd that if one dies you can't finish the level but it doesnt cause a game over either. Not so keen on traipsing the same level three times over every time either.

Just how I felt. I had the MD cartridge of Puggsy and I remember getting stuck quite early on. I liked the look of it but I didn't even feel compelled to check out an faq on how to proceed. Casualty of my clearout.

I had Lost Vikings on Saturn and it seemed decent - always meant to go back to it but it was also a casualty of my clearout.