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VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · Jun 19

Here's my unboxing and review of Beyond Shadowgate for the PC!
(Note that this is not the same as the 1993 Turbo Grafx CD game of the same name.)
It's a sequel to the NES version, and looks and plays just like it!
Check it out here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsG0...

True Sequel to Shadowgate! - Beyond Shadowgate: Unboxing & Review

YouTube video by JonLeung1

www.youtube.com

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VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 10h

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VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 16h

Bonus bit: the planets seen in outer space beyond the mirror in Beyond Shadowgate reference the title screen of another of (@grahfmetal.bsky.social)'s NES-style point-and-click games, "Infested".

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VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 17h

Hallowe'en post #12:
Speaking of jumping out into space (like yesterday's post), here's one of the more "out there" deaths in Shadowgate (NES) which is also in Beyond Shadowgate (PC).
If you don't know about Beyond Shadowgate, I unboxed/reviewed it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsG0...

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VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 1d

I succeeded eventually. Game is Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (GBA), stage is "No Time To Dawdle", an e-Reader stage, but an e-Reader card isn't necessary when played on the Nintendo Switch GBA "Nintendo Classics" app (when subscribed to NSO with the Expansion Pack).

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VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 1d

#スーパーマリオシリーズクソミスグランプリ

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VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 1d

Hallowe'en post #11:
In Super Castlevania IV (Super NES), you can fully power up right before facing Dracula if you make your way down here with the invisible platforms and back up again.

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VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 2d

Noted, thanks, but the point still stands.
Warner Bros. Discovery or whoever has the rights to The Flintstones and The Jetsons could do something with them. Everything else has been rebooted, reimagined or revived, so why not those?

VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 2d

I think Hanna-Barbera should do more with The Flintstones instead of milking Scooby-Doo CONSTANTLY.
Or The Jetsons! Anything other than than yet another direct-to-streaming animated movie crossover of Scooby-Doo and the WWE or Batman or whatever.

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VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 2d

Hallowe'en post #10:
Did you know you can easily kill Death in Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (NES) by using just one bulb of garlic?
Eat your vegetables, kids!
(I thought I posted this before, but apparently not as part of my 31 geeky Hallowe'en-related posts this month.)

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VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 3d

As of tonight, VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas now has screenshot maps of ALL of the games featured on the Sega Genesis Mini 2 - including the Sega CD and bonus games!
Thanks to all the mappers involved!
www.vgmaps.com/Atlas/Genesi...

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VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 3d

Okay, I'm going to need that. Link?

VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know why I made this Chiitan☆ and Contra (NES) mash-up, but, here you go:
#NES #funny #Short
www.youtube.com/shorts/P0nwG...

Chiitan☆ Contra

YouTube video by JonLeung1

www.youtube.com

VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 3d

#スーパーマリオシリーズクソミスグランプリ

VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 3d

Hallowe'en post #9:
As explained in The NES Endings Compendium - Vol. 1: 1985-89 (which I reviewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH6s... ), there are three endings to Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (NES) that are dependent on how fast you beat it, but the endings seem to be mixed up.

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VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 3d

1 hour and 45 minutes left!
Let's see the point-and-click comedy fantasy adventure game, Broken Relic, hit the next stretch goal to come to the Switch!
Nothing left to wait for - support it now if you haven't already! Maybe pledge to be an NPC in this game?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bro...

VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 4d

12 hours to go now!
Still not at £20,000, WTF.
Will this get to £25,000 in time?
Come on!

VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 4d

Less than 15 hours!

It's weird that it keeps creeping closer to £20k but each time the increments seem to be smaller.

I hope £20k isn't like some limit in calculus, where you can get as close as you like but never reach it...

And I would really like to see it at £25k, come on!

VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 4d

The Asssassin's Creed game that was cancelled because someone had a problem with fighting the KKK... like, what's the problem?
There are hundreds of games where you fight Nazis.
If someone thinks a game about fighting against evil racists is problematic, then... aren't they the one with the problem?

VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 4d

Accidentally deleted this:
I said that I thought it was ballsy that the scene at 28:35 was included in BioShock Infinite.
(It's obvious you should throw the stone at the announcer, not the couple.)
But then I thought, why is it wrong to show racism is evil in a game?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZFx...

Bioshock Infinite - Opening Sequence

YouTube video by Swamphunter

www.youtube.com

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VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 4d

Even before that, the only issues I've had in the theatre were just technical.
The projector burned out during Titanic and Spider-Man: No Way Home (multiple times, all climactic moments), which is funny in a way (we all got vouchers for another movie) but those aren't related to people's behaviour.

VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 4d

In the past few years, almost every movie I see is in 4DX (motion seats, atmospheric FX), since movies now come to digital less than two months (sometimes one!) after theatrical debut, so why not get the full experience when I do go to the movies?
People don't mess around at $30 (Can) per ticket.

VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 4d

Not to dismiss Marina McBain's experience, but I've never had a bad experience due to others' behaviour in a movie theatre, in the decades that I've gone, multiple times a year.
Am I just lucky, or do Canadians have better movie etiquette than the rest of the world?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ZO...

Going to the Movies SUCKS Now...

YouTube video by Marina McBain

www.youtube.com

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VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 4d

I meant to say "why the box of the EUROPEAN NES version".

Every social media platform needs to have a way to edit posts!

VGMaps @vgmaps.bsky.social · 4d

The point-and-click adventure game, Broken Relic, has ONE day left on Kickstarter (25½ hours, really).

It's close to the £20k stretch goal that will bring it to iOS & Android, but can it get to £25k for a Nintendo Switch port?

Don't delay, pledge today!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bro...

Broken Relic - A Fantasy Point-and-Click Comedy Adventure

Save the world from the chaos you unleashed in this pixel-art point & click comedy adventure. Demo playable now!

www.kickstarter.com

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