Raid 2020 (NES, 1989)

Time for what the pros refer to as a "shitty game". When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the 9mm Uzi for a bit. It's just a badass-looking gun. What's with the drugs though? I've never seen a prescription bottle with a poison sign on it, though in some cases that'd be a lot more honest.

Winners fight drugs? I hope you actually "fight drugs" in this game. Like one boss is a giant line of coke or something, on your quest to rescue the president who is a hovering crack pipe.

Sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends! ...Or not.

Sean Connery 1930-2020

 

You are one with all things, Highlanda.

Trials of Mana, Part 9 - Sorceress

Chase the moon.

Mario Maker Videos

 

In lieu of a new post, here are a few videos.

Trials of Mana, Part 8 - Class Changes

FALCOR THE LUCK DRAGON, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

Trials of Mana, Part 7 - Total Carnage

Isabella lets Jessica out of prison only to drag her through the desert as Trials of Mana finally resumes. Their hair colors are coded like Jedi lightsabers.

Mega Man X6 Playthrough

More Mega Man videos as I replay one of the worst games. Why do this to myself a second time? I don't know.

Highlander: The Series 3x20 - Reasonable Doubt

They're using the first two guns from Bioshock! This looks promising already.

Yakuza 6 - Boss Fights

The last game of the Kiryu Saga and the last one of these I'm doing. The boss fights in this game feel a bit like a fighting game, while previous installments played more like brawlers.

Trials of Mana, Part 6 - Teleroboxer

Good Lord, Liza is hot.

Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones (NES, 1990)

This is BY FAR the toughest Double Dragon game. I mean, damn. They really overcorrected after the easier second game. This game is so hard that Nintendo Power's coverage of it is just a high-pitched scream.

Double Dragon II: The Revenge (NES, 1988)

This is it, Double Dragon TWO. The Reckoning. Does that make this Quadruple Dragon? .....I'll show myself out.

Prehistorik Man (Super NES, 1995)

Time for a BLAST FROM THE PAST. They made Game Boy and SNES versions of this game, but it's safe to say the SNES version is the one to play. While the Game Boy version has five levels, this one has 23. In other words, this is Prehistorik Man: Definitive Edition.

Been wanting to check it out for a while, so let's get a look at it.

Trials of Mana, Part 5 - TNT Nitromyte

Angela with a confident power-walk across the bridge. Unf. Also, an apology is necessary because Angela in general is NSFW.

Double Dragon (NES, 1988)

Time to check out one of the finest beat 'em ups on the NES. This game got the street fighting genre rolling on consoles. Later games like Final Fight and Streets of Rage would refine the formula, beating this series up and stealing its lunch money. For its time, though, Double Dragon was the trendsetter, the prototype. More on those other beat 'em ups at a later date, because right now we're goin' ham on the OG.

Double Dragon (Game Boy, 1990)

Is that two dragons, or one dragon with two heads? Maybe one with a head at each end?

Highlander: The Series 3x19 - Mortal Sins

Today on Highlander: Not just a good episode, but a particularly significant one in terms of plot developments. This was also the highest-rated episode in the series up to this point in terms of TV ratings by a good margin. Though it'd be topped a few weeks later for "Finale" and then that'd be topped a bunch of times as it went on. The ratings really shot up during S3 and this is about when they hit their apex.

Magic Sword (Super NES, 1992)

Magic Sword is an arcade beat-em-up from early 90's Capcom. They went on to make other (better) medieval-themed beat-em-ups like Knights of the Round and King of Dragons, but this one was a good start. I played it in the arcade a couple times as a kid and it was fun, but I didn't get very far. The Super NES port is easier, so we'll see how I do.

Super Metroid - Ice/Wave Beam Only (2019 Run)

For this run I decided to try something a bit different than the usual speed run. It's the "2019 run" because I didn't do my usual Summer run last year, and have to make up for it.