The GBC Zelda and Other Games were Designed to Cause Pain

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It was just...a barrel. It would go up and down based on various inputs. You had to make it go down really really far in order to get past it.

Normally the way you'd make stuff like that move in the Sonic games, and in Sonic 3 up to that point, was to jump on it. So you'd jump, and jump, and jump...and never push the barrel down far enough to get to the passage underneath it.

But it turns out, for this puzzle, you simply had to make Sonic look up and down (using the D-pad) and that would cause the barrel to move. Nevermind that this mechanic had not been used at all in Sonic 3 up to this point (and the game was at least 2/3rds of the way over by now), nor was it ever used after that point, nor was there any indication that this was what you even had to do.
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I sort of beat that by being a kid. And pressing up on the D-pad because I thought it'd make him jump higher. And down for...whatever reason.

Ahhhh. Sonic 3 & Knuckles. I spent so many fucking hours on Sonic 2, Sonic 3, and S3&K. I got all the Chaos Emeralds on the latter two (all fourteen of them in the full S3&K), beat it with all the characters.

Good times. Nostalgia trip.

And the special stages are hardcoded into my fingers. I play them a bit, and they all start coming back to me.
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I BEAT ONOX! TAKE THAT YOU FUCKING FUCK!

One more Zelda title under the belt.
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*cheer*
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.

--The horror of Mario

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*awards medal to Shrapnel*
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Hmm, I probably should have posted news of my victory in MK II here and not in the Video Games thread a few days ago:
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(See Shrapnel's "games that were designed to cause pain" thread for more from me on MK II's difficulty, which inspired me to try the game out again.)

I have to thank you, shau, for the advice with Baraka; his blade spinning attack does out-prioritize Kintaro's stomp (but not his throws.)

Shao Kahn is actually a huge wimp in this game; I lost the first round to him (the first round I've ever fought him without cheating, since Kintaro is so damn hard) and then fucking destroyed him in the next two.

ALL HAIL KING BARAKA
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I almost have the nostalgia in me to buy Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition.
Except if it's still "-> <- -> LK HP" and "Hold LP for five seconds" for moves rather than simple QCF+Punch, then it'll be a pain to get used to. And the lack of controller for PC. And I imagine it's not actually that much fun.
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Maxus wrote:*cheer*
Vebyast wrote:*awards medal to Shrapnel*
*bows* Thank you, thank you.

I'd just like to thank... etc. etc. etc.
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