Thursday, August 22, 2013

More Virtual Boy Stuff

I decided to try to get more Virtual Boy coverage with my 3DS. Unfortunately, zooming in only works when taking pictures, so the videos are still small, sorry. At least I figured out how to enlarge the video thumbnails, so they look big. Sorta. At least the pictures are genuinely big.
This is 90% of the intro for Mario Clash. I missed the warning message and the part at the end when Mario goes so far in that the walls disappear.

Here's one of me playing it. This time, I actually cleared 2 levels :P
When I make these videos, I do crappily because I have to balance the 3DS while holding the controller and rush the level anyway because my 3DS never has room for videos over 1:30.

Here's one of me playing Mario's Tennis, another game that's less fun but still cool. The 3D's pretty great in this game.

Here's some pics.

This opening message displays before anything else in every Virtual Boy game I've played. Notice you can't read what it says because of my 3DS' camera quality.

Hey, this is mostly legible! It's the title screen!
Sometimes in these pictures, my 3DS isn't completely lined up with the screen. Because of the spacing of the cameras, this is unavoidable, so I usually give the camera that's used for 2D the advantage. Sometimes I don't, as pictured.
Here's a better demonstration of that. For those of you who don't know a lot about this screen, you're supposed to be able to see a little square with "VB" in the middle in 2 corners of the screen on each screen, and your eyes should adjust to it so that it looks like one big picture with a VB icon in each corner.
Have I mentioned that our copy of Mario Clash has some...problems?
In case you can't tell, that's Mario on that middle platform and some Shellcreepers/Koopas on the bottom-front platform.
I really can't remember what this picture's for, but I'm sure it was for something.
This pic is just so messed up.
What are those blobs on the side? I don't remember seeing those when taking these pictures.
I also took 2 Mario's Tennis pictures. Why didn't I take more? I had like 9 of MC...
You get used to the red, by the way. Whenever I play this game, I think, "Why is Luigi's hat white?" It doesn't work like that outside of game, though, he looks more red to me as I type this.
Ok, that's it for now everybody. If you want coverage on any of my collection that hasn't been mentioned a lot (like, say, Virtual Boy Wario Land), just ask in the comments.

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Quick Unimportant Post

I found this on page 3 of www.tasteofawesome.com today.
Don't believe me? Here's the pic on the site, and here's the post it's from. I did originally submit the picture, but I don't remember using that caption.

Friday, August 16, 2013

Six Flags/Boardwalk Trip Part 3: Redtro Robin and wRapping Things Up

Hello, this is part 3 of my Six Flags series. This post gets its name from the retro Red Robin restaurant we went to on the 2nd day and how it's wrapping things up by being the final part. It's pretty short.
Man, that looks so different from the new logo.
Custom taps with RR characters on them! I thought Red was the only character.
Team Rocket left this binder here.
 I know that's short, but I didn't take a lot of RR pictures considering my 3DS was on red-alert battery level. Just to take up space then, I'll add this Virtual Boy video I took a while ago.
 It's the best video I could take at the time, I didn't know how to zoom in then. It's really cool in 3D. The game is Mario Clash if anyone's wondering.

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Six Flags/Boardwalk Trip Part 2: Boardwalk and Awesome Arcade

 Hey, this is the 2nd part out of 3 in my Six Flags series. It's about the boardwalk we went to and the awesome arcade that was there. Again, some pictures may be out of order.
A lot of the games used the font from the old game Scramble for some reason.
This game was one of the exceptions.
This may not be the Scramble font, but I seriously see it everywhere. It's called "Hobo SD" or something like that, I think. It's used in Donkey Kong and Fix-it Felix Jr. (marquee/logo), that hot dog stand, the exit sign in Sugar Rush, and a million other places that I can't remember right now.
Little did I know how awesome this place would be when I first saw that sign.
I don't always like some of the American stereotypes, but I can't deny that they started for a reason.
I never understood why this section of the boardwalk was called "Dipper."
I wish I'd gotten to ride those rollercoasters.
Doesn't that "FREE REFILL" text look a bit like the Wreck-it Ralph logo?
I never did find out what that place sold.
At first the arcade we found later had the usual lame games - the ones where there's moving parts besides the controls, and you try to win some impossibly valuable prize or a bunch of tickets.
Why did Atari use those funky 1P/2P start buttons?
This is a really bad picture of me being really good at Asteroids.
You probably can't tell from the picture, but for some reason, the ship's bullets/pulses/shots look like these indescribable lights that are brighter than everything else and fly across the screen.
Hmm....last I played this game, I sucked at it. Not so much this time around.
Those initials (mine) later appeared on 3 other games.
A better picture of the text.
Even though I kind of got there by default, 9310 isn't too bad a score.
Awesome side art!
I played a multigame thing there too. Sorry, couldn't resist. I only played Berzerk and Mr. DO! on it.
Yes!
Another game with LRB standing on the board.
Dang, that guy PAR above me is good...so said many a golfer.
Mr. DO! is a favorite game of mine and my dad's.
I'm pretty good at it, I'd say.
Game over before reaching the intermission? That's unusually bad for me.
Oh well, I made first place anyway.
LRB strikes again.
AWESOME! THEY HAD BURGERTIME!
Still got the coin door art on it!
And it's not even a conversion - it's a dedicated machine, with the Peter Pepper cutout-thing!
Get ready, me...
Hey, that went a lot better than it does on Vizzed.
Oh man, it's this level, I never beat this level!
This is going pretty far without using a pepper-spray for me.
Dang it! It was gonna happen sometime...(notice I have 7 peppers!)
Hey, at least I made it to level 3.
NO! That was my last life! Hey, I got a pretty good score...
Yes!
Now to scroll to 'END....'
I love the noise it makes while he does that little dance.
LRB on yet another game, oh yeah!
Things are not as they seem here...
Yes! I got to the intermission! (That sure is a funny-lookin' ghost...)
I'm usually much better at Pac-Man...hey, a high score's a high score.
Plot twist! I was playing Pac-Man Plus, the "exciting new" lame, unauthorized Bally Midway "upgrade" kit for Pac-Man. It makes the game do all sorts of crazy stuff that no one would expect. The ghosts in blue form look different, there are new "fruits," the ghosts have new, harder behaviors, the maze is a different color, and I think the Pac-Dots are too. Like when you get a Power Pellet, sometimes only 3 ghosts will change, sometimes they'll turn invisible, sometimes the maze will turn invisible, all sorts of scams. I really only played it because 1. I didn't think it would be too different from regular Pac-Man which I am awesome at, and 2. I'm not sure, but I think Pac-Man Plus might be a rare-ish game. Someone from KLOV or wherever, please inform me on this.
Yay, someone finally chooses Marble Madness - Dad!


Here's a short video of him playing it.
The marquee looks so cool. I wonder whether this or Scramble came first, 'cause one of them is stealing the other's font.

I didn't know Marble Madness used trackballs, much less awesome lit-up ones.
Yeah, my dad's good at old arcade games too. Unlike me though, he got a long time to practice.
He's #5, DAV. I guess he decided to try to use his name instead of his initials.
Guess what other unlicensed Bally Midway Pac-Man game they had (Pac-Man Plus being the first)?
Nope...not gonna play you...

...Unless Dad does.
He got pretty far - this is the 3rd intermission, and it played like a whole bunch of times until Game Over.
He said himself that he'd never gone this far before as a kid.
As he got deeper and deeper into the far-off levels, more of my brothers started watching.
Seriously, he literally got more and more points by the second. No, faster than that.

As you can see, he's pretty good. This is actually one of his worst runs of any maze that playthrough, seeing as he lost a life.
He got so far, the ghosts didn't even bother to turn blue most times when he ate a Power Pellet.
By the time he got game over, his score was 134,280. I wonder if that's a record of any kind. Unfortunately, he later whacked the coin door because it wouldn't acknowledge that one of my brothers had put in a coin, and not only did it give back the coin like he said it would, but the whole machine reset and did the startup RAM/ROM checkthing where a buncha random stuff goes by. Needless to say,his score was gone. My brother set the new high score afterwards.
So that's it for part two. Next episode: Redtro Robin and wRapping Things Up