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I just got A-Emblem on Casinopolis... without using the Sewers! :D I managed to bag a Four of a Kind in NiGHTS Pinball, which gave me a silly number of rings. And I did it with that stupid "we're going to take you on a journey through Nightopia, not give you control of Sonic and go 'Ha-ha'" section ...

Having read the last few posts, and having fallen foul of bottomless pits more times than the average player, I think I have to agree there. Bottomless pits as an obstacle are okay, I guess, although it still seems like a bit of cheap way to die. Bottomless pits lining the course because the designe...

All this talk of Looney Tunes et al has got me thinking.

Why have I never seen or heard a comedy show that compared the president of France, Jaques Chirac, to Black Jaques Chirac of Looney Tunes fame? I know he's one of the more obscure LT villains, but even so...

I know that if I see anyone handing out leaflets, I go into immediate "Leaflet Avoidance Mode", which primarily involves me making sure that there's at least one other pedestrian between me and the nearest leaflet dispenser at all times. Then they get the leaflet, not me. It's not a sense of meannes...

I take it that's the American equivalent of Remembrance Day, then.

Yep, fair enough: a heck of a lot of people died to protect our ways of life. I wore my poppy :).

Popcorn wrote:I completely agree with this. Have you heard that in MGS3, you can 'heal' Snake by not playing the game for a few days?

Well, that's a surefire way to get people to play the game...

chriscaffee wrote:I got all 130 once. Was there even a point?

Depends whether you had SA or SADX. You get the minigames (one for every 20 Emblems or Missions) and Metal Sonic (all 130 Emblems) in SADX...

Overkill much (click the thumbnail to expand): http://img7.exs.cx/img7/5740/sadx1993.th.jpg I'd like to point out that the last 990 or so of those came off one set of pinballs: I thought to myself once I got to 999 "well, one last go for good measure"... and let's just say I did really rather well. ...

Baba O'Reily wrote:You, sir, fail at life and Sonic.

Well, at 19 I've got plenty of time for a resit at life, at least.

Crazy Penguin wrote:It'd be nice if Japanese kids didn't draw everything all the fucking same. The so called "anime/maga style".

"But dad, I want to draw Looney Tunes!"
"It's no good son, you're going to have to learn to draw anime/manga style like the rest of us. It's traditional."

Umm... Born: London, SE. England Lived: Manchester, NW. England Lived/Living in: Swansea, S. Wales Lived/Living in: Cambridge, SE. England Holidays: Umm... in no particular order: Various places in North Wales (for the railways) Various places in South Wales (Cardiff, Camarthen, and so on, for shopp...

You gotta love the APC. It carries infinite supplies of fuel and ammo. And can refuel bombers while they're flying!

... wait, what d'you mean only in Advance Wars?

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Reading that article, it appears to have been a genuine cock-up on the part of the Army Reserve Corps.

Currently, umm... somewhere in the 200-300 region (Emerald Coast) I think.

Should be fairly easy to whip up a ridiculous number of rings in Casinopolis though, I'm pretty good at those pinball zones.

And now comes the bizarre admission that I actually liked the "hunting, shooting and fishing" segments of SA1/SADX. This is mainly because I'm fairly useless as actually playing as Sonic: I either can't handle the pace and die horribly, or go far too slowly and die horribly (the lava segment in Red ...

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PRV wrote:Course, the hard part would be not alienating either the puzzler/shoot-em-up community by not striking the right balance, but I'm sure it could be done.

Ever heard of Ratchen and Clank?...or Jak(and Daxter) for that matter?

Point. So it probably could be done then.

Running pretty much in the face of what everyone else has said, but what I'd quite like to see is a proper Tails-related game. Not some silly adventure with evil witches in minecarts (honestly, how improbable a plotline was that?) or strange chicken things, but with the Doc as the main villain. Tail...

The Doc, I'd say, is the ultimate "stereotypical villain" in that, when it comes to all the traditional cliches (like having a "hideout" that stands out a mile, or leaving out little details, or just generally screwing up), but I wouldn't say he's the baddest of the bad. It's a little weird but my v...

Conversely, I think something like 10% of British people consider themselves 'sort of Christians if we can be bothered and went to Church with my mum once I think, possibly when I was six or seven'. I think the average Brit approach to other people's religions is "I don't mind what they do to be ho...

I think they're parodies. IIRC, I saw the first one on How Not To Run A Comic, which is designed as a parody site, so there. There are decent sprite comics out there, and I'm not just talking about 8-Bit Theatre. A recent one I spotted is Two Evil Scientists ( http://twoevilscientists.keenspace.com/...

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Shouting...

Shouting EVERYWHERE...

*shudder*

Zeta wrote:Someone needs to do a MASH comic strip based on Advance Wars.

With the YC Battle Copters (They actually do look like those MASH Korean War jobbies...)?

Me = Advance Wars nut. Particularly AW2. Fear the sheer insanity of a Sensei B-Copter spam! (You can get it to work, honest. You just need a fairly dumb opponent who won't build a silly number of AAs to thwart your plans. It really does the AI in...). Also I feel the MIDI background music is as good...

Baba O'Reily wrote:I think the topic creator is retarded.
But I did sing along to SA2.

It was gone 1am. Personally I'm rather fond of the Casino Night one, although I admit that the Emerald Hill one requires polishing.

Heck, I'm 19, and I haven't grown out of that sort of thing.