I remember 1942, but don’t think I was any good at it. Don’t remember that other one. There was a kid who was bonkers amazing at arcade games when I was growing up. He had the high score on probably about 20 different games that were so high no one even got close. He was definitely the Donkey Kong guy there, and that was probably his best game. I found that game so boring that I didn’t even bother to watch him. It was great when they used to have arcade games at grocery stores.
Another fun game was Mat Mania. It was quite hard as you moved up. My strategy was to throw the other wrestler of the ring, slam them into the post until it knocked them out and get them disqualified for being out of the ring too long.
Oh, Karate Champ master move was the reverse punch. Wait until they’re on you, and launch it. Timed right full point every time. The problem is that you can run out of time if the opponent is too scared to approach you at the really deep levels.
X-Men: Children of the Atom. Get the timing right on the selection screen and you played as Akuma from Street Fighter, but if you fked up the timing, you got Silver Samurai, worst character in the game if you don’t count Akuma.
Looks like The Gardens casino is about 15 mins from my new place in Seal Beach. Gonna finish my cocktail and roll into their daily $115 an hour late and school some regs. Probably need to change out of my 2006 Pokerstars rugby jersey (great shirt) and try to find some fish clothes. Perhaps a button up sweater vest?
Yup, reverse punch was my go to move in Karate Champ as well. Unbeatable if I could get it off.
The game I could always spend hours playing was Q*Bert. I found one at the Pinball HOF in Vegas a few years ago, had a two-hour plus game where I just obliterated whatever the high score was.
My wife’s game is Ms. Pacman. She said her high score is in the 900,000s.
My favorite game for Playstation was the Crash Bandicoot series. Never could get the full mastery of the entire extra percentages but got close (even beat some of the developer scores like in the level where you’d ride the polar bear in a time trial). I needed the books to know how to find stuff, but some of the moves you had to do in that game were insane and it didn’t matter that you knew where stuff was if you couldn’t execute the moves.
There was one nearly impossible level in the first game where you had to go back to the beginning of it any time you died. In the second game they added check points, because I think it took me like 7 days to solve that one level because of one nearly impossible jump you had to make.
Soulcalibre for me. Back in the days when pipe tobacco and exotic camels were cool.
I also tirelessly practiced each fighting move from Street Fighter as soon as a good home port was available, which turned into a sequence of moves/kata I can still perform to this day…
I guess I’m laying down the gauntlet for anyone to share a nerdier (or sadder lol) story.
If you guys aren’t aware, Raspberry Pis can emulate just about every video game system up to and including most N64 games. You can get set up for ~$100 and download rooms from the interwebs.
I’ve got one set up and it’s great for nostalgia purposes, throwing on some Super Nintendo or Mega Drive games on demand.
Fucking Battle Toads vs Double Dragons has got to be the hardest game ever.
That’d be great for some of the well made Disney games that are fun but you can beat in under an hour.
I’m thinking about Aladdin for the SNES mainly. There was another Mickey game for the SNES that was similar. Star Fox fits the description as well tho, I used to beat that after I got home from school and was done by 4:30.
