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should i give detective layton another shot
#thinking out loud#i tried it many years ago but felt the puzzles got a bit repetitive#i also haven't played any of the ace attorney games after dual destinies#only spirit of justice and great aa chronicles have had worldwide releases#dual destinies only had a digital release though so i don't know about the others#and 3ds eshop is gone now#which is why i'm thinking about detective layton bc it's on nds
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fuck it since the 3ds eshop has shut down, i'm drawing taranza and susie. Planet Robobot and Triple Deluxe will ALWAYS have a spot in my heart.
#like honestly im upset that the 3ds eshop is gone now because like.... there's so many things on there that could be lost#and it's fucking upsetting. :(
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Haaaa… I’m fucked 🙃 so I’ve been trying for the past few hours to buy all dlc for fire emblem fates, played through chapter 6, calculated the cost of all dlc… then that’s when hell started. I spent like 2 hours or so figuring out my Nintendo network ID, passwords and whatnot; I even went on my old Wii U to check my ID and stuff. Then I worked on linking all of my systems together… then I merged funds… now, my funds aren’t showing up on my 3DS. It shows on my switch and on the my Nintendo website… I hope by tomorrow, the funds show up on my 3DS before 5pm cuz that’s when the eshop closes and I’ll be hella fucking sad if I can’t even buy fe fates revelations… this is what I get for procrastinating and overthinking shit
#if I had my license I would’ve gone to the closes like target or something and gotten an eshop gift card#doing this through a gift card woulda made all of this so much easier tbh…#if I had another 3DS then I would figure out how to mod it but I’m scared to mod my personal 3DS…#regardless… now I’m down 50 dollars and it’s stuck on my Nintendo Account cuz they don’t do refunds or whatever 🙃……..#wish me luck please and hope things go well by tomorrow and I can get all fe fates dlc 🤞🏼#jazz uses curse! 💜
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I just found out my 3DS was an ambassador console. Huh. Bought it for like 50 ~ 100€ from my brother's best friend when it was maybe a year old.
Little me had taste it seems.
#3DS#and i thought he just bought a lot of old games from the Eshop#but nope#got them for free#because he bought it before the price was lowered by 100€#anyway t'is really cool because i had zelda Minish Cap and FE 8 to play on my 3DS#along with a lot of other games but i never downloaded them so they are far gone now#but im pretty sure i still have the other two
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hiiii 3DS tour!!!!
from the day i first got it, i knew to name it Happiness..... nothing deep about it i just wanted to say "my mom took my Happiness away for exam week :("
a bit of a reveal but i'm the anxious sticker placer anon haha it's still plain to this day if not for a few scratches (a lot actually but it's not that noticeable, right? qwq)
the barcode and numbers are super faded i can't read them!! plus the scratches are much more noticeable, im not sure where most of them came from but i remember one of them is when i accidentally dropped a screwdriver on it oops
the cartridge is pokemon black 2!! i've had this game before Happiness. yup i have a metallic rose DS lite that's sooo busted up, (well i had a coral pink DS lite before that but i got mugged when i was like 7 years old and it's gone which is a story for another time)
anyway, metallic rose had dead pixels that spread like some fungus, L button didnt work at all, buttons feel gross to press now, etc yknow normal 7 year old not knowing the value of things thing
i'd send a picture but it's back at my old house, pray that the spiders know how to play dig dig dug
:D i'm very normal about cyrus pokemon i swear
if you check my theme plaza account you can see i also made one (1) batch of badges which is hunter x hunter badges as you can see from the folders, i'm also very normal about hunter x hunter i swear
i wanted to lay everything out without folders and arrange everything pretty but it's so hard how do all of you do it qwq
gon folder (top left folder) are my 3DS gaammeess, i haven't played some of them bc i still got a lot of games to finish but they're there!!
frens (i didnt make the badges other than the hunter x hunter ones btw!)
killua folder (top right folder) contains DS... well used to, now it holds other games! i also haven't played most of them im so busy qwq
i deleted the shortcuts for the DS games i finished, also it took me way too long how to inject GBA and other games into 3DS
kurapika folder (bottom left folder) contains videos and movies! i figured out how to convert them but it's so hard to find download links to the movies i like now :(
also did you know the first 3 volumes of hunter x hunter are on the japanese eshop? i can't read japanese but i keep them because i like the novelty of it
leorio folder (bottom right folder) is my homebrew and miscellaneous stuffs! self-explanatory -w-
if you have any homebrew stuffs you wanna recommend, tell meee
eek, asks only allows 10 pictures apparently so i'm gonna send another one because we're not done yet!!!!
Happiness is so awesome the crows wants an encore so i shall deliver ohoo
activity log :D i love that the 3DS has this so we can all look back on memories and such
and that's the day when i first got Happiness!!!! i was pretty late to the 3DS party but i stiiiillll love it if you couldn't tell i really love pokemon and that's why i wanted a 3DS so bad lol i don't think i will ever be as excited as i was holding Happiness in my hands for the first time qwq
yknow, i still don't know how this happened
and that's all from meee if you have any questions or wanna tell me something, go to my ask box because i don't wanna clog up three-dee-ess's notifs!! thank you for having me
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galaxy style n3DSXL
thank you so much for the tour >:3c I loved reading through all of it! In depth tours like this are super interesting to me so thank you for sharing!! it makes me really happy.
I'll need to find my red 3DS again so I can share my own stats, since my grey one I use to mostly play puzzle game titles like picross, not any like, RPGs.
#3ds post#long post#galaxy n3dsxl#asks#3ds inspo#cfw#i love all of the custom badges btw. very cool :3c
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Physical or digital media?
I would be a 100% physical media person if I could help it.
There are too many stories of games getting delisted for licensing or whatever. A developer pays for a celebrity likeness or a top 40 song or a specific model of car and five years later, whoops! The rights expired! The game goes poof. It's like it never existed. Doesn't matter how good or bad the game was.
And keep in mind, even a bad game is going to be somebody's favorite, and they deserve a way to still experience it.
If you have a disc, that disc is forever (within reason). If it's a digital game, it gets deleted from that reality. Literally deleted. I bought Forza Horizon 3 on PC a few years ago because Microsoft had the foresight to warn people when it was getting delisted. And thankfully, the servers are still up, and Microsoft says they are, at least for now, committed to letting you redownload delisted games that you paid for.
But that won't always be the case, and it's already happening that some games can permanently disappear. The Wii Shop Channel is gone now. All those Virtual Console games, all those WiiWare titles, if you missed your shot to download it from Nintendo, it's gone now. Doesn't matter how much you paid. If you connect that console to the internet all you'll have is an error message. The clock is also ticking on the 3DS and Wii U eShops, which are slated to close at the end of this month.
Stadia, in its entirety, is gone. Most (not all) of those games are available on other platforms... but if you bought it on Stadia, you will have to buy it again somewhere else, and hope that one day, that too does not also go down.
There are always gestures of preservation efforts made by the community. And I'm thankful for those. The Wii Shop Channel is gone, but all of those games have been backed up by pirates years ago. Believe me, I'm no stranger to the methods used to play games like Castlevania ReBirth or Fast Racing League, which died on the Wii Shop and have never been ported anywhere else to this day.
But there are a lot of assumptions made in things like that which may not have practical solutions. Like, how many of you reading this blog have ever tried to emulate an original Xbox game on the PC? Microsoft only lets you access a small percentage of the Xbox library through their official backwards compatibility, but what if you want to venture outside of that?
It's not an easy process. Compatibility is a mess, system requirements are all over the place, and you have to get very specific dumps to even get the games to boot at all, assuming they can actually run. Yes, the data has been preserved, but it's not worth much when you can't do anything with it or need to spend $1500 on a PC good enough to run the emulation software.
It will always be easier to own the disc and throw it in the original hardware. A lot of Sega Saturn emulation still isn't an especially easy thing to run smoothly unless you have an above average gaming PC. I'd have to spend at least $300-$400 just to upgrade my system's CPU, but a couple years ago I spent $110 on a RetroTink2x Pro and I can hook my real hardware up to that just fine.
But even that's becoming it's own problem, because all of the greasy collectors have been moving in for years now and driving prices up on even the cheapest, most recent trash. The aftermarket is all but disappearing -- up through the launch of the PS4, it used to be you could find PS2 games for pennies. Now used prices seem to stay pretty much lock step with retailer MSRP (that's the price you pay for brand new shrinkwrapped games, kids). You might be lucky to find newer games on Ebay for a couple bucks off, but it's not like it used to be.
There are more and more and more stories about grifters like WATA coming in and "officially grading" retro games to be fake collector's items, leading to awful headlines like a copy of Super Mario 64, one of the most ubiquitous and common N64 games ever made, selling for a million dollars. That's like selling a bucket of tap water for a million dollars.
Buying physical is becoming a landmine because it's feeling like if you wait too long then you're at the mercy of scalpers and grifters and "collectors" who think they can throw a loose cart of Super Mario 64 up on Ebay and get $50-$70 for it.
A part of me wants to slap on a tinfoil hat and say that this was a plan. Ten years ago, the used games market was the enemy for a corporation like Microsoft, because it was a method to get dirt cheap games without any of that money going to them.
And though they backed off from that after it publicly damaged the Xbox brand, they are still pushing very, very, very hard to move everything to digital where the used games market does not exist. The next generation of Xbox after the one we're on right now probably won't come with a disc drive at all for how much they push the all-digital Series S in the marketing.
How do you hurry that along? Turn the used games market in to "the collector's market" where those old games like Halo 2 are much more expensive and much less convenient than just buying a digital copy of The Master Chief Collection for $20 on the Xbox Store.
And make no mistake, it is more convenient. Speaking as someone who has moved into smaller and smaller spaces over the last seven years, there comes a very real moment where you have to get rid of pieces of your life. Being able to plug a single box in and have my 18 year old Steam account with 1500+ games certainly seems a lot more comforting on the surface than having to lug five tubs of plastic cartridges and game discs around everywhere I go.
But what if the unthinkable happens, and Steam shuts down some day? I cannot reliably back up 1500 PC games. What if it gets stolen tomorrow and I can't get access back? Is convenient always better? Like, yeah, somebody could break in and steal my retro games, too, but that's a lot harder to do than breaking into my Steam account.
And this isn't even touching on the complications of ownership rights, and how certain businesses are trying to redefine what it means to be a "service" because that allows them to bypass the ownership laws meant to protect people like you and me.
The reality is, because of space, price, and availability concerns, I only really buy physical games if they're meaningfully important to me. And if they're important to me to own on a disc, I usually end up buying them digitally too, just for the convenience of digital. The Xbox 4 might not have a disc drive but I'll still be able to play the digital copy of Sonic Unleashed on it some day, while also being able to pop that same disc in my old 360, assuming it still works.
There are forces at work here and as always their goals are to take more and more and more of our money away from us. They have discovered a lot of great ways to do that. Buying physical is getting to be almost a matter of protest at this point.
#questions#anonymous#physical#digital#xbox#microsoft#gamepass#collectors#WATA#insane ramblings or perhaps the truth
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really gonna miss the 3ds n all the stuff it had . i haven't had mine for long ( got it secondhand from a friend of mine like 2 years ago ) but i got it just in time to see the eshop go down , and now online ( w/ exception of poke bank but who knows how much longer than one will last ) + badge arcade ... ik pretendo exists , and other ways to digitally get games but its just not the same
pretendo does exist n i will always be the biggest advocate for hacking ur 3ds but like. a kid getting their first 3ds used off facebook marketplace or whatever isnt going to be able to do that. the general public is not going to even consider hacking their 3ds and thats fine thats literally fine hacking ur system is a very online thing but its so sad bc it means all this super fun stuff is just completely gone for so many ppl for no reason. it sucks :(
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it is so concerning that the only way to transfer pokemon from the ds/3ds games to the switch games is via an online service. it's not likely to be going down anytime soon- it survived the eshop closure, after all (as long as you have it downloaded- your reminder now to make sure you have pokebank on your 3ds before march) but it won't be around forever. at some point that functionality will be gone. hopefully by then nintendo will have moved onto their next console and switch hacking becomes more accessible so folks can make PKSM-like software to serve in pokebank's place
#like look at gen 3 to 4. you just put the carts in the same ds.#gen 4 to 5 requires 2 ds's but its also offline and doesnt require anything but the carts and systems to play em#and pokemon transfer for 5 to 6 iirc doesnt need internet either..? i think?
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Yeah, actually! I had a lot of special ones! There was the Lilligant I trained up back in Gen 6 that turned out really strong, and was a ton of fun to use. There was the dumb Adamant Alakazam that was the first Pokemon I raised to level 100 back in Platinum. My Meloetta and Diancie, which I admittedly never got to use because event legends are handled like absolute shit. There was the shiny Celebi I got from the Crystal release on 3DS eshop. There were my shiny Ultra Beasts, the Roserade I first bred Hidden Power Fire to in Gen 6 with max possible IVs for the skill, and so many monotype teams I built back when I was really into competitive. Not to mention, the Eeveelutions I used to make top 100 in the old Eevee Friendly tournament. And yeah, I'd love to battle with you any of them, but...they're gone. All gone. Bank decided that after two generations it was going back on its promise to be the forever means of preserving your teams, and instead of $5 a year for storage, it was now $10, and also the $20 for the system that already connects to internet to actually use it, and I couldn't justify that kind of nickel and dime bullshit from a company backsliding so pitifully. So when Dexit hit, there was just nowhere for them to go. They're gone, Nate. I reset those games, and the old PowerSaves data was on a computer that died. They're all gone now, and with them, all memory of their existence. Less than dead, they never were, Nate.
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A few weeks ago you planted an idea on my brain by claiming that this game was gonna go up in price like crazy, which I actually saw starting to happen, but was able to find a "good deal" and bought it for around the suggested MSRP of $40 so congrats for making me spend more money than any youtube ad ever did.
Now I really hope this doesn't have any game breaking bugs that would be fixed by downloading a patch from the 3DS eshop...
AMERICAN COPIES ARE LITERALLY $90 LMAO it's gone up $30 since I last saw. Like I said it's the last mario game for the 3ds and it sold like hot garbage so this game is easily going to go up in price within a few years
The English Asian copies even went up $10 :( absolutely absurd. Exclusive 3ds games are at $40-50 wtf
Everyone go buy mario and Luigi bowser's inside story for the 3ds
#I love when people take my advice ❤️#I scream into the void amd very rarely it scream back#mlarayoukasks#Non anon
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Here’s my note before I’ll get started….
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On This Day - Mar. 22nd, 2016
Note: Before we begin, just a reminder to everyone within 5 days of Nintendo Eshop for Wii U and 3DS’s closure. Even for me that I decided to get a heads up to find any games on my 2DS system I can afford. I had to pick just one though; especially hoping to have less space for my previous SD card can take it. What that being said, I’ll be showing what game that I’ve purchased from last week; another time.
Anyways, here’s a throwback where I experienced my moment after finally getting this card from 7-Eleven store; though while I’m in the bus trip during school days. It’s for having to purchased DLC content for my Super Smash Bros 3DS game that I eventually (almost) had them all. Those were the good days while using my original 3DS system; though unfortunately had little to save in transfer the data to another system. 😔
There was an accident months later that I’ve happened to posted on DeviantArt; via journal entire.
I’m so sorry to everyone that it happened; let alone deleted my original data included purchased DLC fighters for 3DS game. Man, that really takes me back as well….and my feelings.
At least afterwards that I got with my 2DS system to make up for this, but wondering if I can purchased back the DLC content for Smash 3DS to save? Hard to tell; especially now with Super Smash Bros Ultimate had all previous DLC fighters joining roster. Also, they’re unlockable without even to purchase them; which I’m referring to Mewtwo, Lucas, Roy, Ryu, Cloud, Corrin, and Bayonetta.
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#on this day#on this day post#tumblr exclusive#photos#pics#nintendo#nintendo 3ds#eshop card#super smash bros#super smash bros for 3ds#throwback#etc.#march 2023#march 22nd 2023
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This is a small fic about the ending of the 3DS era with N included, and since I'm sad you all have to be sad too. TW: Major/Referenced Character Death
He sits, perched up in his icon. It's a Pokemon Black icon, the first one, the game the owner had longer forgotten within the cartridge slot. The screen was flipped on and up, but the screen was dull and darkened. But just over the screen horizon, he could see them.
The owner of the 3DS he lives within, and the kid he grew up along side. Oh did he miss those fun days when you were merely just a small child, the way your Pokemon would have god awful movesets, the way you struggled so hard against the elite four, and then him. What he would give to go back and experience it all over again, but he's already long forgotten.
Dust has already pulled up on his hair, stiff and forgotten. His normally white shirt now a full grey colour due to how much dust he has collected over these years, there's even dust piling up onto his lashes. It's times like these that he wonders that if he'll even be remembered for the years to come, not that he'll be around to know.
He looks up, humming to the theme of your custom 3DS wallpaper. He remembers how happy you were when you got it, the way your eyes lit up and your childish smile rose, it was such a long time ago....
If he stretches just that tiny bit further, he can see what you are doing, but just faintly. You're playing on the new console, the switch if he remembers correctly? Maybe you're playing the new Pokemon games like sword and shield, or the new one that just came out, or maybe you're playing a different game as a whole! He wouldn't know, he can't look that far.
He looks to his side, the other discarded and forgotten games. The demos of the games you used to play all sitting there, untouched, covered with a thick layer of dust.... Forgotten just as he was.
It's times like these he wishes he wasn't just a video game character made for your enjoy, to challenge your abilities, but a human. A human with a fully fleshed life, one not predicted out for him, choices he could make on his own, and maybe if he reached out just that little bit further maybe he could-
He retracted his hand, bringing up to his face. He didn't notice the waterfall of tears pouring out of his face unnaturally, he was never a pretty crier, but he expression of solitude and monochrome never faded. He doesn't have the energy to be expressionate anymore, he hasn't in years.
His throat was sore and coarse, just sandpaper rubbing against each other, he stopped speaking to himself years ago because of it. Now only the littlest of words would cause him great pain.
He looks behind himself, the old icons you so very much disregarded, well all but the Eshop. But as he can see with his very own eyes, it was dying.
He knew that once that had died, he'll follow suit. He knows he should be upset, he should be screaming and banging on that screen to let him out, to let him be a real person again. But he already did that the first time around, it didn't change his outcome.
He counts.
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It's gone, the shop he watched you search and search for fun free games is now gone, forever. He looks back to the screen, hoping just this one last time that you'd even slightly turn your way to the screen and be sad that it's now permanently gone.
But you showed nothing.
For the first time, in such a long while, he showed pure emotion on his face. His face contorted, eyebrows fluxed and mouth slightly agape, he was in complete and utter sorrow.
"Please! I don't want to do this anymore please!"
His throat hurt, it scratched like all hell, it felt like it was bleeding, but he didn't care.
The sound of beeping tore a gasp from his ruined throat, he looks over in shock, the battery is finally dying after all this time. No, no, no, not now! He couldn't let this happen! He can't just die like this!
"PLEASE! IM SORRY! I'LL DO ANYTHING! I DON'T WANT TO GO!"
The beeping got loud, his breathes were laboured as he struggled to breathe.
"𝙋𝙇𝙀𝘼𝙎𝙀!-"
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The screen snaps to black, it's dawn of a new era for consoles.
#n harmonia#natural harmonia gropius#n pokemon#pokemon n#pokemon#unova#Im just really fucking sad right now i needed to push it all into something#which created this lovely fic#hope yall are as sad as i am
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It a Sad Day that Yesterday Nintendo Decided to Shut Down the eShop for Wii U & 3DS Forever and the Games That only Came Out on those Platforms are Sadly Gone Now.
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GameStop may have its issues but you know what it hasn’t done? Raised the price for 3DS games.
I walked in today and a family just traded in a whole stack of 3DS games and I was lucky to look through them. Got some great games for their original price. Azran Legacy for $30 and Dragon Quest 8 3DS version for $45.
Now, is it unfortunate that the prices for these games hasn’t gone down in recent year? Yes but in this specific case I’m okay with it because at least the prices hasn’t gone up. Azran Legacy complete in box for only 30 dollars is unheard of nowadays! That game alone is around the $170 - $300 range on EBay! Same for Dragon Quest 8!
I’ll gladly take both for $75 than having to spend upwards of $600.
It’s rare to find 3DS games at a GameStop nowadays (especially when people are clearing out the shelves before the eshop closes) but always be sure to ask if any has come into your store! You’ll sometimes be surprised what you can get for standard retail price instead of having to spend hundreds online!
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Break Thru
Developed/Published by: Data East Released: 1986 Completed: 18/04/2023 Completion: Got to the end by feeding credits. Version Played: Retro Classix / MAME Trophies / Achievements: n/a
Stop! Before you read this, you should know that you can only order a physical exp. 2601 from my ko-fi shop until May 1st! Remember, as a subscriber, you get 35% off instantly!
You may have seen recently that the “Retro Classix” line of Data East re-issues, available on GOG and Steam, are being delisted at the end of April, and wondered “should I get those before they’re gone?” Well, I’m here to answer this, because I took a cursory look at them, downloaded the one that I think is earliest in the Data East chronology (Express Raider might be earlier?) and gave it a shot.
No. You don’t want to get any of them. Break Thru is probably the worst retro release I’ve ever played! To be clear, I’m not talking about the quality of the original game (which I’ll get to–it’s no great shakes, but it’s not the worst I’ve ever played) but the release, which is bare-bones to the extreme. Buy this and you get the arcade rom… and a 3D arcade wrapper that makes it feel like you’re playing it in Grand Theft Auto 3. You can, thankfully, turn that off, but what you can’t turn off is terrible smeary graphic smoothing, and you–at best–have to mitigate it by also using the included CRT filter. Now, I’m not a fan of “perfect pixel”–I prefer even a weak attempt at a CRT filter, usually–but the one here is nasty (maybe even worse than the Astro City Mini) with horrible curvature and a general dullness.
And that’s… it. There’s no save states, no dip switches or settings, nothing else. You'd be better off being handed a zip file with the rom in it.
I’m not entirely sure of the provenance of this series of Data East reissues. Before the Retro Classix line these were all included in the similarly weird “Johnny Turbo’s Arcade” series for Nintendo Switch, which all seem to have been yanked from the eShop at the end of October 2023 (which is after the Retro Classix versions were put on sale.) I assume that whoever has the Data East rights has been selling them off cheaply but with limited and non-exclusive rights, which is why you get things as tossed off as this, but it’s interesting to note that the Johnny Turbo’s Arcade releases managed to have better graphical options and save states, so they at least did the bare minimum.
(Though it gets odder. The Retro Classix versions were also on sale on Switch until November 2023, from the same publisher as the Johnny Turbo’s Arcade series, “Golem Entertainment” though they all have the same crappy emulator wrapper as this release, even though the at least slightly better Johnny Turbo’s Arcade versions were already there. Confusing!)
Anyway. You now know to let the Retro Classix line go off gently into that good night in the hope that the next suckers to buy a job lot of Data East releases goes to the effort of putting them out nicely (I’m looking at you, Digital Eclipse). But should you play Break Thru anyway? The answer to that is… also no!
Gradius was released in early 1985 and set the benchmark, and this doesn’t even reach the lofty heights of Sega Ninja. A side-scrolling shooter with five levels, the “twist” here is that you’re driving a car, though the stand-out thing about the car is that it does two things that cars don’t normally do: it shoots bullets and it can jump, awkwardly, into the air. The latter quirk is supposed to be the highlight–as you now have to leap over obstacles, and can even leap to land your car on enemies and squash them.
There’s one power-up (a three way shot that’s generally on a timer, but sometimes it isn’t) and a small number of enemies. Shockingly, there are no bosses.
The thing about Break Thru, really, is that it… sucks. There’s little to no variety, the enemies don’t do anything much (only a few have interesting attack patterns) and the controls feels so bad that I actually had to test this release against the MAME release just to make sure the emulation wasn’t fucked up here. I mean, to be fair, the emulation could be fucked up on MAME as well, but the car in Break Thru controls horribly. You can speed up, but it feels like it makes everything on the screen speed up, and there’s no sense of friction. You get the idea–that you’re supposed to speed up to dodge bullets or enemies–but it just doesn’t seem to work.
In fact, once you know the levels, the majority of Break Thru is absolutely trivial, with the only speed bumps the few enemies that you only seem to survive randomly. There’s a helicopter that I couldn’t kill that you just need to be lucky to leap past, and a gauntlet of small tanks in the final level that almost goes full bullet hell.
I guess there’s actually a wee animation at the end to make this feel worth beating, but without a final boss or anything it feels wildly anti-climactic. Everything about this, really, is just very, very bad.
Will I ever play it again? If there really is a Digital Eclipse Data East collection I’ll boot it up… once.
Final Thought: Something else a bit strange: there were 17 Johnny Turbo’s Arcade releases, but only 12 “Retro Classix” releases, which is why I picked up Break Thru and not Shoot Out (I think the earliest of the Johnny Turbo releases.) I have spent too long thinking about this!!!
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#gaming#video games#games#txt#text#review#arcade#break thru#retro classix: break thru#retro classix#data east#1986
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Weird 2DS stuff
So I decided to buy a 2DS XL since it has the "new" 3DS(why did they name it that?) system & get everything setup before the eshop closes in March. I've probably made some mistakes while transferring so I'm likely losing my save files again but at least it's a bigger screen & I got it out of the way. I'm currently re-downloading all my games & I'm finding some stuff out that annoys me. Mostly the fact that Animal Crossing New Leaf is gone from the eshop. The update to make it be Welcome Amiibo is there & obviously the Welcome Amiibo version is there but not the original one. I think what annoys me the most is that I have to pay for Welcome Amiibo when I was hoping I could buy the 3DS remake/port of Luigi's Mansion. I kind of wish because I got the original New Leaf I could be eligible for the eshop to think I bought Welcome Amiibo. I know it's stupid & I shouldn't complain but the eshop is closing in March, I have to rebuy a game I already own, the eshop is already letting me download games I bought before & the only things left of New Leaf are the update & the version of the game that already has the update that I now have to buy cause they removed the original. Something tells me I'm losing my save on there, I was going to restart anyway but I wanted to see it one last time. I think I’m mostly just upset cause some of my planning is on a tight budget & schedule Edit: I'm apparently to stupid to realize there's a redownload section
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