#capcom arcade stadium

[smbhax]

Ghosts 'n Goblins - in Capcom Arcade Stadium (PC/Steam)

Session: https://youtu.be/qfal2tfEKoQ

[dawniedrella]

SILLY-CODED

[the-monkey-ruler]

SonSon (1984) ソンソン

Date: June 1984 Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System / Arcade / Wii Shop Developer: Capcom / Micronics Publisher: Capcom / Romstar Incorporated Genre: Action / Platformer Theme: Fantasy Franchises: SonSon Aliases: SonSon / Son Son II / Capcom Generations / Capcom Generations 3: The First Generation / Strider 2 / Capcom Classics Collection / Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded / Minna to Capcom All-Stars / Rockman ×over / Capcom Arcade Cabinet / Street Fighter X All Capcom / Capcom Super League Online / Capcom Fighting Collection / Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium Type: Retelling / Crossover

Summary:

Son Son is Capcom's tribute to a Chinese legend called Xiyou Ji, meaning 'Journey to the West', considered to be one of the four classic pieces of Chinese literature. The main character in Xiyou Ji is Sun Wukong, or, when the words are pronounced as if they were Japanese kanji, Son Gokuu (hence the name Son Son).

All of Son Wukong's companions besides Zhu Bajie (Pigsy) are snatched by a demon and it's up to the two of them to chase after the demon and rescue them. The game auto-scrolls with multiple platform "tiers" and the player must switch between them and attack incoming enemies with their weapon. By switching tiers, the player can collect score items.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SonSon

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aI62ns_zTk&ab_channel=OldClassicRetroGaming

[shinigami-striker]

Mega Man Arcade | Monday, 04.10.2023

Did you know that @official-capcom released a few Mega Man fighting games (both Mega Man: The Power Battle and Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters) from the arcades to home consoles, including Rockman Battle & Fighters (2000), Mega Man Anniversary Collection (2004), Rockman Power Battle Fighters (2004), Retro Station Mini-Arcade (2020), Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium (2022), and Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection 2 (2022) through compilation re-releases?

[pixelgrotto]

Top-down Planes Galore

Over the last few years, thanks to my wife's English side of the family, I've visited a fair share of interesting British museums. One of these is the Shuttleworth Collection, a neat place that features an array of planes from the early half of the 20th century. If you're ever in Bedfordshire and have a hankering to see biplanes from the 1920s, I really can't recommend a visit enough. I wouldn't call myself an aviation geek, but there's something about seeing a World War II aircraft in person that stirred my imagination, and one of the souvenirs I bought from my visit was a cool pair of socks that had pixelated biplanes on them.

I specifically bought the socks because they reminded me of Capcom's 1942, the first entry in the 19XX series of shoot 'em ups, AKA shmups. Honestly, I hadn't played much of 1942 at the time, but I've always known enough about shmups to think of the game when I see pixelated biplanes. It probably stands out in my head as an interesting example of a Japanese company making a product where the whole goal is to blow up the Japanese. Yep, 1942 puts the player in the role of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning pilot maneuvering his aircraft through the skies of the Pacific Theater, on a mission to reach Tokyo and blast the heck out of everything. Apparently the game was made with Western audiences in mind, so I suppose we have capitalism to thank for a game that is both historically accurate and not historically accurate at all. (Yes, Japan lost the war, but I don't think any of the Lockheeds in the Battle of Midway had spray guns capable of shooting a billion bullets at once.)

I recently dove into 1942 and almost all of the other games in the 19XX series, mostly because I was inspired by my British nephew, who's recently been going on about planes for hours on end. You can play almost all of them via the Capcom Arcade Stadium compilations on Steam, which repackage classic arcade games and make them easily playable without the hassle of needing to fiddle with MAME emulation. (The decision to make each game DLC that you have to buy is probably questionable, but putting that aside, these packages are pretty okay.)

Anyway, I soon discovered that the original 1942 is the epitome of a 1980s arcade quarter gobbler, with a staggering 32 levels of monotony and some of the most annoyingly tinny background music known to man. It's fun to do loops around Japanese bombers for the first ten minutes, and I've always loved the power-up that gives you two flanking planes that help soak up extra damage, which would go on to be a series staple. Beyond that, 1942 grates at the soul and has not aged well.

1943: The Battle of Midway, and its slightly remixed semi-sequel 1943 Kai, are much better. Here, we bear witness to screen-filling tsunami attacks that can instantly wreck all enemies, a more forgiving difficulty level, and varied stages that don't consist of simply flying over the ocean and rice paddies. Everything's faster and a good deal more fun, and instead of solely taking down planes, now you've got boss battles against Imperial Japanese naval fleets, ending in a fight against the battleship Yamato. And thankfully, the tinny music is gone and replaced by battle-ready tracks that are nicely catchy.

This formula is refined even further in the later games, all of which loosen up on the feeling of "one American plane versus Japan" for a progressively zanier feel. 1941: Counter Attack ditches the Pacific Theater for firefights over European skies, and despite taking place in the earlier years of WWII, your pilot goes up against enemy crafts that are so extreme in size and flavor that they border on science fiction. You'll fire away at German rockets that look like they're designed to fly to the moon and tanks that take up a quarter of the screen. The end boss is a Horten Ho 229, the German prototype bomber that never went into mass production, yet is a formidable foe in this game that is sleek and almost alien-like in its movements.

19XX: The War Against Destiny takes that science fiction appeal to the maximum and says, "To hell with a historical shmup, let's go to the future with two X's, baby!" In an amusing move that would later be replicated by the Call of Duty series two decades later (when they jumped from WWII to the arena of Modern Warfare - and later Advanced Warfare), 19XX sees you taking on the Outer Limits, a terrorist organization that somehow has a futuristic army with hundreds of expendable fighter pilots. For the first time, you can choose between three different planes: the old school Lockheed P-38 Lightning (the well-balanced one), the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito (the heavy firepower one), and the Kyushu J7W Shinden (the speedy one). All of these planes are worthy options against enemies that scale in a ludicrous fashion, and one of the bosses in the later levels is basically a mech. It's great. And because the game runs on Capcom's CPS-2 arcade board, which also powered the Street Fighter Alpha/Zero series, the action is fast and clean to a degree that's very reminiscent of the company's fighting game output.

1944: The Loop Master is the last 19XX game I played, because it's the last one available in the Capcom Arcade Stadium. It takes the action back to WWII, but the gusto and fury of all the futuristic stuff exhibited in 19XX: The War Against Destiny is present and accounted for. Hello, my biplane can shoot lasers? Sure, why not! Technically, this one was developed by Eighting and not by Capcom, and all I know about Eighting is that they made the Bloody Roar games and Battle Garegga, another shmup with a cool soundtrack that samples the techno track "Jupiter Jazz," by Underground Resistance. They did a good job, and while 1943 and 19XX: The War Against Destiny stick out in my memory more than The Loop Master, I can safely say that this one features a little dude who parachutes out of your plane when you die. About time I finally saw my pilot!

Honestly, I'm not a great shmup player. I played all of these casually on my Steam Deck, and I never would've made a dent in them in the arcades. But there's something about the 19XX series that's appealing to me, at the very least on an aesthetic level. It's probably the highly detailed 2D pixelated artistry that goes into the top-down depiction of these warplanes, which are given the same slavish fanboyism that you see in Japanese mecha franchises. I think back to the several times I've visited Japan and been to antiwar exhibits like the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. Minus a few groups of nationalist nutjobs, Japan's by far and large a deeply antiwar country - but there do exist otaku who nerd out over WWII-era tech, usually not in a "the Imperial Japanese Army was right" sort of way, but in a way that basically says, "the Yamato was one of the biggest battleships ever constructed at 70,000+ tons, I shall now proceed to write an essay about why that was cool." And you know, I can appreciate that attention to technical detail, just like how I can respect the planes on exhibit in the Shuttleworth Collection. So give the 19XX games a whirl if you like planes or simply dig fine artistry - and go visit the Shuttleworth and buy those socks while you're at it.

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Xbox 360 XBLA titles without Xbox One /Series X Support, still available to buy!

Following our latest video on the Xbox 360 store shutdown, here is the full list of Xbox Live Arcade games still up to buy on the Xbox 360. If you haven't seen the video you can watch it below.

With the Xbox 360 store closing on the 29th of July, this list baring the odd error shows all the XBLA games in the United Kingdom Xbox 360 Marketplace Shop. That don't work on Xbox One or Series X and will be lost for good at the end of the month. Some have Xbox One releases, but many are Xbox 360 exclusive. Now the final price drop event on 360 is due to happen on the 16/17th of July.

It seems unlikely any DLC will get reduced so the expensive Samurai Warriors 2 Xtreme Legends DLC you will just have to pay through the nose for! If we get time we will try to cover on Demand Games and DLCs next week.

Note at present we are still notes games not all games with extra download content on XBLA are listed correctly yet same with Xbox One versions of some games. As we discussed in our previous videos using the website to buy content is next to impossible and we are buy content via the Xbox 360 in console store.

Warning as per our previous video about the problems we had with the Rabbids Invasions Season Pass. We advice users avoid season passes on the service most are broken.

Any mistakes or omissions please do let us know. Drop us an email, comment or send us a tweet. Also let us know about any Japanese, North America or other games not available in the UK on XBLA and still up and we will add them. If you are looking for games already delisted then visit the excellent website https://delistedgames.com/ for a full list.

XBLA Titles still available to buy on the digital store:

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A (12)

Abyss Odyssey

Alien Breed Episode 1 (On Xbox 360 retail disc in UK Alien Breed Trilogy)

Alien Breed 2: Assault (On Xbox 360 retail disc in UK Alien Breed Trilogy)

Alien Breed 3: Decent (On Xbox 360 retail disc in UK Alien Breed Trilogy)

Alien Rage

Alien Spidy {Has DLC}

Amy

Ancients of Ooga {Has DLC}

Anna - Extended Edition

Arkadian Warriors

Assault Heroes

Awesomenauts [Has Xbox One version] (Released on modern formats with more DLC)

B (18)

Backbreaker Vengeance

Bastion [Has Xbox One version]

Batman: The Telltale Series [Has Xbox One version] (Warning to all, there is a retail version, but this is a season pass disc, which only has the first episode on it and must download the other episode, after the shutdown you will only be able to play the first episode on them.)

Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - Deluxe Edition (Listed as Blackgate Deluxe Ed.)

Battle Academy

Battlezone

Bejeweled Blitz LIVE

Bionic Commando Rearmed (Listed as BionicCommando Rearmed)

Black Knight Sword

Blade Kitten

Blazing Birds

Bloody Good Time

Bomberman LIVE {Has DLC} (On Xbox 360 retail disc in Europe, but base game only, no DLC)

Boogie Bunnies

Boxing Fight

Brothers [Has Xbox One version]

Bubble Bobble Neo! {Has DLC}

Burnout Crash!

C (11)

Call of Duty Classic

Capsized

Charlie Murder

Child of Light

Choplifter HD {Has DLC}

Cloudberry Kingdom

Cobalt [Has Xbox One version]

Constant C

Crazy Machines Elements

CrazyMouse

Crimson Alliance {Has DLC}

D (18)

Darkstalkers Resurrection [Included games featured on Xbox One version of Capcom Stadium 2 & Capcom Fighting Collection]

Darts Vs Zombies

Deadliest Warrior Battlegrounds (Listed as DW: Battlegrounds)

Deadlight [Has Xbox One version]

Death Tank

DeathSpank

Deep Black - Episode 1 (Listed as Deep Black - Ep. 1)

Defenders of Ardania

Defense Technica

Diabolical Pitch

Dogfight 1942

Dollar Dash

Double Dragon II

Duke Nukem 3D [Has Xbox One version]

Dungeon Defenders {Has DLC}

Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale

Dust: An Elysian Tail (Only Xbox release, also on PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, PC)

Dustforce

E (3)

Ecco the Dolphin [Included on SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis Classics]

EXIT {Has DLC}

EXIT 2 {Has DLC}

F (12)

Fatal Fury Special (Not shown in A-Z listing has to be found using Bing search on console) [Has Xbox One version by Arcade Archive, but that lacks online play]

Fez (Only Xbox release, also on PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, PC)

Field Goal Contest

Final Exam

Fire Pro Wrestling

Fireburst

Freefall Racers

Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition

Frozen Free Fall: Snowball Fight {Has DLC}

Fruit Ninja Kinect {Has DLC}

Full House Poker {Has DLC, most is delisted}

Fusion Genesis

G (7)

Guilty Gear XX A Core Plus (Listed as GGXXACP in store, make sure to download the free DLC upgrade) {Has DLC}

Gel

Geon

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

Goosebumps: The Game

Gotham City Impostors {Has DLC}

Guncraft: Blocked and Loaded

H (9)

Happy Tree Friends

Haunt

Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit {Has DLC}

Hexodius

Home Run Stars

How to Survive [Has Xbox One version How to Survive: Storm Warning Edition]

Hunter's Trophy 2 - America

Hunter's Trophy 2 - Australia

Hybrid

I (1)

Ion Assault

J - All listed as Xbox One supported

K (2)

Kinect Fun Labs {Has DLC} (Not shown in A-Z listing has to be found using Bing search on console for both game and DLCs. Base game is listed as an add-on in store and can only be run via the Games & Apps page on the guide button, select recent then press RB twice for all and scroll down.)

Kinect Party - Base Game {Has DLC}

L (4)

Leedmees

Life Is Strange Episode 1 [Has Xbox One version] {Has DLC}

LocoCycle [Has Xbox One version] {Has free DLC, required to play game}

Lucidity

M (12)

Mark of the Ninja [Has Xbox One version Mark of the Ninja: Remastered]

Mars Rover Landing [Free Game for Kinect] (Not shown in A-Z listing has to be found using Bing search on console)

Marvel Puzzle Quest [Has Xbox One version] {Has DLC}

Masquerade The Baubles of Doom [Has Xbox One version]

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood

Meteos Wars

MicroBot

Mighty No. 9 (Has Xbox One version, but 360 doesn't have broken achievement) {Has DLC}

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (Outdated version released on all modern consoles) {Has DLC}

Minesweeper Flags

Mini Ninjas Adventures

Mortal Kombat Arcade

N (1)

Naughty Bear Panic in Paradise {Has DLC}

O - All listed as Xbox One supported

P (11)

Panzer General Allied Assault

Penalty Saver

Penny Arcade Episode 1

Penny Arcade Episode 2

Pinball FX2 [Has a now delsited Xbox One version, most table are on Pinball FX3 & FX4] {Has DLC}

Ping Pong

Prison Architect: Xbox 360 Edition [Has Xbox One version, 360 version is unfinished trash] {Has DLC}

Prize Driver

Puzzle Arcade {Has DLC}

Puzzle Bobble Live!

Puzzle Chronicles

Q - All listed as Xbox One / Series supported

R (15)

Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure! (Listed as Rainbow Islands: T.A.)

Raystorm HD (Only Xbox release, newer ports also on PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, PC, however this version includes content not on the newer ININ Games release)

Resident Evil Revelations 2 (Listed as RE Revelations 2) [Has Xbox 360 retail version] [Has Xbox One version] {Has DLC}

Reaction Rally

Red Johnson's Chronicles

Rekoil: Liberator

Renegade Ops {Has DLC}

Rez HD (Only Xbox release, newer Rez Infinite release on PS4, PS5 & PC)

Risk

Risk Urban Assault

Rocket Riot

RocketBowl

Rotastic

Rush'N Attack: Ex-Patriot

Rush'n Attack

S (22)

Sanctum 2 [Only console port, PC Steam version has more content] {Has DLC}

Schizoid

Sealife Safari

Section 8: Prejudice {Has DLC}

Ski Race

Skulls of the Shogun (Only Xbox release, also on PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, PC)

South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play!

South Park: Tenorman's Revenge

Space Channel 5 Part 5 (On Xbox 360 retail disc Dreamcast Collection America & Europe)

Space Invaders Extreme (Only Xbox release, also on PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, PC)

Spare Parts

Spyglass Board Games

Star Raiders

State of Decay [Has Xbox One version State of Decay: Year-One]

Storm

Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting (Listed as Street Fighter II' HF) [Included on Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection & Capcom Stadium for Xbox One]

Street Fighter III: Online Edition [Included on Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection for Xbox One]

Streets of Rage 2 [Included on SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis Classics & Sega Vintage Collection: Streets of Rage for Xbox One]

Strider [Has Xbox One version]

Super Time Force [Has Xbox One version]

Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (Listed as SuperStreetFighter2THD)

Syberia 2

T (18)

Takedown: Red Sabre

Tempest

Terraria - Xbox 360 Edition (Newer versions, more updated)

The Bluecoats - North vs South

The Bridge

The Dishwasher Dead Samurai (Listed as The Dishwasher)

The Dishwasher Vampire Smile (Listed as The Dishwasher: VS)

The Fancy Pants Adventures

The Path of Go

The Wolf Among Us {Has DLC}

Things on Wheels

Thunder Wolves

TiQal

TNT Racers

TotemBall

Track and Field

Trials Fusion {Has DLC}

Tron (Not shown in A-Z listing has to be found using Bing search on console)

Twisted Pixel Games Bundle (Bundle of games)

U - All listed as Xbox One / Series supported

V (3)

Valiant Hearts [Has Xbox One version]

Vigilante 8 Arcade

Voodoo Dice

W (15)

War World

Warlords (NB: Not to be confused with the 2012 release of Warlords on Xbox 360 which is a different game and is back catalogue support, this one is the original arcade & an evolved update.)

Warp

Watchmen The End is Nigh

Watchmen The End is Nigh Part 2

Way of the Dogg

Wik: Fable of Souls

Wing Commander Arena

Wits & Wagers

Worms {Has DLC}

Worms 2: Armageddon {Has DLC}

Worms Revolution {Has DLC}

Worms Ultimate Mayhem {Has DLC}

Wreckateer {Has DLC}

Wrecked Revenge Revisited {Has DLC}

X- No games now listed (RIP X-Men Arcade)

Y (5)

Yar's Revenge

Yie Ar Kung-Fu

Yo-Ho Kablammo

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels Plus {Has DLC}

Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium Duels {Has DLC}

Z (5)

Zeit 2

Zeno Clash 2

Zeno Clash Ultimate Edition (Listed as Zeno Clash UE)

Zombie Driver HD [Has Xbox One version]

Zombie Wranglers

0-9 Numbers (4)

0D Beat Drop

10 Frame Bowling

1942: Joint Strike

3 Point Contest

Japan Only XBLA Releases

Cyber Troopers Virtual-On

Virtua Striker

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[11thplace]

made a transparent of this airman plushie from this capcom arcade stadium artwork

[xbuster]

Why does the Capcom Arcade Stadium 2 menu music sound like it’s from Danganronpa

[geibuchan]

Have you ever played Darkstalkers?

Only recently through Capcom Arcade Stadium 2.

I'm not terribly good at traditional fighters, but I cleared the third one as Morrigan after some credits.

[everygame]

Ghosts ‘n Goblins (Arcade)

Developed/Published by: Capcom Released: 7/1985 Completed: 02/08/2022 Completion: Beat both loops (with save states and rewind, yeah.) Version Played: Capcom Arcade Stadium Trophies / Achievements: n/a

Super Mario Bros., released a scant few months after Ghosts ‘n Goblins, has undoubtedly the most famous opening of any platformer ever. I mean, you can visualise that first goomba encounter perfectly, can’t you? I mean, it’s probably taught in every class on level design you’ll ever sit through.

But Ghosts ‘n Goblins has to have, if not the second most famous opening of any platformer, certainly the second most burned-in opening of any game in the minds of anyone who has ever played it. You know it–the gravestones. The endlessly spawning zombies; the ladders that lead to that second level, and, of course, the Red Arremer that kills you.

I don’t believe, honestly, that before playing this through now, that I’ve ever personally seen Arthur past that Red Arremer, and I’m sure I’ve played this game (and I guess, all the sequels that all open basically exactly the same) tens of times. I actually only have one memory of ever seeing beyond that, and it’s so vague–still being in university, being somewhere that had a Ghosts ‘n Goblins machine (unusual) and an older student mentioning that he used to be “really good at it” and getting to the beginning of the second level and no further.

(I can’t remember if he ever claimed to be able to complete it. My brain wants to fill in details like he had access to the machine because his family owned a chip shop or something that had it, but I think I’m making that up entirely.)

Basically what I’m saying is: everyone these days is saying Dark Souls this and Dark Souls that, but no one is saying Ghosts this ‘n Goblins that!

Because this really does live up to its reputation. I suppose before I go into that I should mention what a stunning release it is in context. It’s 1985, Super Mario Bros. hasn’t come out yet, so when we’re talking platformers you’ve got basically Pac Land to compare it against, and if you’re talking run-n-gun games, well, I don’t have to hand an earlier side-scrolling example, with only Sega Ninja (or Capcom’s own Commando) really something you can compare this to–even something like Konami’s Rush ‘n Attack wouldn’t be released for months.

And the above frankly don’t hold much a candle to this if you were walking into an arcade, with Ghosts ‘n Goblins featuring some stunningly detailed and varied graphics for the time. It’s not just that you saw the opening of the game a hundred times without ever getting past it–it’s that it’s dripping with a sense of place. There’s even that iconic opening!

I’ll admit though… I’m pretty sure I’d rather play Pac Land, and even Sega Ninja’s level of brutality is preferable to this. I’ve read that the version of Ghosts ‘n Goblins I’ve played (Capcom Arcade Stadium) suffers some input lag, which might be partly why I found this so, well, unpleasant, but it’s also just that this ain’t no Super Mario Bros..

I do love to point out that the original Super Mario Bros. has pretty quirky movement every time I mention it, and I’ll do so again here, but Ghosts ‘n Goblins, for all its visual flair and level variety, does unfortunately feel like the pre-Super Mario Bros. game it is, with clunky, slow and difficult movement. Hero Arthur might be able to throw lances like nobody’s business, but he’s slow to turn, his jump is static, and climbing ladders is an insane risk as he loves to not actually fully get off them.

Honestly, this isn’t so bad for the first four (of six) levels, which I managed to finish with practice and letting myself save after each level. The game is insanely stingy with checkpoints (no checkpoints before bosses. Come on!) and barely ever hands out replacement armour, but all hell breaks loose on the fifth level as you have to deal with climbing a tower full of flying enemies where you literally can’t take a hit or you just won’t survive the final boss, Satan (basically just Red Arremer, but a bigger pain in the arse.)

It actually gets worse because I was playing the version Capcom Arcade Stadium defaults to: the US revision, which goes out of its way to not be finishable. Once you hit the sixth level, you face off against two unicorn enemies at once (where it’s impossible to not take a hit) and then have to face two Satans who have twice the hit-points of the Japanese Makaimura! And you have to beat them with the shield weapon, which has barely any reach!

I won’t lie. I was able to make it to the first Satan with saves, but after a while battering my head against that brick wall I had to bring out the rewinds… and bring them out I did. I just abused the shit out of them and still barely managed to finish this, it’s so stupidly hard. I probably should have played the easier Japanese revision (also available on Capcom Arcade Stadium) but more fool me.

I will say this–I do think the AI of the Red Arremer and Satan enemies is interesting; they genuinely seem to react to your actions in unpredictable ways, and it is quite a thrill when you take them down, even if for me at times it was like playing Braid. However, I keep imagining how this game must have felt to play back in the day if you were invested in beating it and not just a wee guy with a cup full of twenty pence pieces playing machines at random in Blackpool. Getting all the way to even the first Satan, dying and having to do that entire level again. It’s honestly abuse. Creator Tokuro Fujiwara should have been arrested. Maybe he still can be? I’m in favour.

Will I ever play it again? I have the NES version coming up in 1986. Now the question with that one is if I can be arse to do both loops… or even one loop.

Final Thought: Fascinating to consider that I imagine the game being this hard as being just as unpleasant to gamers of the era as it is to me, but Ghost ‘n Goblins’ long life of sequels and status as one of the top sellers of the era (“among the top ten highest-grossing arcade games of 1986 in Japan and the US, the year's sixth best-selling computer game in the UK, and NES version sold over 1.6 million cartridges” sez Wikipedia) so it’s obvious that gamers of the time were all masochistic perverts, essentially Capcom’s pay-pigs. Well, whatever floats your boat I guess.

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[smbhax]

Ghouls 'n Ghosts - in Capcom Arcade Stadium (PC/Steam)

Session: https://youtu.be/Vx7c9hBDKrU

[elgremiomaestro]

Juegos digitales que tengo en

Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak Deluxe

GOD EATER 3

River City Girls

Syberia 3

Guardian Tales

Fall Guys

Mario Strikers™: Battle League First Kick (demo)

Crush Crush

Twitch

Cover Fire

Chocobo GP Lite

Savage Halloween

Him & Her

Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Overcooked Special Edition

Resident Evil Revelations 2

Resident Evil Revelations

Resident Evil 0

Towertale

Grand Guilds

Super Animal Royale

Trove

Pokémon UNITE

Sky: Niños de la Luz

Joe Dever's Lone Wolf

CRSED: F.O.A.D.

SUPER BOMBERMAN R ONLINE

FINAL FANTASY IX

FINAL FANTASY VIII Remastered

FINAL FANTASY VII

The Room

Classic Games Collection Vol.1

Animated Jigsaws: Beautiful Japanese Scenery

Unlock The King

Color Zen

Comic Coloring Book

Apex Legends

Tennis 1920s

Syberia 1 & 2

Capcom Arcade Stadium：Ghosts 'n Goblins

Capcom Arcade Stadium

Bow to Blood: Last Captain Standing

Skyforge

Drums

Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood

Coloring Book

Just Dance 2021

Among Us

Físicos

Mario Odyssey

Mario Kart

Octopath Traveler

Pokemon Shield

Mario Party

The Leyend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

[richarddoi]

November Steam Sale

It's coming soon. Updates to come.

11/25/2024 9:01 AM PST:

November Steam Sale commences in approximately two days.

11/27/2024:

Steam Sale commences.

12/03/2024

Capcom Arcade Stadium

[selimugurlu]

Capcom klasiklerini yeniden yaşa! 1943 -The Battle of Midway- Logo Wallpaper ücretsiz indirme olarak gelir! Capcom Arcade Stadium Türkçe yama dosyasını oyunun kurulu olduğu dizine kopyala-yapıştır yaparak taşıyınız. https://www.turkce-yama.org/burn-the-witch-turkce-yama/

[duscarasheddinn]

Capcom Arcade Stadium or CHOPPY FRAMERATE ON AN i9 PROCESSOR WITH 64 GIG...

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Games Played in 2023

New year, new post where I humiliate myself by posting everything I played this year! And actually? I'm pretty proud of myself this year! If you look at 2022, I bought a LOT of games! A crazy amount! But this time, I actually didn't spend nearly as much this year. My purchase list is pretty short, and I actually barely bought anything during Steam Sales! I actually did not buy ANYTHING during the autumn and winter sales and I'm genuinely proud of myself!

And I managed to play a BUNCH of stuff! I really tore through a lot of games and had a lot of fun even with the ones I had to play on super easy difficulties cause I suck at games lmao. If you're curious what I spent time playing, you can take a look under the read more!

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Present - Game was given to me by someone else

Gift - I gave the game to someone else, but I can still play that copy

Free - I got the game for free

And as always I only put games on here that I played for the first time or had the intention of beating for the first time or reached a big milestone in for the first time. I won’t include Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for example, I played it a lot this year. But I played it a lot last year too.

I also removed stuff like itchio bundles and subscription services because it bloats the list and... I'm a little embarrassed haha.

Games purchased in 2023 ⦁ Skullgirls Season 1 Pass (PC) ⦁ Tightrope Theatre (PC) ⦁ Asura's Wrath (Xbox 360) + All DLC ⦁ Halo 2 (Xbox) - Disc Only ⦁ Animal Crossing Wild World (DS) - Gift ⦁ Dead or Alive 4 (Xbox 360) - Gift ⦁ Dead or Alive 5 (Xbox 360) - Gift ⦁ Pizza Tower (PC) - Present ⦁ Ninjin: Clash of Carrots (PC) ⦁ Chenso Club (PC) - Free ⦁ Rotund Rebound (PC) - Free ⦁ Daily Dadish (Switch) - Free ⦁ Lila's Tale and the Hidden Forest (Switch) - Free ⦁ Portal 1 & 2 Bundle (PC) ⦁ Hatmania (PC) ⦁ Grand Hike (PC) ⦁ Dead or Alive 6 (Xbox One) - Gift ⦁ Mighty Switch Force Collection (PC) - Present ⦁ Super Mario Wonder (Switch) ⦁ Sludge Life 2 (PC) ⦁ Super Kiwi 64 (PC) ⦁ Dead or Alive Ultimate (360) - Gift ⦁ Fight Club (PS2) - Gift ⦁ Super Mario RPG (Switch) ⦁ Half-Life (PC) Free ⦁ Crystal Chip Collector e (Switch) - Free ⦁ Golf With Your Friends (PC) - Present ⦁ Donut Dodo (Xbox One) - Free ⦁ Sonic Superstars (Switch) - Present ⦁ Wario Ware : Move It! (Switch) - Present

Saints Row (PC) - Free

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Games beaten in 2023 ⦁ Megaman Legacy Collection (Switch) - All Games ⦁ Puyopuyo Tetris (Switch) ⦁ RPG Time: The Legend of Wright (Xbox One) ⦁ Marvel vs Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes (Dreamcast) Emulated - Easiest settings - Venom/Shuma Gorath/Amingo ⦁ God of War (PS2) ⦁ Tightrope Theatre (PC) ⦁ Kirby's Dreamland (Switch) ⦁ Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (Switch) - Replayed ⦁ Gargoyle's Quest (Switch) ⦁ APE OUT (Switch) ⦁ Chained Echoes (Xbox One) ⦁ Scribblenauts (DS) ⦁ Cuphead (Xbox One) - Normal Difficulty/Ending ⦁ Fortnite Battle Pass (Xbox One/PC) - Reached lvl 100 woohoo!! ⦁ Cairn (PC) ⦁ Final Fantasy 2 (PS1) - Emulated ⦁ Pizza Tower (PC) ⦁ Kuru Kuru Kururin (GBA) ⦁ Pokemon Crystal (Gameboy Color) - Emulated ⦁ Yoshi's Story (Switch) - Replayed ⦁ Starfox 64 (Switch) - Replayed ⦁ Pokemon Snap (Switch) - Replayed - All Pokemon ⦁ F-ZERO X (Switch) - All Cups Novice ⦁ Dr. Mario 64 (Switch) - Dr. Mario + Wario Story Modes on Easy ⦁ Kirby's Dreamland 2 (Switch) - Bad End ⦁ The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog (PC) ⦁ Pokemon Stadium (Switch) - Gym Leader Tower ⦁ Pokemon Puzzle League (Switch) - Easy + Hard Mode ⦁ Pulseman (Switch) ⦁ Street Fighter 2 - Championship Edition (Switch) - Blanka Arcade Mode ⦁ Super Fantasy Zone (Switch) ⦁ Ristar (Switch) ⦁ Hi-Fi Rush (Xbox One) ⦁ The Pigeon Post Principle (PC) ⦁ Rocket Knight Adventure (Genesis) ⦁ Debbie's Diner Derby (PC) ⦁ Super Mario Advance 2 - Super Mario World (Switch) ⦁ Dragon Quest 2 (SNES) ⦁ Metagal (PC) ⦁ Kitsune Zero + Super Bernie World (PC) ⦁ Paradise Marsh (PC) - 100% Complete ⦁ Anton Blast New Demo ⦁ Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (PC) - Arcade Normal/Very Easy with lots of characters ⦁ Marvel vs Capcom Infinite - Arcade Very Easy (Gamora / Venom / Power Stone) ⦁ Super Smash Bros. Melee (Gamecube) - Mario Normal Classic + Adventure Mode ⦁ Pikmin (Gamecube) - All Ship Pieces ⦁ Sonic the Fighters (Gamecube) - Sonic Easy Arcade ⦁ Pokemon Emerald (GBA) ⦁ Soul Calibur II (Gamecube) - Nightmare Easy Arcade ⦁ Super Monkey Ball (Gamecube) - Beginner Stages / Advanced Stages / Expert Stages ⦁ Wario Ware Inc: Mega Party Game$! (Gamecube) ⦁ Capcom vs SNK 2: Mark of the Millenium (PS2) - Easy Arcade (Morrigan / Cammy / King) ⦁ Guilty Gear X (PS2) - Sol Normal Arcade ⦁ Super Mario 64 EX CO-OP (PC? N64?) - 31 Stars ⦁ Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) - Pokemon Trainer Normal Classic ⦁ Project + (Wii) - Charizard Normal Classic ⦁ Super Mario 64 Star Road (PC) - 80 Stars (Played in EX CO-OP) ⦁ Pac-Man World 2 (Gamecube) ⦁ Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Switch) - Charizard / Hero 2.0 Classic Mode (as well as some others on 5.0 which is SO hard to do with characters you don't know well let me tell ya) ⦁ Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (3DS) - Charizard 4.5 Classic ⦁ Super Smash Bros. 64 (N64) - Mario Normal Classic ⦁ Super Smash Bros. 64 REMIX (N64) - Bowser Normal Classic ⦁ Super Smash Bros. Melee Akaneia Build (Gamecube) - Charizard Normal Classic + Adventure Mode ⦁ Project M EX Remix (Wii) - Geno Normal Classic / Hero Easy Classic ⦁ Super Smash Bros. Crusade (PC) - Heracross Normal Classic ⦁ Super Smash Flash 2 (PC) - Krystal Normal Classic ⦁ Super Smash Flash (PC) - Sonic Normal Classic + Adventure Mode ⦁ Super Smash Bros. For Wii U (Wii U) - Charizard 4.5 Classic ⦁ F-ZERO GX (Gamecube) - All Grand Prix (Novice Class) / Story Mode ⦁ F-ZERO CLIMAX (GBA) - All Grand Prix (Novice Class) / All Survival Mode ⦁ F-ZERO MAXIMUM VELOCITY (GBA) - Pawn Grand Prix (Beginner Class) / Knight+Bishop GP (Standard Class) / Hot Violet Championship Ghost ⦁ Street Fighter Alpha (PS3) - Sagat Arcade (Easiest Settings) ⦁ Street Fighter Alpha 2 (PS3) - Sagat Arcade (Easiest Settings)

⦁ An NPC's Odyssey (Switch) - NPC / Reversal Endings ⦁ Virtua Fighter 5 Online (Xbox 360) - Venessa Arcade (Easy) ⦁ Super Ghouls N' Ghosts (SNES) ⦁ Lila's Tale and the Hidden Forest (Switch) ⦁ Fighter's History (SNES) - Ray Arcade (Easy) ⦁ Magical Drop II (SNES) - The World Arcade (Easy) ⦁ Earth Defense Force (SNES) ⦁ Wild Guns (SNES) ⦁ Altered Beast (Genesis) ⦁ Zero Wing (Genesis) - Easy Ending 1 ⦁ Enchanted Arms (Xbox 360) ⦁ BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend (PS3) - Ragna Normal Arcade ⦁ Rayman Origins (PS3) - Both Endings ⦁ Mortal Kombat 11 (Xbox One) - Scorpion - Easy/Novice Kombat Tower ⦁ Dracula X (SNES) ⦁ Sea of Stars (Xbox One) ⦁ Venba (PC) ⦁ Metroid : Zero Mission (GBA) - 3:17:01 - 52% ⦁ Punch-Out!! (Wii) ⦁ Sonic Frontiers : The Final Horizon Update (Xbox One) - Hard Mode (except for the boss rush) ⦁ Donkey Kong Jr. (NES) ⦁ Pikuniku (Xbox One) - Replay ⦁ Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F 2nd (PS Vita) - All Songs Cleared (On Easy) ⦁ Super Mario Wonder (Switch) - All Medals ⦁ Digimon Story : Cyber Sleuth (Switch) ⦁ Paratopic (Switch) ⦁ Sludge Life : The Big Mud Sessions (PC) - 100% Complete ⦁ Mario Kart 8 Deluxe + Booster Pass (Switch) - All Cups Gold Trophies + 3 Stars on 50cc ⦁ Super Kiwi 64 (PC) - All 50 Power Stones ⦁ He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me (PC) ⦁ Sludge Life 2 - 100% Complete ⦁ Hello My Name is (Val)iant Or Val's Guide To Having A Broken Vag (PC) ⦁ Sonic 4 - Episode 1 (PC) ⦁ Sonic 4 - Episode 2 (PC) Base game + Episode Metal ⦁ Super Mario RPG (Switch) Story + Max Level Party + Boss Rematches ⦁ PORTAL (PC) ⦁ Fire Emblem Three Houses (Switch) - Black Eagles ⦁ Crystal Chip Collecter e (Switch) ⦁ Dead or Alive 1 Ultimate (Xbox) - Tina Easiest Arcade ⦁ Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate (Xbox) - Tina Easiest Arcade ⦁ Dead or Alive 3 (Xbox) - Hitomi Easiest Arcade ⦁ Dead or Alive 5 (Xbox 360) - Hitomi Rookie Arcade ⦁ Dead or Alive 6 (Xbox One) - Hitomi Rookie Arcade ⦁ Cthulhu Saves Christmas (Switch) ⦁ Little Inferno (Wii U) ⦁ Bayonetta (Wii U) ⦁ Wario Ware : Move It!! (Switch) ⦁ Sonic Superstars (Switch)

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Games played in 2023 ⦁ Fraymakers (PC) ⦁ Taiko no Tatsujin: The Drum Master! (Xbox One) ⦁ Theatrhythm Final Bar Line (Switch) - Demo ⦁ Pyo (PC) ⦁ Powerwash Simulator (Xbox One) ⦁ TetrisSweeper (PC) ⦁ My Familiar (PC) - Demo ⦁ Donkey Kong Land (Gameboy) Emulated ⦁ Duolingo (Mobile) - Spanish (does this count as a game? It's a self described game) ⦁ Toe II Toe (PC) ⦁ Bullet Bunny (PC) ⦁ Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Switch) ⦁ Sonic Spinball (Switch) ⦁ Omega Strikers (Switch) ⦁ Cross Impact (PC) - Demo ⦁ Rotund Rebound (PC) ⦁ Chenso Club (PC) ⦁ Evoland (PC) ⦁ Project M (Wii) - Charizard Normal Classic (It crashed before Master Hand lmao) ⦁ Brawl - (Wii) - Charizard Normal Classic (also crashed before Master Hand) ⦁ BEYOND MELEE (Gamecube) - Doesn't have Classic Mode yet ⦁ Street Fighter Alpha 3 (PS3) - Sagat Arcade (Easiest Settings) I couldn't beat Bison, I gave up lol ⦁ Go! Go! Hypergrind (Gamecube) ⦁ Sonic R (Saturn) ⦁ Star Soldier (NES) ⦁ Xevious (NES) ⦁ Wario's Woods (NES) ⦁ Collumns (Genesis) ⦁ Thunderforce 2 (Genesis) ⦁ Virtua Fighter 2 (Genesis) ⦁ Street Fighter 2 HD REMIX (PS3) ⦁ Resident Evil 4 (PS2) ⦁ Blazblue Cross Tag Battle (Xbox One) - Doesn't have an arcade ladder??? I played as Ragna and Hyde lol ⦁ Peggle 2 (Xbox One) - hated it so much I dropped it it fucking blows compared to Peggle 1 ⦁ Jojo's Bizarre Adventure : All-Star Battle R (Xbox One) ⦁ Gyromite (NES) ⦁ Stack-Up (NES) ⦁ GROUNDED (Xbox One) ⦁ Rogue Galaxy (PS2) ⦁ Ice Climbers, Balloon Fight, Wrecking Crew, Donkey Kong 3 (NES) ⦁ Slime Rancher 2 (Xbox One) ⦁ Headbangers: Rhythm Royale (Xbox One) ⦁ Dead Estate (PC) - Demo ⦁ Golf With Your Friends (PC) ⦁ Dead or Alive 4 (Xbox 360) - Hitomi Normal Arcade (couldn't win cause I couldn't play on easy u_u) ⦁ Disney Speed Storm (Xbox One) ⦁ Suika Game (Switch) - I MANAGED TO GET A SINGLE WATERMELON!! LET THE RECORD SHOW!! ⦁ Final Fantasy 3 (NES) ⦁ King of Fighters XIII (Arcade) - I didn't win but it was my first time playing so I thought I'd mention it!

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And there you have it! Everything I bought, beat, and tried through the year! As always, I'm certain there's stuff missing that I didn't intentionally axe. I keep track of this stuff kinda closely cause I'll completely forget otherwise but even I make mistakes or play stuff that's forgettable lol.

As for next year? There's a few things I'd like to play in 2024, a couple of series I want to continue and a couple of new things to try, as well as a lot of games I wanted to play THIS YEAR but didn't get around to it! My only real gaming resolution is to play less Fortnite. I'm serious!

Looking back at my goals for 2023 I actually did get through a lot of them. Megaman, God of War, and Enchanted Arms were all games I mentioned wanting to play. And I said I wanted to play more meaty RPGs and wouldn't you know it, my top 5 old games I played this year were ALL RPGs! So I think I did a good job!

I also did a lot of emulating this year and had a GREAT time with it! I experimented with a ton of consoles and it's interesting to see how certain things work for more complicated stuff like PS3/360. It really did open up what I can play and I can't believe I just stopped doing this for a while! Glad to be back! NOW I CAN MAKE GIFS!!

That should be that for 2023! Here's to a fantastic year full of fun and video games for everyone! Let's head into 2024 blazing!