Any Megaman soundtrack. Reason? It pumps you up for the battle ahead, or the final fight against Wily. It don't matter what level, it's always appropriate for the theme. It's just perfect scoring for a game.

Last character I saw was The Rock. Well, unless I can get to my sword, see you in the hospital.

I would rather lost half my toes. You can adjust to that a lot easier then losing fingers.

Would you rather suffer from blinding migraines or incurable back injuries? Dark, I know, but curious on what people think.

If I had a nickel for every time someone cut me off in the supermarket/department store, I would own a supermarket chain by now.

alexanyways : Last game I played was Simpsons Arcade earlier today while testing a new USB controller and wondering why I'm still classed a Newbie after playing on this site off and on for years.

Timeslip is a good bargain bin game if I ever saw one. It's fun, and the storyline could use a tweak, but it does set the mood for the entire game. Basically, a race from the future is losing their planet to some form of disasters. Don't remember if they were natural or caused by the people causing it themselves over time, but they choose Earth as a suitable planet to move in on. They can't possibly fight the futuristic tech the Earth people have at their disposal, so they send troops back in time to take over at 5 key points in Earth history. They succeed, Humanity gets erased from the time stream, and they get a new planet to call their own. Earth scientists learn about the plot and fast track time travel tech so they can combat the threat. The aliens learn about the attempt to fight them and bomb the facility from the air, killing all the soldiers and scientists. All but one. This is where you come in. You are this lone scientist, armed with military hardware you seem to have learned overnight how to use, ready to fight for the human race or die trying. This could not possibly be used as a spoiler, since this is all told to you in the opening credits of the game before you even press the start button.

The gameplay itself is somewhat repetitive. It's your standard run and gun over platforms with enemies that sometimes spawn endlessly off screen. It keeps you moving though with a time counter of sorts. A simple white bar that starts only partly full to begin with slowly ticks away as you move through the level. You refill it by picking up crystals. If your time runs out, you lose a life. That's a save right there. If it were less forgiving, it could say you ran out of time to be in the period of history and snap you back to the present. But it doesn't, which makes it somewhat easier. You get 9 lives to work with, each with 6 charges in a hit counter. You get hit, you lose a mark in the counter. Lose 5, the bar is empty. At that point, the next hit you take pops you out of existence in a pop flash of light that makes me think of a light bulb that suddenly burns out on you. To restore your bar, you have to find crates that were sent back to supply the soldiers. Inside some of them, you find batteries. 1 battery, 1 charge in your hit meter. If you have a full meter when you pick one up, it gives you a life back and a mark in the depleted bar of the life you just regained. So you could go from 2 with a full bar to 3 with one bar filled. So as you can probably guess, the 1up system is there in the sense of charging your battery to get a free try. The downside to this is in the fact you lose all 9 of your lives, that's it. You had your chance. There is no continue screen.

The sound and music are pretty decent for this game. It's as if they made a great score and sound effects at the cost of a little of the graphical budget. Still well worth it. The music itself is rememberable, albeit maybe a little repetitive after a while when you have had to play through the same level 4 times because you died to a cannon blipping your last bar of heath on your last life out of existence. Still, it is good music.

The graphics do well in the level detail, but the sprites suffer a little. That's all I can say on that.

The controls take a little time to get used to, with an 8 direction firing radius unless you are on the ground. Then it's just fire all directions up or belly to the ground and fire straight ahead.

Overall, it's a good game. I've played it several times. Never beat it mind you, but there is always the next attempt. Worth $10 at max if you found it in your local second hand shop. Any more then this, I would walk away saying something about overcharging.

Back a long time ago when I would download and play emulated games on my computer, I came across what I thought was a bad homebrew style port of a Japanese Dragonball game. It was playable, but on finding the original, I thought I could tell a bad port to protect against copyright while dubbing the game for emulator use. Now I find out it was a port of a Dragonball game that was released on the NES as an actual cartridge. I don't know if I should break into hysterical laughter over this or feel bad for Japan and a bad game being made a mockery of. Love to hear some other thoughts on this.

Thanks. I saw a message from the mods saying that they were working on it, and I tested it again. It worked fine after the message put up by the moderator.

That's an interesting idea in itself. The thing I'm wondering about is if anyone on the site picked up any of the game consoles from the accessories page. Would having one of those truly let you play the games of the system for free? I do have to wonder.

All I need is an explanation on why this would happen. I have had other games where they failed to load for some reason. But on reloading the game or even the window for the plugin to play the game, it works fine. The issue stands no matter how many times I reload the game or reset the window. The game is Haunting Starring Polterguy for the Genesis. I get the following error no matter what I do. "Failed to load game. This is often caused by a download error or running another game in a different window." I find this annoying since I only run one game at a time. I think it's just common sense. Play one game at a time. So I ask this. Does anyone else have this issue with this game? If so, does anyone know how to fix this issue? Thanks for listening and again to any that offer help.