Yeah pick away retro I'm ready.

I'm interested in Ninja Warriors but I thought the indie thing was more of an upgrade than a sequel, Wild Guns style? If it's an entirely different game I'd be well up for that, if it's the same game rejigged I'd get the new one as I'd like to play the best version possible.

We did Ristar in here before I think, unless I went off piste?

Caliber.50 would probably get my vote, but I'd play any of the rest I reckon.

I'd be up for that.

Wait, I have a problem. I haven't got Gimmick/Mr. Gimmick on my retro pie and I've never successfully put any new roms on it myself.

I do have Ristar, Caliber 50, Journey to Silius, Alex Kidd, Master of Darkness and Super Buster Bros though.

Any of those are fine with me.

Sparkster - Megadrive 

Finished this today.  I thought it was awful at first but it soon won me over.  It's no RKA (very few 16-bit games are) and while it's clearly a downgrade overall it's still a pretty good game.  Visually there's nowhere near as much spit and polish as Megadrive owners had the right to expect based on the likes of Tiny Toons, Castlevania Bloodlines etc.  It's all a wee bit budget for 1994 really (bear in mind Dynamite Headdy/Pulseman were doing the rounds on MD in the same year), but some sections look nice enough. Things moved far quicker at the time though, so I'd say if this had been released in early '93 it would've been given a bit more leeway as a looker.

Level design was fine, nothing particularly worthy of praise perhaps, but there are a few neat ideas as expected from Konami.  The jetpack means bosses are mostly pretty good though, staying airborne for the the first boss was the point where I realised it was actually a decent game.  The sword takes too long to swing for my liking though - a quicker attack would've been preferable.  Music is okay, functional for the most part but with one or two noteworthy ditties.  

81% with my 1994 head on for Sparkster, but like most merely 'good' platformers from the era that equates to something far more miserly in modern money tbh.



I didn't get to play SNES Sparkster as that ROM is missing from my collection too, but I watched a Youtube walkthrough.

Do you want to change it to that if you haven't got Mr Gimmick @Moot_Geeza ?

Yeah cool with me.

Pang motherfuckers! Haven’t played this in years.

Snes is single player only which is a real pity. Early release cause of that I expect.

Its a solid game on snes. Ive hard the cart for years and its a keeper.

Bug Butcher is another recent indie effort that iterates on the pang template. Haven't bought it yet but it's been in and ouT of my PSN basket numerous times. Would post a trailer but I'm on my phone.

What emu are you all using? I just tried my go to, zsnes, but it doesn't seem to work on w10.

I'm trying to remember a NES game I saw on youtube a little while back, can't find the video in my history for some reason and I'm sure I didn't imagine it - it's a game where you're a young girl's cuddly toy and her other toys kidnap her out of jealousy (you're her favourite), you then set off to rescue her. The game itself is a platformer and the main mechanic is you can bounce a ball/bubble (I think) to jump off. Any ideas?