Mine has to be Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime, a DS spin off of the Dragon Quest series that sees you playing as a slime operating a tank and rescuing the people from your town. You run around the overworld, collecting items to use as ammunition and saving money to upgrade your tank. The art and music are just as great as you’d expect from the Dragon Quest series. It made fantastic use of the DS’s dual screens. It’s also written for a younger audience, so a lot of it is just really silly and fun! Try it out for sure, I’m so sad there’s no sequel :(

  • theragu40@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hard to settle on just one. In no order:

    • ChuChu Rocket (Dreamcast): insanely fun and manic couch multiplayer game
    • A10 Tank Killer II: Silent Thunder (PC): the soundtrack alone justifies the time to play this aging flight sim
    • Virtual On (Arcade): this was ported to Saturn and the port is good, but the giant arcade machine is where it’s really at with dual twin stick cockpits
    • Mario Paint (SNES): Really fun non-game from a time when non-games were uncommon on home consoles. I have hundreds of hours into this
    • Dungeon Keeper (PC): darkly comedic evil dungeon lord management sim. I will never forgive EA for what they did to Bullfrog and subsequently the DK franchise. There have been many attempted homages and clones but none have captured the magic.
    • Super Tennis (SNES): an actually fun tennis game
    • Super Play Action Football (SNES): football game with a unique isometric view
    • Hank Parker’s Super Black Bass 2 (SNES): super fun fishing sim. I wish there were games like this today that took fishing more seriously and less arcadey.
    • Brain Age (DS): a genuine sensation in its heyday and largely forgotten now. Really showed off the potential of the DS
    • Cel Damage (GameCube): twisted metal with zany little cel shaded cartoon characters. Never got the respect it deserved and probably never will since they butchered the game’s balance with the HD re-release
    • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I played chu chu rocket on the game boy advance obsessively after falling in love with the Dreamcast one one fair blockbuster rental weekend

        • richyawyingtmv@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          1 year ago

          It was the very first third party game Sega released after pulling out of the hardware race. It was a GBA launch title if I remember right and it was seriously fucking weird booting up my new Nintendo handheld and seeing SEGA on the screen!!!

          • theragu40@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            That’s a cool bit of trivia, I had no idea. Just goes to show how eras change as far as how you get information. Back then if it wasn’t something that caught my eye in that months issue of EGM, it wouldn’t really be on my radar. I’m still waiting for the GBC port of RE1 that got previewed in EGM and never released :)

            Honestly it’s still surreal to me to see the Sega logo (or hear the voices “Seeeeegaaaaa” when they use it) on a Nintendo system. It was such a bloody divide back in the day.

            • richyawyingtmv@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              1 year ago

              Heh yeah, I don’t know if you’re in the UK, but we had a service called Ceefax/Teletext, which was a text based service sent through to your TV (sorry if I’m explaining obvious things)

              Digitiser was the games magazine on Channel Four’s Teletext service. It was about 30 pages in total, split between news, reviews, features, and letters. It was updated every day. I was the very first person to know about Sega pulling out back at school in my class because Digitiser had the news that very same day.

              Digitiser was also fucking hilarious. They got pulled from air more than once due to their content constantly pushing boundaries. A feature each week had a different guest writer (all fictitious), such as Mr T (constantly shouting about people messing with his bins), Fat Sow (a pig), George Michael and Phil Mitchell from EastEnders. I genuinely miss it so much. At least we have it mostly backed up online!

              Here’s an example of Digitiser in the GameCube era, talking about the upcoming launch of Xbox live: https://www.superpage58.com/digitiser-vault-teletext-screenshot-image-archive-2002-06-14.htm

              When they finally got cancelled, they had a final message, asking you to press reveal on the remote. When pressed, it showed you the channel Four Teletext mascot, turner the worm (a pink worm), being sick (white fluid). Yeah, it’s exactly what it sounds like: https://live.staticflickr.com/212/506622777_1b9520378f_z.jpg

              And it was fucking insane

              • theragu40@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                1 year ago

                Lol wow. I’m from the US so that is all completely unknown to me. I’m very sure we didn’t have anything quite like that. Fascinating!