Ruining It For Everyone Else Since 2004
Happy Easter! I celebrated by adding this old game onto my Deck! I have it running through the Steam branch of RetroArch with the DOSBoxPure Core installed. It feels so right having it in the palms of my hands, and the nice thing about old retro games is looooong battery life! Maybe now I’ll finally be able to beat all the other episodes!
Been in an old-school aesthetic kind of vibe tonight. Getting closer to finishing my Lilac save, and I’m starting to get the hang of playing Neera.
I’ve played Tempest before, but tonight was the first time I tried Black Widow, and a couple of others. Amazing how these old games can still be fun.
BloodRayne 2 might not have a photo mode, but with Krita and a little bit of imagination I can still have fun.
I ran Deus Ex GOTY on my Steam Deck tonight! So far it seems to be running fine in OpenGL mode! I downloaded a controller template someone made for it on the workshop and have been reworking it more to my liking (adding gyro and swapping a couple buttons around.) But so far it seems to be running fine out of the box! I’m running it on my SD card, where I keep lower powered indie games and retro titles. I never had this game growing up, gotta make up for lost time!
Managed to save more Stuffed Animals; this time from a pack of Baby Space Kangaroos that bounce around like they all just OD’d on Space Vegemite. It wouldn’t be so bad except each encounter with them knocks you down for a few seconds. Sadly, I had to take one of them down. Otherwise my attempts at escape would have been highly unlikely. I also managed to save Sydney (The Earth one, not Space Sydney), and Rome!
Now I just need to figure out how to traverse the Mountain Dew room without falling in, there’s always next time.
As if the Pepsi operation on Mars wasn’t bad enough – The Space Kangaroos are holding Stuffed Animals hostage on their bloody ship! The Fiends!
Also, I saved New York! But only after I blew up the earth… whoops.
Now that I’ve destroyed the livefeed to Big Ben, the Space Kangaroos won’t know what time it is… giving me vast amounts of time to plot my next move, or something.
I finally finished it! It only took a few decades, but I did it! Onto the next episode!
The Second Episode in the series is very similar to the first. Aside from new food and candy sprites, we have climbable soda and robots you can hitch rides on. You’re aboard a Mothership hovering over Earth, and you’re tasked with saving the cities that are on board. So far I’ve saved one and completed a couple of levels. It’s nice being able to play these on the Deck!
Originally I was going to tackle a different game, but I actually made enough progress to press on through Commander Keen! I just have one more level to beat, then I can move onto the next area of Mars!
Ah, this must be the fridge.
There’s a lot of ice and pepsi in this level. I’m guessing this must have been what the devs were running on.