i remember when game genie hit toward the end of the nes life cycle, and with all those ridiculously hard games, it was like, well well well
07.08.2025 12:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@zackquaintance.bsky.social
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i remember when game genie hit toward the end of the nes life cycle, and with all those ridiculously hard games, it was like, well well well
07.08.2025 12:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0that limited library thing was huge, you revisited miserable games over and over because itβs all you had β¦ but sometimes play a bad game enough, it would get good
07.08.2025 12:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βhigh resolutionβ
07.08.2025 12:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I havenβt played it since I was 5 but I remember it being absurdly hard
07.08.2025 12:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Goonies II
Goonies II
the most 80s thing I ever did was play this game in my dadβs buddyβs musty wood paneled suburban Chicago basement for hours on Monday nights while they watched football and crushed beers upstairs
also, this game is a sequel to another game only released in Japanβ¦NOT the film, itβs absurd
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07.08.2025 12:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A page from bowling with corpses
Did you read his new one? Great Mignola shapes pages abound
07.08.2025 12:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0humming America the beautiful as you did
07.08.2025 12:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Bad news baseball nes cartridge
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07.08.2025 12:18 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0the fun thing about being in the NES as your first console generation is there was 1,000 games for that thing and most of us have an obscure one we absolutely played into the ground during grade school
07.08.2025 12:17 β π 13 π 1 π¬ 3 π 3man, seeing him without his helmet blew my mind
07.08.2025 12:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0oh dang this is a great one
07.08.2025 12:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0yes, adjusting to this as a new New Yorker
07.08.2025 12:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0you see this, quote with a title screen thatβs iconic to you
07.08.2025 11:55 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 3β¦and I like to party
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06.08.2025 17:03 β π 18 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0"This weekβs Prog serves up the best chapter of Judge Dredd: Tunnels yet, leading us deep into the mutated jungle and delivering an absolutely savage set of revelations"
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dang man, congrats buddy!
06.08.2025 15:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0hell yeah!
06.08.2025 15:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i did this recently too ... look whatever else it may be, this comic is CONFIDENT
06.08.2025 15:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0the interior art previews are GORGEOUS
06.08.2025 14:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0eep, this is a nightmare
06.08.2025 14:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0so so excited for this
06.08.2025 14:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0!!!!
06.08.2025 14:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0we lived in NE for almost six years until this spring, and the teen carjacking thing was an issue off and on ... but also, keep your awareness up and it was mostly avoidable ... only crime we ever suffered was someone stole the small trash can for our dog's waste off our porch, which enjoy i guess
06.08.2025 14:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0especially if he provoked them or otherwise made himself obtrusive, which is easy to believe from someone calling themselves BIG BALLS
06.08.2025 14:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0i just did this and had a blast
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