It feels like eons ago since I read the book "Ready Player One" but one key plot point was where the main character needed to play the perfect game of Pac-Man. He'd mentioned a hiding where the ghosts could not locate you. I've played Pac-man for decades and have never heard of such a thing. So I always assumed it was something made up for the book. I can officially confirm that it is infact a real thing. It's thanks to an 8-bit math error and a rule where the ghosts can't travel up in Pac-Mans spawn point. Check the video below for proof.
I had mentioned in my last post that I'm working on NES home brew as a side hobby. I started work on a game called Super Drac 3000. The idea is simply, you are a vampire getting blood packs and avoiding light. I'm going to expand on this idea thanks to a code error I made. If I do it right, you should be able to turn lights off/on. So click the link below and watch a short video for an early build.
I've been messing off and on with sweet little app called NESmaker off and on since last summer. It's a fairly easy way to build an old school 8-bit Nintendo game, that with the right hardware can be played on real hardware. I've been dabbling in ROM hacks for years, my first attempt was a drunk party idea called "Super Queef". I took the original Mario bros NES game and turned Mario and Luigi from two plumbers cleaning out the sewers of turtles, in to two girls in their underwear stomping dicks for coins click here to download the rom
Super Queef
However till recently I have never scratch built my own game... It's a combo of time, and not fully grasping how to get a NES Rom file compiled. I spent 4 months out of work thanks to the pandemic and a boss who didn't care for being told off. I got bored as hell while trying to find a job. That lead me down a lot of rabbit holes, and eventually on to an awesome program called NESmaker. It is a super easy way to build a home brew NES app, and it comes with a few neat tools to export ROM files to REAL carts that can be played on a real Nintendo. While It's not a free program, I'm okay with that . It comes at an advantage over free open source stuff. There's real support for software issues. There is also a HUGE community to support any game making endeavors. If you want to try NES home brew, I can NOT recommend them enough. Hit their logo to check them out.
This leads me to my current brain break for the night. I've made several overly over the top game prototypes since last summer that are really just way to much to start the path of home brew game development. I've decided to give it another go, but keep it simple this time. I'm now working on a 2-D Mario style side scrolling game, I've named "Super Drac 3000". the idea will be avoid hunters\things that can kill a vampire, collect blood bags, avoid light, and maybe find true love? I tossed together a very glitchy quick and dirty demo, and here a screen shot from that demo. .I'll post a WIP version of the game as soon as I have something playable.
There few things I enjoy more than tacos & video games. So naturally when I was told about a new taco place near me I had to try it out. Agave & Rye is one part taco bar, and one part video free play video arcade located in Troy, Ohio on the traffic circle.
If have to give them mad props for opening a new sit down restaurant in the middle of a global pandemic. They are of course following all of the proper pandemic rules of social distancing, masks required, and no paper menus.
Iyou hit the link below you can see what they have
They might feel a little high class for the area, but that is my opinion. However it clearly works for them, because if you choose to visit be ready to wait they are ALWAYS busy.
So apparently my last post was in 2017 and I haven't actually done anything with this blog and forever. However I have done plenty of cool shit since then. I well I'll try to make regular posts here because I am tired of the rat race that is Facebook. The recent presidential election has brought out the goddamn worst in everybody. So it's time to escape that with some good old-fashioned offensive fuckery and talk of retro games.
I will start with this lovely little beauty the NAMCO Museum made by My Arcade. I picked this up a few weeks back what was left of my government issued stimmy check. It has 20 classic games and it's a reasonable desktop Arcade and ran about $100. It's a reasonable machine but they took basically cell phone guts to make it. That being said it also uses a cell phone display and the aspect ratio is complete trash for playing old school arcade games designed for a 4:3 old school tube display. When you load up games you have an option to stretch it out to fit the full screen or go with your original aspect ratio. When you got with the original the games are way to tiny to play for long. However most of the more simple ones don't look too bad (Pac-Man, digdug, etc). it is pretty clear that that thing was built using off the shelf electronic components and nothing custom other than the case. I could have built something for around the same price using a raspberry pi zero.
Do I regret my purchase? No it does a fine job sitting on my desk at work in reminding everybody how much of a big damn nerd I am.
Welcome to the geeky rat. I've had several false starts on running thing blog, but I'm going to keep up with it this round. So I'll start off with a simple NES rom hack I made. I took the original Mario arcade game and tweaked it. It now stars a good friend of mine name. It's now called Super Queef and instead of Mario & Luigi stomping turtles for money. It's Missy & Erica stomping weeniers, for money. So you want to play this awesome sounding game? Hit the link all you need a flash enabled browser and hit the link Play Super Queef
