All the S@nics - the end

[helucard]

So does that mean you would've just died every time you got hit? That would indeed have been an entirely different game....

To be entirely fair, this was in the days of Really Hard Games. Mario Bros and Contra in the 80s were single hit death games. Even 3 years after Sonic released, Donkey Kong Country was made. Single hit deaths were a staple of some Big Name Games.

There's a 1990 Sonic prototype out there, Naka is either misremembering or lying.

I do wonder where exactly the distance between "completion" and "release" was, exactly... But now I'm curious to see this prototype and learn when it was from, like, was it legit a 1990 prototype, or just early 1991?

[Grounder]

a

Yeah, I was the one misremembering. The build date is unknown.

(edit: likely early 1991)

[Bean]

SPORTS! I love sports. Sports are great. In all seriousness, looks like a halfway decent minigame aside from having to chuck that ball off the track to get the high scoring targets in the last one.

[Catabo]

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I just swapped to a fresh pair of earphones and i suppose i shouldn't be surprised that this game's audio has a low end.

Fascinating that they're still using the Deem Bristow voice clips (i recognise "i should've tried a little harder" from SA2) for Eggman in multiplayer. I guess it just wasn't part of Mike Pollock's contract to provide those, or multiplayer was added after all the voice work was complete?

[Crow]

fart button

this is the most protracted postgame possible at this point

[KobaBeach]

a

ah i see we're talking about yuji kaka

read this entire thread, he's a hack

[VGjoe]

Heroes: 475

Start Dash - 0
Trick - 0
Drift - 0
Gravity Dive - 0
Gear Change - 0

Megalo Station - 67

Meteor Burst - 0
Gravity Control - 0
Grind - 0
Bike & Wheel - 0
Air Ride - 0

Botanical Kingdom - 58

MeteorTech Premises - 119

Aquatic Capital - 107

Gigan Rocks - 28

Crimson Crater - 96

Babylon: 480

Gigan Device - 74

Nightside Rush - 23

Snowy Kingdom - 29

MeteorTech Sparkworks - 69

Tempest Waterway - 119

Security Corridor - 66

Mobius Strip - 100

The Rest: 224

Astral Babylon - 31

'80s Boulevard - 53
'80s Boulevard take 2 - 124

'90s Boulevard - 0
'90s Boulevard take 2 - 16

MeteorTech Arsenal - 0
Botanical Cave - 0
Megalo Junction - 0

Gravity Pit - 0
Labyrinth - 0
Square Quartet - 0

Total Rings collected in Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity: 1179

[Grounder]

yep

[Bean]

Sure seems like this is just a late port from the get go, but at least the gameplay's different. Pretty sure later ones get a story mode to at least separate themselves from the console counterparts. Probably won't be the case here.

yep

Yep.

[Catabo]

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This Sonic render has big cursed/creepypasta energy and, like a dumb cursed chain letter, i feel i can only be free of it if i post it here.

[QuiEstFaba]

Just out of curiosity, where were you able to listen to Conrad Schnitzel Schnitzler's "Mercury Arc Valve?" Schnitzler is one of those guys I've always been really intrigued about, he really carved out his deep, bizarrely specific niche in music history.

[KobaBeach]

a

ah i see we're talking about yuji kaka

just making it clear that im not excusing square enix. they have been shit for Years and today's sale proves it

release star ocean 6 so i can pirate it then die bitch

[EllenHouraisan]

SE has been awful for years now, ever since they started cutting games up to sell more products. And appointed Nomura to do things that are not just drawing cool monsters.

Wow, olympics.

[KobaBeach]

And appointed Nomura to do things that are not just drawing cool monsters.

to be fair kingdom hearts plays mostly well and i heard twewy and jack garland extreme sleepover text adventure play pretty well too

his writing is terrible though.

when kawazu dies or leaves, SaGa is going to die and i am so scared of that happening eventually

WOO OLYMPICS

[Grounder]

[EllenHouraisan]

when kawazu dies or leaves, SaGa is going to die and i am so scared of that happening eventually

Probably better to have that happen than to have its corpse dragged through the mud. SaGa with 4 jpop dudes and barebones action/turn-based hybrid combat would be just rubbing salt on the wound.

These sure are some olympics that are happening.

[kitikami]

Fun Olympic Facts: The cycling event in this game isn't actually Pursuit. The Pursuit event starts with the two cyclists on opposite sides of the track so that they "pursue" each other rather than racing side by side. They do this because the whole slipstream thing is actually a huge deal in cycling, so when they start next to each other it devolves into a race to not be in front of the other person rather than to complete the course as fast as possible. There's another event that does start side by side and it is hilarious:

[Grounder]

mario & sonic at the olympic hand cramps (ds)

[kitikami]

I appreciate the realism of the game even simulating the physical torment Olympians put themselves through in order to train and compete.

[Bean]

Thanks for not destroying your physical health over a video game. You made the right call.

[KobaBeach]

when i said i found the idea of raocow suffering for his art funny i meant when he gets mad over a video game not when he breaks his wrist over ds shovelware. dude has to paint too y'know

Probably better to have that happen than to have its corpse dragged through the mud. SaGa with 4 jpop dudes and barebones action/turn-based hybrid combat would be just rubbing salt on the wound.

[EllenHouraisan]

I'm glad this game remained consistent with the Sonic lore that Amy is a pro boxer.

[Grounder]

the announcer guy always sounds vaguely confused that eggman is competing

[camwoodstock]

the announcer guy always sounds vaguely confused that eggman is competing

&: Truly, the Melee Narrator Announcing Ganondorf of the latter half of the decade.

[VGjoe]

Mercury Circuit - 0

Venus Circuit - 0

Jupiter Circuit - 0

Saturn Circuit - 0

Moonlight Circuit - 0

10m Platform - 0
Vault - 0
400m - 0

Dream Race - 0
Dream Canoe - 0
Dream Boxing - 0
Dream Long Jump - 0

Dream Fencing - 0
Dream Shooting - 0
Dream Basketball - 0

Replay 1 - 0
Shoot! 1 - 0
Matching 1 - 0
Airship 1 - 21
Conveyor Belt 1 - 0

Total Rings collected in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games DS: 21