Played Earthworm Jim for the first time since I was a kid.
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Played through Bubble Bobble again, this time two player with my brother. After much effort, we beat the final boss, twice, and got the “Bad ending” both times.
Continue reading post "#1774"Last night, I beat the 99 levels of Bubble Bobble (NES) by myself, without using an umbrella.
Continue reading post "#1762"I beat The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout (NES).
Continue reading post "#1745"I beat Rescue Rangers (the NES game) with my brother.
Continue reading post "#1686"I beat Secret of Evermore most likely for the first time.
Continue reading post "#1633"I beat Chrono Trigger for the first time since I was a kid. It has long been one of my favorite games, but mostly the kind I just remembered being good: I had barely played since high-school.
Continue reading post "#1488"This weekend I prepared the house for and had its first game night.
Continue reading post "#1454"Raspberry Pi: playing with BerryBoot, RetroPie, and OpenElec
Played with my Raspberry Pi a bit more this weekend. I bought another micro-SD card and installed BerryBoot, a bootloader / OS installer sort of like Noobs, on it.
I installed RetroPie, a project that is built on top of Raspbian but with numerous emulators and a special interface that can be operated by a gamepad. It seems like it would be cool to condense all of my video game systems and even my oldest Mac (an SE) into a tiny box. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to do much with it since I have to figure out how to get games onto it. It doesn’t have a web browser or other normal Linux stuff accessible from its special interface.
I also installed OpenElec, a media center. It has a dedicated interface meant to be operated by a remote control, though since I don’t have one of those, it operates a bit slowly by mouse. It has various media applications that can be installed from its interface, basically one for each of any online services. I installed quite a few and watched some old commercials on GetTV.
I’m thinking maybe I’ll eventually get a second Raspberry Pi to use as a media / gaming center. It’s easy to dual boot them using BerryBoot. It would be cooler if I could figure out a way to more easily switch between them, rather than rebooting. opensource++