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Yep. I still play it every so often, even 30+ years later. I can't say the same for its sequels, but this game is great.

Sure you can, just gotta try! Some games are simpler than others, this one is actually fairly simple to learn. I even made a guide for it. We often learn the games in a day for a couple of hours and then over time you get faster naturally. To get to the highest times and grind it down, that does take a fair amount of work and dedication to it. But just to try it out, it's not too bad!

it totally was

I imagine that if you're streaming live on twitch, month after month, you'd get very used to it.

they're probably too good at it they can even tell you their last grocery list

After you do something enough times, it just becomes a background process of sorts. ...Except typing and talking. Those two never mix, ever.

They are need they are used to talking about “geeky” things

You get used to it. The first event is a little shaky but it's usually not too bad after that. Muscle memory takes control pretty easily. For me, I've also done several plays and did choir and dance so being on stage is something I'm used to so that helps.

I got you

We could do that, yes, and we used to until this was discovered. The problem with that is if you just reset, it'll be different every time. And by that you could have one player just "accidentally" reset at the perfect time more often than not and gain that advantage anyway. You could lose that time or gain it and it's all random at that point when you don't. By doing this we can force the fastest way through and make it more fair among players at the same time. I view it a little like DS Pokemon speedruns do where you have to set the time and enter the game on a specific frame to get the right trainer ID and values on your starter. I know that's a bit different since it is technically outside the game, but the concept is the same. It is strange though so I don't blame you for questioning it, it's a bit of a gray area, certainly.

I'd say that makes more sense, but timing standards are on a game-by-game basis in many cases, so if that's how all the runs for this game are timed then I don't see why it matters.

I said "that'll work, okay", confirming I got it to myself.

I like the first game because of its complex gameplay and I like the 3rd game for its relaxing simpler gameplay. Wasn't too big a fan of the 2nd game.

While it's true the collision detection is pretty wonky on those moving platforms, once you understand it it's reasonably easy to get up to the top... except that 3rd test...

Never played it. I just looked it up though. It looks a whole lot like Legend of Kage. The US box art looks like some muscly Conan barbarian guy but the character in the game looks like a Japanese ronin. Go figure! lol

No, because you could just "accidentally" hit reset on that exact time every run anyway and get that manipulation. Not only that, every NES itself, we discovered recently, changes it as well. One of the runners' NES doesn't make him reset, he gets that potion to appear upon every hard reset (power off), which would give an unfair advantage if this wasn't allowed.

Does kicking gems grant 3?

It's not the damage it does that causes 2 gems to be picked up. It's Red gems. Pink gems are worth 1, Red gems are worth 2. The dagger picks them up with the same values.

@@TheNightstalkerShow no

@@TheNightstalkerShow No

The dagger picks them up the same way, it's based on color. Pink is 1 and Red is 2. The hidden door gems are always 2 with a thrown weapon and always 1 with body contact.

It sure is

Unfair towards who exactly?

not really the whole point of these kind of things is to speed run the game as quickly as possible if this makes the game faster it seems like a perfectly legit strat since anybody can attempt to use it to shorten their game time.

To me, no, but I can see why you think that. The problem is that means anybody could just fake a "reset" at that exact time on every "attempt" so that it sets it up for the real attempt they are going to do. Plus all your runs upon resetting will be different unless you power off and power on the game again, which most people won't think to do initially. Not to mention, that time would just be spent waiting around on that tree branch for the potion to appear because that's still going to be the fastest way through the level. May as well cut that out when it's in the game's coding.

Ah sorry I forgot to introduce the couch. Left is Scavenger216, middle is Jameviler, Right is Prisiii3

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