Comments on: Midwest Gaming Classic: Trip Report

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 31 May 2010 23:14:26 +0000

My 32X has given up all pretenses of even potentially working with my X’eye, so I’m not going to get a good taste of Zaxxon until I get a model 1 or 2 Genesis. Strangely enough, I’ve never owned either. As for Viewpoint, that game is friggin hard, so no… I haven’t played it much! In fact, I haven’t played any of these much… With a few weeks off of school coming up, I think I’ll dig into a game or two.

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 27 May 2010 02:06:21 +0000

So how are the games coming? Get past the crab boss in Viewpoint yet? If so, kudos ;)

Zaxxon is all about the hacking enemy ships. It’s buys you extra fire power and a shield. Half the fun is hacking each ship just to see what it does!

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:55:33 +0000

Yeah, I’m thinking Zaxxon vs. Viewpoint will be an interesting comparison. So far, after playing the first level of each, I’m enjoying Viewpoint a lot more. I need to get better acquainted with Zaxxon, though — the controls and shooting felt pretty sluggish, but I might have been doing something wrong. That’s interesting that you liked Zilliion II more than the first. Most people have the opposite opinion. Hmm, now that I think about it, I think I’ll make Zillion the next game I play through.

Yeah, it was good to see Tempest 3000 at the show again, but I was disappointed with the NUON setup — the monitor they had it hooked up to was god awful and made everything a terrible blurry mess. It did not do the game justice! I tried playing it for about 30 second, but just couldn’t bother.

Blazing Lazers is top notch. It’s fun, and accessible, even if you’re not a hardcore shoot-em-up nerd.

By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:03:50 +0000

Oh yeah, I picked up Blazing Lazers for the TurpGrax-16.

By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:40:12 +0000

Sorry I missed you, I was sick as a dog yesterday so I was only there for a couple hours before I headed home.

I was surprised to get home and see the Red Hot sauce in my bag! I guess the company figured gaming nerds was their target demographics.

You definitely got a lot more out of the experience than I did! Next year I am going to bring extra cold meds…

Nice stash of games! It’s interesting how you got Viewpoint AND Motherbase 2000. Viewpoint is way too hard (I can’t get past the second boss, even with infinite continues). Motherbase is a similar game, but with flat shaded polygons, and way more playable.

Sonic CD is excellent, and the US sound track does kick ass. I enjoyed Zillion II better than the first game, and I think you finally got a Master System game that shows off the hardware a bit.

If I would have stayed longer, I am almost positive I would have bought a Virtua Boy and some games, I have wanted one for a while.

The highlights for me were playing Tempest 3000 on a Nuon, which was extremely trippy. I also finally got to see and play a PC-FX. It was a lot smaller than I expected. There was a shmup playing, which was pretty fun. After beating the level, the unit crashed though…