A guy named Cybershell does some good runs of Sonic the Hedgehog games. I'll be taking you through them. Starting with the first Sonic the Hedgehog. The first run is through the Green Hill Zone of Sonic the Hedgehog. It's the first zone you encounter and one of my personal favorites. I remember going through this as a kid and just running wild. I'll warn you that Cybershell does like to curse quite often, but it is in a humourously entertaining light and it is actually fun to watch him mistakes versus it just being annoying that the player messes up.

I'm not quite sure where I got it from.

My Sweet Home (NES) LP is complete :)



You can read it all here

I love this guys YouTube channel. He plugs so much game music :).

So I finished Dragon Quest II. It was much harder than the first game! I had to grind for quite some time to finish up the game, but it was all worth it. Seeing the credits roll again felt great,  I feel like I'm getting further into the series and now can say I beat the second installment of the series. It's cool that parts of the game are set in past spots of the first game, reminds me of playing Final Fantasy X-2, except that it does not ruin a great game and make it something totally different.





I barely survived the last battle. My main hero put the finishing blow with his last bit of HP left.




The End :)

I love this little piece from Dragon Quest IV. =]

I've been addicted to the anime Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken lately. Unfortunately the English subs on it are far from complete. :( My korean dramas are translated faster.

So I started Dragon Quest II. Most of the beginning is spent chasing after the hero from another kingdom, whose name is Art in my game. Maybe it's short for Arthur? That would be a better name. Since this is the GBC version the character limit is four characters I believe, so I guess they couldn't get crazy with the name. I spent some time chasing after him and then discovered that he is only at level one when I caught up with him, which means I need to grind him up to my status. He has magic, which should be useful.



I also visited the Hero's Spring while searching for Art and was sprinkled with some water, unfortunately it did NOT level me up. Now I'm embarking with Art into the world.

Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
Gauntlet IV
Golden Axe
Golden Axe 2
Golden Axe 3
Phantasy Star II
Revenge of Shinobi
Shining Force
Shining Force 2
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Sonic & Knuckles
Streets of Rage
Streets of Rage 2
Streets of Rage 3

Current status: I got a long way to go -_-

Final Fantasy I
Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy V
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XII
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest

All the Dragon Quest games  I want to beat. Once I someday make it through the list I will beat ports as well.

Dragon Quest I
Dragon Quest II
Dragon Quest III
Dragon Quest IV
Dragon Quest V
Dragon Quest VI
Dragon Quest VII
Dragon Quest VIII
Dragon Quest Monsters
Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Tara's Adventure
Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Tobi's Journey
Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart
Torneko: The Last Hope

I beat Dragon Quest earlier this morning. The game was pretty fun, definitely still archaic, but fun. I'm glad to have it down on my list of Dragon Quest games beat. I'm now working through the beginning of Dragon Quest II.

Here's some things that still bugged me:

• The Return function only brings you back to the castle, I never knew how awesome the function was in the future games where you can just return to any town you have visited instead of backtracking all the time
• Removing a curse is a hidden thing, you can get cursed and not know where to go for hours
• I couldn't find any item to heal my MP. Maybe I just missed it.
• Some of the games puzzles seemed to have no clues and you just wander around until you find the next path.

Revisiting the Square-Enix Members site has led me to visiting some other sites that I haven't logged into for some time. I think the avatar feature is really cool, but I think they should allow members to earn points in a few other ways then just buying video games. This includes:

PlaySega: A cool concept, but not enough mini-games/not enough to do with the games that make Sega "Sega". It's kind of odd that the site is not really tied to the real Sega games because Sega is usually good at making use of it's brands.

Capcom-Unity: Added some auctions/rewards, but I haven't been there in so long my points are almost 0 =[ Better get back on it.

I've been checking out some others too like Konami Play. Konami Play looks like it'll be headed in the direction of PlaySega though it's not quite there yet.

My super old Shin-Ra ID:

I don't know what it is about old school gaming music, but I love it. I was barely even old enough to remember most of these games when they launched, but I still have great appreciation for them. Enjoying video game music is definitely one of those things that is a secret pleasure, not something I really advertise to people who know me, but sometimes I like it even more than regular music.

This is my video game LJ for all things video games. I don't like having a million different crowds on one journal, makes things feel cluttered so this will exist simply for video games. Right now I'm playing a bunch of old video games since it's summer and there is pretty much nothing else to do. I don't own any current generation systems, though I hope to acquire a Nintendo DS before Dragon Quest IX arrives.

Last weekend I found out my Nintendo 64 is messed up, when I turn it on it restarts by itself while playing a game. I suppose 11 years is a good run for a system and I should either look for another 64 or for a 64 USB controller for my laptop.

My backloggery: