davetansley

joined 1 year ago
[–] davetansley@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, the highlight of the show for me was definitely the blindfold Breath of the Wild run... amazing!

Also enjoyed glitchless Elden Ring.

[–] davetansley@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

It's a Miyoo Mini Plus... a relatively cheap ($60) Chinese Linux device.

[–] davetansley@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

It's actually a Miyoo Mini Plus... a fairly cheap ($60) Chinese Linux based console for playing retro games. I definitely recommend it.

[–] davetansley@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Funnily enough, I just tried this last night after talking about GB Tetris. It really is awesome!

 

Gameboy Tetris wasn't the first Tetris I played (that was Mirrorsoft Tetris on the ZX Spectrum, with its spooky AY theme music), but it is the Tetris I always go back to.

For such an early GB game, it feels almost perfect. A compelling combination of apparent simplicity and hidden depth, it was (and still is) ideal to pick up and play for five minutes at a time. I think it is fair to say that the GB wouldn't have done half as well without Tetris.

Sure, it lacks features that modern Tetris implementations have - like hold, or being able to rotate infinitely in place, or fancy flashing backdrops - but it seems somehow better for that. Tetris in its purest form, just one more go, for ever and ever.

What are your memories of GB Tetris? Do you still play it? Do you think it holds up? What is your go-to Tetris?

[–] davetansley@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It feels almost petty to mention, but my main problem with gaming these days is choice... there's just too much. I have a SteamDeck packed with over a decade of Humble Bundles and giveaways. I have a MiSTer FPGA with 10,000 retro games. I have subscriptions throwing me more games in a month than I could play in a year... and amid all that choice, I found I was playing none of it.

So I've taken steps. On retro devices, I've taken to removing the full ROM sets (or hiding them from view) and just selecting a handful of games that I used to own, or definitely want to play. In Steam, I've started a collection list of games I'm interested in and I only ever pick from that.

And, somehow, it works. Seeing only three or four games to choose from somehow short circuits that panic response of seeing three or four thousand. It's easier to fixate on a game, or to find something to genuinely enjoy about a title that may not be that perfect experience otherwise, rather than discarding it quickly and moving on to the next fleeting thrill.

[–] davetansley@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Couple of oldies I fire up regularly: Tetris (Gameboy, 1989); Head Over Heels (Spectrum, 1987); Bruce Lee (C64, Atari, 1984)

[–] davetansley@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

In fact, the white one is the most readily available currently... I got this one because they were all sold out of the black one, and it's the one I see most often on Miyoo's Ali Express store.

That said, the temptation to buy all four is strong, so the order you get them in becomes increasingly irrelevant :)

[–] davetansley@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've been playing a lot on this Miyoo Mini Plus recently. Tiny, but surprisingly easy to play, and great for picking up for quick gaming sessions. With OnionOS, and its Game Switcher, you can be in and gaming in seconds.

So far, I've played through GBA Circle of the Moon and Aria of Sorrow on it. Great games!