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This is good stuff Emp. "Smash a lumbering bag of guts with a baseball bat..." That line conjures real imagery; I love it. Was the first line a shot at me, incidentally? Seems so. :T

I don't have to prove I'm refined - that's what makes me refined!

Thanks, Masters. I was trying to keep mixing up the phrases so there was some concern that some would fall flat. I'm glad that one popped out at you.

And no, it wasn't a shot. Call it a homage.

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Damn. This was a good review. Love that kind of descriptive experience, especially when it's so vividly portrayed as you make it. I'd heard of this game before, but I didn't know they'd made it so gory and violent. Sounds totally awesome. And gross. Haha. I'm starting to wish I weren't as young as I am. Didn't have much experience with the whole arcade scene. Did when I was younger, but not enough to remember anything like this.

Just wondering, though, do you still find time to find and play these again? If not, it's pretty damn amazing how you can write so well just from memory.

Also, check your HG mail.

[Eating EmP's brain] probably isn't a good idea. I mean... He's British, which means his brain's wired for PAL and your eyes are NTSC. - Will

In the case of the two arcade games, it's from memory. This way of reviewing has its obvious cons but it's also great for succient reviews as only the most memorable (and, thus, important) aspects get mentioned. Good or bad, it's the bist that have survived the test of time that get written about while the unimportant bits I often feel obliged to mention get left out.

But thanks for the kind words; I'm rather happy with this and have been meaning to pump out a Splatterhouse review for some time.

If you can run a NES and Genny emu, you can run MAME and emu arcade stuff.

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Dear whom who may concern,

Me'd like to add some data to the database to post my work. Mr. honestgamer said that me can do this here.

Game name:
1. Rockman X7 for Windows
2. Megaman 3 for DOS

Is it accpetable? or need more detail? If it needs more detail, me will add it next time me am online.

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What me see is my messages all were auto-placed into other place...
Why?

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I would like to see the game Little Cook added to the database. I wanted to post a review of it because my daughter is really enjoying it, but it is not on your database. It seems to be selling pretty well so I think it's worthy. Let me know if you decide to put it up because I would really like to add a review. Thanks so much!

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On a side note, this post was in the wrong thread. Are you sure you're not part of the Aqility development team? If so that's fine, but there are better ways to contact us about covering games. If you really did find this game enjoyable and would like to review it, please remember that we have a thread on the forums specifically to request that games be added to the database. I hope that you'll read several of the reviews already listed on-site and put forth your best effort when contributing a review of your own, as we aren't in the habit of posting reviews unless they meet rather high standards. And naturally, we wouldn't knowingly post a review of a game that was written by one of its developers.

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Im not sure if this is the right place to put this, but I was interested in seeing if a MMOG called Pirate Galaxy could be added to the reviews list. It is a game similar to the old Freelancer but without the trading part. Ive been playing it since January and as they add new systems, the graphics and style have had much improvement. The basic game is that Earth was taken over by another race, mankind scattered to the corners of the universe, now they are gathering for one final assault to take back their homeworld. Check it out sometime, if I can post a review of it, let me know.

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[Eating EmP's brain] probably isn't a good idea. I mean... He's British, which means his brain's wired for PAL and your eyes are NTSC. - Will

I marathoned this game with a friend of mine a few years back. It was just me, him, a dark room and Splatterhouse all night, taking turns with the controller whenever Rick died (which was often). We were determined not to stop until we had beaten it. It took us most of the night, but we did it, and it was a hell of a lot of fun.

I will admit that the game gets kinda dumb and sloppy in the latter stages, though this was not entirely unexpected, as arcade games were usually front-loaded with the strongest content at the start anyway (as people usually ran out of quarters before getting to the end stages anyway).

I had played the Turbographix version before that, and I was shocked at how graphic the arcade version was by comparison. It's a one-of-a-kind game, for sure. Objectively, I don't know if I could give it as high a rating as 8/10 because of its awful controls, but it sure is an interesting and anomalous piece of gaming history.

I didn't know they had made a remake. I will have to investigate this.

placid like acid

Man, this one goes back a bit. I think Leroux did a thing where he failed to turn up for a tourney and broke Master's heart he challenged the site to submit arcade game reviews and for every review someone subbed within a week or so, he would write his own. He was then buried in reviews and had to tap out. That was almost ten years ago. Christ....

Splatterhouse was a big part of my arcade experience; it was next to the Operation Wolf machine that practically raised me and became my go-to when insolent other people were playing Wolf wrong. There was a mini arcade inside the local sports center, and I used to lie to my parents and tell them my football training finished an hour later than it did so I could could play gory horror-fighters and shoot communists. I was 10.

The remake was okay. Nothing fantastic

Thanks for reading.

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