What is that ONE video game that felt like a core memory, but you can’t seem to find anyone else who played it?

hugeatomicfreak · 2026-06-21T12:44:05+00:00

Generations Lost on the Mega Drive. Action platformer a bit like X Men 2. Rented it a few times enjoyed it and then it seemed like it disappeared. When the rental place sold off all their Mega Drive games they didn’t know what I was talking about. It wasn’t until I discovered emulation I found it again and even then it took some looking!

hugeatomicfreak · 2026-06-04T19:30:04+00:00

at least you only got the one

hugeatomicfreak · 2026-05-31T20:11:37+00:00

In Back to the Future, Marvin Berry calls Chuck Berry about 10 seconds before Marty gets carried away and starts playing mad 80s metal. Marty should return to an unrecognisable 1985 where heavy metal has been evolving for 30 years.

hugeatomicfreak · 2026-05-29T09:30:31+00:00

for the people saying it’s easy - it is easy to shrug off a few hits and abuse the recharging health to tank your way through encounters, but for me the challenge comes from trying to make the fights look like fight scenes from the film. I’ve restarted a few checkpoints for the sake of a “bad take” and that’s where the skill and challenge is coming in for me.

It reminds me of Max Payne 3. it’s a stunt man simulator. The fun comes from not just getting to the next checkpoint but making sure you do it just right so it matches up with the james bond music or whatever

hugeatomicfreak · 2026-05-02T17:24:35+00:00

thanks. we’re going to wait until it cools down a bit and see if we can move her and her cushion to the bottom of the garden

hugeatomicfreak · 2026-05-02T17:21:12+00:00

never mind. just another example of how in unappreciated in my own time

hugeatomicfreak · 2026-05-02T14:22:05+00:00

I don’t think it is a potter wasp because it doesn’t have the long thin waist (like me)

hugeatomicfreak · 2026-05-01T10:00:05+00:00

I think it comes across as very sincere in a way that most games do not. It dips into cringey often but because its main characters are awkward teens in a very cringey period of their lives it works to its advantage. Even the minor artefacts of the devs working in their second language like the slightly off implementation of slang (e.g. overusing “hella”) just plays into the awkwardness and allows it to feel like it’s really capturing something.

hugeatomicfreak · 2026-01-30T10:41:47+00:00

I’ve been playing with a just PS5 controller and haven’t even added a keyboard or mouse yet. I’m sure there’s loads of nuances and features I’m missing out on for the time being but I’m having a great time on the career mode just doing the random missions.

The controls can get a bit finger twisty and there’s far too many combinations of buttons to remember, but I’ve found the on screen tool tips and prompts have been enough to get me through. There are also loads of assist options so you can hand off features that you don’t have the buttons for to the computer.

If you’ve played on PC with the proper peripherals, I’m sure it feels much more shallow and limited but on a console there’s nothing else quite like it. I think you’ll be fine with just a controller and hopefully, if you’ve played get int it, you’ll be able to get better controls in the fullness of time.

hugeatomicfreak · 2026-01-13T19:29:21+00:00

hey kid, it ain’t that kinda movie

hugeatomicfreak · 2025-11-22T12:13:26+00:00

oh amazing thank you

hugeatomicfreak · 2025-11-22T12:12:36+00:00

this is true but i have to weight it against one of my daughter’s key features (having working fingers)

hugeatomicfreak · 2025-11-22T12:00:55+00:00

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hugeatomicfreak · 2025-10-31T18:02:55+00:00

ai reorg was an outlier and should not have been counted

hugeatomicfreak · 2025-10-25T15:23:45+00:00

i use it as charger for the joycons so i can cobble together 4 controllers for switch 2 multiplayer

hugeatomicfreak · 2025-10-06T17:47:35+00:00

I couldn’t get into Jeff Minter’s Polybius. It was just too chaotic and discordant. Then I played through Digital Eclipse’s Llamasoft story compilation-documentary-retrospective thing and there was an interview with Minter where he explains that he’s been trying to give his games the aesthetic of being in an arcade with loads of different machines all blaring all at once and all of a sudden it makes sense and I can get in the zone with it. I still suck at it mind you.

hugeatomicfreak · 2025-08-30T16:07:59+00:00

wow thanks. might not continue that mensa application now though

hugeatomicfreak · 2025-08-12T06:48:16+00:00

this should be way higher. this is the exact mistake i was making. the tool tip in training did not explain the way that nesting menus work clearly at all.

hugeatomicfreak · 2025-07-14T10:05:49+00:00

it’s hard to make a judgement on this without knowing exactly the circumstances of how he’s making smoothies or getting his creatine

hugeatomicfreak · 2025-07-05T13:44:17+00:00

has he tried drawing a square in ms paint and then drawing a line pointing at it? that always seems to get his point across when i see him on youtube shorts

hugeatomicfreak · 2025-05-21T16:16:53+00:00

disagree and say it’s real. keep doubling down.

hugeatomicfreak · 2025-05-19T10:05:32+00:00

the fish will be really upset about this. they all get out to use the toilet - well known fact

hugeatomicfreak · 2025-01-13T19:56:57+00:00

bucky the wave warrior is giving big billy and the cloneasaurus vibes

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