Absolutely loved both of them! I think UFO Defense was the first pc game I played on our first 486. It was one of the first games I ever successfully hacked.

Not sure how many people know, but there’s another game from Gollop, Rebelstar Tactical Command for Gameboy Advance. It’s part of the Rebelstar series dating back to the ZX Spectrum. It plays pretty much the same as the original XCom games.

X-Com - UFO Defense and TFTD are definitely my favorite. Fallout 1&2 are a close second and I’ve been meaning to play through them again. Ogre Battle is a distant third, with Front Mission right behind it.

But… Stephen King alone has written 65 novels…

Oh my god… Talk about a nostalgia hit. Do they still give those out?

Many, many years ago, we were on the road to some skateboarding event, I think some Bones Brigade thing or some big show with the NSA. I remember we were hanging out at a skate shop with some of the guys before the show and the fucking Wienermobile pulled up outside… I was playing the arcade version of Ninja Gaiden when it happened and someone was like “Holy crap, it’s the Wienermobile!” I left my game and we all went out, got to go inside, and they gave us those little crappy whistles.

When we went back in, I had lost my last life and the game was on the continue screen. I had never played anything other than the NES one, and the continue screen was pretty jarring. I was all out of quarters too, so down went the saw blade…

I had that whistle forever until one day it just disappeared. My mom probably emptied out the junk in one of my desk drawers and away it went… Sorry for the dump, but man, what a nostalgia trip…

Everblue 2 for the PS2 is one of my all-time favorite games. I play it about once a year. The original was an EU only release thst I didn’t get to play until a few years ago. It also had a sort of spiritual successor with Endless Ocean 1 & 2 for the Wii, made by the same developer. However, the first one didn’t have any of the treasure finding mechanics and there was no real threat to the player at any time. Neither series really let you walk on land, so to speak. The Everblue games do have above water parts, you return to the island between dives to talk to people, sell treasure, sleep and such, but they’re prerendered images that are more like a point and click adventure. There were a couple pc games I played around the same time that were made by independent developers that never really took off.

Intellivision did actually have a Kool-Aid game, but you didn’t play as Kool-Aid Man. You played as a couple kids trying to find the ingredients to make some Kool-Aid. It still had the Thirsties in it, but the gameplay was very different.

Also, I’m pretty sure that, aside from the games, the Thirsties were exclusive to the official Marvel Kool-Aid comics. I remember them in commercials, but I’m pretty sure I’m Mandela-ing myself and what I’m actually remembering is Pilsbury’s Goofy Grape and the rest of the Funny Face characters.

The funny coincidence is that almost all of the Funny Face characters are depicted drinking from straws on their packages. Which kind of makes me wonder if the 2600 game wasn’t a subtle dig at them.

I’d assume the second was a reference to the song…

The third obviously a pun on “New Beginnings.” It’s a reference to it being both the first episode of the first season but also the re-opening of the restaraunt.

Oh yeah… I got caught up in the Overwatch loot box thing when it was still huge. Never had a problem gambling before or since, but I dropped $300 in my last month playing and who knows how much before then. Soon as I realized I had a problem, I uninstalled the game. Couldn’t even talk about it for a long time without wanting to reinstall. Fuck Blizzard and fuck loot boxes…

Why is God in the ass crack appreciation guy pose?

One I’ve been waiting for for a while, “It has my face” Admittedly I didn’t find it on the nextfest page. I found it well over a year ago when it was still DoubleMe. The original was super addicting and I like the direction the story seems to be going in the demo.

Also trying to be patient for Clover Pit

And Gone Fishing has some promise to it. Not everybody’s bag, but my buddies and I all found the demo pretty fun.

By the look of how easily that giant hot dog fits in that hallway, I’m pretty sure she’s been pleased enough…

The cruel part is that it was nested somewhere in the story and he scrolled past it just after day one.

Man, at this point, I can’t even get scab writers. We’re running on AI generated scripts and puppets.

And none of those good puppets either. We’re down to dirty sock puppets and paint on hands.

Hey, I can find it on a map just fine! I’ve known where it is ever since that prince fucked me over for a ton of money.

Fucking Geos man… I remember doing homework on its word processor…

Hell yeah, Tim Follin is a god.

“Tim, would you mind making the music for our Ghouls and Ghosts Commodore port?”

“No problem, here’s 9 full length tracks spanning 22 minutes including a 4 minute long title screen song. I hope that’s enough. I hope I got the screams right…”

Sure it is, you just implement depth map deformation into the static terrain, totally doable! Then you just tie in a strain system to all the game’s models so they fall when they don’t have enough support, then add destruction animations for every static model and falling animations for every character. Totally easy, they had that back when the original Red Faction came out for PS2, the devs are just lazy! /s

Just wait til you hear about water! Everybody who drinks it? Dead. 100% mortality rate, no cure, and once you start, you’re hooked!

Honestly, the poop rapier was so much better… Really got down into the pipes for those deep clogs.