What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Tiny Toon Adventures: Acme All-Stars (Genesis)

September 12th, 2022

It's still no good! I wanted to play games for hours after everything was settled last night, but felt too tired and stressed to decide on anything. Now that it's a work day again, I feel kind of depressed that I blew my chance to relax so badly.

Using some old games I had laying around and some I brought back with me on Saturday, though, I finally set up and tested the Retron 5 I bought a while back. I ended up picking two Tiny Toon Adventures games, since I really liked it as a kid, the Konami games for it were pretty decent, and I had a couple of games for the license on hand. I need an SD card to play with the cheats and screenshot functions, and Best Buy was out of them last night, so I only played these a few minutes each.

My first victim was Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose for the SNES,which, had everything worked out of the box, I would have blown through with infinite lives enabled, laughing maniacally as I lay waste to the entirety of Acme Acres. Instead, I played the first level, pleasantly surprised that this is as good as I remembered it being, and put it aside for the next game. I'll pick this back up once I get the SD card for sure, but I'm not sure if I'll actually use cheats or not.

After that, I bounced to Tiny Toon Adventures: Acme All Stars for the Sega Genesis, which I did not click with last night. I bought this at a Disc Replay when I was in grad school, so I was not nearly as familiar with it, and it isn't really my cup of tea. It might still be fine, but I don't feel well qualified to talk about team sports games. The bowling isn't bad, but sitting through the three AI players to get back to my own frame was super tedious. I shut it off pretty quickly.

Lastly, I played a few more levels of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards before bed, and went to sleep early. It's still fun, but I'm still having trouble sleeping a normal amount, so it's hard to make progress.