What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose (SNES)

September 14th, 2022

My current tiredness is impossible to defeat, but I got another game cleared last night! Macbat 64 puts me halfway to my goal of 10 games cleared, but even though I'm happy about the progress, I wish the game had been longer! Macbat 64 was really weird, cute, and charming, and I wish it had at least a few more levels to explore. Last night, I cleared all the bonus material alongside the main game in, again, less than an hour. The same developer did two Toree games, though, so maybe more Macbat is ahead, too.

Aside from that, I also got the SD card I ordered in, letting me set up cheats and screenshots for my Retron 5. I played some more of Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose with infinite lives on, mostly because I'm too lazy to save state scum upon my failures. It was fun, and I was very pleased with how easy the screenshot feature was to use. I'll have to play around with the NES side of this system, too.

Lastly, I played a little more of Sonic Runners Adventure before bed. I don't actually like this game, but it's on my phone, so I keep playing it. Maybe someday I shall clear it and be free of this curse.

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.