Gaming Journal (updated frequently)

Julian Capehart
Oct 4, 2016
8 min read

7/19/2017 Sometime ast week, I got a new Pac-Man hi-score of 85,650 pts. I think that This is my first time seeing Clyde without his red shroud on. That was kinda disturbing. HAHA Also, tonight, I finally got a perfect level,, meaning I ate each ghost 4 times each (16 times) and got the 2 fruits in 1 level. Well, it's about time. It's a bit more difficult than it may seem.

6/23/2017 Got some great Pac-Man tips from YouTube. They really made took my game to the next level, and it's more fun to play now. Newest hi-score is 66,310 pts.

4/8/2017 Ugh! I can get through the first level of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers without getting hit once (or using the power bomb),Ugh! Wix is telling me that the format that my game recordings are recorded with aren't supported, so I can't upload them here directly. Grrr. I may have to just post links from another site that supports this file type. Anyways, the next 2 levels will be very tricky, especially with the movement of the bosses; Knarley Knome & Eye Guy.I think I've said this before with playing SMB for score, but it's actually interesting & amazing It's cool how you can get a totally new game out of an old 1 by doing these level challenges to change the level dynamic like this. Just one little tweak, & very easy game quickly becomes very challenging, & you have to actually strategize your way through levels.

4/1/2017 Been taking more time off of Buster's Hidden Treasure to tend to other matters. Enough of these water levels. I can't even attack underwater, just dodge. 4 or 5 different types of water enemies all in one place waiting to bum-rush? Sheesh. I'm taking a break from this game. Gonna try to record some SNES Mighty Morphin Power Rangers No Damage runs once I figure out the tricks to having no damage. Gonna have to memorize certain parts. Boss battles are going to be tricky too. O.O

3/18/2017 Took a few days off, came back, got through the lava level. It was all about parkouring up the abyss & not stressing too much about what was below.

3/14/2017

Wow. This rising lava stage though...

3/13/2017

Attempting to beat Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure. I never had the game as a kid, or even played it as a kid. I'm trying to do 2 or 3 levels a day. I just got to the lava caves level yesterday. I think I'll take today off though, and pick it up tomorrow. I can appreciate how this game has it's own feel, and feels like a solid/challenging action adventure game. It's always good when there's a game where you hop on enemies' heads doesn't feel at all like, or remind me of, Super Mario Bros. Like it's it's own thing, with it's own vibe.

2/4/2017 Ugh... I played Donkey Kong again today on Game: B and the highest I was able to get was 85,600 pts. That's 100 pts. lower than my current hi-score. I felt very mocked by that score. That's ok though... Next time, I'm grinding those later barrel levels hard... I will get over 100,000 pts.

2/2/2017 Getting better. I got 85,700 pts. in Game: B of Donkey Kong. Ugh... A score in the 100,000's would look so good on my score board right now.

1/28/2017 Wow! What took me so long to start playing Game: B of Donkey Kong (or any other game for that matter)? It's so intense right from the start. I guess I thought I could rack up a lot of points on early levels more easily. The only thing with playing Game: B is: it makes me feel paranoid that DK is going to throw one of those zig-zap barrels while I'm running right under him. He didn't hit me with one once. I got 78,400 pts. on my first try -- that's decent. It would've been more if I hadn't lost some lives due to miss-timing avoidance of obstacles.

1/24/2017 Yes! I finially broke 600,000 pts. in Super Mario Bros. with 600,900 pts.! Ok, maybe now I can finally move on to Galaga for real this time.

1/14/2017

So, I wanted to beat my Super Mario Bros. personal best of 491,250 pts., so I played a few times really well, but then I kept losing just shy of a new hi-score, so I felt like I was really burned out, but I continued to play and I reached 527,800 pts. on my last life. At first I was like, "Ok, cool I'm happy with this,. I can sit out this score for a while now -- satisfied.", but then I was like, "Sheesh, if I was playing so horribly and I got that score, imagine what my score would have been if I'd been in rare form like the past few weeks building up to this score." And so, I am compelled to get 600,000 pts. but no rush though. I still want to get my Galaga score up-to-snuff before I try SMB again.

1/11/2017 Don't you hate it when you're playing a game, and someone says "Oh, is that all you have to do?". It makes me want to say "Yes, and in a fighting game, you punch people, and in a driving game you drive a car, and in a sports game you make more points than the apposing team. That doesn't make any of it any easier. If it was as easy as just simply doing this one thing, I wouldn't even be playing it, I'd probably be bouncing a rubber ball off of a paddle all day." But I do have to say, people like that quickly expose themselves as the kind of person that judges all books by their covers. It's interesting to play against them too, because they think that the harder and faster you hit the buttons, the better you will do, and like, that's all there is to it; no coordination, no timing, no strategy, just mash the buttons faster than the other guy. It's fun to see experience be their teacher. 0:)

1/10/2017 I started playing Murder She Wrote and it's a good game. I finished the first story. Just a couple of hiccups though: They asked me to find a clipboard and I kept clicking it and it wouldn't take. Come to find out, there was another one on the boat. It's important in "item find" games to not have this happen. Then, in the library part, they asked me to find some scissors, I clicked it and it wouldn't let me grab them until something else was picked up (which had nothing to do with the scissors at all). It wasn't one of those "find this thing, so you can open this other thing" type of deals. It just simply didn't let me pick it up. Anyways, sheesh, I hope there are no other hiccups like these in the other crime cases. Also, I am eager to play Murder She Wrote: 2, so that I can see how it has improved.

1/9/2017 Why is TwinGalaxies.com so hard to search? Jeez! And once you find the game you want to check, you can't even save the page URL to your favorites. It's wierd liek that. The search slot at the top does yeild any results either. No alphabetizing with actual letters either; it's just page 1,2,3,4,5 etc. You literally have to memorize which numbered page your game is on. In fact, I'm going to make a list that tells me which games are on while page. But anyways: Sheesh, man. Get it together. This shouldn't even be A THING in this day and age.

1/9/2017 I figured out how to get a super high grind score in Tiny Toon Adventures but I need to be able to beat Montana Max without losing a continue to get an even bigger score. I'm still practicing against him. That last head bounce is often hard to get -- even while being super patient. Also, I didn't realize that you could duck the low punching bag. I think I just found that out. That will be good to use; at least I have SOMETHING in my favor. 1/9/2017 To play Game:A or Game: B? That is the question. I've seen pros play Game:A a lot because r and the classic games are difficult enough and you get a higher score faster, but what if I got a hi-score with Game: B? That would be cool. *pondering in my fortress of pensiveness*

1/9/2017 I was playing the final level of Tiny Toon Adventures for NES and I bounced off of 2 giant coins that propelled me sky high. SOmehow I died instantly off the screen. Is there a ceiling of spikes up there or something? Anyways, I bounced super high off of 2 coins again and I didn't die. Maybe it was a glitch? I noticed that when I died, it was a punching glove at the bottom of the screen, maybe the glove being way at the bottom and me being waaay at the top tricked the game into thinking I was at the bottom???

1/4/2017 I’d say that grinding in The Field of Screams for about 200,000 pts. is about good enough. 1/4/2017 I don’t like how Duck Vader isn’t worth any points when you defeat him. Sure, he gives you a 3-up, but why not some points too. It’s supposed to be certain criterial you have to have to make him abduct you in the first place. Why not the added treat of some bouns points.

1/2/2017 Elmyra is the key got a higher score than this the gamer on this site: http://www.champow.com/. According to their rules, I can grind/farm as much as I want as long as the element of time is there to stop me from being able to gring for points endlessly. Maybe one day, I’ll record my whole game and enter it onto that site. They don't even have a high score at all for Tiny Toon Adventures (PART 1) for the NES. I could be the first -- same for TwinGalaxies.com too! 1/2/2017 I want to play ms. Pac-man, I do. But I keep feeling like I’m taking the easy way out for a lot of points , since it’s easier than pac-manIt’s interesting how most of the pros play classic games on Game:a. I DO IT TOO. I THINK I’LL TRY FOR Game: B hi-scores too. I mean, there are games,’ve never even touched Game: B

1/2/2017 Gotta get back into the swing of things with Galaga; shake the rust off so I can post a good score on my site.

1/2/2017 I played Mad City, briefly. Yes, it certainly is easier than The Adventures of Bayou Billy. How the heck do we get The Adventures of Bayou Billy in America, but Japan gets Mad City. Wasn’t the real Super Mario Bros 2 not brought to America because they thought it would be too hard for American gamers? Yet… We get the hardest version of Bayou BILLY? Well, different companies I guess Nintendo and Konami. Different pov.

1/3/2017 What’s the deal with the wonder boy sega genesis box art. He looks like he’s wearing a creepy mask.1/3/ 2017There was a Windows 95 version of Spider-Man/Venom: Separation Anxiety with Interactive Quicktime Comic book??? HAHAHA Wow! That's interesting to know.http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/713492-spider-man-and-venom-separation-anxiety/images/1615674 `

12/10/2016 `I wonder if Alienators: Evolution for the GBA has the same programmer as Spider-Man/Venom: Separation Anxiety. When I that MDKMKPCC was a code in Alienators, it reminded me of the codes in Separation Anxiety below. DCCPMH is the code for level 5, STSPPC is the code for level 12, STSPPC is the code for level 17 Maybe it's the C's together and the M's and P. Anyways, looked super familiar.

10/15/2016 It's funny how your Pokemon line-ups change throughout the years. As a kid it was just about choosing the best ones to help me through the game. Now, I find myself wanting to pick my actual favorites. I feel somewhat compelled to erase my Pokemon Blue file and start over; making my favorites the strongest. I think about doing it, but they I realize that in another 20 years, I'd probably want to change them again because my favorites will change yet again, or for some other reason I have yet to discover.

10/4/2016 Why am I so obsessed with having a level 99 Caterpie? I want people to laugh as soon as I call him out, then shatter their egos as a level 99 Caterpie 1-hit K.O.s their Pokemon with tackle or headbutt -- or better yet, stringshots all of their Pokemon endlessly until they beg me to stop. I mean, I just want to do that like once in my life.

6/3/2016 Before I knew the (or bothered to remember) the names of Carnage's kids in Spider-Man/Venom: Separation Anxiety, I used to call them by nicknames.

Riot was Blackie Scream was Blondie Lasher was Whips Agony was Voilet Phage was ... Skin? ...Slice? Slicer? ...Slasher? I can't even remember. Maybe it was Flesh. o . O