This doesn't answer your question, but thank you for the love and patience you have for your son.

Simon's Quest is a C- game with an A+ soundtrack

Are two notes a jingle? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz2QPBkDkFc

Ocarina of Time. After the action and increasingly beautiful pixel art of the first four Zelda games, I found the 3D one boring and ugly.

Like those occasional illustrations in Alice in Wonderland or Narnia, game manuals provided a window into a world you couldn't fully see (in the case of old consoles, due to low res or low poly graphics) and served as a jumping off point for so many children's imaginations to fill in the rest of the details.

https://atariage.com/manual_page.php?SystemID=2600&SoftwareLabelID=128&ItemTypeID=MANUAL&currentPage=0

Thank you! I have to admit, I'm still trying to grok Lemmy and other fediverse software. It helps when patient people like you give advice.

I made it a bulleted list and it looks better now, thank you.

Wonder Boy 3: the Dragon's Trap, a simple "Metroidvania" style platformer with fun action and enemy design. No deep story, but one of my all-time favorite game soundtracks

Ultima Runes of Virtue 1 & 2 for the Game Boy. Great action-adventure-puzzle games. But very unforgiving, every dungeon is filled with fatal errors. I couldn't get to the end when I was young!

Ghost Manor for the 2600 is a fun game with lots of atmosphere. However it's also pretty simple and will only occupy you for 10-20 minutes. It sure was a blast when I was a little kid, though.

There's also Monster Bash, the 1982 Sega arcade game.

Agree it wasn't the best Atari game, but as a little kid it was fun competing for those flies in 2P. I can still picture when the night was over, the frogs jumping away, a fly bringing in the words "The End" and then listening to the crickets chirp.

Legacy of the Wizard - NES aka Dragon Slayer IV Drasle Family - MSX

@[email protected], thanks for changing the title and pointing this out to me.

It's confusing because I still see the old title. The summary says there are four comments but I only see two.

I'm going to file this under user error on my part. Obviously I don't understand Lemmy and federation very well.

Thirty cents is an absolute steal. Evoland does well as an homage to multiple generations of CRPGs.

Agree, the lack of tactile feedback was awful. It's like playing on a mobile phone screen today

If you've been playing JRPG/action-adventure games since the NES days, the Evoland games have lots of fun references. Easily worth spending 99 cents!

@[email protected] OK, no one has volunteered, so I'll take you up on your offer. Thanks to the admins for all your hard work. Please tell me if there are any buttons I need to press to make this happen.

And please de-mod my account if you can and if you don't mind.

If you like shapeless icons, this is a good pack. I got it on sale a few months ago. The artist strikes a good balance between keeping the icons recognizable while putting their own twist on them.

Anybody have a favorite shapeless icon pack?

That games goes great with a real NES controller, so you can throw it across the room after dying.

This sale is smaller than Popoi the sprite.