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SOFTWARE

Software for enabling online play, and providing related organisational features.

DEZAEMON

Dezaemon. A series of software released for consoles for the creation of shooters. Included are tools for drawing graphics, making 3D models (in some cases), arranging music, and so on. They all come with example games, which are called 'usergames' in Dezaemon jargon.

SB RECOMMENDS GAMES

SB Recommends Games. We at selectbutton play videogames, sometimes. These pages collect the games we find particularly worth playing, with comments from various members of the SB community on why exactly one might want to play them. Hardware is organised by both 'kind' (eg: arcade, mobile, pc) and 'company' (eg: Atari, Nintendo, Sega).

XBOX HOMEBREW

XBox Homebrew. Modding your Xbox gives you access to an astoundingly more valuable product than something to just play Halo on. There's a huge variety of programs available to you, and all of them are available on the internet. Almost every emulator supports up to 720P resolution, meaning next to the Wii, the ideal way to play old games

on an

SB RECOMMENDS GAME BOY GAMES SB Recommends Game Boy Games. Aside from PCs, the black and white Game Boy with its ghosting “spinach” screen was the most popular and successful gaming platform of all time. It maintained its market supremacy through a gauntlet of would-be competitors, such as the Game Gear, Lynx, and Neo Geo Pocket. The stripped-down nature of the

HATENA SATENA

Hatena Satenta is a nonogame with Minesweeper elements.Like any other nonogame, players use logic to reveal an image under the board. Unlike many games in the genre the pictures use several colours.

STEVE MORAFF

Steve Moraff. Videogame creator who began working on PC Shareware in the late 80s. Creator of Moraff's Blast, one of the better Breakanoids. And perhaps more widely known for the Moraff's Revenge, Moraff's World, and Moraff's Dungeons Of The Unforgiven series of first-person RPGs. Responsible for quite a few, though perhaps

unimportant, firsts

GAVAN ANDERSON

Gavan Anderson is a musician from Melbourne, Australia.. For a short period he moonlighted working on music for NES games 1), and has contributed to at least one other game after that time.

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SOFTWARE

Software for enabling online play, and providing related organisational features.

DEZAEMON

Dezaemon. A series of software released for consoles for the creation of shooters. Included are tools for drawing graphics, making 3D models (in some cases), arranging music, and so on. They all come with example games, which are called 'usergames' in Dezaemon jargon.

SB RECOMMENDS GAMES

SB Recommends Games. We at selectbutton play videogames, sometimes. These pages collect the games we find particularly worth playing, with comments from various members of the SB community on why exactly one might want to play them. Hardware is organised by both 'kind' (eg: arcade, mobile, pc) and 'company' (eg: Atari, Nintendo, Sega).

XBOX HOMEBREW

XBox Homebrew. Modding your Xbox gives you access to an astoundingly more valuable product than something to just play Halo on. There's a huge variety of programs available to you, and all of them are available on the internet. Almost every emulator supports up to 720P resolution, meaning next to the Wii, the ideal way to play old games

on an

SB RECOMMENDS GAME BOY GAMES SB Recommends Game Boy Games. Aside from PCs, the black and white Game Boy with its ghosting “spinach” screen was the most popular and successful gaming platform of all time. It maintained its market supremacy through a gauntlet of would-be competitors, such as the Game Gear, Lynx, and Neo Geo Pocket. The stripped-down nature of the

HATENA SATENA

Hatena Satenta is a nonogame with Minesweeper elements.Like any other nonogame, players use logic to reveal an image under the board. Unlike many games in the genre the pictures use several colours.

STEVE MORAFF

Steve Moraff. Videogame creator who began working on PC Shareware in the late 80s. Creator of Moraff's Blast, one of the better Breakanoids. And perhaps more widely known for the Moraff's Revenge, Moraff's World, and Moraff's Dungeons Of The Unforgiven series of first-person RPGs. Responsible for quite a few, though perhaps

unimportant, firsts

GAVAN ANDERSON

Gavan Anderson is a musician from Melbourne, Australia.. For a short period he moonlighted working on music for NES games 1), and has contributed to at least one other game after that time.

THRUS-TYPES

Thrust-types can be considered one of the earliest videogame genres. Both Spacewar! and Lunar Lander had thrust-based gameplay and their original incarnations predate the year 1970.. Gravitar (1983) and Gauntlet (1984) created many of the genre's conventions. However it wasn't until Thrust (1986) was released (and ported to every home computer out there) that the genre gained some

BREAKANOIDS

The genre begins, in 1976, with Breakout, which was designed to be a single player response to Pong.In 1986 Taito released Arkanoid, which added a variety of power-ups to the formula.These include: granting the ability to shoot blocks, change the

RPG MAKER

RPG Maker. RPG Tsukuru 3 in Japan. The first version for the Sony PlayStation. It's still 2D, and not that much different than the second SNES game, though it added the ability to make your own graphics, and included more resources. The sequel, RPG Tsukuru 4, also a PlayStation game, was never outside Japan, and is untranslated. THE TAITO COMPILATIONS The PC and Xbox, and PS2 versions have some exclusives, as noted. Also note that the US PS2 version does not support the multitap.

SONY PLAYSTATION

Sony's PlayStation was the big boy of its console generation. It began as a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Nintendo approached Sony to develop it (and later Phillips) because of good relations regarding the Super Nintendo's sound chip, also made by Sony. Concurrently Sony began work on a system that would play SNES cartridge and CD based games, as well as its own NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM Famiclones. Famiclones are unoffical versions of Famicom/NES hardware. Though initially they were proper copies, they are now made with NES-on-a-chip (often shortened to NOAC), which, though imperfect, are tiny, and cheap to manufacture. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes: some mimic Nintendo hardware, some mimic other consoles, some SB RECOMMENDS VIRTUAL BOY GAMES Nintendo's most spectacular failure in the hardware market. Famously, the Virtual Boy can only display red and black, and has a never-duplicated dual-padded controller that only a few games fully utilise. It produced an interesting handful of optimistic experiments and tech demos in the very short span of time it was supported, and arguably the best Wario game ever made.

STEVE MORAFF

Steve Moraff. Videogame creator who began working on PC Shareware in the late 80s. Creator of Moraff's Blast, one of the better Breakanoids. And perhaps more widely known for the Moraff's Revenge, Moraff's World, and Moraff's Dungeons Of The Unforgiven series of first-person RPGs. Responsible for quite a few, though perhaps

unimportant, firsts

MARINA LITEYEARS

The star of Mischief Makers, Ultra Intergalactic Cybot-G (AKA: Marina Liteyears 1)) is the maid, and protector, of Professor Theo.She does this mostly by shaking and throwing things. In Mischief Makers Marina is dopleganged by Calina, a Clancer impersonator, intent of giving Marina a bad reputation.

GAVAN ANDERSON

Gavan Anderson is a musician from Melbourne, Australia.. For a short period he moonlighted working on music for NES games 1), and has contributed to at least one other game after that time. NET YAROZE COLLECTION The Blueberry Hill: A fiddly, Super Monkey Ball, type game. Emotion - Thrus-Types - by Jon Prestidge, and Matt Veran. The Blueberry Hill: It's a sort-of-neat, 3D, single-screen, thrus-type. Levels are solved by pushing colliding balls of matching colours, and the player's ability to manoeuvre them is comlicated in various ways.

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SB RECOMMENDS GAMES

SB Recommends Games. We at selectbutton play videogames, sometimes. These pages collect the games we find particularly worth playing, with comments from various members of the SB community on why exactly one might want to play them. Hardware is organised by both 'kind' (eg: arcade, mobile, pc) and 'company' (eg: Atari, Nintendo, Sega).

DEZAEMON

Dezaemon. A series of software released for consoles for the creation of shooters. Included are tools for drawing graphics, making 3D models (in some cases), arranging music, and so on. They all come with example games, which are called 'usergames' in Dezaemon jargon. SB RECOMMENDS PLAYSTATION GAMES Zodar: is a mechanically-sound platformer.The full analog controls hold up today, the camera is non-intrusive, and jumping is satisfying. It's one of the only games I've played with a Zelda-style tool arsenal where all of them are useful in general gameplay (aside from the remote control car).The level design is abstract, but somehow it still maintains a strong sense of place. it SB RECOMMENDS ROM HACKS AND GAME MODS T.: Malde's maps are meticulous and beautiful, overflowing with unique areas and held together by a real sense of tension and Johnsen's (particularly ep3) are expertly strung together hordes where every encounter is the most exciting one yet. And even though his hell is not the most detailed one, I still find it particularly unsettling and grotesque (oh right and all of the other maps are

XBOX HOMEBREW

XBox Homebrew. Modding your Xbox gives you access to an astoundingly more valuable product than something to just play Halo on. There's a huge variety of programs available to you, and all of them are available on the internet. Almost every emulator supports up to 720P resolution, meaning next to the Wii, the ideal way to play old games

on an

SB RECOMMENDS GAME BOY GAMES SB Recommends Game Boy Games. Aside from PCs, the black and white Game Boy with its ghosting “spinach” screen was the most popular and successful gaming platform of all time. It maintained its market supremacy through a gauntlet of would-be competitors, such as the Game Gear, Lynx, and Neo Geo Pocket. The stripped-down nature of the

PANEL DE PON

Panel de Pon is an Action Puzzle game created by the company Intelligent Systems and released, with the support of Nintendo, in 1995 for the Super Famicom console. The game is based on a Tetris-style narrow area (well) with blocks (panels) that slowly scroll upwards, the goal is to clear three or more blocks of the same color using a two-block wide cursor which you can move throughout the

area.

SUPER NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM The SNES CD (AKA: Super CD, CD-ROM XA, SNES CD-ROM) was a planned CD-ROM add-on, which, after various carfuffles between Sony, Philips, and Nintendo, was cancelled. SNES-CD Profile - Detailed article on the SNES CD story, on N-Sider.com. The SNES CD Thread - Lots of SNES CD links on the SNES Central Forum. SNES CD - on Lost Levels. NET YAROZE COLLECTION The Blueberry Hill: A fiddly, Super Monkey Ball, type game. Emotion - Thrus-Types - by Jon Prestidge, and Matt Veran. The Blueberry Hill: It's a sort-of-neat, 3D, single-screen, thrus-type. Levels are solved by pushing colliding balls of matching colours, and the player's ability to manoeuvre them is comlicated in various ways.

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SB RECOMMENDS GAMES

SB Recommends Games. We at selectbutton play videogames, sometimes. These pages collect the games we find particularly worth playing, with comments from various members of the SB community on why exactly one might want to play them. Hardware is organised by both 'kind' (eg: arcade, mobile, pc) and 'company' (eg: Atari, Nintendo, Sega).

DEZAEMON

Dezaemon. A series of software released for consoles for the creation of shooters. Included are tools for drawing graphics, making 3D models (in some cases), arranging music, and so on. They all come with example games, which are called 'usergames' in Dezaemon jargon. SB RECOMMENDS PLAYSTATION GAMES Zodar: is a mechanically-sound platformer.The full analog controls hold up today, the camera is non-intrusive, and jumping is satisfying. It's one of the only games I've played with a Zelda-style tool arsenal where all of them are useful in general gameplay (aside from the remote control car).The level design is abstract, but somehow it still maintains a strong sense of place. it SB RECOMMENDS ROM HACKS AND GAME MODS T.: Malde's maps are meticulous and beautiful, overflowing with unique areas and held together by a real sense of tension and Johnsen's (particularly ep3) are expertly strung together hordes where every encounter is the most exciting one yet. And even though his hell is not the most detailed one, I still find it particularly unsettling and grotesque (oh right and all of the other maps are

XBOX HOMEBREW

XBox Homebrew. Modding your Xbox gives you access to an astoundingly more valuable product than something to just play Halo on. There's a huge variety of programs available to you, and all of them are available on the internet. Almost every emulator supports up to 720P resolution, meaning next to the Wii, the ideal way to play old games

on an

SB RECOMMENDS GAME BOY GAMES SB Recommends Game Boy Games. Aside from PCs, the black and white Game Boy with its ghosting “spinach” screen was the most popular and successful gaming platform of all time. It maintained its market supremacy through a gauntlet of would-be competitors, such as the Game Gear, Lynx, and Neo Geo Pocket. The stripped-down nature of the

PANEL DE PON

Panel de Pon is an Action Puzzle game created by the company Intelligent Systems and released, with the support of Nintendo, in 1995 for the Super Famicom console. The game is based on a Tetris-style narrow area (well) with blocks (panels) that slowly scroll upwards, the goal is to clear three or more blocks of the same color using a two-block wide cursor which you can move throughout the

area.

SUPER NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM The SNES CD (AKA: Super CD, CD-ROM XA, SNES CD-ROM) was a planned CD-ROM add-on, which, after various carfuffles between Sony, Philips, and Nintendo, was cancelled. SNES-CD Profile - Detailed article on the SNES CD story, on N-Sider.com. The SNES CD Thread - Lots of SNES CD links on the SNES Central Forum. SNES CD - on Lost Levels. SB RECOMMENDS MASTER SYSTEM GAMES shnozlak: Fantasy Zone is confusing pure joy.Opa opa literally being the ship and the hero sort of blew a friend's mind when we played it. I enjoyed a version of this on PS2 before owning it here so as a game its no major revelation. However I love playing it on actual hardware with the genesis arcade power stick.The pastel pink and teal glowing gorgeousness rolls by with organic rubber bandy

THE CLICKTEAM LINE

Clickteam has been releasing easy to use game development software since 1994's Klik & Play. All of their releases function in a similar manner: games are created without coding, but by placing graphics in a WYSIWYG fashion in the level editor, and selecting from and modifying events in the event editor.They all come packaged with graphic and sonic resources, an image editor, and externally

PANEL DE PON

Panel de Pon is an Action Puzzle game created by the company Intelligent Systems and released, with the support of Nintendo, in 1995 for the Super Famicom console. The game is based on a Tetris-style narrow area (well) with blocks (panels) that slowly scroll upwards, the goal is to clear three or more blocks of the same color using a two-block wide cursor which you can move throughout the

area.

SB RECOMMENDS PLAYSTATION GAMES alvare: AC3 is like flying WW2 planes disguised as Veritech Fighters in the Ghost in the Shell universe; it has a cute sci-fi plot that nowadays is more “silly” than “awesome”, lots of mission “settings” but little actual variety (SPAAAAAAACE), and choices and endings and all the anime confetti. The music is a combination of flawless, IDM techno ambient tracks and pink noise with

QIX

Qix was created in 1981 by Randy and Sandy Pfeiffer, and was the first game entirely produced by Taito America. It was, initially, popular in arcades, but enthusiasm dissipated when players learned the game was unbeatable, and there is no singular play-pattern to learn/master.

NINTENDO 64

The analogue stick made the system a good target for 3-D platformers, though Nintendo and Rare managed to flood that genre themselves there are some curiosities that didn't get so much attention like Glover, and the Chameleon Twist series. Many people bought the system because of it's easy four-player support, and the system became the system of choice for console first-person shooting. THE TAITO COMPILATIONS The PC and Xbox, and PS2 versions have some exclusives, as noted. Also note that the US PS2 version does not support the multitap. SB RECOMMENDS PC-88 & PC-98 GAMES sharc: On its own merits this is a somewhat standard horizontal shooter for its time. However, the PC88 really struggles with fair, playable shooters in general and fast-moving sprites, smooth scrolling and layers of parallax in particular; it's quite a feat to wrangle the hardware for all that in ASSAULT SUITS SERIES Trivia/e-rumor extermination time! Although it has been rumored that the celebrated SNES underdog Metal Warriors was originally an NCS-developed Assault Suits game (sometimes identified as “Assault Suit Gideon”) that was eventually passed onto Konami for whatever reason, it has been reveleaed this is not the case. Rather, the game was developed by various employees of LucasArts, then SB RECOMMENDS ZX SPECTRUM GAMES Read as Zed-Ecks Spectrum, affectionately called a Speccy. UK basement legend, hidden hero of the Russian Cold War. After delivering the somewhat successful ZX81, Sinclair Research (led by the baldest men in computer history, Clive Sinclair) set into building a low-cost, household machine that could withstand “serious” activities like printing and color graphics. Available in both 16Kb and

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Guidelines. Learn the syntax and fool around in the playground. Please use namespaces when writing new articles, as collected above. Begin articles with a readable title in a heading. E.g, game:ms_pacman should start with ======Ms. Pacman======. Upload figures to the fig: namespace, preferably under a sub-namespace for the article. E.g., one NET YAROZE COLLECTION The Blueberry Hill: A fiddly, Super Monkey Ball, type game. Emotion - Thrus-Types - by Jon Prestidge, and Matt Veran. The Blueberry Hill: It's a sort-of-neat, 3D, single-screen, thrus-type. Levels are solved by pushing colliding balls of matching colours, and the player's ability to manoeuvre them is comlicated in various ways.

SOFTWARE

Software for enabling online play, and providing related organisational features.

DEZAEMON

Dezaemon. A series of software released for consoles for the creation of shooters. Included are tools for drawing graphics, making 3D models (in some cases), arranging music, and so on. They all come with example games, which are called 'usergames' in Dezaemon jargon.

SB RECOMMENDS GAMES

SB Recommends Games. We at selectbutton play videogames, sometimes. These pages collect the games we find particularly worth playing, with comments from various members of the SB community on why exactly one might want to play them. Hardware is organised by both 'kind' (eg: arcade, mobile, pc) and 'company' (eg: Atari, Nintendo, Sega).

XBOX HOMEBREW

XBox Homebrew. Modding your Xbox gives you access to an astoundingly more valuable product than something to just play Halo on. There's a huge variety of programs available to you, and all of them are available on the internet. Almost every emulator supports up to 720P resolution, meaning next to the Wii, the ideal way to play old games

on an

NINTENDO 64

The analogue stick made the system a good target for 3-D platformers, though Nintendo and Rare managed to flood that genre themselves there are some curiosities that didn't get so much attention like Glover, and the Chameleon Twist series. Many people bought the system because of it's easy four-player support, and the system became the system of choice for console first-person shooting. SB RECOMMENDS GAME BOY GAMES SB Recommends Game Boy Games. Aside from PCs, the black and white Game Boy with its ghosting “spinach” screen was the most popular and successful gaming platform of all time. It maintained its market supremacy through a gauntlet of would-be competitors, such as the Game Gear, Lynx, and Neo Geo Pocket. The stripped-down nature of the

HATENA SATENA

Hatena Satenta is a nonogame with Minesweeper elements.Like any other nonogame, players use logic to reveal an image under the board. Unlike many games in the genre the pictures use several colours.

GAVAN ANDERSON

Gavan Anderson is a musician from Melbourne, Australia.. For a short period he moonlighted working on music for NES games 1), and has contributed to at least one other game after that time.

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Guidelines. Learn the syntax and fool around in the playground. Please use namespaces when writing new articles, as collected above. Begin articles with a readable title in a heading. E.g, game:ms_pacman should start with ======Ms. Pacman======. Upload figures to the fig: namespace, preferably under a sub-namespace for the article. E.g., one NET YAROZE COLLECTION The Blueberry Hill: A fiddly, Super Monkey Ball, type game. Emotion - Thrus-Types - by Jon Prestidge, and Matt Veran. The Blueberry Hill: It's a sort-of-neat, 3D, single-screen, thrus-type. Levels are solved by pushing colliding balls of matching colours, and the player's ability to manoeuvre them is comlicated in various ways.

SOFTWARE

Software for enabling online play, and providing related organisational features.

DEZAEMON

Dezaemon. A series of software released for consoles for the creation of shooters. Included are tools for drawing graphics, making 3D models (in some cases), arranging music, and so on. They all come with example games, which are called 'usergames' in Dezaemon jargon.

SB RECOMMENDS GAMES

SB Recommends Games. We at selectbutton play videogames, sometimes. These pages collect the games we find particularly worth playing, with comments from various members of the SB community on why exactly one might want to play them. Hardware is organised by both 'kind' (eg: arcade, mobile, pc) and 'company' (eg: Atari, Nintendo, Sega).

XBOX HOMEBREW

XBox Homebrew. Modding your Xbox gives you access to an astoundingly more valuable product than something to just play Halo on. There's a huge variety of programs available to you, and all of them are available on the internet. Almost every emulator supports up to 720P resolution, meaning next to the Wii, the ideal way to play old games

on an

NINTENDO 64

The analogue stick made the system a good target for 3-D platformers, though Nintendo and Rare managed to flood that genre themselves there are some curiosities that didn't get so much attention like Glover, and the Chameleon Twist series. Many people bought the system because of it's easy four-player support, and the system became the system of choice for console first-person shooting. SB RECOMMENDS GAME BOY GAMES SB Recommends Game Boy Games. Aside from PCs, the black and white Game Boy with its ghosting “spinach” screen was the most popular and successful gaming platform of all time. It maintained its market supremacy through a gauntlet of would-be competitors, such as the Game Gear, Lynx, and Neo Geo Pocket. The stripped-down nature of the

HATENA SATENA

Hatena Satenta is a nonogame with Minesweeper elements.Like any other nonogame, players use logic to reveal an image under the board. Unlike many games in the genre the pictures use several colours.

GAVAN ANDERSON

Gavan Anderson is a musician from Melbourne, Australia.. For a short period he moonlighted working on music for NES games 1), and has contributed to at least one other game after that time.

THRUS-TYPES

Thrust-types can be considered one of the earliest videogame genres. Both Spacewar! and Lunar Lander had thrust-based gameplay and their original incarnations predate the year 1970.. Gravitar (1983) and Gauntlet (1984) created many of the genre's conventions. However it wasn't until Thrust (1986) was released (and ported to every home computer out there) that the genre gained some

BREAKANOIDS

The genre begins, in 1976, with Breakout, which was designed to be a single player response to Pong.In 1986 Taito released Arkanoid, which added a variety of power-ups to the formula.These include: granting the ability to shoot blocks, change the THE TAITO COMPILATIONS The PC and Xbox, and PS2 versions have some exclusives, as noted. Also note that the US PS2 version does not support the multitap.

SONY PLAYSTATION

Sony's PlayStation was the big boy of its console generation. It began as a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Nintendo approached Sony to develop it (and later Phillips) because of good relations regarding the Super Nintendo's sound chip, also made by Sony. Concurrently Sony began work on a system that would play SNES cartridge and CD based games, as well as its own

STRATEGY

Tips, tricks, instructions, sage advice, and general elucidation brought to you by the fine folks of selectbutton.net SB RECOMMENDS VIRTUAL BOY GAMES Nintendo's most spectacular failure in the hardware market. Famously, the Virtual Boy can only display red and black, and has a never-duplicated dual-padded controller that only a few games fully utilise. It produced an interesting handful of optimistic experiments and tech demos in the very short span of time it was supported, and arguably the best Wario game ever made.

PANEL DE PON

Panel de Pon is an Action Puzzle game created by the company Intelligent Systems and released, with the support of Nintendo, in 1995 for the Super Famicom console. The game is based on a Tetris-style narrow area (well) with blocks (panels) that slowly scroll upwards, the goal is to clear three or more blocks of the same color using a two-block wide cursor which you can move throughout the

area.

STEVE MORAFF

Steve Moraff. Videogame creator who began working on PC Shareware in the late 80s. Creator of Moraff's Blast, one of the better Breakanoids. And perhaps more widely known for the Moraff's Revenge, Moraff's World, and Moraff's Dungeons Of The Unforgiven series of first-person RPGs. Responsible for quite a few, though perhaps

unimportant, firsts

MARINA LITEYEARS

The star of Mischief Makers, Ultra Intergalactic Cybot-G (AKA: Marina Liteyears 1)) is the maid, and protector, of Professor Theo.She does this mostly by shaking and throwing things. In Mischief Makers Marina is dopleganged by Calina, a Clancer impersonator, intent of giving Marina a bad reputation.

GAVAN ANDERSON

Gavan Anderson is a musician from Melbourne, Australia.. For a short period he moonlighted working on music for NES games 1), and has contributed to at least one other game after that time.

TITLE SCREEN

Guidelines. Learn the syntax and fool around in the playground. Please use namespaces when writing new articles, as collected above. Begin articles with a readable title in a heading. E.g, game:ms_pacman should start with ======Ms. Pacman======. Upload figures to the fig: namespace, preferably under a sub-namespace for the article. E.g., one NET YAROZE COLLECTION The Blueberry Hill: A fiddly, Super Monkey Ball, type game. Emotion - Thrus-Types - by Jon Prestidge, and Matt Veran. The Blueberry Hill: It's a sort-of-neat, 3D, single-screen, thrus-type. Levels are solved by pushing colliding balls of matching colours, and the player's ability to manoeuvre them is comlicated in various ways.

SOFTWARE

Software for enabling online play, and providing related organisational features.

DEZAEMON

Dezaemon. A series of software released for consoles for the creation of shooters. Included are tools for drawing graphics, making 3D models (in some cases), arranging music, and so on. They all come with example games, which are called 'usergames' in Dezaemon jargon.

SB RECOMMENDS GAMES

SB Recommends Games. We at selectbutton play videogames, sometimes. These pages collect the games we find particularly worth playing, with comments from various members of the SB community on why exactly one might want to play them. Hardware is organised by both 'kind' (eg: arcade, mobile, pc) and 'company' (eg: Atari, Nintendo, Sega).

XBOX HOMEBREW

XBox Homebrew. Modding your Xbox gives you access to an astoundingly more valuable product than something to just play Halo on. There's a huge variety of programs available to you, and all of them are available on the internet. Almost every emulator supports up to 720P resolution, meaning next to the Wii, the ideal way to play old games

on an

NINTENDO 64

The analogue stick made the system a good target for 3-D platformers, though Nintendo and Rare managed to flood that genre themselves there are some curiosities that didn't get so much attention like Glover, and the Chameleon Twist series. Many people bought the system because of it's easy four-player support, and the system became the system of choice for console first-person shooting. SB RECOMMENDS GAME BOY GAMES SB Recommends Game Boy Games. Aside from PCs, the black and white Game Boy with its ghosting “spinach” screen was the most popular and successful gaming platform of all time. It maintained its market supremacy through a gauntlet of would-be competitors, such as the Game Gear, Lynx, and Neo Geo Pocket. The stripped-down nature of the

HATENA SATENA

Hatena Satenta is a nonogame with Minesweeper elements.Like any other nonogame, players use logic to reveal an image under the board. Unlike many games in the genre the pictures use several colours.

GAVAN ANDERSON

Gavan Anderson is a musician from Melbourne, Australia.. For a short period he moonlighted working on music for NES games 1), and has contributed to at least one other game after that time.

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Guidelines. Learn the syntax and fool around in the playground. Please use namespaces when writing new articles, as collected above. Begin articles with a readable title in a heading. E.g, game:ms_pacman should start with ======Ms. Pacman======. Upload figures to the fig: namespace, preferably under a sub-namespace for the article. E.g., one NET YAROZE COLLECTION The Blueberry Hill: A fiddly, Super Monkey Ball, type game. Emotion - Thrus-Types - by Jon Prestidge, and Matt Veran. The Blueberry Hill: It's a sort-of-neat, 3D, single-screen, thrus-type. Levels are solved by pushing colliding balls of matching colours, and the player's ability to manoeuvre them is comlicated in various ways.

SOFTWARE

Software for enabling online play, and providing related organisational features.

DEZAEMON

Dezaemon. A series of software released for consoles for the creation of shooters. Included are tools for drawing graphics, making 3D models (in some cases), arranging music, and so on. They all come with example games, which are called 'usergames' in Dezaemon jargon.

SB RECOMMENDS GAMES

SB Recommends Games. We at selectbutton play videogames, sometimes. These pages collect the games we find particularly worth playing, with comments from various members of the SB community on why exactly one might want to play them. Hardware is organised by both 'kind' (eg: arcade, mobile, pc) and 'company' (eg: Atari, Nintendo, Sega).

XBOX HOMEBREW

XBox Homebrew. Modding your Xbox gives you access to an astoundingly more valuable product than something to just play Halo on. There's a huge variety of programs available to you, and all of them are available on the internet. Almost every emulator supports up to 720P resolution, meaning next to the Wii, the ideal way to play old games

on an

NINTENDO 64

The analogue stick made the system a good target for 3-D platformers, though Nintendo and Rare managed to flood that genre themselves there are some curiosities that didn't get so much attention like Glover, and the Chameleon Twist series. Many people bought the system because of it's easy four-player support, and the system became the system of choice for console first-person shooting. SB RECOMMENDS GAME BOY GAMES SB Recommends Game Boy Games. Aside from PCs, the black and white Game Boy with its ghosting “spinach” screen was the most popular and successful gaming platform of all time. It maintained its market supremacy through a gauntlet of would-be competitors, such as the Game Gear, Lynx, and Neo Geo Pocket. The stripped-down nature of the

HATENA SATENA

Hatena Satenta is a nonogame with Minesweeper elements.Like any other nonogame, players use logic to reveal an image under the board. Unlike many games in the genre the pictures use several colours.

GAVAN ANDERSON

Gavan Anderson is a musician from Melbourne, Australia.. For a short period he moonlighted working on music for NES games 1), and has contributed to at least one other game after that time.

THRUS-TYPES

Thrust-types can be considered one of the earliest videogame genres. Both Spacewar! and Lunar Lander had thrust-based gameplay and their original incarnations predate the year 1970.. Gravitar (1983) and Gauntlet (1984) created many of the genre's conventions. However it wasn't until Thrust (1986) was released (and ported to every home computer out there) that the genre gained some

BREAKANOIDS

The genre begins, in 1976, with Breakout, which was designed to be a single player response to Pong.In 1986 Taito released Arkanoid, which added a variety of power-ups to the formula.These include: granting the ability to shoot blocks, change the THE TAITO COMPILATIONS The PC and Xbox, and PS2 versions have some exclusives, as noted. Also note that the US PS2 version does not support the multitap.

SONY PLAYSTATION

Sony's PlayStation was the big boy of its console generation. It began as a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Nintendo approached Sony to develop it (and later Phillips) because of good relations regarding the Super Nintendo's sound chip, also made by Sony. Concurrently Sony began work on a system that would play SNES cartridge and CD based games, as well as its own

STRATEGY

Tips, tricks, instructions, sage advice, and general elucidation brought to you by the fine folks of selectbutton.net SB RECOMMENDS VIRTUAL BOY GAMES Nintendo's most spectacular failure in the hardware market. Famously, the Virtual Boy can only display red and black, and has a never-duplicated dual-padded controller that only a few games fully utilise. It produced an interesting handful of optimistic experiments and tech demos in the very short span of time it was supported, and arguably the best Wario game ever made.

PANEL DE PON

Panel de Pon is an Action Puzzle game created by the company Intelligent Systems and released, with the support of Nintendo, in 1995 for the Super Famicom console. The game is based on a Tetris-style narrow area (well) with blocks (panels) that slowly scroll upwards, the goal is to clear three or more blocks of the same color using a two-block wide cursor which you can move throughout the

area.

STEVE MORAFF

Steve Moraff. Videogame creator who began working on PC Shareware in the late 80s. Creator of Moraff's Blast, one of the better Breakanoids. And perhaps more widely known for the Moraff's Revenge, Moraff's World, and Moraff's Dungeons Of The Unforgiven series of first-person RPGs. Responsible for quite a few, though perhaps

unimportant, firsts

MARINA LITEYEARS

The star of Mischief Makers, Ultra Intergalactic Cybot-G (AKA: Marina Liteyears 1)) is the maid, and protector, of Professor Theo.She does this mostly by shaking and throwing things. In Mischief Makers Marina is dopleganged by Calina, a Clancer impersonator, intent of giving Marina a bad reputation.

GAVAN ANDERSON

Gavan Anderson is a musician from Melbourne, Australia.. For a short period he moonlighted working on music for NES games 1), and has contributed to at least one other game after that time.

TITLE SCREEN

Guidelines. Learn the syntax and fool around in the playground. Please use namespaces when writing new articles, as collected above. Begin articles with a readable title in a heading. E.g, game:ms_pacman should start with ======Ms. Pacman======. Upload figures to the fig: namespace, preferably under a sub-namespace for the article. E.g., one NET YAROZE COLLECTION NET YAROZE COLLECTIONNET YAROZE EBAYNET YAROZE CLONENET YAROZE FOR SALENET YAROZE PS1NET YAROZE

ROMS

The Blueberry Hill: A fiddly, Super Monkey Ball, type game. Emotion - Thrus-Types - by Jon Prestidge, and Matt Veran. The Blueberry Hill: It's a sort-of-neat, 3D, single-screen, thrus-type. Levels are solved by pushing colliding balls of matching colours, and the player's ability to manoeuvre them is comlicated in various ways.

SB RECOMMENDS GAMES

SB Recommends Games. We at selectbutton play videogames, sometimes. These pages collect the games we find particularly worth playing, with comments from various members of the SB community on why exactly one might want to play them. Hardware is organised by both 'kind' (eg: arcade, mobile, pc) and 'company' (eg: Atari, Nintendo, Sega).

DEZAEMON

Dezaemon. A series of software released for consoles for the creation of shooters. Included are tools for drawing graphics, making 3D models (in some cases), arranging music, and so on. They all come with example games, which are called 'usergames' in Dezaemon jargon. SHUYAKU SENTAI IREM FIGHTER Shuyaku Sentai Irem Fighter is a card-based strategy game by Irem, featuring characters from various Irem games.It was released in 1993, for the Game Boy.And only in Japan, though the language isn't a barrier. The game isn't fantastic: the strategic quantity is quite

low.

XBOX HOMEBREW

XBox Homebrew. Modding your Xbox gives you access to an astoundingly more valuable product than something to just play Halo on. There's a huge variety of programs available to you, and all of them are available on the internet. Almost every emulator supports up to 720P resolution, meaning next to the Wii, the ideal way to play old games

on an

NINTENDO 64 NINTENDO 64 BUTTON LAYOUTNINTENDO 64 SYSTEMNINTENDO SELECTS GAMESNINTENDO SELECTS WIININTENDO SWITCH

BUTTONS

The analogue stick made the system a good target for 3-D platformers, though Nintendo and Rare managed to flood that genre themselves there are some curiosities that didn't get so much attention like Glover, and the Chameleon Twist series. Many people bought the system because of it's easy four-player support, and the system became the system of choice for console first-person shooting.

STEVE MORAFF

Steve Moraff. Videogame creator who began working on PC Shareware in the late 80s. Creator of Moraff's Blast, one of the better Breakanoids. And perhaps more widely known for the Moraff's Revenge, Moraff's World, and Moraff's Dungeons Of The Unforgiven series of first-person RPGs. Responsible for quite a few, though perhaps

unimportant, firsts

GAVAN ANDERSON

Gavan Anderson is a musician from Melbourne, Australia.. For a short period he moonlighted working on music for NES games 1), and has contributed to at least one other game after that time.

SATORU IWATA

Iwata Asks - Regular Nintendo publicity thing where Iwata interviews other Nintendo staff.

TITLE SCREEN

Guidelines. Learn the syntax and fool around in the playground. Please use namespaces when writing new articles, as collected above. Begin articles with a readable title in a heading. E.g, game:ms_pacman should start with ======Ms. Pacman======. Upload figures to the fig: namespace, preferably under a sub-namespace for the article. E.g., one NET YAROZE COLLECTION NET YAROZE COLLECTIONNET YAROZE EBAYNET YAROZE CLONENET YAROZE FOR SALENET YAROZE PS1NET YAROZE

ROMS

The Blueberry Hill: A fiddly, Super Monkey Ball, type game. Emotion - Thrus-Types - by Jon Prestidge, and Matt Veran. The Blueberry Hill: It's a sort-of-neat, 3D, single-screen, thrus-type. Levels are solved by pushing colliding balls of matching colours, and the player's ability to manoeuvre them is comlicated in various ways.

SB RECOMMENDS GAMES

SB Recommends Games. We at selectbutton play videogames, sometimes. These pages collect the games we find particularly worth playing, with comments from various members of the SB community on why exactly one might want to play them. Hardware is organised by both 'kind' (eg: arcade, mobile, pc) and 'company' (eg: Atari, Nintendo, Sega).

DEZAEMON

Dezaemon. A series of software released for consoles for the creation of shooters. Included are tools for drawing graphics, making 3D models (in some cases), arranging music, and so on. They all come with example games, which are called 'usergames' in Dezaemon jargon. SHUYAKU SENTAI IREM FIGHTER Shuyaku Sentai Irem Fighter is a card-based strategy game by Irem, featuring characters from various Irem games.It was released in 1993, for the Game Boy.And only in Japan, though the language isn't a barrier. The game isn't fantastic: the strategic quantity is quite

low.

XBOX HOMEBREW

XBox Homebrew. Modding your Xbox gives you access to an astoundingly more valuable product than something to just play Halo on. There's a huge variety of programs available to you, and all of them are available on the internet. Almost every emulator supports up to 720P resolution, meaning next to the Wii, the ideal way to play old games

on an

NINTENDO 64 NINTENDO 64 BUTTON LAYOUTNINTENDO 64 SYSTEMNINTENDO SELECTS GAMESNINTENDO SELECTS WIININTENDO SWITCH

BUTTONS

The analogue stick made the system a good target for 3-D platformers, though Nintendo and Rare managed to flood that genre themselves there are some curiosities that didn't get so much attention like Glover, and the Chameleon Twist series. Many people bought the system because of it's easy four-player support, and the system became the system of choice for console first-person shooting.

STEVE MORAFF

Steve Moraff. Videogame creator who began working on PC Shareware in the late 80s. Creator of Moraff's Blast, one of the better Breakanoids. And perhaps more widely known for the Moraff's Revenge, Moraff's World, and Moraff's Dungeons Of The Unforgiven series of first-person RPGs. Responsible for quite a few, though perhaps

unimportant, firsts

GAVAN ANDERSON

Gavan Anderson is a musician from Melbourne, Australia.. For a short period he moonlighted working on music for NES games 1), and has contributed to at least one other game after that time.

SATORU IWATA

Iwata Asks - Regular Nintendo publicity thing where Iwata interviews other Nintendo staff.

SOFTWARE

Software for enabling online play, and providing related organisational features.

QIX

Qix was created in 1981 by Randy and Sandy Pfeiffer, and was the first game entirely produced by Taito America. It was, initially, popular in arcades, but enthusiasm dissipated when players learned the game was unbeatable, and there is no singular play-pattern to learn/master. THE TAITO COMPILATIONS The PC and Xbox, and PS2 versions have some exclusives, as noted. Also note that the US PS2 version does not support the multitap.

STRATEGY

Tips, tricks, instructions, sage advice, and general elucidation brought to you by the fine folks of selectbutton.net

PANEL DE PON

Panel de Pon is an Action Puzzle game created by the company Intelligent Systems and released, with the support of Nintendo, in 1995 for the Super Famicom console. The game is based on a Tetris-style narrow area (well) with blocks (panels) that slowly scroll upwards, the goal is to clear three or more blocks of the same color using a two-block wide cursor which you can move throughout the

area.

SB RECOMMENDS MEGA DRIVE / GENESIS GAMES SB Recommends Mega Drive / Genesis Games. Sega's 16-bit console, home to a good range of action games, most of them being arcade ports. And of course that sound chip. It also has lots of hardware variations and add-ons, such as the Mega-CD, 32x, Wondermega, and so on. SB RECOMMENDS PLATFORM INDEPENDENT / BROWSER-BASED GAMES Take It Sleazy: Ripple Dot Zero is pretty much the exact platformer I have wanted to play for a long time. It's like a Treasure game I can actually play and enjoy all they way through! Which probably means it's way too easy and mechanically unsatisfying for you hardcore

heads.

SB RECOMMENDS VIRTUAL BOY GAMES Nintendo's most spectacular failure in the hardware market. Famously, the Virtual Boy can only display red and black, and has a never-duplicated dual-padded controller that only a few games fully utilise. It produced an interesting handful of optimistic experiments and tech demos in the very short span of time it was supported, and arguably the best Wario game ever made.

STEVE MORAFF

Steve Moraff. Videogame creator who began working on PC Shareware in the late 80s. Creator of Moraff's Blast, one of the better Breakanoids. And perhaps more widely known for the Moraff's Revenge, Moraff's World, and Moraff's Dungeons Of The Unforgiven series of first-person RPGs. Responsible for quite a few, though perhaps

unimportant, firsts

MARINA LITEYEARS

The star of Mischief Makers, Ultra Intergalactic Cybot-G (AKA: Marina Liteyears 1)) is the maid, and protector, of Professor Theo.She does this mostly by shaking and throwing things. In Mischief Makers Marina is dopleganged by Calina, a Clancer impersonator, intent of giving Marina a bad reputation.

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