5 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 - W1-1: OVER 9,000 COINS!

Dear Readers,

I found a new coin scoring strategy on W1-1 that saves me from having to get any warp pipe at all!

4 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 - W1-1: OVER 8,000 COINS

Dear Readers,

I did the same double Goomba stack strategy as in the previous post for stage W1-1, but as fast as I could. Coin score got a little higher! Here's what I got...

3 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 - TWO GOOMBA STACKS AT ONCE

Dear Readers,

Still on 1-1, I managed to increase my coin score quite a lot by shooting both Goomba stacks at the end with the same golden fireball. Here's how I did it.

20 FINAL FANTASY II - BIG GUY IN DEIST CAVE, WYVERN EGG

Dear Readers,

We got the pendant, but I wanted to explore more of this dungeon, so we went deeper.

2 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 - W1-1: MILKING THE GOOMBA STACK FOR COINS

Dear Readers,

I collected 7,538 coins, my highest score yet for stage 1-1. Here's how I did it.

1 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 - COIN TOTAL SO FAR AND W1-1 RECORD

Dear Readers,

I've owned and played this game since it came out in Summer 2012. I replay it when I get new StreetPass challenges, with the aim of eventually maxing out the coin counter at 9,999,999 coins, but StreetPass has died down a lot recently. As of now I have 5,772,013 coins collected from playing the game over the years. Just over halfway there.

1 ALTER EGO 2: DREAMWALKER - MORE SWITCHING AND WITH AWESOME MUSIC!

ZX Spectrum Vega game #0036

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about the sequel to the wonderful Alter Ego, where the box headed character and its mirror image continue their puzzle platforming adventures! Denis Grachev of retrosouls.net made this one also.

19 FINAL FANTASY II - FOUND DRAGOON PENDANT

Dear Readers,

After going in and out of the cave on Deist island several more times to heal, we finally found the pendant! It was in the weirdest place...

1 ALTER EGO - A GREAT GAME ABOUT SWITCHING!

ZX Spectrum Vega game #0035

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about this lovely puzzle platformer by Denis Grachev of retrosouls.net. I played the NES one before but now I'm trying it on the ZX Spectrum Vega.

18 FINAL FANTASY II - SCARY HILL GIGAS GANGS AND WEIRD GREEN SOULS

Dear Readers,

We went to the cave on Deist island, where we met enemies both terrifying and weird.

3 MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM HORACE - BEAT VILLORDSUTCH'S SCORE!

Dear Readers,

Had another serious go at this game with the aim of getting the high score and beating the 10,000 #1 position on the table held by Villordsutch!

17 FINAL FANTASY II - SURVIVORS OF DEIST

Dear Readers,

After some battles with new water based enemies, we eventually got to Deist. Just had to suss that we had to sail all the way south to appear in the north!

2 MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM HORACE - BUYING TIME TO KEEP THE LEVEL LOW

Dear Readers,

I decided to have another go to see if I can get a better score... and I did! I'll talk about a strategy I used to get more points.

16 FINAL FANTASY II - PIRATE AMBUSH! CAPTAIN LEILA JOINS THE PARTY

Dear Readers,

Maria was suspicious of the female sailor, who introduced herself as Leila and offered us a ride to Deist, but Firion decided we should take the chance anyway, as no one else we asked was going there.

15 FINAL FANTASY II - DRAGOON AND WYVERN MISSION

Dear Readers,

Back in Altair, we heard the king had taken a sudden turn for the worse, so we went to visit. Minwu just shook his head when we arrived.

14 FINAL FANTASY II - DESTROYING THE DREADNOUGHT

Dear Readers,

On leaving Kashuan Keep, we could see Cid's airship flying overhead. The Dreadnought was chasing it!

13 FINAL FANTASY II - KASHUAN KEEP, WHERE THE ENEMIES START GETTING SERIOUS

Dear Readers,

Kashuan Keep is where things start to get kinda serious and mean with the monsters. At least we had Gordon to keep us company.

12 FINAL FANTASY II - EXPLORING THE WORLD WITH THE FIRST CHOCOBO EVER!

Dear Readers,

We made our way back across the snow plain and round to Salamand after losing Josef. Poor guy.

11 FINAL FANTASY II - JOSEF'S SHORT ADVENTURE

Dear Readers,

When we got back to Salamand, we asked Josef about the Goddess' Bell and he joined our party!

21 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - BUILDING A HOUSE AND FLYING BETWEEN VILLAGES

Dear Readers,

Just a single player creative session for today. I felt like building a house, so I started a superflat world on peaceful.

10 FINAL FANTASY II - DREADNOUGHT MASSACRE AFTERMATH AND THE NEW PLAN

Dear Readers,

On following the Dreadnought west, we found that it had already destroyed Poft, Paloom, Altair and Gatrea and killed almost everybody.

20 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - SINCE WHEN DID DIDDY KONG WEAR PANTS?, ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WITH MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

Christmas was over now, so Mop it up and I played my world with the Mario 64 texture pack again. I tried the Diddy Kong costume. Hoo ha hee!

9 FINAL FANTASY II - RETURNING WITH MYTHRIL AND THE MISSION TO BAFSK

Dear Readers,

Now that we had the mythril, we headed back to Altair. It was great to finally have some material for new weapons and armour. The only problem was, we couldn't afford full sets!

19 MINECRAFT WII U EDITION - THE UPDATE THAT ALMOST RUINED CHRISTMAS, ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WITH MOP IT UP

Dear Readers,

It had been a while since I last played and I had Mop it up over in my world. Before we started though, I had to download and install update 1.10, also known as Patch 15. It took almost 11 minutes to download & install and uh... it changed a few things...

8 FINAL FANTASY II - SEMITT FALLS RESCUE, THE AWESOME DUNGEON & BOSS MUSIC

Dear Readers,

Our first meeting with Josef was an unhappy one, as the empire had kidnapped the townspeople to slave away in the mythril mines to the south.

2 NEW RALLY-X - FLAG STRATEGY

Dear Readers,

Had another go of this game while waiting for an extremely late bus. Also examined the scoring mechanism more closely.

7 FINAL FANTASY II - INTERCITY TRAVEL BETWEEN ALTAIR, PALOOM, POFT, BAFSK AND SALAMAND

Dear Readers,

We're a bit braver and more able to travel further now that we have Minwu(and his canoe!), so we rowed across the lake from Altair and headed to Paloom.

6 SPLATOON - 11 MATCHES IN REGULAR BATTLE

Dear Readers,

Goodness me, I haven't played this game since the Pokémon Splatfest back in February! I felt like playing a few matches, but in a stealthy and pacifist way. I didn't splat anyone, but I got splatted quite a few times.

6 FINAL FANTASY II - THE ADVANCED MINWU AND HIS CANOE

Dear Readers,

We returned to Hilda with the sad news from Finn and didn't tell her about Scott's feelings. She commended us on our infiltration mission however, and gave us the opportunity to help with the rebel cause. We now have access to Minwu and his canoe! I love how those two words rhyme :)

3 SUPER COLUMNS - ENDLESS EASY 0 SCORE: 69,095

Dear Readers,

I played this game one day while waiting for a bus, but stopped when a friendly dog came looking for attention. He was trying to get me to put in a good word for him to another dog that was in heat. This is about stacking columns though, not dogs.

5 FINAL FANTASY II - TO FINN AND THE FIRST OF MANY SAD DEATHS

Dear Readers,

Happy New Year! Hope 2017 will be a good one :)

This time we went north around the body of water and navigated our way to Fynn. It was pretty dangerous here with all the soldiers crawling around.