This stream will have a heavy Amiga bias, but other platforms will feature, As always, open to requests, either in advance or on the night.
TEH PLN: Amiga Pinball Dreams (1 game each table). Amiga Pinball Fantasies ( 1 game each table). Amiga Pinball Illusions (1 game each table). Amiga X-Out. Amiga Marble Madness. Amiga Deluxe Galaga. Amiga Wicked (10 minutes or so). By ear or request. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY0PupPqjNc
In this stream I play Dig Dug Revival by Low Carb Games (2023) on a real C64 for the Everything C64 Discord August Challenge. Awkward with an 8 way stick but ended up scoring 107,430 which I wasn't expecting and I'm very pleased!
Everything C64 Discord Invite Link: https://discord.gg/ZTjZbNWKwR
Dig Dug Revival: https://lowcarb.itch.io/dig-dug-revival-c64
My Twitch Channel: https://twitch.tv/ponderprg
A frustrating swear fest! I have to say I'm not a fan of this game for reasons that become clear throughout the video. Still, always up for a challenge! ;)
I mainly play Galencia on a C64C, getting a stream high score and personal best of 274,950.
I also play 1942 to start as a stream request redeem, and demonstrate the latest update to my own game, Cruising on Broadway. I added the VIC20 charset and it looks good on emulators... but pretty messy on the real thing that's barely modified for decent composite output!
Here I play Rocket Smash ex in a live stream on a real C64. It was a lot of fun too! It's basically a revamped version of the classic Spectrum game, Jetpac and plays really well.
The forum this challenge is a part of is here: https://everythingc64.boards.net
The game itself can be found here: https://rgcddev.itch.io/rocket-smash-ex
If you want to watch this madness as it happens (and often extra bits) then feel free to follow me here: https://twitch.tv/retroponder
In this stream I played Viewpoint by Sammy (1992) on the Neo Geo core of the MiSTerFPGA for the Mamemeister High Score Kerfuffle Season 12 Part 10 (season finale). A fun but brutal game I'd seen but never played before. My stream high score was on my last game of the night: 78,990!
If you'd like to watch this madness as it happens then feel free to follow me on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/ponderprg
In this stream I played Wiping by Nichibutsu (1982) for the Mamemeister High Score Kerfuffle. It's not a terrible game but it's very clunky and the controls do spoil what has the potential to be a good game otherwise.
My stream score was 65,720, which is less than my highest but I have no motivation to improve this. It was still a fun stream, as always so enjoy the replay!
If you'd like to watch this madness live (and other things I don't upload here) then feel free to follow me on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/ponderprg
First let's get this out of the way: IT'S NOT PERFECT!
Right, now I've seen this demo on YouTube but only emulated, so decided to put together a version using real hardware.
I have a C64C connected via S-Video to a custom GBS-C scan converter, captured using a USB3.0 Mirabox capture device via OBS for each portion at 50fps, and stitched together with the free Kdenlive video editing package.
As I said it's not perfect but this reflects reality. It's more akin to how it was intended to be displayed so I'm keeping it like this.
When I saw this game chosen for this week's challenge my eyes lit up. I used to play this in my local pub when I was 18/19 years old and I'm quite good at it. Stream score was 245,000 but that was because I was distracted by the awesome chat. I've since got 415,000 and 290,000 on Antstream!
This was my last stream in support of Samaritans for Mental Health Awareness week (extended to a month) for May as part of the Mental Health May Stream Team organised by the awesome Aravelle. If you feel you can spare some cash to help here is my donation link: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising-edit/ponder-mental-retro
You can find me live at times on my Twitch channel here: https://twitch.tv/retroponder (follow to get notifications).
Team organiser Aravelle can be found here: https://twitch.tv/aravelle
Mamemeister High Score Kerfuffle Season 6 - Part 1.
Year: 1980.
Game: Balloon Bomber.
For this one I intended to use the MiSTer. I got a score of 10,500 the night before the stream so had a look on Twin Galaxies. It would have put me in second place! Now I know for a fact there are others in between and they're in this same challenge but I decided to record it via an official method anyway, so downloaded and built WolfMame (which took 2½ hours!) and while I didn't beat that on stream (technical difficulties with audio and OBS losing all audio devices requiring a restart) I did beat it later (11,050). I'll wait until the challenge ends before submitting any score though ;)
This is also my first ever charity stream. I'm a part of the Mental Health May Stream Team organised by the awesome Aravelle ( https://twitch.tv/aravelle ) and raising money for Samaritans. If you want to and can donate please use my donation link :)
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/ponder-mental-retro
This was the first of 5 streams in May in which I'm raising money.
My main Twitch channel where I stream these live is at https://twitch.tv/retroponder