Q&A 11 mar 2010

[MrAmonkey7]

thanks for answering my

question idont really care

how my name is referd to

[smartlamppost]

Ha, I just beat Hotel Mario... and with a broken TimeKeeper battery! So long for Hotel Mario being impossible ;D

Oh, and BTW, here's a little easter egg:

set the date to either christmas, the fourth of July, Valentines Day, Thanksgiving, or halloween, then play a stage in hotel mario; be SURE to read the text at the beginnging  :D

[HalfBlindGamer]

@smartlamppost Yeah, there are even more. Did you find the warps too? Those make beating the game so much quicker!

[smartlamppost]

@HalfBlindGamer Yeah, the warp in the first hotel and 3rd hotel get you all the way to the 8th level of Wendy's hotel in no time! Too bad Bowsers seizure palace is the hardest hotel in the game; those red koopas and pat the bats sure love opening all the millions of doors I've already closed :/ aw well, the game was still quite fun; If my friend gives me a hand then I might do a little tis and hints video for the game... MAYBE... ;D

[HalfBlindGamer]

@smartlamppost Sounds awesome man!

[smartlamppost]

@HalfBlindGamer Actually, I just posted a bit of a speed run video of hotel mario; I tried to beat it in under an hour. I did succeed if you don't count the load times and the score boards, but if you do then I just BARELY missed it. Since I didn't edit the video originally, I believe some of it got cut to fit under the time limit, but either way I did attempt to beat the entire game in under an hour. Failure, my name is Gage!

[smartlamppost]

@smartlamppost Ah, the speed run isn't posted yet; instead I posted an ultra super mega mecha speed run where I use the cheat code. One day , though, I WILL post the speed run.

[KamatsuKyoto]

Great music selection!

[HalfBlindGamer]

Thanks, glad you liked it!

[HalfBlindGamer]

LOL, sorry, that's the second person, impressive!

[tedkamble]

great vid! keep em comin 5*

[HalfBlindGamer]

Thanks, will do my best!

[smartlamppost]

Wow, I sure asked a lot of questions! XD Well, thanks for answering em'; frankly, after playing hotel mario, I must say that it isn't remotely as hard as they claim! Jumping takes some getting used to, but once you get fire mario you start breezing through the stages; some hotels are very hard (especially the last couple ones), but it's not like the whole game is hard. :/ One reason it gets so much hate is that reviewers only show the 1st hotel, which makes it look redundant; whatever, 5 *

[HalfBlindGamer]

Well, you didn't ask them all at once, I was just to slow lol. Thanks though.

I agree with you on Hotel Mario, I personally think it's a pretty fun game. Reviewers do dismiss it rather quickly and on average going into the game totally biased. Ha, and they say I'm blind!

[smartlamppost]

Ha ha, burn! *high fives*

[KonamiFan97]

Why did you remove this?

[HalfBlindGamer]

Remove what? Or was that the question for next time lol.

[GeriatricFan1963]

Woah Seb, the Closed captions that have been put on by Google are so incorrect!

[HalfBlindGamer]

Hah, those rarely work I think ;)

[Atarix777]

Very nice video - its cool to see you back man :-D

[HalfBlindGamer]

Thanks a lot man :)

[lukemorse1]

Another kick ass video Seb!! Its great to see some vids from you again and another Q&A, great idea. Can't wait to see more when you get the chance

[HalfBlindGamer]

Thanks a lot Luke, glad you enjoyed it :D

I'll be putting up something else tonight!

[TanukiKGA]

The PS2  sure is a nice system. I actually rekindled my love for some of its game recently, and that was NOT a smart move considering my studies ;)

Problem with your zombie-plan, in twenty years, the twitching zombiecorpses will have formed a quasi-climbable surface! And when your the last meal on earth, theyre gonna try that much harder ;)

Kickle Kubicle and Alundra! Awesome choices!

Hey, I pick Waluigi! ;P

Great to see a new vid from you, mate!

[HalfBlindGamer]

Haha, the PS2 does have a lot of fun games, I can see how going back to some can eat up A LOT of time!

Thanks for ruining my zombie plans. Now I'll need to rethink stuff! I thought I had it all figured out, but at least I can do that in the first year while they pile up ;)

You seriously pick Waluigi? Hehe, I never figured there was actually anyone who did that... on purpose!

Thanks a lot for you comment man, always great to hear from you!

[TanukiKGA]

Well, it WOULD take them quite some time to pile up, so by the time they got up, make sure that there's a helicopter, and fly to a hotel a couple of miles away. Then they would have to repeat the entire process!

Well, I only pick him, if Boo isnt available. He's my character of choice, but you have to unlock him in a lot of games!

[OmagaMinion]

i hate the ps3

[HalfBlindGamer]

To each their own ;)

What makes you hate the ps3 exactly?

[OmagaMinion]

@HalfBlindGamer

I dont hate it but it should have good games

(its a good dvd player)

[OmagaMinion]

@HalfBlindGamer well

I never really figured out but when I use it annoys me

I treid to figure out why

all the games on the PS3 are stupid but its also the menu that seems to annoy me too

but it sucks though

[Jacesfaces]

Nice to hear more about you!

[HalfBlindGamer]

Thanks man!

Glad you enjoyed it!

[BreinStijn]

I learned English by my self.

I had only 2 years lesions. :P

[HalfBlindGamer]

That's pretty cool man, what made you quit?

[BreinStijn]

i didn't quit i'm 12 and ad school you start with english in group 7 :P (i'm also from holland and i have no idea why i'm writing this in english).

[HalfBlindGamer]

Ah, your profile pages says 17 ;)

I didn't start English in 7th grade lol.

Thanks for writing in English by the way, this way everyone can understand us.

[BreinStijn]

well my sister did that :P

[cole91v]

Keep up the good work HBG.

Your english is better than most Americans.

I will be thinking of questions.........

[ScrewAttackEurope]

DIS IS 'MURKA BOY!!!

[HalfBlindGamer]

Haha, thanks a lot. That might compensate for being far worse in Dutch then most Dutch people ;)

[spegma]

I forgot to submit my question: What was the first video game console you absolutely knew you couldn't live without?

[spegma]

I admire your outlook to releasing DVD's! It's been a trend of reviewers that I don't really understand. Content like that should be free, and besides I hate to say it but to those people who are releasing review DVD's for profit, your DVD is probably going to end up on the pirate bay. I really respect you HBG!

[HalfBlindGamer]

Thanks a lot man! I can see why some want to release DVDs. There goes a lot of time into these video's and I can understand some people wanting to gain something back from that.

I don't really care for money though, I get enough other things back already from these video's. I learn a lot from doing these and it brings some entertainment to those who view them, or at least I hope lol.

[pocketmego]

Great video, love the Zombie answers. :D

[HalfBlindGamer]

Thanks! Glad you liked it :)

[ScrewAttackEurope]

I bought Kickle Cubicle years ago from a supermarket, it was the last ever full priced New NES game I ever bought.

I love it myself!

[HalfBlindGamer]

It's such a fun game, I used to play that thing over and over. Untill my mother managed to steal the controller from me so she could have a go haha.

[ScrewAttackEurope]

If you want to do a DVD, but don't want to charge Etc. also go through the money and effort of printing Etc.

Why not make a downloadable DVD then?

[clays121]

@ Larry, you mean like a DVD ISO, so that we can burn it ourselves, or something else? Cause a DVD ISO would be cool, but a really huge download for some people I think.

[ScrewAttackEurope]

Yup, an ISO, Armake21 was planning that a while ago it too.

But I think it'd be cool to burn your own DVD.

[HalfBlindGamer]

Yeah, well, that still doesn't get around me being a lazy ass ;)

In all seriousness though, I doubt there would be much interest in that really. Who's going to burn stuff that's also on YouTube? It's also a rather big download at 4 to 8 GB. Everything wouldn't even fit on just one!

But, it might be an idea at some point, not sure.

[AlexDeLargo]

Great Q&A. What would be your favourite video game soundtrack?

[HalfBlindGamer]

Thanks a lot, glad you liked it!

Also thanks for the question, that's gonna be a toughy for sure!

[KonamiFan97]

Is the CD-i common in the Netherlands?

[HalfBlindGamer]

Thanks, I'll put the questions up for next time to go over :)

[oooELEKTRIKSTORMooo]

By the way, your english is excellent.

[oooELEKTRIKSTORMooo]

Hi mate, if you love Kickle Cubicle you should go checkout NoobToob, its a weekly gaming Vodcast and its hilarious, just 2 guys talking about new releases for an hour, but they also have a member on their forums who has the Kickle Cubicle domain name, and he has dedicated a new site to the classic game, best part is, there gonna have user created levels on there, but if you havent seen NoobToob you seriously need to check it out, i think you will enjoy.

[HalfBlindGamer]

Thanks a lot for the tip man, I'll check that out for sure. Sounds like fun and that Kickle Cubicle project sounds kick ass!

[dancentral]

Great set of answers mate, nice to found out more about your interests both related and unrelated to gaming! :)

[HalfBlindGamer]

Thanks Dan, glad you enjoyed it :)

[Jed49er]

Nice Q&A vid. Who are your favorite YouTube and/or RetrowareTV reviewers?

[HalfBlindGamer]

Thanks, glad you liked it!

Also, thanks for the question!

[BritishBroom]

Glad you're still keeping the videos coming for 2010, Seb! Looking forward to the next ones.

[HalfBlindGamer]

Thank you very much, I'll do my best!

[JerryTerrifying]

YEah man the 3do is amazing! The CDi....meh. It has a couple decent pieces of software but the 3do really does have a ton of classics.

Im a Zombie attack I'd live in the woods like Rambo in First Blood. The zombie naturally flocks to malls and shit...everyone knows that.

[HalfBlindGamer]

Thanks man, yeah the 3DO is really under-appreciated by most people, such a shame since it has some amazing games on it.

[usunoro]

Welcome back! I hope the move was successful and all went well! It's almost contest winner time isnt it? I hope you got your random drawing hat ready!

[HalfBlindGamer]

Thanks! And I hope so too lol, it needs to be done this Sunday, crap!

[cammanfan]

great video, keep them coming

[HalfBlindGamer]

Will do, thanks!

[Blackcrow911]

Great vid, and welcome back. :)

[HalfBlindGamer]

Thanks man!