Branephart (TM) for October, or Today We Say Goodbye to A Living Legend...

So many games on Facebook to play, so little time, so little space left on my PC hard drive.  Now, as you can tell from the orange arrow, two did caught... catch my eye(s).  First of all, there's Horny Fish, obviously, in between Travel Quest and 777: The Devil's Slot Machine Brother.  But what's that other one?  You know, with the demented looking man-frog hybrid?  An angry frog with Redneck teeth?  What could that be called?  Angry Frog?  Frog's Revenge?  Fiery Frogs from France, in which you take revenge on humans by preparing humans' legs for your new alien overlords to eat in their new Satanic restaurant?  No, nothing so fanciful, of course.  No, that one's called... wait for it... Everwing.  Lots of games with names like that on the ever-widening, yet less diverse, gamescape.  Neverfall, Foreverdream, Skywater, Aftercastle, Beforemaze... they practically write themselves at this point!  What about the Pink Bunkadoo?  Where's the whimsy, the lack of sexiness?

Championship Lode Runner

Well, when you have an institution like Lode Runner, a blogger's probably gotta blog about it at some point, particularly a video game blogger.  I mean, say what you will, but there's videos on YouTube of people playing the game on Nintendo, for Gawd'z zake!  ...oh, fine, I'll post a link to it.  JUST ONE.
As for me, well... as you can see from the attached pic, I only got to level 43, because I'm using the version for the Atari emulator, and there seems to be a glitch with level 43.  A little bit disappointing, as my fellow gamers can attest to.  Even more disappointing is the Atari emulator version of regular Lode Runner because there's all kind of lines and junk.  Sure, I could try and go ahead and play anyway, lines and all, but meh.  If I get really desperate here, I'll post about individual levels, as I sort of did with Sudoku... I mean, Sokoban.

Criminal Case: Save the World

...nah.  Guess the world's just screwed.  Not worth it.

FOUND IT!!!!

...yay for me, I know.  But isn't that what blogging is all about?  The little victories?  Now what will I have to nag at me all these livelong days?
Of course, I cheated.  I started thumbing through the pages of Atarimania, looking under the category of "Arcade-Miscellaneous."  Never in a million years expecting to find it there.  I mean, after all, it's a side scroller, right?  It's a bit like Defender, n'est ce pas?  Except that you can only go right, and there are no people to save.  Okay, well, it's a bit like Air Strike, is it not?  Forgive me... Airstrike, but without the ability to shoot.  And to a lesser extent, the second level of Lunar Leeper.  Love that game.
...no, seriously.  No ability to shoot.  Even Vorrak / Zardon lets you shoot to a limited extent!
Okay, enough comparisons.  You get to the final part of the level... make sure to get enough fuel.  You'll figure it out... and THEN you finally get to shoot!  However, it's at this point that the game feels a bit unfinished.  Maybe that's the programmer's thing, I don't know.  The gimmick they're known for, if only in the database world.  I mean, hey, if they paid $39.95 back in the day for this one, why not the next, right?  And the next after that?  I tried to get to what seems like the game's conclusion, and poof.  Error message.  Error message in Atari emulator.  Always depressing when an emulation breaks down.  Or never starts, like Floyd of the Jungle!  I gotta play different games.  Bristles, too.  Bristles really REALLY doesn't work in emulation form.  Especially when you turn right.  Or maybe left.  If there's a way to play Bristles and not have to back out of a corner... AND THERE ISN'T... okay, on to next game.  Also, the reward structure of "Dark Star" is a little weird.  I mean, why should a person get points just for moving?  What is that?  That's just inflation!

#KittenFeed

Yeah, Asteroids is fun.  But do you ever get the feeling like you're just a speck in a petri dish, battling the giant anemones... or whatever?  Amoebas with flagellum and what not?  Well, you might get that feeling if you go to kittenfeed.com... except, of course, for the cat's paws, and the giant douche-y targets you're supposed to scratch.  Apparently, the game is too libelous for certain lawyers, so the game might have to move to a different web site.  Stay vigilant, gamers.  As always, the party goes underground...

Frank Cohen's Scooter... back to Level ONE!!!!

OH NO YOU DON'T... I've got 36,000 points to score in other games, thank you very mutch.

Frank Cohen's "Scooter," Level 8

Wait a minute... is this the LAST level?  There's no level above us now!  The baddies from level 1 are back... I'm still trying to think of how to describe them.  Half robot, half gumball machine... from Hell.  Perfect.  Pardon me, rephrase... FROM HELL. 
And you can't kill them this time, so they're extra deadly, especially when you try to finish the upper left hand corner of the game board, because they can't seem to leave.
Oh, this is the everything level, no question about it!  You got a magnet, one of those transport thingies, a free pass back to Level 7 should you decide to take it, the wavy vents of Brewbiz, the bullet pipes... too bad probably a good thing that this isn't a Letterman bit, because there'd be a Pavlovian ding noise after each thing listed.