Summer Game-a-thon 07

[CoconutMikeNIke]

Starting today, the 30th day in June, 2007, I shall start the journey of a lifetime.  I shall go through each and everyone of the video games that I own, and beat it.  By September 6th, I will have either completed over 20 years of games, or failed miserably.

Basically, I want to beat, in some form, every game that I own.  The reason for posting here is that I need your help.  Since for some of these games, it’s been years since the last time I played, I’m going to need some help.  And also, I need other people to know about it if I am to motivate myself to go through all of them.  Otherwise, I might get lazy and not complete the task.  I’m going to list the games that I need to beat, and I will use the site as a sort of continuous checklist, which I will update when I beat a game.  Okay, here’s the list, starting with Nintendo, going to Sega, then Sony. (Note-to make some games more difficult, such as ones I’ve beaten many times before, or to specify what it means to “beat” the game, there will be an added note after the game’s title?

NES

Super Mario Bros.      No Warps Done!
Super Mario Bros. 2      No Warps Done!
Super Mario Bros. 3      No Warps
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Karate Kid
RoboWarrior
Bugs Bunny Birthday Bash
Dig Dug II
Top Gun
Rescue Rangers
Castlevania
Kirby’s Adventure
Dr. Mario         Through Level 20, high speed
Adventure Island II
Joe & Mac
Lolo
Digger T. Rock
Little Nemo Dream Master
Golgo 13
Kickle Cubicle      Until the end of the story adventure
Yoshi’s Cookie      ?
Marble Madness
Pac-Man         ?
Darkwing Duck
Cybernoid
Tiny Toon Adventures
Tiny Toon Adventures 2
The Jetsons
Yoshi            ?
The Flintstones
Ducktales
Ducktales 2
Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle
The Little Mermaid
Wario’s Woods      From 1 through 256
Donkey Kong         ?
Snow Brothers
Gauntlet         ?
Rampage

Super NES

Donkey Kong Country 2
Super Mario All-Stars      Beat each game
Secret of Mana
Street fighter II: World Warrior
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Super Mario RPG

Nintendo 64

Conkers Bad Fur Day
Space Station Silicon Valley
Donkey Kong 64
Diddy Kong Racing
Starfox 64
Spider-Man
Banjo-Kazooie      All Jiggys
Kirby 64         All Shards
Perfect Dark         ?
Pokemon Snap
Mario Golf         ?
Pokemon Stadium      Beat all Gym Leaders AND all Stadium Cups
Yoshi’s Story         ?
Pokemon Stadium 2      Beat all Gym Leaders AND all Stadium Cups
Hey You, Pikachu
Super Mario 64            All Stars
Legend of Zelda: OoT
Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire
Paper Mario
Mario Tennis         Beat all tournaments
Cruis’n USA         Cruise USA on each difficulty that upgrades the car

Nintendo Gamecube

Pokemon Collosseum      Beat the story mode, complete purification
Pac-Man World 2
Metroid Prime         100%
Hitman 2         Silent Assassin rank
Soul Calibur 2         Complete Weapon Master, obtain all weapons
007: Agent Under Fire
DDR Mario Mix      Hardest song difficulty through Story Mode
Geist
Animal Crossing      ?
Simpsons Hit and Run
X-Men Legends      Hard level
X-Men Legends II      Hard level
Legend of Zelda: Collectors edition      All games beat
007: Everything or Nothing
NBA Street         ?
Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
Super Mario Sunshine      All Shines
007: From Russia W/ Love
Sonic Gems Collection   All games beat
Mario Kart Double Dash   150cc
007: Nightfire
SSBM            All characters complete Classic, Adventure, and All-Star on Very Hard

Wii

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Red Steel
Sonic and the Secret Rings
Madden ‘07         ?
Rayman Raving Rabbids   Beat story
Tiger Woods PGA Tour ‘07   Beat Tiger Woods at Pebble Beach
Wii Sports         Pro on every sport

Sega

Genesis

Mortal Kombat      Beat with each character
Primal Rage         Beat with each animal
Desert Demolition      Beat with both characters
Sonic 3D Blast
Ecco Tides of Time
Bubsy
Bubsy II
The Lion King
Busters Hidden Treasure
The Addams Family
Sonic the Hedgehog 2    Done! With all Chaos Emeralds
Sonic the Hedgehog 3      Once with Sonic, once with Tails   Done! With all Chaos Emeralds, with both characters
Sonic and Knuckles      Once with Sonic, once with Knuckles   Done! With all Chaos Emeralds, with both characters
Knuckles the Echidna 2
Sonic 3 & Knuckles      Beat with Super Emeralds with Each character
Superman
Mortal Kombat II      Beat with each fighter
Hook
Sonic Spinball
Animaniacs
Spiderman X-Men Arcades Revenge
The Jungle Book
McDonalds Treasure Land Adventure   Done!
Ecco the Dolphin
ToeJam and Earl: Panic on Funkotron
Lethal Enforcers

Dreamcast

Crazy Taxi         ?
Expendable
Star Wars Demolition
Marvel Vs. Capcom
Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure 2
Tomb Raider: Last Revelation
Coaster Works

Sony

Playstation

Spyro the Dragon
Tony Hawks Pro Skater
Final Fantasy IV
Crono Trigger
Final Fantasy VIII    Problem with disk, Cannot complete

Playstation 2

Devil May Cry      Beat Hard mode or higher
Gameboy/ Gamboy Advance

Super Mario Land    Done!
Game and Watch Gallery   ?
Mortal Kombat II      With each fighter
Pokemon Red         Each Pokemon game will be the same, half of Pokedex and beat the Elite 4
Pokemon Blue         (75 minimum)
Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
Donkey Kong ‘94
Adventure Island II    Done!
Donkey Kong Land 2
Pokemon Crystal      (125 minimum)
Pokemon Yellow      (75 minimum)
Monster Max
Pokemon Sapphire      (101 minimum)
Metroid Fusion
Tetris            300,000 points/ Level 9, height 5 on game B

And there you have it, every game that I must beat.  The games with “?” are ones that I don’t know how to consider it beaten, or I don’t know how to make it harder for myself.  Mainly, puzzle games that have no ending I need some suggestions on.  I didn’t include games that I am borrowing from friends, since those aren’t part of MY collection.  I also did not include my DS games, since right now I am without a DS, making that goal impossible to complete.  I will allow any game I get in the next week to be a part of the challenge, so if I find the DS in that time, I will add it, otherwise, no.  As games are beat, I will take a photo proving that I have beaten it, and edit the list with the completed games crossed out. 

My basic plan of action is to go through the NES, Genesis, and Gameboy games, as those are generally shorter, while worry about the RPGs until the end, as those take the most time.  All games will be played from the beginning, so no old, partial completions to work off of.  I might have at least one LoZ game going at all times, since those can also be quite time consuming.  Any suggestions or comments are welcome.  I might be forgetting something I wanted to say, but for now, I think this looks good.  Oh, and the spacing is a little off because I originally wrote this in another program, then just copied it over.

[PaperLuigi]

Dang dude. Good luck!

[Lizard Dude]

September 6th? There's no way dude. You're going to have to play like 25 hours a day every day and be really good to be able to beat all those hardcore old NES games.

[bobman37]

Yeah. Two months isn't long enough for that massive list of games. I think you'll find yourself getting frustrated/running out of time. Good luck though.

[Kojinka]

Start by beating the ones you've never beaten.  Otherwise, good luck.

[PaperLuigi]

Be sure to buy lots of toliet paper, drinks, food and what not.

[BP]

No way. Just, no way. Hey, don't give up, though... prove me wrong! I'll offer all the help I can give, though... jump, jump, don't die. You can do the Mew glitch in Yellow as soon as you get an Abra south of Cerulean, and it turns lethal really quickly. PUNCH THE MIIS FOR GOD'S SAKE! You can use Epona to jump over Gerudo Valley and finish the Biggoron's Sword quest anytime after Link gets old instead of waiting until after you get the Longshot.

[N64 Chick]

That's quite the list there. Good luck to you.

[Robert]

So, you're going waste 2 glorious months free from school playing your entire game collection?

Why not get some air? I mean, do you really want to be couped up in your house all summer long? If you fail, that would have been 2 months of no-school gone to waste.

[CoconutMikeNIke]

I'd be doing pretty much the same thing then, just not having a real goal to it.  At least this way I'm trying to accomplish something.  I just have to beat an average of about 3 games a day, for the next 66 days.  It's going to be tough, and that's the idea.  Most of these games have been replayed so many times that they've lost that sense of achievement.  I'm just trying to get that back.

[PaperLuigi]

3 games a day? Dude, I don't think I could last barely one without going nuts.

[GiftedGirl]

Optimist me: You can do it! Go! Go! I have total faith in you~!

Pessimist me: My God, man, you're insane! No one could do that! No one!

My stomach: Chips...

Real me: Okay, don't listen to the pessimist and the stomach. They'll just get you into trouble. I have faith in you, really, but that is a big list... Just try your best and remember to get some fresh air every once in a while, okay? ;)

[Pt_Peach]

WOW.

This is an impossible list and if you do prove me wrong, dude...you must have had a LOT of time on your hands.

I think that you might/ARE going to lose your sanity trying to do this.

By the way, nice collection of games you have there ^_^.

[Toad]

Cheese.. I wish you luck on trying to tackle that monster of a list in 2 months.

I do have a question though: wouldn't it be a bit redundant to beat the Mario All*stars versions of the first three games, since you would have done it already (assuming you are playing in order)?

I think you should exclude games that are remakes (unless they are home versions of arcade games, or have completely new areas), and endless puzzle games (Wario Woods, Mario Bros).

Just my thoughts. Good luck.

[MEGAߥTE]

A lot of puzzle games aren't endless; you just haven't played them enough :-p
For instance,

Yoshi's Cookie (NES/GB) has two endings, one after level 10-10 and one after level 99-10.
Wario's Woods (NES) has 99 rounds in each of game A and B as well as time trial.

The SNES versions are somewhat different.

[Mr. Melee]

Wow. That's a mighty list there. I'm sorry if I seem pessimistic, but I'm not seeing all of those games just based on size alone beaten in two months. And with games like Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, and Super Smash Bros. Melee that take such a long time to meet their goals (Melee doesn't really have an end, but your goal is huge.), I just can't see them individually beaten in like 2-4 weeks.
Might I suggest instead focusing more on games you haven't beaten? Or, maybe you should try listening to all of Britney Spears' albums (that might actually be a lot harder.) I just see no way of you meeting this goal in two months. Maybe 4-6 months, but not two. Yes, not even you, Lizard Dude, could do this.

[ShadowBrain]

May God be with you. Break out the adult diapers and drink hat.

[Chupperson Weird]

You only own one PS2 game?

???

[CoconutMikeNIke]

I only have 1 PS2 game because I haven't had the money lately to get anything else.  I only got the PS2 a little while ago, and haven't had a whole lot of time to work on my selection.

[PaperLuigi]

Yeah dude! You've already got 3 of 'em done. Good luck with the rest.

[Kimimaru]

Game and Watch Gallery, get enough stars to view the credits can be your goal for that game. For Yoshi's Story you can either get all the levels, or beat the game to view all the credits (your choice). For Animal Crossing, pay off your house. Super Mario 64, do the staircase glitch to beat the game first then get all the stars. Super Mario Sunshine will take you a while because of all the blue coins, and Sonic 3 and Knuckles doesn't take more than 2-4 days for me to get all the Super Emeralds. You can beat Ocarina of Time in less than a day and Super Mario Bros. 3 in a few hours. For Link to the Past, there's this glitch to beat it in 3 minutes. I think it will help. Start a new game and go to where Zelda is in the prison. After going up the stairs from the cell, go down to go up another flight of stairs on the same screen. Jump down from the little ledge on the right and push Select to open up the save menu after you're about halfway to the ground after jumping off. Select Save and Quit and continue your file again. Get hit and you will be invisible. Go to the staircase as you normally would, but wait, you go through it into an empty room! Go up once into another empty room and go right once after that. After going right, keep going up and you will eventually get to Ganon and go to the credits! I tried it myself, it works!!

You can do it! Just put your mind to it!

[Fwirt]

A lot of puzzle games aren't endless; you just haven't played them enough :-p
For instance,

Yoshi's Cookie (NES/GB) has two endings, one after level 10-10 and one after level 99-10.

Did you actually play through Yoshi's Cookie to level 99-10, or do you just know?  I don't think I could bring myself to play Yoshi's Cookie that much...

But there's no way he can do it.  No way.  Nooooooo way.  You could spend a few weeks on the NES section alone.  When are you going to sleep?

[MEGAߥTE]

I played all the way through the GB version.

[Vidgmchtr]

You know, seeing that this game-a-thon was not completed makes me happy somehow.

[CoconutMikeNIke]

Oh, almighty Vid, it must be so nice, up on that pedestal.  What's it like, being greater than all of mankind?  What can I do to please you, because that "I rock and you all suck" attitude makes me oh-so happy!  When I grow up, I want to be just like Vid, better than everyone.

Concerning my attempt to play all my games, yes I did fail, but it's not like I just stopped trying, I got a good chunk through it.  I've got a list somewhere around here that has all the games I did get through, which I will update the list in a little bit.  I think everyone should try this, because it was a lot of fun going back to play games I haven't looked at in so long.

[Chupperson Weird]

I have plenty of games I have yet to play the first time around, personally.

[Vidgmchtr]

Oh, almighty Vid, it must be so nice, up on that pedestal.  What's it like, being greater than all of mankind?  What can I do to please you, because that "I rock and you all suck" attitude makes me oh-so happy!  When I grow up, I want to be just like Vid, better than everyone.

Now where-oh-where in my post did I have an "I rock and you all suck" attitude? I'm sorry, I don't see what you see, and I'm not very tolerant of sarcasm of this brand, sir.

What I DO see in my post was pointing out the fact that I was glad that real life somehow might have intervened in your game-a-thon. If you were to have this event back in, I dunno, 1996, I probably would've had a more supportive attitude, since I was mainly glued to my SNES back then myself.

Now though, at your age, you have a ton of fun things in this world besides sitting on your couch playing video games all day. I know I haven't spent many summers playing video games, and I mostly spent this summer doing stuff outside my house, like riding my bike, or going to the library or pool. You might actually do these things yourself, and I have no doubts that you did do stuff like this at one point over the summer, but planning something like this...eh. Kinda seems sad to me. Video games are fun. Doing other stuff can be just as fun, though.

[NintendoExpert89]

He means that lately you've been imposing your "South Park Goth Kids Pshaw" attitude at people for a while now. You always point out to people what "stupid crap" they're doing and try putting yourself at the center of attention saying "I don't really give a care of what's going on, but I'm going to try ruining it for everyone else," like "Ooh, I hope this doesn't become another stupid patriotic topic" or "Hey, you forgot the option 'I really don't care'." From the tone with which you revived this topic you were saying "yay, CoconutMikeNike got a life" and that's just rude. Let CoconutMikeNike have his game-a-thon. If you don't like what he's doing, leave him alone; don't push the whole "Well, you need to get out and socialize." crap on him like that demon couple did to Glorb.

[Suffix]

"I rock and you all suck"

More like, "I'm a brilliant child psychologist and CoconutMikeNIke's a doofus." Vid, you've hardly any need to educate us.

EDIT: Yes, I know that CoconutMikeNIke's the one who first made that extrapolation.

[PaperLuigi]

I kinda wanted to see this Game-a-thon completed...when it was bumped, I thought it was so, but I guess not.

[Vidgmchtr]

....*sigh*

He means that lately you've been imposing your "South Park Goth Kids Pshaw" attitude at people for a while now. You always point out to people what "stupid crap" they're doing and try putting yourself at the center of attention saying "I don't really give a care of what's going on, but I'm going to try ruining it for everyone else," like "Ooh, I hope this doesn't become another stupid patriotic topic" or "Hey, you forgot the option 'I really don't care'." From the tone with which you revived this topic you were saying "yay, CoconutMikeNike got a life" and that's just rude. Let CoconutMikeNike have his game-a-thon. If you don't like what he's doing, leave him alone; don't push the whole "Well, you need to get out and socialize." crap on him like that demon couple did to Glorb.

Again, I don't see this attitude people are claiming that I have. I might be blunt in a few of my posts, yes, but I am quite a literal person on the internet. I mean what I say and try not to make it seem like something negative, but for some reason, many people take it that way. A curse, maybe.

I might have somewhat of a superiority complex when it comes to age, though. I try not to let that get in the way. Being given commands or orders I do not like by someone considerably younger than me urks me a bit.

But, to defend myself from your examples:
•When I said I don't care, I meant I didn't care who won in the battle, not that I didn't care entirely. Melee clarified that in one of his posts.
•A couple of users once upon a time made it clear to Jman that 9/11-related stuff was frowned upon when it apparently came the time to "feel sad" for it again. Being one of the users closest to Ground Zero, it seemed that I had the most to feel sad for, as the day DID have an effect on my family. If I don't feel sad about it today, why should you be?
•This wasn't a huge bump. This thread was posted in less than two months ago, and it was still on the first page. I wondered how MikeNIke was doing on the thing after awhile, saw his list and lack of strikethroughs on titles, and was glad that he didn't spend his whole summer doing just one thing. It's not like I posted "I LIKE CHEESE".
•The couple was wrong to do that to Glorb. I like video games, it's definitely a fun activity and hobby. But, all day, every single day, just staying at home, on your couch, probably in your underwear, playing video games? I'd imagine most people getting bored after 2-4 hours straight of video games. That's when I turn off my system and go do something else. I'm not saying he needs to socialize, but to put a little more variety in his day instead of just controlling things on his television set or computer all day. As Robert said earlier in this thread, why waste 2 months just doing that?

More like, "I'm a brilliant child psychologist and CoconutMikeNIke's a doofus." Vid, you've hardly any need to educate us.

I'm a little tired of your cabooses to statements like these, in here and in IRC. They just add salt to any wounds made by the statements that seem invisible to you or the person inflicting them.

I didn't mean to offend anyone with my words. I never do mean to offend anyone with my words. I make it very clear if I do. Trust me, you'll know it.

[Lizard Dude]

Vid, I command and order you to start spelling irk correctly. I wasn't going to say anything but you've done it twice in your last four posts.

You have to listen to me, because I'm way older than you.

[Chupperson Weird]

There is no possible way anyone could have interpreted Vid's post as concern for MikeNIke's well-being.

[TEM]

There is no possible way anyone could have interpreted Vid's post as concern for MikeNIke's well-being.

How could you interpret this guy being anything but compassionate?

[MaxVance]

That image makes Vid look like a potato.

[Vidgmchtr]

The purple and pink are in the wrong order.

[TEM]

Corrected.

[Mr. Wiggles]

I now await somebody to come along and turn that picture into a Lazer chargin' pic. I'd do it myself, but I can never get the mouth right.