JonLeung's Requests

[JonLeung]

It's been said that you can put Doom on anything... well, now we've (finally) got Doom on VGMaps.com!

GamesComputersPlay created Wad2Pic, which created the maps for Doom!
This also includes the fourth episode from The Ultimate Doom, and though it wasn't specifically requested, we've also got maps for Doom II as well!

And thanks for VGCartography for directing me to these maps.  Yes, I got GamesComputersPlay's blessing on these Doom maps.  If you could really say that anything related to Doom could be blessed...

What's there to say about Doom?  Everyone knows it. Quite the monumental game. Before FPSes (first-person shooters) were commonly known as such, the term "Doom-like" was used to describe these... first-person shooters.  It hasn't stuck around like "Roguelike", but it certainly was a thing.  How many other games can achieve genre-naming status?  (I suppose Metroid and Castlevania have...)

Along with yesterday's ET, we've now got the most lower-right and the most upper-right of my 24th anniversary requests image knocked out already!  Wow!  Will the other corners be next?

[JonLeung]

George s has mapped the twelfth arcade game that I've requested - and it's Spider-Man: The Videogame!

It's a fun four-player beat-em-up that I don't hear many people talking about.

When I worked at Playdium at West Edmonton Mall, there was a cleaning checklist for the arcade machines. Whoever made it listed Spider-Man: The Videogame as "Spider-Man: The Best Game Of All Time" or something, I always thought that was funny.  It's a specific memory that probably not many people have, but, there we go, some of my requests are indeed personal.  But Spider-Man is popular... right?

Thanks again, George s!  You're the best!  Especially when it comes to mapping arcade games!

Might as well also point out that until June 14, Gravity Circuit is free to claim on Steam, so if you're a PC gamer, why not go for it?  It's an indie game that's 8-bit in style but plays much like Mega Man X.  It's free because the sequel was recently announced, so they want to build excitement for it by giving out the original for nothing.  Of course I bring it up because it's one of the games on my requests list, in the (long) PC section.

I wonder if one day I should split up the PC section into "retro-style indies" (usually platformers) and "point-and-click adventures" since most games there are one or the other... any thoughts about that?

[JonLeung]

zagato blackfist has mapped out Cobra Triangle!

There's something charming about this game. For some reason I never really played much of R.C. Pro-Am, but I think this is sort of like that, but on the water... maybe?

But besides my memories of playing Cobra Triangle, the significance of having this mapped is that we now have maps of all 72 NES games that were published by Nintendo Of America!

zagato blackfist seems intent on ensuring that every NES game will be mapped, but along the way, I think it's neat to see certain subsets get completed.  Maybe I should see if any other publisher's games are close to all being mapped... but this is an important one, it's Nintendo (Of America) themselves on the Nintendo Entertainment System, of course!

Thanks, and keep up the good work, zagato... as you are very well aware in your own topic about unmapped NES games, there's still a ways to go yet... but it looks like, for the North American list especially, you've certainly made progress since you first made that topic!

And of course, anyone else can map NES games, zagato blackfist isn't calling dibs on them all just because he made the list...