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Ranma ½: Hard Battle

Firestriker

In Firestriker (known as Holy Striker in Japan), the player takes on the role of Slader, the last Firestriker, on his quest to revive three other Firestrikers, defeat the Arch Mage Wylde, and save the Four Kingdoms. This all may sound like the setup for an RPG or adventure game of some sort, but Firestriker is something else entirely. The player moves freely about the screen in a top-down perspective and conducts a spinning attack with the A or B button. The only object in the game that can be hit, however, is a glowing orb called the Trialight. The Trialight is, for all intents and purposes, a pinball, the player a roving flipper, and the various enemies and obstacles in each stage bumpers. Naturally, the player can fail the current level if the Trialight drains through the exit at the bottom of each area. The exit is guarded by the second “flipper” – a mysterious wizard that accompanies Slader and can be moved along the bottom of the screen with the L and R buttons. Much like a foosball goalie, the wizard will automatically hit the Trialight whenever it comes within range. Two-player mode allows a second player to take control of the wizard and gives them the same freedom of movement as the first player. 

• One time one of Roger’s ignorant dudebro friends was like “I didn’t know you were trans! I just thought you were gay or something” to Mark, and Roger banned him from every Well Hungarians concert ever and also told him to get the fuck out

• Did I mention that Mark has a fear of needles? He’s mostly gotten over it by now but when he was starting Testosterone he would have to hold Roger’s hand whilst administering the shots because “oh my god I’m going to die are you seeing this” (spoiler alert he didn’t die)

• Mark stopped having periods a while ago and one time Mimi was staying over he saw tampons in the trash and actually thought “Oh. gross.” And then he scolded himself mentally because he used to have those! Natural processes aren’t gross! Fuck the patriarchy!

Developer: Motivetime    Publisher: DTMC    Release: 12/93    Genre: Platformer I was not a handheld gamer growing up. For the most part I played many of the portable greats on borrowed systems but as far as owning one myself I passed. That means I missed out on many underrated classics. It also means I was able to avoid the many, many mediocre games that clogged the Gameboy and Game Gear…