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After doing that Polar Bowler post, I wanna talk about another more obscure game series that I had limited experience with: Super Granny.

It was this little puzzle platformer in which you have to rescue kittens. There was a level editor, but I don't remember anything about it, so it must not have been in the trial version.
Just like Polar Bowler, the series is available on WildTangent, although Windows 10/11 won't run any of them to my knowledge. This is where things get weird, though; Unlike Polar Bowler, Super Granny got a bunch of its games compiled into one collection and uploaded on Steam. However, while the collection's page is still accessible if you know where to look (or just look up "super granny steam" like I did), the games aren't downloadable anymore. Shame.

(I might do these "obscure games" kinds of posts more often; They're fun to do, and people seem to have an interest in them.)

Smashboards is one of the few sites for which I willingly turn off my ad blocker, yet I swear I keep seeing that "You have your ad blocker on" message in place of a banner ad more often than not.

tonight i will bless the latest profile posts section of the popular super smash bros. forum site known as “smashboards”

who is this "ben" and what is he talking about

I usually don't comment on franchises I don't really care about, but...

I'm worried about Gen 9. Like, REALLY worried.

fellas i just unlocked custom tower names in bloons td; anyone got name suggestions

Played Metroid Dread for the first time today (well the demo actually but w/e)

Honestly, it's a really fun game. Kinda miffed you can't save in the demo, but ultimately I had a fun time with what I did play (the EMMI sequences were actually really tense and had me panicked lol)

if you don't love me at my

you don't deserve me at my

i walk out of my dorm room today to witness some girls rolling around the outside of the girl's bathroom on those plastic chairs with wheels for no apparent reason

the public education system has failed to prepare me for any situation remotely resembling this one

I didn’t really follow the original show during its heyday, so I don’t know how much weight my opinion has, but…

The Fairly Odd Parents reboot looks BAD. Not even in the “but my childhood!!!!” way; This show tries way to hard to be relevant and trendy, but the trailer just felt like the most dated thing that they could have put out.

like… that “!!!!!!!!!1!” banner. that REEKS of “hey kiddos we understand the may-mays!!!” no. no you don’t.

TIL that clicking your SmashBoards location opens up Google Maps to show you where the place you selected is.

Mine actually causes local bookstores to pop up, so good for me, I guess.

Well dang, y'all sure did remind me to vote on the Super Mario Smash Bros. thread. Thanks for that.

can someone remind me to vote on the super mario smash bros thread tomorrow i wanna go to bed

Made a moveset for Captain Toad!

i saw y'all like the bison meme earlier today; i wanna see that same energy here folks

okay i try not to make status posts real early but today i wake up to find that my chocolate milk froze

why did i put it right next to the freezer box (i have one of those mini fridges)

sorry for making an influx of statuses today but i have some tragic news

the steve amiibo has been delayed. it will not be releasing this spring. truly a sad day for us steve mains.

L IS REAL LET'S GOOOOO

(no you are not getting context)

I call this entry "The Prophecy"

i just had a big brain idea

what if the next smash axed ryu/ken/terry/kazuya's 1-on-1 facing gimmick in favor of adding a dedicated strafing button for all characters

Oh yeah, forgot to mention something during my SFVI post - I'm not really a fan of this new, more realistic art style they're using. It's not a dealbreaker for me, and it doesn't look bad, but I don't vibe with it at all. Street Fighter has always been a more stylized series, so this new realism feels off to me.

also i guess i should give my thoughts on street fighter vi

• imo luke's design is a huge improvement over his sfv appearance
• conversely, i'm impartial on ryu's new look; the beard's nice and makes sense but i'm already missing his gi. also sandals are a weird choice since i thought ryu didn't like shoes
• PLEASE let that logo be a placeholder it is perhaps the most cookie-cutter garbage they could have gone with

til toby fox was, at one point, a competitive melee player (his tag is radiation)

current mood

this meme was a prophet in the worst possible way

took a break from profile posts yesterday; feelin refreshed and ready for more unfunny jokes

(seriously though i had like nothing to talk about yesterday lol)

i’mma wrap tonight up with a hot take

sonic cd’s japanese game over music is, in some ways, creepier than the usa music to me. maybe because distorted versions of usually happy, upbeat music always give me the willies (i have the same problem with sm64’s game over music)

aight gnight

til the mario teaches typing 2 ost isn't just midis of smw music

step 1: get bored
step 2: browse the internet for funsies
step 3: stumble upon your old awful fnaf fangames
step 4: regret

nickelodeon don't make a new spongebob project just to raise paramount+ subscriptions for five seconds challenge (impossible)

i just realized that i've had the same minecraft pfp for the past year yet i don't think i've ever mentioned minecraft once anywhere on this site aside from that one creeper moveset i made

i know i’ve been uncharacteristically serious/negative today so i wanna talk about something that makes me smile

the fact that a song from the dkc cartoon has an absolutely banging cover that can be put on streaming platforms like spotify makes me have faith in this world

While the eShop shutting down is perfectly predictable and not a dumb Nintendo move on its own, the dumb part comes when you realize that the only legal way to play classic games on modern hardware is now to buy Switch Online.

2022’s really shaping up to be the year Nintendo screws their fans over royally huh

The new Chip n' Dale just feels like a spiritual successor to Who Framed Roger Rabbit and I kinda wish they just did that instead

Earlier today, I was looking through Reddit and I stumbled upon a Smash subreddit in which someone was making a series of posts going into-depth about how every character in Ultimate was poorly designed in some way. (I won't be going into any further details than that, since I don't want to encourage witch-hunting.)

There was some stuff I agreed with and some that I didn't, but one particular idea that I kept seeing the user bring up fell so much into the latter category that I wanted to talk about it.

I kept seeing an argument for characters having more HUD-based specials and mechanics (Mario having a HUD-based Neutral Special for various power-ups and Villager having an inventory-based HUD, for example). I have to say, I hard disagree with giving more characters HUDs and similar gimmicks just for the sake of adding more references.

The reason Mario only having one Neutral Special projectile works is because he's designed to be a character meant to introduce newcomers to the gameplay of Smash. Once you give him a HUD which allows him to switch between power-ups, you strip that crucial element of his design away and take one easy-to-use character off the board (which is especially bad for Mario, since he's the character most Smash newbies will probably recognize first).

I'm all for adding in references to characters' movesets, but I am simply not a fan of further complicating characters just for the sake of that (heck, I think some characters in Ultimate suffer from this now, but that's another story). It feels like having references for the sake of references without giving regard to character design, archetypes, or cohesion.

With this status in particular, I wanna hear people's thoughts on this. Whether you agree or disagree with your points, it could be interesting to see how folks see this issue.

i have opened my third eye and realized that Maple Treeway is a pun on the word “freeway”

Happy Valentine’s Day, Smashboards!

More importantly, happy 8th anniversary to Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze