Sacred Haven of Debauchery

At the end of the 90s, I was given a Dendy, and a few years later a PS1. My computer appeared around 2005. Later, when I started earning some money on the side and saved up a bit, I bought myself a PS2 (by that time the PS3 was already out, but it was expensive, and I wanted a PS2). In high school, I also played on a PSP, which, by the way, managed to survive to this day in working condition, and I still have it. On it, you can run PS1 games (I actually replayed many of those games on the PSP later), so if I ever feel like reliving my childhood, I can do without emulators 😎

So, those were all the consoles I had; after that, I switched fully to PC. The guys from the neighboring entrance got computers a bit earlier, so I sometimes went over to their place, and before that, we used to go to internet cafes together, 100 rubles an hour. They had all sorts of Serious Sam, Max Payne, Quake, Counter-Strike, but we mostly played GTA Vice City, because we had a printed sheet of paper with cheats, so we could conjure up weapons and cars and go cause mayhem. 

And on consoles, I played a lot of stuff — I didn't get into everything, of course, but some familiar games popped up here:

Chip and Dale, Battle Toads Double Drаgoon, Power Blade 2, RoboCop, Mario

Familiar, played them. Surprised the famous tank game on Dendy isn't mentioned — I used to play that one even with my parents

DuckTales, The Little Mermaid

Never played those, only watched the cartoons

beat Felix the Cat on a Dendy emulator, and Yoshi's Island on a Super Nindend'ы emulator

Now that's unfamiliar to me

got Battle Toads to the last level, almost all the way to that woman.

I played through that too, don't remember if I finished it or not, but I got pretty far — I remember the cutscene with her annoyed sprite after completing some level. Overall, I mostly played Double Dragon — those were simpler, and I beat 2, 3, and 4 multiple times without any trouble. Don't remember the first one; I think I never had it. As for 4, by the way, I'm not sure it wasn't some kind of hack either, because it differed stylistically and in combat, and overall was a whole lot more boring.

A Chip and Dale 3, maybe it's not called the third part, but it's the one where they no longer threw boxes and other items (and in the second part, enemies too), but walked around with weapons.

I don't know about the third one, but the first two were fun — I remember there were all sorts of cartoon bosses, including ones from the cartoon, like that cat after the clockwork level. By the way, Chip and Dale could also throw each other, I think. I remembered how I played some platformer with a friend, where we goofed off by picking up the heroes and throwing them into the abyss — I think that was Chip and Dale, although you could mess around like that in other games too

And of course, speaking of the Dendy era, I'd also recall another classic. Years later, everyone started calling CS "Contra," but there are still those who remember that the real Contra is this.

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We were shooting giant hostile space robots long before any Mass Effects