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And Game Boy. I put all my current gen consoles away, stopped my subscriptions, and went full on retronaut. I got my Hyperkin 3 and Game Boy Player set up. I'm playing nothing but NES and Game Boy the rest of the month. Here's a pic of my rig now. 

Today i played Gauntlet II on NES. I like this version. It has the voices, unlike Gauntlet I for NES, and it seems to be a little bit easier. I lasted a good long time through many levels before my health ran out and that was only because I picked up a teleporter skill that, for some unknown reason, made it impossible for me to pick up items. Whenever I got next to one, I teleported past it instead of picking it up. I finally escaped that level but my health had gotten too low to survive much longer. 

Then i played Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord a very long time. My crew never even got past the second level in the dungeon in all that time. Level 2 is all about getting poisoned and if you don't have the cleric spell to counteract it, you're basically screwed. That spell appears when you are a level 7 cleric. I made the mistake of trying level 2 a few times and lost several characters. I rolled up new ones to fill the party out until I had the money to raise them back. I got most of them back but then I got paralyzed by zombies and ran out of money. So half my original fighters are still incognito.

One met a special sort of fate. He got turned to evil. My party was good, and I always remembered not to fight friendly encounters, but once I hit the button too quickly and fought one. He turned evil, and before I could leave enough friendlies alone to turn him back, he got paralyzed and then poisoned. He died on the way back from a campaign and I could no longer add him to my party, even if I did raise him from the dead. But I'm hoping I can get the rest back sometime. I'm trying to hang in there as long as I can despite the challenges. At least my magic slinging crew has remained untouched. That is cruicial. I have a cleric and a mage I turned into a WIzard so he could identify items and learn both mage and cleric spells. He levels slower though, so it may end up hurting me, but you can't have too many healing spells. 

I'm going to play Dragon Quest via a Game Boy cart I have next and I may borrow Final Fantasy from my friend Mark. I also ordered Sky Kid for NES on ebay. I should get that next week to try.