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I really played a lot of EDF 2025 today as the Air Raider. My friend Mark and I played co-op from where we left off yesterday to about level 30 on Hard before we started getting stuck on certain levels. For some reason the difficulty spikes a little bit after level 25 or so. I was under armored and lacking in really effective weapons anyway, so we returned to the beginning and started running through all the levels on Hardest difficulty basically to farm for weapons and armor. 

There were games galore to choose from. It was a good time to be a gamer with SNES and Genesis battling it out. Ones that made the first cut were: Wolverine [NES], Robin Hood Prince of Thieves [NES], Uncharted Waters [NES], Batman: Return of the Joker [NES], Road Rash [Genesis], Dark Castle [Genesis], Phantasy Star III [Genesis], Streets of Rage [Genesis], Warrior of Rome [Genesis], P.G.A. Tour Golf [Genesis], Ys III [Genesis], Final Fantasy II [SNES], Pilotwings [SNES], Twin Bee '91 [arcade], Duke Nukem [PC], and Secret of Monkey Island 2 [PC]. So many good ones here, but I had to revisit Dark Castle. It's lucky that I have a friend who can lend me his copy for this.

I started up an Air Raider class today in EDF 2025 after I finished my retro games and called in an Howitzer attack on some ants.  It was very impressive and annihilated a whole city block. Then I spent a lot of time toolling around in a tank. It made me nigh invulnerable to spider webbing. I like that!

A big year for NES. Here's what made the first cut of probably two score games: Final Fantasy [NES], Maniac Mansion [NES], Dragon Warrior II [NES], Pinball Quest [NES], River City Ransom [NES], Sword of Vermillion [Genesis], Batman The Video Game [Genesis], Fire Shark [Genesis], Fist of the North Star: 10 Big Brawls [GB], Secret of Monkey Island [PC], Panzer Battles [PC], Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge [PC], and Commander Keen [PC]. My first choice was Wizardry: BotCF, and it's available on Steam, but I'm allergic to PCs, so I went with a game I had in my collection and haven't played yet, Pinball Quest on NES. That went too quickly so I added Secret of Monkey Island because the Special Edition trial has been sitting on my Xbox for years now.

Games that made it past my first cut of a score of games were: Dragon Warrior [NES], Romance of the Three Kingdoms [NES], Nobunaga's Ambition [NES], Fist of the North Star [NES], Defender of the Crown [NES], Super Mario Land [GB], Military Madness [TG-16], Golden Axe [Genesis], Phantasy Star II [Genesis], Herzog Zwei [Genesis], Final Fight [arcade], Sky Adventure [arcade], Tecmo Knight [arcade], and Warlords [PC]. My first choices were Herzog Zwei and Fist of the North Star, but Herzog Zwei is rare and not ported anywhere and my friend picked up Fist of the North Star for me after I started my third choice, TuboGrafx-16's Military Madness. It's available on Virtual Console and I had points left over - done.

My friend Mark just reminded me there is another Con in my area. It's Retro Con (http://retrocons.com/ ) at The Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, PA. on Sat and Sun of Sept. 27th. You thought that was in Philly but it's actually just outside Philly not far from one of the biggest malls in the US., The King of Prussia Mall. It's also not far from Historic Valley Forge Park, one of the places rendered in Assassin's Creed III.  The Expo Center is also very close to one of the few Movie Taverns on the east coast. There you can see a movie and get served food and drink, all at the same time. It's fun! Additionaly my friend Mark will be having a yard sale of his old video games and systems at nearby Chesterbrook Village on Sat (PM me if you want details).

After a whole day of EDF 2025, I finally got my Ranger to 1000 armor and an achievement by grinding on, I think, level 30. Oh boy, only 2000 more to reach an acceptable level to beat the game on Inferno difficulty. I think not. 

Went to Jay Street Video Games in Mall. Saw Front Mission 3 for $15, no manual. Buy on PSN instead. Saw Pokemon Stadium for $25 loose. Can get it for $15 online. Would've got it for $20. Not today. Asked for Dynasty Tactics. Salesman said no copies. After hurting him, still no. Left angry.