{"id":2095,"date":"2009-01-11T00:13:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T04:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2009-02-08T09:59:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T13:59:19","slug":"nemesis-of-the-3rd-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"Nemesis of the 3rd kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he Windows Vista <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2096\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2096\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ne_me_sis_3-150x115.jpg\" alt=\"Nemesis III, First stage\" title=\"Nemesis III, First stage\" width=\"150\" height=\"115\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2096\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ne_me_sis_3-150x115.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ne_me_sis_3-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ne_me_sis_3.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>sounds remind me of several sound effects of a game (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gofer_no_Yab%C5%8D_Episode_II\">Konami&#8217;s Nemesis III<\/a>) I used to play on an MSX-2, a whole long time ago. Compared to the other games in that series, this episode was actually one of the &#8216;easier&#8217; ones, and I finished that game. Like the other Nemesis games, it had a weird storyline but with one fun surprise: In the time travel stage the player &#8216;travels&#8217; backwards and has to beat various boss monsters from the previous episodes, complete with the original sound effects.\n<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, somebody was so kind to complete the game and post the results on YouTube:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qHlTlLZ5a1I&#038;feature=channel_page\">Stage 1<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7y1JI1UwY1Q&#038;feature=channel_page\">Stage 2<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pmECnNeJySQ&#038;feature=channel_page\">Stage 3<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hfQEHsK0x0Y&#038;feature=channel_page\">Stage 4<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8nfGsPdEG8g&#038;feature=channel_page\">Stage 5<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UWk-nDb7JbA&#038;feature=channel_page\">Stage 6<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BZY_F29vLF0&#038;feature=channel_page\">Stage 7<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kQ54r74YFU&#038;feature=channel_page\">Stage 8<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=plDc8r8wknQ&#038;feature=channel_page\">Stage 9<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gTkFb4UQNLg&#038;feature=channel_page\">Stage 10<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vgth7s4hlMc&#038;feature=channel_page\">Ending<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<p>At one time I was considering replaying some of the Nemesis games, particularly Salamander. I briefly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=768\">mentioned this in 2005<\/a> but my feeble attempts ran amuck because I found out that playing these games was too hard using today&#8217;s analog controllers. The widely popular (in the Eighties that is) digital controllers produce that typical &#8216;clicking&#8217; sound which helps when counting &#8216;the number of options&#8217; or even, the number of &#8216;clicks&#8217; one had to make to get to safety during a boss monster fight.\n<\/p>\n<p>Without a doubt: the Nemesis (or Gradius) games were the finest 8-bit games made by Konami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows Vista sounds remind me of several sound effects of a game (Konami&#8217;s Nemesis III) I used to play on an MSX-2, a whole long time ago. Compared to the other games in that series, this episode was actually &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2095\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}