News & Updates in February 2025

Posted the article Robotic Process Automation: Revolutionizing Business Efficiency in 2025. Posted the character profile of Sedo (from Wolf's Rain).

I beat Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (Sega Genesis) on hard mode without dying! I owned Michael Jackson's Moonwalker as a kid and really enjoyed playing it but before today I never beat it without dying, and on hard difficulty no less. Feels good! It's a fun game and I think the developers did a great job of capturing Michael's dance moves and incorporating them into the game as attacks. The background music is nothing but songs from the King of Pop which are all fantastically rendered as 16-bit tunes and never get old. I just wonder why they didn't use Thriller for the graveyard stages. Perhaps a rights issue or something?

I beat Mega Man 2 (NES) on difficult mode without continues! This is one of several Mega Man games I owned as a kid so I've definitely beaten it before, but I didn't play it on Difficult mode back then. It didn't seem quite as hard as the first game, especially when played on Normal mode but either way it's still quite a bit of fun.

I died 3 times in this playthrough, twice on the stupid lasers in Quick Man's stage and once from the Mecha Dragon. I also messed up in the Boobeam trap, missing my target such that my first crash bomb only destroyed the wall and not both the wall and laser. That left me with no more crash bombs for the 2nd phase of the Wily Machine so I had to use metal blades instead along with an energy tank.

I've definitely played those stages better but I think this playthrough is good enough. I've been on this game for too long now and it's time to move on.