As eluded to in my last blog post, I spent some time on both Joust and Yoshi. Neither of these games have a traditional ending so I'll explain what I mean by finished in each paragraph below.
First up was Joust which was very frustrating. The game seems so simple like it should be a cake walk, but it was surprisingly challenging. Since there is no true ending or even a preset highscore my goal was to make it to level 16 and finish at least that Wave. I choose Wave 16 because by that point the level structure, which changes from time to time, has been reset twice and its also the level in which you finally encounter the final and most challenging enemy type, the Shadow Lord. The actual video is only about 10 minutes long, but there were several hours of prior play to get to recording I did. I did have a fairly good run though and managed to get to Wave 21 in the end.
Now according to gamefaqs the final different type of fruit Yoshi is rewarded with is a pineapple. So my goal was to win at least one pineapple. The first one is given to you at level 17. You must start the game from level 5 at the furthest, so you have to play 12 levels in a row without losing. Final stage I made it to was level 18.
Future Plans - I've been very slowly making progress on Bases Loaded, which turns out to be much more of a time sink than I initially thought. I'm estimating that I'll spend more time beating the penant mode on it than I spent on all 3 Ultima games combined. I also started working on Alpha Mission which is more interesting than I thought, but seems like it'll be fairly difficult to beat.
