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Post by VectorX on May 11, 2012 18:15:16 GMT -5
Now if you take a look at the TG-16. It came with Kieth Courage which is awful but soon Bonk followed which IMHO is probably one of the best platformers for any system. I remember the old days when sometimes systems came with the LEAST most interesting games with them! In regards to Sonic, Sonic 3 (which I just got and started playing today ) also has the two player split screen deal with zones unique to the game. I'd say that helped out the series a bit too. (Can't wait to try that with the nephew!)
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Post by detonator on Jul 18, 2012 21:19:32 GMT -5
I never understood the appeal of Donkey Kong arcade game. I had the Nintendo electronic game when I was a kid... it was great. But the arcade version (imho) isn't anything special.
I even prefer Kangaroo and Congo Bongo over it (and they're both considered cheap(ish) ripoffs).
Atari 2600 Raiders of The Lost Ark was among the first adventure games, and the first adventure game I actually solved. It was a great feeling. It received some really bad reviews but personally I loved it back in the day.
I never warmed up to Ultima series in the C64, although it was praised by almost everyone. Elite has almost legendary status and it has its merits... but after getting up "dangerous" rank and doing all the missions there was really nothing new. I never became "Elite" though... my rank was stuck to "Deadly" for three months and then I just gave up. I wouldn't count it in my "top 10 C64 games".
The sequel (Frontier) must be one of the biggest letdowns in gaming history. Never really played it a lot though...
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Post by VectorX on Jul 18, 2012 21:41:54 GMT -5
I even prefer Kangaroo and Congo Bongo over it (and they're both considered cheap(ish) ripoffs). Kangaroo I can somewhat see, but not C. Bongo. It was too different from D. Kong, if you ask me. Atari 2600 Raiders of The Lost Ark was among the first adventure games, and the first adventure game I actually solved. It was a great feeling. It received some really bad reviews but personally I loved it back in the day. It was pretty complex for a 2600 game!
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Post by TrekMD on Jul 18, 2012 23:42:16 GMT -5
I never understood the appeal of Donkey Kong arcade game. I had the Nintendo electronic game when I was a kid... it was great. But the arcade version (imho) isn't anything special. I even prefer Kangaroo and Congo Bongo over it (and they're both considered cheap(ish) ripoffs). Atari 2600 Raiders of The Lost Ark was among the first adventure games, and the first adventure game I actually solved. It was a great feeling. It received some really bad reviews but personally I loved it back in the day. I think the appeal of Donkey Kong was it was the first sort of platformer game back in the day. Nothing was like it at that time, that is, until everyone started to create similar games. Kangaroo I think is a great take on the concept and works quite well. I really like it and I love the Atari 5200 version. Congo Bongo is quite different but people still see it as a DK rip off because it has a gorilla. Unlike Kangaroo, Congo Bongo was not as successfully ported to home consoles. I think the ColecoVision version may be the best one.
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Post by detonator on Jul 19, 2012 11:40:57 GMT -5
Kangaroo is actually quite nice game. It looks a bit silly but the concept is very cool. I always get stuck to the third level of the 4th round... this one. I remember when I got the 2600 version for a Christmas present and my when my dad saw it he asked "Is that a goat"?
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Post by gamezone on Jul 19, 2012 11:46:02 GMT -5
LOL! It did look a lot like a goat.
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Post by VectorX on Jul 19, 2012 12:07:02 GMT -5
^YOU did? Funny, I never caught that until just now when it was pointed out.
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Post by detonator on Jul 19, 2012 12:12:40 GMT -5
Despite graphics that 2600 Kangaroo port was surprisingly good game. And with that system you were used to ridiculously bad graphics. But when you combine ridiculously bad graphics with ridiculously bad gameplay & concept what do you get? Yeah... you get Journey Escape... A2600 version. E.T. was a masterpiece compared to this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFVEtVEYtBw"Don't Stop Believin'" was a good title song for the poor kids who bought this one.
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Post by TrekMD on Jul 19, 2012 17:57:41 GMT -5
A goat? LOL The 2600 version of Kangaroo may not have the graphics but it certainly has the gameplay!
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Post by VectorX on Oct 21, 2013 10:43:24 GMT -5
Just thought of Stellar Track for the Atari 2600.
A lot of people don't like it, but find any other turn-based strategy games that came out back then for the system. It was pretty complex. True, at times it's really unfair, like when you've got like four Stardates left to destroy the last two remaining enemy ships, they're only two jumps away and in the same sector, then you get damage to your engines that'll take seven Stardates to fix, which I'll admit is a load of crap. Still, a lot of thought goes into a game of that and I find it a satisfying (well, not when you get ripped off) thinking game.
Here's a game that should have a remake done to it, like with full-screen cutscenes when you blow up ships here and there or something.
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Post by detonator on Jan 2, 2014 17:46:25 GMT -5
Gauntlet.
I don't dislike the game but I never understood the hype. It's quite one-dimensional game. I understand it was revolutionary in many ways though... but as a game I never had very high opinion of it.
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Post by wyldephang on Jan 2, 2014 20:12:23 GMT -5
A lot of fans generally pick Mega Man 2 as the best game in the series, but my heart is closer to Mega Man 3 and 5. The former game tends to get a lot of praise today, but MM5 is often dismissed by fans as the point in the series when the project began to lose steam. To be fair, the Super Nintendo was already in production when MM5 hit shelves, so the technology was considered outdated. But I can tell that Capcom was trying to innovate by adding some new features and mechanics that had never been seen before in a Mega Man game. Not many fans agree with me, but I think MM5 is a great game. Also, it's almost universal consensus among Mega Man enthusiasts that Wily Stage 1 from MM2 is the greatest composition in the entire franchise, but I think there are quite a few songs that are at least as good if not richer and more complex. The intro to MM3 is very soulful and melodic and has a variety of moods as the tune changes tempo. Last year, I started to play a game called 7th Saga. It's difficult at times, and can be very unfair, but I liked it a lot and was putting effort into improving my character. Nevertheless, it turns out that I'm one of the few people who holds a favorable opinion of the game; a lot of people tend to dismiss it for its unbalanced gameplay, but I guess I picked the right character in the beginning. I never had much trouble with the random encounters, and if you die in battle, you're not penalized too harshly.
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