Posts Tagged ‘SNES’

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Mar28
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Battletoads

by Gazunta on March 28, 2012 at 12:01 am
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Battletoads

I couldn’t decide which comic to do so I did both! Yay who needs sleep?

OK I have to admit not having played Battletoads much, it always seemed to hard for me and I thought it was a weird Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles rip off. But it seems kind of fun!

And for some reason I own a Battletoads toy. Why did I buy this back in the day? I mean LOOK AT THIS THING:

I had way too much disposable cash when I was a kid.

Did you know there was an Arcade version of Battletoads? And it was published by Electronic Arts? Neither did I! That was weird. Battletoads was a weird franchise. I mean what other game had a cross over with Double Dragon for no apparent reason.

Oh by the way YES I know Battletoads came out in 1991 not 1992 but there were so many versions of the game that came out between 1991 and 1993 that I think I can get away with it in 2012 :)

Update: I’ve since been notified that the toy is not a Battletoads toy and is, in fact, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toy. WHOOPS!

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Feb08
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NBA Jam

by Gazunta on February 8, 2012 at 12:01 am
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NBA Jam

I used to annoy the local arcade with this game. Sure, people liked playing the basketball bit, but I knew about the hidden Battlezone-esque 3D tank game that was freely accessible if you held down some stick and button combination during attract mode. It was a bit crap but it was FREE and in the arcade you really can’t beat that can you.

OK anyway NBA Jam was a pretty great game, especially when you were playing with other people. The addition of the secret real world characters to the already cool roster – this was back when basketball was cool – was a fun way to keep the interest up. It was pretty obvious that the computer was cheating to hell and back in an effort to keep the games close, but it didn’t really matter that much.

The SNES version was a really great conversion, no two ways about it. The speech made a lot of the difference and the Mode 7-style effect for the basketball court just felt polished and made it a confident home conversion.

I didn’t play much of the later NBA Jam games, but for a while there this was a real cool way to kill a few hours.

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Dec21
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Chuck Rock

by Gazunta on December 21, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Chuck Rock

Poor ol’ Chuck Rock, he was a man before his time.

I was originally going to have him suffer the indignity of being in a Mario Kart-style game but then I remembered that Chuck Rock 3 WAS basically a Mario Kart clone that relegated him to being a second-tier character, so I didn’t want to put the poor bugger through that again.

Anyway, Chuck Rock was a very cute and colourful Amiga platformer that shone on that platform, and become somewhat less impressive on every console conversion that appeared afterward. What was cool in an Amiga platform game was pretty standard stuff on the consoles, and blind jumps, over zealous collision detection and a lack of replay incentive didn’t help convince you to play it when you could be playing Sonic or Mario instead.

Still, worth a bash!

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Dec14
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Smash TV

by Gazunta on December 14, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Smash TV

So that’s where all the toasters came from! Why would anyone want all those toasters as a prize, anyway? Not to mention the truck load of VCRs. So much for this being a death sport of the death future.

Anyway Smash TV is one of the greatest video games of all time and if you disagree well there’s the door, pal. Eugene Jarvis worked on it and that should be enough to convince you of this fact. I absolutely adore it.

It’s also one of those rare arcade games that made the trip to home machines so well many people prefer them to the arcade original. The C64 version was a personal highlight to me – the sheer number of sprites on screen at once was an incredible sight on the humble 8-bit and kept the original’s speed and control system.

Most people will be more familiar with the Super Nintendo version, which is just about near as damn it Arcade Perfect (oh, those words meant a lot back then, it was the impossible dream) and is also cool because it was made in Australia by Beam Software! Yay Australia.

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Nov30
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Street Fighter

by Gazunta on November 30, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Street Fighter

Yeah that’s right, I’m totally saying that Toad was the best character in Super Mario Kart. You know it, but you just can’t deal with it yet. That’s OK, I’ll be waiting on Battle Course 2 until you return.

The first Street Fighter game was absolutely terrible. I remember playing the arcade version with the giant pad and wondering how anyone was meant to play this monstrosity – the pad was srrounded by a harsh metal frame that looked like it would slice your hand off if your punch was slightly off – and the home conversions were laughably bad. We had International Karate + and that had three characters on screen, so it was BETTER.

Haven’t played Starcraft 2 yet. I would start playing it but, judging by how much the first game consumed my life, I would never have the time to make these comics any more. THIS IS THE SACRIFICE I MAKE FOR YOU!

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Nov02

Cool Spot

by Gazunta on November 2, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Cool Spot

Cool Spot! He may have just been a red dot to you, but he was the beginning of a new generation of games – ones that combined slick production values with the slimy world of advertising. I mean we paid actual cash money to watch a four hour advertisement for sugar water. How genius is that!

I liked this game enough when it came out, though it did bug me how large the main sprite was which meant a lot of the platforming was harder than it needed to be. No doubt some advertisement person balked at the idea of the Cool Spot being just a little red dot and insisted it take up, like, the whole screen, just like on TV. It ended up getting converted around the place, including the Amiga which was desperate for console style platformers towards the end of its commercial life.

Oh, and it was one of the earlier games by Dave Perry and Tommy Tallarico, so there you go trivia fans! GORGE ON MY KNOWLEDGE BUFFET.

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Sep14
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Pilotwings

by Gazunta on September 14, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Pilotwings

Big Al from Pilotwings is the greatest video game character ever made, and there is no arguing that point.

Man, it was always great fun doing the parachuting thing, just falling out of the plane and slamming into the ground over and over and over again. Or was it just me and you’re about to tell me I have a problem?

This game could have easily just been a tech demo and we still would have bought it, but it was genuinely a good game underneath the Mode 7 whizzery too. The jetpack sections were brilliant! The last level where Big Al pleads with you to rescue his brother from the EVIL Syndicate and gives you a helicopter with missile launchers was amazing – a whole game in itself, really.

You know, you would have thought everyone would have been a bit more wary of an outfit calling itself the EVIL Syndicate. Just sayin’ is all.

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Sep01
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Mortal Kombat 2

by Gazunta on September 1, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Mortal Kombat 2

A cheap gag for a cheap game. Street Fighter was always better so I never really played much of this series, as much as I tried to get into it. It just always felt clunky and home made.

There was a cover of EGM around this time that said “Street Fighter versus Mortal Kombat!” and from that point on my friend was convinced the game was coming out any week. TO THIS DAY he asks me if it’s out yet. Stupid EGM.

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Aug24
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Ghosts N Goblins

by Gazunta on August 24, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Ghosts N Goblins

I hate this game with a passion. Way too hard, way too frustrating to control, and only fun if your idea of a good time is to hit yourself in the head with a rusty hammer.

Still any game where you spend half the time wearing boxer shorts can’t be all bad, and who knows you might end up meeting someone along the way.

I mostly played the C64 conversion, which is technically excellent but still way too hard for me. I tried again on the Super Nintendo and got so angry with it I ended up returning it – and it was a rental.

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Aug10
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Zombies Ate My Neighbors

by Gazunta on August 10, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Zombies Ate My Neighbors

I like Zombies Ate My Neighbors, I guess.

It’s a good game. I’m not here to bash it, you know. There’ll be no random game bashing here! The graphics were nice, the sound was cute, and it was a darn sight better than most of the other stuff that was cluttering up store shelves back in the mid ’90s. I just got tired of the formula really quickly, since it was just a series of ever more elaborate find locked door, find key, open door mazes that frankly I kept losing track of.

They followed this up with a sequel that I can’t remember, and a similar game with some really nice 2D animation called Hercules on the PlayStation. It’s a rare treat.

Unfortunately, zombie games are a lot different today and I don’t think this game (or its characters) would survive in the modern, gritty marketplace.

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