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Banned
Still gaming royalty as far as I'm concerned.
Accuracy.
Still gaming royalty as far as I'm concerned.
My first RPG was this game. Anyone else ever played this?
It was awful.
Seriously, Miracle World was insanely difficult. I think I managed to complete it... once? Or maybe I just dreamed it.
Why on earth they put the pause button on the console I often wonder.
Fantasy zone + rapid fire attachment for the controller = so much win.
Loved that little bit of plastic.
The underwater room in Janken's castle was, and still is, a nightmare. Whoever put that in there is a sadistic fuck who probably tortures small, furry animals in his/her free time. But anyway, I managed to get past that by just carefully wiggling the D-pad to make Alex slowly swim between the row of spikes.
The concept/setting of Shinobi World is actually pretty cool, but the gameplay and controls are clunky, making the game kinda eh to play. I did manage to complete it once back in the day, and the final boss was a bit of a bitch from what I can remember. I tried replaying it last year, and I couldn't even beat the first level, as I got stuck towards the end where you have to pull off some wall-jumping move while hacking away a bunch of blocks that block your passage, and the clunky controls just pissed me off :lol
Only thing that sucks about using the Power Base Converter is the fact that you don't get the little bios screen logo diddle.
The worst part about Alex Kidd in Miracle World is that it's probably the best Alex Kidd game of the lot. Man, Sega really struck out with that guy, didn't they?
My first RPG was this game. Anyone else ever played this?
It was awful.
i don't get why people liked Miracle World and some hated Enchanted Castle or whatever on Genesis; yeah there's more rock/paper/scissors but it's a proper sequel!
it's just weird looking back at the Alex Kidd games and seeing all the variance each one had. Lost Stars was literally nothing like Miracle World, infinitely easier.
it's just weird looking back at the Alex Kidd games and seeing all the variance each one had. Lost Stars was literally nothing like Miracle World, infinitely easier.
Lost Stars was straight up awful. I hated that game so much!
My and a friend had trouble completing it on the Xbox Arcade version with the ability so save anywhere!
and it sounds like Alex in Shinobi is gonna be something i play a few times & just leave on the shelf, heh
i don't get why people liked Miracle World and some hated Enchanted Castle or whatever on Genesis; yeah there's more rock/paper/scissors but it's a proper sequel!
Enchanted Castle was great!
What was the one where you were walking around a house... Hi-Tech World?
Umm Lost Stars was OKAY. It had farting naked guys and dogs that yelled BOW WOW.
FINDAMRRRKRRRLBALL ...dodododododododo!
i used to pretend he was cooler than Mario in the pre-Sonic days, but yeah...still wanna play Segagaga to see how he ended up, haha
you know? i don't get why people liked Miracle World and some hated Enchanted Castle or whatever on Genesis; yeah there's more rock/paper/scissors but it's a proper sequel!
it's just weird looking back at the Alex Kidd games and seeing all the variance each one had. Lost Stars was literally nothing like Miracle World, infinitely easier.
Enchanted Castle was great!
What was the one where you were walking around a house... Hi-Tech World?
Lost Stars was straight up awful. I hated that game so much!
You can include me alongside the people that don't like Enchanted Castle... I mean, I guess it's kinda similar to Miracle World but everything about it feels so... off.
Yeah, Hi-Tech World was the one where you had to walk around the royal castle belonging to Alex's parents to find.. pieces of a map, I think, so that Alex could go to some arcade or whatever.
It sucked.
Don't forget the terrifying scream that Alex makes when he gets hit!
yeah i don't know either, but it's so cool to see nowadays - i totally use that cover for my copy!
It's definitely a fairly hard game, but the only places I seriously abused savestates in the PSN re-release was the boat level where you got a trophy for doing.. something, and the aforementioned underwater spike room in Janken's castle.
R-Type
It's R-Type, what else needs to be said? Everything was all here, including a secret Master System-only level! The only negative is sometimes the sprites flashing, making some bullets hard to trace in hectic situations.
My picks were:
Thunder Blade
Golden Axe
R-Type
OutRun
Wonderboy in Monster Land
Rocky
That spike room was a bitch! My friend was just sitting laughing at me trying it again and again, dying each time.
Mine was the mark 1 model which included the holes in the pads for the mini joysticks, but didn't come with them.
Thunder Blade
Vertical shooting AND 3D sections. One of my favourite arcade games at the time, now in my own home! Bloody hard though.
The moment I found out, that you can pause Alex Kidd with that big button on the console and wear that fire-ring... priceless.
The 1991 Asterix game was so good.I have a very soft spot for the SMS versions of Taz-Mania and Asterix. Two games wrapped in fond memories.
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aw man, your friend's a dick! took me forever just to get there...
Best BIOS screen ever? Best BIOS screen ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZQjiHKhQg0
Too bad we didn't have this in the west.
This is what they play when you're on hold on the phone in heaven...
Now I'm trawlling youtube for Master System videos, thanks guys.
Lead me to this piece from Fantasy Zone; my fave tune
Super Fantasy Zone on the Mega Drive has some of the best music on the system
Super Fantasy Zone on the Mega Drive has some of the best music on the system
It was more of a laugh facing hopelessness, I was just laughing in the end too. I must have tried a few hundred times, it was pure luck when I finally beat it.
Best BIOS screen ever? Best BIOS screen ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZQjiHKhQg0
Too bad we didn't have this in the west.
Here on Brazil, all the cool kids had a Master System.
There where a lot of "official rom hacks" too, hacked games sold by the official Brazilian distributor. My favorite was Mônica no Castelo do Dragão, a translated Wonderboy in Monster Land hack, where the main character was switched with a popular comic book character here.
^was Kung Fu Kid good? My hero didn't look like it, never was sure about Black Belt either
see i was just in Chile & Argentina, and i was checking every swap shop kinda store i could hoping to find one of these somehow, no luck though
Yes! Fantastic tune.
On the topic of great Master System music, I used to leave Dragon Crystal running on the pause screen just to listen to it. Didn't actually like the game itself too much, but geez, that music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUNxS0jY3jQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnCkM5-vnco
harsh
glad you got it done though! damn i couldve sworn there's an item you can look at from your menu that gives you the order though, if i had to do it like that i dont know if id've had the heart to keep at it!
I have a very soft spot for the SMS versions of Taz-Mania and Asterix. Two games wrapped in fond memories.
Still gaming royalty as far as I'm concerned.
my copy of this game literally came in yesterday; as a fan of the SMS one, i cannot wait. totally didn't even hear about this one until Hardcore Gaming 101's recent Sega book, too
I'm just playing Dragon's Trap for the first time and it's fucking incredible. Game was rocking modern game ideas/philosophies back in the late 80's! At one point there's two paths you can go down, one is intended, the other is definitely not. Way harder enemies populate the one road, but they don't stop you from exploring this route or trying your best to fight your way through. Games are still doing this shit (see something like Demon's Souls, or way before that, King's Field, or even the original Zelda). It's funny when you think about it, nothing much has changed in 20 some years. We're still fundamentally doing the same shit we've always done/made, only now the approach is different. That shit's fascinating to me.
Two other games I got way too much out of as a kid:
This shit ever happen to you in Shinobi World?