I’m wondering if it will ever happen when I’ll just give all 5 games in a post positive reviews? or negative? I wonder what will happen first, or when it will happen? I’m gonna say right now that it won’t happen today because well I like spoiling things, but it’s something I’m curious will it or won’t it happen? Anyway enjoy the worst opening paragraph I have ever written.
Games like this are the PERFECT reason idiots who go DURR I ONLY COLLECT LICENSED GAMES DURR are wrong and full of it. It’s not a complete collection of NES games if you don’t have these and you are missing out on so many fun games. Like this one. This game is mega fun, you go around an area saving people until you have to exit the level and fight a boss. It’s simple but you’ll find out that I like simplicity. A game I can beat in 30 minutes is way better to me then some 82 hour sim game or Ultima. This game does what it sets out to do and does it incredibly well. The graphics are cartoony and fun (not like the box cover at all lol) the music is good and the bosses are cool, large and fun to fight. I don’t know about you but this game is clearly better than several actually LICENSED games. That’s games okayed by nintendo, not games made from a license. I think this is a game you should own if you enjoy retro NES games period.
Vic Tokai is a pretty underrated publisher/developer/whatever of games. However the first game that I get to talk about that they made for the NES can go fuck a goat or a dirty asshole or something. I don’t like sports games in general, I don’t even know what I’m doing or how to shoot goals and then I watch some video on YouTube and be like OKAY this guy makes it look easy as hell so I go back and try and still fail miserably. Then the CPU comes in and gets 32 points to my maybe 3 and I turn the game off and go do something else. That’s me with most sports games. I don’t get them and I don’t enjoy playing most of them. This game is even worse because for whatever reason the game stops when you get the ball and then starts up again which is weird, disorienting and annoying. I got the ball twice and that happened and I was like yeah I double don’t care about this basketball game.
Alpha Mission is one of the shooters I kinda call “arcade like” like Star Soldier, Star Force and Starship Hector (lot’s of stars) they just have that weird early NES game arcade feel to them. You’ll have to wait for my thoughts on like every “arcadey” kinda early NES shooter till I get to them but I don’t really like this one. I think it’s slow and clunky and I see no reason why I should turn it on instead of just about any shooter. There’s not much else to say really. I wish I could turn every game into some kind of spiel but Alpha Mission exists. I’ll probably give it an OKAY rating in the end because I could see people enjoying it but I just don’t get into this one. It’s not hot poop like some others we will get too but it’s not a hardcore winner either. Also there’s not much to say about this game either way.
Amagon brings me back to the days of just downloading every NES rom and trying out games that I never played and I’ve always been a big fan of it really. It’s a charming little run and gun shooter. I remember having arguments with a guy who thought it was the worst NES game (it wouldn’t even crack the bottom 200 on its worst day) but I always thought it was a quirky fun little game from AMERICAN SAMMY (which is probably my favorite name for a game company ever) who mostly made fun and quirky games. We will get to those down the line. Anyway Amagon has you playing as Amagon (what a weird name) a soldier whos lost on a crazy island filled with monsters and mayhem. You play as probably the goofiest looking sprite in the NES library (which just adds so much to the charm for me). This game is decently hard too. You’ll need to know when and where to use the power to charge up into Super-Amagon. Still I’ve beaten it twice and I usually end up turning this game on whenever I have nothing else to do and playing it from time to time. I dunno but Amagon is pretty awesome in my book.
American Gladiators would that count as a sports game? or just a game show game? or both? If it counts then this is the first sports game I’ll give in say I actually kinda like. You play five different games five times over for like five levles of difficulty. I actually enjoyed playing several of these games, the only one I didn’t was the wall. THe controls on that segment are really annoying. Still I would rate this as something I want to try and beat, which makes it better than All Pro Basketball which I never want to see again. There’s not much else to say about this except that I never saw the show and I kinda want too because it seems fucking wild and ridiculous.
That’s it, five more games, you know the drill daddy-o!
Good games: 18
Bad Games: 10
Okay Games: 2
See you soon for more!
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