Yep, It’s another post on NES games. I do it for three reasons. 1) trying to spend as much time possible away from Twitter. 2) right now they are the easiest thing to discuss and the one I really want to discuss 3) anything that keeps me from freaking out about the weird issue with my ear. I don’t know if its sinus stuff from when I was sick or not because it’s some kind of blockage but I can easily put a q-tip in there and nada. It’s annoying and I’m not a fan. Anyway we have finally gotten to the C’s in our NES Game Reviews! That’s pretty wild. 100 games in! There are 48 games that start with C here! So let’s get to the first six!
One thing that is very easy about these games is that I’ve been playing NES games like the vast majority of them since I found emulation in 1997. That is closer to 30 years ago than I would like to admit. That’s a long time to play games. I don’t need to read or reread a comic or research a TV show. I can just tell you what I feel about the game because trust me I’ve played most NES games a lot. I remember Cabal being a game I got pretty soon after I bought my second NES (actually I believe it was given to me. I don’t know) and I think Cabal might even have been one of the games I got with it. I know I had it because it’s a game that was everywhere and I liked playing it. I still like playing it. I mean those early games I was just given were a weird bunch. X-Men, Ghostbusters, like 3 copies of Mario, Cabal and Snow Brothers (yes that Snow Brothers was given to me free of charge because someone wanted it out of there house.) Anyway, Cabal is a game where you just shoot stuff in a first person view. It’s kinda like those levels in the original Contra. I think Cabal does want it sets out to incredibly well and I enjoy playing it. It has a good fair challenge and I enjoyed beating it. I have fond memories of this game and if you are still stupid enough to collect NES games in 2023 (almost 2024) this one should still only be under $5, wait according to price charting people want $11 for this? Wow. I wish I had kept my collection to resell at TODAYS prices because I’d be fucking rich.
I complained to DISCORD earlier that the next set of games weren’t great and I mean that in two ways. Two of these upcoming games are very not good. one is at best okay and one I can’t really say much about. Caesars Palace is the game I can’t say much about. You know how I was like “if you like fishing and video games you’ll probably enjoy Blue Marlin”? Yeah you can easily say this about Caesar’s Palace too, except replace fishing with gambling games. I like gambling games. I think they brought that stuff to the NES fairly well. Is this the most exciting game to discuss? No, is it worth picking up if you like me enjoy poker and blackjack and all that shit? Sure is. So with that said I’m going to get to the next game.
I honestly believe that with a bit more effort this game could have been amazing instead of just okay. I don’t hate this game but I really want to LOVE this game and there’s just not enough to love. The game is weird in that it’s a side scroller that has some RPG elements. Like you have to pick up jems (not the truly outrageous rocker) to level up Captain America and Hawkeye and that’s really all it. Maybe like not do that or put more effort into the whole concept there? It seems weirdly pointless. Whatever it doesn’t really ruin anything. What brings this game down is that in 1991, yes 1991 they just decided to make 4 level layouts and repeat them several times. This is not something I can say is okay for a game in 1991. So many games had so many different level layouts in that game. This game just repeats the same mostly not very interesting level layouts. I also do not like how you can’t play as Iron Man or the Vision. I think if this had been like Bucky O Hare where you had four (or more) characters to play as would have been really neat. Despite those issues I don’t hate this game. I still play it a fair amount. I just can’t rate it anything past an OKAY.
Is this my first Color Dreams game? I actually couldn’t tell but I looked and no it isn’t that was Baby Boomer. I can’t really get angry at myself for forgetting about Baby Boomer. Color Dreams games were at BEST forgetable and at worst some of the worst garbage put out on the NES. Sorry but I’d play several LJN games over say Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu or whatever. Color Dreams made their own games and brought over some Sachen games. Sachen reminds me of the Red Eye and how he used to be a cool guy instead of kissing Wata’s ass to be able to save a prototype rom that he can never actually show anyone. Anyway Captain Comic is mostly in the forgettable realm but it has a lot of stuff I don’t like. The controls are weird and I also seem to get stuck in the floors of some levels. Not a fan of this game and I don’t care enough to play the 1980s PC game (sorry Damien)
I am a fan of goofy old 1990s cartoon shows so I am a fan of Captain Planet. It’s cheesy, it’s silly, it’s hokey, but it’s heart is in the right place and is still a lot of fun to watch. I even liked it enough to buy Captain Planet action figures as a cool adult that other adults want to spend time with! That was a joke son. No one wants to spend time with me. Uh, anyway Captain Planet the NES game is not good. I know people really hate this one and I’ve kinda grown to like it. I still cannot in good conscious call it a good game. It’s pretty shitty. I just don’t think it’s one of the worst games on the NES shitty. This games biggest problem is when you play as the Planeteers you get hit once you die and your flying Planeteer mobile (I don’t remember the actual name for it) is a BIG target. Add in the fact the game wants you to shove this BIG TARGET in between some REALLY TIGHT AREAS and you got some very annoying shit. The game gets much better when you get to play as Captain Planet. the levels are mostly designed a bit better and you get to use all the Planeteer’s powers. If this game was just the Captain Planet stuff I think the game would be thought of a bit more positively or maybe I’ve just gone nuts. I don’t know and I don’t care.
Portnoyd is going to have a field day with this one as it’s a Rare (as in the company because you can easily find this game everywhere. You could probably pop open a grave in a fucking graveyard and find a copy of a this game in the casket. It is everywhere) I remember buying this for like $5 maybe? I don’t know but I do believe I found it early in my NES buying back in the late 1990s/early 00s. I can’t believe that was almost 25 years ago. God I’m old. Anyway this game hurts my eyes. Just something about it all just hurts my old eyes. I don’t know if it hurt my eyes back then also or not. I just find it hard to focus on this games style and I always end up dying quickly. I do not enjoy playing this game and I will leave it there.
Good Games: 53
Bad Games: 43
Okay games: 11
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