You know I don't think I ever used an image of the Top Loading NES in these. So here it is. I wanted one of these not for rarity but because they seemed to work better. I had so many NESes just stop working for me and I was sick of it. I bought one on eBay with like 100 or so games for not a terrible price because this was maybe 2006? 2007? 2008? I don't fucking know. It was before the shit hit the fan and every thing from the past actually suddenly became worth something. Like I was made fun of for asking someone if they had NES games to sell. That's how low that shit had sunk at one point. Now everyone is like RETRO WOO. Not trying to gatekeep because that's really pointless in the end just saying that I was there when no one else for the most part was. So that NES did not actually work at all. It was broken beyond repair. I even brought it to a store where a guy would repair NESes and sell them and he couldn't get it back. It was gone. STUPID PATTI NORWICKI SOLD ME A BROKEN NINTENDO. I'M ON TO YOU PATTI. Thankfully I did get a working Top Loading NES that is now hooked up to a TV that doesn't even turn on any more. I should see if I can fix that TV, I've had it for 33 years. It's a good man. CATHORAY TUBE TELEVISIONS FOREVER BITCHES. Yes, I used the NES Top Loader just so I could shit out this opening paragraph. Eat me.
I've only ever played Dracula for the NES and SNES. Both games were based on the Movie that was based on the book. The biggest problem really with both games is the developers going WOW LET'S SHOW THEM THESE COOL GRAPHICS AND THINGS WE CAN DO. And they did. There's some impressive stuff here in that manner. They forgot to do two things. Make stages that were interesting and not poorly made and annoying and also have the play control not be drizzly shit. Those two things take the game down really far down the list if I were ranking all these games. I will not do that because I value my sanity and sometimes it's really hard to decide if one game really is worse than another. Anyway there's not much here that's something you can say than what I've said before. Sad because who the hell doesn't want to kill Dracula as played by Gary Oldman?!?
Hey gang! We are talking about a game that only ONE Youtuber has made a video on. Now that's something. I mean I take umbridge with his NES GAMES NO ONE PLAYED thing because I have in fact played Dragon Fighter by Natsume (and put out by Sofel). This is actually a pretty good game. I find it funny you see a man on the cover because I'm pretty sure you play as a pretty well endowed woman (she's got some wild ass titties) in the game. Like those are titties and not muscles. Anyway you play as a Fighter (of Dragons) that can also turn into a Dragon. It's a simple pretty fun Video game platformer that gets pretty hard later on. I would like to beat this game because it was very enjoyable. The music is pretty good. The stages are pretty well thought out. the Play control is pretty good although I do feel the character could have moved a bit faster. You get to play as different dragons with different fire power which is always fun. I consider Dragon Fighter to be a pretty good NES game that should get more love and respect. Portnoyd is going to fart and barf and pee all over this game I'm sure.
I said in the last NES game post about Double Strike that it was the most boring shump on the NES. Now we actually get to talk about a very well done NES shump that still somehow does not get a lot of discussion on it. Dragon Spirit has you play as a dragon just shooting the fuck out of every thing on the screen. You get power ups and become more powerful. The game starts off easy with not to many enemies to fight and becomes insane later on. You get good music, good graphics and the play control is very smooth. It's a decent challenge and I really can't say anything more than that. So get off your ass and play some Dragon Spirit and save that Princess, bitch!
Here we have Dragon Strike, which I believe is the first Advanced Dungeons and Dragons game I have to talk about. I think there were like four or five of them on the NES and I just have to ask one question. Were ANY of these games ANY good for like ANY platform? I just remember being annoyed by this game for one simple reason. You had to hold down on a button to become smaller so you could attack different dragons. I remember the graphics being pretty good but the music and everything else was just not very good. I don't really get Dungeons and Dragons at all really. I really don't see whats so fun about it. The only Dungeons and Dragons thing I like is the totally rad cartoon from the 1980s. This game is probably the best of the Dungeons and Dragons games for the NES because it's the only one I can see myself going back to, try to get into the groove of the game. I don't know if I have even played Hillsfar but I'm not really looking forward to it. This game is not very good and I don't like it. Who knows one day I'll probably become the master of Dragon Strike because really I have nothing better to do with my time but until then this goes in the poop pile.
GOOD GAMES: 86
BAD GAMES: 75
OKAY OR POORLY AGED: 25
PROBABLY GOOD IF YOU AREN'T AN IMPATIENT BABY LIKE I AM: 2
It's funny how the top loader was like the gold standard for NES for such a long time, yet it didn't have AVs at all. Being able to jam a cart in like a Genesis or SNES made a difference... and then came 3845636547 after market systems that made it irrelevant. Yet it's still $200 fucking dollars.
ReplyDelete*We liked NES before it was cool again*. Well guess what fuckos on the internet, it was always cool, you were lame shit leaving it in the dust for the PS1 which looks way more ass than the NES ever could. Somewhat amusing story, so the game forums that Joust came from, TNL Forums, DNG and I posted there and we would post about NES and collecting NES. And this forum was full of the biggest group of posers you've ever experienced. Heads way up their ass. So they would of course laugh at us for collecting NES like we were wasting our time. I ditched the forums because it wasn't worth talking to these people (I mean, try talking to joust but imagine it with 60 Jousts) but DNG hung around. A few years later, in like 2010, DNG linked me THAT SAME THREAD and wouldn't you know... all these, and I'll be blunt, fucking faggots were jerking themselves off about collecting NES carts in recent posts on the thread.
So yeah, fuck anyone who laughed at you asking for NES. We never left it, they did and fuck them for crawling back.
Anyway, you should probably get rid of that TV. Unless you buy a new CRT and put it on top of the broken one. That'd be awesome.
I don't even have anything to add for Dr Mario. It's a better Tetris knockoff than most match 3 games including that piece of shit Columns on the Genesis.
I can speak to BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (not to be confused with... Robin Williams's Dracula ba-dum-tsh) because I attempted to beat this for the bounty. This was probably the last serious attempt I made it a game until I tried to unsuccessfully revive the bounty with my Famicom bullshit. SORRY, THE GAMES ARE GOOD AND FUN AND YOU GOOD PEOPLE SHOULD PLAY THEM.
Anyway, this is not a bad game. It's challenging but very mediocre. The jumping is problematic as you jump like a grasshopper, if that makes any sense. I think I got 60% through the game and the level was just too brutal. I think if I survived long enough, I ran out time and vice versa. However it needs special mention for the music which is genuinely crazy. It's the high point of the game, which is almost an acceptable statement to make when you consider Silver Surfer.
SURPRISE I like this game too, Captain Wrong. I beat it sometime in the past 5 years. I am surprised there is only one YT video because I figured the value of the fucking game (over $300 LOOSE) would make it easy cannon fodder for shitheads to flaunt the cart on their videos to make them seem important.
Anyway, it's on the short side but a very good and fun game, and well made. Managing your dragon power matters and the only rub against the game is there is a fair amount of memorization needed to approach each situation where it doesn't wear you down too much.The last stage being a shooter is a nice change of pace too.
I always get Dragon Power confused with Ninja Kid because early Bandai was sloppy shit and both games look like sloppy shit. It was a very Japanese game that they made no effort to hide. Kind of confusing for kids back then, but well, we didn't know any better and that was ok. Not a great game though, I don't think anyone would have beaten this for the bounty (unless they did?).
Dragon Spirit is not a great shooter in the arcade, but the NES version improves it. Still not great, but it's very ok. However, as you said, it gives kids what they want. DRAGONS SHOOTING THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYTHING. And they give you more heads to shoot with. Someone knew what they were talking about when they decided to make this game.
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ReplyDeleteI have not played any NES D&D game except Heroes of the Lance, and I did that for the bounty and cheesed it to finish it like 20 minutes. D&D can be good and fun but a lot has to come together. Namely, a good DM, good teammates and a good campaign. Any shortcomings in any of those and it's a chore. I played D&D for like 20 years off and on and I really don't miss it.
To answer your question, I don't think there was a good D&D game until Neverwinter Nights on the PC. Before that, it was all Wizardry clones and random shit like Heroes of the Lance and this. I don't understand how they made 4 D&D titles for the NES though... but then again, they released 3 Ultima titles so I guess there's your audience?