I kinda don't want to go back to just small openings just yet, so I wanted to post a image of a Nintendo Power cover that had FLINTSTONES for the NES on it. You'd think they would rate a mention on the cover but nope. Neither did any of the other games I will be talking about today so I have to go with this poster from Nintendo Power, which lets me do my literal favorite thing is complain about the shit sucking fuckers who want to nickel and dime every single thing related to nostaliga. I mean I've kinda grown to hate seeing posters on walls because of shitty YouTubers, but here's the real deal. This guy took the poster out to sell it. He even admits it in the damn ebay listing I got this image from. So he can probably sell the magazine later. I'm amazed how much that annoyed me and how I had to mention it. Seriously if I somehow get the power to do so all of this stuff, even shit like fucking Stadium Events and Amazing Fantasy 15 will be at the give me twenty bucks for the whole lot price point. Like these guys wouldn't be able to say anything else. It would be amazing.
Anyway, I feel like talking about Nintendo Power and Video game magazines and I don't really care to make an entire post about them. So I will do it here because IT IS MY BLOG AND I CAN WRITE ALMOST 2,000 WORDS ON WHATEVER THE JESUS FUCKING HELL I WANT. Anyway I never had a subscription to Nintendo Power and I never ever saw any issues when they first came out. Seriously, not a single one, UNTIL issue 100. I remember buying that and letting a kid named Frankie borrow it and yep, I never saw it again. issue 100 is probably the point I would quit collecting Nintendo Powers if it were you know possible. I'm sorry but unless I become a millionaire of some sort would I start spending the prices people want for these magazines. I seriously, do not believe the first issue is now OMG RARE. I just cannot do it. I mean I never had the first isuse but I did have an issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly that talked about Yoshi's Story and that's interesting to me for two reasons. It involves what just might be the most god damn insulting moment of my life that didn't involve Mr. Shithead. Another kid, one of the cool kids. At least I thought he was cool, literally said WHILE I WAS THERE how he was going to get me to let me borrow his magazine and he was just oging to keep it because it had Resident Evil 2 things in it. Yeah, I was a weird kid. Yeah I was in SPECIAL ED but Jesus fucking Harold Christ I deserved at least enough respect for you to not TALK ABOUT HOW YOU WERE GOING TO STEAL MY MAGAZINE IN EAR SHOT. Oh and how Yoshi's Story was so easy and disappointing. You do not need a magazine to beat that game. Hell you do not even need a fucking pulse of any kind. It's really sad.
Anyway I once got like thirty-forty Nintendo Powers for so cheap that it made it worth it to get them all. I don't remember where or when but I just had to have them at that point. I do remember reading them all so much they got torn to shit and I have maybe three of them left. I don't know if I can say I have three. I loved reading them over and over again. It was so cool. NES/SNES era Nintendo Powers. I might actually want to collect Nintendo Power. Not today. I got some Nintendo Powers recently as in a like a year or so ago and I just realized after buying all of them for $10 EACH that one of them had no back cover. Amazing what time does. Now we can finally review some NES games. I promise next time it will be a very short opening.
I made a mistake within the last post in this blog post series. The last game was supposed to be this and not Flight of the Intruder but for whatever reason that game fits better for that post so I'm going to keep it. It's not like I'm going to forget a game. If any games get dropped or forgotten I will go back to them like I will for the Power Pad games. You will see way too many NES reviews. Anyway this is not a very good game but it was made between 1985 and 1987. I mean okay this game was finally brought over in 1989 but it's really a 1987 release and I cannot get to angry at a game that was made that early. For the most part. I'm not going to be too happy with most of the NES Black Box sports games. Anyway this game is probably going to end up in the bad category because it's not good but a lot of people get angry at this game and I really can't. This game has not very good graphics, not very good sound. It can be either really really hard or incredibly easy. It feels like the game's enemies and bosses can either be trapped and beaten easily or they will trap and beat you easily. Anyway you are better off watching the anime or reading the manga instead of playing this game. I know they made a ton of sequels and I never bothered to play any of them.
They made a surprisingly amount of Retro games based around Hanna Barbera things but most of the games made for the NES, SNES and Genesis were made around three properties. The Flintstones, The Jetsons and Scooby Doo. I have mentioned before how I was never a really big fan of two of those shows. They were just kinda bland and this is coming from someone who watched a lot of Hanna Barbera and look upon them fondly. I was never a fan of the Flintstones. It was on the list of "Whatever" Shows. Ones you'd go "whatever" and watch. I don't remember a lot about the Flintstones. However I really like the video game platformer games based around the Flintstones. I really remember playing and renting the SNES game a LOT and think it's still pretty good. I mean addmitetly I have a huge wild ass boner for platformer games in general, regardless of what license you put on it. This is a simple fun game game made by Taito. The game looks like the cartoon. the music is good. and I like how they even put in mini games and everything. I just like platformers and I think this is a well made one.
Yes, it's another rare game. Yes you know what that means because I will always do this until I am done with every game (I am also thinking about putting in Europe only games too but who knows how old I will be when I am done) and that's complain about how most of these games are not that rare. First off I do not believe this game was a blockbuster only rental thing at this point. For two reasons. Yeah Flintstone had some marquee value in 1994, definitely more than it has now but not enough for Blockbuster to go HOLY SHIT YES WE NEED THIS AND ONLY US. The second reason is look at that date for the games release. 1994 was the final year that licensed games were released for the NES. In 1994 they put out 11 Licensed games and 1 Unlicnesed game (at least according to some website I just found) and no Blockbuster isn't screaming NO ONE OF THESE LAST GAMES MUST BE OURS. I could MAYBE see if the entire internet was saying the SNES Taito Flintstones game was blockbuster only but I will never believe, unless GOD HIMSELF FLIES DOWN FROM THE FUCKING HEAVENS AND TELLS ME HIMSELF that Flintstones Surprise at Dinosaur Peak was a Blockbuster exclusive. Nintendoage can kiss my ass on that one. Also the price for most copies of this game come out to over 1,000 dollars. One entire fucking grand for a old ass Video game based on an even older ass cartoon series. Seriously you can't spend that money as a normal person. Sorry you are now rich if you can spend that on ONE VIDEO GAME. Like I don't know what my mother would think if I somehow spent that on ONE THING even if I did save up for it. I would never spend this much for a NES game because I hate to break it to the people who want to somehow make this their investment for money making. These games will end up being plastic coasters that will not work. Finally I have finished bitching about shit heads who have ruined collecting everything because they don't want to learn how the fucking god damn stock market works like a fucking actual adult who does investing of things and now I can talk about this game. If you like the original game and I do then this is a new group of levels and characters to play and fight. This game is a bit harder than the original and the last stage is a bitch. I like the inclusion of being to play as Barney as he moves differently than Fred and I just think everything like music, play control, level design, mini games and everything you want in a platformer to be r eally done well in this game. It's not worth over one thousand dollars and people who invest into video games, comics and all kinds of stupid nerd shit should get run over by a sherman tank. Fuck you all you all.
You might be wondering why I put both of these games here and I'm doing ot for one reason and one reason only. I legit forget which of these games is which. They are very similar. One of them is the sequel to the other and I forget which is which. I think Flying Dragon is the original and the sequel is Flying Warriors. I think Flying Dragon was mostly a platformer with a few one on one fights and Flying Warriors was the one with mostly one on one fights. I remember both of them being pretty alright, yeah I spent $10 at the flea market and got two NES games and if I had spent a penny more I would be disappointed. They were literally $5 at the Flea Market good. Just the barest minimum of Good, not okay, not bad. Just barely getting to that Good level. I just remember being like yeah I enjoy playing these games but for whatever reason I don't care enough to put in the time to actually beat them. I really should but who knows. I just put them both here because there's just enough to discuss with both of these very similar games and they are both good enough for one paragraph. Sorry not sorry.
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a few posts ago I talked about Ferrari Grand Prix and was actually talking about this game. I got them mixed up. This is a game where you build your car up and changes shit. I really should have noticed something was up when I saw that Ferrari was made by Acclaim and not Seta who made like 5 games for the NES and I don't know if they even did make any more for the Game boy or the SNES. They were like yeah this video game making thing is not for us and just went off to do something else. I really do not know. Anyway this is actually a review of Ferrari Grand Prix which is..........fine. It is clearly one of the racing games they want you to put effort into figuring out how it moves and not just Rad Racer where you plug it in and just race to the end of the stage in the time allotted. I just much prefer the Rad Racer style. Will I one day fix this mistake and put the reviews where they are supposed to be, maybe but that day will not be today because I am EHHHHHHHHHHHH TOO LAZY.
Another six games down. SEVERAL HUNDRED LEFT TO GO. Anyway here are the rankings of Good, Bad, Okay and WHATEVER THE HELL ELSE
Good Games:115
Bad Games: 82
Okay Games: 29
Impatient baby might be whatever: 3
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