I am working on what might be my LARGEST post of all time. I am keeping it a secret on what it is. I hope portnoyd enjoys it. However I have been working on it for a week and I just want to update this blog before I forget about it or something. I dunno. This game ad is from a comic book. I can tell because I've seen it on several comic books I own. They wanted this game to be a real big hit which is kinda wild to me. I will get to why when I get there. So I guess we will talk about six games and then portnoyd will talk about those six games. It's a fun back and forth.
You know what's insane. This game is better than the SNES version. Holy hot SHIT that game is one of the WORST on the Super Nintendo. Doesn't make this game GOOD but I like it more than that one. This game's graphics and look are so weird. European made games of this time just looked so off. It was something that was so close but so so far. They have this fake game made for a TV show feel to them. This one is a beat em up and I can't think of many beat em ups made by european companies. It's also uh, not very good? You can beat up the bad guys or shoot them. This game is very generic and also really kinda easy until it isn't. It's not a good progression of challenge. It's just easy, easy easy, BALLS HARD. I somehow beat this one for the bounty and it was not worth it yet I am glad I have beaten it. I also have to mention that this game feels so far away from Lethal Weapon it's not even funny. Like the Back to the Future games feel closer to the movies than this game does. I also like how JOE PESCI is watching behind their backs yet never shows up in this game. This game is not very good but I also don't hate it. I guess I'll be nice and put it in the OKAY section. Actually no, it is bad. BAD SECTION. I will stop talking about this game so I don't change my mind any more.
Life Force is a shump. It's also A BETTER GAME THAN GRADIUS. Yes. I said that. I think this game has better graphics, better stage, better challenge level, cooler bosses than Gradius. I know I MADE THE WORLD ANGRY AT ME. I mean they would be if they knew this place existed. Hell the world be really angry at me for my dumb opinions on pop culture/nerd bullshit. We really take this stuff way too seriously. This game has great graphics, great music, it's fast and furious. I like how the levels change the kind of shump you are playing each level. It's totally one of the top 5 shumps on the NES. I really don't have much else to say about it. Just that the same issue with every shooty game on any system is that if you get hit in a latter stage it's just so much easier to quit and start over. None of these games are very long and you should be able to get back to where you were quickly. Losing like all of your power ups is a pain in the booty hole but I guess every single one of these games would be piss easy if you didn't. Anyway excellent game and is worth owning and playing.
Oh GOOD FABULOUS DAY! FABULOUS DAY! I get to talk about Baseball! MY FAVOURITE THING IN THE WORLD! I do not understand any sports. Any of them. Okay, I get playing them. but I just do not understand watching them. I mean it might be something different if you are in the stadium or whatever with the players that might be something but watching them on TV is like the most boring thing on the planet. I never got it as a child. I don't get it as a older slightly larger child. It just never got into my sphere. I'd rather watch a movie, or a tv series or anything.. I'd rather go outside or play Nintendo. Play with my action figures. Just about everything. I do not know the rules of BASEBALL to this day. I do not want to know them. All of these games literally seem the same to me. All of them. Every single fucking one of them is I'm sure the same damn game. It's all a fucking cosmic joke on me. ISN'T IT. I guess because this game was made by the SATURDAY NIGHT KNIGHTS aka SNK it has a pretty good chance of being good if you know what the fuck to do involving BASEBALL. Seriously I always just smack the ball and it turns out to be a fucking foul. Fuck baseball. I'm tired of fucking talking about it. I can't believe I have at least 30 more fucking sports games to talk about. GOD.
This is a weird game because it's a mix of two games. A point and click adventure game and a sidescroller. It's also weird because the point and click stuff is pretty well done. You have a big world to explore and find out where everything goes. I mean I'm not very good at these games but I was at least into playing through this one. I just stopped because I found out you have to do side scrollering segments and I think the Linus Spacehead games have the fucking worst controls of any single game on the NES. They are testicle destroying bad. You are always hopping and it's just so bad. I don't know why you couldn't just keep this a point and click game. You did good with that. YOU JUST HAD TO OPEN UP YOUR ASSHOLES AND SHIT ALL OVER THIS. WHY???
I talk a lot about the Disney TV Series of the 1990s but I haven't really mentioned the movies as much. There were two Disney movies I remember watching a good amount. The Little Mermaid and Aladdin. I think we owned a good amount of them but I might have watched The Beauty and the Beast or The Lion King.........twice? I think I liked the movies Walt Disney worked on in the 1940s-1960s and stuff prior to the Disney Renaissance. Oliver and Company and The Great Mouse Detective are cinematic gold. The Fox and the Hound makes me cry. Yes, if you want to see a mountain of a man cry just put that movie on. I will weep like a baby. Or at least I did the last time I watched it. The Little Mermaid was a pretty good movie and this was a pretty good game based on that movie. Brought by the SECOND best NES company (sorry port you know it's true) and it's the one Disney game by them that doesn't get brought up a lot. It's also probably the easiest except for the last level but It's still a lot of fun. I enjoy playing this game and it has good music and good graphics. There's also not much to talk about it. It's just well done video game licensed game.
Can I say that I love that the NES just picked from literally EVERYWHERE to make games out of things. They picked novels from the late 19th century (Tom Sawyer and Dr. Jekyll), TV shows from the 1960s (like Gilligans Island), ANTI DRUG PROPAGANDA (Wally Bear) and THE FUCKING BIBLE! (a literal series of these games!). It was a pretty wild madhouse really. Little Nemo The Dream Master might have the wildest backstory. First off it was created by Windsor McCay in 1912 or whenever as a old timey comic strip. Each comic in the sunday paper would have like HALF a page or a FULL page for people to draw wild shit on. I want to read the Little Nemo comic. Then 70 years later Japan is like LET'S MAKE THIS INTO AN ANIME MOVIE (which was probably the first anime I ever saw) and they made a game based on that Anime. A fantastic game. You get candy and you can turn different kinds of enemies to your side and get their power and different enemies you get do different things. You also get a lot of big levels to look around in. This game makes looking around big stages really good. They also do several stages that don't stop. I dunno what the name is for those kind of levels but they just keep on moving. Those were really well done and sometimes those levels can be annoying. You get a giant cool killer Final Boss and it feels great to fight him. A great little game to end this group of six off on.
GOOD GAMES: 165
BAD GAMES: 132
OKAY GAMES: 56
GAMES IMPATIENT: 6
GAMES OVERALL: 359
I will reply to your largest post ever with nothing more than "lol".
ReplyDeleteLol I have not played the SNES version and lol oh boy if it's worse. That's a low bar.
I don't know if the BttF games are a fair comparison. Like, stuff happens in those movies that they could copy. What happens in Lethal Weapon? Shooting bad guys? It's really not a stretch.
I always hated that cover of Lethal Weapon III or whatever. It's like they did the shoot for the poster and then Joe Pesci's agent negotiated him onto the poster and they just stuffed him in.
Life Force or SALAMANDER has always been better than Gradius. Maybe not Gradius II and not saying Gradius is not GOOD and FUN, but I don't think this is a crazy call to say it's better than Gradius I. I am terrible at shooters but cannot deny how great this game is.
The only reason I know anything about baseball is because my dad was a BOOMER and all male boomers were required to like baseball. It's a crap sport. Going to see a game is a reason to drink in the stands and nothing more. When I was younger and REALLY liked to waste my time, I would go with a friend to a minor league game nearby him. We dubbed it the circus with baseball because in between EVERY inning (this is the measure of time in a baseball game) they would have goofy shit like clowns running bases and giving away toasters. They knew no one gave a flying fuck so away they went.
But hey, good news. You will have FOUR sports free posts at the end of this adventure assuming you don't count wrestling games, in which case you will have THREE. Something to look forward too EXCESSIVE SARCASTIC EXCLAMANTION POINTS!!!!!!!
Linus Spacehead is Bignose the Caveman plus Adventures of Dizzy. So it's a hard turd with liquid shit on it. The platforming as you said is miserable and any adventure parts are not worth it in the face of trying to do a jump onto a platform. I mostly hate Codemasters games and this one is a prime example.
NO IT IS THE THIRD BEST NES PUBLISHERS FUCK YOU
It's funny, I really wasn't into Disney movies as a kid. I still have never watched Lion King. I watched Aladdin, maybe in theaters and it was fine primarily because of Robin Williams and his coke nose. I also remember my class in grammar school being forced to sing in church the magic carpet ride song for some fucking reason. Catholic school is stupid. Other than that, not a whole lot of exposure. I watched a few with my kids/daughter one of which was Little Mermaid. They didn't care either. I would prefer the pre-90s movies myself as well.
Little Mermaid the game is excellent. On the easy side but fun to play. That's all there is to it.
Little Nemo is what we wanted out of a game. TURN INTO A FROG. TURN INTO A ... I dont know I'm tired and can't think of anything else. I had this game growing up and I finally beat it for the bounty and it was very satisfying to do so. This is the kind of game that WE remember but NORMIES don't. They'll remember Mario and Zelda and nothing else and we'll be like "Nemo". Yeah.
The Lion King is worth a viewing. It's not like they were bad movies or I hated any of them it's just I remember say Recess or Rescue Rangers or some TV cartoon they made between DuckTales and Fillmore more.
DeleteLol. I was forced to sing ISE THE BYS a weird newfoundland song in school. I just got up and pretended to sing. It was enough to net me GARFIELD DISHES IT OUT. A literary masterwork if I do say so my self.
I actually don't remember Nemo, just the anime movie which is vaguely. It was a game I bought and played for probably pretty cheap probably pretty early on. I think people will argue over if Konami or Capcom were the best Third Party company until the heat death of the universe. Except zoomers who hate the NES and masturbate to the Gamecube. the NES is more fun and the games are easier for me to get into than most of the 3D platformers on the gamecube. I SAID IT AND I DONT CARE.
I do count wrestling as sport or at least close enough to sports. Wrestling is at least easier to talk about than fucking piss ass baseball.