We haven't had a post since April 13th when I yelled at some people who will never see said post. Anyway, I just felt like not talking about things and I figure it's never good to force ones self to make a post. Just let the thousands of words fly out of your fingers naturally. If you gotta force it, just take a break from writing. I think I learned that from a Charles Bukowski poem. The things I know is amazing and will terrify someone one day. We also haven't had a post about NES games in almost a month! It's amazing how time flies when you are an adult. Even an adult who does nothing. Life is passing through my fingers rapidly and I decide to talk about Mappyland. Also said Mappyland ad is awesome and I'm glad I picked it. So let's get to the next six games, baby!
We start with a fucking DOOZY of a game. Yes it's another sports game but it is without a doubt THE WORST FUCKING SPORTS GAME FOR THE NES THAT I HAVE PLAYED. At least in the top five. It's hard for me to really review sports games because I am no good at any of them. I at least can tell effort was put in there. This game really fails because of one thing in my mind. The characters move so fucking slow that whoever you are up against can literally get like a shitload of home runs. That ruins this ENTIRE fucking MESS of a video game. I can't get that mad at this game because I really don't care about Baseball (they might have gotten the REAL players names but I would probably only recognize like two of them). This game reminds me of a NES scener named Sappy who hated it so much. He was a douchebag and literally might be the only person who would look for my blog just to call me names because he doesn't like me, but I don't really think he likes any human being. Anyway I wish I was watching the movie Major League instead of talking about this game. I still need to see Major League 2 or Major League Back to the Minors. Yes, they made three of those movies. Isn't that wild?
I just found out that someone on amazon is trying to sell this game for $75. I remember when I got my copy from some girl selling games at the flea market. She sold this game for $10 because it was a "name" game as it was a name people would recognize and not like "Phantom Fighter". $10 was fair honestly around that time (I guess this was like late 2000s?) and place. $5 was the usual price for a NES game at my local flea market here in Newfoundland, an extra five for this game was really no problem. This is the famous LucasGames or LucasFilm games or whatever point and click game and I think this might be the best point and click game for the NES. I think this is a really good port but then again I have not played the original game because I don't really want to try to get it to work. DOS confuses me and even very simple New DOS scares me. Sorry. This is a WILDLY fun little game. Great characters, great vibe, all kinds of endings, all kinds of stuff to enjoy in this little game. I still have not beaten it because I am complete ass at point and click games and I'd like to try to beat this game without a guide. I think it deserves that. I like that at least in some versions of this game you could blow up a hamster like some kind of psychopathic crazy man (hi Bratwurst). This game is funny and creative and is a lot of fun to play. There's not much else to say about it.
Mappyland is a game I remember from my childhood. I remember it being at the video store. Or maybe I owned it. I don't know but I do remember seeing this game. I'm sure I played it because it's a cute colorful game box that would have drawn in five year old claw in 1990. I cannot tell you what I thought of the game as a child but I can say that I think this game is a pretty good "points" game that you can play until you get a game over or you get tired. I like "points" games because I played a lot of them as a kid. They are simple little games that get harder and the good ones just work. I would say that Mappyland is one of the good ones. Honestly I only have two problems with this game. One is the jungle level of this game. I hate hate HATE this level so much. So so bad. I also do not like how you lose the ablitiy to see in some levels once you die once. Still there's really not a lot to say about this game that's bad. It's a nice simple "points based game" that I will be putting in the GOOD section of games. I like the dancing cat with a beard on the train. Just having a good time dancing and waiting for a chance to eat Mappy. Mappy is a dumb name.
Going through all of the NES games made me realize how many GREAT NES games are just very simple games and also arcade ports. I think I might have taken them for granted beforehand but man they made some very good Arcade ports for the NES. Marble Madness. Marble Madness is a great game to pick when you need to kill 15 minutes but want to have a fun time. There's really only like six levels in this game and you can beat this game in like fifteen minutes. This game is really pretty great, the graphics are nice, the music is pretty wonderful and its fast and frenetic and gets you wanting to beat your time and trying to finish the game quicker. I wish I really could say more because this game deserves it but it's a very simple little game BUT one I think just about anyone could get into. It's a game that is probably still $5 because IT WAS EVERYWHERE EVER and if anyone tries to make it a cent more then I will personally go insane and destroy every game convention ever. You cannot make Marble Madness more $5. I will not let it happen.
You ever see the commercial for this game for the Atari version? It's the funniest thing in the world. So poorly acted and over the top. I love that commercial. I have never played the Atari version of this game and I really see no reason to do so. Mario Bros. is the original first Mario Bros game. Donkey Kong was the first Mario game but at one point he was called Jumpman. Man the Mario lore is confusing and weird. I still have not seen the second Mario animated movie that they put out recently. I don't really care enough to do so even if I did like the first one. This is a fun game. I remember playing it on the Super Mario Brothers All Stars for the SNES. You could play it in SMB3. I don't know if you could do that in the SMB3 NES game. I forget how you even do to play it. It was a fun two player game. I remember playing this for the NES bounty and I think port and I were trying to beat it and I do believe I was the one who beat it first. and by beat I mean get past level 16 when it just starts to repeat. You can keep on playing after that and I think I did and got into the 20s which is as far as I ever got. I'm sure someone was good enough to get to level 99 and I could never do that. I am not good enough. Still regardless of how good you are at this game it is a worthy addition to any collection and is a fun game to play.
I was a weird child. Yes I know that's a shocking statement. A man who blathers on about The Smoggies and Blue Devil comics was a weird child. I really really really liked Mario is Missing for the Super Nintendo. Just figuring out stuff to get a new level was something I was really into. I did not beat the game as a child but I did beat it as an adult and I do not get why I wasted a rental for that game EVERY WEEK. Yes in the 1990s I would rent several games and movies from a video store called Allan's Video. EVERY WEEK for I do not know how long Mario is Missing would be one of those rentals. It was really weird because it's kind of a dull game but it had LIL' CLAW in its grasp. Anyway I will say this much, the SNES version is much better than the NES version but both games are dull. Just lifeless. You go from one area to another bringing stuff back to these information booths and answering questions about them. Then you go to a different place in the world and do that again. It's just not very exciting. Somehow I beat this game twice and I will never understand how I could do it. Not because they were hard but because they were BORING AS HELL. I do love this games cover of Luigi being a dumbass and not realizing that Bowser is literally kidnapping Mario behind him. Great stuff.
GOOD GAMES: 178
BAD GAMES: 138
OKAY GAMES: 59
GAMES IMPATIENT: 7
HAVENT PLAYED ENOUGH: 3
GAMES OVERALL: 385
Claw is in fact quick enough for Mappyland but too slow for Kid Kool.
ReplyDeleteWhile I would say it's not the worst 8bit NES baseball game, as I have said before, it's Super Real Baseball, MLB is the worst NES one. It's possible I said another one was. I don't remember. I've been around CLAWBLOG too long, I am now EHH TOO LAZYing my own comments.
Anyway, yes it is bad. It also doesn't help that it's baseball, a terrible sport.
Sappy is also a terrible person. He was so grumpy all the time. It was funny and sad at the same time. Some people liked him though, so whatever. All I know is has TCNA or TNCA and he had an afro but was not black. Yeah.
As we discussed on cavern, Major League on the Famicom exists which is where any discussion about it ends. I could have sworn they did a fourth but they didn't. Maybe I'm thinking of Revenge of the Nerds.
$75 loose for Maniacn Mansion. No.
$10 for Maniac Mansion is very worth it. It's such a good port. The C64 version is slow as shit the character design is kind of terrible, while the NES one is compact and fast. I don't recommend playing any version but the NES honestly. Also the music on the NES version is superb while there is NO music on the computer versions. It's just a better version top to bottom. Meanwhile the actual game itself is so much fun. Like you, I want to play it blind again. I do remember a good deal of the puzzles but not all and it would be fun figuring out what I don't remember. You should make it a point to play it blind too. I will give you very simple tips:
1. Don't pick Jeff
2. If everyone gets thrown in the basement dungeon, there is a loose brick in the wall that will open the door out but only if one kid stands at it. This way, you can always get two kids out to keep exploring.
3. Keep pen and paper handy to write things down
Otherwise, have a lot of fun with it.
I never rented Mappyland as a kid and it's one of the games I want to try and actually finish. I haven't sat down with it yet so I don't have much to say about it but even though it's very points era game, it can be finished.
FUCK MARBLE MADNESS. What a miserable game to play. Absolutely miserable. And what do you know? Rare did this port. So fuck it twice. I have rarely experienced a worse game to actually try and control. This game is hot asshole. Launch it into space.
Mario Bros is very good and fun. I had it growing up and I remember I did play it a lot. I am pretty sure even back then I got to the rollover point, like you said stage 16 or whatever. That's how much I played it. It's a very fun single screen game. I remember how pleased with myself I would be when I perfectly execute the bonus stage which isn't easy to do because of how slide-y this game is. But it's not in a bad way like Ice Climbers.
There's kind of no reason for you to see the new SMB movie. It's not for us. It's for kids. It's absolutely loaded with member berries, to an insulting degree. You know what they're going to do in the third movie because there's so little left from Mario that they didn't stuff into this.
Were we going at it for this one? 5 years ago and I don't even remember. Kind of sad. We're old.
I think we al had games that we gravitated to and could not understand why. I can't remember any of those for me but lol I can't remember anything. So there's that.
Sappy really was something.
ReplyDeleteLol I forgot Rare did Marble Madness. I think you are the first person to say anything negative about that game that i've seen.
It's kind of amazing how I thought they did enough "actual story" and "memberberries fun" within the first animated Mario movie. It wasn't the most amazing story ever told or anything but it felt like they were trying for a story. From what I hear about the second one it was like 2% actual story and 98% memberberries fun. I would rather watch the weird 1993 version of Mario Brothers.
Lol yeah, I believe it was you and me trying to get to level 16. Also yeah the bonus levels were tough as hell.
Oh yeah I know Mappyland has a "ending" because I got to it after like years of trying. I do believe it does continue after that ending though.
I really need to do all that for Maniac Mansion. Soon.
Major League Baseball is really bad.