Re: Games Beaten 2017
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2017 10:52 pm
1. Chrono Trigger (SNES)
2. Gyromite (NES)
3. Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For- (Steam)
4. Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (Famicom)
5. Radical Dreamers (SNES)
6. Video Games 1 (TI-99/4A)
7. Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken (Famicom)
8. Exile (TurboGrafx CD)
9. Exile: Wicked Phenomenon (TurboGrafx CD)
10. Xak (PC Engine CD, Xak I・II)
11. Xak II (PC Engine CD, Xak I・II)
12. Neutopia (TurboGrafx-16)
13. Captain Silver (Sega Master System)
14. Märchen Veil (Famicom Disk System)
15. Vanguard (Atari 2600)
16. Kangaroo (Atari 2600)
17. Front Line (Atari 2600)
18. Mario Bros. (Atari 2600)
19. Harmonia (Steam)
20. Donkey Kong (Atari 2600)
21. Jungle Hunt (Atari 2600)
22. Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes (TurboGrafx CD)
23. Gorf (Atari 2600)
24. Neutopia II (TurboGrafx-16)
25. Dungeon Magic (PlayStation 2, Taito Legends 2)
26. The Lost Vikings (SNES)
27. Blue's Journey (Wii Virtual Console)
28. Wizard Fire (Wii, Data East Arcade Classics)
29. Super Mario Run (Android)
30. Dragon Warrior II (NES)
31. Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure (GOG.com)
32. Witch & Hero (Nintendo eShop)
33. Phoenix (Atari 2600)
Phoenix rules! The game's a classic arcade fixed shooter, later ported to the Atari 2600. Gameplay is similar to the better-known Gorf, which launched one year later, in that there is a series of discrete stages, as opposed to endless waves of samey enemies, culminating in a final boss battle.
The enemies are pretty rad, the majority of them being phoenices with regenerating wings. Control is solid, in that I didn't feel the "need" to swap out the joystick for a Genesis controller. There's some "music" here as well, a never-ending atonal series of rising and falling bloops and beeps. The highlight of the game is the boss, a little alien dude housed inside of a giant mothership. You need to chip away at the mothership's exterior, and then time your shots through a scrolling "conveyor belt" to hit the boss himself. Phoenix is made for high-score chasing, and any skilled player can expect to sail through several loops before expiring.
I'd put this a notch above both Gorf and Demon Attack (a game so similar to Phoenix that Atari sued Imagic). Certainly one of the better fixed shooters on the system. Phoenix had a sequel called Pleiads, which received one of those homebrew Atari 2600 ports many years later. What's funny is that the two games had different publishers in the arcades, so if you wanna try the arcade originals get Taito Legends for Phoenix and Tecmo Classic Arcade for Pleiads.
Pew pew that's my review.
2. Gyromite (NES)
3. Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For- (Steam)
4. Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (Famicom)
5. Radical Dreamers (SNES)
6. Video Games 1 (TI-99/4A)
7. Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken (Famicom)
8. Exile (TurboGrafx CD)
9. Exile: Wicked Phenomenon (TurboGrafx CD)
10. Xak (PC Engine CD, Xak I・II)
11. Xak II (PC Engine CD, Xak I・II)
12. Neutopia (TurboGrafx-16)
13. Captain Silver (Sega Master System)
14. Märchen Veil (Famicom Disk System)
15. Vanguard (Atari 2600)
16. Kangaroo (Atari 2600)
17. Front Line (Atari 2600)
18. Mario Bros. (Atari 2600)
19. Harmonia (Steam)
20. Donkey Kong (Atari 2600)
21. Jungle Hunt (Atari 2600)
22. Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes (TurboGrafx CD)
23. Gorf (Atari 2600)
24. Neutopia II (TurboGrafx-16)
25. Dungeon Magic (PlayStation 2, Taito Legends 2)
26. The Lost Vikings (SNES)
27. Blue's Journey (Wii Virtual Console)
28. Wizard Fire (Wii, Data East Arcade Classics)
29. Super Mario Run (Android)
30. Dragon Warrior II (NES)
31. Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure (GOG.com)
32. Witch & Hero (Nintendo eShop)
33. Phoenix (Atari 2600)
Phoenix rules! The game's a classic arcade fixed shooter, later ported to the Atari 2600. Gameplay is similar to the better-known Gorf, which launched one year later, in that there is a series of discrete stages, as opposed to endless waves of samey enemies, culminating in a final boss battle.
The enemies are pretty rad, the majority of them being phoenices with regenerating wings. Control is solid, in that I didn't feel the "need" to swap out the joystick for a Genesis controller. There's some "music" here as well, a never-ending atonal series of rising and falling bloops and beeps. The highlight of the game is the boss, a little alien dude housed inside of a giant mothership. You need to chip away at the mothership's exterior, and then time your shots through a scrolling "conveyor belt" to hit the boss himself. Phoenix is made for high-score chasing, and any skilled player can expect to sail through several loops before expiring.
I'd put this a notch above both Gorf and Demon Attack (a game so similar to Phoenix that Atari sued Imagic). Certainly one of the better fixed shooters on the system. Phoenix had a sequel called Pleiads, which received one of those homebrew Atari 2600 ports many years later. What's funny is that the two games had different publishers in the arcades, so if you wanna try the arcade originals get Taito Legends for Phoenix and Tecmo Classic Arcade for Pleiads.
Pew pew that's my review.