by Sarge Sun Jan 24, 2016 9:04 pm
1) Bonk's Adventure (NES)
2) Little Samson
3) Holy Diver
4) Holy Diver (legit!)
5) Mitsume Ga Tooru
6) TMNT II: The Arcade Game (NES) (repeat)
7) Mighty Final Fight (repeat)
8] Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (repeat)
9) Monster In My Pocket (repeat)
10) Battle of Olympus
11) Gunstar Heroes (repeat)
12) Dragon Age: Inquisition
13) Dragon Age: Inquisition - Trespasser
14) Captain America and the Avengers (NES)
15) StarTropics
16) Double Dragon II: The Revenge (NES) (save states)
17) Double Dragon II: The Revenge (NES) (legit)
18) Crisis Force
19) Esper Dream 2
20) Felix the Cat
21) Moon Crystal
22) Panic Restaurant
23) Frankenstein (NES)
Yeah, I've got no shortage of new stuff to play... and I spend the afternoon playing all NES stuff. Ha!
So, Esper Dream 2 is a sort of RPG/action amalgam. Probably similar to stuff like Faria or Radia. It's one of the few games that utilizes the VRC6 sound chip, and I wanted to give the NES a go with the sound mod, see how it all sounded. Not bad, actually. The game was fun, and I figure you could blow through it in 4-5 hours. I started yesterday on it, actually, so I wasn't that crazy.
Felix the Cat is a pretty bog-standard platformer. It does a few interesting things with vehicles, controls well, mixes in aerial and underwater stages, and all-in-all is decent, but nowhere near spectacular. It's also really easy. I did I think one save state toward the beginning, but honestly, this one's done legit, I stopped and had 35 lives by the end. Probably took about an hour.
Moon Crystal is a game that I thought about making a repro of those years ago when I was putting together my Earthbound Zero and Radia carts. It's a pretty spiffy action-platformer, kind of Prince of Persia-ish but with more responsive control. Sometimes you'll wish it were more responsive, but it's not too bad otherwise. It's got lots of cutscenes that I quite honestly skipped this time through. I'd recommend it, just be ready for some cheapness against the bosses. An hour, tops.
Panic Restaurant is a pretty fun little platformer as well, and it's also ridiculously expensive. It's fun to see all the food-related enemies, and the controls are solid. I'd love to find a legit copy of this, but it sells for something like $350-800, in various states of completion. Oof. Probably took under an hour.
Frankenstein looked interesting in one of my old NPs, but it's... not very good. It looks pretty decent, anyway, with some cool-looking character portraits, but it's a cheesy, cheap game. Wouldn't really recommend it. It's certainly not the worst thing I've played (there's far, far worse on NES), but it's doing good to be average. Probably an hour to finish as well.
Aaaand now it's time for NES detox for a little bit.