1. The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary (NDS)
2. Reigns (iOS)
3. Castlevania: The Adventure (GB)
4. Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge (GB)
5. Castlevania Legends (GB)
6. Yankai’s Triangle (iOS)
7. Mega Man III (GB)
8. Mega Man IV (GB)
9. Mega Man V (GB)
10. Sin & Punishment (N64)
11. Love You to Bits (iOS)
12. Mega Man Powered Up - Old Style (PSP)
13. Mega Man Powered Up - New Style (PSP)
14. Mario vs. Donkey Kong (GBA)
15. Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (NDS)
16. Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! (NDS)
17. Detective Pikachu (3DS)
18. Super Fantasy Zone (Genesis)
19. Fantasy Zone Gear (GG)
20. Fantasy Zone - The Maze (SMS)
21. Fantasy Zone (Famicom)
22. Fantasy Zone (NES)
23. Kung Fu Master (2600)
24. Kid Dracula (Famicom)
25. Kid Dracula (GB)
26. Fantasy Zone (TG16)
27. Double Dragon V (SNES)
28. Fantasy Zone II (Famicom)
29. Street Fighter: The Movie (PS1)
30. Fire Fly (2600)
31. Pac Man (2600)
32. Extreme Sports with the Berenstain Bears (GBC)
33. Fantasy Zone (PS2)
34. Space Fantasy Zone (TG16)
35. Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf Fantasy Zone (Genesis)I played Street Fighter: The Movie (PS1), Fire Fly (2600), Pac Man (2600), and Extreme Sports with the Berenstain Bears (GBC) for this month’s Together Retro. Two of them are really bad, and two of them aren’t that bad. You can read about them in the Together Retro thread.
Fantasy Zone (PS2) is totally awesome. It is a cel-shaded 2.5D version of the original Fantasy Zone with a lot of extra features including, most notably, a “challenge” mode that lets you play the game’s levels in any order, but with only a single life. It is a great way to practice the main game, and earning money in the “challenge” mode lets you unlock new features, such as the ability to continue, rapid fire, new items in the item shop, and, best of all, four all new levels. Achieving the “good ending in the main game requires unlocking all of the additional, very difficult levels, and then beating an expanded version of the main game. It adds a lot of value and replayability to the game, and the PS2 version is definitely my favorite version of Fantasy Zone.
Space Fantasy Zone (TG16) is an unreleased rail shooter modeled after Space Harrier (which nerds like me will know also takes place in the Fantasy Zone). It is a perfectly fine game that is very easy. (If you just move around a lot, the enemies won’t hit you, and the bosses are pushovers.) Also, the scrolling is ROUGH. The TG16 wasn’t built scale sprites, apparently, and although the game looks and sounds fine - the intro and ending are particularly awesome - I can’t help thinking how much better the game would have been on the Genesis or Super Nintendo.
Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf Fantasy Zone (Genesis) is a game hidden in Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf. To access it, you have to hit the ball 100 times on the first hole without landing it in the green. (That’s harder than it sounds, actually.) Once you have failed so miserably at golf, you input a code at the “game over” screen to unlock the game. It is a short score chaser where you pilot Opa Opa, defeat two enemy generators, and the survive for as long as possible. I counted the game as beaten when I defeated the enemy generators and racked up over 10,000 points.
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That wraps up the Fantasy Zone series for me! I didn’t quite get to every game, but I have now beaten the overwhelming majority of them. I missed: (1) the Fantasy Zone ports for Japanese home computers (i.e., the MSX, MZ-700, and X6800); (2) the MSX2 version of Fantasy Zone II; (3) the arcade version of Fantasy Zone - The Maze; (4) Galactic Protector for the Mark III; and (5) Fantasy Zone Neo Classic, am enhanced port of the Famicom port of the original Fantasy Zone, for the PS2. I’m most sore about Galactic Protector, but you just can’t play it without a pricey Mark III paddle controller. (One day, maybe...

). I also wouldn’t mind playing the MZ-700 and X6800 Fantasy Zone ports or Fantasy Zone Neo Classic someday. I’m perfectly fine skipping the rest, though.
In case anyone’s interested, which I doubt, here’s my ranking of the game’s in the series:
Fantasy Zone II W (3DS/PS2)
Fantasy Zone (PS2)
Super Fantasy Zone (Genesis)
Fantasy Zone Opa Opa Bros. (3DS)
Fantasy Zone (Arcade)
Fantasy Zone (SMS)
Fantasy Zone (Famicom)
Space Fantasy Zone (TG16)
Fantasy Zone (TG16)
Fantasy Zone (NES)
Fantasy Zone II - The Tears of Opa Opa (SMS)
Fantasy Zone II - The Tears of Opa Opa (Famicom)
Fantasy Zone - The Maze (SMS)
Fantasy Zone Gear (GG)
Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf Fantasy Zone (Genesis)