Got three Famicom monkey games today. No, not specifically for the coming week and a half; they were on my wishlist anyway and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to pounce.
I'd like to beat Konami's
King Kong 2 before the month is up. Played a bit this afternoon and it seems pretty competent. Also, I've already finished the original
King Kong on the 2600. No one needs to play that.
As far as
Saiyuuki World goes, I didn't know (or forgot) that it was a modified version of
Wonder Boy in Monster Land, so I'd really like to hit up the original first.
Now,
Crazy Climber... I now own three versions of this game. I don't think I've made it past the first level in any variant. I hate the controls. Despise them. In the game you play as a seemingly naked man, scaling a building, with a big ape on top. The arcade original dates all the back to 1980 before "normal" and "good" controls were codified. It used two joysticks, one for each of the man's arms. It's not as simple as it sounds. You couldn't simply hold up on both sticks to make him continuously climb upwards. Instead, you have to alternate moving the sticks in an up & down manner, to have the man reach for a window sill, then pull himself up. Horizontal movement is even more awkward. All the while, there are enemies to dodge and they have no issue moving freely and fluidly around the screen.
With the console versions, attempts were made to emulate this control scheme. For instance, on the Super Famicom the d-pad controls one arm while the ABXY cluster controls the other. On the Famicom... Just look...
What the shit is that?! Let me tell you. To play the game you hold two controllers, oriented vertically, with these weird nipple sticks attached over the d-pads.
I got my game cart-only, so I'm sans nipples, but the song remains the same. Two controllers, two d-pads. It barely works. And good lord does it suck.
Anyone ever play this on the Atari 2600? That one looks somewhat functional. This may be a situation similar to
Ikari Warriors where I despise every version of the game except for the one on the 2600. Lulz.