Not terribly!Also man I have some fierce nostalgia for Karateka from having played it a bunch on Apple II in grade-school. I wonder how accurate the NES port is.
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Not terribly!Also man I have some fierce nostalgia for Karateka from having played it a bunch on Apple II in grade-school. I wonder how accurate the NES port is.
...that makes a lot of sense to me, given the sensibilities of the game and the combat. And the art style, for that matter.I've never played any version of Karateka other than the Famicom version, so I don't know how accurate it is, but it does have impressively fluid animation for the time it was released. As I understand, the game is kind of a spiritual predecessor to Prince of Persia, being made by the same guy.
Macross is, for the time, both one of the better shmups, and also one of the better licensed games on the Famicom.
Without doing proper research on a fully subjective statement, it might also be the FIRST good Shmup and Licensed game on the Famicom
I love the visual storytelling of this screenshot combined with your description
345. MAGIC BUBBLE
A Nice Code clone of Tetris that’s worse in pretty much every possible way: The blocks are hard to see, the controls are unresponsive, the blocks are very sticky, the music is terrible. This was also released as Bubbles, Russia, Tetris (!!!) and Triple.
This isn't just any Mahjong game, this is the one Nintendo themselves made. The Vs. System version is available as part of the Switch's Arcade Archives series.
346. MAHJONG
It’s another Mahjong game; and I think it’s different from the others we’ve seen before. I still have no idea how to play it.
345. MAGIC BUBBLE
A Nice Code clone of Tetris that’s worse in pretty much every possible way: The blocks are hard to see, the controls are unresponsive, the blocks are very sticky, the music is terrible. This was also released as Bubbles, Russia, Tetris (!!!) and Triple.
My first exposure to Snakes was the QBASIC version that I had on a dos-based PC circa 1991. This article claims Snake originated with the 1976 arcade game Blockade.Hah, yeah, wasn't Nibbles an old Mac freeware game? Given the Apple logos you're eating and all...
It's really fascinating which games got snagged to include in this device, isn't it? And we'll never know if it was pulled at random or if somebody particularly liked it; or what stage of copying multicarts onto other multicarts it entered on. I mean, the touchgameplayer logo was hacked onto Nibbles!Damian Yerrick is an interesting fellow, and one of the pillars of the NES homebrew community. He's made other, more sophisticated games like Thwaite (a Missile Command clone), RHDE (a Rampart derivative), and a port of robotfindskitten that has a very impressive variable width font implementation. More recently he was hired as a coder for Haunted Halloween 85/86.
Having now looked that game up...I don't think they're related. And honestly, Bubble Bath Babes seems much higer-quality.Is... this a non-porn version of Bubble Bath Babes?
imho the weirdest part of this is that Inti Creates decided the boss of that planet should be taken from Atlantis no Nazo.Ikki also recently got a homage in Blaster Master Zero 2, where it was the basis of an entire planet.
Bad news! It's pretty awful, at least the Famicom version. The big problem is that the screen doesn't scroll until you're literal pixels away from the edge, so it's almost impossible to see what's coming.Ikki looks really cool. Surprised I've never heard of it.