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Your favorite 8 and 16-bit games?

Started by Piestrio, March 16, 2014, 06:46:44 PM

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Opaopajr

#60
July 05, 2014, 11:50:00 AM
Whoa, nice pull!

I'm going to hazard a guess that because of Hang On/Safari Hunt combo cartridge that the built-in SMS game will be Snail. It's a little game about moving a snail through a timed labyrinth. Cute, and gets progressively harder.

My SMSystem is like one of the last variants of that angular design, like 7th iteration or something, and by then Hang On/Safari Hunt was built-in to the system motherboard. All you had to do was turn it on, no cartridge needed. However Snail was still embedded, too, and required a basic code at power up to access.

Alex Kidd Miracle World is an oldie, but still a gem. Way better than old school Super Mario Bros 1. It wasn't up until SMB 2 (Arabian Adventure) and beyond, and the general decline of Alex Kidd sequels, that things reversed.

Wonderboy in Monster Land is absolutely solid. It's quite the departure from the first two Wonderboys (which is where Hudson's Adventure Island comes from -- Wonderboy was the arcade original and Hudson just ported the relicense as SEGA anted up a few licenses for cash to launch the Genesis in the states). But the departure is very good, making a solid side-scroller Action RPG.

How much did it run you? Miracle World and Monster Land should run higher than usual SMS cartridge market rate as they have routinely been in higher demand. I sort of wish I had them myself.
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Piestrio

#61
July 05, 2014, 09:04:57 PM
So I just tested it out.

From an NES kid perspective: holy shit the buttons are backwards! And why do the colors look wierd?!?

But overall I'm excited to play it in ernest.
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Chainsaw

#62
July 07, 2014, 09:01:33 PM
Quote from: Piestrio;736895I'm currently in the process of repurchasing my childhood and rebuilding my NES, SNES (and, shortly, Genesis) collections and I'm running across a lot of good games I missed out on as a kid in addition to enjoying my old favorites again.
Awesome! I want to do this sometime soon, before it becomes cost prohibitive. I'll see if I can come up with a list of my favorites tomorrow at work (:D).

Great avatar, by the way. I just recently purchased all of the old MotU cartoons so that my son could watch them.
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