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 November 16th, 2009 9:03pm #1CaL]v[Aggress
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Continuing on with my project of playing and reviewing every major game since the NES came out, and now we are in 1984!

To see more than just the max of four screen shots and to see discriptions of the screen shots, head to the following link:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1 .. 880&l=088e487b09

Although this will only mean 3 more screen shots in this case, it will start being a lot, lot more, and with a bunch of descriptions and things like that in the very next year, so it's a good idea to go check it out.

Also, to see all of my screenshots and descriptions (includes 1983 NES games, and future NES, GameBoy, Sega, and Super Nintendo games that I will be getting to eventually), head to my albums in the following link:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref .. php?id=707535880

Note: You may have to be logged in to get the second link to work, but I'm pretty sure I made it so that everybody can see my profile and go through my albums.

Anyways, onto the games!

Included:

-1942
-Donkey Kong 3
-Duck Hunt
-Excitebike

And now for the reviews.

1942:


This game is pretty fun for awhile, but gets a bit old and repetitive fairly quickly.  Do not get me wrong, this is a good shooter game for its time, but it still gets old relative quickly.  Overall, this game was pretty good.

Gameplay: 8.5/10.

The gameplay in this game was fun.  Very challenging, and I could never beat it without using like fifteen (or more) continues, but still very fun.  Cool power-ups, too.  I mean, you could say that this is generic of the early shooter games and that it is not offering anything out of the ordinary, and you would be right, but then again, this is one of the first shooter games around.  So, I like to give it a pass.  There are a variety of enemies, all of which challenge you in different ways.  The power-ups are fun and cool, and the boss fights are pretty fun, as well.  They could have done with some variety with the bosses, instead of having it be the same one and just give him a bit more health every time, but whatever.  I like it.

Oh, yeah.. there was one major flaw.  You had continuously button-tap to shoot bullets, which wasn't any test of skill.  It was merely a test of endurance.  Needless to say, I saved my fingers and thumbs the agony and blisters and used auto-firing with a turbo controller.

Story: */10.

There's not enough story in this game to really give it a rating.  I know that it is world war 2 and I'm flying into Japan and stuff, but that's about the only story there is.  For some reason, they don't let you drop a bomb on Japan.  Oh, well.

Sound: 4/10.

The sound in this game is BAD.  There is no music in this game, and the noises that are supposed to be bullets and crap are extremely high-pitched and super annoying.  I played with the sound on for about 1 minute and then muted it for the rest of the game.  It is SO annoying that it is unbearable.  I know it was originally an arcade game, so I understand why the beeping is there, but Pacman has beeping that isn't so annoying.  This game's sound is terrible.

Graphics: 7/10.

The graphics in this game.. were pretty decent for its time, I'm guessing.  Gotta keep in mind, this came out in 1984 as an arcade game.  So, yeah, pretty much on par with the rest of the arcade games.  Nothing particularly bad about them, but nothing particularly good, either.

Overall: 6.5/10.

Rounded: 7/10.

This game is pretty fun, and it's worth trying to beat if you like shooter games.  Also, it is extremely challenging, so you can try it out for that reason, as well.

Donkey Kong 3:


I really did not have any fun playing this game.  The only enjoyment in this game came from watching Donkey Kong get irritated from having pesticide sprayed in his bum, but even this hilariousness got old quickly.  This game is not very good, at all.

Gameplay: 5/10.

The gameplay was not terrible, but at the same time, there was not really anything sticking out as really fun.  They should of stuck to platform rather than going to this boring piece of crap shooter game.  There is just stupid bugs trying to steal your flowers that do not matter anyways, because you always spray enough pesticide in Donkey Kong's bum far before they even get to your second flower thing, so it is just kind of pointless.  You can go around shooting them for the score or to clear the path to Donkey Kong's bum, but really, it is not all that fun.  This franchise was doing very well as a platformer, so they should have stuck with it.  There is no excuse for this.  Not only are shooter games worse, but this is a bad shooter game.  It is simply not very fun.

Story: 4/10.

I didn't bother reading the instruction manual story, so you may be saying, "Carl, you can you possibly rate a game's story when you have not even looked at the instruction manual?" The answer is simple.. I don't need to read the story, because there is NO EXCUSE not to have Mario in this game.  What were they THINKING? Mario made himself into the most famous virtual character of all time starting in the first two games of this franchise, and then they take him out and instead give you some idiot with pesticide to shoot at Donkey Kong's bum? I don't give a crap what the story is.. it sucks.  You need to have Mario in this game.

Sound: 6.5/10.

The sound in this was bad.  It's the same as the previous two, and you'd expect improvements after awhile.  I think they even re-use the same sounds in some situations, but I could be completely making that up.  In any case, the sound is still bad.  They should have improved something, but nothing was improved.

Graphics: 6/10.

Same goes for the graphics.  They look even a little bit worse than the originals, in my opinion.  Why? Because it is hard to see anything if you let too many bugs go to the bottom of the screen (where you are standing). You, the main character, do not stick out in any way and have similar coloring as everything else in the game, and they are all flying around randomly, so it is hard to see exactly what you need to avoid to survive.  And, in the later levels, it is quite common to be surrounded by bugs at the bottom of the screen, because it is a much better strategy to just clear out the ones in the middle and shoot pesticide at Donkey Kong's bum as fast as you can.  So, yeah these were bad.

Overall: 5.4/10.

Rounded: 5/10.

This game was not very fun, strayed from the path of success and changed the entire type of the game, failed to improve on anything from the previous two successful games, and failed to include the most famous virtual character of all time when they had every reason to use him.  I have no idea what Nintendo was thinking when they made this game, but they should have thought again.  They pumped out two wildly successful games in the arcades prior to this, and they were both pretty good, but this game is a piece of dog poo.  Stay away from it, unless if you want to see Donkey Kong's reaction to pesticide in the bum.

Duck Hunt:


This game accounted for countless hours of fun for tons of Nintendo owners during their childhood.  Plug in that zapper and prey that the game will glitch and let you shoot that stupid dog.

Gameplay: 9/10.

The gameplay in this game is really good.  As far as I know, this is one of the first games ever to actually give you a gun that you can shoot with, and it was really accurate, too! Inventing a gun that works on a console with any TV is not something that is done often, but Nintendo successfully brought that arcade-style shooter game to homes with this game.  The game gets repetitive somewhat quickly, but it really had an innovative idea at the time and it made it work really well.  For the actual in-game play, it's fun.  You get to shoot your choice of one or two ducks, or if you're some kind of animal lover or PETA member, you can shoot the clay things instead.  So yeah, you shoot the ducks like everyone else.  And then when you miss it, your stupid dog laughs at you! But, alas, the game does not let you shoot that dog.. =(.

So, yeah, the control in this game is really good.  But there were some problems with it, such as moving right next to your TV for pinpoint accuracy, and other glitches being reported.

Story: */10.

There's not really a story here, as is the case with several early video games.  Not enough of one to rate, anyways.

Graphics: 7.5/10.

The graphics in this game were decent for 1984.  They were a little better than the likes of Baseball and Excitebike, so this game gets the half of a point bonus.

Sound: 7/10.

The sound was average for its time.  The shots sounded like shots, the laugh was annoying (and sounded like a laugh), and things like that.  Nothing really standing out here.

Overall: 7.8/10.

Rounded: 8/10.

This game was solid for its time.  You've gotta compare it to the likes of Excitebike and Baseball, and it is better than them.  It is enjoyable for a set amount of time, but it's something that you get sick of after awhile.  After all, all you can do is shoot a couple of ducks over and over.  Then again, Super Mario Bros.  came out the year after this, and it was noticeably better than this game, so this game isn't spectacular for its time on any level.  Just pretty good, and did a good job of bringing a gun that you can hold and fire to home consoles.

Excitebike


I'm gonna try out a numbering system for the review..

Gameplay: 4/10.

This game easily had potential to be a really fun, addictive game (which several think it is), but I think it royally screwed it up.  First off, there are only 2 different ways to play the game: by yourself to try to get the best time, or against CPU racers.  Racing yourself is gay, so of course you race the CPU.  Now, normally, you'd think that you'd race other players.  You would think wrong, however.  You start off with 3 other bikes, making it look like you'll place #1-4, but in fact, they are only there for show.  No matter how many bikes you pass, there is infinitely many more bikes that pop up in front of you.  You aren't really racing anyone, just dummy bikes that show up no matter what.  The only thing you race against is a pre-set time that the game decides before the race starts, and you try to beat that time.

However, it gets worse.  The crashing in this game is enormously annoying.  First off, I'll explain how the crash works: When you crash, your bike rolls over about 4 times, and then it slides to the very top of the screen (no matter where you are or how you crashed, it still slides to the top of the screen), and then it flings you to another part of the screen, and you have to watch your slowass racer guy run back to his bike before you can race some more.  Problem is, that takes about 5-10 seconds (depending on how far you are from the bike).

Other problem is, crashing is extremely easy.  First off, if you run into any of the other bikes when you are behind them (even if you're almost exactly side by side and you are barely behind him), you crash.  Also, they forgot to change this for other bikes who crashed, so if you run into the back of a crashed bike, or a guy running across the track to get on his bike, you crash, too.  If you land from a jump at an imperfect angle, you crash.  If you crash anywhere on a hill or right before a hill, you don't just slide to the bottom quickly.  Instead, you do the SLOW FREAKING rolling thing all the way down the entire hill, or if you crashed on your way up, you roll "up" the hill, and then down.  It takes like 20 seconds total.

Also, if you try to jump over someone, so that you are "in front of them", so you don't crash, it rarely works.  You almost always still crash.  However, if the computer dummy bikes do it to you, you DIE! Or, crash..

The one positive thing is that the control is pretty decent.

Yeah, so it's extremely annoying, and no real goal for the game-- it gets boring fast.

Story: */10.

No story, and not faulting this game for it.

Graphics: 7/10.

Pretty average for the day.

Sound: 6/10.

A little worse than average.  Sounds atari quality, and most of the sound effects are just annoying.  No music.

Overall: 6/10.  Not very fun, really.
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TaCtiCa)L(
 November 16th, 2009 9:20pm #2TaCtiCa)L(
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holy fuck.  game freak man... go work at gamestop
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SoLo.ReBeL
 November 16th, 2009 9:56pm #3SoLo.ReBeL
Regular (12) - ReBeL.958

ahh the good old days, NES had all the good games.  Ninja turtles, super mario bros, mario doctor, donkey kong, and of course paper boy!!
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 November 17th, 2009 3:56pm #4CaL]v[Aggress
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# TaCtiCa)L(
holy fuck.  game freak man... go work at gamestop


The time it spent me to go through those games and type up the reviews (I spent about 2 weeks doing it) is most likely significantly less than the time the majority of users on this site spend on starcraft every week.
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 November 17th, 2009 4:15pm #5TaCtiCa)L(
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word
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