Hi Dark,
Well Adventure Island was a cool series of games that were out in the
80's about this islander or cave man who went from island to island
killing enemy creatures and gathering up fruit. Along the way he could
ride various dinosaurs which would help him with his quest. Let's say
there was a very large pit you couldn't jump across if you had gotten
the bonus for the pterodactyl
you could ride a pterodactyl over the pit thus avoiding that trap. It
was a very cool game for me as a kid.
Another game I'd love to see rendered in audio is Battle of Olympus. In
that game you play the part of a warrior who is trying to rescue his
girl friend from Hades who plays the enemy boss in this adventure.
However, before you can fight Hades you must do various favors for the
other Olympian gods and goddesses who will reward you with some special
item such as Athena's shield, Hermes sandles, Ares bracelets, the sword of
Artemis, and so on. When you get done you have a little of each of their
power and have to face Hades down in his thrown room. It was especially
fun frying him with
Zeus's thunderbolts as it was really the only way to make him visible
and counteract the power of his invisible helmet. Given my love for
history and mythology it is no wonder that game was one of my favorites
as a kid.
dark wrote:
Well I don't know adventure island, ---- the nes never really took off
in England, so I've only ever played nes titles in collections on
other machines, ---- but audio Contra, Castlevania or Turrican would
be great.
Turrican is an absolute favourite game series of mine, sinse it has
such a simple principle, ---- collect one of the four weapons, blast
enemies and bosses, try to find the exit, ---- no saving, no puzles or
locked doors, just you, your main gun and a few sub weapons and lots
of nasty robots. Yet it has hours of replayability owing to the truly
huge level size and the amount of extra lives and extra weapon power
ups hidden all over the place, ---- which also serve to reward the
player for exploration.
Turrican was in concept a mix of Contra and Metroid, ---- large
exploration style mazes (you even have the ability to turn into a
wheel and roll along the ground), and Contra, ---- many enemies on
screen at once and a number of big weapons to choose, ---- no complex
equipping structure, just a number of lives and levels to complete.
Something like that in audio would be fantastic!
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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