Yes Halloween has past, but great Halloween costumes that fill up our interests and get us plenty of views HAVE to be part of Old School Sundays. Here’s a great Pac-Man costume that I swore I saw the other night as I left Chuck E. Cheese. You know, I always wondered where Inky went to hide after Pac-Man ate a ‘Power Pellet’.
There are few games I can tell you I remember playing when I was a kid. Thanks to my older brother, Agent U.S.A. was one of them. I never understood how crystals regenerated, nor why you had to collect them. I guess this was Scholastic’s way of using it as credit. 1984 was not the home video market it is today, but we had these “educational” games that really made you scratch your little brain. When Agent U.S.A. came out I was 4, so to know how the train system worked was beyond my comprehension. Actually, I’m 27 now and … ahh forget it.
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I’ve mentioned before that I’m a sucker for a good point-and-click adventure game. So I thought I’d share this Old School Sunday with you about one of my favorite PC games from back in the day. Quest For Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness. A pleasant mix of Puzzle, Action-Adventure game, oh yeah and did I mention it was point-and-click?. This game also brought humor and realistic feeling surroundings. Oddly, this game has left an impression for me. I know of an example of when my older brother (Gonzalo Perez aka Refugee) spoke to me once of a place he traveled to on a business trip. He was explaining his surroundings when he the said “These streets remind me of Quest For Glory” I instantly knew he was referring to this pic. QFG:IV was better in someways than other well known point-and-click games i.e Monkey Island or Kings Quest.
Selecting your character was vital to your success
Motorcycle games have come a long way in areas since Excitebike, but it’s still an awesome game. Whether racing solo or against computer-assisted riders, you always race against the time limit as well. The NES had one of the greatest game libraries of all-time and Excitebike is certainly towards the top of the list. Never played the game? You can play it online HERE.
You’re probably wondering why I consider Excitebike to be one of the best NES games. I love the game because it was simple and also innovative at the same time. How many other console games were out at the time allowing players to edit their own tracks? None. The ability to edit your own tracks really extended the life of this game and inspired other games to follow. The only thing that sucked was that your track design was lost as soon as you powered off the NES.
This week we take you back to 1984, where Hulk Hogan defeated Iron Sheik to become WWF Champ, Michael Jackson is burned during filming for a Pepsi commercial and McDonald’s made its 50 billionth hamburger. Oh yeah, it also was the year the Summer Olympics took place in good ole Los Angeles, California. What a better way to commemorate this years Summer Olympics than to show you how it was done.
Summer Games is a sports video game developed by Epyx and released by U.S. Gold based on sports featured in the Summer Olympic Games. Released in 1984 for the Commodore 64, it was also eventually ported to the Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari XL/XE and Sega Master System platforms. Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Atari ST versions were also created for inclusion in compilations. In 2004 it would be “re-released” on the C64 Direct-to-TV.
The game was presented as a virtual multi-sport carnival called the “Epyx Games” (there was no official IOC floppy disk. licensing in place) with up to 8 players each choosing a country to represent, and then taking turns competing in various events to try for a medal. On most versions, world records could be saved to the floppy disks.
Ms. Pac-Man, Frogger, Pac-Man, Galaxian and Donkey Kong were the first Coleco Mini’s that were produced in the 80’s. Not really portable but Coleco marketed them as the “Arcade Game You Can Take Home…” The commercial below shows just how big and clunky these devices were. And running on 4 C’s, you know this should have been on wheels. Nevertheless, growing up in the 80’s where Arcades WERE the main gaming system, Coleco made a good attempt of trying to capture them.
Images of my favorite Mini-Arcade: Donkey Kong
Images Via Videogamecritic and Handhelmuseum
Blaze International announced this week that they released a new 16-Bit Blaze Handheld system with 20 built-in classics from the SEGA Mega Drive. The new handheld console containing Sonic and Knuckles, Golden Axe, Shinobi, Ecco the Dolphin, Columns and 15 more superb retro titles for only £29.99 is set to take the market by storm! If you are interested in purchasing one, check out Segaretro.net. For the price, it’s not a terrible deal, especially if you do not have a PSP or DS. If you have those, there’s always the “homebrew” route when it comes to retro gaming.
In tribute of this past weeks announcement of Mega Man 9, we’re going back to 1987 to bring you how it all started… Mega Man part uno. Known to some as Rockman, Megaman, developed by Capcom, was a side scrolling action NES game. Mega Man was the only NES Mega Man title to feature a score counter. I consider Mega Man to be one of the first strategic games due to the Robot Master attributes you gain after you defeat them. For ex. The easiest way to kill CutMan relies not in your Mega Buster, but in your Super Arm that you got from GutsMan in the last stage.
Mega Man is made up of six stages, with a Robot Master at the end guarding a weapon. The stage select screen allows the player to choose from these six stages, and when they are all completed, the seventh and last stage appears in the middle of the menu, replacing the text “Stage Select, Press Start”. This last stage is in fact more like four regular stages linked together, some a bit shorter than average, but with bosses that are considered harder than usual.
Mega Man 9 is due out on the XBox Live Arcade and Playstation Network. We’ll keep you updated with all the news “Mega Man 9″ related.
It’s incredible that this Nintendo classic has hit the 21 year anniversary. Not to be confused with the latter side scrolling adventure game ‘Battle of Olympus’ Zelda II was released in 1988 in North America and 1987 in Japan. Many Zelda fans did not accept The Adventure of Link even being called ‘the black sheep” of the Zelda series. Sales were still high, as expected, possibly due to this Japanese commercial.
I think the little girl said, “Haha, we got the game first! You filthy American’s get it next year.”
Enjoy your OSS!
In 1984 Arcade Galleria’s had their hands on an instant classic. Kung-Fu Master was a great action fighter
game that included 5 floors of kicking and punching (and sweeping midgets).
The player takes the role of Keiji Thomas, a man in a Keikogi and slippers. Thomas’s girlfriend, Sylvia, has been kidnapped by “Mr. X”, and Thomas must fight through five side-scrolling floors full of enemies to rescue her.
The first floor of the temple contains Grippers (standard Kung Fu henchmen who charge Thomas and grab him, draining his life bar) and Knife Throwers (men who throw knives high or low). But subsequent levels introduce Tom Toms (small dwarves who can surprise Thomas by jumping on his head), poisonous moths, fire-breathing dragons (Thomas must punch or kick them before they breathe fire), snakes, and confetti balls. (These hang in mid-air for a few seconds and then explode into three pieces after a few seconds; Thomas must jump kick these before they explode. If Thomas is hit by any pieces of debris from an exploding confetti ball, he takes massive damage.)
Each of the five floors ends with a different boss who must be defeated before Thomas can climb the stairs to the next floor. The first two bosses are ordinary men armed with a stick and honed boomerangs, respectively. The third is a Giant, the fourth a Black Magician, and the fifth is Mr. X, a versatile Kung Fu master. Thomas must complete each floor within a fixed time. The timer starts at 2000. If it falls below 330, a warning sounds. If a boss defeats Thomas, the boss laughs. Although there are five bosses, the game only uses two different synthesized laughs.
Enjoy your Old School Sunday! Hii-Ya!
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