Dr. Chaos

The NES version of "Dr. Chaos" was released over a year after the original Famicom Disk System release in Japan. "Dr. Chaos" is an unusual action/platform game that reminded me of Konami's The Goonies II, because in both games you can explore special rooms in first-person-style adventure mode. In Dr. Chaos these rooms are only for finding extra weapons and ammo as well as the entries to warp zones. In those zones you make your way from left to right, kill a boss, collect a part of a super-weapon, and finally - and thats not really nice - walk back to the entrance of the zone in search for the next zone. The game is only average in graphics and music. It is playable, there are no control problems. But the game feels a bit repetitive. The warp zones are too similar, a few more graphical themes would have been nice. The adventure rooms look bland and undetailed and mainly consist of trying to open everything and hitting all the walls for finding hidden passages. Besides a few musical differences, the NES version is pretty much identical to the Famicom Disk System version.


teran01 # 2011-10-29 23:32:04

A platformer with a twist, three different styles of play include traversing the main house, exploring the roooms in a faux 3d view, and finally platform jumping (and mutant killing) in alternate dimensions.

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Originally a Famicom Disk System game. Apparently there was an obscure cartridge version published in Japan also.

zerothis # 2013-05-16 10:14:42

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Dr. Chaos: Jigoku no Tobira (Famicom Disk System)