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| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hikari Shinwa: Parutena no Kagami | Nintendo | 1986 | You are Pit, a little angel trapped in the underworld and you have to free your homeland from the evil Medusa. Hikari Shinwa: Parutena no Kagami (half a year later released as "Kid Icarus" in the US) plays like a mix of [game=#5128]Super Mario Bros.[/game], [game=#7949]Zelda 2[/game] and [game=#8012]Metroid[/game]. Not quite as "classic" as the aforementioned games it nevertheless features interesting gameplay and is technically well done. However it is also overly difficult. Actually much too difficult in my eyes. Hard to hit enemies, difficult jumping passages and several levels being a huge labyrinth. Nintendo seemed to follow a general rule of other publishers in 1986 and 1987 to rise the difficulty level to near insane levels. | labelimageminimize |
| Nazoler Land Dai 2 Gou | Sunsoft | 1987 | Nazoler Land Dai 2 Gou is the second game in an obscure game series for the Famicom Disk System. The concept of releasing several small games and applications on one disk as so called "disk magazines" was not new in the homecomputer area. But Sunsoft tried this concept for the first time for a console. Nazoler Land Dai 2 Gou features six (mini)-games (five "real" games actually and a non-interactive information/entertainment part). So there are two less games than in the first game. But the games are overall a bit more sophisticated. But still a good step behind most other games. And several below average games don't make a good product. 1.) [b]Putarikku:[/b] A puzzle game. Turn all squares of the playfield into white squares. Bland puzzle game for purists. 2.) [b]Sekai Isshuu Nazoraa Quiz:[/b] Travel to cities around the world and answer questions to earn money and travel to further cities. Sadly, more difficult than the questions is the Japanese language here. 3.) [b]Warashibe:[/b] Barter with other characters for items/money. Very strange game. Not fun. 4.) [b]Bakufuu Tomo-chan:[/b] Another puzzle game. You play a girl which bombs her way down some platforms, avoiding animals and trying not to get stuck. I think this is the most interesting game in this collection. 5.) [b]Nazoraa Shounen Tantei-dan Ougen Yashiki no Nazo-hen:[/b] An adventure game in first-person perspective. Didn't seem interesting enough to work my way through the language barrier here. 6.) [b]Nazoraa Box:[/b] Not a game, but a collection of strange non-interactive scenes. For example a girl who reads some news (or letters to the editor I think) and a rudimentary paint program. Maybe they wanted to become even more like homecomputer disk mags, which also often featured tools and news besides games. | labelimageminimize |
