showing 9 games
| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zelda no Densetsu: The Hyrule Fantasy | Nintendo | 1986 | The Zelda series debuted with this Famicom Disk System version. And what a great game it is. Fine graphics and music, a huge overworld and many tricky dungeons. Complexity combined with good playability makes it a genre defining masterpiece and started one of the most popular game series ever. | labelimageminimize |
| Zelda no Densetsu II: Link no Bouken | Nintendo | 1987 | Despite being a quite good game, Zelda 2 is my least favorite of the classic Zelda games. It surely explored a new gameplay style but the levels were too difficult and I didn't like the random enemy encounter battle system (the similar "[game=#7581]The Battle of Olympus[/game]" would prove to be much better balanced in my eyes). Graphics and sound are very good for its time. Nintendo understood how to program their 8-bit console. | labelimageminimize |
| Dirty Pair: Project Eden | Bandai | 1987 | A rather annoying action game based on a well-known anime sci-fi series. The game consists of four levels. Level 1 and 3 are side-scrolling jump&shoot levels, which don't look too bad, but have too many unfair passages. In Level 2 and 4 you are in a huge maze-like building, in which you have to find and collect all disks to finish it. There are also card keys which open otherwise locked doors. These levels are quite bad. I had real trouble to simply open up doors. There are lots of different kind of doors and each opens up differently. Some only when you have a key, some you have to approach and jump against at a certain angle to open it and so on. I felt totally stupid doing this. Jumping stupidly against doors to open it, while enemies respawned much too rapidly in the room, made me really really angry. Another cool anime license wasted. | labelimageminimize |
| Hao-Kun no Fushigi na Tabi | Square (Carry Lab) | 1987 | I don't like this platform game very much. The controls are ok, but the graphics and music are not really good and the game is rather monotonous. You have to retrieve several objects from six castles. The castles itself are maze-like platform levels with doors, mini-bosses which drop keys, breakable blocks etc. Between the castles are linear outdoor levels. The game has only a couple of standard enemies which repeat and repeat (except the mini-bosses, which at least change in each castle). The game was eventually released in the US on cartridge as "[game=#8045]Mystery Quest[/game]" a year later. | labelimageminimize |
| Fire Bam | HAL Laboratory (Live Planning) | 1988 | "Fire Bam" is an Action-Adventure title from side-view perspective similar to [url=http://www.uvlist.net/game-7949-Zelda+II+The+Adventure+of+Link]Zelda 2[/url]. The game consists of a town, a sort of forest outdoor area with monsters and shops and dungeon entrances. Once you successfully complete a dungeon the overworld expands and more area gets opened up with more dungeons. Graphics and sound are average. Problematic is your running speed. It is too fast. The first few dungeons are automatically fast scrolling action sequences which are far too confusing. Later dungeons are no longer auto-scrolling, but are build up more likes mazes. Hitting and fighting enemies is rather difficult as is the jumping. All in all there are too many strange, unorthodox and simply annoying things in the game to be enjoyable. | labelimageminimize |
| Druid: Kyoufu no Tobira | Jaleco | 1988 | labelimageminimize | |
| The Goonies | Konami | 1988 | [media=youtube]9zhXM2Bsy2E[/media]***The Goonies is a maze-like platform game based on the movie of same name. Your task is to find and rescue all your friends, who are behind closed doors which have to be opened with bombs that can be found from killed enemies. You also have to find key parts, which are also behind said doors. The game's difficulty level is low. Once you know your way through the rather small mazes the game offers not much challenge. The Famicom Disk System version was released over two years after the initial Famicom cartridge version and could only be obtained via Famicom Disk Writer kiosks for a low price. While the game was pretty good for 1986 standards, many more and better games had been released since then making it a rather unimpressive but still well playable game. | labelimageminimize |
| Lutter | Athena | 1989 | labelimageminimize | |
| Solomon's Key | Tecmo | 1991 | labelimageminimize |
