2003-03-21
From: blabediblah
Comments: yeah, i remembered about the halved numbers bit a little late. still, damned good game--halved numbers or not
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Zillion
2003-03-21
From: blabediblah
Comments: yeah, i remembered about the halved numbers bit a little late. still, damned good game--halved numbers or not
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Wonder Boy
2003-03-19
From: blabediblah
Comments: i recently rediscovered this game after a long time, and sure enough, it wasn't as good as i thought it was. nostalgia does that to you. it was alright, but rather repetitive. i think i got carpal tunnel syndrome from playing it. the bosses are exactly the same, really. given it's lack of variation, it's too long.
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Ghostbusters
2003-03-19
From: blabediblah
Comments: what crap. i'd call it a heaping load of crap except this game is so lightweight ``heaping load'' gives it too much credit. i owe my dad an apology for asking him to spend his hard earned cash so many years ago to buying me this doorstop; i felt ripped off after playing it. I felt, in fact, slimed.
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Black Belt
2003-03-19
From: blabediblah
Comments: By far one of the most satisfying games I played on the SMS. The bosses were cool and their fighting styles challenged you--at least the first couple of times around. The kind of game that would give you carpal tunnel in a jiffy though. An excellent game. Always thought it was funny you'd get your ass handed to you if you tried to duke it out with the boss Oni; but you'd beat him every time if you just stayed on the left corner--or right I suppose--and punched or kicked repeatedly.
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Altered Beast
2003-03-19
From: blabediblah
Comments: this game is difficult; I don't have a problem with that if the difficulty comes by honestly. but this mo-fo game is difficult because the damn hero is unwieldy and awkward to control; he's not too responsive. molasses moves better. f--- piece of crap game. i got to the third level but almost burst my left nut doing it.
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Alien Syndrome
2003-03-19
From: blabediblah
Comments: i quickly lost interest in this game. it was a hard game, but also boring. very unmemorable. i played the first couple of levels and could tell pretty much what the rest of my gaming experience would be with this game. having looked into the future, i pulled the game out of the power base and never played it again. I give it 3 monkeys or whatever these rating chimp-acorn headed things are only because i concede this game might just not be up my alley.
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Astro Warrior
2003-03-19
From: blabediblah
Comments: i really liked this game. despite the fact that it's really just three levels that cycle endlessly. If you like Galaga, Space Invaders and the like, how could you not like a game where you can pretty much do all the same things, but also go somewhere instead of staying in place and acting like a damned turret. Not that it wasn't fun being a turret.
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Aztec Adventure
2003-03-19
From: blabediblah
Comments: this game was hard but i finished it several times. found this weirdo little game strangely likeable. kind of a spooky game with the marching cute little animals bent on killing you--but in a very passive aggressive way, like furry zombies. Few of the animals seemed to really go after you--they'd just kind of start leaning in your direction and you were f--- if you weren't good enough to get out of their way. balls-out these enemies were not. if you lost, it was usually cause you were unable to master how to control Nino, whose not the most maneuverable little guy around.
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Choplifter
2003-03-19
From: blabediblah
Comments: i liked that the shark from Jaws would poke his head out of the water if you shot the side of one of the battle ships. apart from that, this game was a pain in the ass and it didn't end so it was a pain in the ass with no resolution. how many f--- hostages were there?!? deep down, a good, primitive game that could have used more variety.
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Hang On & Safari Hunt
2003-03-19
From: blabediblah
Comments: Hang On was addictive, repetitive fun. After a while I had to try to die cause it got so easy so I'd just ride over and over again because i was hooked... As for Safari Hunt, after a while I'd just stick the gun really close to the TV and go Ernest Hemingway, shooting the crap out of big game and small critters alike. Who the f--- would hunt spiders with a gun though?
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Zillion
2003-03-19
From: blabediblah
Comments: i loved this game. Probably my favorite game. it just had such a great vibe and it was heroic and you were bent on saving your comrades and it felt good when you did. and the ending kicked ass. A save feature would have been nice though--it was such a long and involving game. My brothers and I devised code words for all the freaking symbols; in our mind one of the symbols looked like a butt, another kinda looked like a face, another like a fly; yet another like a heart or number 8. so we'd remember the codes we needed to input by repeating something like: butt face loves eight flies. then the drugs wore off.
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The Ninja
2003-03-19
From: blabediblah
Comments: One of the games I played the most. Challenging at times but not overly so. They should have introduced some of the harder enemies--like the blue samurais closer to the beginning or middle at least to make it a bit more challenging. I liked the music on the cliff-climbing level toward end when you weren't powered up on a red scroll; i'd want to die just so they'd play that music instead of the crappy music they played when your weapon was fully powered up. a real catch-22.
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Space Harrier
2003-03-19
From: blabediblah
Comments: Great epic musical score. I would input code just to listen to the music. One of those games where you were on the edge of your seat constantly and where you'd have to pause and ice your hand every once in a while. I never wanted to finish another game as much as this one; and I never failed to finish a game as often as this one. This game broke my heart; only once, after all my swerving and ducking and shooting and sweating did I confront the final boss--and I died probably one or two hits from winning. I think I bit my controller and threatened to kill it.
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Rastan
2003-03-19
From: blabediblah
Comments: I liked this game. But with a name like Rastan--I bought this game thinking it would be about a reggae-loving buffed up rastafanerian. wasn't I embarrased.
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Out Run
2003-03-19
From: blabediblah
Comments: who the hell participates in a serious race with a passenger? Last time I checked, Jeff Gordon wasn't racing at Daytona with his girlfriend at his side--listening to Alan Jackson or some other country-fried crap on the radio. But there's the little Outrun dude with some blond bimbo at his side. That's f---- reckless! ... Damned good game.
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Mirracle Warriors
2003-03-19
From: blabediblah
Comments: Who knew the Allman Brothers were protagonists in an old video game? This game was more satisfying than it probably deserved to be given how repetitive it got with all the random monster fights. Kind of a depressing game. Not much in terms of civilizations to punctuate all that desert and plains and forests. Grim RPG's like this--and even Phantasy Star--remind me why Final Fantasy is such a great series. Yeah, I said it; the Phantasy Star games are overrated.
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Shinobi
2003-03-19
From: blabediblah
Comments: Aren't ninjas supposed to rely on stealth? So why are old video game ninjas always acting like samurais or Clint Eastwood? I don't care what kind of shurikens they are, a ninja is no match for a bunch of gun-toting mo-fos--especially if they know you're coming. Unless, of course, said mo-fos are packing guns that shoot bullets that move slower than a knuckle-ball... A good, solid, but unspectacular game.
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