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Showing posts with label Platform. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Platform. Show all posts

Sunday, August 20, 2023

Panic Restaurant (NES)

Panic Restaurant stars a chef named Cookie who must navigate through his own restaurant, which has been cursed by a rival chef named Ohdove. Cookie has to battle evil food monsters with kitchen utensil weapons in six levels before taking on Ohdove in a final battle.

Pac-Land (NES)

Controlling Pac-Man , the player must make it to the end of each stage to return a lost fairy back to its home in Fairyland. Pac-Man will need to avoid obstacles, such as falling logs and water-spewing fire hydrants, alongside his enemies, the Ghost Gang. Eating large flashing Power Pellets will cause the ghosts to turn blue, allowing Pac-Man to eat them for points.

McDonaldland (NES)

the game stars two children named Mack and Mick who venture into the fantasy world of McDonaldland in order to return Ronald McDonald 's magical bag which has been stolen by the Hamburglar.

Little Nemo: The Dream Master (NES)

The game revolves around a young boy in his own surreal dreams as he journeys to Slumberland. Nemo can ride certain animals such as a frog , a gorilla, or a mole, by feeding them candy. Each animal has its own skills needed to complete each level. The purpose of the game is to travel to the Nightmare land to rescue Morpheus, the king of Slumberland, from the clutches of the evil Nightmare King.

Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (NES)

The game takes place seven years after the original

Castlevania. The prologue begins when Simon visits his family's resting place. He encounters a young woman at the cemetery who tells him a curse was placed on him by Dracula during their last battle, and that Simon does not have long to live. The woman says the curse can be undone if he resurrects Dracula himself, explaining that Dracula's body was split into five parts after his defeat, and that Simon must find and bring them to the ruins of Dracula's castle. There, he must seal and defeat Dracula. The woman adds it is not guaranteed this will be Dracula's end.

Castlevania (NES)

Players control Simon Belmont, descendant of a legendary vampire hunter, who enters the castle of Count Dracula to destroy him when he suddenly reappears 100 years after Simon's ancestor vanquished him.

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

The Flintstones: Surprise at Dinosaur Peak (NES)

The player can switch playable characters between both Fred and Barney , and they both have different attacks and abilities. Barney, a friend of Fred's, has a slingshot that he can employ at a specific range to assault adversaries, while Fred can use a club to pound opponents. Some parts of the game require different strategies often cases where you will have to swap one to another automatically in order to get past certain obstacles or jump onto certain platforms. Fred can also throw an item that will stun or completely kill an enemy or boss.

The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy (NES)

The gameplay is preceded by a short cutscene which sets the stage, where the Flintstones and the Rubbles are enjoying their lives in Bedrock. That's when a man from the 30th century named Dr. Butler kidnaps Fred's pet Dino and Barney's pet Hoppy. Fred's alien friend, Gazoo , lost parts of his time machine due to Dr. Butler. Gazoo is visible only to Fred and to nobody else (a slight change from the series where Barney ,Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm could also see him).

DuckTales 2 (NES)

As the game opens, Huey runs to his uncle Scrooge McDuck with a torn piece of paper, which is a piece of a treasure map drawn by Fergus McDuck. Inspired to discover the hidden treasure left by Fergus, Scrooge starts an expedition to find the missing pieces, unaware that his archenemy Flintheart Glomgold is also after the lost treasure of McDuck.

DuckTales (NES)

Players control Scrooge McDuck as he travels around the world and outer space in search of five treasures to further increase his fortune. Scrooge is able to attack enemies and get around using his cane. On the ground, Scrooge can swing his cane to attack enemies and to break open or throw certain objects. While jumping, Scrooge can bounce on his cane similarly to a pogo stick and attack enemies from above. This also allows him to reach higher areas as well as bounce across hazardous areas that hurt his palmate. Along the way, Scrooge can find various diamonds, hidden inside treasure chests or appearing in certain areas, to increase his fortune and ice cream that can restore his health. Scrooge will also encounter various characters from the series who have a variety of roles, such as providing hints, offering useful items, opening access to new areas, or attempting to stop Scrooge's progress. Hidden in the game is a secret life-restoring cheat, accessed by pressing the select button while standing still, that will refill Scrooge's heart points for $3,000,000.

Chojin Sentai Jetman (NES)

It is a single-player side-scrolling action game where the player assumes role one of the Jetmen members as they fight against the forces of Vyram. The player can choose which Jetman they want to control at the start of each stage, each having their own weapon and maximum hit points.

Monday, August 7, 2023

Jelly Boy (GBC)

Jelly Boy puts the player in the control of a jelly baby with morphing powers. His quest is to find various items inside a factory so that the elevator doorman will allow him to meet the person in charge. The most important items are musical notes, which serve both as an extra life (at 100 notes) as well as a one-hit shield (after a collision, the notes are lost, and further collisions result in death).

Thursday, July 27, 2023

Rats! (GBC)

Rats! is a 2D platform video game designed for single-player where players play as the character Mr. Rez, described as "a radical yo-yo playing rat-for-hire assassin with an attitude and cool, black shades" who was an "awful assassin".

Rats! uses a password-based save system which allows players to resume their gameplay where they last left off by inputting the correct password for the level.

There are eighty-five levels included within the game. These levels are spread over five environments (themes/worlds) with each environment spanning fifteen levels and two bonus levels and having a time limit. Failure to complete a level within the allotted time will result in black devil enemies appearing.

Each of the environments has its own enemies and unique boss at the end of the level. Each level and boss becomes increasingly harder as the player progresses.

Sunday, July 9, 2023

Toonsylvania (GBC)

Monsters Muck and Mayhem!

Phil the Monster's been blown to bits. Igor needs to find all his buddy's body parts before Dr. Vic Frankenstein starts experimenting on him. 15 huge levels of humorous horror - search spooky graveyards, crypts, mucky swamps - even the passages to the underworld.

- Ghoulish Enemies. Battle Spiders, Werewolves, Zombies, Witches, Dragons and the fearsome Mud Man!

- Fiendish Attacks. Punch, throw skulls and use your rolling attack against your sinister enemies

- A Marvelously Mad Adventure. Find Phil's body parts, the 15 energy bulbs, and the 36 helmet upgrades.

Titus The Fox (GBC)

In the Game Boy Color version, the ability to stand on thrown objects as well as throw enemies was removed. Players could no longer enter through doorways in levels and a new gimmick was added that would cause walls and ladders to appear if the player walked on their invisible activation space. Also added were bonus stages where between levels which consisted of a linear path where the player picks up golden boxes which would increase their score.

Beethoven: The Ultimate Canine Caper (GBC)

Beethoven: The Ultimate Canine Caper is a side-scrolling and platform game. Beethoven's four puppies are missing so the player takes control of Beethoven, maneuvering him through the neighborhood to find them.

Taz-Mania (GBC)

One evening, Hugh Tazmanian Devil was telling his three children (Taz, his sister Molly and his brother Jake) an intriguing tale: Once there were huge giant seabirds that laid giant eggs which could feed a family of Tazmanian devils for over a year. There are also legends that somewhere along the island of Tasmania, there is a Lost Valley, where the giant seabirds still nest. Taz becomes fascinated by the prospect of the potentially large omelet and leaves in search for one of those giant eggs. Thus, the player must direct Taz across various stages in search for the Lost Valley and its Giant Bird.

Snow Bros Jr. (GBC)

Starring the eponymous snowmen twins Nick and Tom, players are tasked with travelling through 50 stages, throwing and building snowballs , jumping on and off platforms to navigate level obstacles while dodging and defeating monsters in order to rescue the princesses Puripuri and Puchipuchi from captivity.

Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle (GBC)

The player controls Tarzan (based on the famous character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs for his novel Tarzan of the Apes) in six different missions set in Africa . These include curing the Great Ape's disease and saving his friends from the evil poachers. These poachers want to capture the wildlife and place them in their zoos . Weapons that can be utilized include: spears , knives , and arrows . Pitfalls and obstacles are to be avoided in order to collect the mandatory quest item. Under a strict time limit, players can swing on vines and swim vast bodies of water to cross various parts of stages.

Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow (GBC)

The game begins in a mansion, and you are Maui Mallard (Donald Duck), an adventurer armed with nothing but a bug-firing weapon, for witch you must collect amo distributed all over the levels.

At the beginning, the game may appear a little boring, because all you have to do is to advance trough the mansion, killing enemies and jumping trough multiple obstacles. The game begins to be really fun after the second level, when you are able, from that moment on, to turn yourself into a powerful ninja, needing to do that sometimes, in order to advance in the levels, as some places are only accessible that way.

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