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Sunday, September 17, 2023

Senseless City (NES)

This game is a more of an experiment, or maybe just an extended flex on the capabilities of the Retro Puzzle Maker tool. At the beginning of the game, you can choose between two characters, which determines the music, graphics and color pallette of the puzzles going forward. So it's almost like two different games!.. just with the same puzzles.

Sunday, August 20, 2023

Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? (NES)

Similar to the 1985 game Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? , the player plays as a secret agent for the Acme Detective Agency, and has to use research books to crack the clues given to them on where the crook went to, and also decode the physical attributes or interests of the crook based on other clues.

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Captain America And The Avengers (GBC)

The Red Skull has assembled an army of supervillains and other henchmen in a plot to take over the world. Along with battling generic enemies, players also face Klaw, the Living Laser, Whirlwind, a Sentinel , Wizard, the Grim Reaper, the
Mandarin , Juggernaut , Ultron , The Controller , the assassin
Crossbones and finally the Red Skull himself.
Players can choose to play as one of four members of the Avengers: Captain America , Iron Man , Hawkeye , and Vision. Each character can fight hand-to-hand, throw select items when on the ground, and use a ranged special attack, either a projectile weapon (Captain America's shield and Hawkeye's arrows) or an energy beam (Iron Man and Vision), known as that character's "Avenger Attack". During a jump, Captain America and Hawkeye can attack with a flying kick, while Iron Man and Vision instead attack by firing their energy beams at a 45 degree angle. Other Avengers, including the Wasp,
Quicksilver , Wonder Man, and Namor the Sub-Mariner , appear when special power-ups are collected, allowing those characters to temporarily assist the players' characters.


Monday, August 7, 2023

Home Alone 2 (GBC)

The player controls Kevin McCallister as he makes his way alone through New York City. Locations include the Plaza Hotel, Central Park, Kevin's uncle's townhouse and the streets of New York. Kevin fights enemies using a Slide, Flying Fist and Super Flying Fist moves; for weapons, he uses a Dart gun. Using a Necklace will cause walking enemies to slip off the screen (referencing a scene where Kevin uses the pearls from a necklace to trip up his pursuers). Powerups include Pizza Slices, Whole Pie, Cookies, Bells, Candy Canes and After Shave. 

Home Alone (GBC)

The Game Boy version of the game, similar to the SNES and NES versions, requires the player to evade confrontation with the Wet Bandits. Similar to the SNES version, the player has to gather up various items and then dump them into a laundry chute to deposit them into a safe. Sometimes, the player might resort to using the items the bandits planned to steal against them by dropping them on their heads, as well as instigate certain traps as in the movie (e.g. dropping a paint can on their heads). There are four levels in all, each taking place in a different area of the house, and each having a different item that the player must recover. The first level pertains to jewelry/gold/silver items, the second level has toys, the third level has various electronics, and the fourth level has various exotic pets that are both rare and expensive.

The Hunt For Red October (GBC)

The game featured deep sea combat, side-scrolling action, and cinematic sequences. The object is to evade destruction and eliminate saboteurs . The caterpillar drive is particularly useful for quietly escaping the enemy. 

Thursday, July 27, 2023

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (GBC)

The story of the game falls in line with the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day : to save the leader of the Human Resistance, John Connor , and his mother Sarah from the T-1000 , an advanced prototype Terminator bent on killing them both.
The player takes the role of a T-800 Terminator cyborg, already captured and reprogrammed by the human resistance, and fights alongside them against Skynet in the year 2029.


The Punisher: The Ultimate Payback! (GBC)

The game follows Frank Castle after the death of his wife and children at the hands of the mafia, and he became a vigilante who hunts and kills every criminal he believes deserves it.

Sunday, July 9, 2023

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (GBC)


Roger is summoned by Marvin Acme to his factory to take his deed and get his will from Jessica Rabbit to save Toontown from the greedy Judge Doom , who is going to use a machine filled with dip to obliterate Toontown. Immediately after, Marvin is shot through his office window and killed. As Roger meets Jessica she is kidnapped by both Doom's weasel henchmen. Roger gets help from Eddie Valiant . Through his investigation Roger faces Stupid, Sleazy, Greasy, Psycho, and Smart Ass (censored as Smarty in the game) and finally makes it to Doom's mansion. They make it past the complex and confront Doom, defeating him and destroying the machine.


Wario Bomberman (GBC)

One day, as Wario went out for a stroll, he came across Bomberman's world; Wario began to pillage the world for treasure in hopes of becoming rich. Only Bomberman can stop Wario's greedy, yet evil plans. It is up to the player who succeeds.


Tintin In Gibet (GBC)

Tintin in Tibet is a video game based on the storyline of the same title from the series The Adventures of Tintin , the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé . It was one of a series of two games released, the other being Prisoners of the Sun.

Tetris Attack (GBC)

Tetris Attack is a puzzle video game. The player must use an on-screen cursor to arrange colored blocks into horizontal or vertical rows – matching together three or more blocks of the same color will destroy them. Any blocks above cleared lines will fall, which can be used to cause chain reactions if they touch other matching blocks. The player can also earn combos, clearing more than three blocks in a single move. As the stage progresses, the blocks will begin to rise steadily towards the top of the screen, with new blocks generating from the bottom. Should the blocks touch the top of the playfield, the game will be over.

Pinocchio (GBC)

The game uses intertitles between levels to convey the story, in the form of a children's storybook. Pinocchio travels from home and must choose to go to School or Easy Street (though the choice does not affect the level order). He then travels from Stromboli's marionette show to Pleasure Island and then into the sea, where he saves Geppetto from inside Monstro and they escape.

Spy vs. Spy: Operation Booby Trap (GBC)