Sunday, Aug 30, 2009
Every now and then I run into some old game here at Gamespot that nobody has reviewed before. And if it's a game I know well I feel almost as my duty to make something about it - it happened with Gargoyle's Quest - Ghosts'n Goblins (GB), Hatris (NES) and Yie Ar Kung Fu (NES).
Now here's my newest contribution: RoboCop 2 (NES). Check it out if you have some interest in it.
(Thanks Dualmask for reminding me of this)
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Posted Aug 30, 2009 12:40 pm PT
Lol inertia?! I'm actually not very fond of platformers making the characters slide about, especially when it occurs after jumping.
If I ever had a chance to play RoboCop 2, I would most likely kill the TV out of frustration from what I read of your review.
Posted Aug 30, 2009 2:19 pm PT
@Platyphyllum: I feel guilty when I look at an empty 'players reviews' page... I would do it more if I could speak (write) a better English (it's a pain for me, and the result is still bad).
@mufujifi: I kind of like the game. As I like many games that everyone else seem to hate (take a look at players reviews for NES's Dragon's Lair). I know there's a fair amount of nostalgia here, but I must say I can remember how these games looked/sounded/played/felt at the time they were released; and judging them only by nowadays standards isn't fair. A little bit of context can always be useful, so I put that into account.
@mufujifi: I kind of like the game. As I like many games that everyone else seem to hate (take a look at players reviews for NES's Dragon's Lair). I know there's a fair amount of nostalgia here, but I must say I can remember how these games looked/sounded/played/felt at the time they were released; and judging them only by nowadays standards isn't fair. A little bit of context can always be useful, so I put that into account.
Posted Aug 30, 2009 2:56 pm PT
Nice! I played Robocop 3 on my C64. I specifically remember the game over screen of the top half of Robocop detached from his legs without a mask. Really creeped my 11 year old self out.
The music on the C64 version of Robocop 1 was the best though
The music on the C64 version of Robocop 1 was the best though
Posted Aug 30, 2009 9:36 pm PT
Hehe, Elk, the fact you remember that "game over" screen so well is rather telling of how difficult the game must be 
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Nostalgia does weird things too us! Back in the NES/SNES days I used to play plenty of terrible games that you could call 'broken' and yet I still loved them. The difference between today and 20 years ago is that back then people "played" games, while nowadays people "buy" games. We buy more than we can play! Back then I used to rent random games all the time and just play the heck out of those cartridges, whether the game was good or bad. I don't even think I understood the concept of good games vs. bad game. I just played
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Nostalgia does weird things too us! Back in the NES/SNES days I used to play plenty of terrible games that you could call 'broken' and yet I still loved them. The difference between today and 20 years ago is that back then people "played" games, while nowadays people "buy" games. We buy more than we can play! Back then I used to rent random games all the time and just play the heck out of those cartridges, whether the game was good or bad. I don't even think I understood the concept of good games vs. bad game. I just played
Posted Aug 31, 2009 8:35 am PT
@Elk: The game over screen you're talking about appears in RoboCop 2 too. It's really creepy, but after watching the movies I was expecting something like that... I think I cried when they busted RoboCop at the movie! (I was ten, gimme a break...)
Unfortunatelly I barely played C64.
@evrdayblues: That's Interesting. IMO we were able to play (and enjoy) any game with a little fun attached to it - no matter how small that funny part was. Don't tell that to Nintendo, but even if Zelda series was made only of cutting grass with the sword I would play it. It just feels good, I don't know...
Unfortunatelly I barely played C64.
@evrdayblues: That's Interesting. IMO we were able to play (and enjoy) any game with a little fun attached to it - no matter how small that funny part was. Don't tell that to Nintendo, but even if Zelda series was made only of cutting grass with the sword I would play it. It just feels good, I don't know...
Posted Aug 31, 2009 7:08 pm PT
Oh I actually planned on changing that. Yes I did mean RoboCop 2, I'm not really 100% sure that I played Robo3, but I do remember it being on a cartridge rather than on a disk or tape... I think.
Heck it was 18 years ago!
Heck it was 18 years ago!
Posted Sep 1, 2009 7:34 am PT
In fact, the only thing keeping me from giving the original Zelda a 10 is the lack of grass cutting!
Posted Sep 1, 2009 12:15 pm PT
@Elk: It's amazing to see how we can manage to remember even the smallest details of our lives - useless ones first, of course! 18 years...
@evrdayblues: You should forgive them. An awesome idea like that must sprout, be watered, grow... And then we can cut it down!
@evrdayblues: You should forgive them. An awesome idea like that must sprout, be watered, grow... And then we can cut it down!
Posted Sep 1, 2009 6:58 pm PT
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Although, RoboCop 2 doesn't look like it'll be many people's cup of tea