Planet Bob

One and same if am correct and they are best known for the arcade game Crazy Climber.

Thanks for the info! I wonder what other treasures this obscure little japanese company is hiding

 

Today I made my way through Areas 2 and 3. The toughest part was the boss of Area 2, a really furious worm thingy. You have to hit it with your boomerang three times into the head, which is the easy part, and then another dozen times with the sword. Cost me about 2 hours to get past that beast

 

The area 3 robo-dragon boss was then easier again.

 

Ace game so far, I hope the second half will be just as good as the first. If it is, I will have to start a campaign to get this masterpiece imported to the VC

Here's the mobygames.com list of Nihon Bussan games:

 

* Artelius

* Booby Kids

* Burnin Rubber

* Classic Arcadia 3

* Crazy Climber

* Crazy Climber 2000

* Die Hard

* Hyper Crazy Climber

* Mag Max

* Mahjong Hana no Momoko Gumi

* Moon Cresta

* Seicross

* Terra Cresta

* Terra Cresta

* WCW: World Championship Wrestling

 

A weird NES selection. The ones I'm familiar with...

 

Mag Max and Seicross, two odd, old side-scrolling shooters. Both with a angled, pseudo-3D viewpoint.

 

And WCW: World Championship Wrestling, a game I own. At first, an 8-bit wrestling game-lover's dream, with tons of special moves, actual wrestlers, a sweet soundtrack, and some cool digitized voice.

 

Too bad the actual gameplay is shallow and crappy.

Great, I think I will be "Playing..." another 1-2 of their games sometime later this year!

 

As for todays progress, Area 4 of Galivan was a bit of a downer. There's a point were I was forced to level-up for a while. Not because I was playing so bad, but because I needed to get an item for 1000 crystal points, when my low level character could only collect 750 of them. So I was just hacking and slashing 3-4 levels up, which was a rather boring break.

 

Naturally were Areas 4 and 5 a bit complexer and more complicated to play than 2 and 3, so I didn't fully finish Area 5 today. I already saw the end-bee of Area 5 though, which was killing me rather fast then

There wasn't too much to report yesterday. Bee-Boss wasn't that hard and I was just roaming around some in Area 6, which I was finishing today. Three impressive boss battles in a row later, I was presented with what seems to be the standard ending for this kind of game:

 

 

=> Escape in your ship and watch the evil planet explode

 

I have to keep raving on regarding just how great this game is. By far the best title I've been "Playing..." so far! It's right up there with Metroid and later Castlevanias, getting a definite recommendation from me: PLAY THIS!

 

Some future day the "Playing..." series may see another Jump'n'Slash in the form of "Rastan", but first it will continue with a Sci-Fi RPG on the Genesis.

Some future day the "Playing..." series may see another Jump'n'Slash in the form of "Rastan", but first it will continue with a Sci-Fi RPG on the Genesis.

Oooh! Buck Rogers? Or...

Or!

Star Trek?

The first four letters already match

Starflight? Or Star Control? I classified those as Simulation and Strategy, respectively, in my reviews db; I've never played either - it's all a bit arbitrary sometimes.

 

I look forward to your review!