retrorussell

A tennis ball hit with the very tip of your racket is unreturnable. Barrels look like giant honeycombs. The atmospheric pressure in space is so great that a shield will be crushed within seconds. It is physically possible to jump in the air while in a kneeling position. Falling seemingly fatal distances can result in merely the loss of points. Collecting gold changes your theme music. Shopping malls are home to wayward toy planes, ghost-riding shopping carts, bouncing balls, and other odd dangers. The world is full of hidden pits for aliens to fall in. In the future, humanoids will look like tic tacs. After 100 punches, a boxer will be knocked out. Colliding with a moving automobile is never fatal to a chicken; it just knocks it backwards. Bombers perpetually scowl unless something blows up. When your fuel supply is at maximum, destroy fuel stations. Angus cattle never move.

I know a lot of the older projection-screen 50-some inch tvs had image burn from some of the console games. I remember seeing an old Atari commercial where kids were playing at the beach. They plugged the console into the sand and played the games on the sky. How freaking cool would that be???

Just saw a couple vids of SimCopter but they didn't show the aforementioned scene. What happens specifically?

I liked it a lot too. Killer Fry Guys rock! I also liked Entombed a lot, and knew some people who thought it was garbage. My sister and I liked Pac-Man, even if it was nothing like the arcade game. I had a soft spot for games I could kick serious ass at, so I played a lot of Donkey Kong. As much as DK was villified on the 2600, the Intellivision version was the true monstrosity.

Right on! I have commented and subscribed. Thanks buddy! Will keep making more vids for your viewing "pleasure".

Here's the list of the Century Electronics (Century Video System) Games of Shame: Cosmos Dark Warrior Dazzler Digger Gold Bug Heart Attack Hunchback Hunchback Olympics (a Track and Field game with the Hunchback from Notre Dame!) Logger Radar Zone/Outline Raiders Space Fortress Super Bike Video 8 Ball Wall Street But I think Dazzler is the only one with human/ape sex. Let's hope.

I made that video. But I swear it really isn't THAT terrible a game! It's not particularly good, no doubt, but there's a number of games by CVS alone that were far, far worse. Heck, you want a really bad game, check out my video of Meteoroids or Electric Yo-Yo. Stinkers!

Hey Anthony, Actually, Domo arigato gozaimasu would be "thank you very much"; the Domo part means "very much", arigato is "thank you" (and can be used by itself somewhat informally), and gozaimasu is for formal speaking. Not trying to nitpick, just pointing it out. More Hello Kitty games: Hello Kitty Roller Rescue, XBOX/Game Cube/PS2 Mainichi Suteki! Hello Kitty No Life Kit, Nintendo DS Hello Kitty Big City Dreams, Nintendo DS Hello Kitty Online (in production), an RPG! Ja matta (see you later)! -retrorussell

I guess I hate it primarily for the same reason you do; stealing music and graphics from other CVS games that aren't that great, either.. plus the animation of the barrels is really half-assed. There's no detail to them whatsoever. How f***ing lazy can you get! As for the bonus items/hammers, I don't remember what they do, if anything. I guess I'll have to download the game and try it out.. never mind, I hate it too much. I guess there was a Dig Dug ripoff too, called Gold Bug. Can't say I'm in a hurry to try it.

Actually, for its time I didn't think it was that bad a game.. this one and Hunchback were the only real half-way decent games by CVS.. Logger, though, as you said, was an abomination. A worse version of Donkey Kong than Intellivision's Donkey Kong.. and by a wide margin!!!

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT THOUGHT THAT!!! All that time you were feeding him bananas in the previous level, it appears he has quite the banana himself.

Dragons, once thought to resemble giant lizards, look more like ducks. Fireballs, though they are living, moving entities, cannot climb ladders. Doing weird or suicidal things can tell you who made the game. Even if there's a lower level directly below it, falling into a pitfall makes you disappear within it. Scorpions are really freakin' big! A crocodile's mouth is bottomless. Getting your tank shot by the enemy's tank is not fatal, but makes you spin repeatedly. Getting a strike or spare in bowling makes you hyperactive. Ghosts have eyes that constantly move in all directions, yet they have no problem pursuing you through a maze. When trying to recover documents in a room full of elevators, watch out for giant Fry Guys. Falling down one stair is fatal if you are a Smurf. A bad-ass basketball opponent is reduced to a puppet when you wield a second controller.

Arcade Power Stick II. Has 6 buttons and turbo for all of them.

I remember a couple Konami/Stern games that were both rare and not particularly great. Jungler, a game with snakes that shoot each other in a non-jungle setting, and Rescue, a sort of Choplifter game with dual joysticks, and taking place over the ocean.

This is a pretty awesome list of video nastiness. http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/nes/naughty.htm

Gyruss was a great arcade game, but it really got a fantastic update on the NES. Kabuki Quantum Fighter had pretty good action/controls.. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Mickey Mousecapade was a lot of fun. One of the few Disney games that were any good. Shadow Of The Ninja was immensely playable. I'll have to pick it up again sometime.

Sounds like Fighting Fantasy/Hippodrome.

Pretty cute.. but it sucks getting hit, as you can disappear completely for a while. Where the hell am I???

That game sounds great; I'm going to have to give the rom a try. By the way, there was an identical thread to this probably only a month or two ago that spanned several pages. Maybe you should change this to something regarding lost Japan-only NES gems? I think that would be much more beneficial to the members here than another "best obscure NES games" thread. As far as Japan-only NES games go, Splatterhouse was a pretty goofy yet interesting NESification of Splatterhouse and is worth checking out. That's really one of the only Japan-only games I have experience playing. -Adam I haven't seen a thread like that, but I haven't searched all corners of this site for it either. I'm not digging through several pages of the Classic Gaming thread to find it, sorry. I don't find anything wrong with dusting off an old topic if it's not been bandied about recently. A topic on good imports has also probably been done before on every system, but I would like to put it up again. I never really got into the Splatterhouse series.. not sure why. In this day and age with emulators and English translation patches, you definitely should look for a lot of Japan-only titles, many with River City Ransom characters (they have their own track and field, basketball, hockey and soccer games). The SNES also has quite a few good Japan-only titles, with English translation patches available for emulators.

I probably should wait for someone to have their turn at talking about an NES gem, but I have to put this other one out there. It's Japan-only but it's awesome beyond description. TECHNOS SAMURAI!!! This was another game starring the Renegade protagonist known in Japan as Kunio (or Alex in the US), who was also in River City Ransom, Crash and the Boys, and other games. He appears as a samurai in the old east. It's basically River City Ransom with extra shops and moves. LOTS more extra moves! There's even a move where you can fart and knock all the enemies (and your teammate) to the ground! Hilarious! There's even a Double Dragon II-inspired helicopter kick! Fun stuff!

Hi NES gamers! Here's a place to discuss the games that may have gone a bit under the radar, or people may never had heard about, or never played, but turned out to be (you think) pretty damn good! I'll start off with one: MENDEL PALACE This was a great game! You play a doll-like character that has to beat all the other doll-like characters that try to kill you. You flip slides under you to try to shove the enemy back into a wall and crush them. You can uncover special things under the tiles: Bonus points, extra lives, hidden sub-levels, etc. And even though there were a TON of levels, it never got boring! You can play with another player cooperatively, and it really helps.

Yep, that's what I played. I remember loving the fact it had so many different types of gameplay (tanks, ricochet tanks, biplanes, 3 planes vs. 1 giant plane, etc.). But our next purchase I totally fell in love with: ASTEROIDS!

I know I already put in for my 5 most hated.. but these were paralyzingly bad too! Bad Street Brawler Karate Kid Jaws Taboo

I think I had seen a cocktail of Nintendo's Space Fever at Big Tomato Pizza in 1980 or so in Portland. It was released a year earlier but I remember Missile Command and Pac-Man being there at the time too so it must have been AT LEAST 1980. Not too memorable (yet another shameless Space Invader ripoff) but there were 3 different choices of gameplay. I may have seen Irem's Andromeda at Pioneer Pizza at the Tigard/Beaverton border back in the early 80s, where many a gradeschool basketball team would partake of passable pizza and KILLER potato wedges.

Oops, didn't mean to quote that previous post. It's late and I'm tired.