Tower Toppler or Castelian?

[Armonigann]

Well, I actually own Tower Toppler and its a great port I must say .

 

I've tried Castelian for the NES through emulation and the games are somewhat similar but I gotta say TT looks and plays much better.

 

Maybe, because I was playing Castelian emulated...What are you guys opinions on the two.

[Rex Dart]

Isn't Castelian missing the side-scrolling bits between towers?

[Austin]

Isn't Castelian missing the side-scrolling bits between towers?

 

I believe they removed the shoot 'em up portions, but from what I can tell they were replaced with other in-between segments.

 

I have only played the 7800 version but I watched some videos of the NES recently to draw comparisons. From what I can tell, the visuals may be "better" in the NES version. Color-wise I think it may be up to preference, but everything looks smoother (it doesn't have that rigid look a lot of 7800 games have). I believe the playfield also fills up more of the screen and judging by the videos, it may even move at a slightly smoother pace. Now, to track down a working cart for myself (the one I have doesn't function, d'oh)...

[BrianC]

Isn't Castelian missing the side-scrolling bits between towers?

 

It's missing the shooting parts, but it has a different bonus round instead. The JP Famicom one is especially odd. The frog is replaced by a bird and the bonus rounds use the theme that was the title screen for the US/EU versions (which is also the title screen theme for the 7800 version), with the music for the bonus rounds used as the title screen theme in the JP version. I think it's called something like Kyoro-chan Land.

[ATARI7800fan]

Would have to go with Tower Toppler.

[toiletunes]

You can play Tower Toppler on the 7800- 'nuff said

[rockman_x_2002]

Tower Toppler because it's the one I've owned, but I've played the game in its many incarnations.

 

I've played the C64 version, the NES and Game Boy "Castelian" version. Heck I even had a version of the game on my TI-89 back a few years ago. And I have a GBA ROM that someone did a few years back as well with updated graphics and sound effects (homebrew app for some kind of GBA programming competition. Another entry in it was a conversion of "Out Of This World" for the GBA).