I like LotW. It is a tight-knit, very deep dungeon-crawler with a rather annoying jump... excuse me, falling physics. But with all the back-tracking you have to do (from using Pochi to scout before the other family members and finally going for the Dragon with Roan, to be placed at #19? (One shy of the greatest - though not perfect - JRPG on the console without a mention of the port they did with Ultima3.)
Nice to see Recca get mentioned. Not sure if it's going to place at this point though. (Love the "THIS I COMMAND" shout-out.)
The Famicom Wars advert was a trip to behold; would have been awesome had that been an ad for Advance Wars. I am a bit surprised at how highly it rates because as an avid AW fan, FW is incredibly lackluster. Downright boring almost. (Although the high-level AI is brutal.) And the same goes for its cousins GBwars and Nectaris, and fellow NES strategy game
Conflict. All are great games with huge maps... but incredibly slow pacing. By contrast, AW has much smaller maps, unit merging, and with CO powers and abilities, faster-pacing and a more diverse experience.
Beyond the typical whip wielding Belmont, Castlevania III has three additional playable characters that play vastly different from Trevor. There is Grant the thief, nimble in the air, able to move faster, cling to move on walls and throw an infinite supply of knives.
Along with the "cling to ceilings and move on walls" bit, the NES version nixes his thrown knives and saddles him with a crappy melee weapon.
I also want to add that I think I'm the only person in the world who likes some of
the MMC5 audio over the VRC6. I will give that VRC6 sounds
a lot more detailed -- "Aquarius", "Mad Forest", and "Dead Beat" are gobs better -- but in removing the detail, some of the bass and echo effects are more pronounced such as in "Beginning" and to a lesser extent "Clockwork".
A misspelling in the SMB section aside, $2-6 for the cart? I thought some people were giving it out for pennies? (Or was that the SMB/Duck Hunt compilation?)
Funny, but I had never seen a stacked dual-CRT for Punch-Out!! (complete with racier names) in arcades. Was the top screen really needed? (Also, MTPO!! was a little more than just a rhythm game. Check out
Brian Sulpher's FAQ to see just how much more.
And another fun fact about
Power Blade -- the localization team was likely just
one guy.
You've been playing "Anniversary Collection" too much Satoshi -- in Mega Man 3, it's still B-shoot, A-jump, and it's
down and A causes Megaman to slide.
Hope to see Nightshade get a mention, even though it's a pretty long shot this far in.
My scheduling skills have died of dysentery; I hope to visit at least on a monthly basis.
Still, don't forget to tip your waitress.
