Masochistic NES enthusiasts rejoice! An all-new and brutally difficult game (complete with the classic NES-style box and cartridge) is coming your way early in 2010 [Joystiq via Kotaku]:
Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril looks like a standard thumb-numbing platforming experience in the style of Mega Man. That's enough to scare off the timed-jump deficient, but encouraging to a collector without much sense.
Battle Kid will be available through RetroZone. Check out their listings for reprograms of rare and unique games, but don't blame us if you end up spending some of your rent money on Mike Tyson's Intergalactic Power Punch.
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There's a 100% chance that I end up buying something from that site. I actually advanced a few rounds in the Nintendo World Championships in Norfolk, Va, so I'll probably end up buying that cartridge.
Little dude reminds me of the character from I Wanna be the Guy. This game looks fantastic. Love the tacky 8-bit portrait of the hero at 0:58.
I just played through the demo in about 20 minutes, and I've gotta say, taking it at face value... it's pretty meh.
If this were a game being produced for purchase in its time, people would say things like "Not difficult, just cheap with the intention of being cheap", "Steals other games' mechanics and does nothing to improve the platforming formula" and "boring". The demo had no substance, no style, nothing to separate it from any number of Flash games designed to incorporate pixel-perfect jumping and trial-and-error deathtraps.
It reminds me of a batch of cookies someone followed the recipie to make, and you bite into it and the cookie tastes ...okay. Not nearly as good as Mom makes.
If this game hits any degree of success, it'll be the gimmick that is 8-bit gaming currently, and I find that depressing. I sincerely hope he's not charging for this.
If this were a game being produced for purchase in its time, people would say things like "Not difficult, just cheap with the intention of being cheap", "Steals other games' mechanics and does nothing to improve the platforming formula" and "boring". The demo had no substance, no style, nothing to separate it from any number of Flash games designed to incorporate pixel-perfect jumping and trial-and-error deathtraps.
It reminds me of a batch of cookies someone followed the recipie to make, and you bite into it and the cookie tastes ...okay. Not nearly as good as Mom makes.
If this game hits any degree of success, it'll be the gimmick that is 8-bit gaming currently, and I find that depressing. I sincerely hope he's not charging for this.
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