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I've just spent practically the whole day playing Dragon Quest V. Its a very nice remake so far. And this time Square Enix actually bothered to translate the party talk. Unfortunately I'm still pissed off at them for removing it from IV.
Also a few days ago I actually managed to finish the Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy on the Nes, without cheating. At all. No Game Genie, no save states, nothing of the sort. And this wasn't the Aladdin version either. The original cartridge release with the slow as molasses walking speed of Dizzy, and the annoying schizophrenic spiders that don't have any coherent pattern at all in moving up and down. The latter was actually the main reason I usually dreaded trying to finish Dizzy. I've beaten the Aladdin version several times since the alterations Codemasters made to the game actually made it a lot easier, but it still feels pretty good that I finally conquered the original version of the game. And it only took several years to do it! You see Dizzy isn't exactly an easy game to get through. Not only is Dizzy pretty annoying to control at times, but it was a long adventure and once you ran out of lives that was it. Game Over, back to the start. Codemasters really loved doing this to players in all their games. Must be a British developer thing.
Codemaster/Camerica Nes games and I always had a pretty strange relationship. Even though those games were hard as hell, and nearly impossible to get anywhere with without a Game Genie, (Also made by Codemasters! Hmm...) there was something about the games that I really liked. I dunno why. Maybe the presentation of the games just struck a chord with me. Codemasters' games certainly had far better visuals and music than the other unlicensed companies at the time. Or maybe it was that Codemasters' games actually did have some underlining good features to them if you could get over the fact that they never seemed to put friggin continues in their games even though they desperately needed them. (Except for probably Linus Spacehead. Fuck that game. Cosmic Crusade managed to be okay though.)
But in any case my brother and I use to play these games frequently when we were younger, usually with Game Genie. I even set out trying to buy most of them. Metal Man, a game Codemasters announced for their Aladdin peripheral, (No relation to the famous Megaman boss.) was actually one of the first unreleased Nes games I was really interested in back in the day. Though my interest isn't quite so severe anymore, a small part of me lingers that would like to see that game.
This post started with Dragon Quest V and went straight to The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy. Sometimes I can be pretty damn random.
Also a few days ago I actually managed to finish the Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy on the Nes, without cheating. At all. No Game Genie, no save states, nothing of the sort. And this wasn't the Aladdin version either. The original cartridge release with the slow as molasses walking speed of Dizzy, and the annoying schizophrenic spiders that don't have any coherent pattern at all in moving up and down. The latter was actually the main reason I usually dreaded trying to finish Dizzy. I've beaten the Aladdin version several times since the alterations Codemasters made to the game actually made it a lot easier, but it still feels pretty good that I finally conquered the original version of the game. And it only took several years to do it! You see Dizzy isn't exactly an easy game to get through. Not only is Dizzy pretty annoying to control at times, but it was a long adventure and once you ran out of lives that was it. Game Over, back to the start. Codemasters really loved doing this to players in all their games. Must be a British developer thing.
Codemaster/Camerica Nes games and I always had a pretty strange relationship. Even though those games were hard as hell, and nearly impossible to get anywhere with without a Game Genie, (Also made by Codemasters! Hmm...) there was something about the games that I really liked. I dunno why. Maybe the presentation of the games just struck a chord with me. Codemasters' games certainly had far better visuals and music than the other unlicensed companies at the time. Or maybe it was that Codemasters' games actually did have some underlining good features to them if you could get over the fact that they never seemed to put friggin continues in their games even though they desperately needed them. (Except for probably Linus Spacehead. Fuck that game. Cosmic Crusade managed to be okay though.)
But in any case my brother and I use to play these games frequently when we were younger, usually with Game Genie. I even set out trying to buy most of them. Metal Man, a game Codemasters announced for their Aladdin peripheral, (No relation to the famous Megaman boss.) was actually one of the first unreleased Nes games I was really interested in back in the day. Though my interest isn't quite so severe anymore, a small part of me lingers that would like to see that game.
This post started with Dragon Quest V and went straight to The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy. Sometimes I can be pretty damn random.