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Release: March 1994 | Genre: Action / Platform | Dev: Capcom | Pub: Nintendo I love Mega Man but there’s so fucking many of them. Sydlexia – #76 Review | IGN – #59 Review | Gamefaqs – #86 Review | Retro Sanctuary – #52 Review | Complex – #36 Review This seems like a weird choice, like why even die at all if there’s no penalty for it? Perhaps Rygar is a secretly an existential masterpiece in disguise? Nope. Oddly enough, you immediately start right back where you left off, as if you’d never died at all. You only get one life and after you die the screen says “Game Over”. With Rygar if you turn it off you’re starting at the beginning again no matter what.
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I touched on the password system a bit when I talked about Guardian Legend and again later when I talk about Faxanadu, but as annoying as typing in paragraph length passwords is, at least you can turn off your Nintendo and come back to the those games later. Especially for a huge game like this with tons of variability, that’s a valid criticism. The most common criticism of Rygar is that there’s no save capability or even a password system. It’s nowhere near as good as Metroid and in truth plays like a very clunky version of Zelda 2 or Faxanadu. Release: July 1989 | Genre: Platformer / Adventure | Dev: Tecmo | Pub: Tecmo Rygar is a game very much like Metroid where your character can get stronger as you go and new items you collect in turn unlock new areas of a fairly open ended world. Sydlexia – #24 Review | IGN – #77 Review | Gamefaqs – #26 Review | Complex – #91 Review | Satoshi Matrix – #100 Review I talk a bit more about Duck Hunt in the My First Games section. Something about using the gun instead of the controller makes playing these somewhat mediocre games waaaaaay more fun then you’d imagine, and even the worst light-gun game is still pretty enjoyable. However, there’s actually quite a few outside of Duck Hunt including the terrorist murderizing Freedom Force, the bizarre and comical Gumshoe, and the disgusting bootleg game Chiller. This is the only light-gun game I played as a kid and I think most people would say the same. If you don’t know what I mean by “light-gun”, I’m referring to the NES Zapper which was the grey and later orange gun controller that came with Nintendos packaged with Super Marios Bros / Duck Hunt. Sadly, I still have a tube television solely for the purpose of playing light-gun games. Release: October 1985 | Genre: Light Gun Shooter | Dev: Nintendo | Pub: Nintendo Did you know that light-gun games like Duck Hunt don’t work on modern flatscreen Tvs? I’ve never totally understood the mechanics, but it’ll only work on the older tube televisions. Sydlexia – #63 Review | IGN – #81 Review | Retro Sanctuary – #70 Review | Complex – #42 Review | Satoshi Matrix – #70 Review If a clone of Mega Man actually tried to make a more difficult game than MM then fuck it, that shit’s not fun it’s just masochistic. And I’m no slouch, I’ve been playing these kind of games for 25 years. I’ve played the first level over and over again and it took me half an hour to finally get through it. Which leads me to the most Mega Man like quality of this game: incredible difficulty. At least I assume there’s items that increase your health, I haven’t seen any yet. The game itself shares a lot in common with Mega Man like a variety of weapons, mechanical enemies, futuristic settings, items that increase your health or your gun. Release: September 1990 | Genre: Action / Platformer | Dev: Tokai Engineering | Pub: Sunsoft Journey to Silius was originally designed to be a Terminator game which is a shame since the Terminator games released for the NES are nails on the chalkboard level awful. IGN – #37 Review | Gamefaqs – #64 Review | Complex – #67 Review | Satoshi Matrix – #61 Review Maybe I just assumed because it was a Konami game about war stuff that I’d played it already, but I can’t remember now. There’s definitely a few that I bought recently and just filed away without ever trying. Of course now I’m wondering if I’ve ever actually played Jackal or if it ‘s just been sitting on my shelf for years untested. I’ll come back to this later when I get another copy or a better functioning Nintendo. I feel like if someone traveled back from the past or forward from the future they’d assume we were wizards. It works pretty well with a little patience and a variety of weird techniques that all 80’s kids had to learn if they wanted to play the NES. Anyway, I am playing on my original Nintendo which I’ve had for 27 years now.