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Before Armored Core, there was THIS! It's an old Genesis game where you commandeer a mech. It's original name was Assault Suit Leynos. It didn't see a lot of exposure during its initial run, but my friend was able to get a copy at a smaller neighborhood gamestore. Hours of mech-blasting fun.
Project Overkill
A violently pleasant shooting game. hard!! the first time i beat it, i had to use cheats. i like the sfx when you walk over a dead body and start leaving bloody footprints and how everything you kill stays in its place. when you backtrack and walk into a room with what seems like a hundred crumpled and bloodied bodies... i think, wow. did i do all that? this place is a mess... it would've been much better if they added co-op! much like...
Loaded
Also a mindless shooting game thats pretty fun in my opinion. fwank! that crazy ass clown with teddy bear...
Re-Loaded
Definitely not as cool as the first one, but i played it. it was okay at the time. if i played it today, who knows.
I've played that before, at a friend's house. I liked it, but the cartrige must have been damaged or something, because the graphics were completely meessed up (as I recall, it was difficult to tell the mountains from the ground).
It's a postmodern RPG, and it's really too bad that the plot twist that made it into one didn't come until the end of the game after you've spend the majority of it in a cliche role-playing game envrioment. You could say it was intentional to tie in with the aforementioned plot-twist, but the truth is that it wasn't at all.
If only the developers would've cut down the fat (in other words all the time spent dicking around the under-developed planet) and instead focused more on what happens when you finally get into 4D space, it would've been so much better.
Not to mention that after this plot twist occurs the game's pacing is suddenly miffed and rushed toward the eventual anti-climatic conclusion. The result is that you ended up spending more time doing the unimportant crap when compared to living out the actual core of the storyline.
It's like the case of the second disc of Xenogears, but instead of budget cuts they got lazy.
I like to call it the Sega Saturn's killer app. It was one of its finest games, and it was a launch title as well! I just love the theme music. Plus, even though it was a rail shooter, it was a purely exciting experience. If you still own a Saturn, and don't have this game, do yourself a favor and find it!
Clockwork Knight
I really liked the originality of this platformer. Some of the bosses are so hilariously crazy. Plus, there's a good amount of challenge and depth in this one as well. The story's been done before--a knight must save the princess of a fantasy toy world--but the ending was a HUGE surprise.
Daytona USA
I'm not much into racing games, but my older brother bought it because he was interested in it. When I started playing it, I got hooked too. If you can look past the horrible clipping, you'll find a wonderful racing experience. And do try to bear the laughably corny soundtrack.
Stupid graveyard. I always get stuck in the stupid graveyard. Damn logic puzzle at the beginning. But an otherwise amazing game.
Fester's Quest (NES)
I remember this being one of the most painful things to play back in the day. Which was a Wednesday by the way. It was just... yuck. With a side of yuck. Terrible.
The game that Misty brought up reminded me of NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona, Im not into racing games either but its a neat little game, you start out at the dirt track and earn sponsorships by winning races, you can use the winnings to modify your car and if you place in the top three at the end of the season you can advance to the next sport (Dirt track, modifieds, truck series, or nascar), and when you advance you can still go back and play the previous sports' races.
By the end of the game I had killed exterminated a small town single-handedly not leaving a single ganado behind, and had not used one First-Aid spray and had heaploads of Ammo. Guess me and Johnny boy are the only true rockstars here, huh?
Professional mode was a different story, but still totally managable.
One of my all-time favorites. It didn't get a lot of exposure when the Super NES came out, but I remember getting so excited about it when I saw screenshots on one of those advertising pamphlets that came with the cartridges. It was so Japanesque. The music is very well done. There was not ONE song in that game that I disliked--I find myself humming to every melody. There's platforming action, some RPG elements, and a little bit of River City Ransom thrown in for good measure. Plus, you gotta love the mini-games, including the first level chibi Gradius!
Earth Defense Force
Even though this is a generic shooter, I found myself liking it a little more than I should have. It just happened to be in my friend's game pile one day and I started playing it for a while. Few days later, I begged my mom to help me buy a copy of my own, and we found one at a smaller game store for $29.99. I like the leveling system as well as the ability to switch between eight different weapons between stages. Plus, the music isn't half bad either.
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