I haven't played this one but it does almost look like Blaster Master but with ED-209 instead of a tank. I don't think any of Sculptured Software's other games were imported so I will mention that Eliminator Boat Duel is one of the best racing games on the system IMO.
I don't have much to say about this, but Fatal Run is a pretty great Atari 2600 game. It's the largest too, at 32k. Where did all that space go? Probably to the surprising amount of text in the game...
The worst thing about this game is the final stage, which features completely different gameplay and tons of respawning 1-hit kill enemies, while you navigate a giant maze.
So, it's the Western version of Blaster Master; Blaster Psybuster, if you will. Never played this one, but it does have some interesting concepts, at the very least. I do like the environments. It's just a shame it isn't more polished, but may be worth a playthrough regardless.
90s and early 2000s Poland was indeed a very interesting time for console gaming on a budget. If you had like 30-40 bucks you could buy yourself a cheap famicom knockoff and a bunch of mislabeled and/or hacked games. That way I've got my hands on Duck Tales 1 and 2, Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers 1 and 2, Heavy Barrel, Contra Force/Arc Hound, even SD Hero Soukessen, Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken and this episode's game. Man, me and my cousins had no idea what we had to do, as we didn't know English too well nor we had any kind of intructions. You just went to a bazaar, looked at the cartridges that were on the seller's table and took home the best looking one. I still have some nostalgia for this one, just because stomping around in this mech was so much fun for a working-class family's kid from a post-soviet bloc country.
I bought my Famicom Everdrive from Stone Age Gamer, and it came with a free pack of ROMs. This was among them, the NA version called "Metal Mech". The concept is interesting but I didn't play it for very long at all because the controls were not very intuitive for an 8-bit action game. Maybe I'll give it another try someday, if I can find someone to fix my PVM.
Gotta try to smile a bit once you'd notice how one of those alien's hyper-advanced attack crafts is basicly a catapult on tank threads of all things...
I was seriously thrown that this was Sculptured Software's first release on Famicom, because they were such a ubiquitous C-grade dev in the 90's. GDRI claims they developed the Jack Nicklaus 18 Holes of Golf port that Konami published in the west earlier in 1990, but the obvious Konami sound driver suggests that the whole port was outsourced, and anyway it doesn't seem there was a Japanese release so the claim is technically correct either way. It's entirely possible this was Sculptured's first shot at developing for Nintendo hardware, with many disappointing efforts to follow.
of course the Japanese name is cooler. (and yeah metal frame seems more likely correct in this case) I do remember renting this on NES though. neat concept taking the meta fight/blaster master formula and putting it in a giant walking robot instead. maybe one I'll keep an eye out for when I pick up collecting for NES again.
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To me, this game gives off big MS-DOS shareware vibes for some reason.
One needs these kinda more unusual games on a system as a bit of a diversion.
I haven't played this one but it does almost look like Blaster Master but with ED-209 instead of a tank. I don't think any of Sculptured Software's other games were imported so I will mention that Eliminator Boat Duel is one of the best racing games on the system IMO.
I don't have much to say about this, but Fatal Run is a pretty great Atari 2600 game. It's the largest too, at 32k. Where did all that space go? Probably to the surprising amount of text in the game...
The worst thing about this game is the final stage, which features completely different gameplay and tons of respawning 1-hit kill enemies, while you navigate a giant maze.
So, it's the Western version of Blaster Master; Blaster Psybuster, if you will. Never played this one, but it does have some interesting concepts, at the very least. I do like the environments. It's just a shame it isn't more polished, but may be worth a playthrough regardless.
90s and early 2000s Poland was indeed a very interesting time for console gaming on a budget. If you had like 30-40 bucks you could buy yourself a cheap famicom knockoff and a bunch of mislabeled and/or hacked games. That way I've got my hands on Duck Tales 1 and 2, Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers 1 and 2, Heavy Barrel, Contra Force/Arc Hound, even SD Hero Soukessen, Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken and this episode's game.
Man, me and my cousins had no idea what we had to do, as we didn't know English too well nor we had any kind of intructions. You just went to a bazaar, looked at the cartridges that were on the seller's table and took home the best looking one. I still have some nostalgia for this one, just because stomping around in this mech was so much fun for a working-class family's kid from a post-soviet bloc country.
I bought my Famicom Everdrive from Stone Age Gamer, and it came with a free pack of ROMs. This was among them, the NA version called "Metal Mech". The concept is interesting but I didn't play it for very long at all because the controls were not very intuitive for an 8-bit action game. Maybe I'll give it another try someday, if I can find someone to fix my PVM.
In some ways, this resembles a primitive ancestor of Assault Suits Valken (Cybernator) and Front Mission Hazard.
It really does and that hadn't occurred to me. Maybe that's why I think it's cute. 😀
Don't forget Metal Warriors!
Gotta try to smile a bit once you'd notice how one of those alien's hyper-advanced attack crafts is basicly a catapult on tank threads of all things...
I was seriously thrown that this was Sculptured Software's first release on Famicom, because they were such a ubiquitous C-grade dev in the 90's. GDRI claims they developed the Jack Nicklaus 18 Holes of Golf port that Konami published in the west earlier in 1990, but the obvious Konami sound driver suggests that the whole port was outsourced, and anyway it doesn't seem there was a Japanese release so the claim is technically correct either way. It's entirely possible this was Sculptured's first shot at developing for Nintendo hardware, with many disappointing efforts to follow.
The Star Trek font made me think you meant "tricorder."
of course the Japanese name is cooler. (and yeah metal frame seems more likely correct in this case) I do remember renting this on NES though. neat concept taking the meta fight/blaster master formula and putting it in a giant walking robot instead. maybe one I'll keep an eye out for when I pick up collecting for NES again.