Game of the Month: September 2024 - Cratermaze

[geise]

CRATERMAZE

This month is Cratermaze. There's some misinformation with this game. Most say it's just the English version based off of Doraemon: Meikyū Daisakusen. While not entirely wrong, Doraemon: Meikyū Daisakusen is a reskinned game based off of the arcade game Kid no Hore Hore Daisakusen. Kid no Hore Hore Daisakusen is Cratermaze. The Turbo version is the arcade port from the company Nihan Bussan. Before the pc-engine and turbo versions the arcade game got ported to the Famicom as Booby Kids. Lol! The gameis mostly the same as the arcade but with some slight changes. Anyways this was always a fun game to me with nice tunes. I love the gameplay. You basically run around and collect treasure to open doors to get to the next area. There are basically 15 levels to each world with a total of 60 levels I believe. It's been ages for me to get a clear in this game and we'll see if I can do it this month. Have fun!

[Necromancer]

Hmm, this'll be fun.  I don't think I've played this in a few years now, but it's pretty great when you get a bunch of power-ups and can dig/fill long strips at a time.  Soooo many graves!

[geise]

It's probably been about 20 years sinceI've tried to do a clear on this game. I look forward to giving it a go this month. It is a fun game.

[Gentlegamer]

I'll try to complete on not-easy

[majors]

I was not aware of the reverse re-skin on this game. Thanks for the trivia geise. I know I've cleared it on one of the easier levels when I got the Doraemon version a couple of years ago, but looks like I'll need to step up my game and challenge myself this time.

[Gentlegamer]

What a great game, I forgot how enjoyable it was to zone out and complete mazes!