Am I finding Keith Courage... quite fun?

[Damon Plus]

Reading as everyone said Keith Courage was a pretty bad game, I probably felt influenced by it. I played through maybe a couple stages and thought it was a pretty average game.

But today, I've given it a fair chance and the game is not that bad. I find strangely addicting killing the never-ending swarms of enemies to collect gold and get new weapons. Cheap hits in the mecha stages still bother me, but the game is not as bad as I thought it was at first. Or maybe I have a high tolerance to bad games, what do you think?

[Arkhan]

I never said it was a bad game.

I'm glad you're having fun with it.

It's an awesome game.

[Lilgrafx]

Yeah I found it pretty average, I think people are harsh on it because it's a pack in.

[Mishran]

I've played through it more times than I can remember, I quite enjoy it. I like how you go from the slower more relaxed areas to the faster paced action stages. Game never gets old.

[DragonmasterDan]

Reading as everyone said Keith Courage was a pretty bad game, I probably felt influenced by it. I played through maybe a couple stages and thought it was a pretty average game.

But today, I've given it a fair chance and the game is not that bad. I find strangely addicting killing the never-ending swarms of enemies to collect gold and get new weapons. Cheap hits in the mecha stages still bother me, but the game is not as bad as I thought it was at first. Or maybe I have a high tolerance to bad games, what do you think?

It's not a bad game. It doesn't have a whole lot of variety, but it's decent. It controls well enough, you have fast action sequences once you're in the mech suit. I'd say it's a decent game. People are just generally unhappy with it for being the pack-in.

[Black Tiger]

It's a great game with a few things holding it back. The game design is very fun, it just needs more variety and less cheap stage layout. I'd love to play an adventure style game using this engine and license. They could have put it out as "Clash at Demonhead II".

[vestcoat]

Keith Courage is awesome, especially when compared to the other launch titles. It's also aged well and holds its own compared to the later Turbochips. It gets a bad rap because the title is dorky, the character is dorky, the overworld music is weenie, and because it's a pack-in and SMB set a pretty high standard at the time (the arrival of Sonic and SMW didn't help either).

[GameFreak]

I love the game. I like the bright colors on the different levels. The movements and jumping are actually very controllable. I like how you can change the length of your jump by moving in the air...very accurate. Some games dont have that. Yeah it gets repetitive but I think the pack in game is supposed to be easy and get you used to the controls and capability of the system. Its a fun game to mess with the turbo switches for sword attacks (so you can stand there and get coins) also turbo jumping/skipping. Great game. I like it so much I bought the Japanese version also! Now the game is actually a challenge since I have no idea what they are saying (in text) in the huts.
Dont some of the bosses in Keith Courage look a lot like enemies in Bonk. I remember a couple that look almost exactly the same.

[DragonmasterDan]

Keith Courage is awesome, especially when compared to the other launch titles. It's also aged well and holds its own compared to the later Turbochips. It gets a bad rap because the title is dorky, the character is dorky, the overworld music is weenie, and because it's a pack-in and SMB set a pretty high standard at the time (the arrival of Sonic and SMW didn't help either).

I still think as a game it's better as a pack-in than Altered Beast, however Keith Courage was a silly Americanized version of a game based on an anime whereas Altered Beast was a semi-popular arcade game and had notoriety. 

[Black Tiger]

It was a very effective tech demo for helping convince me (as a Genesis player) that I had to get a TG-16. The fact that it was original and not a rehash or port was very important, but the graphics and sound were exactly what I'd always want from a console.

[_joshuaTurbo]

I've always thought Keith Courage was an alright game.  I think alot of people were expecting something like Mario Bros, or an arcade port.

It would have been a good average action platformer, but it shouldn't have been the pack-in. They should have gone with Alien Crush.

[turbokon]

First game I played on the turbografx. I think it was good showcase of the turbo's sound, graphic and control. Definently more fun then the genesis pack-in, altered beast.

[CPTRAVE]

Keith courage was an OK game, although they should have included a better game to compete with the other systems. My first impression was, "This looks a lot like Nintendo". But learned to love the entire system even more later on.

[Dyna138]

You can count me as a Keith Courage fan. I liked the game even as a kid when I had my original TG16. It's colorful withy some catchy chiptunes and the action stages are fairly good. The glitch to beat the last boss without it moving is kinda lame, but otherwise I like to play through the game every once and a while and always enjoy it.

I think part of the stigma of the game is the bad Americanization it got.

[Lilgrafx]

You can count me as a Keith Courage fan. I liked the game even as a kid when I had my original TG16. It's colorful withy some catchy chiptunes and the action stages are fairly good. The glitch to beat the last boss without it moving is kinda lame, but otherwise I like to play through the game every once and a while and always enjoy it.

I think part of the stigma of the game is the bad Americanization it got.

I think the crappy localazation gives Keith Courage its charm, the comic and the story of the game is hiliarious