Wonderboy In Monsterland vs Chan and Chan

[Turbo D]

I like wonderboy better.

[Tatsujin]

i like wonderboy to no end, as well i do kato-chan ken-chan. both are great game. but kato-chan ken-chan still is one impressive game for its time. when i saw it the first time around eraly '88 in a magazin, i couldn't believe my eyes that this would be real ingame-grafx for a home system.

[GUTS]

Really?  That was one of the first games I rented back in 89 and I thought it had some of worst graphics I'd ever seen.  Now Splatterhouse on the other hand, that was an impressive game at the time, I remember thinking how incredibly awesome the graphics were when I rented it.

[Tatsujin]

so the impressions back in those time can be different, huh? what i liked on kato-ken was the natural design of the environment. you walked through the game with less "non-repeting" elements as it was mostly common then in other J'n'Rs. there where toilets, woods, parks with bushes and trashcans etc. very nicely and natural arranged. and anything showed up in a very nice color-palette with huge and funny sprites. endeed splatterhouse was an amazing game as well back in the days, but came out almost 2 years later, when the competeting games where grown much more.

[Keranu]

Yeah, I'm not sure why, but I've always found the graphics in J.J. and Jeff / Kato & Ken Chan to be awesome. They just look and feel fresh to me and some of the sprites have really nice semi-realistic design. Plus they're happy graphics and relaxing to the eye!

[Turbo D]

I agree with kerano

[nat]

Gotta go with GUTS on this one.

I think they have aged badly, too, which doesn't help....

I will give the game one thing though: the sprite size was definitely impressive back in the day.

[GUTS]

Yeah the sprite size was nice, but I was extremely disappointed with the art and just the general look of the game, it was like an amatuer attempt or something.  The art is really bad, and the tiles are all extremely boring and drab, plus the gameplay was just awful. I've been meaning to try and find another copy cheap so I can try it again since I was pretty young when I played it.  I remember thinking Alex Kidd on Genesis had really good graphics at the time, so who knows, JJ&Jeff may actually look way better than I remember.

[nat]

Not really.

Don't bother spending any money on it. Download and burn a copy of the Super HuCard to satisfy your thirst. The art is just as bad in 2007 as it was in 1987.

[Tatsujin]

you two guys are just unbeliveable

[runinruder]

I totally agree with Nat.  I played JJ & Jeff just a few weeks ago, and it was just as ugly and horrible as it was when I first bought it sixteen or seventeen years ago. 

Anyone who's in the mood for a game along those lines should buy New Adventure Island instead, which is MUCH better and definitely worth the extra dollars. 

[Keranu]

I enjoyed J.J. and Jeff more than New Adventure Island. NAI has better graphics hands down, but I found J.J. and Jeff to be wackier and more entertaining.

[Tatsujin]

i don't know exactly what you guys really have eaten, but for a game made in '87 this grafics just kicks big monkey asses!






i already mentioned on the page before, what i really like on this game. and i believe, there was almost no game out like this one back in day on a home system. so how you can tell me, this one is crap shit and looks ugly?

[Keranu]

I don't really think you can persuade anyone into believing Kato and Ken Chan has good graphics, I think it's just a game that sticks to some people. But you do make a good point about being made in 1987 now that I think about it. Compared to other PCE games at the time, Kato and Ken Chan seemed ahead.

[Tatsujin]

But you do make a good point about being made in 1987 now that I think about it. Compared to other PCE games at the time, Kato and Ken Chan seemed ahead.

and compared to any other games released back in that time on any existing home systems, it seemed just one more time a little bit further ahead.

but if i'm honest, i really believe that kk-chan has good grafics, and still have nowadays. may be i'm a very lonely one with that opinion, but regarding to its natural level build-up and nice drawed lively elements i think i'm not that wrong.