What is the worst game on the PC Engine?

[Arkhan]

Klax is what happens when you try to capture the magic of tetris but miss all of the magic in the process.

Wonder Momo is stupid and juvenile.  Its about as serious as RoyVegas' love for the turbo.

sick burn.

[Gogan]

This thread makes me sad

[soop]

This thread makes me sad

Well, I understand... but it's better than Sega forums' constant justification of "why the genesis is the best thing ever".  That's what I love about you guys, problem solving, introspective, loving-the-system, let's concentrate on the PCE-ness of you all.

Hell, I don't need to justify my love, and the "what could have been" thread made me a bit sad...  but if you want to cheer yourself up, just turn the f*cker on

[Gogan]

Think I'll fire up some Energy to lift my spirits.

[Arkhan]

USE ENERGY TO BOOST YOUR ENERGY

HAH.

I like the game, I play it at least once a week.  They should make another one.

[SignOfZeta]

It's been ages since I played Ikari warriors on the NES, but I don't remember having any problem with the games. They weren't great arcade ports, but I didn't think they were shitty either. Then again, I loved Zelda 2 and Fester's Quest was actually fun (even if I didn't beat it). I also liked Heavy Barrel on the NES. How do you rate that one?

As a kid I was a HUGE fan of Ikari. Victory Road in particular, but the first game as well. VR is like a crazy "that might have been a dream I had" version of the first game. Its in space, and there are suits of armor and swords and shit. Awesome as HELL that game is.

The problems with the NES versions of these games are pretty common when talking about NES ports of arcade games in general. The graphics are shit, everything is slow, every sprite on screen is in a perpetual state of either flicker, slowdown, or just only being only half there. That's actually my biggest problem with NES games in general. Aside from the very early games and overhead RPGs everything seems to flicker all the time. It drives me nuts. The more advanced the games got the worse the flicker got. By the time we got to Mighty Final Fight or the Turtles and Battle Toads games...you could pretty much only see half of any on screen character at a time. People just...put up with it, but it drove me crazy. Nothing in the arcade did that. Nothing on my Colecovision did that. WTF?

Like many arcade ports on NES "enhancements" were made. Ikari 1 is now so f*cking long that you'll probably kill yourself before you finish it. You might even die of old age before you finish it because you can't beat it without a cheat code, and even if you have the code you still might not beat it because even the cheat code is limited.

For Victory Road I have to confess that I didn't try quite as hard to finish this one since when I rented it it was obvious that it was just as bad. It has SHOPS in it for f*cks sake. What the hell is the deal with adding shops to NES ports of arcade games? Stryder, Rygar...these games had no shops in the arcade and were much better that way.

Regarding Heavy Barrel: While Victory Road is my favorite "rotating stick Rambo game" I did love Heavy Barrel. I didn't even bother with the NES version. My arcade got rid of it before I could finish it but I had a chance to clear it a couple of weeks ago when I visited Galloping Ghost arcade in the Chicago area.

[Arkhan]

I beat Ikari 1 for NES.  It could have been better but it was still ok.  It's kinda slow...


This turned out better.  It's basically Ikari Warriors.   

Ikari Warriors 2 was still fun too.  It could've been worse.  The C64 Ikari 1 looks like it is pretty great.  The controls suck, the graphics are C64, and there's like 1 song in the entire game.  The NES one trumps that nonsense!

or it coulda been this:   lolol.

but, yeah, flicker.  Welcome to NES.





This makes me sad.  Is it Ninja Spirit, or RUN TO THE RIGHT: THE GAME.   What's sad is it looks like one of the better C64 games.  But, this thread isn't about that stupid ass computer.

[apachacha]

USE ENERGY TO BOOST YOUR ENERGY

HAH.

I like the game, I play it at least once a week.  They should make another one.

Would you have any recomendations how not to die in the subway stage while trying to go the upper path ?

[Arkhan]

USE ENERGY TO BOOST YOUR ENERGY

HAH.

I like the game, I play it at least once a week.  They should make another one.

Would you have any recomendations how not to die in the subway stage while trying to go the upper path ?

If you're not already doing it.  Go slow.  I don't care if it's an action game!   I go slow through some parts of that game, like a patient sniper.

are you playing with the turbo buttons and crap? I find sometimes if you do that, you hold buttons to attack and then when you need to jump/move around, you're kind of stuck for half a second, because the controls are a bit tardy.

Today is Thursday.  I haven't played Energy since last weds.  TODAY IS THE DAY I DO IT AGAIN.


Anyone else have a rotation of games they play weekly? lol

I play China Warrior, Energy, Bonk 1, KC, and Last Alert every week usually.

[soop]

I couldn't play a game like Bonk with regularity.  I'd probably leave it for a long time after I beat it, or have one big session where I get as far as I can.

I'm aiming to loan out some of my units to friends, and I'll probably inlude PC Genjin as I've completed it.

The games I play most often are Street Fighter II  (have to let my thumbs heal back though ), a bit of Volfied, Puzznic, Ghouls and Ghosts and shootemups.

I've been taking my Nomad to work though, trying to complete Castle of Illusion in my lunch break (and running out of time), and I was just playing Rocket Knight Adventures, which is an incredible game.  I'll need to sit down and finish Castle of Illusion on the weekend, and then hand it off to a friend to share the love.

[Gogan]

I play Last Alert at least once a month. The blood is so realistic.

[roflmao]

I typically play Devil's Crush and a Bomberman game at least once a month and a play a shmup a few times a week.  Other than that I'll play a platformer if my son is around because he loves watching my exceedingly high skill at dying in them.

[Mathius]

I am currently playing Heavy Barrel on the Data East collection on the Wii. I love that game too, and I loved it on the NES also.

[blueraven]

Sooooo Klax or Falcon?

Even the NES Klax Pwns the PCE.

[Arkhan]

Sooooo Klax or Falcon?

Even the NES Klax Pwns the PCE.

Falcon is way better.  at least you don't have to think while attempting to play falcon.  Just press buttons and laugh when you die.