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[snapty00]

Some of these were released on other systems, such as Knight Lore.

Bird Week

Play as a mother bird who must get food for its children.

Knight Lore

Play in an isometric world as a man, who turns into an animal at night.

Jaws

Kill Jaws. Just do it.

Meikyuu Jiin Dababa

Play as a ninja-samarai person who can't walk but can jump.

Moero Yakyuuken

Play games with a girl so she'll take her clothes off.

Game Tengoku

Abuse farm animals to play a nice round of Bingo.

The Adventures of Chatran

Play as a cat in a world where no physics are realistc except those for branches of trees and those for the sun in the sky.

Kobayashi Hitome no Hold Up

Hold up a girl with a watergun...I'm guessing in an effort to get her clothes off, but who knows?

 

[Speevy]

Played Jaws. As far as 80's movies go, I enjoyed the NES Friday the 13th more.

 

[RevenantKioku]

More like an effort to make them look like they wet themselves.

 

[DDayton]

I didn't know that Rare's earlier titles had been ported to the NES by Jaleco...

 

[TekunoRobby]

I remember playing that infernal Jaws game in my youth, oh I hated that cartridge.

 

[Semjaza Azazel]

Jaws is absolutely awful. It's like a slightly more advanced version of that submarine game on the Atari 2600.

 

[BenT]

Jaws isn't bad at all. Pretty good for LJN, really. Its scope is small but the gameplay is fine.

Friday the 13th, on the other hand ... ugh. One of my worst purchases ever. Worse, I rented it first. *ashamed*

 

[Bog]

Jaws NES is great.

 

[FortNinety]

This Bird Week game intrigues me... what's it about? A prequel to Kolibri perhaps?

 

[Father_Brain]

This Bird Week game intrigues me... what's it about? A prequel to Kolibri perhaps?

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=10

 

[RaymondCarver]

I liked Jaws.




It's a hard, but fun game.

 

[FortNinety]

This post inspired me to dig through my 8,000 or so NES/Famicom roms and I came across this...

... a Star Wars side scroller from Namco? I had never even heard of this one before.

 

[ge-man]

This post inspired me to dig through my 8,000 or so NES/Famicom roms and I came across this...

... a Star Wars side scroller from Namco? I had never even heard of this one before.

Is that the one were Vader turns into a giant crab or something like that? I think EGM mentioned the game in their Rebel Strike blowout last year.

 

[DJ Demon J]

That Knight Lore game is reminiscent of Solstice....except Solstice looked 1000x better and had awesome music.

 

[brandonnn]

That Knight Lore game is reminiscent of Solstice....except Solstice looked 1000x better and had awesome music.

A little trivia: Knight Lore is the sequel to Underwurlde, itself a sequel to SabreWulf -- the same that Rare just updated for GBA. The "man" is SabreMan himself. It was one of the first games to popularize the isometric format (though I'm fairly sure Ant Attack holds the champion title of first isometric game), which would then inspire other games such as Head Over Heels, Solstice, etc.

I'll admit I had no idea there was a Famicom Disk System version, though.

 

[DJ Demon J]

A little trivia: Knight Lore is the sequel to Underwurlde, itself a sequel to SabreWulf -- the same that Rare just updated for GBA. The "man" is SabreMan himself. It was one of the first games to popularize the isometric format (though I'm fairly sure Ant Attack holds the champion title of first isometric game), which would then inspire other games such as Head Over Heels, Solstice, etc.

I'll admit I had no idea there was a Famicom Disk System version, though.

Huh, interesting....I guess that also explains the Sabrewulf character in Killer Instinct?

 

[brandonnn]

Huh, interesting....I guess that also explains the Sabrewulf character in Killer Instinct?

And the SabreWulf GBA levels being called "Underwurlde Mines", "Mt. Knightlore", etc. Rare games are always well aware of their own history.

There's some who would argue that Grabbed By The Ghoulies is just a half step away from being a 3d Atic Atac remake:

but at very least, there's a tip of the hat to the original in the first chapter's Gaming Room.

 

[DJ Demon J]

Well as long as Rare's feeling nostalgiac, hopefully they'll bring back Battletoads and Killer Instinct. Conker was OK, but not worth a sequel when these two franchises haven't been revisited in years.

 

[FortNinety]

Is that the one were Vader turns into a giant crab or something like that? I think EGM mentioned the game in their Rebel Strike blowout last year.

Funny... I thought it was more of a scorpion, but whatevas!