Post by crimsin7 on Sept 2, 2012 23:24:37 GMT -5
So this game pretty much sums up the NES multi-player experience. It's simple. It's got catchy music. It's extremely difficult. It's color coded?? Yep.
Made by Rare for the NES and released in 1990, this was a game that I rented multiple times from my local Movies Plus store. This game was Rare back when Rare was actually Rare. That means it's great!!
Basically, the game starts out and you choose one or two players and then it sets you loose as either a red or a blue snake depending on which player you are. The game is set to a 3/4 birds eye view and is laid out on isometric stages. There's eleven levels in total but, like Marble Madness, you'll have a rough time getting through most of them, even the earlier ones. This difficulty, still, won't stop you from playing ad nauseum.
The objective for each stage is basically that you start out as a snake head and a tiny tail and you have to scour the stages for what the instruction manual calls 'Nibbley Pibbleys' and, the more you eat, the more little sections of snake grow on to you. If you get hit, you lose a segment. The rub is that you have to weigh in at a scale somewhere in the level in order to open the door to finish the stage.
Enemies in each stage range from household objects like checkers (which I had always thought were supposed to be those black char snake things you got instead of REAL fireworks) and giant feet and flapping toilet seats. You can also eat bombs that masquerade as Nibbley Pibbleys and 'splode from the inside a la Looney Tunes so you really have to watch out on some of the stages. To make things more difficult, the whole ordeal is timed, though, you can find extra time icons in the stages.
There are also hidden bonus stages that make you chase after REALLY fast moving Nibbley Pibbleys and you usually end up getting eaten by sharks. Playing on multi-player during these, generally, devolve in to the same type of situations from Streets of Rage when you pick up the turkey when you're full life and your friend has no life...you know you really should have let them have the turkey but, instead, you just let him have it with your baseball bat, euthanizing his current life, then when he re-spawns you ask, "What?? You have full life now!!"
Generally, this is a game that you probably won't beat unless you're rocking out a Game Genie or have the patience to learn every single jump in the game and practice throughout the course of a whole summer. Don't let that deter you as the Rockabilly-esque music, the nostalgic washed-out-but-still-colorful NES palette, the standard INSANE difficulty the NES is best known for and also the wonderful multi-player where you can screw over your best friend while doing couch co-op.
Definitely pick this game up as you can find it for dirt cheap; found a friend a complete copy for 8$ a few months back. You won't regret ha-whipping this game out on your next vintage video game party.
--Gordon for FoxFireUnlimited
Made by Rare for the NES and released in 1990, this was a game that I rented multiple times from my local Movies Plus store. This game was Rare back when Rare was actually Rare. That means it's great!!
Basically, the game starts out and you choose one or two players and then it sets you loose as either a red or a blue snake depending on which player you are. The game is set to a 3/4 birds eye view and is laid out on isometric stages. There's eleven levels in total but, like Marble Madness, you'll have a rough time getting through most of them, even the earlier ones. This difficulty, still, won't stop you from playing ad nauseum.
The objective for each stage is basically that you start out as a snake head and a tiny tail and you have to scour the stages for what the instruction manual calls 'Nibbley Pibbleys' and, the more you eat, the more little sections of snake grow on to you. If you get hit, you lose a segment. The rub is that you have to weigh in at a scale somewhere in the level in order to open the door to finish the stage.
Enemies in each stage range from household objects like checkers (which I had always thought were supposed to be those black char snake things you got instead of REAL fireworks) and giant feet and flapping toilet seats. You can also eat bombs that masquerade as Nibbley Pibbleys and 'splode from the inside a la Looney Tunes so you really have to watch out on some of the stages. To make things more difficult, the whole ordeal is timed, though, you can find extra time icons in the stages.
There are also hidden bonus stages that make you chase after REALLY fast moving Nibbley Pibbleys and you usually end up getting eaten by sharks. Playing on multi-player during these, generally, devolve in to the same type of situations from Streets of Rage when you pick up the turkey when you're full life and your friend has no life...you know you really should have let them have the turkey but, instead, you just let him have it with your baseball bat, euthanizing his current life, then when he re-spawns you ask, "What?? You have full life now!!"
Generally, this is a game that you probably won't beat unless you're rocking out a Game Genie or have the patience to learn every single jump in the game and practice throughout the course of a whole summer. Don't let that deter you as the Rockabilly-esque music, the nostalgic washed-out-but-still-colorful NES palette, the standard INSANE difficulty the NES is best known for and also the wonderful multi-player where you can screw over your best friend while doing couch co-op.
Definitely pick this game up as you can find it for dirt cheap; found a friend a complete copy for 8$ a few months back. You won't regret ha-whipping this game out on your next vintage video game party.
--Gordon for FoxFireUnlimited