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SB Recommends PC Engine / Turbografx-16 Games
The TRUE SUPER NES.
Recommended
Atomic Robo-Kid
Krazii Bakon Lypes: A strange and entertaining shooter from
UPL, the people who made
Rad Action (Ninja Kid 2).
Atomic Robo-Kid has complete freedom of movement, and several weapons to select from. There is great variety in the types of levels you will encounter. Straight lines fraight with swarms of weird robots with cube-brains floating in an infinite blue meadow, pong-like boss stages in which you are pitted against similar Robo-Kids, strange platform style pyramids where you blow up secret walls to find evil Pac Men laying in wait to kill you in two hits, and grand battles against screen-sized stuttering robot brains with mechanical dicks firing tiny ships at your poor unfortunate hull.
Galaga 88
Krazii Bakon Lypes:
Galaga 88 is the best game for the
PC-Engine, bar none. It is a charming, challenging shooter that rewards smart playing and accuracy, but allows anyone with gumption (or drunk) to get through the game without understanding dimensional warp or upgrading your ship to a alien-crushing freighter. Every so often you'll get to play a bonus “That's Galactic Dancing!” stage, in which harmless alien ships dance to waltzes and cha-chas.
Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap (also on: GG, Master System, Wii VC) -
forum thread
Loki Laufeyson: Commonly said to be the best Master System game of all, a title it lives up to. It's a great 8-bit semi-
metrovania. Being a
Wonderboy game, it probably has at least three other names it's known by.
haze: Whenever people fondly remember
Zelda II or
Castlevania II, I recommend to them to play
Wonder Boy III. It feels like a more polished version of what those games were attempting to do, while also shorter and more concise. None of the excess weight.
username: I picked up the Sega Ages Wonderboy collection on a whim a few years ago and while I wasn't in love with the earlier games,
Monster's Trap was pretty excellent. Very odd series progression where you go from a standard platformer to a basic adventure game to a weird scrolling shooter to a very charming
Metrovania but hey, it worked.
As odd as it sounds, I ended up playing through the included
Game Gear version over the
SMS version as for whatever reason it felt just a bit tighter and a bit more intimate due to the reduced viewing area (the town is a few blocks shorter because of this and I think it helps).
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Mr. Toups:
Yo Bro is an isometric skating/adventure game with lots of heart. You play as a “bro”, a backwards-cap wearing skateboarding teddy bear who cruises around california saving teenagers from mutant plants, killer bees, and a whole other host of natural (and unnatural) hazards. The gameplay is […] something of a combination of
720 for the
NES and
Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Strange creatures roam the city streets and prowl upon helpless teenagers. Pass over the kids to rescue them and kill enemies by flinging rocks from your slingshot (which can be upgraded to grenades). The play control is a little clunky, but is highly configurable (the menu allows you to adjust “bro rotate speed”, for instance) and is actually pretty fluid once you get used to it.
shrugtheironteadcup: Nine year old me would consider it the
Wii killer app.
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