No quarters needed!
Each game has a few Settings you can toggle to sorta toy around with the difficulty, which is quite fair considering these games were made to suck quarters out of people. That said, some of these games run on checkpoints, some not even on that, so even if you have infinite coins... it's still gonna be tough to see every game to the end. There's a bunch of information, including very basic hints and tips for each game, as well as one flyer for each.
The games:
Battle Shark - A weird, but not bad, first person gallery shooter. Most stages are underwater, but one takes place on the air. It was more fun than I would've thought! You can't spam your shots willy nilly 'cause they run on a cooldown! Kinda short, but I dig it!
Bubble Bobble - A game I tried a few times here and there, mostly the NES port, and never cared too much about it. It's really fun! The game is divided into single-screen stages in which you must trap enemies in your bubbles and then crush them. Game is 100 stages long, and if you run out of lives, even if you have credits, it's back to stage 1! Cruel
Colony 7 - A very simple classic. You play as a couple of cannons on both ends of the screen and must destroy incoming enemy ships. It looks super simple. You have to protect town below, but be careful, as enemies can kill you if they destroy both cannons!!
Continental Circus - A behind the back racer... Your car catches fire if you merely bump another car. Too complicated for my taste, I mean, I don't particularly enjoy racing games, and if it gets to convoluted... next!
The Electric Yoyo - This one is SO weird. You are a YoYo and must collect pellets one at a time, without touching enemies. You can move in four different directions by one step... although if there's a pellet you automatically throw you string as a hook and move towards it. Can't say I'm a fan.
Elevator Action - I grew up playing the NES port with my family! Basically, you start a top a building, and must climb your way down using elevators, while entering every red door you come across. Problem is... the building is infested with never ending cops that you must either kill or avoid, as they can use the elevators in the same way you can. As fun as the game is... it hasn't aged very well, the controls are SO clunky, turning around in particular, and if you crouch it's as if you were rooted to the ground. That said, it's still pretty fun.
Exzisus - A mediocre horizontal shoot'em up in which you play as a girl with a jetpack and a gun. Didn't care bout it.
Gladiator - Strangely homoerotic? The game constantly scrolls forward and you must aim your shield middle, bottom or top. and move, blocking or defeating small enemies on your way to a gladiator boss. Getting hit means you the armor you were wearing wherever you got hit, so in a way, it's almost as if you are trying to remove the clothes of your opponent before they do so to you! To be fair, there is a female gladiator later on, but it's all about the sausage!
Great Swordsman - Clunky but fun. You go through Fencing stages, Kendo stages and then you get Roman-esque sword stages. You get with three attacks: low, middle and high. It's point based and you must hit your opponent before they hit you. If swords collide both attacks cancel each other. It's interesting!
Jungle Hunt - A weird action game that starts with you timing vine jumps, then you swim through crocodiles, can knife them, then you avoid rockslides... It's interesting, but meh. I really liked the whole adventure bit, as you go from simple scenario to simple scenario, but the game as a whole wasn't very interesting.
The New Zealand Story - this one is a really cute platformer in which you play as a yellow kiwi and must rescue your family. You start armed with a bow, but can find other weapons such as bombs, and you'll also have to make do with flying gizmos, such as rideable platforms or balloons! This one is pretty good.
The Ninja Kids - SERVANTS OF THE SATAN!!! This is a very quirky beat'em up. The artistic direction is very weird, but super charming, and the translation, which might be wonky or might be accurate, not sure, adds a ton of flavor to the game. At one point, when I tried to continue Start didn't work? It really annoyed me.
Operation Thunderbolt - Surprisingly fun military-themed first-person gallery shooter. You are rewarded for shooting CATS and can actually accidentally murder kids! While I can't say I enjoyed the theme, I did enjoy the game.
Operation Wolf - Basically the game that came before Operation Thunderbolt. it's identical but doesn't look as good, and it's a bit shorter. Once again, it allows you to accidentally kill children!
Phoenix - Taito's version of Galaxian. You're a ship on the bottom and must destroy waves of alien ships that stay at the top of the screen, eventually comin' down one by one trying to getcha. It was decent.
Plotting - A weird puzzle game in which you shoot blocks, with different symbols, horizontally against a tower of blocks. I used to play a bootleg NES version of this one when I was younger! I won't lie, I didn't really understand the game's rules, but I didn't care too much about it.
Plump Pop - An Arkanoid/Breakout clone with a Twist, instead of a Paddle you play as two animals holding a trampoline, and must bounce a third in order to hit UFOs, balloons or even a giant buda/sheep head that loom above you. The physics were kinda whack, as the bouncing didn't work quite like you'd expect it to, so I didn't enjoy it too much.
Rainbow Islands - A very weird platforming game in which you must move upwards. You can 'shoot' a rainbow that also doubles as a platform! It's decent, but gets old fast.
Rastan - A pretty cool 2-D Sidescroller in which you play as a Conan-esque Barbarian and get to collect different weapons. If only it wasn't so hard and you weren't sent back to checkpoints, which can be kinda stingy in their placement, every time you died.
Return of the Invaders - Proper graphics! That will only make sense if you played the previous Space Invaders games, but what it means is that it doesn't look like an Atari game anymore. In this one there are different enemy types(Such as armored enemies that will counterattack if not shot in the middle), plus, stages have different enemy formations!
Space Gun - Another first person gallery shooter. This one is all about gunning down aliens. Pretty bloody! You collect special ammo, such as incendiary or explosive!
Space Invaders - Can add color and background through the options menu, which is a nice touch. An undeniable classic.... It hasn't aged very well, it's very slow, super repetitive and what not... but hey, it's a classic, which makes it a game you must play at least once in your life.
Space Invaders part 2 - Pretty much identical to part 1. It's more colorful, and it has some slight additions to the enemy variety, but it's not very different.
Super Qix - I LOVE these kind of games. You play as a cursor that can move around the stage, and you must 'reclaim' the screen by drawing lines inside. If an enemy, that can only move on areas you haven't claimed, touches the line you die. You must recover at least 70% of the screen to win. I like it a lot.
Thunder Fox - Taito's take on Rush 'n' Attack, it's a load of fun. It's a sidescroller in which you get to knife a near endless amount of soldiers trying to take your life, BUT, you come across guns, flamethrowers as well as vehicles, heck, the second stage you fly a copter! Very exciting, I liked it a lot. At first I thought it was kinda boring, since I don't like RnA very much, but the more I played it, the better it got as it added more and more exciting stuff into the mix.
Tokio - A vertical shoot'em up. You can collect small ships and change their formation, but if they take a hit you lose them. I kinda hate the 'cloud transitions' because they take about one or two seconds in which you can't do anything and nothing happens. Kinda boring.
Tube It - Speaking of weird puzzle games, it's like tetris, but pieces that fall are sections of pipes you can rotate. Try to make pipes connect to may a path from one end to the other end of the screen. It's fun, I like it.
Volfied - A more polished version of Super Qix. I loved it!
Zoo Keeper - This one is SUPER weird. You run around a SQUARE, and everywhere you step you build a wall that animals are trying to break from the inside. You must keep them trapped for as long as you can. It's more fun than it sounds
I really enjoyed this game collection. It has a pretty generous amount of games as well as variety, so there's bound to be something you like, as well as games you've never played before and games you have played before. The one big thing is that some of these games might be too hard and too unfair, so I would've liked some sort of built-in cheats or more generous checkpoints. That aside, I thought it was a great collection.
7.0
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