Ghouls’n’ghosts, I bet my life on it!
LeeAbe
1783
Dang, didn’t think it would be that easy. Will post the full shot later, you’re up @Left_Empty.
It was only an unlucky pick: it is one of the only two action games I ever finished (although I never managed to complete the second “run” and get to the real ending), the other one being Strider Hiryu - you bet I know their cover art by heart!
LeeAbe
1785
That’s pretty amazing. My friends and I played it pretty much every day for a summer and none of us ever beat it. Might have something to do with the drinking though. So many good memories around that summer and playing it.
I think, just like Strider actually, the game was less about reflexes and more about learning the button press timing to the second - and learn about the various little bugs and exploits that made your life easier. Also, not getting hit once, in the long tradition of coin-op games, was a must, as the game was a lot about getting the proper set of weapon going with your gold armor for the right section of the game. It was a strategy game, in the Chickesque acception of it, obviously!
Edit: anyway, the following one, I had never heard of at the time - well I didn’t even own a NES. Oops, nevermind that big hint.
It may be quite obscure. Although, while looking for a box, it appeared it got a youtube exposure quite recently.
This is from a poster of the box, the finest thing I could find:
Test Drive? The first one. Played that on library computers in school when I was a kid. Never seen any box art but it’s the first driving/racing game I remember playing.
LeeAbe
1789
That was my first thought, but Outrun was a Testarossa, not an F40. (Maybe sequels were?)
Oh, Strawberry Octopus Ferrari! Duh!
I think you might have gotten some letters right.
Nope, but that last one is getting closer!
You paid someone to paint your acid trip, didn’t you?
Pod
1797
I don’t think Micro Machines was on the NES not had weird flamingos on the cover, but let’s say Micro Machines.
You are moving back away!
This is the last frame that I prepped. Please somebody solve this Dolph Lundgren.
