Topic: Recent Game You Have Beat "Radical Retro Console" Edition!

Sorry, I"d forgotten there were multiple threads for this sort of thing — guys, the full reviews need to end. As I said in the 3DS version of this thread, to clarify the situation: yes, reader reviews have long been disallowed here on the forums. No, there is nothing in the Community Rules about it, but it's been actively enforced ever since that announcement was made. However, I had given the original thread a pass back when it first started because at that point it was a bit more like an 'impressions' thread, which we do allow, and it wasn't the typical 'this is my thread for my reviews' kind of thing that had run rampant around when this particular rule was announced. I thought that's what this thread was too, and that's why I let it go for so long, and for that I apologize.

I see the thread is geared more toward actual 'reviews', though, and it needs to get back to 'impressions' — please cool it with the numerical scores and images, keep it to a paragraph or so about how you felt about the game (trim the useless fluff about the game's history/background/etc.), and you should be 'impression'y enough to keep this thread open, guys. If anyone here would like to continue with more complete 'reviews', as always you are more than welcome to post them to your own webspace (a blog, a tumblr, whatever) and then link to them in your profile or signature.

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You bet your 1980's Arnold apples it is. ^{I'm not very good at that stuff.}

But yeah, I remember you saying it's your favorite Mario game ever and uh, I can totally see why. I also beat the last boss, Wart, with one life left, and one heart. It was adrenaline pumping awesomeness. He also takes 5 hits IIRC.

Beat some Neo Geo games from the SNK collection.

´ Shock Troopers
´ Top Hunter
´ Magician Lord
´ Last Resort
´ Sengoku
´ Burning Fight

Super Mario Land - I know, ridiculously short but hey, it fits, right?

SMB2 was easily one of my favorites as well the only thing I didnt like about it was how easy and short it is compared to the other games in the series still it does win points on its uniqueness.

I remember when that game came out and spending the summer running back and forth my house and my best friends house playing that game for easily 12 hours a day and living off of Ecto Cooler Hi Cs and pizza rolls. Probably one of my favorite summers of all times.

Dang now I am going to have to play SMB 2 again.

I played the All Stars version. Man I love those graphics and updated audio. And I wish I was a kid again and could play that game for 12 hours straight.

I found the level design in particular to be top notch. Also the levels in general were suh-weet. Everything, right down to the enemy placement. was great. Though, in my opinion, the last few levels were way too easy. I racked up 10 lives by the time I got to Wart. Of course I lost 9 of them trying to figure out what to do. Advice: Never use Luigi on Wart. It is absolute suicide.

Princess FTW lol. Yeah I have the original cartridge as well as the original version on VC and the All Star Version both on the SNES and the Wii disc. I also have the GBA remake as well. I usually have somewhere in the range of 20+ lives when I beat the game but thats mainly due to the slot machine mini game.

just beat Totally Rad for nes...now im about to put myself in a world of pain as i attempt to smother Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril, a difficult homebrew game for the nes

Strider!

Let me start off by saying this is probably one of the most glitchiest games I have ever played! If you are one to get frustrated easily by Funky Bunch controls, get your Good Vibrations else where. As a top secret ninja agency known as Strider’s, Hiryu’s mission is not to rescue, but kill your captured friend Kain. You’ll backtrack and tube transport throughout Travel Channel’s top destinations including Kazakhstan (Kazakh in the game), Egypt, Japan, Africa, and Los Angeles (as opposed to USA) where you will uncover and investigate some sort of conspiracy supposedly with the KGB and the Red Army. The game I played and the original back of the box description didn’t jive all that well, but whatever.

As I mentioned earlier Hiryu is quite finicky. The enemy hit detection with your cipher takes some getting used to along with your hit detection. Most of the time I just used my dependable ninja sword slash to take enemies out but as you progress in the game you acquire other magical abilities. The only one I really ever used was for healing myself and though I won’t spoil anything here, you are required to use another particular ability at a certain point in the game. The jumping was the most annoying part overall. If you as much hit a wall or ledge while jumping you will get knocked down like a rock unless you are trying the “triangle jump.” This move makes Samus’s wall jump in Super Metroid seem easy.

This game really seemed like it was made by a team just cutting their teeth in video game development. I would recommend this one only for veteran NES fans. Once you get into and can accept it for what it is, it’s fun, some just may not have the patience to get to that point.

Just beat Super Mario World 100%! Oh, what a classic.
This is absolutely one of the best Mario games ever. To this day I can't pick between this or 3, lol. The graphics are so colorful and detailed for a launch title! The music is top notch. I found myself humming a long to so many level's tunes. The level design was also amazing. When ever I died I felt like it was genuinely my fault. The levels are so fun and the secret exits are a blast to find. The only cheap level,imo, was Special-Outragous. That level sucked and was cheep, but it's only 1 cheap level out of what? 90? lol
I must admit though...I only got 93% on my own...I got stuck here and assumed the remaining levels were in ghost houses. I was right. I have trouble finding the normal exits to ghost houses! No way I was going to go through each one and hopefully find a secret exit! So I looked up which ones had the exist, but found the exist in that ghost house on my own! (except for Valley ghost house ^^;) I don't feel bad about looking up the answer online like I normally do though. Instead of basically making it a chore by looking for the exits myself I found them fast online. Keeping the fun going. It was still very satisfying to see that star on the main menu! I'm still going to stick to my normal 'don't look up the answer to the game online unless I've been at it for months and it's not fun anymore' moto. Don't think I'm going soft!
9.5/10 for me. Absolutely fantastic game! Even after playing it for hours today I can still see myself coming back to this game later on. This, ladies and gentlemen, is why the SNES is the greatest gaming console known to man!
_{DISCLAIMER: This was not meant to be a review. I had no idea my little story of beating the game would turn out so big.}

i beat dragon quest 4 about a month ago
for nes
i give it a 8/10 cause its nothing new but really addictive

Here's one I worked at pretty feverishly last month:

Beat it for the first time, no Game Genie. Now I feel like I could conquer just about any NES game...
Currently working on these:

Just beat this yesterday, for Kirby's 20th birthday
Great game! I really liked the last few levels.

Edit : Does it still count if I played this on Wii Virtual Console? I feel unworthy.

im proud to announce i just beat Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril about ten minutes ago, and it was tough. theres a couple bonus feature levels im working on for it but i wanted to wait until after i finished the game, so now im working on the bonus features. next up: is the new homebrew that im waiting for in the mail...Nomolos: Storming The "Cat"sle

Of course it counts. It's the same game, no?

I recently went through Super Mario World for the 50 millionth time. It never gets old. Took me 2 hours for 100% completion. I'm also going through Metroid Zero Mission and Super Mario Bros. 2 on the GBA. I have to say I've been Retro'ing it up as of lately.

I'm going through Kirby Dream Land 3, too. It's so amazing...

Just beat Contra with my little brother! Holy crud, what an intense, fun, fantastic music, challenging, and awesome experience! That was amazing. Used the Konami code! Still had toooons of fun. One of the best side scrolling shooters of all time.

Finished this game the other day!
I LOVED it!

Ha ha I'm gonna take this thread back, way back to a time you retro noobs forgot

Fired up the old Atari 2600 and finished me some 'Double Dragon' in all its stick figure glory, lol what a cool version.
Then tackled the amazing 'Bump n Jump' ha ha no sign of HD around here baby.
I then proceeded to unpack my boxed up AMIGA 500 with the 500 meg HDD expansion and managed to conquer 'Moonstone a hard days knight' and 'Indiana Jones and the last crusade' and the great 'Hostages' awesome stuff. I have started the 'Quest for Glory II' and 'Turrican' retroactive campaigns

LOL my crazy head is full of Atari Loops, when you try 'Skateboarding' I can guarantee you that music will never escape your Krangified cranium.
'dun t dun t dun tt t t dun t dun t dun tt t tt' ha ha

Getting 100 on all levels may lead to insanity though.
I've 100%'d it before, but doing so again on the 3DS version is proving difficult >.<