A port of Kamen no Ninja Hanamaru
Yo! Noid, known is a 2D action platform game developed by Now Production and published by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was first released in Japan as Kamen no Ninja Hanamaru on March 16, 1990 and was localized in the United States to promote the Noid, the claymation mascot of Domino's Pizza in the late 1980s. The game is also released as part of Nintendo's PlayChoice-10 series and featured in the Japanese TV show GameCenter CX.
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This is a licensed nes game all right. Its fine and fun enough but the pizza eating contest are not fun at all and can get unfair by the end if you don't know where some of the collectibles are.
what a game
This game is not good, but I had to beat it as a child.
Uma pena que a franquia da Domino's Pizza foi embora da minha cidade.
Genuinely so insane the reason why Dominos got rid of the Noid mascot. If you don't know, look it up
For those of you that are unaware of who The Noid is (or maybe you just pushed him out of your mind, which I don't blame you for doing so), he was an old mascot for Domino's Pizza back in the 80's that they even recently brought back at one point. He is this weird-ass gremlin-man-bunny-thing who was known for ruining your pizzas, and for some reason, that was enough to create an iconic character, one that would get his own line of merchandise, including several video games. The most notable one would without a doubt be Yo! Noid, because it was the 90's, and apparently saying YO was cool.
As you would expect from most licensed games at the time, it was primarily meant to sell a product and nothing more, and from what we did get out of it, it actually isn't all that bad. I wouldn't necessarily say it is too good, or it has anything really noteworthy, but for a game based on this dumbass mascot from Domino's Pizza, it could have been a lot worse.
The story is simple and dumb, but I would expect nothing more from a game like this, the graphics are definitely graphics, with the Noid himself looking exactly like he should, the music is good enough, the control is thankfully average, and the gameplay is standard, being your typical 2D platformer where you use a yo-yo to kill people (because obvously), get power-ups and beat bosses, with some variety in how you traverse stages throughout the game. Thankfully, again, is pretty standard, and there is really nothing wrong with it, from what I played.
However, what made me ultimately made me quit this game altogether were the "boss fights". At the end of certain levels, you will encounter another Noid creature, and instead of fighting him, you have to engage in a pizza eating contest with him, where you have to eat more pizzas them him in a round, and eat a certain amount in order to win. It's simple and inventive, I'll give it that, but it not fun, and pretty frustrating.
It is automatically stacked against you from the start, and in order to even stand a chance at winning (at least in later rounds), you have to use items that you collect during the stages, which is fine, but most of the time, the items are invisible, so you won't know it is there until you just spam your yo-yo all over the place, and honestly, I don't have the patience to try to find that shit.
Overall, while it doesn't do too much to stand out, and the "boss fights" can be pretty annoying, it is still alright enough for a licensed game based on The Noid, and it doesn't hurt to give a try if you are morbidly curious. And at the end of the day, we can all at least agree on one thing... this game is at least better than anything Domino's serves.
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As you would expect from most licensed games at the time, it was primarily meant to sell a product and nothing more, and from what we did get out of it, it actually isn't all that bad. I wouldn't necessarily say it is too good, or it has anything really noteworthy, but for a game based on this dumbass mascot from Domino's Pizza, it could have been a lot worse.
The story is simple and dumb, but I would expect nothing more from a game like this, the graphics are definitely graphics, with the Noid himself looking exactly like he should, the music is good enough, the control is thankfully average, and the gameplay is standard, being your typical 2D platformer where you use a yo-yo to kill people (because obvously), get power-ups and beat bosses, with some variety in how you traverse stages throughout the game. Thankfully, again, is pretty standard, and there is really nothing wrong with it, from what I played.
However, what made me ultimately made me quit this game altogether were the "boss fights". At the end of certain levels, you will encounter another Noid creature, and instead of fighting him, you have to engage in a pizza eating contest with him, where you have to eat more pizzas them him in a round, and eat a certain amount in order to win. It's simple and inventive, I'll give it that, but it not fun, and pretty frustrating.
It is automatically stacked against you from the start, and in order to even stand a chance at winning (at least in later rounds), you have to use items that you collect during the stages, which is fine, but most of the time, the items are invisible, so you won't know it is there until you just spam your yo-yo all over the place, and honestly, I don't have the patience to try to find that shit.
Overall, while it doesn't do too much to stand out, and the "boss fights" can be pretty annoying, it is still alright enough for a licensed game based on The Noid, and it doesn't hurt to give a try if you are morbidly curious. And at the end of the day, we can all at least agree on one thing... this game is at least better than anything Domino's serves.
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