Kago
Very close contention with one of the worst Star Wars games ever made. The sound actually hurt my ears and gave me a headache!
Gameplay is slow, boring, and unfair. You have to see and hear this thing to truly understand how bad it is. I don't know how human beings made this and decided it was good enough to release to the public.
Absolute garbage. This may be the worst Star Wars game ever, we shall see.
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Gameplay is slow, boring, and unfair. You have to see and hear this thing to truly understand how bad it is. I don't know how human beings made this and decided it was good enough to release to the public.
Absolute garbage. This may be the worst Star Wars game ever, we shall see.
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1987
Jesus Christ this game
This is up there as one of the hardest games I've ever played, this game is fucking sadistic. This is one of those games where you get 3 lives, and if you run out, you get sent ALL THE WAY BACK to the beginning. I'm admitting I used save states between each level, and I'm not ashamed. If I didn't do this, it'd take me endless weeks to beat this god forsaken game.
I despise the platforming so much, there's so many precise jumps you have to do, all while luke is super slippery, like when you go into a direction he moves after you stop pressing down on the button. It's like he's on ice skates. Plus there's just a weird momentum feature. The platforming is just absolute hell man. So many cheap jumps and just absolute nonsense.
Combat is also pain. The lightsaber hitbox is broken, so the top half of the lightsaber doesn't even register on enemies, only the bottom half. This means you have extremely short range, and combined with the slippery movement it leads to a lot of nonsense. Also hitboxes in general are busted in this game.
The bosses are kinda just bad. they have little to no pattern so it sometimes just comes down to flat out luck. At least it's satisfying to beat them.
Some levels, most notably the death star, are pretty maze-like and just really annoying to traverse. Kinda shit that makes people buy walk-through books for. Really terrible level design I think.
Most of the levels in this game are just annoyingly designed, like it's either just poor design or it's sadistic design. I absolutely hate it.
The plot of this game hardly even follows the movie, (a new hope) only three levels actually make sense and take place in the film (the opening level on tatooine, death star, and death star trench run.) Everything else makes no sense and just feels like random nonsense. Like when does Luke go and kill frogs? (upon further research this game is a dream that Luke had while in the bacta tank in Empire, a plot that isn't conveyed to the player whatsoever.)
The saving grace of this game is that it is pretty satisfying to get through levels and bosses. Also the final level, the trench run, is the best in the game. It's really difficult but it's a lot of fun and pumps some adrenaline. As of now it's the best death star trench run I've played.
I would ONLY recommend playing this game with using save states in between levels, as this is borderline impossible without them.
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This is up there as one of the hardest games I've ever played, this game is fucking sadistic. This is one of those games where you get 3 lives, and if you run out, you get sent ALL THE WAY BACK to the beginning. I'm admitting I used save states between each level, and I'm not ashamed. If I didn't do this, it'd take me endless weeks to beat this god forsaken game.
I despise the platforming so much, there's so many precise jumps you have to do, all while luke is super slippery, like when you go into a direction he moves after you stop pressing down on the button. It's like he's on ice skates. Plus there's just a weird momentum feature. The platforming is just absolute hell man. So many cheap jumps and just absolute nonsense.
Combat is also pain. The lightsaber hitbox is broken, so the top half of the lightsaber doesn't even register on enemies, only the bottom half. This means you have extremely short range, and combined with the slippery movement it leads to a lot of nonsense. Also hitboxes in general are busted in this game.
The bosses are kinda just bad. they have little to no pattern so it sometimes just comes down to flat out luck. At least it's satisfying to beat them.
Some levels, most notably the death star, are pretty maze-like and just really annoying to traverse. Kinda shit that makes people buy walk-through books for. Really terrible level design I think.
Most of the levels in this game are just annoyingly designed, like it's either just poor design or it's sadistic design. I absolutely hate it.
The plot of this game hardly even follows the movie, (a new hope) only three levels actually make sense and take place in the film (the opening level on tatooine, death star, and death star trench run.) Everything else makes no sense and just feels like random nonsense. Like when does Luke go and kill frogs? (upon further research this game is a dream that Luke had while in the bacta tank in Empire, a plot that isn't conveyed to the player whatsoever.)
The saving grace of this game is that it is pretty satisfying to get through levels and bosses. Also the final level, the trench run, is the best in the game. It's really difficult but it's a lot of fun and pumps some adrenaline. As of now it's the best death star trench run I've played.
I would ONLY recommend playing this game with using save states in between levels, as this is borderline impossible without them.
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1980
Reviewing the Atari 2600 version.
This is honestly pretty impressive and insane for the Atari 2600. possibly the most graphically impressive game on it? Game play is actually serviceable, and it can be somewhat engaging.
If you like Atari games, this one is a must try.
This is honestly pretty impressive and insane for the Atari 2600. possibly the most graphically impressive game on it? Game play is actually serviceable, and it can be somewhat engaging.
If you like Atari games, this one is a must try.
1976
Objectively flawless masterpiece. you hit the ball into the bricks until the bricks go away.
1978
You can pump fake, you can dribble, you can shoot, you can steal. It's simply the best basketball game ever made.
I laughed, I cried, I was filled with child-like wonder.
Must play.
I laughed, I cried, I was filled with child-like wonder.
Must play.
I like the game!
it's quite innovative for its time. That's it. In gameplay it's basically the same thing as the other star wars arcade game.
Not much else to say on this one.
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it's quite innovative for its time. That's it. In gameplay it's basically the same thing as the other star wars arcade game.
Not much else to say on this one.
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Another meh Star Wars Atari game
Cool graphics and all, also cool to have voice lines, but the gameplay is kinda boring, you can just go through objects and it doesn't matter. You can also basically beat the game in like 5 minutes.
It's an old arcade game so there's no ending or anything it's just a never ending game where you try to rack up score.
Just kinda dull, not much going on here, but it functions so that's a plus.
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Cool graphics and all, also cool to have voice lines, but the gameplay is kinda boring, you can just go through objects and it doesn't matter. You can also basically beat the game in like 5 minutes.
It's an old arcade game so there's no ending or anything it's just a never ending game where you try to rack up score.
Just kinda dull, not much going on here, but it functions so that's a plus.
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This is actually not the worst thing ever.
Super ambitious game for 1983, and it's actually somewhat fun and exciting. Just kinda weird controls but yeah not terrible. If this were made later and NOT for the Atari it'd probably be much better.
Worth checking out I think honestly, this may be the best Atari Star Wars game.
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Super ambitious game for 1983, and it's actually somewhat fun and exciting. Just kinda weird controls but yeah not terrible. If this were made later and NOT for the Atari it'd probably be much better.
Worth checking out I think honestly, this may be the best Atari Star Wars game.
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Easily the worst Atari star wars game, it's terrible. No redeeming qualities, don't play it. You can barely understand what is even happening. I have no idea what the developers were thinking with this one.
Even if this game was executed perfectly, it'd be bad cause it's just such a terrible concept for a game.
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Even if this game was executed perfectly, it'd be bad cause it's just such a terrible concept for a game.
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Game SUCKS
Really slippery, just controls like shit. Game isn't fun, you just go and shoot at the death star. also little ships fly in and shoot you which is impossible to react to.
It's a classic Atari game that includes: Spaceship, shoot laser, explosion go boom.
I don't really have much else to say about this game, it's just bad and not worth playing.
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Really slippery, just controls like shit. Game isn't fun, you just go and shoot at the death star. also little ships fly in and shoot you which is impossible to react to.
It's a classic Atari game that includes: Spaceship, shoot laser, explosion go boom.
I don't really have much else to say about this game, it's just bad and not worth playing.
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Simply Incredible
The first official Star Wars game ever made. This is the start of my journey through every Star Wars game ever.
This is an Atari video game where you fly around and shoot at AT-ATs. That is all there is to it.
Decent graphics for Atari, uhhh yeah really not much to say on this one. It's the first star wars game ever and it's just like, kinda no reason to play now. I bet in 1982 this was somewhat impressive, but now there's no reason to play it. It's got nice sounds and easy to understand graphics.
I really got nothing else to say on this one lol
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The first official Star Wars game ever made. This is the start of my journey through every Star Wars game ever.
This is an Atari video game where you fly around and shoot at AT-ATs. That is all there is to it.
Decent graphics for Atari, uhhh yeah really not much to say on this one. It's the first star wars game ever and it's just like, kinda no reason to play now. I bet in 1982 this was somewhat impressive, but now there's no reason to play it. It's got nice sounds and easy to understand graphics.
I really got nothing else to say on this one lol
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2019
I think this is the most boring version of Mario Kart ever, and I doubt it will ever be topped.
Filled with micro transaction nonsense, cause of course it is.
The bigger problem is that the game isn't fun, at all. The game is just on autopilot, like you barely even have to do anything. There is zero thought, strategy, intensity, etc. In this game play. It is a brain dead game made for monkeys.
Please for the love of god play literally any other Mario Kart ever made over this one.
Filled with micro transaction nonsense, cause of course it is.
The bigger problem is that the game isn't fun, at all. The game is just on autopilot, like you barely even have to do anything. There is zero thought, strategy, intensity, etc. In this game play. It is a brain dead game made for monkeys.
Please for the love of god play literally any other Mario Kart ever made over this one.
1987
Really just kinda annoying
This game has a lot of things going for it, it's got simple and fun gameplay, lots of unique ideas about changing your attack, cool character designs, and awesome music. But the level design is so ass.
It's like they just designed the game to make it near impossible to get through without getting hit all the time. You will load into the next part of a level and an enemy will just jump at you and it's basically impossible to avoid. There is also numerous jumps that are just fucking annoying and feel inconsistent, maybe I'm just inconsistent.
Some of the bosses are pretty annoying despite having awesome looks, and the boss fights in general feel really cool, except there are some where it's just like, how the fuck am I supposed to beat this without getting hit? I found myself a majority of boss fights saying fuck it and just trying to tank through it, and I found more success that way rather than trying to find a smart way to win. Also, It's somewhat cool that you have to switch to a certain weapon to kill some bosses, but the game doesn't tell you what to use, some bosses it makes sense (use Ice to kill fireman) but other's it's just like, how the fuck am I supposed to know this? And choosing a level was ahead of it's time and cool, but if you choose in the wrong order you're fucked. The boss fights will be a million times harder if you don't have the right weapon for it, which is really annoying. This is all so tragic because I think the bosses are really cool and have so much potential.
besides bosses, stuff doesn't really get annoying until the later levels, then it's just fucking enemy spam and ridiculously precise platforming. It's just flat out not that fun.
The yellow devil is extremely hard to beat but with some god tier timing and getting down his pattern, he's beaten no problem. The bubble robot thingy is just flat out luck. I won by just staying to the left and spamming the regular pellet. The fucking gauntlet at the end is so annoying, fireman on the gauntlet is impossible to beat without taking a bunch of damage. And finally Dr. Wily, who I think is actually much easier than the aforementioned bosses. You must use the fire ability then the cut ability for the second phase, and he's beaten with moderate difficulty.
The saving grace of this game is that it's super satisfying to beat. It got me saying fuck you Wily after killing him and beating this fucking game.
With really rough design choices and it just being a dumb game, I just don't know how to feel about this one. I've played and beaten games far harder than it, yet this one made me more frustrated because it's just full of shit design. My hatred for the level design is really unfortunate because I love a lot about this game, it's got so much charm, it's aesthetically pleasing, and it's got some legendary music, but yeah man. Just a rough game that I probably wouldn't recommend to anyone.
This game has a lot of things going for it, it's got simple and fun gameplay, lots of unique ideas about changing your attack, cool character designs, and awesome music. But the level design is so ass.
It's like they just designed the game to make it near impossible to get through without getting hit all the time. You will load into the next part of a level and an enemy will just jump at you and it's basically impossible to avoid. There is also numerous jumps that are just fucking annoying and feel inconsistent, maybe I'm just inconsistent.
Some of the bosses are pretty annoying despite having awesome looks, and the boss fights in general feel really cool, except there are some where it's just like, how the fuck am I supposed to beat this without getting hit? I found myself a majority of boss fights saying fuck it and just trying to tank through it, and I found more success that way rather than trying to find a smart way to win. Also, It's somewhat cool that you have to switch to a certain weapon to kill some bosses, but the game doesn't tell you what to use, some bosses it makes sense (use Ice to kill fireman) but other's it's just like, how the fuck am I supposed to know this? And choosing a level was ahead of it's time and cool, but if you choose in the wrong order you're fucked. The boss fights will be a million times harder if you don't have the right weapon for it, which is really annoying. This is all so tragic because I think the bosses are really cool and have so much potential.
besides bosses, stuff doesn't really get annoying until the later levels, then it's just fucking enemy spam and ridiculously precise platforming. It's just flat out not that fun.
The yellow devil is extremely hard to beat but with some god tier timing and getting down his pattern, he's beaten no problem. The bubble robot thingy is just flat out luck. I won by just staying to the left and spamming the regular pellet. The fucking gauntlet at the end is so annoying, fireman on the gauntlet is impossible to beat without taking a bunch of damage. And finally Dr. Wily, who I think is actually much easier than the aforementioned bosses. You must use the fire ability then the cut ability for the second phase, and he's beaten with moderate difficulty.
The saving grace of this game is that it's super satisfying to beat. It got me saying fuck you Wily after killing him and beating this fucking game.
With really rough design choices and it just being a dumb game, I just don't know how to feel about this one. I've played and beaten games far harder than it, yet this one made me more frustrated because it's just full of shit design. My hatred for the level design is really unfortunate because I love a lot about this game, it's got so much charm, it's aesthetically pleasing, and it's got some legendary music, but yeah man. Just a rough game that I probably wouldn't recommend to anyone.
Disney land never felt so alive
This is an actually fun and good game!
Despite being an NES game, it's actually not that hard, likely because it was mostly aimed towards kids. There are 5 levels, each unique and really a different gamemode, except the haunted mansion and the pirates level, they're both 2D platformers.
You have to get 6 keys to open the gate into the disneyland castle, one key is gained by answering a bunch of disney trivia, the other five are gained by completing the five levels. The five levels are based off of rides or areas in the park, I think my favorite was either Space Mountain or the Haunted Mansion. All levels are pretty decent, though the pirate level is kinda poorly designed and has some bad hitboxes.
Graphics are pretty good, music is decent, everything is solid! This is a nice little gem on the NES that has been completely forgotten about, I definitely recommend it.
It's short and sweet, and not that hard to beat. Play it.
This is an actually fun and good game!
Despite being an NES game, it's actually not that hard, likely because it was mostly aimed towards kids. There are 5 levels, each unique and really a different gamemode, except the haunted mansion and the pirates level, they're both 2D platformers.
You have to get 6 keys to open the gate into the disneyland castle, one key is gained by answering a bunch of disney trivia, the other five are gained by completing the five levels. The five levels are based off of rides or areas in the park, I think my favorite was either Space Mountain or the Haunted Mansion. All levels are pretty decent, though the pirate level is kinda poorly designed and has some bad hitboxes.
Graphics are pretty good, music is decent, everything is solid! This is a nice little gem on the NES that has been completely forgotten about, I definitely recommend it.
It's short and sweet, and not that hard to beat. Play it.
1987
This is a review for the NES version, made by Sunloft.
Really fucking boring game, just walk around and shoot things, it's not fun at all tbh, really slow paced and lame. Sprites are pretty boring to look at as well.
There's little to no music at all in this game.
This game just seems really lazily made, just nothing interesting here, maybe it'd be more fun in the 2 player co-op mode, which I didn't play.
Probably not worth checking out for anyone.
Really fucking boring game, just walk around and shoot things, it's not fun at all tbh, really slow paced and lame. Sprites are pretty boring to look at as well.
There's little to no music at all in this game.
This game just seems really lazily made, just nothing interesting here, maybe it'd be more fun in the 2 player co-op mode, which I didn't play.
Probably not worth checking out for anyone.