2nd May 2012, 4:39 PM
SNES
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Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues - $7, cart only. While it's titled as a sequel, this game's actually entirely different from the first SNES Jurassic Park game -- instead of being a topdown action/adventure game with some FPS parts, like that one was, this game's a sidescroller. It's a pretty good sidescroller, though -- this game has very nice graphics, good music, some voice acting (the intro is voiced, impressively!), a decent variety of dinosaurs to fight, and more. There are six different guns you can switch between, and you have a dodge move too to dodge projectiles. You can play the six levels (or the first six levels?) in any order, too. However, there's no saving, which is really stupid -- the game has infinite continues, no saving in games with infinite continues is utterly bizarre. Common back then, but indefensibly annoying. Apart from that though, this is pretty good.
Sega Master System
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Zillion - $2, cart only. This game is one of teh SMS's few sidescrolling platform/adventure games. In the game, you explore around overworlds and mazes of underground corridors. The graphics and underground layouts remind me a little bit of Impossible Mission, and sort of like that game, this game has puzzle elements and a pretty high difficulty level. The game has keycards, and terminals where you can use them, but don't mess up and use one wrong -- they're single-use, and one mistake and you're done. Ouch. I'll either need a LOT of patience or a walkthrough for this one, I think, but it does seem good. At least you do get three continues; it's not much, but many other '80s SMS games don't allow continuing at all...
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Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues - $7, cart only. While it's titled as a sequel, this game's actually entirely different from the first SNES Jurassic Park game -- instead of being a topdown action/adventure game with some FPS parts, like that one was, this game's a sidescroller. It's a pretty good sidescroller, though -- this game has very nice graphics, good music, some voice acting (the intro is voiced, impressively!), a decent variety of dinosaurs to fight, and more. There are six different guns you can switch between, and you have a dodge move too to dodge projectiles. You can play the six levels (or the first six levels?) in any order, too. However, there's no saving, which is really stupid -- the game has infinite continues, no saving in games with infinite continues is utterly bizarre. Common back then, but indefensibly annoying. Apart from that though, this is pretty good.
Sega Master System
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Zillion - $2, cart only. This game is one of teh SMS's few sidescrolling platform/adventure games. In the game, you explore around overworlds and mazes of underground corridors. The graphics and underground layouts remind me a little bit of Impossible Mission, and sort of like that game, this game has puzzle elements and a pretty high difficulty level. The game has keycards, and terminals where you can use them, but don't mess up and use one wrong -- they're single-use, and one mistake and you're done. Ouch. I'll either need a LOT of patience or a walkthrough for this one, I think, but it does seem good. At least you do get three continues; it's not much, but many other '80s SMS games don't allow continuing at all...