{"id":16663,"date":"2017-07-19T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T00:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16663"},"modified":"2017-07-06T18:01:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T18:01:44","slug":"retro-bit-generations-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/retro-bit-generations-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro-Bit Generations: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today\u2019s look at games on the Retro-Bit Generations console has a lot of favorites from Irem, including Hammerin\u2019 Harry, Kid Niki: Radical Ninja and its sequel, and my personal favorite, and what sold me on this system: Kickle Cubicle!<\/p>\n

Hammerin\u2019 Harry<\/strong><\/p>\n

This 2-D platformer from Irem stars a Japanese construction worker wielding a big hammer.\u00a0 It was in arcades, but this is the NES version.\u00a0 Did you know there was a Hammerin\u2019 Harry remake on PSP?<\/p>\n

Hero Pinball Party<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a Game Boy pinball table featuring lots of cute and weird creatures and also anime ladies.\u00a0 It\u2019s an all right game, but when it comes to Game Boy pinball, nothing beats HAL\u2019s Revenge of the Gator and Kirby\u2019s Pinball Land.<\/p>\n

Higemaru<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of my favorite classic Capcom arcade games is Pirate Ship Higemaru. It never came out in the US, but you can play it on many Capcom collections.\u00a0 It\u2019s like Pengo but with a pirate theme.\u00a0 But did you know there was also a version of it for the Famicom?\u00a0 It played liked an open world Zelda style game, but it came out way before Zelda did, so it was a bit ahead of its time.\u00a0 Unfortunately, as an early Famicom title, goals aren\u2019t clear at all and it\u2019s even harder since it\u2019s all in Japanese.\u00a0 And like many of the other NES Capcom games on here, the music cuts out everything but the bass.\u00a0 Did you know that there are also many Ghosts N Goblins cameos in this game?\u00a0 You even fight Firebrand and Lucifer!\u00a0\u00a0 Some bootlegs of this game even call it Ghosts N Goblins 2!<\/p>\n

Holy Diver<\/strong><\/p>\n

This one is a bit of a legend among Famicom fans.\u00a0 It plays like Castlevania, is super hard, and yes it does have to do with the heavy metal song from Dio.\u00a0 But oddly enough, it never came to the US.\u00a0 But you can play it on here if you want to.<\/p>\n

Hoops<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a one-on-one basketball game featuring a bunch of kids (Do you think it was the inspiration for Humongous\u2019 Backyard Sports?).\u00a0 It\u2019s also really hard, either that or I just suck at these kinds of games.<\/p>\n

Image Fight<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are all kinds of 2-D vertically scrolling shooters on the NES.\u00a0 Some are good, like Gun.Smoke, 1943, The Guardian Legend, etc.\u00a0 And some are bad, like this one.<\/p>\n

Jim Power<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a 16-bit side scrolling platformer starring a guy with super powerful weapons, but he dissolves into a screeching skeleton if you get hit once.\u00a0 Even worse, when you walk forward, the parallax scrolling in the background goes the opposite direction of what it\u2019s supposed to go, so it can make you kind of seasick.<\/p>\n

Juudou Warriors<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s some kind of karate game featuring lots of grappling and pinning, but it\u2019s all in Japanese so I don\u2019t know how to play.<\/p>\n

Kickle Cubicle<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I was a kid, one of my favorite arcade games was Pengo, and one of my favorite NES games was the block pushing Adventures of Lolo series.\u00a0 When you mix the two together, you get Kickle Cubicle.\u00a0 I only rented this game once back then, but I LOVED it!\u00a0 Not sure why I didn\u2019t buy it, but I probably didn\u2019t have enough money or something.\u00a0 But it still stuck out to me and I played it all the way through when I rented it.\u00a0 I really wish Nintendo would put this on their Virtual Console, as I would totally buy it.\u00a0 I\u2019m not as patient as I used to be, so it\u2019s hard for me to play the Lolo games again, but since Kickle Cubicle had more fast action in it, the game still remains fun to me today.\u00a0 Kickle Cubicle is the main reason why I bought this Retro-Bit Generations console.<\/p>\n

Kid Niki: Radical Ninja 1 & 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s just me, but Kid Niki: Radical Ninja seemed to be a popular game back then.\u00a0 I saw it in arcades, my friends rented the NES version all the time, and even Nintendo Power covered it and the secrets you could discover.\u00a0 But I never really liked the game, as it was one of those \u2018one hit and you die\u2019 kind of platformers, and I\u2019m not a big fan of that.\u00a0 But did you know there was a Japan only sequel?\u00a0 It\u2019s on here, too, and it\u2019s more of the same, except the graphics are a little more cartoony and you fight through themed worlds like an area where everything is tiny, a land made of food, or a haunted level with lots of Japanese Yokai monsters.\u00a0 I\u2019m kind of surprised they didn\u2019t bring the sequel to the US, but I can think of many reasons why they wouldn\u2019t (or couldn\u2019t).\u00a0 There was also a third game in the Kid Niki series in Japan, but it\u2019s not on this console.<\/p>\n

Knights of the Round<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is another Capcom arcade beat \u2018em up, this time with a medieval setting.\u00a0 Capcom\u2019s answer to Golden Axe, I guess.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t have the charm that their later Dungeons and Dragons beat \u2018em ups had, but it\u2019s still not a bad game at all.<\/p>\n

Kung Fu Master 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many of you may know the classic Kung Fu Master arcade game (called simply Kung Fu on the NES).\u00a0 But did you know that in Japan, it was called Spartan X and based on a Jackie Chan movie?\u00a0 And did you know there was actually a sequel to this game in Japan?\u00a0 It featured a story with cutscenes, better graphics, catchier music, but still retained the gameplay of the original.\u00a0 I still stink at it, but it\u2019s not really a bad game at all.<\/p>\n

Lan Master<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this game you have to rotate pieces with lines to connect computers together.\u00a0 I\u2019m a big fan of Pipe Dream styled puzzle games, so I enjoyed this one, even if the graphics are nothing to write home about.<\/p>\n

Lawn Mower<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a top down 2-D 8-bit game where you mow a lawn.\u00a0 But you are using the worst lawn mower in the world because it runs out of fuel after a few seconds.\u00a0 Fuel cans will randomly appear to fill up your tank, but they usually always appear on the opposite side of where you\u2019re at, and you never have enough time to make it before you run out!<\/p>\n

Legend<\/strong><\/p>\n

The console menu calls it Legend E, but the actual title in the game calls it Legend, so I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 It\u2019s a 2-D side scrolling beat \u2018em up with a medieval theme, but it\u2019s made by Piko Interactive so it\u2019s fairly new, not a classic arcade or console game.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bit amateurish (your main character\u2019s walking animation is so goofy), but other than that, it\u2019s not really THAT bad of a game.<\/p>\n

Major Title Golf<\/strong><\/p>\n

And last for today is this 16-bit golf game from Irem.\u00a0 What\u2019s weird is that I enjoyed playing NES Golf with my dad, and I liked GameCube Mario Golf and golf mini games on Wii Sports and Super Monkey Ball.\u00a0 But I never got into golf games on the SNES.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all for now!\u00a0 Check back tomorrow for Part 4!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s look at games on the Retro-Bit Generations console has a lot of favorites from Irem, including Hammerin\u2019 Harry, Kid Niki: Radical Ninja and its sequel, and my personal favorite, and what sold me on this system: Kickle Cubicle! Hammerin\u2019 Harry This 2-D platformer from Irem stars a Japanese construction worker wielding a big hammer.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16663"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16666,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions\/16666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}