Action/Platformer
June 1986 (Nintendo)
I’m just going to come right out and say it. I’ve never been a fan of this game, and I blame it on Super Mario Bros. I played that game way before I even knew this existed. For anyone who somehow didn’t know that this came before the Super version I’ll bet it had to be a bit of a letdown.
I’m going to pretend that it’s not a Mario game. That should help a lot.
Like most of the arcade games for the NES so far there isn’t any sort of tutorial or any way that I can find to let you know what you should be doing other than letting the game sit on the title screen and watching. That was probably what really started me on the path to not liking this. I’d gone years knowing that Mario jumps on enemies and then they die. Or at least are incapacitated for a time. But not here. Instead I have to jump under them.
I’m starting to come around to the game now. Different enemies have to be beaten in different ways. Some just have to be avoided. All or nothing bonus levels. Really, if it wasn’t a Mario game I don’t think I would have ever had a problem with it.
