22 reviews by toastlad..
Rampage
2002-01-09
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toastlad
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A simplistic premise with repetitive gameplay, but heaps of depth. And if I remember correctly when things got hectic on screen it used to flicker like nobodys business. The concept deserves to be remade in 3D on 128 bit systems, dontcha think?
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Rainbow Islands
2002-01-09
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toastlad
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You are all full of shit.
This game was a ripper and the SMS conversion was almost perfect. Beautiful fluid play with amazing eye candy graphics. Race over rainbows as you glide upwards toward heaven. Uhhhhh.
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Double Dragon
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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I clocked the arcade game many times over when it came out, so I am more than familiar with this game.Ive played it on a thousand different platforms, and most of the conversions were fucking awful. Not this one. The graphics were slight, but the gameplay was all there. Hell of a game.
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Sonic the Hedgehog
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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Well, it\'s better than knuckles chaotix (32X)...
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R-Type
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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An impressive conversion but its hard to imagine anyone now releasing a game with as much flicker as R-Type SMS. Unbelievable! When things got busy on screen the slow down was vicious.
Insane!
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Quartet
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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The high school I used to go was situated next to a University who had arcade games set up at the back of one of their eateries. I used to cut class with my friends to play Quartet. What a fucking stunner!
Now days you get retarded dance games, generic racers and god knows what other rubbish in arcades.
The SMS couldn\'t compete with the original, but was pretty good nonetheless.
Memories, like the corners of my mind, misty water colored memories... of the way we were... sniff. Oh, go away.
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Captain Silver
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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Weird lumpy pirate game. I remember more about playing this game than the game itself. Playing it at a friends house, a guy who used to have this little chihuahua called LEON.
Imagine if they made games like this for PS2. NOW THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING.
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Alex Kidd in Miracle World
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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Alex Kidd is GOD! We had to put up with dodgy Sonic games on the Saturn, but no AK games after the MegaDrive! Pah!
For me, games like Alex Kidd ( & rainbow islands) are the video game equivalent of taking LSD. Intensely bright primary colors that burn themselves on your retina (just like Tetris gameboy made you see blocks everywhere...).
Now we have to put up with dark 3d shooters that all look the same,and games like this are extinct (although I haven\'t played Super Monkey Ball yet...)
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Zillion
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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Getting to the end of this game and trying to get out of the complex before it blows up is one of the most nerve-wracking experiences of my life.
Take out your dust-gathered sega and play it again.
Go on, you know you want to....
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Ys: The Vanished Omens
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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I played this game for hours, drew countless maps, but I never finished it. I\'m such a pussy. Great game.
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World Grand Prix
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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Fucking hell, I haven\'t played this game for more than a decade, not even on an emulator. I used to play it non-stop. Lots of fun. (By the way it\'s the January 9 2002 here in AUSTRALIA ).
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After Burner
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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I remember playing this at the arcade. It had this big curvy donkey dick joy stick and the response time was slow. Every time you moved the stick it would take a second for the plane to move. Very frustrating. Which made the SMS version a relief.
Yeah, it looks boring when you play it a few minutes, but the deeper you get into it, the harder it is to put down. Nice one Sega.
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TransBot
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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Everyone who bought a sega in the late eighties got this title bundled with it, so whether you like or hate it, it is more than likely the first sega game we ever played and therefore very special. Of course, it is no DROPZONE, but that is besides the point. It goes on and on and on and on....
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Ultima IV
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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It is very difficult to fuck up a conversion of a game as great as ULTIMA IV, and this is no exception. More colorful and brighter than the NES version, but I could do without all that moralistic Lord British bullshit.Truth and Valor? NO WOCKERS MATE!
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Trivial Pursuit
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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I also owned the Commodore 64 version of this game which I prefered because it was an AUSTRALIAN edition with AUSTRALIAN questions as compared to the American version with questions about American presidents and other shit I could hardly care about.
The one thing I absolutely loved about this game was the score card thingy which showed you a percentage rate on how well you were doing in each respective category. Genius!!! You could find out whether you were smart with science or thick as shit about history. Ha! Fab Party Game!
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Rastan
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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I was ( and still am ) obsessed about this game as a kid. As a 11 / 12 year old I used to go to this disreputable little dive masquearading as a cafe that had battered arcade machines in the back, to play games. Sometimes I would run out of money and just stand there staring at them.
Anyhoo, there used to be a Rastan Saga machine there, and one time I was killed off quite quickly and out of frusttration I bashed the continue button.
To my surprise I noticed this triggered the credit mechanism or something so I kept on doing this and seemingly hours later, eventually finished the game. One of the most memorable gaming experiences of my life.
So you can imagine it was with some trepidation that I appraoched this conversion when it was released.
And it wasn\'t half bad. Although , it was never quite the same without that resonantt sword CLANG from the arcade version.
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Fantasy Zone
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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FUCKING GENIUS! Intricate, surrealist shooter. Immensely challenging. The first game I ever bought for the SMS. I used to have dreams about this game!
Er...
And by the way, at the time I invented some words to sing along to the first level music ( remember, this was \'87, I was only 11 )
MEET MY FRIEND
HE KNOWS EVERY LITTLE TRICK
MEET MY FRIEND
MYYYYY DICK!
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Super Tennis
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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Virtua Tennis 1986?
On first play this game was crap but the more you played it the more you got out of it. And those cards were so funky!! I can remember thinking, how do they fit these games on a card??
And for whoever it may concern, playing console games on emulators, is not like playing the real thing.. The FEEEEL isn\'t there, and this game had plenty of spunk. No it wasn\'t great, far from it, but it wasnt as bad as people make it out to be...
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Thunder Blade
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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I used to play this religiously at the arcades when it came out. The arcade machine was fitted out like a real helicopter, only without the hood, and it would move side to side. Very Nice. The graphics also had that thirst-for-destruction feel to them.
Alas, the SMS version did not. This was quite dull and lifeless actually.
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Wonder Boy
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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The first SMS game that impressed me as being practically arcade perfect. Half naked kid runs around throwing axes, skateboarding, the lot. Fun and a challenge. Nuff Said.
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Impossible Mission
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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Anyone who hates this game is either a fucking moron, played an emulated version and didn\'t think twice about it, or doesn\'t know how to play it.
A brilliant conversion of a classic which originally appeared on the greatest gaming machine of all time, or course I\'m talking about the Commodore. ( Brothers and sister, I\'ve been playing video games for 20 years, there is none greater ). This game is all class. It\'s just too damn perfect for it\'s own good. As Ian \'Molly\' Meldrum would say, do yourself a favor. Download a C64 emulator and play Impossible Mission 2 as well. You wont regret it. I\'m outta here...
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World Class Leader Board
2002-01-08
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toastlad
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What I love about this game, as in its original incarntion on the Commodore 64 ( worlds greatest gaming system ) is that it is simple and direct but also a challenge. Unlike many modern golfing games which are either too complicated, or too obsessed with realism for their good. But why so few reviews? I know golf in real life is fucking awful, but....
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