A Return to Grace!

Ok, so, I'm done with the book. Yay! And without further delays, more reviews!

First game:

Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair

Ahh, Wonder Boy, you magnificently confusing title. With spin-offs and multiple crazy named sequels, like Wonder Boy VI: Monster World 4, and your entire Adventure Island break offs, its amazing you came from such humble roots of mediocrity.

Really, this game is a horribly boring forced side scroller, by which I mean the screen constantly shifts to the right, propelling you always forward, with somewhat passable controls, and a mechanism where the main character must constantly gorge himself on the food that flies past him, or else he dies.
But, it is true, as you play this game, you can easily tell it was made to suck down quarters, with it being just passable enough that it could be the best game in the arcade, or at least, the one you get stuck on while your older sibling takes over the better, more enjoyable cabinet.

The Tappers say 4.7.
Mookie say 5.0.
Deleted.
21, out of now 960 games, complete.

Rolling Thunder 2

Ahh, the Genesis. As I have noted before, I did, and still do, have a Genesis. But, as I may or may not have said, I did not have or get as many game for it as I did my more loved SNES. But that doesn't mean the Genesis did not hold secret games of awesomeness that I overlooked as a small child. Could this possibly be one of those games?

Bah, I didn't even bother to get a good gameplay pic for this game. And it really looked like it had potential!

Rolling Thunder 2 is basically just a very lukewarm sidescrolling shooter. The character model is very stiff, you can only shoot while standing still, you can't jump in any direction but stright up, and the enemies ranger from idiotic to cheap. Nothing really else to say about this, but, if you like sidescroller shooters like Gunstar Superheroes, go ahead and give it a try if you want to play a cruddier version of it.

Tappers say 7, Mookie says 6.
Deletion indeed.
22 out of 960 complete.

Hang the Sense of It

Ok, so I have decided to shelve the Boss Fight idea, at least for now. I solemnly vow that I will indeed bring it back spontaneously here in the near future, but for right now it is seriously harming my progress. So! Back to my tried and true method of... THE WHEEL!

Also, I want to thank people for the Birthday wishes. I had a good one, if I do say so myself!

But, I digress. SPIN!

HA! I have HOURS logged under this particular game's belt. I seriously played it to death when I first got it for my Sega Genesis. I know some people say it really isn't that good... and it isn't. But I love it anyway.

Sonic Spinball

Yes indeed. Not much else to say but that really! Yet, I must give the benefit of the doubt, as I am sure many many people have not played this game. So, where to begin. I guess I should just play it and write what comes to my mind! Yes! Why of course! That's blogging anyway!


Well, I must say, I love this game still. I have a vivid memory of actually sitting and playing this game for hours and hours straight, trying to beat it. I'm happily surprised to see that all that fun I remember having still holds up today.
Spinball is actually a somewhat intimidating game, and I can remember as a youngin' not understanding it one bit. I truly had to feel my way around in the dark to figure out exactly what I was supposed to do.

For the uninitiated, there are three, I think four, "tables" all with three Chaos Emeralds to collect, and a boss to fight. You must meet certain parameters to reach each of the three Emeralds, which then allow you to fight the boss and progress. It was all as needlessly complicated and fun as any real pinball machine, just this one has Sonic in it, the tables are dangerous and have numerous wings to them, and you have a tiny bit of control of Sonic as he is moving.

Still, quite marvelous fun, if I do say so myself.

Gametap says 7.7 (which surprised me further) and I give it an 8!
And, even though I own this game twice, once for the Genesis and once for the Sonic Mega Collection + on PS2, I think I will go ahead and keep it.
20 out of 958 games complete.

Short post, I know, but stuff to do today! I shall return shortly.