Moot_Geeza wrote:Put 40 minutes into the SNES Jurassic Park yesterday. It is (or perhaps more specifically, was) a very good game as far as I can tell, but would require too much patience and map learning for me to realistically get through it without concerted effort. I'm in two minds about the FPS sections - technically, they're marvellous, especially to the eyes of a 16-bit gamer who had the dull sparseness of Corporation on his side of the fence (SNES JP looks a damn sight better than later MD efforts like Zero Tolerance too), but they just don't play that well. The actual shooting is extremely basic, and although they pushed the boundaries of what was possible on the machine to an extent, most 16-bit FPS sections don't hold up these days, past the initial 'wow, impressive' reaction that I'm lucky enough to still have. I'm probably being harsh here, but Ocean's programmers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should, from a gameplay perspective anyways. So SNES Jurassic Park gets this, for the well above average top-down gameplay being slightly spoiled by the cumbersome interior sections: ...and that concludes the 'ploughing my own furrow' week. I've had my fun, and that's all that matters .
Liveinadive wrote:I feel sad that this weeks games are too far before my time, I just can't appreciate them like you guys do.
I fear for the day when the same feelings are felt for 16bit by people my age now.
Moot_Geeza wrote:Right, all ROMs loaded onto my Caanoo. Pitfall II and Keystone Kapers don't seem to be available at atari age, but they're on coolrom.com, which has a direct link if you watch a 15 second video (hmm, Noah looks good, despite Winstone's beards).
I can't see manual scans for these on atariage either, so I think we'll just go for game type 1 if they have variations, apart from Galaxian, which we'll go for type 4 maybe? Also, Defender II seems to work OK for me with just the one joystick, but I've never played it before so I may be missing something important.
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