Be Excellent To Each Other

Ages ago, someone was making a remake of GTA3 on a NES cart.

Since then, they decided to change the name, change the game a bit (a lot) and make in more into a general tribute to NES gaming via a GTA esque world. It looks like this:



Coming to wiiware and Xbox via either XBLA or XBLIG (not sure yet).

That looks fantastic!

I agree with Zio!

I like exclamation marks!

Looks great although I've never had any love for NES style graphics and sound.

Wow, imagine if that'd actually came out in the 8-bit era?

Oooh! That looks ace!

As is tradition with 8bit games, I shall be terrible at it.

I imagine the flickering would've been unbearable.

Word on both counts. I love the 8 bit console aesthetic, and that whole trailer just looked fantastic.

Yeah, but the developers have the advantage of modern dev tools and virtually unlimited CPU power and memory. If you read the making of Zub article on the Pickfords website you soon realise the limitations people worked under in those days. Not only memory and CPU time but the problems associated with tight deadlines and management that considered that games were only for kids. No time was spent playtesting and further developing a game. Games were developed as quickly as possible and then shoved out the door.

One of the reasons Zub is abit special is because the Pickfords worked evenings and weekends on it. But even they admit the problems with it given the fact they had no time.

Even the Oliver Twins suffered from this. Take their first Codemasters game, Super Robin Hood. It's really polished. It was developed just for the CPC and in their own time. But soon after they also started developing for the Speccy (even though they used a CPC to code) and to save time all the CPC games ended up looking like Speccy ports. All the polish and gloss was lost. They then ended up just churning out "Simulator" titles.

Games in the 80's were rarely developed to the machines full capabilities or made as good as they could be. You have the 5% of games like Head Over Heels, Zub and Chase HQ that were really standout titles, and the rest was pretty much dross coded as quickly as possible.

Also some of the themes in GTA are "abit naughty" which goes back to the management thinking games were for kids. Remember the fuss over Rockstar Ate My Hamster and Werewolves of London? Werewolves is abit GTA like in that you can roam freely and kill people. It was easier just to play safe than risk being banned from WH Smiths.

This is kind of out, suddenly.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/20463 ... 1_5_9__205

Yeah, PSN have it today too. XBLA and WiiWare "coming soon"

Christ almighty, I've got other games I need to be finishing. Me wanty.

Unless it's shit. Is it shit? It shit ain't it?

Heh. I forgot this was two years old. I was wowed again by the trailer.

You can set it to look like a CGA, EGA, Atari 800, C64, BBC etc if you like.

I'm not sure he's reading.

This is.. erm.. not very good. Is it?

So far it's a game of 'spot the reference'. Look, it's Mega Man 2's title screen, and then he shot a duck and a dog popped out from behind the air conditioner and laughed!

I suppose it's a question of which ones appeal to you. I love being able to put the game into either mode of CGA, play with a VHF/UHF TV border, or when, during the opening mission it wisely gave up on the Metal Gear parody... it turned into a section of Guerrilla War!

It certainly tries very very hard, and the "8-bit" concession to cover based shooting is amusing.

So it IS good then? Or not?

Come on, people who've played it, reach a consensus.

"Wowoowowoohohohohohoowowowowowoooo! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! What's all that about?!!? Wowoowowoohohohohohoowowowowowoooo! A Team! Wowoowowoohohohohohoowowowowowoooo! Bill & Ted! Remember them?!!? Wowoowowoohohohohohoowowowowowoooo! Back to the Future! What's all that about?!!? Wowoowowoohohohohohoowowowowowoooo! "
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600 pts this week and I picked it up. 2 hours in and I've just had my first laugh.

600 points still seems a bit much for something which doesn't sound too good.

It's not the best thing in the world and certainly doesn't live up to the years of hype and hope. As subtle as a brick to the face, too.

Plus if you leave the game music on you'll rapidly go batshit bonkers with drill and sex.

Crazyape was it not ?

(Bambi II - which I cant believe when I just googled it they actually made a Bambi II : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi_II)

Christ there's some fucking horrible hateful missions in this bag of shit.

Yeah, it's not very good, is it? Also, the retro references are so rapidfire you barely have time to take them on board. It's a very flawed execution of a concept that might've had merits if put together properly. And play tested - feels like all those old computer games that were obviously not tested out objectively before publishing.

I maxed it, but it was very painful. It highlights the problem with... gnngh... "indie"... *retch* games, as there was nobody around to tell him "this isn't fun". There's a mindblowingly bad Explosion Man copy level that was just agony to get through. Plus an awful stealth bit that I had to re-do about 10 times.