Notes: Here’s a good one. It’s a shame it wasn’t released for NTSC audiences. It plays like an action game where you can choose from four different characters. You start out with only one but eventually find three different friends. Each character has unique powers and abilities. There is a huge map to go through as well as a password feature that you’ll use a lot once you find the crystal. Definitely one to own. Doesn’t really present any problems when you play it on an NTSC system. My favorite game.
Notes: The Ultima games have always been considered the true precursors to all great role-playing titles. Unfortunately, most of them were very poorly designed and simply not very good at all. This one features some very bad programming, like the fact that eventually you can’t raise levels unless you pay for it. What? Or how about the fact that you get nearly the same amount of experience and the same amount of gold from earlier enemies that you do from much harder enemies later on. What? Innovative in some respects, but it’s not enough to pull it from the mire. There was a mail-away guide for this game that is not easy to locate. I suggest trying to find it, otherwise forget beating this one.
Notes: Here we go, an example of how a role-playing game should be done. If you’re a fan of “Final Fantasy,” you should definitely check this one out. Your character is generated based on moral decisions you make at the start of the game, and then you go through different stories based on who you are. Lots of innovative and pretty good throughout. The complete version comes with a map.
Notes: Here we go, back down into the mire but not as far as “Ultima: Exodus.” I appreciate some of the attempts at depth in this game, but the production is so pathetic most of the time that it really doesn’t matter. As you can assume, this one takes the story of the other two even further. The game is pretty damn detailed, but the graphics, sound and so forth are so piss poor that it makes it rough to actually complete it.
Notes: Here we are with yet another flight simulation game. Again, the standard was already set, so let it go. This really isn’t that bad, and has some features you won’t find in “Top Gun” or its sequel, but so what?
Notes: Yet another blasted basketball game. A little too similar to the suck present in the Sega Master System game Great Basketball for my tastes. Check it out, there’s actually an option where you can watch the computer play. Let me go try that out right now.
Notes: This is one of my favorite games from this company. Lots of action, an interesting plot, great graphics, huge, weird bosses, and tons of variety. Basically you’re called upon to save a kidnapped girl. The stages alternate from a racing stage to an action stage to a climbing stage, and so forth.
