quote:Originally posted by Lou Gojira: Have you heard anything about a Ninja Gaiden appearing on my all-time favorite system?
Yeah, I knew that there had been mention of a Ninja Gaiden prototype floating around the Neo Geo community for some time, though I've never personally seen the cartidge nor the rom for it. Looks like Rockwell's got the scoop on this one. My own personal favorite Neo Geo prototype has always been Ghostlop, which is basically a Puzzle Bobble/Bust-A-Move type of game with enjoyable gameplay and adorable sprites.
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P.S. - Hey Rockwell, if you've got any screen captures of that Ninja Gaiden game on the Neo Geo, we'd love to see 'em!
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Really?! Kewl! Maybe we can hook up for some gaming Bro! I'll grab my roms of Magician Lord 2 and Mark of the Wolves 2, plus my console version of the Hyper 64 along with the home cart of Buriki One and we'll be in video gaming bliss!
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quote: My own personal favorite Neo Geo prototype has always been Ghostlop, which is basically a Puzzle Bobble/Bust-A-Move type of game with enjoyable gameplay and adorable sprites.
Yeah, Ghostlop looked pretty sweet, what I got to see of the screen shots of it. Shame that game never came to fruition either. I wish Data East could've made that, and at least one more Magical Drop game before they closed shop.
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quote: My own personal favorite Neo Geo prototype has always been Ghostlop, which is basically a Puzzle Bobble/Bust-A-Move type of game with enjoyable gameplay and adorable sprites.
Yeah, Ghostlop looked pretty sweet, what I got to see of the screen shots of it. Shame that game never came to fruition either. I wish Data East could've made that, and at least one more Magical Drop game before they closed shop.
Actually it was released in ROM form. Some people got together, bought the cart and had it dumped.
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Alright, as a kid I hated the Atari before it was called Atari 2600. My best friend had it and a pile of cartridges along with it. A few years later I thought the most powerful graphics machine was unleashed on the public when the first Intellivision came out. (LOL) A few years later we actually bought a Colecovision as well. Wasted many hours of my youth plugged into a TV set burning away my retinas with mind numbing video games! Nothing nearly as important as spending many hours of my adulthood pulling it at Wu's.
quote:Originally posted by ledaemon: Alright, as a kid I hated the Atari before it was called Atari 2600.
I doubt too many young gamers today remember that it was originally called the Atari VCS (Video Computer System) before it later on became affectionately known amongst gamers as the 2600. That's a good little bit of trivia right there! I was always pretty anti-Intellivision back then because in those days your loyalties either fell into one camp or the other. As an Atari kid since day 1 I always thought the 2600 was the cat's meow until Colecovision came along and its home translations of games like Donkey Kong & Burgertime graphically blew Atari's ass right out of the water. Today I love all of those systems, Intellivision included.
"I guess I've matured", he offered with confidence as he discussed his affinity for 8-bit children's video games with other grown men.
quote:P.S. - Hey Rockwell, if you've got any screen captures of that Ninja Gaiden game on the Neo Geo, we'd love to see 'em!
That's an old Neo-Geo joke. Sorry, no news (info, screens) on Ninja Gaiden as all it did was make it to a list of games coming out for the Neo... Doesn't mean they did anything with it.
I'll take that lie about Ghostlop back, apparently before it was dumped the people had some carts made. I don't know how many were created though.
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quote:Originally posted by Rockwell: I'll take that lie about Ghostlop back, apparently before it was dumped the people had some carts made. I don't know how many were created though.
Too bad it wasn't more successful. It's easily one of my favorites, and Under The Bed has to be one of the coolest opponents I've played against in a video game!
quote: I'll take that lie about Ghostlop back, apparently before it was dumped the people had some carts made. I don't know how many were created though.
I can imagine the price of said carts (if they ever came up for any kind of sale) being waaaaayyyyy out of my personal price range.
quote: Under The Bed has to be one of the coolest opponents I've played against in a video game!
Screenshot please! Is he cooler than Tower in Magical Drop III? Tower's got my vote of being the coolest opponent type of character.
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quote:Originally posted by Lou Gojira: Screenshot please! Is he cooler than Tower in Magical Drop III?
LOL, not exactly. I got jazzed up so I may have made him sound far more grandiose than he actually is. hehe Visually there's nothing amazing about Under The Bed, but I just absolutely loved the concept of him. We've all heard about small children complaining of monsters under the bed, and that would appear to be exactly what Under The Bed is. They took an old ambiguous idea and animated it in a very cute way. I'll grab a couple of screenies today.
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Here you go Lou, some screenies of Under The Bed from Ghostlop as promised. In the succession of the bottom three pics you can get a sense of the bouncy quality in the animation of the sprite as the mattress ripples in the middle to spring the ball up into action:
Looks like that game relies quite a bit on digitized backgrounds, at least quite a bit when comparing to other Neo Geo games.
Here's a little trivia for you Brother CJ; which Neo Geo game actually used some FMV (with live actors) in a video game intro? Cue in Final Jeopardy music, and...go!
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Here's a little trivia for you Brother CJ; which Neo Geo game actually used some FMV (with live actors) in a video game intro? Cue in Final Jeopardy music, and...go!
quote:Originally posted by Lou Gojira: Here's a little trivia for you Brother CJ; which Neo Geo game actually used some FMV (with live actors) in a video game intro? Cue in Final Jeopardy music, and...go!
Hmm, my guess for that one has to be Neo Geo's version of Double Dragon. It's grainy as hell but it's FMV alright. hehe
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