Alien Storm
I just watched the film Aliens, and part way through remembered a game I had and loved on the Mega Drive. Those were the days where you had about 5 games total ever, and just shared with friends. One/two of your games would be Sonic, one/two was a disney license, and then if you were lucky you got some other completely random games too.
One of my random games was "Alien Storm". I have never heard anyone ever talk about it apart from me and friends that played it with me. I am sure that were I to go back and play it now I would think it terrible, but I do not care, in my sentimental aging mind it is fantastic.
It was a scrolling beat 'em up, in a similar veign to Streets of Rage, staring 'The Alien Busters' Karen, Garth and Scooter, who have to take on hordes of aliens. But these are no ordinary aliens. They can shapeshift into everyday objects, like benches and bins.
Karen Jumps on top of an alien, while Scooter (my character of choice) stands idly by
The reason I love this game so much, is that it was so much fun back in the day. It had great coop, 3 types of levels (Normal Beat 'em up, running battle and Shooting Gallery) and it was so stupid it was fantastic. Scooters Special move was to explode, leaving just his head, then a new body would run on from the side of the screen, and reattach the head!
Garth looking macho as fuck
I just randomly thought of this game, and wanted to see if anyone else played it, or has similar memories of games they used to love, but probably wouldn't like at all now. Every now and again I get cynical about how with the internet and other ways that gaming culture has become more accessible and connected, there is much less opoertunity to play a game that you know nothing about before hand, and only have because your parents liked the picture, and you play and love it because it's one of the very few games you have.
note - sorry for the bad image links, imageshack appears to be down.
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haha, actually no, the characters just seem to be facing the left in both screenshots.
Wait.
Why would it be weird to move left to right?
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Normal beat'em ups move from left to right, like reading a book. Those shots look like they move from right to left (but they don't).
I remember one of my mom's friends played Contra 3 with me once and started going to the left and I was like "you gotta go the other way". She wouldn't listen though and kept running in place at the end of the screen. Then she got mad when she got killed by enemies that "came out of nowhere" from the left. Good times.
Man I love this game, and it's arcade counterpart. The ending is weird.
At the time, it was so awesome. Pretty tough with eeevil bosses if I remember correctly, and a bloody hard Operation Wolf-style shooting section in a supermarket too, I think.
If you haven't tried the arcade version Lewie, track it down, you'll absolutely love it.
I did love the Mega Drive's ending where they do their little own dance number during the credits!
The quick running levels and the shooter game levels were pretty cool for it's time.
The remake of that on the PSP/Wii was disappointing. Don't ask me how they botched shooting big aliens with bigger guns...
I was a borrower of this game. It was much awesome, but suffered from the Golden Axe issue of really wishy-washy collisions; Streets of Rage is great because you actually feel the connection when you smack someone.
My Disney game was World of Illusion. And it was awesome. (Castle of Illusion on Master System holds my heart though... first game I ever completed and realised that games didn't actually go on forever).
Well, a good chunk of people around here liked it. I was looking forward to it, personally.. but it appears that the game is... well, it doesn't seem to be what I was looking forward to.
Plus, they hardly did shit to make the Wii version much better than the PSP version. The Wii version could have been really, really good, if they had bothered.
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