We've spent the week regaling releases of yore, celebrating the intricacies and conventions that made them so memorable, but if there's one trait about some of these retro titles that we don't remember fondly, it's trudging through waves of enemies and uninteresting levels only to find our efforts rewarded with little more than a shot of the protagonist staring off into the sunset.These twilight scenes weren't anomalous, phenomena exclusive to games of a certain genre or limited to a few occurrences. With just a cursory check, Games Radar was able to dig up no less than 18 NES titles that featured these over-the-horizon endings. Were developers just too lazy to try for anything more? Or was it something more sinister -- a secret cabal of Apollo acolytes looking to resurrect their solar deity with these 8-bit tributes? Think about that the next time you wonder why the sun seems to have somehow increased in size since you last saw it ...
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6-14-2007 @ 1:33PM
hvnlysoldr said...
So that's what's causing global warming. See video games are bad!
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6-14-2007 @ 3:43PM
James said...
Still not as bad as trudging the whole way through Super Ghosts 'n' Goblins (Ghouls and Ghosts?) only to find out you have to do *the whole thing* over again. Man, I about threw my controller at the screen. I regained control of my emotions and swept right through a second time, though. I look back at how effin' hard that game was and marvel that I actually beat it.
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6-14-2007 @ 4:36PM
TE-Ryan said...
It's not 8-bit, but the endings for the Dyna Blade and Revenge of Meta-Knight games in Kirby SuperStar had some pretty sweet sunset scenes. Nintendo should know they're free to put it on VC anytime now...
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6-14-2007 @ 9:54PM
Ken said...
My hat's off to you James.
I could never beat that damn game!
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6-15-2007 @ 11:15AM
bc said...
OMG Dynowarz! One of those games that you like it because 1. you're a kid and you can play anything a lot and 2. it was in Nintendo Power.
...but that feature failed to have Contra's "looking over the island" ending?
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6-15-2007 @ 2:43PM
Jeremy said...
how bout rygar?
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