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General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition
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Maybe... Just maybe with these ancient secret strategies I can finally lay this game to rest
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Jack burton wrote: »A misunderstood classic
I wouldn't call it a classic, especially compared to the other games Konami put out at the time but it's still a worthwhile B-tier NES game. It was almost as ubiquitous as SMB on the NES.
I read recently that it annoyed everyone in Konami that they were pumping out high quality games yet Konami upper management wanted more TMNT as it sold insanely well.
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Jack burton wrote: »A misunderstood classic
Yeah I've a lot of time for it myself but it's definitely a great example of reams of nostalgia clouding my judgement.
Was one of the first games my cousin got with his NES so we played the absolute hell out of it. All of my mates seemed to have it too.0 -
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I always remember thinking when I was younger how much of a cardinal sin they committed by putting four Turtles on the cover with red bandanas.
Didn't find out until years later that that's how they were in the very beginning in the original comic. I guess the cover artist for the box art was referencing the comics and that's how that came about! You'd think someone in the marketing department would have spotted it and done a bit of editing.
I imagine the game was in production and the marketing material was finalised before the animated shows release so all they had to go on was the comic but which apparently is much darker.
Happens a lot with games. The Konami X-Men game was based on a cartoon that never aired so the costume designs seems bit off and Dazzler makes more sense.
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I always remember thinking when I was younger how much of a cardinal sin they committed by putting four Turtles on the cover with red bandanas.
Didn't find out until years later that that's how they were in the very beginning in the original comic. I guess the cover artist for the box art was referencing the comics and that's how that came about! You'd think someone in the marketing department would have spotted it and done a bit of editing.
The NES cover art is just a comic cover repurposed
Issue 4 of the original series I'm pretty sure
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Retr0gamer wrote: »I imagine the game was in production and the marketing material was finalised before the animated shows release so all they had to go on was the comic but which apparently is much darker.
Happens a lot with games. The Konami X-Men game was based on a cartoon that never aired so the costume designs seems bit off and Dazzler makes more sense.
There was actually a pilot made called Pryde of the X-Men which has the same costume designs, worth checking out
Wasn't Capcom's Alien Versus Predator meant to be a movie tie in too? Would have loved a cartoon of that with the same visual look!Jack burton wrote: »The NES cover art is just a comic cover repurposed
Issue 4 of the original series I'm pretty sure
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Capcom and know konami had a load of licensing deals.
Alien versus predator was commissioned to Capcom as the script was going into movie production. Film never materialised. But they did release a range of other stuff like toys as a part of an advertising campaign.
And aliens by konami may have had more going on in the background that didn't materialise either. Check out the aliens artwork for the arcade cabinet and the toys
Capcom Cadillacs and dinosaurs was tied in with comics and a cartoon series and toys
Good catch on the Konami X-Men too. Lots of seriously useful information
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Capcom and know konami had a load of licensing deals.
Alien versus predator was commissioned to Capcom as the script was going into movie production. Film never materialised. But they did release a range of other stuff like toys as a part of an advertising campaign.
And aliens by konami may have had more going on in the background that didn't materialise either. Check out the aliens artwork for the arcade cabinet and the toys
Capcom Cadillacs and dinosaurs was tied in with comics and a cartoon series and toys
Good catch on the Konami X-Men too. Lots of seriously useful information
Pretty sure those AvP and Aliens figures are recent releases by NECA, who were founded in 1996 after both those games were released.
They've done a lot of NES/Arcade recolours for figures they have the licences for.0 -
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Yeah those Capcom AVP toys are quite new, was really tempted to pick them up myself actually until I remembered I've far too much crap as is
Nice spot on the Aliens art, yeah I used to have all the Kenner toys tied in with that when I was a kid, was absolutely mental for anything Aliens. Although at the time I was confused as to what some of the alien designs were about as they were nothing to do with the film (Bull Alien etc?) A cartoon would have been amazing.
Used to absolutely love Cadillacs and Dinosaurs when it was on, always got up on a Saturday morning to watch it. In fact I thought it was a standalone, didn't play the arcade game till I discovered MAME around the very early 2000s!0 -
Jack burton wrote: »I'm a big wrong too. The Aliens cartoon was to be called Operation Aliens
The Aliens arcade game doesn't seem to be related to it
https://alienanthology.fandom.com/wiki/Operation:_Aliens
First I've heard of this! there was a pilot - but it's been lost!! :eek:
Some surviving stills
Such a shame nothing came of that.0 -
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Are any of the Aliens or AVP games on arcade or Nintendo consoles worth checking out? Never played them.
The Konami aliens arcade game might be my favourite arcade game. Lots of drawbacks and all that, but a great side scolling shoot em up like contra with a really good soundtrack.
Alien 3 by Sega is really good too with it's huge guns, wouldn't be the easiest to find that anymore.
And alien extermination is worth checking out if you can find it.
AvP is one of the best beat em ups made.0 -
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The Konami aliens arcade game might be my favourite arcade game. Lots of drawbacks and all that, but a great side scolling shoot em up like contra with a really good soundtrack.
Alien 3 by Sega is really good too with it's huge guns, wouldn't be the easiest to find that anymore.
And alien extermination is worth checking out if you can find it.
AvP is one of the best beat em ups made.
I read AvP games. In terms of Aliens games, I agree with all of these.
Alien 3 on the Megadrive and SNES are very different games and worth playing, the SNES game is way better but the Megadrive one is fun if very repetitive later.
Heard good things about the C64 game as well.
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Jack burton wrote: »Saw this on my local cex..... immediately looked suspect to me. I'm not an expert in labels but I did look twice at it when glancing at it
Well for one, none of the 'Cool World' letters should be touching the top edge of the label.
It does look like some of the top of the label was cut off in your photo? Seems to be a bit jagged along the top.
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