This week’s NES retro selection for the letter A is the Addams Family.
Hey retro gaming fans! It’s time to select another random game from the NES library and today the letter is A. For A, I’ll be looking at The Addams Family. I’m somewhat familiar with this game as I remember renting it back in my younger days. From what I recall the game is your standard bump-and-jump platformer much like the Super Mario Bros. series of games. This one should be fun! A game I can reminisce about and at the same time a game that is based on a movie franchise! Keep yourself plugged in for a look into this and more as I continue my NES A to Z series!
8 Eyes is a very unforgiving game. Make a mistake and you’ll pay times ten.
Welcome back retro gaming fans! I’m just about ready to wrap up 8 Eyes and move on to the next game, a random game beginning with the letter A. I just wrapped up a session earlier today and one thing I can say is that this game is tough! The difficulty is high and every mistake you make counts against you massively. Each playthrough I did I became more efficient and eventually had a few decent battles with the boss of the Spain stage. Let’s hope my next session goes well and I defeat the evil Duke of Spain!
Stay tuned for more retro gaming action as I pick a random game from the letter A! What will it be? Check back later this week to find out!
8 Eyes for the Nintendo NES. What is this game all about? I’ll take a look as I play this game from the classic NES.
Welcome back! Hope you’re ready for some random retro games! This week’s pick from the list starts with the number 8. The game: 8 Eyes. Let’s take a quick look at this game from the late ’80s/early ’90s!
While playing the game for the first time, I noticed a couple of things: The game is an action platformer that is strikingly similar to the Castlevania series and the music is excellent. Graphically, the game looks okay for the hardware it’s on, but the music is really where the game shone for me after my hour long quick play.
The gameplay, as you might have guessed, is a lot like Castlevania as well. Your character uses a sword instead of a whip, there are secondary weapons, stairs to climb, doors to go through, and secrets hidden in bricks, all of which are very similar to Castlevania. Not much new or original so far. There is, however, a feature that sets it apart from Castlevania: you have (limited) control of your bird friend! Controlling the bird is a bit janky, but I found out it is necessary to use the bird to hit otherwise inaccessible switches to open doors. It’s kind of a cool feature that adds a little depth beyond the standard platformer formula.
The game features seven different castles to explore, along with The House of Ruth which I assume can only be accessed after completing the seven castles first. As I pondered which castle to visit first, I simply selected the castle my cursor was on, Arabia. After unsuccessfully playing each stage a couple times, I thought “Damn, this game is difficult!” as I considered looking for a walkthrough for the game to assist.
Now, I’ll be playing this game a little more after I do a little research on it. So far, the game plays like a standard platformer and I foresee difficult jumps at some point in the game as your character cannot change direction midair. Other than the bird adding a bit of depth, the game seems pretty shallow and adds few new features beyond what Castlevania offered earlier in the ‘80s. It’s not a bad game so far, it just hasn’t hooked me with anything groundbreaking apart from the music.
That’s about all I have on 8 Eyes for now. I’ll be doing some research and playing the game with some help from a walkthrough to hopefully advance through some of the castles before I write up my final thoughts. Stay tuned for that and more retro games in the future!
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