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Wow. Now, suddenly, the focus on Janken in Alex Kidd makes way more sense.
Wow. Now, suddenly, the focus on Janken in Alex Kidd makes way more sense.
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Alex Kidd in Miracle World was originally a Dragon Ball game
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I wonder how much level layouts changed during the production, because thinking back to the original Dragon Ball arc, the levels actually line up pretty well with locations from the game. Like the lake at the very beginning -- is that supposed to be the lake where Goku catches the fish before meeting Bulma? Also makes the sections where they travel on motor cycle a bit less random. And I guess the huge castle at the end was Pilaf's?
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No, Alex Kidd has a helicopter, he doesn't ride a cloud.
But man, I'm wondering now if the ring is supposed to actually be the kamehameha.
The arcade version of Lost Stars is indeed the best "pure" Alex Kidd game, but Miracle World isn't bad. It's just the shit-ass Janken bosses that ruin the game. If they were more normal bosses, I bet the game would have been remembered waaaay better. And, as easy as it is, I played the shit out of the SMS version of Lost Stars as a kid. That was a weird fucking game.
But Alex Kidd in Shinobi World is legitimately a great game. By far the best Alex Kidd game, even if it's more of a shinobi game than an alex kidd game.
Irony is that my cousin was a huge Dragon Ball fan, yet he was playing the game without realizing it
There was a thread few months ago in case you missed it.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/alex-kidd-was-supposed-to-be-a-dragon-ball-game.26319/
There was a thread few months ago in case you missed it.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/alex-kidd-was-supposed-to-be-a-dragon-ball-game.26319/
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The genesis game would have been ok except for the awful, awful jump and attack controls. the jump button was both jump and jump-attack. It never felt right, and that game had such a huge number of flying enemies. It was one step forward from Miracle World, two steps back.
They kept getting so close to a great, traditional Alex Kidd game and just never got it right.
I love Miracle World; don't even mind Janeen stuff. It's only the first boss that's a real problem anyway, then you get the telepathy ball and it's just reflexes.
Miracle World is better than SMB and SMB2. Only SMB3 surpasses it
Miracle World still had better castles, and a villain with a fist head that flies is scarier than bowser
Anyone disagreeing is obviously wrong and need to git gud at janken
Miracle World still had better castles, and a villain with a fist head that flies is scarier than bowser
Anyone disagreeing is obviously wrong and need to git gud at janken
This DBZ track sounds a lot like the Alex Kidd Theme... or vice-versa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnRVu8Pra2g&t=48s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnRVu8Pra2g&t=48s
Didn't we have a thread about this?
https://www.resetera.com/threads/alex-kidd-was-supposed-to-be-a-dragon-ball-game.26319/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/alex-kidd-was-supposed-to-be-a-dragon-ball-game.26319/
I think Alex Kidd had great ideas but terrible execution. Maybe it was good enough for the time, but the Super Mario games aged much better because their execution and gameplay was flawless.
That might be true for half of the alex kidd games (the other half is terrible ideas and terrible execution) but Miracle World is a special case. There's nothing wrong with the core gameplay (janken bosses are something else) and frankly, if people took the nostalgia glasses off they would realize the ideas behind SMB and specially SMB2 (which is just a dumb tv show game dressed as mario in the US and basically DLC for the first game in JP) are nothing special either. SMB3 is where Mario started standing out and crushing the opposition to me.
Alex is too fast and slippery. His punch is too short ranged. All the power ups are a mystery. Nothing feels really obvious in that game until you dedicate some time to get used to it. Mario is pure, highly polished gameplay, that is simple to understand. Even Doki Doki Panic.
I'm not saying you're wrong to prefer Alex Kidd, but even with equal opportunity, Mario would become far more popular than Alex Kidd.
That's cause you needed to have achieved Ultra Instinct to get past this bit.
That part is easy, if you know what you have to do. Hard to explain, but when Alex is touching the spikes you have to press right and never up or down. Alex won't be killed. I died so many times before I knew that and the solution was so easy.
That's cause you needed to have achieved Ultra Instinct to get past this bit.
Ha, you think that was hard?
Shamelessly reposted from the 'before the internet' thread.
Same . It was my first game.
Too bad the game's difficulty is way too hard if you don't know the continue code.
It's not actually that hard. It's one of the few 8-bit games I've actually beaten. One of the easier games of its generation.
If you're holding the "jump" button, Alex can't be hurt by the spikes above him. He'll just bounce off them.
This is correct. The game gives you a large number of extra lives and resources, way more than its contemporaries. It's not necessarily easy, it has its tricky moments (including that Rosetta Stone stuff though once you know the trick, it's trivial), but it's one of the easier games of its time.
Omg yes
Alex Kidd master system was my first console game which turned me into a gamer. But the genesis one..... I can't...
Game was awesome to me. I treasured it along with my Master System.
So awesome in fact, some dude made a sequel.
http://www.smstributes.co.uk/alexkidd2.asp
So awesome in fact, some dude made a sequel.
http://www.smstributes.co.uk/alexkidd2.asp
I felt it had something to do with Dragon Ball the first time I played it. Cool to see my gut was right.
Great little platformer, though Vic Tokai developed it. Decap Attack's a fitting sequel, and one of a few highly-liberal Western localizations that I can appreciate.Sega also used the same mechanic in Psycho Fox
Oh man, I just beat Alex Kidd in Miracle World for the first time the other day, and it was the first game I ever played. That's fascinating.
There was a continue code? My 5 year old inner self is crying lol.
I feel bad for people that didn't play the built in to the system burger eating version of Alex Kidd.
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Every version of Master System with the Hamburger version of Alex Kidd completely lacks the snail maze game built in. I feel bad for kids who gave up snail maze for a small hamburger graphic.
Those SMS revisions also lack this:
Give me the Sega Jingle at boot up every day.