I remember being a kid and thinking a Karate Kid game would be pretty cool. After playing this game, I regret ever thinking such things. To be fair, I’m sure the devs didn’t set out to please my inner child, but I’m not so sure they weren’t actively trying to bully him either.
Double Dragon meets Rollerskating? What’s not to love??!? Well, besides the controls I mean. They are wonky as fuck and you die a lot when you build up speed. On the upside you get infinite continues. Honestly, give it a go if you’re going for a retro night. There are worse games out there than this little gem. And you don’t get these weird mashup games anymore with AAA titles sucking all the air out of the room.
If you’re looking for a game that is nothing like you might expect after watching Wreck It Ralph, you should play this. For a retro game it’s got some interesting features. It’s sort of a mix of puzzle and Donkey Kong – esque platformer. It’s hard though, like.. really really hard. Use a game genie or be a masochist, your choice. Overall, the real fun comes in being able to create your own levels a-la excite bike. But, like excitebike, don’t plan on saving those creations once you hit the power button. Someone wrecked it by not including a battery pack. Not even Fix it Felix can help you with that.
You know what sucks more than baseball? A videogame about baseball. You know what sucks more than that? An NES video game about baseball. I mean, sure, RBI baseball had it’s moments. Unfortunately none of them can be found in this steaming turd pile.
Does anyone know who Roger Clemens is? Does anyone care? Should anyone play this game? Is there anything MVP about it? Will baseball ever NOT suck? I answer all these questions after the break.
Let’s just be clear – sports games generally suck. This one… um.. doesn’t? I mean it does, but it sucks because it’s an NES sports game and we’re in 2016. Back in the day this was one of the ones my friends and I played quite a bit. That said, Kings of the Beach was better. Really all this has going for it is you can button mash B to get a super spike or button mash B for defense of a super spike. Oh… and you can use a 4-score to play 4 players. Good luck finding 4 people who want this kind of pain in today’s gaming world though.
For a retro puzzle game, it’s not bad. At least it’s not another Tetris clone. There are better ways to spend your time though. The cookie shifting can be a little confusing at first. Really the magic for me was seeing Yoshi in an NES game. My first time seeing Yoshi was in the SNES Super Mario World. I had no idea he had a life before that. Unfortunately, that life involved Mario tossing his cookies.
