NNY Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 What is Retro Game Challenge? Retro Game Challenge is a DS game where you must complete challenges in parodies of your favorite 8-bit classics to defeat the demon digitized version of Shinya Arino, host of Japanese game show Retro Game Master. What separates this from other minigame compilations? It's not really a minigame compilation, so much as it's a collection of brand new full length 8-bit games. Each game is a homage/parody of a classic Famicom game. Titles include: Cosmic Gate A Galaga-esque shooting game Haguru Man A side-scrolling game which is some kind of merge between Ninja Jajamaru-kun and Mappy. Rally King A top-down view racing game similar to the Micro Machines game. Star Prince A shooting game extremely similar to Star Soldier and Star Force. Rally King SP Japan is well known for re-releasing Famicom games in joint with businesses and upgrading the game along with giving the companies advertising in the game (Kaettekita Mario Bros. is one of these joint-ventures). Rally King SP emulates a fictional noodle company's endeavor. Haguru Man 2 A sequel to Haguru Man with better graphics and slightly altered play. Guadia Quest An RPG similar to Dragon Quest with an opening scene similar to Final Fantasy Haguru Man 3 The sequel that actually changes gameplay drastically into a Ninja Gaiden-esque style. Uh, I'm not gonna bother bolding the really obscure Japanese games that I've never heard of. I was on the fence on bolding Mappy. Moving on... What else do you do? It's the 80s and you're a kid again. You read gaming magazines! What else? Gaming magazines contain reviews and cheat codes! But awesome games like this never come out in the States.... This one is! According to the GameCrazy preorder list, it comes out January 6th, 2009. Trailer: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overflow Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 Hahaha, this looks awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BardicKnowledge Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 This is incredible. Let's hope it sees a Stateside release! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NNY Posted December 13, 2008 Author Share Posted December 13, 2008 It is! I saw an ad for it in the latest EGM. I can't say this is a definite date, but the best source I could find says January 6th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_cam Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 Yeah I've had my eyes on this for a while. can't wait for it to come out. I know Japan is getting (or already got) a second one. Hope it's as fun as it looks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arek the Absolute Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 This game.... This game is... BEAUTIFUL I am in love with this game. So good. SO GOOD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Been waiting for this for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murmeli Walan Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I've been excited for this one for a while, too. I read the wiki link, and I had no clue that this was based on some Japanese TV show about classic video games. That's cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arek the Absolute Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Someone needs to make a haggleman avatar. Seriously. EDIT: "Spoony Bard...?" Kid Arino is awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NNY Posted February 16, 2009 Author Share Posted February 16, 2009 Retro Game Challenge 2 trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyb717vw5ks Let's just hope this gets a US (and Euro, to a lesser extent) release too. Toriotos looks addicting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BardicKnowledge Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 I'm about to finish the game now, and I'll say that Guadia Quest is probably the least exciting of the pack as far as the "challenges" go. I really enjoyed Haggleman 1 and 2, as I played the entire Ninja JaJaMaru-kun series extensively as a kid. No giant frog = fail though. Haggleman 3 is awesome, but not long enough. The idea of purchasing major upgrades in a Ninja Gaiden game is sweet though... If they do make another one of these, they need to parody some Culture Brain games. Flying Warriors and Little Ninja Brothers, anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadofsky Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Is it worth buying? I'm considering trading some games in... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Ascher-Weiss Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Excellent Game! The Soundtrack is also really fun. Anybody on the fence NEEDS to buy this game so that XSEED will be encouraged to bring over the sequel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arek the Absolute Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Anyone know how to rip graphics and sprites from ds games? Excellent Game! The Soundtrack is also really fun. Anybody on the fence NEEDS to buy this game so that XSEED will be encouraged to bring over the sequel. What do I use to play those? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Ascher-Weiss Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 What do I use to play those? Here Ya Go Buddy! http://www.zophar.net/download_file/14969 works in winamp and foobar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadofsky Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Excellent Game! The Soundtrack is also really fun. Anybody on the fence NEEDS to buy this game so that XSEED will be encouraged to bring over the sequel. Thanks. I think I will pick it up. Just wish I would have remembered the DS game I was going to trade in to get it... Bah!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arek the Absolute Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Here Ya Go Buddy!http://www.zophar.net/download_file/14969 works in winamp and foobar Thank you very much! Now I just need to figure out how to rip the sprites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XZero Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 I picked this one up last week. Great graphics, epic music, 8-bit gameplay. I should mention that I really bought it because I wanted to play Guardia Quest, which turned out to be pretty boring and all together too hard, actually. I spend a lot of time dying. As far as the other games go, the second space shooter is lots of fun, the racing games are neat once you figure out how to play, and the third Haggleman Ninja game is really cool. The best part about the game in my opinion is the general presentation style and in-jokes for 80s kids. The people who are really going to get this stuff are the ones from the 20-30 age range (give or take). It's really nostalgic to be playing a game at a friend's house and have him say that he picked up the latest issue of [well, back in the day it was Nintendo Power] and that there was a *secret code!!!* in the magazine for the very game we were playing. Ahh... good times. BEWARE, however, that if you just want to play an RPG, get Dragon Quest V on Wednesday. Retro Game Challenge is worth the price for all of the content, but the exceedingly slow gameplay and rather short quest of Guardia Quest kind of disappoint if that's all you want, and this is coming from a HUGE childhood fan of Dragon Que.. WARRIOR 1-4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Excellent Game! The Soundtrack is also really fun.I had no idea that there was a NDS music format. Thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajax Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Anyone know how to rip graphics and sprites from ds games? My suggestion is that you pick up NO$GBA or iDeaS, obtain a copy of the rom, and then (ab)use cntr+Print Screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kizyr Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 This seems like a game I'd be all over (I love the concept, the idea of 80s in-jokes, etc.). But, I'm finding it hard to justify getting a DS game for it instead of just, say, breaking out some of my older games that I still have. (Particularly when I still have new DS games that I haven't yet played, and I'm still working on a backlog of SNES/Saturn/PSX games, mostly RPGs.) Is there anything that makes it worth that much more than just, say, playing the old games that it's based on? KF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NNY Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 This seems like a game I'd be all over (I love the concept, the idea of 80s in-jokes, etc.). But, I'm finding it hard to justify getting a DS game for it instead of just, say, breaking out some of my older games that I still have. (Particularly when I still have new DS games that I haven't yet played, and I'm still working on a backlog of SNES/Saturn/PSX games, mostly RPGs.)Is there anything that makes it worth that much more than just, say, playing the old games that it's based on? KF Haggleman 1 and 2 is pretty unique. (Haven't unlocked 3 yet.) And the other reason to buy it is to encourage the sequel to come out in America. Thanks for signing your name in the post. I would never have known it was you had you not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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