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08/03/09
I used to play the hell out of this game as a kid. The worst part was when you finally reached Smurfette, you start right back at the beginning again. It's basically what I imagine hell to be like.
08/03/09
I went from 2600 to NES (and then to 5?00 and 7?00 but I always went back to my NES) so the colecovision is a mystery to me.
And this is a TERRIBLE game... I wonder if good ol' James had anything to say about this one.
08/03/09
I'm old and I remember when the first ColecoVision TV ad appeared. Maybe you remember this too? (It's above) It showed Donkey Kong and now remember, up until that point. No home game could match the Arcades. This one did and my friends and I argued that it was just for the ad. There's no way the home version of DK can look like the Arcade. This was our mind set back then.
Well looking at the game today. It's not as close to the Arcade as I remember, very close though, but remember back then when you were used to Atari graphics. Especially the awful DK conversion on 2600. DK on ColecoVision was something of a Revelation. The ironic part is I never bought CV. I bought the Atari 5200.
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08/05/09
Yes it is a terrible game, but a lot of games people liked at the time seem terrible now. One of my friends had this game and I actually remember playing it every night for a week before giving up on it. I never really got into it, but then I never really got into a lot of popular games so I figured it was just me.
08/03/09
The evolution list goes like this,
Pitfall
Smurf
Super Mario Bros.
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08/02/09
Smurf needs food badly.
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...I was around 3 at the time, so I didn't realize the suck. I just thought it was amazing I could control a smurf on screen, haha...
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Screw Ninja Gaiden! Smurfz iz teh hardcoreZzzZ!
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And at the time, I didn't realise how terrible it was.
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08/02/09
I feel like this explains everything about me.
08/02/09
Your comment reminds me of something that happened to me a few years ago. When I was little, Return to Oz was one of my favourite movies. Loved it. Then I went years and years and years without seeing it or thinking about it.
When I saw it again as an adult, the movie felt absolutely primordial, as if it the scenes and actions and little details were buried so deep in my subconscious that they somehow contributed to what I am. Almost archetypal. Not my entire life, but bits and pieces, if that makes any sense. Crazy sounding I know, but I felt like I understood myself better after seeing it again. It was almost an eerie experience, but very hard to explain.
08/02/09
I know what you mean; I was like that with Galaxy Express 999. I had no idea what it was called, and it had been something like 20 years since I'd seen it, but when I caught it at a friend's place I knew the characters and story and I was like "OMG! It's that movie I saw on TV as a kid!" I'd only seen it once or twice, but I guess it made a big impression on me!
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Such an underrated movie. Oh, and the room of heads moaning "Doorooothyyy Gaaaaaale"
EEP!