![]() Cute idea and all, except that you’re playing through challenges and beating two separate games that are basically the exact same experience. These are basically the exact same game, except Rally King SP is a ‘rare’ version promoted by a Chicken Noodle company. The most egregious offender is the combination of Rally King and Rally King SP. Of the lesser offenders, Haggleman 2 is mostly just a significantly harder version of Haggleman, and Haggleman 3’s stage bosses are all the same. Given that these are not actual 80s games, the amount of repetition in the gaming is very disappointing to see. Very few cheats have to be truly earned, so it does mean that some players will inevitably resort to cruising through certain games and/or being overly frustrated with others. codes like invincibility and removal of all enemies. Some games get some basic codes to help you survive or speed up the experience, while others have codes that completely break the game. The cheat code system is a little strange. As Lauren notes later with Guadia Quest especially, it seems like they didn’t find the right balance among tongue-in-cheek homage, overly corny jokes, and making the games interesting. ![]() It isn’t ‘still’ funny later in the game that characters talk odd, or that the magazines have a joking Question and Answer section. While cute and liable to induce a chuckle or two, the jokes wear off pretty fast. The magazines and kids in the game get absurdly excited about any game coming out, games have engrish/deliberate typos, and references to things like turbo controllers and RPG game delays happen throughout. I feel like they tried but fell a little short on giving the games an amusing old-school mockumentary design. If they had expected you to finish Haggleman 2 & 3 or Star Prince without at least the “Continue” code, this very well could’ve been unplayable. It’s a little redundant to flip through multiple magazines to get each of the codes, but these were absolutely necessary as well. Because these old-school games also often come with a heaping helping of old-school hyper-difficulty, they very forgivingly added several cheats to each game, all viewable within the game itself by checking the Magazine section. Having an electronic “Manual” to each game as well as “GameFan Magazine” articles dedicated to each game is certainly a step above what most old-game bundles do. Even if they’re not all gems, most players will find a game or two that are actually fun. Personally, Star Prince and Haggleman gave me the most entertainment for my time, with the first being a frenetic and colorful shooter and the latter being a very creative platformer hybrid. At their cores, some of these games are quite entertaining. The games included are Cosmic Gate (A space shooter akin to Galaga), Star Prince (an upgraded Cosmic Gate with scrolling scenery and bosses), Robot Ninja Haggleman 1 & 2 (a Mappy-like platformer somewhat akin to the original Mario Bros.), Robot Ninja Haggleman 3 (a platformer mix of Ninja Gaiden and Megaman X), Rally King and Rally King SP (overhead-view arcade racing games), and Guadia Quest (a Dragon Warrior II-esque RPG). Eventually, the final goal becomes just to beat every game. Although it certainly delivers on the promise of offering an array of old-school games with new-school programming, I’m not thoroughly convinced that this was a more meaningful effort than any number of the retro game bundles you can find these days.Ībsurdly presented as though you’re a child who has been transported to the 80s to play a series of challenges in games developed throughout the decade, Retro Game Challenge gradually has you work through four specific goals in each game at a time. The kicker was definitely the inclusion of “Guadia Quest”, a seemingly tongue-in-cheek knockoff of the original Dragon Warrior game. Anthony: Retro Game Challenge lured us in with the promise of playing a series of games deliberately designed to remember games from the 80s age of Arcade and NES games.
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