Shadow Dancer is one of the best side-scrolling ninja games I can remember from Genesis.
Made as a sequel to the Shinobi series, started as an arcade game and was adapted to Sega Genesis.
Has some pretty distinctive remarkable stuff that fans will always remember: Having a pet dog (with dog meter!) that would attack enemies to help you, huge bosses with small weak points to hit, a bonus stage (specially the music) where you jump off a building and have to hit multiple climbing ninjas and the special power that included fire rains and pillars of fire.
A very difficult but still great game!
Real Time Strategy fans: This is how everything began! Dune 2 was one of the first real time strategy games. It defined several elements still present on new RTS games.
I first played this game years and years ago… still on my teens. The game is from 1992.
So I didn’t know much of Dune… didn’t watch the series or movie, didn’t read the book… but the story was compeling nonetheless.
You get to choose between 3 “races”… I still remember the names: House Atreides, House Ordos and House Harkonnen.
Ordos was the one I played least, Atreides was not too bad, but Harkonnen was my favorite… probably because of it’s suicidal vehice that could do massive damages to the opponent’s base.
So, there you are! Was an awesome game, I remember spending several months playing it!
Awesome game I played tons and tons of times with my cousin Rodrigo…
I remember we liked it a lot because it was one of the first side scroll fighting games that allowed interaction between the players to boost the attacks!
Oh yeah… it was actually Bare Knuckle playing in a Mega Drive… but you get the drill.
Off-topic: Why is it so f* hard to get a nice video that doesn’t have some idiot talking through it?
Wasted almost 20 minutes opening tens of videos to find one that doesn’t have someone trying to “review” it ruining the mood for us who like them good old games. [/rant]
I remember playing this one a lot on the NES.
A classic. In fact, so much a classic that even the game being this old, the characters are still there on Super Smash Bros.
It’s, I guess, one of the dead gaming genres (dungeon crawlers). Eye of the Beholder was the first one I played.
Friends couldn’t understand how I managed to not get lost since I moved very fast… guess it’s something everyone eventually does after getting used to it.
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