Bomber Raid - SEGA Master System

    Bomber Raid is a flying shoot’em up. It’s your standard affair. You are a lone plane fighter taking on a whole army. Each stage is a mission to destroy a target. You can upgrade and increase your firing power by collecting power ups. It’s as basic as it gets. 

   The key to a good shoot’em up is the charm and fun factor. Bomber Raid is, ok. It is difficult, but nothing that practice can’t accomplish. My tip is if you lose a life within the first minute of a level, just restart with a fresh set of lives to recollect power ups. There are unlimited continues. Those power ups are dire for defeating the boss of each level. Unless you’re a wizard of dodging, don’t fight the bosses with your stock pea shooter weapon. 

    If you’re a fan of the genre, by all means play Bomber Raid. Good tight controls, fair and difficult gameplay, and the music is fine. You can do a lot worse on the SEGA Master System. No complaints here. Just practice and GIT GUD. 

the Adventures of Rad Gravity - Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)

    I’m gonna give it to you straight: I did not enjoy playing this game. I gave it a few hours and all that I got from it was an assault to my senses, frustration and a headache. This game physically hurt me when I played it. What’s so bad about it? Well, let me tell you.
    First thing that happens when you power on the game is a terrible pain to your ears. High pitched frantic sounds that hardly make comprehensive music. The gameplay music is also terrible. There are only three music tracks in the whole game. Only three! The title theme, the space theme, which is really only atmospheric sounds than music, and the gameplay theme. That’s it!
    The game is very unfairly difficult. I like challenging difficult games, but this is difficulty done wrong. The level designer can kiss my anime cottontail Ass! The enemies endlessly respawn. There is no point of defeating them, when they immediately come back. You have to be pixel perfect on platforms, or you will miss them completely. I did not beat the first and second level with skill, but with brute force and luck.
    The controls are just bad. There is a delay when you jump. In a pixel perfect platformer, this is unacceptable. I ran off of and missed so many platforms, all because the jumping is so off timing. Majority of my time playing this game is missing crucial jumps. Uhh!! 

    Rad Gravity is an ambitious game. I give it that. His character design is interesting too. I cannot recommend this game whatsoever though. Find something better to play.

Black Belt - SEGA Master System

    Black Belt is an Americanized sprite swap video game of the classic Anime Fist of the North Star. It’s your standard arcade style game play of beating enemies and progressing to a boss. It’s fine, until you reach a boss fight. The hit detection is terrible. The bosses are completely unreadable of their actions. It’s a guessing game of avoiding attacks and some how making hits. I tried so many times to beat the first boss, just to win by luck. There is no strategy. It’s all random. Swing away as much as you want, the game decides if your attack counts as a hit. You will waste most of your lives away on the first boss beating it, and have nothing left to experience the second boss. I can’t learn how to beat a new enemy, when it’s impossible to not lose on the prior one. 

    Uhh!!! Terrible!! Just play the arcade classic Kung-Fu Master instead. Fist of the North Star is a classic anime, but this game sure isn’t. Avoid at all cost! 

Adventures of Lolo 3 - Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)

    Lolo and Lala are back! And this time, they team up on a warpath of vengeance. The son of the defeated King of Eggerland has turned their friends to stone. It's up to Lolo and Lala to defeat the son of the king, to cure their friends. A journey full of puzzles, enemies and traps. All from the great devs of Hal Laboratory. 

    Another great Lolo game in the franchise. Now with an over world and interacting none playable characters. You can even switch to Lala in the over world screen. No two player co-op though. Which is kinda lame, but understandable. Too many things can go wrong with the puzzles. This game will stump you. Believe me, I only played it twice and it's tough. Any false moves and you're done. It's difficult. but very fair. This is a thinking person's game. So, turn on your brain and eat your healthy breakfast, before you take this game on. 

    I highly recommend this game. The entire Lolo trilogy on NES is so worth your time. If you're only going to play one, play this title. It is peak Lolo, before he was put aside to make room for Kirby. If you like brain games, definitely try Lolo 3 anytime.