The Vintage: Track & Field

How we played the olympic back in the 80's

Track & Field

It was realesed by konami in 1984 (my year of birth :)) I remember the afternoon play time, when we pushed repeatedly our buttons and thought that we were flying in the track like Ben Johnson, for the ones that don't know who he is, he was like Usain Bold... preety fast actually.

Well, the purpose of this title was to compete in different summer olympic sports that were:
-100 meter Dash -Long jump -Javelin throw -110 Meter Herdles - Hammer Throw and High Jump. The player had three chances to accomplish the event to go to the next one. Considering that now we have the kinetic among us, where we almost literally compete in the sports, this game was quite boring and sucks badly hahaha but for us at that time it was like The Bomb!

Note: I'm not sure in this one but I kind of  remember we ran in a type of rug the made the role of the controller, which makes me wonder why we didn't have the kinetic before hahaha. (I'll leave you guys with the doubt.)

Ggive it a try =)

http://www.1980-games.com/us/old-games/nintendo/t/Track_and_Field/game.php

Later Guys.

Gasa

Download Mario Bros. [MF]

Download all the following Mario games, in one file.

 

Super Mario (1985), Super Mario The Lost Levels (Unreleased in the US), Super Mario 2 (1988), Super Mario 3 (1990) and Supero Mario World (1991).

It's only 2MB. Yes, I was shocked about the smallness of the file too.

http://www.mediafire.com/?cti98ip1kufkb3y

The Vintage: Metroid

Today we'll talk about a great game, which is a classic NES title, "Metroid" released in 1987 by Nintendo.

Samus, the main character (a bounty hunter), goes right through the intergalactic universe where she tries to protect the galaxy from space pirates and their evil intentions to dominate the universe.

The title was characterized by a non-linear gameplay where there was no need to pick up or do all the missions to examine the stages so you could go at your own pace, which made it very original.

Personally, I see it like a really cool game although now I prefer the more realistic shooter type of titles and not humanoids but I'm still remembering Metroid with pleasure and excitement.

Try it yourself.

 http://nintendo8.com/game/395/metroid/

Later guys, GASA

The Vintage: Castlevania

Today is Friday the 13^th and I’m in the mood for zombies and mommies and “POP”. I remembered a great game with which I spend a lot of gaming hours  “CASTELVANIA” it was released by Konami in 1987 for the NES console.

This game is about a big war between the descendants of the Belmont family and Dracula that comes to the planet earth ones in a while back from the hell and brings with him all kind of zombies and demonic forces.

The player plays the role of Simon Belmont, and his armed with his legendary whip that has the property to get extended as you advance in the game; the game consists of six very difficult level (for me were very complicated) each of the levels of the game ends with a fight with a MAIN STAGE BOSS and they were inspired by horror creatures such as vampires, mummies, monsters, etc., and as the last character Dracula.

Give it a try and suffer the horrors of the 80's.

http://nintendo8.com/game/343/castlevania

Later Guys.

GASA

The Vintage: Duck Hunt

 Released by Nintendo in 1984, it was one of the two games included in the release NES date. It was a third person shooter mode and the aim of it was to shoot ducks that flew across the screen (in those days we had a 14" screen and not a 32" LED hahaha). There was an additional mode, that changed ducks by disks... but it was less funny, by far.

The fun of this game relies primarily in the fact that the player used a gun instead of a control in the 80's it was of course a very revolutionary thing, and another funny thing about this game was the hunt dog that laughed at you when yo didn't hit a duck, the dog was actually the main picture of the game.

Give it a try , but I must warn you that it was much more fun with the gun.

http://www.minijuegos.com/Duck-Hunt/474

Later guys, GASA.

The Vintage: Contra

Back in the 80's this title was our MW3 (it's quite far from it considering that is a third person shooter and had very crappy graphics, but I compare them for you to have some idea of what it is like).

Konami released it in 1987.

The player controls one of the two commandos named Bill and Lance, who were sent to a mission against a terrorist group called the Red Falcon Organization like as usual in the old days was planning to take the world, I also have to mention that some terrorists look like aliens O.0

You, as the main character, were equipped with a rifle with an endless amount of ammo but you also have the possibility to be armed with more lethal weapons if you catch some power balls across your path but the truth was that it was kind of difficult to keep the new weapon because it only requierd a single enemy hit to loose it. You were able to shoot every direction you want as well as jump or move simultaneously while shooting.

It was a very challenging but funny game to play, try it yourself.

 http://nintendo8.com/game/60/contra/

Later, GASA

The Vintage: Excitebike

Back in the day, the unnamed dude from "Excitebike" was our very own Travis Pastrana haha (quite distant of our Xgames today).

Excite bike was released by Nintendo in 1984 and the aim of this game was to race your motorcycle across ramps, oil stains and different classes of obstacles. It two game modes: solo race and multiplayer. The extreme cool thing about this title was that as far that I remember it was the first game that had the option to design your own racetrack and it was AWESOME, you could choose from a huge list different kinds of ramps and obstacles and race in your own track... very nice indeed.

Race for yourself and build one or two racetracks, it is still very cool.

 

http://nintendo8.com/game/24/excitebike/

Later guys.

By: GASA

The Vintage: Punch Out

Right now all I want to see in a boxing match is the fight "Floyd vs. Pacquiao", but more than 20 years ago we could play with players that were generic and imagine they were them haha.

Punch out was released in 1987 it was a boxing game developed and published by Nintendo itself. Recently a new version for Wii has been released.

In this title you played as Little Mac (same name as one of the creators of this blog). The aim is to work across professional boxing circuits, facing all kind of fictional boxers with strange moves and appearances, until you get to the World Heavyweight Championship Match against Mike Tyson in the original version and Mr. Dream in the later version.

Myke Tyson

The boxers' punches repertory are very limited but they are still very entertaining and the game was still excellent.

One of my favorite parts of the game was when little Mac was about to be knocked down and he started blinking in pink hahaha very funny.

Check it out this great title.

http://www.1980-games.com/us/old-games/nintendo/m/Mike_Tyson's_Punch-Out!!/game.php

Later, GASA.

The Vintage: Bubble Boble

Hi guys today we are going to talk about a very corny but nice title, called Bubble Booble, it was release by Taito in 1986.

It´s a one or two player game, being one of the two little dragons available, Bud or Bob. The aim of it was to rescue their girlfriends that were kidnapped by the badass villain "Drunk", an enemy you have to fight at level 100.

The dragons were armed with the ability to throw bubbles (a very corny shit hahaha), the enemies that got caught exploded and died (not so corny, ha!). These bubbles were used to reach some places that were too high for the dragons to reach with their short pair of legs.

Some of the most appreciate stuff on this title were the secret items like:

The Watch: Stops the time.

Red Umbrella: 5 levels jump.

Red sneakers: Gives you speed.

And a lot more, but why don’t you better try it yourself and enjoy discovering the other cool stuff.

The cover may not be the greatest but the game is great.

http://nintendo8.com/game/90/bubble_bobble/ 

Later Guys.

By: GASA

The Vintage X: Double Dribble

Now that we are living the Linsanity fever, I remembered a great game called double dribble.This game was released in 1986 by Konamy following super basketball that was not even half as popular as this title. It's a basketball title, which as you know is to put a ball in the basket (I'm just making sure you know what basketball means hahaha), but the difference was that they introduce a cinema when you dunked the ball, which was really spectacular for its time, but the more you played the more tedious the cinema turned because you had to see it over and over again, it was not the best game of all but it was enterteining, we didn't have Linsanity but instead we had Patrick Ewin, a great player by the way :).

Here´s a link for you to try it.

http://nintendo8.com/game/513/double_dribble/#

By: GASA

The Vintage VIII: Double Dragon II

Today I’m feeling kind of problematic hahaha and I remember a great title “DOUBLE DRAGON II “THE REVENGE” produced by Technos, released back in 1989 for NES and it’s worth saying that it was completely different to the arcadia version released a year earlier (1988).

The aim of this game was to avenge Marian’s death, and to do that the player assumes the role of the brothers Billy and Jimmy Lee (co-op play was allowed) to beat down all thugs, it was like street fights with chains, barrels and all kind of violent objects “NICE!”, the game play had three difficulty settings but, the final mission is only available on the hardest difficulty setting. It was a very entertaining game with a great soundtrack too.

Here’s a link for you to play.

http://www.classiconlinegames.nl/nintendo/168-double-dragon-ii

Later guys!

By: GASA