Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out – How To Beat King Hippo

While Donkey Kong is nothing but charming, it holds more in common with a generation of games that preceded it on Atari systems than it does with what followed on the NES, a period in gaming driven by high scores not end-screens. By the time you can make a cup of tea, you could have complete this. Not much challenge but a joy to play regardless.

The NES has a wide library of racing games. Some go for the realistic driving sim others aim more at fantasy. Either way the most important thing is whether it’s fun! Thankfully Eliminator Boat Duel is packed full of charm and lots of fun to play.

As a kid I wished I had an outlet to access Godzilla, alas I was left only with my imagination.

Starting a game you’ll be presented with a chessboard. You control Godzilla & Mothra. You can move each monster a set number of squares and the different hexagons you land on determines the different battle stages you enter. When the action begins is where the game falls down!

Of all the tie-ins from LJN to make it across the pond, I think its strange to see a game based on a cartoon that was never released here, which in turn is based on a public service announcement for wearing a seatbelt, also never shown over here! Yes that’s right, this game has its roots in road safety! While we had Darth Vader as the Green Cross Man, America had the incredible crash dummies, telling folks not to be a Dummy and wear a seatbelt.

Star Wars doesn’t hold your hand. Besides automatically driving you into the first cave where you can locate the faster blaster, you’re on your own. What’s rather unique for a game of this era, is that you can complete it having missed nearly all of the key factors, ie rescuing R2-D2, Han, Leia, or Ben Kenobi. At the end of the game you’re given a completion total, which to gain 100, you’ll need to not only rescue all characters and make it to the end with them all alive, but also complete every cave on Tatooine, and find the map room in the Death Star!