/vr/ - Retro Games

didn't know Alex kidd*

>>607986
That cover is disgusting. Try this game instead.

That first Alex Kidd game was beast as fuck, I enjoyed it way more than Super Mario Bros. at the time.

>>608064
>boss guy is touching the princess chick's boobs
That cover would never have flown in America

>>608116
yes it would, only problem is that SEGA MADE A TOY FUCKING TRUCK COMPANY TO MARKET THE GAME CONSOLE IN AMERICA

But hey, in brazil it probably would have had her have a huge ass and titties and both being grabbed and a nice tectoy logo

>>608132
Yup.

>>608112
Real men play Alex Kidd and rank it alongside Super Mario Bros., just to be fair.

Alex Kidd was never the mascot of Sega. People only thought that because his games were popular.

>>608173
But he was.

No other Sega characters were as proeminent, until some annoying blue hedgehog came over.

>>608185
Then he was the unofficial mascot.

>>608185
Don't you be hating on Sonic now.

>>608185

>>608281
Aww man, that's just sad.

Poor Alex, you'll never get another game again. ;_;

>>608372
Insert creepy Superstars model here.

>tfw Hirokazu Yasuhara returns to make the next Alex Kidd game in 2020

>>608372
I was honestly surprised Alex was even in Sonic All Stars.

>>608281
He looked so much better back then.
I want that look back and a new game.

>That feel when you couldn't remember the name of this game for the longest time.

Transformations were golden to me as a kid. I was a Kirby addict, and anything that follows that formula. You could even make the arguement that Pokémon does, and that's why it became popular. Kids love options.

>>608281
And then Alex becomes Daffy to Sonic's Bugs.

>>608173
>>608187
/vr/ - Revisionist history from clueless teens.

"In the mid-to-late 1980s, Alex Kidd overtook the character of "Opa-Opa" from the game Fantasy Zone as the official mascot for the Sega Corporation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kidd

>>608064
Definitely Sega's mascot, definitely intended to topple Mario.

Miracle World 4lyf.

http://youtu.be/uq-UensnFVA

Alex Kidd... had a hard life ;_;

>tfw noone remembers Opa-Opa

>>608064
Is it better than that Genesis one? Because holy shit that game was crap

>>610846
I want to like the series, but it's pretty boring. The most interesting thing about it is the plot about intergalactic economics and Opa-opa confronting his father issues.

>>610846
>610846
Had it for Game Gear. Had no idea what was going on...

>>608252
I still have a copy of this comic in my bookshelf. Dat off-model art.

>>609913
>article needs additional citations
>no citation for "official mascot"
Opa-Opa featured in the Zillion anime, which gives more credence to its moniker as the official SEGA mascot.

>>610853
Yes, Miracle World is much better. The shop's aren't a matter of life or death, the level design's better overall, and the main theme's catchy as hell (I still prefer the soundtrack for Enchanted Castle, though).

>>610857
Fantasy Zone IIDX at least has Manabu Namiki doing a killer SEGA-music impression.

>>610857
Wait, Opa-Opa is a guy? I always thought it was supposed to be female (Or as female as a space ship can be)

I've been wondering since childhood-
Is Alex Kidd a monkey or a man?

its one thing for sega to shift their mascot to something more favorable, but its a completely different thing to let this series completely fall off the face of the earth.

its almost pathetic. to only give the character a few cameos since 1990 when it was initially a flagship title. its really no wonder sega could never compete with nintendo with a business model like this.

i've never been much of a sega fan and i've honestly never heard of this series till i saw this thread but alex kidd has completely spurred my interests. rip alex.

Imagine how the would-be mascots feel who only got to be in one game....

>>610846

I found out recently that there was a Fantasy Zone game on NES. A Sega game on a Nintendo console.

>>613085

He's pretty much Sega's Kid Icarus. Maybe one day there will be a Alex Kidd: Uprising.

>>613085
He was never officially a mascot as far as I know, people started perceiving it as such because he was essentially made to compete with Mario and the fact that it came bundled with the Master System. Opa Opa was also an unofficial mascot because the Fantasy Zone games were one of the first games having success in the arcade scene.
But honestly, they never really were.

>>607986

>and you thought Mega Man's box art was bad!

>>615836

Not surprising since the Master System didn't even DENT the NES's market share

>>615887

It did in the UK, but only because of Nintendo's idiotic local marketing.

>>615836
Tengen seemed to like porting Sega games to the NES. They did the same with After Burner and Shinobi.

>>608064
Have you ever been so mad you punched a peace hand-gesture in the face?

>>615836
There was also Space Harrier for the Famicom

>>613204
Poor old Ristar, Sketch and Greendog.

I'm sure there are a few others, but they've all been lost to the sands of time, too.

>>618209
It is also somehow considerably worse than the already pretty bad Master System port.

They should have used Wonder Boy but Master Takahashi completely stole that thunder for NES.

>>619415
mai nigguh

>>615887
In Japan and North America that would be true. Though I am an American, I never knew the Master System existed before the internet.