/vr/ - Retro Games

I played it a bit at a friend's house when I was a kid and I remember enjoying it. The fake 3D stuff was pretty ass though.

I really love the overworld music from this game. And that's about it.

I never played it. Did this game have GOD-TIER music like Blaster Master and other Sunsoft stuff?

Fuck those mosquitoes, and their ability to permanently slow you.

I did enjoy it then, and do enjoy it now for the nostalgia value. It is a unique and weird game.

>>701526
Isn't necessarily GOD-TIER, but is earwormy and comfy (fits the mood of the game) while playing.
Overworld: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW8byCf_Crw
Sewers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4f0Je5BRCU

Yeah the fucking gun... I can't remember what was so horrible about it but i recall it being a bitch...

Masterblaster or whatever it was called was a similar and better game, wasn't it?

>>701583
The downgrades? Or the annoying way any obstacle could block your shots?

>>701594

Yeah and you could bend the shots around enemies, absolutely disgusting

For a game from 1989, it's pretty impressive. The only flaws that I can think of are as follows.

*Narrow corridors block your shots. It wouldn't be such a problem if the corridors were wider than they are. You literally have to position yourself just right to be able to make your shots. The Yurop version fixes this, meaning your shots now go through walls.

*Some enemies have too much health. It's not that big of a deal really, but it is in a game which relies on Takahashi-Meijin like button presses. Making your weapons semi-automatic (meaning they fire at a predetermined rate, but can still fire faster if you mash the buttons) would be neat. The Yurop version makes the enemies considerably weaker.

*No diagonal movement. Considering Blaster Master walks in diagonals but Fester can't, this is a huge step down. And while Fester isn't exactly slow, he can barely out maneuver enemies, and no diagonals fucks your mobility up.

*Respawning enemies. There's a difference between revisiting a location once you killed some enemies and they show up, and just killing them infinitely unless you move. Coupled with the small passageways, this becomes a chore.

*Small health bar. Fester starts out with 2 hit points, and he can have up to 4. It might be too "izi-modo" if we bumped up his health to 6, but it would be a neat addition. Additionally, make it so that once his lifebar is empty, he can only take one more hit before he dies, effectively giving him +1. However, on his final straw, so to speak, he should move at his slowest, and encourage you to get a health powerup.

*THE CONTINUE DOESN'T WORK. AT ALL. Well, it does, it only keeps track of what you just got, but it sends you right to the beginning. At the very least, it could place checkpoints at the end of sewers and every time you beat a boss.

Fun fact: This is the very first SunSoft game to utilize the now commonplace Bassline DPCM trick.

good game, underrated nowadays. the dungeon areas have aged horribly though

>>701658
>The Yurop version fixes this, meaning your shots now go through walls.

Currently downloading this version. Thank you, anon.

As an Addams Family fan, it's a real treat and one of the better licensed titles from the 80's. It's difficult and unfair but it's not a bad game. I think the only reason it got a shitty rap was because of AVGN drones.

Posting some epic fan art.

Personal favorite. Throwback to the original Charles Addams drawings.

>>701778
>It's difficult and unfair but it's not a bad game
Totally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-bb5KB2BxA

>This is... one tough... video game.
>Fester's Quest is one tough video game.
>But if you make just one mistake, you start all over again.

I still vividly remember seeing this commercial on TV all the time, back then. It was marketed to be unfair.

It's so transparent that they tacked on the license in the very final stages of development that it's hilarious.

>>701845
Sunsoft's entire videogame gimmick was making 2hard4u games. This was to compensate for their laughably short durations, as all the space was chewed up by the bassline DPCM samples. The average Sunsoft games used up to 8 bassline samples, each being 1000+ bytes in size. 8KB might not be much, but in 128KB games, that's a huge increment. The average DPCM sample is around 150 bytes.

The only Sunsoft games that are legitimately long are Batman ROTJ, Blaster Master, and Gimmick.

>>701863
what was the game originally going to be, another blaster master?

Speaking of Blaster Master, that's Arino's next challenge game. >>701865
He's gonna get wrecked.

I'm not an expert in any way regarding the Addams Family, but was Fester in any way keen with weaponry? I do know he could stick a light bulb in his mouth to light it up, but is everything else for the game made up?

>>701874
Gimmick is rather short bro, and would feel it's length with a difficulty decrease. It's like barely two worlds out of Kirby's Adventure.

>>701583
Masterblaster was some what different from Fester's Quest, in that the over world was a side scrolling metroid with a tank type thing, and that the psuedo-3D areas were top down and more puzzle based

>>702101
Fester loved guns. He had a very large collection of strange weapons.

>>702101
He liked things that exploded, fired, misfired, or could maim you in any way. I'm pretty certain he had some comedic antics with guns in the old show.

>>702123
>and that the psuedo-3D areas were top down and more puzzle based

there's not one thing in any of BM's 3d areas that remotely resembles being puzzle based

>>702124
>>702127
So, how faithful would Fester's Quest be? I'm sure the alien invasion was tacked on, unless there was an episode where aliens came down and fucked with the family.

Looking back at licensed games, it seems like they had a very good grasp on what the games were based on. For example, Karate Kid was mostly a retelling of Karate Kid 1's ending and Karate Kid 2, while Friday the 13th was a mixture of the various movies.

I played the shit out of it.
Been a long, long time.

>>702141
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVUZ_dF8WEs

The show was episodic. You could do any kind of adventures you want as long as the characters maintain their personalities.

>>702141
Fester's Quest is considered cannon in the addam's family plotline. (oh god we're discussing continuity with an addam's family game) But it did not happen in another instance only in this game.

Bought from Sears. Returned too hard thought defective - no whip like I heard about. New copy no whip wtf. Play for hours, earn whip.

This game is hard.

>>702153
>>702156
Are you serious? Oh wow, this is fucking incredible.

>>702153
well the show was designed around the concept of a "live action cartoon" in the first place, wasn't it?

>>701571
>Not posting the boss theme

It's like you're snubbing the greatest song on the soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm6uu67r5to

>>702169
>returned because too hard
how did you ever play NES games at all?

>>702218
It's stupidly hard even for an NES game. However, at least you can beat Fester's Quest, unlike Legacy of the Wizard.

>>701874
Return of the Joker isn't exceptionally long. It's only, I think, four stages.

>>702358
7 stages, 9 if you count the shooting segments.

>>702369
I have the Gameboy one. I just looked it up and learned that the NES game is very different. My bad.

>>701594

I played this on a B&W set, the downgrades were annoying as fuck

>>702218
I can tell you never did. You never lived before the internet. You never lived in a time when Nintendo Power and strategy guides were the only official word about a game. You were never told that you start the game with the whip by one of these reputable sources.

Are you saying that with this information you would have chosen to keep a game that was clearly not as promoted?

>>702218
>>703490
Additional information for the underaged /v/-spawned pseudo retrogamer. The book in question is Ultimate Unauthorized NINTENDO! Game Strategies by Corey Sandler and Tom Badgett. Copyright 1989, ISBN 0-553-34892-2 I still have it right here.

This is the best platformer ever made.

What?

>>703494
p. 99 "Pressing the START button suspends play...switch between Fester's gun or whip"

p.101 "To beat the alien bosses, you'll want to use your whip, and you'll want it to have full power."

I can tell the one talking shit is talking shit because I played Fester's Quest and you have to fight the first boss with no whip. So I'm incapable of playing NES games?

>>703507
He didn't say "need", he said "want". Meaning "if you have the whip, use that instead".

>>703513
YOUR whip asshole.

>>703516
I don't get it. Am I being rused?

>>703523
Don't care, kid at Sears was all muffed up by it too but he switched it like a good boy. Deal with it.

>>702101

There was a couple of episodes of the original tv series where he uses a gun. For the most part, Fester was all about dynamite and explosives

>>702141
The alien plot was tacked on, but the game is pretty faithful to the series. Especially Fester's items and how the work.

>>702141
Fun fact: The "inconsistencies" in the TMNT NES game weren't due to Konami not doing its homework, it's because they were tapped to make the game at the same time the entire franchise was being made

The underground comic already existed but the whole kid-oriented franchise (Toys, cartoon, archie comic, videogame, cereal et al) was charted out all at once. So Konami had some initial design documents but were actually working on the game at the same time the cartoon and archie comic were still being made. That's why it's like it is; it's a weird blend of cartoon and underground comic elements because it was developed alongside rather than after

>>702218
kid I'd like to teleport you back to the 80s with a rental copy of StarTropics with no manual

>>701658

>The Yurop version fixes this, meaning your shots now go through walls.

Thanks for the info anon, gotta go and buy that.

>>703501
Only played the SNES version. Any differences?

It was one of my favourite game as a child, I played it for the first time in at least ten years in december, got raped beyond belief

>>704336
I actually don't know. I haven't played it despite owning it. AFAIK there are minor graphics and sound differences, but I think they're pretty much the same. The NES and Gameboy versions are completely different and really shitty IMO. Gonna try it out tonight and get back to you on that.

>>703938
>getting that far in just a rental

>>702153
Caroyln Jones was fucking beauitful.

>>705783
It's easy to look good in black and white. Can barely even see her nose in that picture

The Addams Family Values game could be seen as a remake/throwback of Fester's Quest.

>>705796
I would've beaten that game eventually had I ever found a place to save.

>>701448
One of the staples of my childhood. I legitimately love this game.

The Fester's Quest licensing made my dad curious enough to OK the buy, the difficulty and quality spoken of in publications made me want it...why did I not combine these things again to get Sunsoft's Batman games?

For you, Op

>>701594
play the European pal version. it actually manages to sound better then the NTSC version and bullets go through walls.

I loved Fester's Quest. Went back and replayed it, and it's still a really great game.

>>706523
that dreamworks face could use a little work

>>706523

Thanks, bro.

Also, i've got to play the PAL version and boy, what an improvement. It takes some of the difficulty away but the game is alot more enjoyable, especially with a turbo controller. My first playthrough, I made it to the third boss without dying once.

That being said it's almost too easy. I'm not complaining but if feels like Sunsoft added cheap difficulty to extend the play time. Regardless, it's a fun game to play through if you've never played it. You'll especially love it if you're a fan of the Addams Family.

>>701448

Still play it to this day

You are not alone OP

>>708772
it not that easy. if you want easy collect keys and use them in the upper middle left of the boss screen (i think) and instant kill a boss and get invisible potions.

>>705880
Cousin Itt saved the game, he is somewhere in the swamps, it sucks though since it uses a password system. I had the game as a kid but unfortunately never beat it then, i just got to play again on an emulator a few months ago.

>>706523
>Quan Chi has allergic reaction to spider bite.jpg