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5146336 No.5146336 [Reply] [Original]

Talk about Alleyway.

>> No.5146372

Always preferred Side Streets myself

>> No.5146378

Pretty cool for an 80s Game Boy title but nothing really special today.

>> No.5147319
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5147319

It's a Mario game.

>> No.5147396

Was lame in 1989 and is still lame today

>> No.5147607

>>5146336

Jeremy Parish said it best: the first few rounds of Gameboy games were meant to flush out the system. We need a shooter (ok, Solar Striker) or we need some arcade games (ok, alleyway, etc)

At this point alleyway is such a basic game that it's probably not worth playing it on Gameboy unless you specifically really like Alleyway games and their different permutations, or just Gameboy history in particular.

>> No.5147608
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5147608

Crystal Hammer masterrace reporting in.

>> No.5147618

>>5146336
Is this one of Nintendo's most blatant rip-offs?

Mostly Nintendo was pretty innovative back in the day, but this game is a straight up Breakout clone.

>> No.5147619
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>>5147618
No. Nintendo started out making breakout clones.

>> No.5147624
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>>5147619
Sad note. Alex Kidd and the Monkey now share a low income apartment in Sendai.

>> No.5147629

>>5147619
Ha, I never saw that one. It's actually an interesting spin on the breakout concept. Breakout didn't do much except scroll the blocks.

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>>5147629
Oh. I forgot about Nintendo TV GAME Block Breaker.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xwgBUrMJY9s

>> No.5147756
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Alleyway was an acceptable launch title, but the physics of the game is noticeably primitive and limited.

Dragon Dance is the patrician's choice for handheld ball n' paddle.

>> No.5147757

>>5147619
>>5147667

Tons of big Japanese game companies from the 80s or 90s started out in games making breakout clones or space invaders clones.

>> No.5147817

>>5147619
>>5147624
Oh yeah, someone found an actual Monkey Magic cabinet right? So it's in some Sendai apartment now?

>> No.5147849

Egawalls > *

>> No.5148912

>>5147619
I just looked this game up on youtube and boy is it morbidly charming. Gonna play it a bunch tonight.

>> No.5148961

>>5146336
I remember seeing concept art of this and it was a dude flying that tube thing in space and bouncing that ball to hit blocks.

If he was in space what the fuck was he even breaking blocks for? What happened to the balls that he lost?