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Post by derboo on Oct 31, 2014 14:51:12 GMT -5
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Post by Malev on Oct 31, 2014 16:10:37 GMT -5
The SNES game took YEARS to come out. Nintendo Power had screenshots about the game since 1991 if not 1990. I wonder how many complications arose since the preview shots aren't too far off from the finished product.
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Post by TheChosen on Oct 31, 2014 16:38:24 GMT -5
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Post by drpepperfan on Oct 31, 2014 17:06:11 GMT -5
Link is dead for me. the HG101 that is
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Post by vnisanian2001 on Oct 31, 2014 17:38:50 GMT -5
Semi-off topic:
Who was the better Nosferatu on film? Klaus Kinski or Max Schreck?
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Post by Malev on Oct 31, 2014 18:29:53 GMT -5
Semi-off topic: Who was the better Nosferatu on film? Klaus Kinski or Max Schreck? How about Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire?
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Post by Joseph Joestar on Oct 31, 2014 18:32:49 GMT -5
Link is dead for me. the HG101 that is I didn't want to bring it up ;p. Add "1986" to the end of nosferatu and it'll take you to the page.
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Post by Weasel on Oct 31, 2014 18:56:54 GMT -5
Link is dead for me. the HG101 that is I didn't want to bring it up ;p. Add "1986" to the end of nosferatu and it'll take you to the page. I've corrected the OP with the fix.
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Post by vnisanian2001 on Oct 31, 2014 19:10:12 GMT -5
Semi-off topic: Who was the better Nosferatu on film? Klaus Kinski or Max Schreck? How about Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire? Somehow, I forgot there was a Shadow of the Vampire adaptation.
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Post by Malev on Oct 31, 2014 19:52:21 GMT -5
Found a scan from the Sept '91 issue of Nintendo Power showing Nosferatu from that summer CES way before final release. The brick tiles are different and it doesn't show the UI info but looks pretty far along even back then.
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Post by kingmike on Nov 1, 2014 0:13:14 GMT -5
I recall it was also in Nintendo's "Super NES Player's Guide" in the "Future Releases" section. Though most of the games were released in 1992 (Ultima VI was in there, I read it was released in 1993) but I remember wanting to play that but it seemed like the game was never going to get released. (the games reviewed in the guide were mostly released in 1991. A Link to the Past was reviewed, but with one beta shot of Link fighting a red Armos at the same time as five blues, if that dates it). The game has gotten pretty expensive the last couple years as well, I think.
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Post by Malev on Nov 1, 2014 0:47:57 GMT -5
I recall it was also in Nintendo's "Super NES Player's Guide" in the "Future Releases" section. Though most of the games were released in 1992 (Ultima VI was in there, I read it was released in 1993) but I remember wanting to play that but it seemed like the game was never going to get released. Found the scan: This title was one of the first "vaporware" titles for me, as well.
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Post by Neo Rasa on Nov 1, 2014 1:17:17 GMT -5
I love horror games so I really appreciate this article going with a theme rather than a series, but I notice a lack of content regarding Nosferatu (1994). I have a complete SNES copy if you want the US cover/manual/etc. Really weird that the game takes place in the present day but the only sign in the game itself is Kyle's clothing. The woman he's trying to rescue is named Erin. I want to say that in the Japanese version there's a bit more detail about them being college students on a trip to Europe to research something or other but in the US version there's no background beyond Kyle being on a quest to beat up Nosferatu because he kidnapped Erin. Any of the other story stuff in the previews is gone.
Also that third type of crystal is pretty cool. Each one gives you a new linking move that lets you do more combos and different kinds of kicks and such. It's not very complex but it's cool that the manual has a full combo grid and everything for the moves.
Most importantly, did you all know that there's a soft porn, official sequel to Nosferatu the Vampyre called Nosferatu in Venice? It stars Klaus Kinski himself along with Christopher Plummer and Donald Pleasence!!!
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Post by derboo on Nov 1, 2014 1:33:19 GMT -5
Also that third type of crystal is pretty cool. Each one gives you a new linking move that lets you do more combos and different kinds of kicks and such. It's not very complex but it's cool that the manual has a full combo grid and everything for the moves. I never realized that while playing the game. Gotta go back and explore this a bit... Most importantly, did you all know that there's a soft porn, official sequel to Nosferatu the Vampyre called Nosferatu in Venice? It stars Klaus Kinski himself along with Christopher Plummer and Donald Pleasence!!! "Official sequel" is a bit of an overstatement, "shameless cash-in" is more like it. Neither the director nor the production company are the same, and it was made in Italy. It's just that Kinski's also in it because he just didn't care. I just love the conundrum that is the 1986 game - it's a licensed game tie-in to a movie that is a remake of another movie that is an unauthorized adaption of a book.
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Post by Neo Rasa on Nov 1, 2014 1:56:19 GMT -5
It is both official and shameless. I still can't believe the 1986 Nosferatu game is real. Like how there was that Warlock game on the Genesis/SNES in 1994/5 from a 1989 movie. Nosferatu (1994) is such a weird looking game. The backgrounds are awesome but the bosses and most of the enemies are so awkwardly executed. I remember in most of the levels it was best to not even fight anything you could run through. I like the sound in it a lot though. Dang Castlevania already beat us to having mummy twins, uh, uhm, uh, oh APE TWINS YESSS!!! I'm sure that revelation is what made the complete and release the game. Anyways check this out: i.imgur.com/wgK6IxD.jpgMost of these moves you can do whenever if you're running and hit diagonal+Y and so on, but the crystals let you combo them together. It's easy to miss without the manual since it doesn't really get interesting until you have like six of them.
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