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Post by Discoalucard on Oct 1, 2010 18:46:16 GMT -5
www.hardcoregaming101.net/jimpower/jimpower.htmlAudi brings us a look at this European superhero. I actually had no idea this was a series. I knew about the SNES game because one of my friends in college heard me playing Ys III and thought the music sounded remarkably familiar. There is one song that sounds a LOT like the Valestine Castle theme. The composer, the legendary Chris Hülsbeck, admits it may have snuck in unconsciously.
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Post by Shellshock on Oct 1, 2010 23:08:29 GMT -5
This reminds me of Risky Woods. P.S.: Why is Jim Power based on Denny Blaze?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2010 5:00:47 GMT -5
There is one song that sounds a LOT like the Valestine Castle theme. The composer, the legendary Chris Hülsbeck, admits it may have snuck in unconsciously. Don't you mean "A Searing Struggle" from Ys III, the lava pit track? Unless there's another Jim Power track that sounds very much like Ys III that I'm not familiar with.
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Post by derboo on Oct 2, 2010 6:19:08 GMT -5
Wow, that's a very obvious homage(?).
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Post by theallseeingmole on Oct 2, 2010 11:57:37 GMT -5
I'm not a very skilled gamer but I disagree about Jim Power's difficulty.Actually I remember making it to the last level on my third try.The shmup levels are disastrously designed but enemy patterns are so predictable that it's impossible to die with practice while the bosses are either pushovers or extremely unfair.Still I don't think it's an awful game,it just falls very short of its potential.
At least Chris Huelsbeck's music rocks.
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Post by KeeperBvK on Apr 27, 2011 22:55:02 GMT -5
Sorry to dig out the thread, but why does the author keep mentioning vertical shooter levels, when (telling by the screens) they obviously are horizontally scrolling? And on another note I find it pretty hilarious that they used the first game's Amiga cover as the PC cover for the second game, despite the ingame appearance of Jim having been drastically altered. And in the interview it says
So what was it? A PC-Engine or a SuperGrafx? If it was a PC-Engine, then the term given in the brackets should be Turbo-Grafx, as that's the Western name for the system. SuperGrafx is the follow-up.
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Post by zentradialert on Mar 5, 2015 23:06:25 GMT -5
Many years ago I emailed Huelsbeck about the Ys III musical similarity and got the same basic response. At that time, nobody online seemed to be making the same connection - good to see it wasn’t all just a figment of my imagination.
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Post by Weasel on Mar 20, 2015 14:28:20 GMT -5
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Post by Neo Rasa on Mar 20, 2015 19:59:35 GMT -5
Y'all ever play Realm on the SNES? It's not amazing but is very much an Amiga style game but with SNES power behind it like SNES Jim Power. Worth checking out. It was done by Flair who did a few games like this.
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Post by Malev on Sept 30, 2015 19:14:03 GMT -5
store.steampowered.com/app/370270/So this got released. It has the DOS and SNES version with an enhanced port of the latter, along with future unreleased Genesis port and some other additions later.
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Sept 30, 2015 20:15:25 GMT -5
Beat me to posting. Really an unexpected release, but it'll be interesting if they also make unreleased material resurface.
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Post by Weasel on Sept 30, 2015 22:35:58 GMT -5
I'm most interested in what they claim to be an 8-bit NES version in the pipeline.
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Post by Malev on Sept 30, 2015 22:36:25 GMT -5
I'm most interested in what they claim to be an 8-bit NES version in the pipeline. Going by the publisher's youtube, it's a fan-homebrew that was in the works.
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