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Post by Discoalucard on Aug 27, 2011 22:31:55 GMT -5
www.hardcoregaming101.net/gimmick/gimmick.htmSunsoft's swan song (I think?) for the Famicom, it's a brilliant little side-scroller whose cutesiness betrays its maddening difficulty level. It's a pretty long review and I'm not sure it really brings much else to the table that Frank Cifaldi's longplay didn't cover, but I did put up the awful review that EGM did for the game, and talked a bit about the PSOne port. I had wanted to pick this game up when I was in Japan, but I only found two boxed copies, each of which were over 10000 yen. Of course any few copies I see here on eBay go for easily twice that, but I didn't feel like spending the $120+ for a single game at that point. Instead I used the Japanese PSN card to buy the PSOne game and be confounded by the music changes.
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Post by Shellshock on Aug 28, 2011 7:05:57 GMT -5
There's a screenshot of Trip World at the bottom, so I'm sure you are aware of this, but I think exploring the relationship between Gimmick! and Trip World might be worth a paragraph. There are clear patterns between the two, including the then unique philosophy of "a real living world" behind both games (funny enough, I think I used your same words when describing Trip World's land).
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Post by Jave on Aug 28, 2011 11:34:29 GMT -5
There's a slight formatting slip early on.
and all the text is italicized from that point on.
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Post by PooshhMao on Aug 28, 2011 22:31:19 GMT -5
Thank you so much for this. I didn't know at all about Gimmick!, so I got the rom which I intend to play as soon as I finished watching the annotated Youtube playthrough.
EDIT: there's already a link in the article.
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Post by jorpho on Aug 29, 2011 14:45:18 GMT -5
wut
Maybe you meant "designed" in that second case?
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Post by Discoalucard on Aug 29, 2011 14:55:58 GMT -5
ARGH did I use an old draft for the article? I remember explicitly fixing that once I read over it, but must've pasted in the wrong one.
It should read "they are not designed so much as tossed together".
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Post by vetus on Sept 15, 2013 19:12:35 GMT -5
So there were plans for worldwide released but got cancelled. OK. However it got a release for Scandinavia. And my question is: why only in Scandinavia? My only guess would be that maybe NES was still successful there but in Europe Master System was much more popular than NES.
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Post by bakudon on Sept 16, 2013 0:25:10 GMT -5
Don't know if that really was the reason, but Master System sure as hell wasn't popular in Scandinavia.
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Post by vetus on Sept 16, 2013 18:52:01 GMT -5
It wasn't? Weird. In my knowledge in most european countries Master System outsold NES (at least in Greece did since NES came out much later than Master System and even with Super Mario Bros's success there were more people who owned a Master System).
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Post by bakudon on Sept 16, 2013 23:52:54 GMT -5
Well, I can't cough up numbers, only anecdotal evidence from personal experience, but NES was pretty much synonymous with video game console around 1990. Most kids had NESes, and Master Systems were few and far between. I don't think Master System games were even sold at regular department stores, like NES games were.
I'm not old enough to remember how things were around the time the NES was launched, but my gut feeling is it probably made little progress against the C64, which was quite popular.
Now Mega Drive and SNES, that was a more even battle, but I think SNES eventually gained an edge in that, too.
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