Comments on: Retro Review: Alex Kidd in Miracle World (and its theme song) http://willooi.com/2009/12/retro-review-alex-kidd-in-miracle-world-and-its-theme-song/ An aspiring writer, distracted by Japan Thu, 03 May 2012 20:05:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Will Ooi http://willooi.com/2009/12/retro-review-alex-kidd-in-miracle-world-and-its-theme-song/comment-page-1/#comment-469 Will Ooi Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:20:09 +0000 http://www.willooi.com/?p=782#comment-469 Haha good spot, owned! I can't even remember now, I got them fairly close to each other and they've sorta blended into the one memory... along with the other games I had for a day or two before refunding - Populous and Global Command. Never figured out what the hell I was supposed to do with the former, and could never get around the controls for the latter. Trying to micromanage those little settlers in Populous was such a frustrating experience, and the only time I managed to build up enough magic on my god-meter to cause a flood or whatever and it didn't do anything. I used to watch the intro gameplay footage repeatedly and imagine that it was me who was playing, building all those castles and soldiers, lol. Alex Kidd in High Tech World was an RPG? No way! At least the cover had the word ACTION I suppose, which would've been better than this effort <img src="http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/9130/smspw3jl.jpg" alt="" /> Next blog might be about Sega's deception and abuse of their fanboys? For me it wasn't that bad, it was just the failure of the Saturn, but man...you had a Mega Drive and 32X and Sega CD and <em>everything </em>eh? Haha good spot, owned! I can’t even remember now, I got them fairly close to each other and they’ve sorta blended into the one memory… along with the other games I had for a day or two before refunding – Populous and Global Command. Never figured out what the hell I was supposed to do with the former, and could never get around the controls for the latter. Trying to micromanage those little settlers in Populous was such a frustrating experience, and the only time I managed to build up enough magic on my god-meter to cause a flood or whatever and it didn’t do anything. I used to watch the intro gameplay footage repeatedly and imagine that it was me who was playing, building all those castles and soldiers, lol.

Alex Kidd in High Tech World was an RPG? No way! At least the cover had the word ACTION I suppose, which would’ve been better than this effort

Next blog might be about Sega’s deception and abuse of their fanboys? For me it wasn’t that bad, it was just the failure of the Saturn, but man…you had a Mega Drive and 32X and Sega CD and everything eh?

]]> By: Branko http://willooi.com/2009/12/retro-review-alex-kidd-in-miracle-world-and-its-theme-song/comment-page-1/#comment-467 Branko Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:48:02 +0000 http://www.willooi.com/?p=782#comment-467 Oh Btw man.... contradicted yourself in the cart blog! So which was it? Secret Command or Enduro Racer HAHA! lies... everywhere.... :) Oh Btw man…. contradicted yourself in the cart blog! So which was it? Secret Command or Enduro Racer HAHA! lies… everywhere….

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]]> By: Branko http://willooi.com/2009/12/retro-review-alex-kidd-in-miracle-world-and-its-theme-song/comment-page-1/#comment-466 Branko Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:11:00 +0000 http://www.willooi.com/?p=782#comment-466 My memory is almost the same as yours, except at the store I foolishly picked a game called Aztec Adventure. Oh what an error I had made. I later found that it was possibly the most boring, repetitive and plain NOT FUN game on the master system. I was falsely drawn in to all the action it promised on its front cover. I couldn’t see the back cover as it was kept behind a glass cupboard, cleverly masking its unfun looking screenshots until my mum had already paid for it. Damn you and your dirty tricks K-mart. Thank god for Alex Kidd....which I did finish, maybe one day I can take you through it bro ;) for some reason I can’t recall there was another water stage after the golden castle...weird That pic you have of Alex Kidd in High Tech World reminds me of another time I was tricked by false box art and blatant lies such as the word ACTION! In the top left hand corner. At least I learnt how slow and unfun an rpg could be. In fact, now that i think about it....the whole time as a Sega fanboy i was constantly tricked...still...I had fun Man I think I still have about 50 SMS carts if you ever want to relive those days. Saturn 4 Life My memory is almost the same as yours, except at the store I foolishly picked a game called Aztec Adventure. Oh what an error I had made. I later found that it was possibly the most boring, repetitive and plain NOT FUN game on the master system.

I was falsely drawn in to all the action it promised on its front cover. I couldn’t see the back cover as it was kept behind a glass cupboard, cleverly masking its unfun looking screenshots until my mum had already paid for it. Damn you and your dirty tricks K-mart.

Thank god for Alex Kidd….which I did finish, maybe one day I can take you through it bro ;) for some reason I can’t recall there was another water stage after the golden castle…weird

That pic you have of Alex Kidd in High Tech World reminds me of another time I was tricked by false box art and blatant lies such as the word ACTION! In the top left hand corner. At least I learnt how slow and unfun an rpg could be. In fact, now that i think about it….the whole time as a Sega fanboy i was constantly tricked…still…I had fun

Man I think I still have about 50 SMS carts if you ever want to relive those days.

Saturn 4 Life

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