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I remember as a kid [around 7 yrs old] that my parents bought my brothers and I our first game system. This was 1990 and Nintendo was all the rage but at this point we were poor. We just moved from Texas to Chicago in hopes for a better future. We were poor in Texas and we started off poor in a new city. Anyhow, my parents bought us the Sega Master System with a few games and a gun that went along a “Duck Hunt” type of game.

I remember being really happy and content because we had something to play with. Plus some of the games were for 2 players. I remember that we [mostly I really] were fascinated with one game in particular. It was “Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars”. It was weird because it had all sorts of things. It had a Halloween like level with zombies, pumpkins, ghosts, naked biker dudes farting out skulls.

I was so happy to find out that this title is apart of the Wii Virtual Console. This game is bringing me back to my youth. I love it!

Here is a recap of the game from:

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/alexkidd/alexkidd.htm

Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars is a bit of a departure from the original - it ditches all of the block smashing and vehicle riding in favor of a more straightforward move-right-and-jump-over-stuff approach. As a result, it feels even closer to the Super Mario Bros. than the original, which actually ends up reasonably well. It’s Alex’s task to find all twelve Zodiac signs this time. In an interesting twist, The Lost Stars actually gives you unlimited lives but forces you to play against a timer. Getting hit or falling down a pit will reduce the timer or send you back a few screens, so it’s a bit more forgiving than the original game. You’ll come across power-ups which let you jump higher, restore your timer, or give you a limited amount of shots to destroy most enemies with. The graphics are bright, colorful, and full of detail, and the music is horribly catchy. The levels range from a childish toy land to a robotic factory to an odd Halloween level to an outer space stage to the interior of some gigantic creature. It’s a creative bunch of levels, to say the last. The only real pitfall is that the game is really only six stages long - you have to play through each level twice to beat the game entirely, although the second time things are a bit more difficult. Lazy level designers.

December 09, 2009, 1:05am Comments

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