Are there any good games by DATA EAST on the NES?

[qw90700]

My kids LOVE Rampage.

Never knew it was from/by them... Huh! (Then again, that may be because we play the N64 version).

Rampage is such a game most boys would like because its so "male stuff" the game is about lol.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

Look at that, they worked on parasol henebee; I remember it being decent while I was digging through random english patched roms

Boulder dash fc is also a good version



Oh yeah it Was on the vita..
I tried the first game forba couple minutes and it looked very well put together

I was always curious about the ps2 version, it looked like tsthe kind pf rpg Id like, it had a noce cover art and this screenshot in particular caught my eye
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But now these Other screenshots got my attention
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Yeah its a crazy game-series and its world is open to explore which has many secrets inbetween and optional dungeons too .
That it always had almost no story made it really enjoyable overall because the player itsself sets the next goal what he's doing next or what he wanna explore first .
Just making the bounty hunts , exploring the wasteland , looking for secrets , interacting with computers and stuff and maybe find some interesting info while finding secrets camps with overpowered parts/equipments/upgrades that costs a fortune is just the perfect jam to me for agood RPG-experience .

It is like a gen 1 and 2 pokemon game that makes exploration always worthwhile , grinding the money and levels in ease if you know what you set-up your vehicles & equipments to one shot the enemies and there is always more than you think . Except there are no pokemons but military vehicles to find and discover . And the customisation of those vehicles is ridicoules deep since the first game .

I tell you , in Metal Max Returns / 1 if you get the ambulance-car , its already one of the best vehicles of the game . You can make that thing into monster of destruction and a tanky behemoth at the same time . And as an icing on this awesome post-apocalyptic cake , there is the best tomboy-girl who kicks ass and has an attitude that elevates this game immensly .

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Rampage is such a game most boys would like because its so "male stuff" the game is about lol.

True dat.

It's a great stress-reliever, too.

I know the N64 version was panned (and continues to be panned), but I seriously cannot fathom why.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

True dat.

It's a great stress-reliever, too.

I know the N64 version was panned (and continues to be panned), but I seriously cannot fathom why.

Maybe it's the same reason godzilla save the earth has a low score everywhere despite being everything you'd want from a Godzilla game, outside of the drab arcade mode

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Yeah its a crazy game-series and its world is open to explore which has many secrets inbetween and optional dungeons too .
That it always had almost no story made it really enjoyable overall because the player itsself sets the next goal what he's doing next or what he wanna explore first .
Just making the bounty hunts , exploring the wasteland , looking for secrets , interacting with computers and stuff and maybe find some interesting info while finding secrets camps with overpowered parts/equipments/upgrades that costs a fortune is just the perfect jam to me for agood RPG-experience .

It is like a gen 1 and 2 pokemon game that makes exploration always worthwhile , grinding the money and levels in ease if you know what you set-up your vehicles & equipments to one shot the enemies and there is always more than you think . Except there are no pokemons but military vehicles to find and discover . And the customisation of those vehicles is ridicoules deep since the first game .

I tell you , in Metal Max Returns / 1 if you get the ambulance-car , its already one of the best vehicles of the game . You can make that thing into monster of destruction and a tanky behemoth at the same time . And as an icing on this awesome post-apocalyptic cake , there is the best tomboy-girl who kicks ass and has an attitude that elevates this game immensly .

This got more interesting the more I hear about it! I think I'll go with the first game, sounds perfect to emulate on a psvita, especially with the early pokemon parallels

Tomboy eh?

 

[RestoredaftrLostv2]

Japan only, but I like Metal max and Little Magic games. Metal max has remake on the snes, and Little magic is easy to navigate....wish the series gets translated, but doubt they will.

 

[hazys]

Most console ports of Data East arcade games were heavily compromised, and their RPGs (like Heracles no Eikou) were rarely if ever localized. Even BurgerTime, which is a classic, has a better GameBoy port.

On arcades they put out lots of second-rung classics; as well as Boogie Wings, one of the coolest and most unique shooters ever; and The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy, a similarly unique beat-'em-up/platformer. I think they're also the developers of the Tantei Jinguji Saburo aka Jake Hunter series of detective-adventure games.

 

[qw90700]

I know the N64 version was panned (and continues to be panned), but I seriously cannot fathom why.

It's basically because of 2 reasons:

1) Around that era arcade-style games lost popularity. Instead of "fun gameplays" people wanted "interesting games" in any way other than gameplay. That's why boring ass games are still in top 10 lists just because "dude it's like a movie" or "dude it has a great story". It was when games being less of a game started too.

2) In the era of 3D it was business suicide to release 2D games, especially sidescrolling ones. Once 3D in arcades got popular people wanted it on consoles and when they bought a console they had a reflex to puke on the screen when the game is 2D lol. Naturaly in 3D-era people expected 3D games on N64 and PS1.

It also have side reasons:

- It was just a simple "remake" port game, people expected something more and different. Then people thought "why people should buy this game when we played the same shit on previous consoles?".

- Unless you care about multiplayer PS1 version is superior. Back then same game could be different between other consoles and therefore people would hate the company when they released the inferior version on the console they have and keeping superior version on another console. This caused a "warning" urge between gamers to let them down which version sucks AF if they wanna play the game.

In the end the game is not bad, its just it was "ancient" for its era and PS1 version is better for some.

 

[UnDubious]

To add on to what was said about Metal Max, Returns on the SNES is great and I highly recommend it. Metal Saga on the PS2 is pretty good too, but it's not as good. It still has a few really memorable parts though, like hunting that ancient rogue self-driving bus in the desert by placing a bus stop to force it to stop. I have yet to play the others. Fun fact about the series is it was created by a friend of Yuji Horii (creator of Dragon Quest) who used to work with him as a writer in the games section of Shonen Jump. He was a DQ fan, but also deliberately set out to make a game that wouldn't just follow its formula (unlike most NES RPGs), so it's quite unique. IMO it's much better at being (somewhat) non-linear than SaGa. You're basically exploring this post-apocalyptic world in your tanks, finding cool things and hunting bounties, while advancing the story now and then. He wanted to avoid melodramatic and sentimental scenes, so the tone varies between straightforward and humorous. There's an interview with him on shmuplations.com.

 

[What's His Face]

Since the title of the thread is for the NES, I'll bring up two that were developed by Data East themselves for the system: Heavy Barrel (a 2-player simultaneous overhead run-and-gun in the same vein of Contra) and Captain America & The Avengers (a side-scroller/platformer romp across America starring Captain America and Hawkeye). While not the best of games, both are a lot of fun to play, which is what matters.

Other games with their name on the packaged were developed by other companies, like Beam Software (makers of such hits as...uhmm...Bad Street Brawler? That can't be right...let's see...Solitaire...the US Airwolf game...Fisher-Price: Perfect Fit...Back the Future II & III... Oh! here's one! Shadowrun...wait...that's SNES...hmm...).