Every Saturday early morning I used to wake up the first at home to get the TV commander, but I got tired of watching repetitive cartoons and series like the G.I. Joe's, Masters Of The Universe or the Power Rangers... Then we got the NES, and completing specially any of these three games became a ritual to me, just before going to the park to play soccer or ride the bike:
The gameplay of Shadow Warriors II, the music and cinematics entertained me quite well during months. By the way, I got the timing to kill the famous bird with a single blow at its first strike very soon, so it was never a headache to me.
Sometimes, when my bro also wake up early, we changed to Double Dragon II in cooperative mode to play together, but we rarely finished it because of his bad timing at the latest jumping platforms zones, which made us lose lots of necessary lives
. Despite it, it was a very fun game, maybe kinda ugly, but with that hypnotic feel that made us to not leave the gamepad until Game Over screen.
And then we got TMNT II and we started to get along better, because of the more dynamic gameplay and our coop tactics to beat the hordes of foot soldiers or even the bosses.
The other game I played and completed maybe too many times was Soul Edge/Soul Blade.
First at the japanese version, because it was a very cutting edge 3D fighter at its time and I loved the hard gameplay, the intro and the BGM... Secondly at the later english version to try to complete the Edge Master Mode and now get all the swords (I still did't know that none English was necessary to do that, but at least I learned more about the story)... And finally I got back to the japanese version again because of the uncensored intro and because I noticed that some characters had multiple endings depending on wether you pressed certain buttons or not during their cinematics... So in fact I enjoyed this game three times.
