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Mach Rider
Mega Man 3
Mickey Mousecapade
Millipede
Mach Rider: Publisher: Nintendo.
Year: 1985. Difficulty: Hard. Graphics: Good.
This game is a challenging test of your dexterity. On your motorcycle you have to blast enemies and various objects while keeping on the highway and avoiding obstacles. Not only do you have to worry about what's in front of you, you have to watch out from the enemies who will strike from behind. For a game made in 1985, the graphics are actually pretty good. You can tell a motorcycle is motorcycle, a barrel is a barrel, etc.
Mickey Mousecapade: Publisher: Capcom. Year: 1988. Difficulty: Medium. Graphics: Good.
A bright, cheerful game starring Mickey & Minnie Mouse with a cast of cooky enemies. Mickey Mouse does all the action in this game, and Minnie is more of a hindrance. Mickey has to guard Minnie while fighting the bad guys so if something happens to Minnie it hurts him, too. She follows him wherever he goes. Make sure Minnie makes the difficult jumps, too, because that could cost you a life. The graphics are pretty good, but the characters of Mickey and Minnie are drawn a little crude. They look like midget versions of the classic white-face era of their characters. The backgrounds are very well done and look impressive. Mickey has to kill the bad guys by throwing magic stars. A fun game for little kids or grown-up fans of Mickey Mouse with lots to see and do!
Millipede: Publisher: Hal America. Year: 1988. Difficulty: Hard. Graphics: High.
It's "Centipede", but called "Millipede" for the NES. Very clean and colorful graphics and the arrangement of scores and other statistics on the screen is really wonderfully done. A lot better than most Centipede clones made. This is the classic arcade version style of the game, not the 3-D version that would come out later in the 1990s for different systems. It's easy to play this game, but very hard to win. You can move and shoot pretty easy, but they cram too many enemies on the screen too soon. I like some of the other versions, like Atari's, where it starts you off slow and you can just shoot the centipede segments for awhile, then later on more spiders and other kinds of bugs come into the game. You could work yourself up to it. In "Millipede", you're automatically started off with centipedes, spiders, worms, and all kinds of falling objects. It's very hard to begin with and just gets harder. But it's a fun game, despite its simple premise. The old video games like this are fun distractions, but I really enjoy the games of the late 1980s to mid 1990s the best.
This game is a challenging test of your dexterity. On your motorcycle you have to blast enemies and various objects while keeping on the highway and avoiding obstacles. Not only do you have to worry about what's in front of you, you have to watch out from the enemies who will strike from behind. For a game made in 1985, the graphics are actually pretty good. You can tell a motorcycle is motorcycle, a barrel is a barrel, etc.
Mickey Mousecapade: Publisher: Capcom. Year: 1988. Difficulty: Medium. Graphics: Good.
A bright, cheerful game starring Mickey & Minnie Mouse with a cast of cooky enemies. Mickey Mouse does all the action in this game, and Minnie is more of a hindrance. Mickey has to guard Minnie while fighting the bad guys so if something happens to Minnie it hurts him, too. She follows him wherever he goes. Make sure Minnie makes the difficult jumps, too, because that could cost you a life. The graphics are pretty good, but the characters of Mickey and Minnie are drawn a little crude. They look like midget versions of the classic white-face era of their characters. The backgrounds are very well done and look impressive. Mickey has to kill the bad guys by throwing magic stars. A fun game for little kids or grown-up fans of Mickey Mouse with lots to see and do!
Millipede: Publisher: Hal America. Year: 1988. Difficulty: Hard. Graphics: High.
It's "Centipede", but called "Millipede" for the NES. Very clean and colorful graphics and the arrangement of scores and other statistics on the screen is really wonderfully done. A lot better than most Centipede clones made. This is the classic arcade version style of the game, not the 3-D version that would come out later in the 1990s for different systems. It's easy to play this game, but very hard to win. You can move and shoot pretty easy, but they cram too many enemies on the screen too soon. I like some of the other versions, like Atari's, where it starts you off slow and you can just shoot the centipede segments for awhile, then later on more spiders and other kinds of bugs come into the game. You could work yourself up to it. In "Millipede", you're automatically started off with centipedes, spiders, worms, and all kinds of falling objects. It's very hard to begin with and just gets harder. But it's a fun game, despite its simple premise. The old video games like this are fun distractions, but I really enjoy the games of the late 1980s to mid 1990s the best.