Name this game: A Bard, a Ninja, A Valkyrie..

Amalgam · 04-10-2009 1:15pm #1

Someone help me, this is driving me nuts, recently started playing MAME again.

I used to play this in Adventureland (?) on O'Connell Street, Dublin, as a kid, it was downstairs, just beside the staircase.

You had a choice of a Bard, Valkyrie, Ninja and some other character.. game was quite varied, first level included really annoying zombies that stayed flat until you approached, you could build up a mega spell and transform into, amongst other things, a Stone, or Lightning cloud, or a Pig, if you messed up the selection.

Date of game production, at a stretch, between 1990-1994.

Graphics were quite gritty, a bit Ghoul and Goblins. Game was look down and omni directional.

2nd and 3 rd level bosses, I think one was a group of Griffins, 3rd level was a Dragon.

With the power of Paint, here is the first main level boss. The player had hearts in the corner, for units of life.

Retr0gamer · 04-10-2009 1:30pm

What type of game was ot? Was it a street of rage/ final fight clone? Maybe one of the dungeons and dragons arcade games?

Amalgam · 04-10-2009 1:38pm

Retr0gamer, thanks for your input.

I found it.

Gate of Doom (US) or as it was in Dublin, Dark Seal.

http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=dark-seal&page=detail&id=591

I always played as the Bard..

LoGiE · 04-10-2009 4:53pm

You know, I don't think I've ever heard of that game! :eek:

Amalgam · 04-10-2009 8:44pm

Here's the Boss I 'MS Paint-ed' further up the thread..

I liked the game, I could loiter for a good while on just a credit or two. Very memorable audio.

Retr0gamer · 04-10-2009 10:23pm

The likeness is uncanny.

o1s1n · 04-10-2009 11:03pm

As your original drawing is missing sound effects I can only give you a B-.

Stick some in and I'll bump you up to a B+

Dark Savior · 06-10-2009 5:53pm

Not bad at all.Let's see who can guess one of my fav's of the mid 80's........

Rexelac · 06-10-2009 5:59pm

Metal gear?

Gummy Panda · 06-10-2009 6:10pm

Rambo?

o1s1n · 06-10-2009 6:30pm

Describe your favourite arcade game via MS paint.

I can see this catching on

Dark Savior · 06-10-2009 7:39pm

Nope,both wrong

Retr0gamer · 06-10-2009 7:45pm

It's ikari warriors and not a bad ms paint rendition!

Gummy Panda · 06-10-2009 7:49pm

Dark Savior wrote: »

Nope,both wrong

looks similar to Rambo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo6mLfCrzhg

Dark Savior · 06-10-2009 7:54pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's ikari warriors and not a bad ms paint rendition!

You're a winner !!!!.I was hoping someone would say Guerrilla War.It does look like Rambo too.
Here was the screenshot i used

o1s1n · 06-10-2009 8:20pm

Gummy Panda wrote: »

looks similar to Rambo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo6mLfCrzhg

Similar...but different screen orientation!

Gummy Panda · 06-10-2009 8:25pm

Was Rambo on the Master System even good?

In fact, was anything on the Master System good? :pac:

Dark Savior · 06-10-2009 8:42pm

I'm more of a Nes guy but Sonic,R-type and Streets of Rage are pretty good on the 8 bit machine.
I was bored and went into MS paint again:rolleyes: try name this arcade game....easier this time though.

antor · 06-10-2009 9:15pm

Its midnight resistance,one of my fave games of all time

Retr0gamer · 06-10-2009 10:06pm

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Was Rambo on the Master System even good?

In fact, was anything on the Master System good? :pac:

Not much but there's Golvellius (sp?), Zillion, Sonic 1, 2 and chaos, master of darkness, ninja gaiden (different to any other version) off the top of my head.

Dark Savior · 06-10-2009 10:22pm

antor wrote: »

Its midnight resistance,one of my fave games of all time

Correct and right;)

Dr Bob · 09-10-2009 1:46pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Not much but there's Golvellius (sp?), Zillion, Sonic 1, 2 and chaos, master of darkness, ninja gaiden (different to any other version) off the top of my head.

blasphemy!
The SMS was a fantastic system , better imo than the NES (although the NES beats it on sheer numbers of releases)
great games/conversions, off the top of my head?

R-type
Wonderboy III the dragons trap
Fantasy Zone
any of the Alex Kidd games
Gain ground
Land of illusion
Bubble Bobble
Gauntlet

monty_mole · 10-10-2009 7:54pm

Wow Dark Seal............
I finished that game on 20p (with 1 life left too) a record in the local chipper.:D
Don't think i'll ever forget that, one of my best acheivments EVER....:P
The whole chipper was watching and when i beat the end boss, The whole place went beserk.
I was about 11 years old...........memories

Edit: i used the wizard, She could beat the end boss alot easier than the others

Retr0gamer · 10-10-2009 10:14pm

luas_dublin wrote: »

blasphemy!
The SMS was a fantastic system , better imo than the NES (although the NES beats it on sheer numbers of releases)

You're taking the mickey there. The master system had a handful of excellent games but compared to the NES library it doesn't stand a chance.

Megaman 2 and Mario 3. Thats all have to say and I'm not even skimming the surface.

Dr Bob · 11-10-2009 10:39pm

Every ones entitled to their opinion , and yeah the NES was a decent machine but ,I'm serious , I've always thought the SMS was a better console !
yeah as I mentioned the NES had a lot more releases , as basically they had a stranglehold on games in the US , and the SMS is considered a failure there , but I've found the quality of games for the mastersystem to be a lot higher by and large, usually if there was a NES and a SMS version of a game I've found the sega version to be better.
(plus the SMS version 1 had 2 1/2 games built in , and the SMS II had one, and hey its a sturdier machine as well , no faffing about on ebay for 72 pin adaptors or spending 40 minutes blowing on carts and reseating them 500 times to get them working;))

MB3 is a great game fair enough , but to be honest the megaman games are hugely over rated.
Actually dug out the SMS v1 at the weekend it's been great craic so far.

o1s1n · 11-10-2009 10:48pm

When it comes to comparing machines, I think you fall into a bit of a trap if you side by side games that were released on both.

Sure, in some cases it does show how one system fails and another succeeds.

However in a lot of cases, the game will just be optimised for one machine more than the other.

What you really need to do is compare the quality of exclusive titles on both consoles. As they're the games that show what the console is capable of.

luas_dublin wrote: »

but to be honest the megaman games are hugely over rated.
.

Anyone who says this hasn't played enough Megaman 2.

It's run and gun platforming perfection.

Retr0gamer · 12-10-2009 12:37am

luas_dublin wrote: »

MB3 is a great game fair enough , but to be honest the megaman games are hugely over rated.

I respected your opinion. Until I read this.

The SMS was a way more powerful console than the NES but for me the NES just had the better games and way more of them. The only area the SMS wins is in the RPG stakes and thats mainly due to phantasy star being way ahead of anything at the time.

Dr Bob · 12-10-2009 10:10am

heh
C64 v speccy
snes vs meg
NES v SMS , these things are always fun.
I've always had a soft spot for the SMS ,mainly as its kind of an underdog , and is always written off as a failure by US retrogaming sites/mags etc.
I'm not knocking the NES by the way , but whenever a game was released on both formats the sega version tended to be better.
few examples on this lads youtube channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLxepod1wvI&feature=related

bearing in mind that I was at the start of what a fairly dodgy dose of stomache flu (drugged up to the eyeballs now)I'm willing to concede that MM2 was a decent enough game

Name this game: A Bard, a Ninja, A Valkyrie..

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