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Help needed to name a game.

  • 02-07-2018 7:58pm
    #1
    CosmicSmash
    Registered Users Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭


    Can anyone help me to name a game, this is the description I have to work off.

    The hero looks like Mario (or maybe Mario himself), he fights using a cane. At the end of each stage, he will obtain a new weapon, like a stick that can emit flames, stick that can conjure a cloud, a stick with a fan at its end, ..etc
    It is 2D, maybe on NES platform

    Has anyone any idea of what it might be?


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  • #2
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,776 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Anything more specific? What type of game and how it played.
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  • #3
    CosmicSmash
    Registered Users Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭CosmicSmash


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Anything more specific? What type of game and how it played.

    Thanks for the reply, I've asked them if they can remember anything else about it. I know I haven't got much to go on at the moment, SonSon was the only game I could think of and it wasn't that.


  • #4
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    Sounds like Duck tales, without the new weapons and the key factor "you're a duck"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYuqB2BPkz4


  • #5
    verycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool


    CathalDublin wrote: »
    Duck tales?


    What I was thinking too when I read that the weapon was a cane.


    But the description also reminds me of Shinobi.


    Like Retr0gamer said can you remember any more details? Did it have a counter at the end of each level... an open world map? Primary colour palette? Distinguishing features of enemies? Counter for health / score?

    EDIT: Also Ninja Gaiden on the NES comes to mind... but then the main character doesn't look like Mario!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueeKMQSS4bw


  • #6
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,776 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Cloud master?

    Kendo Rage?

    Musashi no Ken - Tadaima Shugyou Chuu?

    Since the protagonist has a cane maybe it's one of the game based on journey to the west.
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  • #7
    com1
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭com1


    Monkey Magic?


  • #8
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,526 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    LHX Attack Chopper?


  • #9
    CosmicSmash
    Registered Users Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭CosmicSmash


    I've asked the person and they've come back with this, they seem adamant that the character looked like Mario.

    I don’t remember much about bosses, except for one, who looked like a a bomb
    One of the weapons you obtain is a stick that you can throw it straight to the wall, it will stick & you can climb higher areas
    That stick can also slightly damage enemies and immobilize them
    One weapon is a stick with a fan-like structure that can destroy walls
    The mains character as I remember is Mario, but I searched all Mario games and didn’t see him or the game


  • #10
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,776 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Bubba n'stix?
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  • #11
    CosmicSmash
    Registered Users Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭CosmicSmash


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Bubba n'stix?

    That fits the description, I'll let you know if that's the one.


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  • #12
    CosmicSmash
    Registered Users Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭CosmicSmash


    No joy with Bubba 'n' Stix, I really thought that was going to be it.


  • #13
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,367 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    CosmicSmash wrote: »
    No joy with Bubba 'n' Stix, I really thought that was going to be it.

    LHX Attack Chopper is still on the table :pac:


  • #14
    CosmicSmash
    Registered Users Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭CosmicSmash


    o1s1n wrote: »
    LHX Attack Chopper is still on the table :pac:

    At this stage I'm ruling nothing out, I thought Retro had it with Bubba 'n' Stix.


  • #15
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,121 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    The Addams Family film tie in game on the SNES maybe? Don't know why but it popped into my head from your description. No cane but he had a fencing sword at times and Gomez sort of looks like Mario.


  • #16
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,526 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Not the Blues Brothers is it?


  • #17
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Any idea of the year, not the exact release date, but still have a max year to consider.


  • #18
    CosmicSmash
    Registered Users Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭CosmicSmash


    The mystery has been solved, but not by me. It turns out it was a hack of Saiyuuki World 2 with Mario as the main character called Super Mario Bros 13.:pac: Thanks for all the help and suggestions in trying to work out what it was.



  • #19
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,526 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    So, not LHX then.... bugger....


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