One of my daughters beat Castle of Illusion on practice mode at 4 years old. It's really manageable. We covered some of that in the Kids Games thread.
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthr...-school-gaming
- SEGA-Jorge
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One of my daughters beat Castle of Illusion on practice mode at 4 years old. It's really manageable. We covered some of that in the Kids Games thread.
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthr...-school-gaming
- SEGA-Jorge
Yeah, stage 5 is hell lol. Also apparently there's a shortcut (bonus stage that then sends you to next checkpoint) that lets you get past the rising lava section completely... I forgot where it is though =/Quote:
Originally Posted by davidmt
By the way: hold ← + A + B + C in the title screen when you press Start, that should send you to the level select. Good to just skip to whatever stage you want to play (in particular, I would usually either play in easy and stages 1-4, or play in normal and skip to stage 6... yeah I really don't like stage 5 =P)
EDIT: also related to the original request, having a good ending can be really underrated. It doesn't have to be an epicfest but it must make you feel at least that you've accomplished something and can now just sit down and relax while you watch the credits =P
True. In this game (like many others) you get a message at the end saying "try again on hard". I'm not sure if there is a different ending, but I assume so. Kind of makes me feel I didn't really beat the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sik
other ones..
AOF
chiki chiki boys
Vapor Trail
midnight resistance
Virtua Racing
Fatal Fury
Yeah there is, though honestly I wish they left that message only on easy (where the game gets cut short by two levels). Mind you, it doesn't care about the level select so you could just skip straight to stage 6 if you really care.Quote:
Originally Posted by davidmt
let's see, more in detail, and omitting the ones I've mentioned already.
Devil Crash MD: "easy" but LONG. Easy because you can use passwords to save your score but you need 1 billion points to beat the game. It's a grind. Takes 30ish hours. Great game, by the way.
Since someone mentioned Shadow of the Beast:
Mashou no Okite: it's the vastly improved japanese version of Shadow of the Beast, made by the guys who made the PC Engine version. You can switch the health to 18, might still not be the easiest game but it sure is short (I speedran it in 12 minutes)
Duke Nukem 3D: Not short, but you can save anytime so it can be very easy. Not recommended, though. (and if you play it, don't play it with rgb picture quality since it was to be played in Brazil)
World Cup Italia '90: Easy and short, took me 3 hours. Has some nice music, the game itself is pretty shallow. Sorry I used the european title, don't remember the otehr ones.
Rambo III: Easy and short
Gunstar Heroes: Easy (infinite continues)
Super Fantasy Zone: Wouldn't call it easy, but it is short. It is easy once you know what you're doing, but you still die in one hit.
Mamono Hunter Youko:
dai 7 no keishou: Not sure about including this one.. but took me 4 hours to beat it without having it played ever, has I think something like 5 stages, and it's a interesting game I would recommend. Short.
Shi Zi Wang 2 (Lion King 2) Easy and short, took me 3 hours. Unlicensed game, so don't expect high quality. Not bad for what it is, though. (interestingly, it steals sounds from Wonderboy: Monster Lair) Watch out for buggy fall-through platforms.
Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel Easy and short, if you consider dying 100 times in 2 hours (but beating it) easy and short. Not really recommended, though, but it's not a bad game. Feels thrown together, but the controls are cool.
Ikasuze! Koi no Doki Doki Penguin Land MD if you're in the mood for a cute puzzle, this one isn't short (around 10 hours, has passwords though) but it's easy enough that you wouldn't get stuck on a stage but still have a very rewarding feeling for each stage beaten.
Ok, not exactly an easy game, but I felt it was rewarding enough in progression to include it. Much much easier than its master system counterpart, and you can set yourself a respawn point inside the stage.
Dark Castle in case no one mentioned it yet. Short, I think the TAS is 1 minute. Not a quality game, maybe try it out for a laugh. I enjoyed it.
General Chaos is short and easy
Rampart is short... only has 6 battles.. and took me 60+ hours to beat it. Don't play the Megadrive version, it has awful input-eating and input lag.
Thunderforce III as someone said, is short and easy, on the default difficulty setting. It is also an amazingly good game.
Bram Stoker's Dracula's practice mode is super short and easy, but you only play a few stages and it tells you to go play normal mode. You can give yourself more health and lives in the options, though. Game has bad hitboxes but a very good Matt Furniss soundtrack.
Jurassic Park is short and kinda easy. At least as the Raptor, didn't play as Grant yet.
Jurassic Park 2: Rampage Edition is short and easy. It is worse than the previous game though, which already isn't exactly a gem.
A bug's life is short and easy. It is an unlicensed game, so it's pretty poor quality.
Out of the all above, personal recommendations, in no particular order:
Devil Crash MD
Mashou no Okite
Gunstar Heroes
Super Fantasy Zone
Mamono Hunter Youko
Ikasuze! Koi no Doki Doki Penguin Land MD
Thunderforce III
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Something I had forgotten: somebody is making chill mods on Steam that lets you play the games without worrying about getting screwed by the difficulty (mostly intended for casual play). May want to look into that.
No way in hell this is easy even with save scumming (or heck, savestate scumming). Your pistol barely does any damage so you're like depleting a whole magazine just on a single mook, ammo is scarce and even though the shotgun is not that far from the beginning, by that point you're probably already relying on your foot to attack. It's either that or go past enemies to preserve ammo (which is also hard since now you have more stuff shooting at you).Quote:
Originally Posted by Goati
It's a tad harder than its PC counterpart and that was an unforgiving game to begin with.
The levels themselves are quite easy actually, the biggest problem is the bosses >_> (although I suppose it's much easier when you've memorized their patterns beforehand)Quote:
Originally Posted by Goati
Note that this was a download-only game so it's either flashcart or emulation with this one. (I don't remember if it got included in Game no Kanzume) Or get a repro =PQuote:
Originally Posted by Goati
EDIT: also on an emulator you may want to consider turning on low-pass filtering if available... certain instrument sounds way too harsh otherwise x_x
Oh well, I may have forgotten, but I'd save very often and reload whenever I'd think I might've taken too much damage, that way I would never have to restart the level on a pistol start and I think I died very very few times. By the final boss I had a whole arsenal of stuff to throw at him. I can see the game being pretty brutal without savescumming. Not really relevant though as you probably don't wanna play that version.
+1 to what Sik said though
I really don't get some of these suggestions. I'll give you 3 I just recently breezed through. No BS savestates, cheats/passwords, or a need to explain myself. They're short and easy. Period.
Batman
Dynamite Duke
McDonald's Treasure Land
I'm surprised Magical Taruruuto-kun is not mentioned. It was a colorful and fun, if rather short and easy game. I was really disappointed that it ended as soon as it did!
A couple more games I completed, or working through:Quote:
Originally Posted by Psalm Down
Castle of Illusion: This was actually the 2nd or 3rd game I bought with my Genesis way back when, and haven't played it in years. I don't even think I finished it, because the last level and boss didn't look familiar. Anyway, a beautifully designed game, excellent music, never frustrating, and the levels never overstay their welcome. No question why this game is always in the top MD/Genesis games. A true classic.
McDonald's Treasure Land - This game was just ... frustrating. While it has very nice graphics and sound, the game has way too many cheap deaths, especially in the later levels. Some of the levels have no clear exit point, and I found the scarf/hook control to be very picky. Most of the enemies require one hit, but then you will randomly come across one that requires 10 lol. I know this is Treasure and it definitely has some nice qualities, but I can't see how you were able to breeze through this one.
Dynamite Duke - I actually kind of like this one, sort of a mix between T2 Arcade (or maybe Operation Wolf) and a little bit of Punch-Out. I still am on the last boss so I haven't finished it yet. I never even heard of this game, so thanks for the suggestion Psalm Down.
^ For real on the Mickey Ds game? Managed to finish it with 5 lives and 8 continues left on the board, on normal difficulty. I'm no expert. Actually, I suck at games compared to most diehards who have patience. Super easy to rack up lives and continues in the Columns minigame. And I absolutely despise puzzle games.
The two titles which immediately leap to my mind that fit the bill are The Terminator and Rambo III. The last time I timed myself I completed Terminator in under fifteen minutes! They made Terminator on the Mega CD much longer with lots more levels, not that that was a particularly difficult achievement when considering the severely under-cooked cart version! Rambo III on the Mega Drive is a mindless shoot-'em-up and blow-'em-up that will entertain throughout it's short lifespan, a lot like the Rambo films themselves.
I got through a couple more games:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mega Drive Bowlsey
Rambo III - This game is definitely easy and short! The only area I consider to be hard is finding all the targets on Level 4 on that huge map. It was kind of like looking for my car in a crowded parking lot-everything stars to look the same :daze: Rambo is fun though, but after the six levels it starts to get old. Thanks to Mega and Goati for the recommendation.
TMNT - The Hyperstone Heist - I don't think anyone mentioned this one, but I got through it in a couple hours. I've played the SNES and arcade games but this is my first time playing the Genesis game. I think it stands up to the rest of them, with really tight controls and great graphics and color. The only thing that felt cheap was reusing all the bosses on level 5. For such a short game, that felt like a really lazy move.
The Lion King isn't too daunting until the last level really. Mine came with the genesis model 2 from way back when.