Show Some Love

Posted on May 28th 2012 at 01:35:34 PM by (Crabmaster2000)
Posted under NES Challenge, Joust, Yoshi

As eluded to in my last blog post, I spent some time on both Joust and Yoshi. Neither of these games have a traditional ending so I'll explain what I mean by finished in each paragraph below.

First up was Joust which was very frustrating. The game seems so simple like it should be a cake walk, but it was surprisingly challenging. Since there is no true ending or even a preset highscore my goal was to make it to level 16 and finish at least that Wave. I choose Wave 16 because by that point the level structure, which changes from time to time, has been reset twice and its also the level in which you finally encounter the final and most challenging enemy type, the Shadow Lord. The actual video is only about 10 minutes long, but there were several hours of prior play to get to recording I did. I did have a fairly good run though and managed to get to Wave 21 in the end.

Now according to gamefaqs the final different type of fruit Yoshi is rewarded with is a pineapple. So my goal was to win at least one pineapple. The first one is given to you at level 17. You must start the game from level 5 at the furthest, so you have to play 12 levels in a row without losing. Final stage I made it to was level 18.

NES Games Finished In 2012

(click on a title to view the video)

Silver Surfer
Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones
Ghosts n Goblins
Tetris
Pro Wrestling
Gradius
Zanac
Adventure Island
Karnov
Trojan
Excitebike
Baseball
Spy Hunter
Adventure Island II
Tennis
Battletoads
Shadowgate
Battletoads/Double Dragon
Pinball Quest
Section Z
Godzilla
Hydlide
Marble Madness
Back to the Future
Darkman
Terminator 2
Robocop
Total Recall
Predator
Robocop 2
Robocop 3
Hudson Hawk
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Batman Returns
Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters
Die Hard
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Krion Conquest
Adventures of Dino Riki
Ultima: Exodus
Legacy of the Wizard
Air Fortress
Ultima: Quest of the Avatar
Darkwing Duck
Ultima: Warriors of Destiny
Legends of the Diamond
Pro Sports Hockey
Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball
Yoshi's Cookie
Kick Master
Zombie Nation
Stadium Events
Super Jeopardy!
Joust
Yoshi

Future Plans - I've been very slowly making progress on Bases Loaded, which turns out to be much more of a time sink than I initially thought. I'm estimating that I'll spend more time beating the penant mode on it than I spent on all 3 Ultima games combined. I also started working on Alpha Mission which is more interesting than I thought, but seems like it'll be fairly difficult to beat.


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Comments
 
Glad you taught those Cyber Ostrich's who's boss.
 
@Duke.Togo:Its Space Ostriches. Geez get it right!
 
Actually, Crabby, there is a point where Joust's difficulty stops ramping up. It's somewhere in the 50s, I believe, much like Robotron.
 
@Shadow Kisuragi: Like I mentioned a while ago, I'm not looking to "complete" these games 100%. In the arcade style games like these I'm just trying experience all the different aspects they have to offer.
 
Nice!  I realized as I was reading this that I never played Joust in single player mode.  I played quite a bit two player (a week in the late 80's in sweaty Gretna, LA)  but I don't think I've ever played the CPU only.

I personally call an arcade-style game in the vein of Joust "finished" when it gets so hard that I loose my temper.  At that point I usually stand up, toss the controller straight up into the air(if it is a NES game), and exclaim, "I'm done!"

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