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DJ

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Re: Classic Sidescrollers
« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2010, 09:26:01 am »

Double Dragon & Battletoads is the best sidescroller ever.

Also, why hasn't anyone mentioned Contra yet?
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« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2010, 10:25:45 am »

Double Dragon & Battletoads is the best sidescroller ever.

Also, why hasn't anyone mentioned Contra yet?

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I still remember it like yesterday, when I used to play this game to death with a friend.
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Re: Classic Sidescrollers
« Reply #17 on: August 16, 2010, 10:31:15 am »

Ooh - double dragon. That was good.

My first thought though was NEMESIS on the arcades.

Also Menace on the amiga, but I suspect R-Type really is the best of the best. I never really played it though, so I couldn't say.
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Re: Classic Sidescrollers
« Reply #18 on: August 16, 2010, 11:18:09 am »

Streets of Rage!  Number 2 specifically, but 1 was alright too.

Out of this World.  Without a walkthrough.

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Re: Classic Sidescrollers
« Reply #19 on: August 16, 2010, 11:26:50 am »

METAL SLUG!

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Re: Classic Sidescrollers
« Reply #20 on: August 16, 2010, 11:48:58 am »

Vanilla Double Dragon is nice, but Double Dragon & Battletoads is where it's at. Best level design I've ever seen.
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Re: Classic Sidescrollers
« Reply #21 on: August 16, 2010, 12:05:10 pm »

How about Castlevania? or Metroid?
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« Reply #22 on: August 16, 2010, 01:01:18 pm »

Mega Man.
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« Reply #23 on: August 16, 2010, 01:33:32 pm »

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« Reply #24 on: August 16, 2010, 02:21:23 pm »

Contra

and of course:

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Re: Classic Sidescrollers
« Reply #25 on: August 16, 2010, 02:35:01 pm »

Oh man Abuse was totally hardcore.  I can't recommend that one highly enough--it was basically THE first side scroller to use keyboard move + mouse aiming.  Also it was awesome in multiplayer, because you could pick up the stealth kit, hide against a foliage background, and then shank somebody with a lightsaber when they ran by.  And oh-so-moddable.  I don't know why this one didn't really take off.

A few people are recommending shmups.  I grew up on Tyrian which was awesome, but I also liked Raptor: Call of the Shadows (it was shorter, but more filling, than Tyrian).  If you want something arcadey, Giga Wing is a classic one if you emulate it.  Oh my god the scores get so high, you would think you were playing pinball. 

Commander Keen 4.  Jazz Jackrabbit which was like a cross between Duke Nukem and Sonic the Hedgehog, if more than a little dorky.
Prince of Persia and Out of This World.

Oh yeah.  TURRICAN, kind of like Contra and every gamer should learn to recognize that music.  It was on every single console of that era, too.  And GUNSTAR HEROES.  It had a pretty innovative weapon combination system.

...If you haven't played Super Metroid then this needs to be remedied posthaste.

Edit:  OH OH BLASTER MASTER. Well, it IS a classic.  But then again so was "A Boy and His Blob" (which I'm not going to link).
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Re: Classic Sidescrollers
« Reply #26 on: August 16, 2010, 10:56:35 pm »

OH, you know what I found really fun?  The Lost World the video game, on PS1.  It was so fricking awesome just chowing down on everyone as a TREX.
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« Reply #27 on: August 16, 2010, 11:04:56 pm »

OH, you know what I found really fun?  The Lost World the video game, on PS1.  It was so fricking awesome just chowing down on everyone as a TREX.

Oh shit, yeah. Actually the T-Rex levels were hilarious until you started fighting raptors, for some stupid reason. Damn things tore me to shreds half the time.
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