Robio's All-New, All-Different, Top 100 of All Time
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I feel like that's just American stereotyping right there.
#41 - Willow (arcade)
In the late '80s and well into the 90's, there was no better developer for third-party licenses than Capcom. In fact, I think I already said that when I mentioned Little Nemo for the NES. But if I'm repeating myself, it's because it's true. And to further make my point, I present there arcade version of Willow.
Sure, it might have been a little difficult, but it was well worth feeding that machine quarters. You got to switch between Willow and Madmartigan, each of whom had a completely different play style. The level design was great, the graphics were some of the best arcades had to offer at the time, bosses were huge and filled the screen, and the music was excellent.
It's really a damn shame that we never got a home port of the arcade version. To their credit though, Capcom did release a very good Willow for the NES, that felt like a more fleshed out though more linear version of The Legend of Zelda. Anyway if haven't you weren't lucky enough to stumble across this in the arcades, it might be worth hunting down and checking out now.
In the late '80s and well into the 90's, there was no better developer for third-party licenses than Capcom. In fact, I think I already said that when I mentioned Little Nemo for the NES. But if I'm repeating myself, it's because it's true. And to further make my point, I present there arcade version of Willow.
Sure, it might have been a little difficult, but it was well worth feeding that machine quarters. You got to switch between Willow and Madmartigan, each of whom had a completely different play style. The level design was great, the graphics were some of the best arcades had to offer at the time, bosses were huge and filled the screen, and the music was excellent.
It's really a damn shame that we never got a home port of the arcade version. To their credit though, Capcom did release a very good Willow for the NES, that felt like a more fleshed out though more linear version of The Legend of Zelda. Anyway if haven't you weren't lucky enough to stumble across this in the arcades, it might be worth hunting down and checking out now.
#40 - Lego City Undercover
Even is everything else about Lego City Undercover was utter trash, it would still make it on my list for one reason -- Frank Honey.
Frank is the greatest sidekick in the history of video games. Whether he's shouting "waffles" or is telling you a story about how eating glass led to the worst birthday he ever had, Frank is the ideal plucky and completely oblivious sidekick who tends to create more trouble than he solves. It's completely cliche, but it's done so damn perfectly that you can't help but love him.
Aside from the greatness that is Frank, Lego City Undercover takes what is now the classic Lego game formula, and that presents it with a parody of the police dramas of the '70s and '80s, and ultimately creates the best thing since the original Naked Gun. Dirty Harry, Columbo, Starsky and Hutch, and many others make brief cameos, but the game largely forges its own path with its own characters. The loading times are definitely rough, but if you can look past that, you're in for the closest thing you'll ever see to Grand theft Auto with Legos.
And on a final note, this was the first game that a young Robio Jr. finished on his own. The boy was proud as hell of himself. Also, for several weeks after he was finished with it, he would still run around the house. Yelling Frank Honey's famous line, "WAFFLES!!" Which got old kind of fast as you can probably imagine.
Even is everything else about Lego City Undercover was utter trash, it would still make it on my list for one reason -- Frank Honey.
Frank is the greatest sidekick in the history of video games. Whether he's shouting "waffles" or is telling you a story about how eating glass led to the worst birthday he ever had, Frank is the ideal plucky and completely oblivious sidekick who tends to create more trouble than he solves. It's completely cliche, but it's done so damn perfectly that you can't help but love him.
Aside from the greatness that is Frank, Lego City Undercover takes what is now the classic Lego game formula, and that presents it with a parody of the police dramas of the '70s and '80s, and ultimately creates the best thing since the original Naked Gun. Dirty Harry, Columbo, Starsky and Hutch, and many others make brief cameos, but the game largely forges its own path with its own characters. The loading times are definitely rough, but if you can look past that, you're in for the closest thing you'll ever see to Grand theft Auto with Legos.
And on a final note, this was the first game that a young Robio Jr. finished on his own. The boy was proud as hell of himself. Also, for several weeks after he was finished with it, he would still run around the house. Yelling Frank Honey's famous line, "WAFFLES!!" Which got old kind of fast as you can probably imagine.
I want a Mario City.
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