...Konami of America senior vice presidents discomfort with the religious connotations of the title Akumajō Dracula, which he believed translated as "Dracula Satanic Castle". 🧛
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
..beat 'em up game for the Sega Genesis, and is considered one of the greatest video games of all time. 🏆
Streets of Rage 2 was coded by the same programming team that did the first title of the series. To make it possible to add more features and additional memory cache, the programmers improved the Mega Drive cartridge specifications. 👨💻
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
....which were originally developed for the GameCube, were updated with many of the features that were first implemented in Corruption, such as a new control scheme based on the Wii Remote and Nunchuk. 🎮
Other changes include faster load times, updated textures, bloom lighting, and 16:9 widescreen support. 📺
The credits system from Corruption was incorporated into the first two games. 🏆
...the original SNES release. 👯
With the exception of the addition of two full motion video opening and ending sequences and new screen-transition effects used for the start and end of battles, the graphics, music and sound are left unchanged from the original. 🎞️
The only notable changes to gameplay involve the correction of a few software bugs from the original and the addition of a new "memo save" feature, allowing players to save to the PlayStation's RAM. 💾
...over 400 actors performed for the game. 🎬
Analyst estimations place the game's combined development and marketing budget at more than US$50 million, which would make it one of the most expensive video games to develop. 💵
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...specific parameters like the life count or the number of coins. The Xploder already has cheat codes for a lot of Game Boy games. The number of codes depends on the game.
For example Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle only has one cheat code for unlimited lifes because the game has no more values to manipulate. 🐰
Games like Super Mario Land have more codes due to the fact that values like the ♥ life, 🟡 coin and ⏳ time count can be manipulated.
...when that system launched in North America and Europe in 1988. 🌍
Later all of the available consoles instead included Sonic the Hedgehog, which replaced Altered Beast in part over concerns the latter's themes of zombies and magic were not popular.
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Altered Beast was ported numerous times in addition to its Genesis conversion, including for the Master System by Sega, the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Game Boy Advance. 🕹️
...praised for its tight control, unique and non-linear gameplay and bright presentation, and is often regarded as one of the best titles for the NES. 🤩
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
...James Bond in Licence to Kill, but his likeness is used in the game, most notably the opening screens, thus making it Dalton's last appearance as Bond to date. 🍸
It was also the final Bond game to be released by Domark, who had released a series of Bond themed games beginning in 1985 with A View to a Kill. 🕵️
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...future Nintendo systems since the Nintendo DS. 🎮
What's your favorite controller❓
I really like the PS3 controller because it still delivers all the functionalities a controller nowadays should have without being to complex or special.
...by the limitations of the 8-bit NES, Nintendo chose to remake them for the 16-bit SNES. 🕹️
The developers based the updated designs on those from Super Mario World (1990) and strove to retain the feel of the original games. 👌
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
...of Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country was released, which resulted in its computer-generated graphics becoming the norm for contemporary SNES games. 🤩
It was too late for the graphic designers to incorporate such a style into Yoshi's Island; instead, they pushed the hand-drawn style further as a way to "fight back". 🖍️
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
...Nintendo decided to develop a kart racer with slower tracks. 🏎️
They did not decide to incorporate Mario characters until a few months into development. The choice was made after the development team when observing how one kart looked to another driving past it, decided to see what it would look like with Mario in the kart. 🏁
Thinking that having Mario in the kart looked better than previous designs, the idea of a Mario themed racing game was born. 🏆
...is the same as the original Super Nintendo version with minor changes. 🧝
Four Swords is the multiplayer portion of the cartridge. Four Swords features gameplay similar to A Link to the Past, with a focus on multiplayer; in it, 2 to 4 players must cooperatively work through a series of puzzle-laden dungeons, while competing to collect rupees. 💎
Four Swords was followed in 2004 by a GameCube sequel, Four Swords Adventures. 🏹
...and let the controller do the work. 🎮
Some of them even have autofire, that means the turbo mode is activated without holding the button down. 🔥
Later controllers would allow the user to adjust the speed of the turbo option. 🎚️
Turbo controllers for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis like the Sega MegaFire shown in the picture are very common, partly because the system had a large library of shoot-'em-ups in its first few years on the market. 🚀
...Dino Crisis uses an original real-time engine with 3D environments. 🧊
The game was a critical and commercial success, with the PlayStation version selling over 2.4 million copies. 💸
It was ported to Dreamcast and Windows in 2000. Two different versions for the Game Boy Color were in development, but both were cancelled. ❌
...Two Multitaps could be used at the same time for up to eight controllers and memory cards, although very few games allowed for more than five players. 👨👨👦👦👩👩👦👦
Mainly sports games ⚽ have supported the Multitap due to the multiplayer aspect of some sport games, though some role-playing video games like Tales of Eternia ⚔️ have taken advantage of it.
Did you have one of these back in the days and what games did you use it for? 🤔
...Super Mario Land was planned as the game bundled with the launching Game Boy until Tetris was brought to Nintendo of America. 🚢
They were convinced that the addictive gameplay of Tetris would help Nintendo reach the larger audience. 👏
The company subsequently chose to bundle Tetris with every Game Boy purchase instead of Super Mario Land. 📦