![]() RoboCop is known for its satirical, hyper-violent portrayal of American corporatism. ![]() The final boss battle with Gozer resembles a boss fight screen from the first The Legend of Zelda, with stationary enemies shooting fireballs at you (an impossible number of fireballs). The graphics are flat and reflect a different time before the NES. It is primitive, mixing top-down driving stages and single-frame stages where you capture ghosts. The first was developed by Activision and ported to the NES in October of 1988 from the PC (originally released in 1984). The Ghostbusters franchise saw three NES releases, each one very different from the other. Their first customer, Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver), becomes possessed by a demon in the final act and opens an interdimensional gate with her neighbor (Rick Moranis) on the roof of their apartment building, allowing the demigod, Gozer, to come to Earth in the form of a 200-foot-tall marshmallow man. They hire a secretary, Janine Melnitz (Annie Potts), and a fourth Ghostbuster, Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson), who is a blue-collar worker, and the Ghostbusters become successful entrepreneurs. Three college professors, Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), and Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) are booted from their jobs and go into business to capture ghosts. Ghostbusters is a horror comedy, set in the New York in the early ‘80s, in a world, similar to the horror movies it is spoofing, where ghosts are real. After you escape the Death Star in the Falcon, you have a couple of first-person space levels, and then it changes to a top-down stage for the Death Star trench run. The second half is mostly set on the Death Star. The first half is set entirely on Tatooine. The second game based on A New Hope, like the 1987 game, was only titled, Star Wars, but this re-do is much more advanced and true to the settings of the movie. Between side-scrolling stages, there are first-person space levels in which you shoot tie fighters with the Millennium Falcon’s guns. The first was released in December of 1987 and took the player to various planets with Metroid-like stages. There were two Star Wars games on the NES based on A New Hope. When the imperials track the droids to the home of his uncle and his wife and kill them, Luke joins Ob-Wan on his quest to help the princess. R2-D2 wanders off in search of the Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Luke and C-3PO track him down. Meanwhile, she has hidden the plans to destroy the battle station in a droid, R2-D2, who has escaped with another droid, C-3PO, where they come into the possession of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill). ![]() Princess Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) of Alderaan is captured by the imperials and Darth Vader, and taken aboard the Death Star, which is used to destroy her home world. Set in another galaxy in a past age, an evil empire has replaced the galactic republic and built a world-destroying super weapon, called the Death Star. Of all of the franchises on this list, there is none bigger than Star Wars, which has an empire of merchandising, sequels, prequels, and spin-off shows. George Lucas’ sci-fi epic revolutionized special effects and gave birth to the modern blockbuster. This formula of impossibly hard game design and lack of explanation would carry over into other horror games. This was one of those games that you rented knowing you were doomed to fail. You just get eaten over and over, and your parents hear you scream in horror every 10 minutes from the other end of the house. In Jaws, you drive a little boat around a map, select a location, and dive into the water, in single-screen levels, to take your chances at encountering Bruce or just getting killed by his smaller cousins. Most ‘80s kids hardly made it past the first screen. Jaws racked up the highest body count of any NES horror monster because it was confounding to play and nigh impossible for most children to beat. This was the first horror movie to land on the NES, and its success is to blame for the trend of horror movies and Nintendo’s 8-bit system. Jaws was released on the NES in November of 1987. Jaws Was Impossible to Beat and Had an Incredible Body Count Three sequels were made, but none recaptured the suspense of the original. The police chief, Martin Brody ( Roy Scheider), and oceanographer, Matt Hooper ( Richard Dreyfuss), go out on the ocean with the fisherman, Quint ( Robert Shaw), to hunt for the shark and kill it. The small tourist destination of Amity Island suffers several shark attacks from a great white that has taken to preying on people. The movie, directed by Steven Spielberg, is adapted from the novel by Peter Benchley. It programmed a (renewed) fear of the deep water into America and the world. Jaws is one of the scariest movies ever made.
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