There must be some law that only in April can we get news about Bio Force Ape, a never-released NES game whose wild-ass title and premise spawned an awesome hoax in 2005. This, however, is legitimate: the ROM of the game is now available for you to download and play on an emulator, unless someone's gone to the trouble of putting an April Fool's message in at the end of it.
Basically, in three minutes I've been thrust around on high-speed platforms, body-slammed a few baddies Zangief-style. Seriously, this game rocks.
I must admit some of the falling animations are good for NES
Blackout
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Apr 03 2011 03:22 pm
That level looks confusing.
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Apr 03 2011 05:05 pm
Seta was previously known for releasing games of questionable quality, the most infamous of which is Castle of Dragon. I wouldn't put it past them to come up with this.
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Apr 03 2011 05:07 pm
I think we all know and loathe that game by now. Castle of Dragon, I mean.
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Blackout
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Apr 04 2011 03:37 pm
Eh, I'll try it out anyway.
is the Buttermonster really in it, or was that all part of the original trolling thread?
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Apr 04 2011 07:49 pm
Tried it, don't like it. The controls are pretty bad, the music is annoying, and the gameplay is just floaty and off. On the other side, the animation is impressive and the nostalgia factor is in full swing.
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Apr 04 2011 09:01 pm
I think the concept was just ahead of it's time and in incapable hands. If someone were to make it today, I think it could be a whole lot better. The butter monster was awesome, that should be in it. Especially with the Communism punch.
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Apr 04 2011 11:33 pm
So what unreleased / prototype / pirate / rare games are actually worth playing? I've tried my hand at Grape Escape and it sucked.
Nekkoru
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Apr 05 2011 02:10 am
The Legend of Zelda prototype is fun. Other than that, I don't recall any prototypes that stand out, really.
If we're talking non-NES, though, then dammit, Half-Life on the Dreamcast!
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Apr 05 2011 03:58 pm
Nekkoru wrote:
The Legend of Zelda prototype is fun. Other than that, I don't recall any prototypes that stand out, really.
If we're talking non-NES, though, then dammit, Half-Life on the Dreamcast!
I remember being psyched about HL coming out for Dreamcast when I was younger (our PC couldn't run it), then just being pissed when it got cancelled. I only found out about the prototype recently because of an episode of Retsupurae.
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Nekkoru
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Apr 06 2011 02:24 am
I seem to have Half-Life for every platform except Windows. I own the PS2 and the Dreamcast port, but I have yet to buy it on Steam.
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Blackout
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Apr 06 2011 09:43 pm
That site has to be out of date, I could swear I have roms of some of that stuff.
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Apr 06 2011 10:57 pm
sidewaydriver wrote:
I think the concept was just ahead of it's time and in incapable hands. If someone were to make it today, I think it could be a whole lot better.
i agree with this. the control seemed very slippery & floaty. and the stage design seemed all kinds fucked up.
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Apr 12 2011 07:50 am
I immediately became my 14 year old self upon starting this game, the scrolling is so smooth it actually looks like a PC game from the early Commander Keen days. The palette seems a lot more striking than most NES games I've played, that's for sure. Verdict's out on the gameplay until this pseudo-nostalgia wears off.
