Challenger(FAMICOM)

Challenger

Sale date　　　 October 15, 1985

Platform　　　　FAMICOM(NES)

Manufacturer  HUDSON

Genre            Action&Adventure

Several styles are included in this game.
The jump action game a screen advances towards the side
A screen of action game
An action adventure game with the size equivalent for 100 screens of monitor.

The purpose of a game is to save the empress kidnaped by "Don Waldorado".

 
Challenger
He's an archaeologist by a main character of this game.
A knife throw is strong point work.



princess MARIA 
The national princess who has that.

Don Waldorado
He's the villain's boss who kidnaped a princess.
A mysterious man who fits a black suit on a body.

 A story starts from the place where "Challenger" gets on the train a kidnaped empress takes.

There are "Don Waldorado" and an empress in the head of the train.

"Challenger" runs aiming at the entrance in the tag end on the train.
He knocks down the bad person who strikes by a good knife throw.





He succeeded in an invasion to the train interior.
advance towards the head where an empress waits.

 "Don Waldorado" and a first confrontation.

The first confrontation is a victory of "Don Waldorado".

"Challenger" has been flicked to outside.

A war has just started.

The next stage is "Waldorado island".

He ran after "Don Waldorado", and arrived at this island.





He knocks down "Don Waldorado" by this island and looks for the key from which an empress is rescued.

He beats the ghost who protects a cave and enters the inside.







 
 He aims at the inside in a cave by using a fountain as a foothold.

 The trap which are doodlebugs and mystery zones, etc. in "Waldorado island" also exists.

But the item which gives the power to "Challenger" also appears.

 "Power sword" with the ability to beat a ghost.

He who collected all keys meets with the last decisive battle with "Don Waldorado".

 The empress shut in a jail like a dinosaur

He thinks a laugh of "dong Waldorado" is heard.

A knife of "challenger" was given off for careless "Don Waldorado".


4 knives run into "Don Waldorado".

"challenger" which succeeded in empress's rescue escapes from an island.

2nd week when degree of difficulty rose is waiting for "challenger".


It's said that this game is hommage of a movie "indie Jones".
The character from which I emerge is also like the character of "Star Wars".

It's a work called "running out of control special express SOS" of a PC game originally.

When transplanting to "FAMICOM", a stage was increased.

Degree of difficulty can be set as 16 stages on the title screen.

A vast stage for 100 screens was big, and this game was taken up.

It's possible to play by "VC" etc. even at present.

 
 
 
 

Congo Bongo (SEGA)

Congo Bongo

Sale date　　　 1983

Platform　　　　SEGA SG-1000

Manufacturer  SEGA

Genre            Action

"Congo Bongo" was sold in 1983.

A player operates an explorer to catch a gorilla.

When avoiding an obstacle by a jump and arriving to the top, it's clear.

When it falls in a pitfall and touches a savage beast, it'll be player's mistake.

cross a river by the next stage and aim at a goal.

arrived at the dimension of the gorilla safely.

SEGA edition repeats 1 stage and 2 stage.

 
A prototype of this game is an arcade edition.
The name of the arcade edition is "Tip Top".
 

 
There is a great difference in a graphic face.

The story which catches the gorilla on which a camping explorer played a trick.

The explorer who sleeps in the tent
... a gorilla with a torch approaches








 
A gorilla ignites a tent.

Of course, it's expanded into an explorer, too.
An explorer got angry about behavior beyond a mischievous area.

Explorer's revenge starts.










Well, this game has an anecdote.

It's composition very similar to "donkey Kong".

This "Tip Top" has been developed, "Ikegami Tsushinki Co., Ltd." is the company which has developed "Donkey Kong".

This "Tip Top" was made as a succession work of "Donkey Kong".

But "Ikegami Tsushinki Co., Ltd." argues with Nintendo about a trial concerning copyright of "Donkey Kong".

"SEGA" will sell "Tip Top" by the influence.
It's also called "SEGA edition donkey Kong".

A game has its own high quality and is the contents which can be enjoyed.

It's also transplanted to "Atari" and "Commdore".
It's possible to play "PS3" and "Xbox360".
 
 
 
 

SEGA SG-1000

SG-1000

"SG-1000" is the game machine sold in July, 1983.

"SC-3000" sold from the said company is origin.
"SG" is an abbreviation of "SEGA Game".

There is a stick in the center of the controller, and a button is provided for left and right.

The price in sale was 15000 in Japanese yen.
began to sell this "SG-1000" in Japan on the same day as "FAMICOM".

It's said that it made sales of more than about 100,000 in Japan in the sales first year.

CPU is Z80A plug-compatible of 8bit.
RAM is 1KB.
（Please confirm the detailed specification in wiki.）

Unfortunately you can't equal "FAMICOM" in the price and performance surface and can press for inferiority.

A large number of game machines are the sold month in July, 1983.

But a game with the original senses of "SEGA" exists much.

A game machine of "SEGA" leads to from "SG-1000" to"Dreamcast".

A wonderful game of originality also exists much.

Enthusiastic "SEGA fan" still exists.

SUPER MARIO BROS.(FAMICOM)

SUPER MARIO BROS

Sale date　　　 September 15, 1985

Platform　　　　FAMICOM(NES)

Manufacturer  NINTENDO

Genre            Action 

The game which made sales of about 42,000,000 at the whole world.
It's also the famous game which caused a FAMICOM boom.

Is there a person who doesn't know the name of "MARIO"?

8 stages consist of 4 areas respectively, and a player operates "MARIO" and aims at a goal.

The person who also knows about the contents of a game thinks it's a lot.

"The world -1" is introduced this time.

It's introduced in much HP, so there should be also a lot of ones you know.

The entrance exists in "the world  1-2".

It's possible to enter at an earthen pipe near the goal by doing a specific action.

destroy 2 blocks in the ceiling and leave for the end of an earthen pipe.







jump in the back while facing to the rear from here.

When succeeding, "MARIO" is drawn in the wall.









 go through the inside on a wall....










You could invade a warp zone without a screen's scrolling.








 
just enter in the left earthen pipe.

 It's completion.

"The world -1" is a stage in the sea. 

The place intense water seems flowed and been drawn into a hole where also exists.

A goal is there right now.

But even if unfortunately  enter an earthen pipe, it can't be cleared.

return to a start spot and it's repeated.












There was a way to enter in the stage which was also hidden in these other ones. 


A way with a game software of "tennis".
It exists 256 stages.
The number of steps of the character of the tennis is reflected by generation in a stage.
 

To exchange software while turning on the power, this way causes a breakdown.

 
I won't recommend you this way.
My friend lost a game machine by this way then.
Everyone will play a game importantly, too. 

"Mario" the kind of much exists in a series.

It's possible to play an old series and a new series for VC.
 

"Mario" also appeared on a commercial of Mercedes-Benz.
He's a robust man....