Sunsoft

**Blaine** · 26 Jul 2003, 10:42 PM

Waku Waku 7 is awesome. It's one of those games I always mean to buy but never get around to.

**raystorm** · 26 Jul 2003, 11:22 PM

Nice post NeoZeedeater..keep it up!

Y'know..back then I thought Fester's Quest and Gremlins 2 were quite good. They looked fairly good and played well for licensed games.

Their batman stuff was pretty good too. The 2 NES Batman games were very good. The genesis Batman is excellent with very good graphics and music but the genny port of Return of the Joker blows chunks! Sunsoft didnt develop that port right? I did try the PC Engine Batman and wondered why that game received praise by some people..its totally dull and I hated the maze type gameplay.

Super Fantasy Zone is great and is filled with nice color. I never finished the game though.

Other than Waku Waku 7 I never cared for Sunsoft's stuff after the 16bit days for some reason.

**StriderKyo** · 28 Jul 2003, 07:25 AM

Blaster Master is easily one of the top 10 games of the 8-bit era, and it's a shame nobody's ever managed to make another game in the series that was quite as cool.

Journey to Silius is one of the most underrated games I've ever played - I remember renting it and being blown away; the visuals were beautiful and the animation was mind boggling at the time, the audio tracks were twice as long as anything else on NES, and it played beautifully to boot. I was really suprised when EGM only gave it a 7 or something.

Is it just me, or does Mitokoumon look just like a Goemon goame?

Oh and btw - leave Tengen's Fantasy Zone NES port alone! I really enjoyed that one, even if it wasn't a carbon copy of the arcade or Master System versions.

**Kidnemo** · 28 Jul 2003, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by rezo

Thanks alot. Whenever I look up information on one of their games I always read about how many great games they had in the past but I was only familiar with a few.

The hebereke characters make a cameo appearance in Albert Odyssey. They run some of the shops. Maybe they do more but I'll never know as I've been stuck in the same spot for over a year now. =\

They also put out the Dodge Danpei games:

card battle based dodgeball games on the famicom

<--they aped the downtown nekketsu style!

, and a standard sort of dodgeball game on the 16-bit systems.

card game + dodgeball = the bomb

The NES version of Batman still looks awesome, and the fact that they conveyed the "dark" feeling of the movie with such a limited color palette (not to mention a limited system) is a true testament to the designers.

**NeoZeedeater** · 28 Jul 2003, 01:46 PM

Strider, I'm sure I would have enjoyed Tengen's Fantasy Zone had I not played better versions but it's still the weakest version by far.

*thinks of all the deprived kids stuck playing Tengen's Shinobi* What a cruel world.

**Korian** · 28 Jul 2003, 02:03 PM

Anyone remember the Sunsoft newsletter you could get back in the day? It had tips and news about their games, this was back in the NES days. Cool stuff.

**Kidnemo** · 28 Jul 2003, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by Korian

Anyone remember the Sunsoft newsletter you could get back in the day? It had tips and news about their games, this was back in the NES days. Cool stuff.

Heh, I'm pretty sure I remember getting that.