1001 Games To Play Before You Die: #0155 Forgotten Worlds

Monday, July 16, 2018

#0155 Forgotten Worlds

So today marks the start of 1988! This was a great year for gaming. The NES was in full swing and was really starting to churn out some gems. Arcades continued to decline during this year as more and more customers flocked to home consoles and more game devs started developing for the NES. The games that DID come out were either not of the best quality, or were soon ported to PCs or game consoles.

And example of one of those arcade games was Capcom’s side scrolling SHMUP Forgotten Worlds.

In this game you play as a HILARIOUSLY 80s Bad Dude trying to fight aliens. And rather than flying in a jet or a cool spaceship you just… Fly…. Space Harrier style, only side scrolling.

I gotta say at the very least it looks and sounds gorgeous. Nice high 16 bit graphics, fun music, and the gameplay is fine I suppose.

Only downside is it’s REALLY not anything we haven’t seen before. It’s really just a poorer R-Type. What it DOES have I have to admit is these awesome stores where you can buy upgrades. Now, a game that is SO gung-ho american I expected the shopkeeper to be either a grizzled weapons merchant, or some large breasted woman in a bikini selling weapons.

What we got instead was… Not what I expected. We got an adorable, kind faced anime girl dressed in what looks like sorcery robes.

Not what I expected at all!

If you’re looking for a good arcade side scroller this one is fine I suppose, you could do a lot worse. But you could also do a lot better, like R-Type.

Next up: Ghoules n’ Ghosts

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Why I'm taking this challenge

So! I’ve spent nearly my entire life as a Nintendo Fanboy. A rabid fanboy to the point where when my family got a brand new Playstation 2 back in ‘02 (One of the best consoles ever). I refused to play it. I refused to have anything to do with the company that stole my beloved Nintendo’s thunder! This fanboyism ran rampant in my gaming life through high school and even when I moved out to live with the woman who would one day become my wife. I still didn’t play anything but Nintendo consoles. In fact, it wasn’t until we were gifted an Xbox 360 did I FINALLY play a game on a different console. That was Bioshock, it was also the first shooter I had ever played.It became one of my favorite games of all time. The rest is history, I’ve been playing games on any console I want now.

That’s all well and good, but this means that there is an entire other gaming WORLD that I’ve never played. Never experienced in my life. I love shooters, but with the exception of the half-life series, and System shock 2, every shooter from Doom all the way up until Bioshock, I’ve never played. Not Quake, not CoD, not battlefield.

So, since I’ve missed out on nearly 30 years of gaming, I decided to take a challenge. My lovely wife got me a book called 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die I am going to play through every game in this book. Starting with Oregon Trail (1971) and finish with Bioshock Infinite (2013) I plan to do at least one generation per year. At least. And to help me keep track of what I've done, I started doing small reviews of every game.

At first I wrote these in the starment.net forums, but eventually they became too lengthy to only be posted there, so I created this blog to not only help keep me organized, but so others can follow along as well. It won't be easy, but I think it's worth it to play games that I may otherwise never have played.