1001 Games To Play Before You Die: #0133 Blasteroids

Sunday, February 5, 2017

#0133 Blasteroids

It's kinda weird to think that games that came out before I was born were actually remakes of games that came out even earlier. That said, I'm liking these remakes.

It started with Arkanoid, which while TECHNICALLY it wasn't a remake of Breakout, we all totally know it's a remake of breakout. But today we're reviewing Blasteroids. It's pretty dang good.

You might recall from my previous review of Asteroids, that I wasn't really impressed with Asteroids. I didn't find it challenging and compared to what was offered at the time, I just kinda prefered Space Invaders. Which is controvercial I know, but it's safe to say that, I really enjoyed this game. You can always tell how enjoyable a game is by how fast you put your next quarter in. This game sank like six quarters before I was willing to let it go. It gripped me pretty hard. The biggest imporovement over the original is the amount of flexibity you have. You can morph between three different ships which all have their advantages and weaknesses. As well as powerups that allow you to fire mulitple shots and such. The graphics look pretty legit as well. Like, on the higher end of 16 bit. This is what SNES games looked like in 1995.

Overall, the game was fun. It's one of the few remakes in gaming that I honestly believe can actually replace the orignal.

Next up: NetHack

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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.