Konami Arcade Classics
| a game by | Konami |
| Genre: | Puzzles & Words |
| Platform: | Playstation (1999) |
| Editor Rating: | 7/10, based on 3 reviews |
| User Rating: | 5.0/10 - 2 votes |
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| See also: | Konami Games |
DownloadsKonami HAS CRACKED open the vaults to resurrect 10 arcade oldies for the PlayStation--and time has been remarkably kind to these classics.
Games like Roc 'N Rope and Pooyan arent household names, but they're still loads of fun and represent important evolutionary steps in the history of video games. Yie Ar Kung Fu, for instance, feels like a spiritual prequel to Virtua Fighter 3. Other games such as Circus Charlie and Shao-Lin s Road have no modern equivalent, making them all the more interesting.
These gems have been nicely preserved in their 2D enormous-pixel glory complete with plinky sounds and scratchy speech samples. Analog stick support would have been a great upgrade (especially to Time Pilot and Gyruss). but these are direct emulations--no tweaking allowed (except for being able to save high scores to the memory card).
They may be dusty and obscure, but the collection of games in Konami Arcade Classics offers unique and surprisingly fresh gameplay. Retro still rocks!
ProTips:
- At the end of each round In Time Pilot, dawdle and shoot the enemy planes Instead of the mothership for big points.
- To defeat Sword In Yle Ar Kung Fu, duck and kkk his toe when he sticks it out
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System requirements:
- PC compatible
- Operating systems: Windows 10/Windows 8/Windows 7/2000/Vista/WinXP
Game Reviews
People say:
Konami's Arcade Classics may not pack the FMV history lessons, interactive museums, screens of artwork and other perks of past compilations, but it makes up for it by doling out lots of games--10 in all. And you get a couple of doozies here. Time Pilot and Gyruss are two of the best shooters of the early '80s. Both are white-knuckle, totally twitch experiences; both have slick graphics for their time (Gyruss has killer music to boot); and both are just plain fun. Other standouts on the disc include Super Cobra, an intense side-scrolling shooter, and Yie Ar Kung-Fu, widely regarded as a key inspiration for Street Fighter. Like any compilation. KAC has its share of obscure stinkers. I could have lived without Scramble, really just a primitive version of Super Cobra which was done right 15 years ago on the Colecovision. The simple 1985 beat-'em-up Shao-Lin's Road runs out of tricks quick. Don't even play Circus Charlie. It's dull, hard and hardly my idea of a classic. The rest of the games here are pretty addicting, even if you never played them before. I warmed up to the ultra-simple racer Road Fighter. Pooyan, which stars an arrow-shooting pig, is novel enough to hook you. and Roc'n Rope is surprisingly tricky for how simple it looks. I wish you could use the analog stick; the D-pad makes for sore thumbs.
A lot of the games on this disc are indeed classics. Scramble and Super Cobra (both dating back to 1981!) provided the framework for hundreds of side-scrolling shooters to come. Yie Ar Kung-Fu was basically a bare-bones 2D fighter template. And playing Gyruss now, I still get chills down my back because the gameplay is so together. I'm not a fan of every game in this collection, but I acknowledge their importance. This ust might be the best history lesson you'll ever have.
This compilation disk is mainly for people who remember these classic games. Newbies will be frightened by the simplicity they find within. It's definitely an early '80s nostalgia thing. The games themselves, while on the easy side, still provide a good amount of play time, not to mention prompting fond memories. I still love Scramble and Super Cobra. As far as rerelease compilation disks go, this is the most worthwhile one I've played yet.
It's about time Konami came out with one of these, and I'm sure glad it's not one of them small-handful-of-crappyoldgames compilations either. For me. Time Pilot alone is almost worth the purchase, but why on earth didn't the programmers make the game work with the analog controller? (Using the digital pad to spin round and round is hell on the thumb.) A few of the other games are still fun today...that is, if you like mindless twitch stuff.
This September. Konami is planning on releasing a collection of 10 of its classic hit arcade games on one disc, called Konami Arcade Classics. The games, which include such favorites as Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Gyruss, Super Cobra and Time Pilot (easily the coolest game on the disc), are all loo percent faithful to the arcade originals, right down to the bugs! KAC will also feature artwork from each game, as well as new CG sequences.
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