Nintendo NES Video Lounge: 1943 Battle of Midway

Nintendo NES: 1943 Battle of Midway

http://www.Insert-Disk.com proudly presents "1943 Battle of Midway" for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

Level 1 played for fun.

Great retro title on the NES. Lots of enemies and basic power ups. The game is a little easy by todays standards but still a classic. There were multiple releases in this series including several editions of 1944.

Nintendo NES Video Lounge: Punch-Out!

Nintendo NES: Punch-Out!

http://www.Insert-Disk.com proudly presents "Punch-Out!" for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

Fight 1 played for fun.

Nintendos classic boxing game with plenty of knock outs. The controls are fairly limited to simple dodging and punching. Most of the game play involves learning the pattern of your opponent. For the time I can imagine that this game was quite a good option for all age groups. I like it but Super Punch out! clearly adds a lot more in terms of graphics and game play.

Sega Mega Drive Video Lounge: Gauntlet 4

Sega Mega Drive: Gauntlet 4

http://www.Insert-Disk.com proudly presents "Gauntlet 4" for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

Levels 1-3 played for fun. Arcade mode.

Classic dungeon crawling hack 'n slash adventure in Gauntlet 4. Fight your way through dungeon after dungeon packed with wave after wave of enemies. Along the way collect keys and potions to aid you in your quest.

Sega Mega Drive Video Lounge: Fire Shark

Sega Mega Drive: Fire Shark

http://www.Insert-Disk.com proudly presents "Fire Shark" for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

Opening title sequence and a complete stage 1.

A great vertical shooter. This one can get quite tricky and is very unforgiving should you find yourself moving towards the top of the screen. Nice powerups and great level design. If you like this one I would strongly reccomend Truxton which is essentially the same game with revised space themes sprites and levels.

Sega Mega Drive Video Lounge: Battle Squadron

Sega Mega Drive: Battle Squadron

http://www.Insert-Disk.com proudly presents "Battle Squadron" for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

Opening title sequence and a complete stage 1.

A very classy classic vertical shooter. Fight against the empire at incredible odds. Great graphics and a long lasting challenge. I tend to prefer the Commodore Amiga version because of the superior audio but the Sega version manages to retain the great gameplay from the original. I tend to find this game quite difficult after the first level. Since most enemies will take more than one hit this is certainly a game that is unforgiving on your trigger fingers.

Sega Mega Drive Video Lounge: Kid Chameleon

Sega Mega Drive: Kid Chameleon

http://www.Insert-Disk.com proudly presents "Kid Chameleon" for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

Opening title sequence and a complete stages 1, 2 and 3.

One of the more memorable Sega classics from the early 90's. The game setup is that you are Kid Chameleon, the coolest kid around. You must play a new "real" video game down at the arcade and defeat the evil boss. Throughout the game you will pick up different masks to transform in to a Kid Chameleon with different skills (sort of a Majora's Mask situation going on in a video game arcade). The game looks reasonably dated now but the actual game play is still rather enjoyable. The special mask skills are varied and each are needed to complete the level in which they are found. I particularly like the Jason style hockey mask from Friday 13th, it must be a copyright infringement but it briefly turns the game in to a U Rated Splatterhouse.If I have one criticism of the game it would be that on occasions you have to take leaps of blind faith froma platform only to find yourself in a lava flow or impaled on spikes (this seems to be a common issue with older platform games). Overall though this game is well worth a re-visit if you played this one back in the '90s. If you've have never played it then it may be worth a look out of interest, it certainly has a variety of levels and the skill sets add constant game play change.

Sega Mega Drive Video Lounge: Chase HQ 2

Sega Mega Drive: Chase HQ 2

http://www.Insert-Disk.com proudly presents "Chase HQ 2" for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

Opening title sequence and a complete stages 1 and 2.

After being reminded by fellow gamer this afternoon I thought i'd give this one a quick try. Please excuse the poor playing on stage one where I manage to nitro in to other cars :-) Not a bad game at all although i'd like more time to try out the later levels. The idea of the game is that you are a special agent with the chase department. Rather than just arresting suspects you have to chase them and smash their cars up first. Would be much easier just to catch them when they re-fuel (but that possibly wouldn't make the game that exciting). Anyway, enjoy and don't try this sort of driving at home (or on a road).