Rival Schools isn’t a story I followed, and I didn’t ever see a show about it. However Big “C”, U-Turn, and I did spent countless hours beating each other senseless on this game. Big “C” found it by accident in a game store. It is a 3 dimentional fighter similar to the early tekken, battle arena toshinden, or virtual fighter series. Your characters are representative of school activites. There are your classic sports characters ranging from soccer, to volleyball, to baseball, even kendo. You don’t have to use a sports character though, you could use a science nerd, a sexy secretary, or even a buff ass principal. As a fighting game looney, I found this one well made for its time, and am sincere when I say there are many great fights to be had utilizing the tag system the game uses.
The game engine lets you sidestep, jump rediculously high allowing for monster air combos, and each character has street fighter-esque ranged moves to use, along with a set of specials that are appropriate to their role in the school. The baseball player can launch you across the screen with a huge bat, the principal can bitch slap you with her notebook, or the nerd can electrocute you through the ground. So if you are looking for a 3D old school fighter from the early days, give rival schools a chance. It is a bit hard to find anymore, as I got lucky and found mine online for 30 dollars. Usually they run around 50-60 bucks, so good hunting nerds.
Orb 3D is easily one of the best pong/puzzle remakes ever made. I really sucked at it when I was a kid but I still love it.
Nerd Rating: 9/10 # of players: 1P Genre: Retro Puzzle/Skill Game Game System: NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)
The story behind the game:
You are a Explorer First Class and on a mission to defeat the evil space wizard, Krohn. Your ship, which is known as the Millennium Orb, is the only space craft strong enough to withstand the energy forces of Krohn’s ever-growing black hole. You must keep the Millennium Orb in position by moving Force Shields on the outer edges of each chamber in Krohn’s domain. The fate of the entire Universe is in your hands!
My Nerdpinion:
One of the most surprising things about this game is that it used ”3-D” glasses (one lens was clear and the other was tinted) that actually come with the game. The 3D effect is produced by the constantly-moving player ship. The ships movement hides the dual image used for the 3D effect.
ORB-3D is a intergalactic approach to classic game of pong. The game is played by keeping your spaceship (the Millennium Orb) from leaving the screen by bouncing the ship back and forth between your paddles on the left and right of the screen. Like classic pong your paddles only move up and down on the left and right sides of the screen.
Where ORB-3D differs from pong is in the way the Millennium Orb travels in the background behind all of the targets when it is moving left across the screen. Then on the orb’s trip back to the right side of the screen, it travels in the foreground in front of all of the targets. As your ball passes behind or in front of a target click your “A” button to reverse directions and transition from the foreground to the background or vice versa. If your timing on the button was accurate you will activate your target when your orb ship passes through the middle space.
While keeping the Millennium Orb on screen you need to pay close attention to your fuel and try and hit the targets in a specific order. Each target you hit earns you more fuel. As time passes your fuel meter will slowly drop. If you miss your orb with your paddle you will lose quite a bit of fuel. If your fuel gets too low you can go to Vern’s space station for a chance to try and fuel up. You get a limited number of credits to go to Vern’s so only go when you absolutely have to. Once at Vern’s you have a short period of time to navigate the Millennium Orb through small holes in the space station. Each hole you travel through gives you additional fuel, then the hole will close behind you. If you don’t make it through any of the holes fast enough they will begin to close one by one before they all shut. Every once in a while you will encounter what I think is Vern himself, Which is a floating pink monster head with horns. In order to get out of this “Vern’s” level you have to poke out his eyes.
There are 30 levels in the game and each is a completely different puzzle. Once you get into the game a few levels it starts to get REALLY hard. After a while you will begin to encounter moving targets and targets that have to be hit multiple times before they disappear. An example of the multi-hit targets is a level that starts out with a bunch of caterpillars on the screen. Hit a caterpillar with your ship and it will morph into a cocoon. Hit a cocoon and it then turns into a butterfly and disappears shortly after. One of the harder moving targets is the cheshire cat level. In this level the cheshire cat is constantly disappearing and reappearing elsewhere. Since it is rarely is the same place twice it is really hard to aim and hit your target before it changes places again.
What would have made it better?
If the game had a 2P mode where you both play at the same time on the same puzzle. Both players could simply race to hit the most targets. It would be really cool if there was some sort of devastating effect if your ships collide, like both ships shoot off in random directions. It would be really cool if I could get my hands on some old school 3D glasses.
I highly recommend Orb-3D to anyone that likes simple games like Pong and Tetris. Even though the game was created in the 80’s this game has held up well over the years and STILL tons of fun to play.
This guy kinda sucks…and doesn’t make it look as fun as it really is. Anyway… here is someone dying within 2m43s on the first level.
Yes, I can finally get star power by eating gummies, who doesn’t want that!! These gummies are awesome!! Anything with Mario is good enough to post about. He is the heart of all that is gaming, in my opinion. These gummies taste great and have the perfect gummy soft texture almost like swedish fish but a bit softer. As far as I can tell by taste the flavors consist of cherry (Mario), lemon (Star), grape (Shell), lime (Luigi), blue raspberry (Yoshi), and orange (Toad).
The Bad:
No matter how awesome tasting these gummies are, there are a few things I don’t like about them. Like how the box Makes you think that your are eating something good for you when your really not. You would assume that the first ingredient would be fruit, because it says it contains real fruit. low and behold its first and second ingredients where… 1. corn syrup 2. suger. I wouldn’t give these to my kids, if I had any. Also the flavors were kind of generic, and personally I think they would have been better if it had a juicy center like gushers. Hell, they could have just let gushers make the gummies for them.
Here is a guy who’s made some corrections in a process called Kitbashing. Basically, they take existing toys and recolor them/modify them to be more close to their cartoon counterparts.
This is a nice waste of your time. I was always annoyed about cartoons not being close to the toys, especially Slash in TMNT looking totally different in the cartoon and vastly superior as a toy, and vice versa in other cases. This guy, however, rectifies these inconsistencies and does a damn good job at it.
This was not intended to denounce Bawls Energy Drinks.
Review:
Punch Out has always been a favorite amongst hardcore gamers. The New One is no exception with its lightning fast moves. You really have to be hardcore to beat this game. After just a couple nights of playing this game I was like why do my arms feel like they been lifting weights. Then the next day I turn back on the Wii to play some more Punch Out after the first few hits I realized that it was the game that was making my arms hurt so badly. This game will wear you out no joke. There is also an option to play it like the classic game you just play with the Wii controller sideways but I don’t think it’s as fun that way.
Our Review: 10/10 Tetris Attack is not only at the top of my list for puzzle games but also in my all time favorites for multiplayer games. This SNES game’s 2P mode is the best! The point of the game is to get more combos, faster than your opponent, thus dropping larger blocks on them… until they can’t keep up and eventually run home to the comfort of their mother’s basement. Read the rest of this entry →
