Jeremy Parish
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NES Works #056: Tiger-Heli & Star Voyager
🕑 Added 2019-11-06 14:00:02 +0000 UTCI feel like NES Works is truly settling into its own here. After a string of amazing, groundbreaking, world-class creations, now we're on to the mundane mediocrity. Games that were okayish, not great, and mostly existed to fill out toy store shelves. Thanks, Acclaim. You excelled at creating the bulk filler that parents bought when the games their kids wanted were sold out.
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James Jackson
I have a long history with both games. Tiger-Heli was a gift when I was a kid, and as I didn't have a whole lot of games growing up, I played it over and over again until I was good to "beat" it (at least completing the first full loop). Revisiting the game earlier this year, I found my skills had long atrophied and I gave up pretty quickly. What I best remember about Star Voyager was renting it as a kid, thinking it would be an exciting first-person space adventure. I was completely baffled by it and returned it to the video store the next day. I bought a copy of it last year for about $2, put it in my RetroN 5, and immediately reqlized nothing had changed.
Jackson Mileur
It's a pity we never got the NES version of Elite here in the US, which was a 3D polygon space sim game that outdid Star Voyager in almost every conceivable way.
