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[SirNiko]

Re: DBZ hair and shrinking, this was a powerup in Clash at Demonhead. There's a good chance this might be the game you're imagining.



http://users.animanga.com/bluehell/vgabyss/reviews/clashbang/index.html

MCKids had exceptional level design, which went a long way towards making it worthwhile. I think it's quite possibly the best licensed NES game of all in a sea of mediocre tie-ins.

[mcc]

Re: DBZ hair and shrinking, this was a powerup in Clash at Demonhead. There's a good chance this might be the game you're imagining.

OMG this is exactly what I was thinking of.

Like literally this is the exact screenshot I had in my head.

[Eclipse]

Hebereke was underrated? Ok so what about Lickle Story\Little Samson?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUp4ObbLg7E






Four characters you can switch while you play, both with very different mechanics, awesome graphics (one of the best looking games on nes for sure)

Lickle, the main character can even climb wall\ceiling, walljump and he shoots like megaman.
Then there's Mouse, that can run very fast, get into tight spots and drop bombs. Golem can walk over spikes without hurt, and his punches are the most powerful weapon of the game, Dragon can fly and shoot fireballs.

[Alevice]

I was able to rent Little Samson and MC Kids when I was a kid, and they were awesome. I still play them through emulation from time to time. I heard of UUforia when I was a kid, but never got a chance to try it. I dont remember if I have emulated it alrady. Same goes for Gimmick.

It might sound gay, but I enjoyed tons Rainbow Island when I was a kid. I don't know why it was called Bubble Bobble 2, as it had nothing to do with it.

[Tanner]

the main character is either bub or bob, back in human form.

[Alevice]

I meant gameplay wise. From spitting bubbles in single rooms containers to shoot rainbows to reach top in multi screenrooms. The en emis nd such were different too.

[Eclipse]

It might sound gay, but I enjoyed tons Rainbow Island when I was a kid. I don't know why it was called Bubble Bobble 2, as it had nothing to do with it.

it's an awesome game, even if the nes version is not the best one. And it continues the story of Bubble Bobble, they need to break the curse over the population of the islands and revert them back to the human form. The game has four different endings and only a totally good one, and it's very, very hard to get because you aren't simply required to complete the levels but you also need to get a diamond in each level and three magical mirrors.

There's also another game in the serie, called Parasol Star - The Story of Bubble Bobble III, in that on you have an umbrella

[imghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/thumb/1/10/Parasol_Stars.png/275px-Parasol_Stars.png

[Türbo Bröther]

The school computers had M.C. Kids back when I was in the fourth grade and I was by far the best in the class at it. I could get up to the moon world, noone else could do that. Trying to play a game that was a fast as Sonic with a keyboard probably had something to do with it. Or probably because I never saw a Sunsoft logo thus making it of inferior stock.

[supershigi]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not, but it's a shame that Ufouria's music is all messed up on the Wii.  With NES games, composers often used a different process for creating the percussion than they did for the melodic instruments... but apparently with Ufouria the bassline was created separately from the rest of the tracks, resulting in a pitch shift for all the melodic instruments except for the bassline.  The cacophony is pretty bad, but we're still trying to play it because it seems like an awesome game.

[mcc]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not, but it's a shame that Ufouria's music is all messed up on the Wii.  With NES games, composers often used a different process for creating the percussion than they did for the melodic instruments... but apparently with Ufouria the bassline was created separately from the rest of the tracks, resulting in a pitch shift for all the melodic instruments except for the bassline.  The cacophony is pretty bad, but we're still trying to play it because it seems like an awesome game.

I think there may just be something weird about the way sound is implemented in Ufouria? Because the Wii version sounds about the same as any emulated version I've ever seen.

If you think the Wii version is cacophonous you should have heard the absolutely amazing thing that early versions of iNES did to the entire Ufouria soundtrack! Though, okay, I have to admit that this was one of the things that originally made me fall in love with the game...

[supershigi]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not, but it's a shame that Ufouria's music is all messed up on the Wii.  With NES games, composers often used a different process for creating the percussion than they did for the melodic instruments... but apparently with Ufouria the bassline was created separately from the rest of the tracks, resulting in a pitch shift for all the melodic instruments except for the bassline.  The cacophony is pretty bad, but we're still trying to play it because it seems like an awesome game.

I think there may just be something weird about the way sound is implemented in Ufouria? Because the Wii version sounds about the same as any emulated version I've ever seen.

If you think the Wii version is cacophonous you should have heard the absolutely amazing thing that early versions of iNES did to the entire Ufouria soundtrack! Though, okay, I have to admit that this was one of the things that originally made me fall in love with the game...

The problem was actually in the conversion (as opposed to the original game's implementation).  For some reason all the basslines ended up being a semitone out, so all the bass got converted to the wrong key!  If you listen to the original Japanese version (Hebereke) you can hear the difference:     

This is how it's actually supposed to sound

This is the messed up conversion

It's sad because the Hebereke music is actually really good, so I wish someone in QA had caught that before it went out

[skaldicpoet9]

Ufouria actually looks pretty awesome. I am ashamed to say I never played Crystalis, though. In my defense, when I owned an NES as a kid I had heard of it but my parents were too broke to buy many games for my NES. I did however, play a crazy amount of Final Fantasy on the NES, and then one day my parents sold my NES and games at a yard sale because they thought that I "never played it", which is crazy because I played that damn game every day after school. The sad part is that I was right at the end and to this day I still haven't beaten the original Final Fantasy. /cool story bro

I am definitely going to try out Ufouria and after seeing that intro for the NES version of Crystalis, I must play that game immediately, it looks amazing. One of the best NES intros I have seen as well.

[Türbo Bröther]

Ooh, I just remembered...

[Paint by Numbers]

That is fantastic. Bop-Louie, Karnov, and the guy from Atlantis no Nazo... I wish it was an actual game...

[supershigi]

My boyfriend just beat the game and the ending is hilarious.

"Goodbye Bop-Louie!"
"I decided to come back because we had so much fun!"
"The saga goes on forever."

Hahaha... very cute and awesome game.  Both of us managed to tune out the pitch problems (being a sound engineer, I didn't think I'd be able to, but I'm glad I did).  The little animations are so adorable... I really like how that one guy crawls on his back for some reason.