Obscure NES game, please help!

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feeds@yuku.com (lighthouseboy) — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:04:04 GMT

Milon's Secret Castle is one of my all time favorite games.

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:03:27 GMT

Well, it's still probably more obscure than games like the SMB, Zelda, Ninja Gaiden, Metroid, and Final Fantasy series. Being featured on Seanbaby may have put it in the spotlight for a time, but his NES page had it's proverbial 15 minutes of fame, and isn't as popular as it once was.

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feeds@yuku.com (ErniePants) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:06:59 GMT

Milon's Secret Castle barely counts as "obscure", too. Not sure how "obscure" Addams Family would be considered, but Milon's Secret Castle was one of the games featured on Seanbaby's NES Page.

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:00:47 GMT

I did notice that if you wait long enough outside the castle in Milon's Secret Castle, lightning does appear. But there's also lightning in the The Addams Family game and it would be more understandable why he kept confusing it with Fester's Quest.

Anyway, the reason I was reminded of this topic is because I've run into this twice at some other forums lately. One person was looking for a driving and shooting game that he insisted he played on the NES. It fit the...

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:18:48 GMT

I just now noticed something...It's been mentioned before that Milon and the castle backgrounds look like they were ripped off of Super Mario Bros, but what I only just now noticed is that the enemies look like they were ripped off of Kid Icarus. The thing on the upper left looks like the Kerons from Level 2, and the thing on the right clearly has the Eggplant Wizard's head.

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:40:59 GMT

Not only that, but the NES Addam's Family game still fits better!

It begins with a castle that cannot be entered.

It has darker graphics, and Mario gameplay: You don't just run and jump, but kill enemies by jumping on their heads.

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:11:42 GMT

I swear, I wanted to strangle this person.

All I remember is this game featured a castle, with lightning behind it, that was impossible for me to figure out how to get inside

& i myself could never get into the stupid castle at the beginning when i played it. the guy in the game was kind of like mario gameplay.

WTF?? Have you people never played a videogame before ever??? Pressing UP is the standard way...

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feeds@yuku.com (Magnus CROWE) — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:24:50 GMT

And Deja Vu 2. That was released on GBC along with Deja Vu 1.

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feeds@yuku.com (ErickOdell) — Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:53:37 GMT

hmm.... never played any...

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feeds@yuku.com (Oh Sassparilla) — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:55:20 GMT

What about the Sword of Hope games for the Game Boy? I've never heard anyone talk about them anywhere, but they are supposed to be similar to Shadowgate.

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Sun, 24 Aug 2003 19:14:46 GMT
I had the same thoughts on Deja Vu. I think part of the problem is that it's so damn ugly.
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feeds@yuku.com (Dire 51) — Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:42:47 GMT
I've played it, but imo it's not as involving as some of the other text adventures I've played. Not bad, though.
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feeds@yuku.com (Ruudos) — Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:40:31 GMT
Another game with a similar style is the NES game 'Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom'. Although I haven't played this game yet, I've heard it's a good (and somehow) strange game, but what do you expect with such as title?

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feeds@yuku.com (Dire 51) — Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:36:42 GMT
Shadowgate and Uninvited are probably the two best text adventures for the NES. From what I've played of Deja Vu (the second in the series - not a sequel, but another text adventure), I wasn't too impressed by it. It just didn't pull me in like the other two did.
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feeds@yuku.com (Nixxy Blayde) — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:05:47 GMT
IMO = "In My Opinion".

Yeah, Maniac Mansion is great. I beat it with about half of the possible character parties. I never used Jeff. LOL! I didn't think he was very useful since his only talent is to fix the phone.

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feeds@yuku.com (ErickOdell) — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:55:30 GMT
Yeah Maniac Mansion is a great game, but what is imo? I have never heard of that i do not think, unless i am an idiot here, and that is some well known abbreviation.

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feeds@yuku.com (Red Clawbot) — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 02:34:49 GMT
damn, i only heard of shadowgate when i came here...shows how much i know...not that its probably a bad thing...

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:06:52 GMT
There are. Beyond Shadowgate, which was made for the Turbo Grafx 16 and Shadowgate 64. I've never played Beyond Shadowgate, but I have Shadowgate 64. Unfortunately, I didn't think it was as good as the original, though it had some decent parts.

Uninvited and Deja Vu aren't true sequels, but they're similar-style games, also made by ICOM and ported to the NES by Kemco-Seika. Maniac Mansion is a similar game, too, and, imo, the best of those types of games I've played so far because...

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feeds@yuku.com (ErickOdell) — Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:22:14 GMT
Yeah FO, that game is really good, but getting started was rough, it is hard to find out what to do at first, until you familliarize yourself with the game play. I hear their are sequels to that game.

Obscure NES game, please help!

feeds@yuku.com (altazakin) — Tue, 15 Jul 2003 03:48:22 GMT
Hi! I stumbled over here, hoping someone could help me find an old NES game, with very little information to go on. Any leads are appreciated.

All I remember is this game featured a castle, with lightning behind it, that was impossible for me to figure out how to get inside -- I played it as a little kid. I see the castle (in my head) towering above the character, played "mario-style" with the character just walking in a straight line forward. I would get to this castle...