Pixel Related's Patrick Cassin reviews the Shadowgate reimagining.
"Back when I was a child, my cousins and I would gather in my grandma’s living room where two televisions had progressive generations of videogame systems hooked up to them. And while the “kids” played easier games on the bigger screen (naturally) the adults would gravitate towards the smaller, where more challenging puzzle games were, more often than not, defeated. It was on this smaller screen, surrounded by aunts and uncles saying, “Well, have you tried this?” that I first encountered Shadowgate on the NES. Back then, the difficulty I had in solving the game seemed easily attributed to my young age. But now, with today’s re-imagining of a classic, I’ve been freed of that delusion. Apparently, I just suck at this game."
Despite skyrocketing retro game prices the NES remains a deep trove of excellent games that, if you can avoid eBay sellers, are really quite affordable for new collectors.
Double Dragon 2 is one of the best!! Several good games on this list! Shadowgate, P.O.W., and Klax. That is actually a super fun puzzle game! TMNT, I think every time after the seaweed, I only had like 1 Turtle left. lol
COG writes: Shadowgate VR: The Mines of Mythrok is a terrific three-dimensional translation of the original games’ flatscreen fantasy dungeon crawler.
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