Jim Power - /vr/ (#11893169) [Archived: 1 hour ago]

Anonymous
7/24/2025, 9:59:13 PM No.11893169
Jim Power SNES_thumb.jpg
Jim Power SNES_thumb.jpg
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-Impressive looking visuals for the time
-Didn't even need any enhancement chips
-Varied gameplay with side-scroller platforming, SHMUP, and overhead mode 7 levels

-Prototype was made for the Genesis too
-A bit rough around the edges since it's a prototype but still impressive
-Mode 7 levels replaced with their own unique levels to fit the Genesis
-Music sounds even better than SNES

-... actual game is shit and known for being notoriously hard for all the wrong reasons
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Anonymous
7/24/2025, 9:59:40 PM No.11893170
Jim Power Genesis_thumb.jpg
Jim Power Genesis_thumb.jpg
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Anonymous
7/24/2025, 10:20:56 PM No.11893202
>>11893169 (OP)
>mode 7 top down levels
Always wondered if the snes could've handle this https://youtu.be/KiryohquOsE?si=1Fu0SPNQZf0y6-2-, kinda a waste there was nothing like it.
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Anonymous
7/25/2025, 2:30:42 AM No.11893668
>>11893169 (OP)
The music for it sounds great:

https://youtu.be/9iH-_XNSxVg
Anonymous
7/25/2025, 2:31:19 AM No.11893670
>>11893202
That's just the Contra III top down levels
Anonymous
7/25/2025, 2:42:02 AM No.11893697
Mediocre game by all means.

True memo on bosses. There's always that one fag in the shmup threads that spams about memorizing - we should make him play jim power so his brain finally fries itself and explodes.

Gotcha moments in stages - like 80% of a stage will be fine and then some random bullshit kills you. Love it.

Nauseating visuals. Not a constant thing but the artstyle is very hit and miss, in that it mostly misses. Yuck.

I'm being honest here, so I also get to say that the soundtrack slaps fucking hard, and is easily one of my favorites from huelsbeck. This goes for basically every version of the game. The genesis prototype was completed recently too. They all sound rad as hell. Don't miss out on the PC Engine CD version.
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Anonymous
7/25/2025, 3:01:09 AM No.11893740
>>11893169 (OP)
The Piko version for Genesis was finished, I got the collection and actually the NES version is the best. Its too bad these companies copy a game like Contra 3 and don't copy the main thing that makes the game fun. All these clones don't allow you to shoot while running, it makes the games feel slower, holding R to stand in place just worked perfectly.

>>11893697
Theres something fun about these slightly flawed games, its like you can just see the potential of it.
Anonymous
7/25/2025, 4:14:28 AM No.11893892
I always wondered why this game was so hard as a kid.
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Anonymous
7/25/2025, 4:32:38 AM No.11893931
>>11893169 (OP)
i hate that i bought this shit on steam and was just the roms i already had.

Anyway, great music, mediocre game.
10/10 would play again


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QOdSZ65LPs
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Anonymous
7/25/2025, 4:34:56 AM No.11893935
>>11893892
Europlatformer. They didn't know how to make platformers or shoot em ups, but while they made the shoot em ups way too easy, they made the platformers insanely hard to the point that you die if you merely look at a drop of water falling from the ceiling.
Anonymous
7/25/2025, 4:36:06 AM No.11893937
>>11893931
forgot to say

>>11893169 (OP)
>-... actual game is shit and known for being notoriously hard for all the wrong reasons
Just play the PC DOS version. It has a life bar and invincibility after getting hit. Makes the experience much more enjoyable, and not stupid mode 7 ripped of from contra 3.
Anonymous
7/25/2025, 5:08:31 AM No.11893996
jimpower
jimpower
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>>11893169 (OP)
Voted the worst game on the PC Engine by japanese readers
Anonymous
7/25/2025, 10:01:36 PM No.11895243
I don't know why people are comparing this to Contra 3. The only thing it does similar to Contra 3 are the top-down levels, which in both this and Contra 3 were more of a tech-demo level and not used in the majority of the game.
Anonymous
7/25/2025, 10:13:35 PM No.11895259
>>11893169 (OP)
The posterboy of skilled programmers and artists, able to work absolute miracles on limited hardware, coming together to create absolute putrid shit.

The posterboy of an European game.
Anonymous
7/26/2025, 10:45:34 PM No.11897646
>>11893169 (OP)
>autoscroll pixel dodger game #48283
YAWN no wonder
Anonymous
7/26/2025, 11:01:41 PM No.11897678
>>11893169 (OP)
>Jim Power

The Nes version is the one I like the most. Snes amd Gen, as impressive as they are, both gave me seizures sometimes.