Retro Gaming Flux #1
By: Keldon Warlord
Fellow fellow Gamebrains, Keldon here I have been pondering over and over in my head how to do this column....It really didn't hit me until the other day ......I will simply have a featured game for each column and talk about it..!?! simple enough.....so with out further apu...(that kills me) here is the first game.....
Yep thats right Skull Monkeys!!!!
Holy Moses Smell the roses This game has the best music for a platformer and its in my personal top 10 fav. soundtracks. It was released for the Playstation back in 1997 by Neverhood, Dreamworks Interactive, and Electronic Arts. You play as Klaymen, the last clay action hero that has to save your homeland from the evil villian known as Klogg. This game is action packed with 90+ levels, multiple secret areas, and its filled to the top with balls.
I mean how can you turn down a game with weapons with names like Hamster Shield, Universal Enema, and Phart Head!?! Plus this games has some of the best bosses and enemies ever....such as mental monkey, triple laser butt bounce monkey, El barfo, Glenn Yntis, and the best of them all JOE HEAD JOE!!!!!!
i know i know its a shitty pic but thats all i could find....anyway thats Joe Head Joe....
As I stated earlier, Skull Monkeys is a platformer (Crash Bandicoot, Mario Bros), while it holds the standards of any normal platformer it really dosen't offer anything new to the catagory. But where SkullMonkeys excels the most is its original character design, musical score, and down right sillyness...
I must say, if you can find copy of this game get it! Its starting to get a cult following and I bet it will go for alot of money on e-bay pretty soon.....
With that all said and done, I give SkullMonkeys for the Playstation 7 out of 10 gamebrains.......
System: Playstation
Publisher : Neverhood
Genre : Platform
Sales Date : 1997
Remarks : 90+ levels of gameplay.
Skull Monkey
Cheats
Cheat Chart
O=circle X=X T=triangle S = square and so on....
Cheats....
Science Center Complete ( code beforebeansFMV)
O R1 S S X T
X L1 T O
Hard Boiler Complete (before telescope FMV)
O R1 S O T T
R1 L1 T T R2
Sno Complete
(beat the level after this code to face the best boss character ever... JOE HEAD JOE!!!)
O L1 X S S T
R2 L1 T R1 R1
Elevated Structure of Terror Complete
(Go Kart FMV)
O R1 S S O T
R2 L1 T R1 O
Top five retro games I currently am into....
5.Mega Man 3--Nes (in my eyes, still the best one)
4.Castlevania III--Nes (the best only behind SotN on the Playstation)
3.Chrono Trigger..(yeah thats right I have a copy of the Snes version)
2.The Legend of Zelda--Nes (the original that started it all)
1.Final Fantasy III --Snes(need I say anything)
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