Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril has apparently been kicking around for a while, but I'd never seen it before. It wasn't at PAX East or PAX Prime, and it sure as hell wasn't at E3. However, it does look pretty awesome.
If you can't tell from the video, this is a new in-cartridge NES game being sold in some Tokyo shops. Note that this was an NES cart, and not a Famicom game. That just triples the weirdness.
The game comes to us from Sivak games, who are apparently still selling this 'new' NES game for around $30. That's a lot cheaper than the game was going for in Tokyo. I think the price in-store was around 5,000 yen, which is more than $50. Looks like the Japanese are getting screwed on this deal, but either way, a digital retail release would probably be the way to go on this one.
I didn't mean that as an attack. I'm just calling it how it is.
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Oh yeah, I remember hearing about this a while back. Shame that the NES I got at my church's junk sale doesn't work. Oh well, at least I got a 50 cent paperweight with Super Mario Bros and Punchout.
Oh yeah. 1UP did a Game Night on Battle Kid a while back, and it's inspired by I Wanna Be The Guy. As in, it's kind of insanely hard, but it's still weirdly fun. How cool that it was just randomly hanging out in Japan at import price.
I refuse to play "I Wanna Be The Guy", but I actually want to try this game. It looks like it pulls all the dick moves that a game would back then without going TOO far.
@Bigmoose85 A lot of people will say that at first, but when you play it, it becomes really obvious that it's more of a sly wink and nod to IWBTG that has a totally different mindset -- Whereas IWBTG gets its kicks by tricking you into assuming safety and constantly triggering 'WTF' moments, Battle Kid is waaayyyy more honest about it's own difficulty through its design and such. so you always get an idea of HOW each area is going to be difficult before dying a million times.
But yeah, this game is amazing and well worth the amounts of Japanese space-monies these places are charging. Buy it!
password save system. Really hard games like this can be fun, but if they don't have a good amount of checkpoints and autosave, fun can quickly mutate into horribly evil frustration.
the guy who made the game is actually under contractual obligation to keep the game as cartridge only. so there isn't even a chance of downloading this thing off the net, let alone a vc release.
@ bobyoko- Don't be so sure. If you scour this post, you may find some clues concerning the path that Battle Kid may take towards digital retail release.
I saw this in the Trader store in Akihabara, 5000¥ was a bit too pricey for me though. It would be great to see a digital release though I'd definitely get it then!
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9:15 PM on 09.20.2010 | 
Nah, the reset button's permanently pressed into the machine. I might get the time to have it fixed sometime, but not anytime soon.
Thanks for the tips!
But yeah, this game is amazing and well worth the amounts of Japanese space-monies these places are charging. Buy it!
Also, it's amazing.
password save system. Really hard games like this can be fun, but if they don't have a good amount of checkpoints and autosave, fun can quickly mutate into horribly evil frustration.