Grant ShepherdRemember? - Alex The Kid
May 13th 2008 01:04
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how cool was riding the bike?
Does everyone remember the first time you turned on your brand new Sega Master System?
For those of you that cant it was a beautiful moment in gaming and something that has never been recreated again.
The built in game.
As soon as you turned the little switch on, if there was no cartridge present in the system it loaded a brilliant little game calle Alex The Kid.
For the time this game was pretty revolutionary, yes i admit it was a pretty similar copy to Mario, but Alex was quite different in a few areas.
Firstly the game incorporated new elements like swimming, punching etc. Plus it had vehicles, i still remember the exhilleration of reaching the level were you got to use a jet ski (one of the coolest moments i could have envisaged as a young gamer). Not to mention the motorbike, which was pretty cool as well
But one of the cooloest innovations introduced in Alex The Kid, was the boss battles. Unlike games like mario where you had to jump on or shoot at the villain, in Alex The Kid you had to play rock, paper, scissors. How brilliant is that!
Yeah i admit this was a pretty easy way to fight a boss (especially if you took note of what combinations to use, because each play through it never changed) but it was quite an nnovative move by Sega and it is a moment in gaming history that i will never forget.
The final reason why this game was so cool was the longevity. I myself could never even finish this game. From memory i always got stuck on the level just after the Jet Ski one. haha. But i still remember watching my brother get to the final level where it was in a massive castle, and the moment where we were stuck for years trying to get through a room that was filling with lava. That moment was truly intense, forget being hunted down by soldiers in Metal Gear Solid, or evading the cops in GTAIV. Trying not to die when you only have one life left is truly heart pounding, knowing in your mind that you will have to start all over again and play for another few hours just to get to that same moment is what makes a game like Alex The Kid truly outstanding.
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Comment by Will Ooi
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I never finished it either, because I always lost the rock paper scissors battle in the castle! Then you had to start all over again! Haha, we sure take memory cards and auto-saves for granted these days.
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