you don't typically expect anything good when you see the Bandai logo on a game box and this doesn't disappoint. yet it sold pretty good anyway just because of the movie license.
>>12570336The weird part is I remember when Dick Tracy movie hype was around and it had no appeal to young people who were entirely unfamiliar and uninterested in the comic or whatever the fuck it was.
>>12570338Also Madonna had to sing torch songs to prove she couldn't.
>>12570336And then there's the Genesis version, an excellent game through and through.
>>12570336In this one the big B is partnered with Realtime Associates, the makers of five shovelware NES games.>Dick Tracy>Caesars Palace>Fun House>Monster Truck Rally>The Rocketeer
>>12570367that was STI's first game. considering their usually meme reputation it's better than it could have been.
>>12570336>Famidaily reviews a Bandai game
>>12570336The driving around the open city felt a proto GTA 1 to me, even if you can’t cause mayhem. This game doesn’t get enough credit.
>>12570368Realtime made nothing but budget crap. All of these games are CNROM/UNROM except The Rocketeer where they actually got to use MMC1.
>>12570336Frankenstein: The Monster Returns was actually reasonably good considering it's the dreaded Bandai/TOSE pairing.
>>12570368Dick Tracy was the biggest hit of these five games. The rest didn't really sell that much and are pretty forgotten.
>>12570368>The RocketeerI completely forgot about that one. It was one of the ones I owned as a kid. Good shit anon. That goes to my games I never finished list.
>>12570393The Rocketeer isn't that hard of a game, actually Dick Tracy is a lot tougher.
>>12570338It was Warren Beatty's passion project, it was never really supposed to appeal to kids but Disney wanted a hit like Batman
>>12570383this is also the expression one makes when playing a ZX Spectrum game
>>12570336What do you expect from Realtime Associates? Their most notable game was Bug LMAO.
>>12570385>The RocketeerThe fact that the SNES version is somehow even worse makes me want to check out the NES version for that reason alone.
>>12570409It didn't help that they had publishers who limited them to the cheapest cartridge hardware.
>>12570395Im not sure I ever beat a single nes game as a kid. I actually enjoyed that one but probably just forgot about it after getting a new game.
>>12570413Makes me glad that they were a multiplat dev and weren't solely restricted to Nintendo platforms.
on the SNES Realtime released these:>Ahh! Real Monsters!>Beavis and Butthead>Captain America and the Avengers>Q*Bert 3>Sküljagger: Revolt of the Westicans>Warlockand they also did the cancelled Socks The Cat game
I had the sega system version
>>12570425that one is also 2 megabits so twice the ROM size of the NES game
>>12570423None of these are any good either.
>>12570368You forgot about this timeless classic
>>12570428And without any mapper tech either. Imagine if SMS had mappers... Outside of the Korean ones that are used as some form of copy protection.
>>12570423They also developed this thing for the Genesis KEK.
>>12570438That one was not Realtime Associates, it was Bandai's old friend TOSE.
>>12570423Two of these were budget 4 megabit games, the rest had normal larger ROM sizes.
>>12570439The Master System did have mappers but there was just one standard mapper type that banks the ROM in 16k segments and supports up to 1 megabit although no official release was larger than 4 megabits. Some carts have custom ROMs with the mapper integrated into the ROM to reduce chip count and costs, on other ones it's a separate IC.
>>12570449>and supports up to 1 megabit*8 megabits I mean, sorry for the typo
On the Genesis, Realtime did ports of ARM and Warlock as well as that Barney game, Berenstein Bears' Camping Adventure, M-1 Abrams Battle Tank, and Normy's Beach Babe O-Rama. Nothing short of abysmal list.
>>12570438I was the weird kid who liked both the Toxic Avenger movies and the Toxic Crusaders show, but I never knew this game existed until over a decade later. I was also the only kid I knew who liked either of those things.
>>12570440inb4 "die in a fire"
>>12570336It's weird that Gen X ers are old enough that they made a Dick Tracy movie successful. This would be the biggest bomb in history if it released today
>>12570385just like LJN. always CNROM/UNROM on their games. sometimes they used MMC1 although in that case they bought Acclaim's clone version since it was cheaper than a real Nintendo MMC1 board.
>>12570473what did he mean by this? nobody, at least no young people cared about DT in 1989.
>>12570472Hopefully as long as I say "thing", I'll be okay. Didn't know the bot was on this board too...
>>12570473If it released today it wouldn't have the same star power behind it>peak Madonna>Pacino>Dustin Hoffman>James Caan>Dick Van Dyke>Seymour Cassel>cinematography by Bertolucci and Coppola's right-hand man>score by Danny Elfman
>>12570484They could always use Sabrina Carpenter I guess.
>>12570480>>12570473although in the 80s people still read newspaper comics so would have at least had a passing familiarity with the comic strips. you might not read the things since you were interested in Bloom County or other more hip Gen Xer-coded comic strips but DT was always there in the corner of the page so you'd give it a passing glance.
These threads are like the world's shittiest blog.>Yep Whomp'Em is an NES game all right. It was named something different in Japan I think. What did you think of it? Anyway see you tomorrow for another game.
>>12570484>>12570338the Madonna casting was supposed to help get the kids watching especially since most of the actors were graying even at that time.>Dick Van Dyke was already over the age of 60 when this movie was shot 38 years ago and is still alive
>>12570510case in point. much like 21st century Scorsese films Beatty (also still alive in 2026) meant DT to be a make-work project for his aging GI/Silent Generation buddies and didn't really care if people born after 1950 watched it but the studio did want some kind of younger audience.
>>12570384Yeah it's not a good game by any stretch. But being able to drive around a city, get out, and go into all the buildings is pretty cool for the time. I think you can even take cover behind your car and shoot at the snipers and they won't be able to hit you. But I'm not 100% on that one.
>>12570510>>12570484Considering that most of the cast and crew except Caan and Cassel are still alive that's a bit impressive as they weren't young dudes back then.
>>12570469 I had the game but from what I remembered it sucked. I thought the guy looked cool though.
>>12570532Being able to map "select" as your "B" button in an emulator makes it worth it. Kind of retarded to lock the strong attack behind a select button, but emulators make it a lot easier to play now.
>>12570336on the other hand you could play that piece of shit Roger Rabbit game if you want a similar bad licensed game based on a film noir/1940s retro theme
>>12570401>>12570523Beatty has to do a project in-character as Dick Tracy every so often to keep the rights. They're these little 30 minute specials that are aired exactly one time. He's still doing them as of a couple years ago. It's as bizarre as it sounds.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFbiRK-UaY&t=180
>>12570425*SEGA Master System
>>12570379>>12570545I'm positive most Spectrum games were made while on drugs.
>>12570550Most Atari games were made while on drugs too, equilibrium.
>>12570539He is probably hoping somebody somebody will by the rights from him. Pretty smart since we're living in the age of remakes.
Movies and games based on ancient comic strips were the style at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFArYx3Ay84
>>12570504its a famibot thread dont expect much
>>12570449I just found out Codemasters made their own mapper for the SMS like they did with the NES. That's bizarre.
Bandai did cool things too
>>12570732That's another TOSE game. Personally, I preferred Toxic Crusaders since I'm not a big fan of JRPGs.
>>12570510>Dude is 100! HOLY SHIT need to make a certain Latino meme for this.
>>12570472>>12570482It only shows up when you post an image of a certain cartoon about horses you can't talk about.
>>12570661>>12570504there's no Famibot or Australia kun, those posters are anon's schizophrenic delusions
nice bobs. how did NOA let them get away with that?
