Dr. Chaos Game Sample - NES/FC
0I've been VERY busy job hunting these past couple of days (among other things) because I'm really getting sick of the hypocrisy of where I work...and I may have found something good that I am looking for (I am keeping my fingers crossed). In the meantime, this is one of the many videos I've recorded in the past week or so. Stuff your eyes with some of this!
It is Dr. Chaos (also known as Dr. Chaos: Hell's Gate or (ドクター・カオス 地獄の扉 Dokutā Kaosu: Jigoku no Tobira), a game developed by an obscure group known as Marionette. The game was published by FCI (who published a few games I kinda liked, a couple of the NES Ultima games most notably). Anyway, Marionette would like go on to create various strategy and simulation games...and FCI? They are actually still around, but they stopped publishing games since the 90s. You can read an article of FCI below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujisankei_Communications_International
This game originated on the FDS (Family Computer Disk System or Famicom Disk System) back in 1987 with the NES port being done in 1988. It's an okay enough game I suppose, though it isn't terribly exciting. It's part action and part click-and-pick adventure, but it isn't a great combination of both. It is, however, passable. The game has okay visuals and sound and there is a simple enough gameplay engine to follow, but the hit detection of certain enemies can be a little annoying at times and the sound (while serviceable) is pretty mediocre.
You play as Michael Chaos, the brother of a mad scientist known as Dr. Ginn Chaos. Dr. Chaos has been doing Warp Zone experiments in his mansion and has gone missing. Being a good and dutiful brother with an ironic last name, you set out to save your brother by closing the box of mayhem that he has opened (let's poetically call it "Pandora's Box"). How does Michael plan to save him? With a mere knife. Luckily for you, your brother who seems to be far wealthier than you, has a couple of better weapons and items scattered not only around his mansion, but throughout time and space. You can collect grenades, handgun bullets, machine gun ammo, life items, an air helmet, a shield suit (for protection/damage reduction), ultra space sensor (helps you find warp zones), jump boots and various helpful vitamins.
The adventure part comes in when you enter rooms in the mansion. You must move a cursor and select different actions from a menu on the right side of the screen. You can "OPEN" objects, "GET" an item that you see, "GO" to an area and "HIT" certain objects to find stuff. I would like to say a little extra about the "GO" command; because you go through warp zones too, you can't assume that the only thing you go through is open doors. You can go through windows and other objects to, so if you are new to the game and don't know where a warp zone is, try going through anything you can.
If you were to find the game in a pawn shop, I'd certainly buy it. There are more interesting games out there, but there are definitely worse games too.