First of all, a warm greeting to all those vicious Hivers and video game lovers... Welcome once again to another gaming article of my authorship, today I come to share with you a "Retro" analysis, an old school analysis hehehe xD. The game I will be analyzing today is "Road Fighter" for the Nintendo NES Console.
"Road Fighter" is a game of the "Racing" genre, this good game would make its appearance on December 23rd, 1985 for the Nintendo NES console and was developed by the renowned "Konami Computer Japan LTD".
This fun and addictive racing game would be the first of this type of genre that would develop the company Konami, despite seeming a fairly simple title, it would end up surprising friends and strangers ... Absolutely nobody could suspect at that time all that was summarized in a total fun factor that was hidden in this great racing title.
The gameplay of "Road Fighter" is to reach the finish line, and yes, maybe this can be read and in a way it may seem so simple, but it is not, this is much more complicated, in the journey we must go through four circuits, these circuits are set in what looks like a city road, a road over a bridge, a road on the coast and a road on the highway. In all of them we will find quite stressful obstacles, but surmountable xD.
These obstacles will be automobiles, trucks, containment barriers and oil stains, but in this case the most difficult ones will be the automobiles, each one of them with a color that identifies them, in the same way each one of them drives a predetermined pattern, which you will have to learn not to crash against these fucking bastards, although I can say that some of them will be possessed xD, surely they will crash them and make them lose control.
Every time you crash into any of the obstacles mentioned above, you will lose a lot of fuel that in this case would be like the health or life of our car, the fuel will be reflected as a timer, which will be quite unfair in certain cases, this will be spent every time we go forward in each of the circuits, for this detail quite frustrating hehehe xD, we will have a few cars of various colors, When you see one of these you must grab it to add more time to the fuel, in other cases you can also earn a bonus or you could also say as a kind of "Power UP", to get it, you must try not to collide with any of the obstacles, each time we get this "Power UP", we will pass through the left side of the screen a "Super Konami Man", which will let us know that we go like the Devil takes the Devil hahahahahaha, ie, we go well on the tour. This "Power UP" will also increase our fuel time.
For its part, the controls are quite simple, with the cross or crosshead you can give direction to the car and we will have two action buttons which will be to accelerate, each one handles different speeds, that is to say, that one has greater acceleration than the other.
The graphics, despite being quite simple, is modest for its time, personally I can say that the colors stand out and are easy to differentiate, the animations in this case are conspicuous by their absence, but what I can say that stands out in this section, is the theme of speed, a very successful point that gives a visual perspective of what is a game of the racing genre.
On the other hand, the musical section or soundtrack is simple, but in the same way it transmits the sensation of racing circuits in which you can only hear the roar of the engines, in this case we will hear the bestial engine of the car that we will be controlling. As for the melodies we will only hear a few and I must say that they are counted, a melody to start in the first circuit, another melody to reach the end of each circuit and a third last melody to be heard when we complete the fourth and final circuit.
Now to finish I'll give my final verdict... "Road Fighter became the clearest example of how revolutionary a racing videogame can be despite how simple it can be. Personally I can say, that without a doubt this title is one of the best in its genre for the Nintendo NES, a classic that continues to dazzle in the trunk of memories.
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Some of the images that I showed in this content were taken from the web, by clicking on them you can be redirected to their link page, all other images are of my total authorship, the captures were taken from the original game, which I ran it from my "VirtualNES" Emulator for PC... Thanks for visiting and taking the time to read my content, see you soon!
