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StarCraft (and Darkwing Duck (NES)!

Hardcore Gaming 101 · March 10, 2026

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01:26:18 - 01:26:31

I mean, you even have a essentially a stand-in for the Sniper Joe anime from Mega Man. Oh, that guy. Sniper Joe is a green guy, he has a shield that he holds up most of the time, and whenever

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... There's some that appear in several stages, but overall the stage theming is fairly strong and you've got a decent amount of enemies that are specific to a given stage and give it a bit more character. I mean, you even have a essentially a stand-in for the Sniper Joe anime from Mega Man. Oh, that guy. Sniper Joe is a green guy, he has a shield that he holds up most of the time, and whenever to attack. And there's a green duck character in this with essentially a cape who will use that to block your shots, pull that away to like throw a knife at you and then cover back up. ...

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01:26:08 - 01:31:38

... Yeah. I mean, you even have a essentially a stand-in for the Sniper Joe anime from Mega Man. Oh, that guy. ...

01:12:27 - 01:13:33

... Yes, it's very Capcom. It's sort of Mega Man, but that wing duck. Yeah. ...

01:19:14 - 01:23:23

... You can tell that they were really trying and putting their all into this, you know, it helps that they, again, already had that framework with the Mega Man engine and it takes that approach to like, you start the game up and while you're not given a choice of eight stages, you do get to pick between three, the very beginning. ...

01:55:00 - 01:58:10

and licensed 732 I've not played that one that's probably more certainly nothing like the movie but it's charming they drew Bill Murray that's a more sensible question I was gonna say I'd put this above Mega Man X because I don't like Mega Man X very much whoa but that's really nice please 144 trouble for putting it that high yeah I'm afraid I'm much closer to the range that Frankie is yeah that's like it at 746 we have Batman for the NES I've not played that one so I would rank this one here over Batman because…

01:37:12 - 01:38:04

and Dale allowed you to just drop through platforms and those but Darkwing takes it a step further and that when he does that he'll he won't fall all the way through he'll latch onto the ceiling first and then you can choose to drop down again so he's got a lot more mobility options baked in and like what Mega Man would have it's true he's lacking a slide he doesn't have anything to inherently make him go faster but he can interact with the environment in ways that Mega Man could not actually really I actually…

01:42:26 - 01:43:12

whereas like 80 maybe 87 no 88 to 90 it was it was all like yeah I gotta get there and then in 90 it was like what if we just hung out at the beach well real quick I did want to bring up the bosses since that's I feel like another point where this diverges from the Mega Man games and that the boss fights are a lot more involved you know like in Mega Man games for the most part you get to a boss and it's just a empty room in a rare rare instance like say Snake Man and Mega Man 3 you may have some uneven terrain…

01:40:37 - 01:41:15

trailed off to be honest so I swear I'll get better some dark wing duck music yeah if I can quickly look up the composer Wikipedia do your thing do that apparently was by Yasu Aki Fujita who did the music to I want to be the bossy the music to Mega Man 4 among a lot of other games they did the music to punkie skunk along with along with

01:49:05 - 01:49:39

game but I think that's essentially just the NES version but with slightly truncated simplified level design late in the back of the car it's like it's pretty much direct part as much you can do a direct part without sprite downscaling on the Game Boy it's pretty solid it's also similar to the Game Boy Mega Man part because they also don't use any downscaling and that one's pretty solid it plays pretty much the same lots of stages feel very similar because they just cut away the like the top half that in many…

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