Fart-with-a-beard! JORDY! Videogame-types. BIONIC COMMANDO.

[Dobbin]

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/14833/Bionic-Commando-Screenshots/

[Rich]

Seriously!  How awesome is that!?!

It's funny, the game was near impossible and (I had thought) not all that popular, but we all still have such fond memories of it.  A robotic arm and a gun, it really doesn't get cooler than that.

Hoorah!

[Dobbin]

Pi pi pi... we have an intruder.

The game wasn't impossible, though-- it achieved that awesome false sense of feeling, after 4 or 5 hours of learning the mechanics, that "NOBODY who isn't me could have mastered doing that!"

That's the best kind of playability, for my money. Stuff like PRINCE OF PERSIA or TONY HAWK, or HALO-- hell, even old school, like 100-percenting the "challenging stage" of GALAGA, where, when you get proficient, you feel like you are the secret master of a self-created technique, when in reality, everybody playing has that same feeling.

[Rich]

Yes please!

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/26558.html

As for the NES game, who did you get past that one wall!?!

[Luke Erik]

I love bionic commando for the NES.  I still have the original box and game, and for traveling, I have it for the GBA.

Due to the possibility of limitless continues, the only problem I ever had with Bionic Commando was on, I believe, level three (lots o' green on the level).   After a long drop, right before "pi pi pi" there are several jumps in a row with spikes beneath them.  Even if I max out my health, I still rely on the back-up energy tank.  Two hits and it's over.

[Dobbin]

Yes please!

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/26558.html

As for the NES game, who did you get past that one wall!?!

If what you're asking is what I think you're asking, you needed to get the next gun upgrade, or something. It has been a while.

What I love most about that trailer, by the way, is the awesome orchestral update of *the same theme music.*

I would kinda wish that it would be more traditional platform-from-the-side-angle; it looks a little like the original SPIDER MAN movie-game mechanics with the web-swing from some of those clips. But regardless, it WILL BE MINE.

edit

Yeah, I looked up online, and I was right; there's a wall in Area 7 that you have to blast with the 3-way cannon, which means you have to equip it from the map screen before descending.  I assume that's what you meant.

It is good to know this sort of information is trapped in my head, should it ever become useful.

[Rich]

It is good to know this sort of information is trapped in my head, should it ever become useful.

Oh, it just became very useful.

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/846/846125p1.html

[Dobbin]

Oh, it just became very useful.

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/846/846125p1.html

I believe you mean PI, PI, PI!!!!!!!!!!

I watced that without sound, and was thinking, "What? They ported the ROM, big whoop, I guess I'll downloa---WHOA, SWEET CHRISTMAS! THEY DONE TWO-THOUSAND-AND-EIGHT-IFIED !T!!"

Master D, soon, I will see you fall in updated glory. And then, the CONGRATORATIONS will belong to me.

[Shawn]

The best part of it is Mike Patton IS Bionic Commando.