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1. Mysteriously, this game manual will not tell you how many points you get if you beat the last boss. Here's the quotation.
"Bowser, King of the Koopa: The sorcerer king holding Princess Toadstool captive in the last castle. He comes at you spitting fire. There are several ways to kill him, but you only get points if you use fireballs. (--- pts.)"
What's the game?
2. Some manuals don't give you much to go on as far as strategies or even information regarding the villains of the game. One such manual only lists the points each boss is worth. Here is the information. "Grim Reaper: 7,000 points; The Count!: 50,000 points". The manual also states Queen Medusa is worth 3,000 points and Frankenstein and Igor are worth 5,000. What's the game?
3. So this next game as one of the most infamous stages in all of video gaming: 6-2. I know once I beat it, I have to beat the final boss. The game manual says this about the final boss:
"Guardia de Mieux (Jaquio): He calls himself Jaquio. He is the almighty evil, determined to take over the world. He believes in the legends surrounds the evil temple at the ruins. He has taken over the temple to build an empire of evil."
What's the game?
4. This manual doesn't have any information on the villains themselves, but it does have this interesting tidbit of information regarding an item you get if you beat one of the bosses. "Metal Man: The (M) Metal Blade is a gear. Up to three may be thrown in any direction the control pad is pushed. This is probably the best general purpose weapon and the energy lasts a long time." What's the game?
5. Some games require you to use special items to beat the final boss. This game's manual nicely clues us into the fact without a certain item, there's no way we'll finish the game. Here's the quote:
"Link's no match for Gannon and his might. Whatever attack Link uses, Gannon just repels him. But if Link uses the magical sword and some other object, he'll manage to topple the mighty Gannon."
What's the game?
6. According to this game's manual, the boxer Glass Joe has 1 win, 99 losses, and 1 KO. He is from Paris, France, is thirty eight years old, and weighs a measly one hundred ten pounds. What game does this ferocious beast of a man come from?
7. Not all "villains" are truly villains. Some characters are actually on your side but you still hate anyway. One such game features a dog that jumps into bushes to scare a certain type of animal out of the brush. It is your job to kill these animals. And if you miss, man's best friend, the dog, does something rather annoying. The manual states: "The hound comes out and laughs at you." So much for moral support. What is the game?
8. So I fired up the NES the other day and stuck in this cartridge that is remarkably like "Metroid". I get to one of the dungeons, and all of a sudden I encounter a fiendish enemy who turns me into some sort of vegetable. I break out the manual and find this entry:
"Eggplant Wizard: An inhabitant of the fortresses. It places a spell on Pit to turn him into an eggplant. In order to break the spell, Pit must go to the fortress hospital."
I head off to the fortress hospital to get healed.
9. Most manuals will tell you the overall plot of the game. This game manual, however, essentially says if you fail, the aliens win and they will take over the entire universe. No pressure or anything, right? Here's the quote:
"You're about to come face to face against Red Falcon, the cruelest life-form
in the galaxy. His ultimate fiendish goal: domination of the entire universe.
Needless to say, playing hero won't be easy. But you have no choice -- you
must be a hero. Because if you fail, life as we know it will cease to exist,
and the vile Red Falcon will rule forever."
What would have been much more helpful than all that undue pressure (after all, back in the 1980s kids were primarily playing video games, not adults) is the famous Konami Code, which gives you thirty lives rather than the three the game starts you out with. What's the game?
10. The last game manual I found tells us about a mini-boss in the fortress levels of this particular title. Here's what it says:
"Boom Boom: This is the boss that controls the Mini-Fortresses. Boom Boom hurls himself at Mario with his arms swinging. Mario needs to jump on Boom Boom 3 times to defeat him. Be careful though, Boom Boom gets quicker every time he gets jumped on."
What's the game?
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