[Rogue Retro Gaming] Smash TV (Arcade)

rogueofoz (47)in #gaming • 6 years ago

Today I present to you an arcade cult classic, Smash TV that was on released on arcade rooms in 1990 by Williams. The game has nothing to do with the Smash television series.

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Plot
This is set in a futuristic television set, where you are a contestant in a game show, as you proceed in the game you get prizes including money and trips; as well as scaping with your life.

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Graphics, sounds and gameplay
Graphics are pretty good and in line with Super Nintendo games, they are colourful and feature a great variety of backgrounds, characters and enemies are well detailed.

Sounds are great! Right from the start, even the song that loops while you shoot at endless enemies it's absolutely amazing. Sound effects are not annoying to hear even though you hear it a lot, and there is a very nice touch everytime the host screams some corny phrase like "good luck, you'll need it".

The game is a top-down multidirectional shooter, the game is supposed to be played with two joysticks and I did configure my control so I could play it like that and it was a great experience, it is both fun and hard. You are going to get locked in rooms with doors that are spawning, guys with bats, robots, and serpents among other enemies that have to only objective to kill you causing you to lose the game show. Along the way, you have various temporal boosters to your gun, like missiles, bombs and multi-directional shots. There are also bosses that you have to defeat, when the horde of enemies in a room it's killed, you advance into another until you get to the boss. You have three life until game over, but you can have an extra life that appears like an upgrade.

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This is a hard, but fun game that has its own attitude much a keen to the 90's, it also has an awesome sense of humour and can be pretty funny at times. If you come across it I recommend that you take your time to playing it, it's worth it. Since it was ported to many consoles, including the SNES you could get it on eBay for as low as 2 USD.