Retro Video – Joe & Mac: Lost in the Tropics
Monday 23 July 2007 @ 12:02 am | By Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte 2 CommentsOops, sorry for my absence these last 2 weeks, but here I am again preparing something nice for this Monday. Retro Video Time! It came to me as a surprise that off all the Retro Videos I’ve made, Joe & Mac gets featured until now; well, there have been a lot of great games through time, but Joe & Mac is the granddaddy of Arcade Adventure games, yessir! There wasn’t a trip to the arcade where i wouldn’t play some Joe and Mac (some other places called it Caveman Ninja. . .go figure) and suddenly another kid shows up and we team up beating the crap outta raging dinosaurs.
Now, Joe & Mac had a very underrated sequel on the SNES called Joe & Mac: Lost in the Tropics, and I gotta tell you that the graphics, music, and difficulty for this game are simply awesome! The vivid parts have that classic trumpet sound, like if it were some kind of Caribbean Party, and the calm parts those tribal drums, very. . .you know, caveman-ly.
One thing I really liked about Joe and Mac is that they discarded the classic Idea of having a RED player. Remember? Mario, Knuckles, Yo-Noid (ugh!), and Ken come to mind. In this game Joe (1P) is GREEN and Mac (2P) is BLUE; besides it combines really well with the background, you now, water and grass were the ONLY things in the Caveman Ninja era.
Since it’s that underrated, few videos of it appear on the internet, so we have to manage this time with a short video by Miserere01 of the first boss of the game.
Ah, the memories. If you can get to play this game, please do so, you just gotta love that song when you get on top of a dino-sidekick.
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Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte
David 'KidKobun' Bruno
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Sol
I played this one back in 1994. I remember that i never liked the fact that:
-you had not much variety in weapons as in Joe & Mac I
-you did NOT have the sommersault for long jumps
-NO WEAPON-CHARGING
-somehow i felt it was more “closed” than the first game, asi it did not have so many routes or forgiving enemies as it used to
-way harder difficulty (i sucked at videogames at 12, and i still do…)
So, for me, it was a very botched game, and it did desserve the lower rating, even with the faux-RPG elements thrown in.
Indeed its RPG elements were a little flawy, and routes were pretty much striaghtforward, but you gotta love the fight with the last boss, it’s simply amazing.