What games are on PS1 Jaleco Collection Vol. 1??...

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Thu May 05, 2005 12:24 am

I just heard about this compilation disc for the PS1. I did some Googling, but I couldn't find squat on what games are in this collection, and I'd be very interested in knowing.

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Thu May 05, 2005 1:08 am

Huh, first you say it's a PS1 comp then you say it's on the PS2.

Anyways, never heard of it, I can only imagine some NES games being on it.

Jaleco sucks, but they're so corny I give them props.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Thu May 05, 2005 3:36 am

LoneSage wrote:Huh, first you say it's a PS1 comp then you say it's on the PS2.

Anyways, never heard of it, I can only imagine some NES games being on it.

Jaleco sucks, but they're so corny I give them props.

I just edited the post; it's a PS1 compilation. Play Asia has it, but they don't say anywhere what games are on it.

TWITCHDOCTOR · Post by **TWITCHDOCTOR** » Thu May 05, 2005 3:45 am

"Jaleco sucks".

Care to elaborate further there Ace? Then again, that wasen't even the question.
Thats like someone asking how to collect the Bee's in DoDonPachi, only to hear a response, "Cave sucks...their games are hawd".

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Thu May 05, 2005 3:55 am

Best to jump ship now before your poor topic's completely burst into flames, Dave.

And offhand I didn't even know such a comp existed before looking at this, and as such have no idea what might be on it...maybe some of the super-obscure old shmups that the characters in Game Tengoku hail from?

CecilMcW00t · Post by **CecilMcW00t** » Thu May 05, 2005 5:27 am

A quick little google search can work wonders man...

Anyway, according to NCSX, the games are: Argus, City Connection, Excellion, Field Combat, Formation Z, Ninja Jajamaru-Kun and Rod Land. They are the Famicom (NES) versions though and not Arcade ports.

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Thu May 05, 2005 10:47 pm

TWITCHDOCTOR wrote:"Jaleco sucks".

Care to elaborate further there Ace?

I've never found any Jalceo-developed game to be fun, but they have published some good games (Shadow of the Ninja and Shatterhand on NES, I think). To me, their games always seem like they were indie-developed; I just get no enjoyment out of them.

But they are old-skool and playing most of their old games gives me the giggles now and then.

jp · Post by jp » Thu May 05, 2005 10:49 pm

LoneSage wrote:
TWITCHDOCTOR wrote:"Jaleco sucks".

Care to elaborate further there Ace?
I've never found any Jalceo-developed game to be fun, but they have published some good games (Shadow of the Ninja and Shatterhand on NES, I think). To me, their games always seem like they were indie-developed; I just get no enjoyment out of them.

But they are old-skool and playing most of their old games gives me the giggles now and then.

Game Tengoku kicks mucho grande ass...

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Fri May 06, 2005 3:18 am

I hadn't a clue Jaleco dev'd GT, sounds tender.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Fri May 06, 2005 4:42 am

CecilMcW00t wrote:A quick little google search can work wonders man...

Anyway, according to NCSX, the games are: Argus, City Connection, Excellion, Field Combat, Formation Z, Ninja Jajamaru-Kun and Rod Land. They are the Famicom (NES) versions though and not Arcade ports.

As tired as I get of constantly reminding people on this site of this, I DO Google, so there's no need for sarcasm.

In any case, when I did Google, NCSX's website came up, but I couldn't locate the reference for this game in the link that Google had given me. I first heard of this compilation from Recap, and he gave me the same list of games.

I don't care for City Connection, but I'd get this disc just for Exerion and Formation Z alone; I love those games. The rest I'll just have to try out via emulation.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Fri May 06, 2005 4:45 am

jp wrote:
LoneSage wrote:
TWITCHDOCTOR wrote:"Jaleco sucks".

Care to elaborate further there Ace?
I've never found any Jalceo-developed game to be fun, but they have published some good games (Shadow of the Ninja and Shatterhand on NES, I think). To me, their games always seem like they were indie-developed; I just get no enjoyment out of them.

But they are old-skool and playing most of their old games gives me the giggles now and then.

Game Tengoku kicks mucho grande ass...

The gameplay itself does, but I find the voices and music in the game VERY annoying; to the extent that I'd recommend turning the sound off completely on your TV or monitor if you get this game.

jp · Post by jp » Fri May 06, 2005 4:46 am

dave4shmups wrote:
jp wrote:
LoneSage wrote: I've never found any Jalceo-developed game to be fun, but they have published some good games (Shadow of the Ninja and Shatterhand on NES, I think). To me, their games always seem like they were indie-developed; I just get no enjoyment out of them.

But they are old-skool and playing most of their old games gives me the giggles now and then.

Game Tengoku kicks mucho grande ass...
The gameplay itself does, but I find the voices and music in the game VERY annoying; to the extent that I'd recommend turning the sound off completely on your TV or monitor if you get this game.

*sigh*

No... the karaoke scene is simply golden.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Fri May 06, 2005 4:53 am

jp wrote:
dave4shmups wrote:
jp wrote:
Game Tengoku kicks mucho grande ass...
The gameplay itself does, but I find the voices and music in the game VERY annoying; to the extent that I'd recommend turning the sound off completely on your TV or monitor if you get this game.

*sigh*

No... the karaoke scene is simply golden.

Maybe I never got that far in the game, but I just thought it had the WORST music I'd ever heard in a shmup. Whatever, it's still definately worth owning.

CecilMcW00t · Post by **CecilMcW00t** » Fri May 06, 2005 5:17 am

Sorry dave I wasn't intending to come off as sarcastic I just missed the fact that you said you did some googling.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Fri May 06, 2005 5:19 am

You think the sound in the first one is annoying, just try playing the PS1 sequel sometime...the characters say something EVERY SINGLE time they collect a freakin POINT ITEM! Gets old REALLY fast ("Po-iinto gett-o! Po-iinto appu! Po-iinto appu!"). And heck, even when you're entering your initials on the high score screen, as you're doing it one of the female VA's is shrieking nearly nonstop in the background...argh, gives me a headache just thinking about it!

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Sat May 07, 2005 2:39 am

CecilMcW00t wrote:Sorry dave I wasn't intending to come off as sarcastic I just missed the fact that you said you did some googling.

No harm done man; I totally understand!

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Sat May 07, 2005 2:39 am

BulletMagnet wrote:You think the sound in the first one is annoying, just try playing the PS1 sequel sometime...the characters say something EVERY SINGLE time they collect a freakin POINT ITEM! Gets old REALLY fast ("Po-iinto gett-o! Po-iinto appu! Po-iinto appu!"). And heck, even when you're entering your initials on the high score screen, as you're doing it one of the female VA's is shrieking nearly nonstop in the background...argh, gives me a headache just thinking about it!

Oh geez, that sounds bad! And wasn't the PS1 sequel a light gun game??

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sat May 07, 2005 7:09 pm

Sort of: the first player plays as the onscreen characters, much like the Saturn game, but the second player could hook up a Guncon and use that to shoot enemies down. I've never tried it so I'm not sure exactly how it works in practice.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Mon May 09, 2005 2:39 am

Game Tengoku 2 kind of sucks... I don't like it...

The 1st one rocks though.

Shame about this compilation being for NES version. If it was for Arcade ports, I would thinking about giving it a go. Exerion rocks, and Rodland is awesome.

Ninja Kun, if it's the game I believe it is, it's also top-notch stuff. City Connection is enjoyable enough IMO. Argus is kinda boring, and I don't like Formation Z that much.....

chtimi-CLA · Post by **chtimi-CLA** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:47 am

jaleco doesn't suck, exerion is one of the best old shmups, astyanax seemed very good, too bad the PCB is fragile and died on me after 15mn of play..

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Mon May 09, 2005 10:05 am

Rodland isn't a bad game at all, in fact its one of my favourite single screen platformers.

Game Tengoku... I heard it was a bunch of ex Konami employee's who coded this game. I doubt very much that Jaleco had much to do with it since most of their games don't have nearly as much jazz as Tengoku.

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Mon May 09, 2005 12:15 pm

I like Avenging Spirit quite a bit. The Ikari no Yousai (not to be confused with Ikari Warriors) series is pretty good too. I love Rodland, though many other single screen games got better NES ports.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Mon May 09, 2005 10:57 pm

I thought Alley Cats on the NES was a decent platformer. Wouldn't mind playing it again, liked the punching glove gun.

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Tue May 10, 2005 12:46 am

Dylan1CC wrote:I thought Alley Cats on the NES was a decent platformer. Wouldn't mind playing it again, liked the punching glove gun.

You mean Rockin' Cats? I rented it once and liked it. I thought that was Atlus, not Jaleco, though.

D · Post by D » Tue May 10, 2005 6:31 am

Rodland is good, great Amiga conversion BTW.
GT1 for saturn has a parody theme on most games in that Jaleco collection.

Jaleco doesn't suck damnit. Not the