Arumana no Kiseki - 01 - Intro & Stage 1

[GenyaArikado]

love the music

[hawaiidkw]

Thank you, with utmost sincerity, for posting this run.

Seriously, seeing artifacts from my past that I barely remember expounded upon in detail...with full video, no less...is one of my greatest pleasures of the Internet age.

That plus I finally know what the *name* of this game is, thank heavens. Konami of America was useless, I tell you!

[Vitani168980]

You have done a great service to the gaming community with this detailed play through. I like the graphical depiction of the movement of water in the first stage.

[GenyaArikado]

the first level music is epic

[emanresu81]

I remember playing this game on NES, and it was titled Indiana Jones LOL, I got punk'd back then.

[mirabilis]

nice use of the extra sound channel of the fds. :)

[BigAlForever2k6]

Man, i LOVE that "KACHINK" sound from Konami games.

[lmphk]

Yeah, it's a classic, I think I first heard it in the first TMNT game... first.

[80s90sRealBasketball]

I first heard of that classic sound from "Blades of Steel" BTW do you think that this games has some Indiana Jones references to it? I think Konami would have did a hellava lot better making the Indiana Jones game more entertaining than that damn "tengen" company.

[hawaiidkw]

@80s90sRealBasketball This is loosely based on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (minus the constantly whining harpy and the cocky kid). The big jewel the hero is tasked with recovering, "Arumana", is a pretty clear expy of the Sankara Stones.

The big difference, of course, is that Indy is great at close combat, whereas this hero is helpless if he ever runs out of ranged weapons.

[ryanc519]

lol why did you waste your ammunition on the knives in the beginning of the game?

I used to have this game 20 somethin' years ago...still remember the gameplay as if I played yesterday..Thanks for bringing back the precious memories

[lmphk]

I wanted to show the trick on getting 50 throwing knives right at the beginning, but I didn't need the 20 extra ones, so I wasted them.

[autobotandres]

first game i got for my disk system-then otocky

[Soundwav1337]

this seems like a Rush N' Attack version of Castlevania, only not exactly Rush N' Attack.

IDK Kinda reminded me of it.

[80s90sRealBasketball]

yeah it is safe to say that this game has more references to those two games you've mentioned.

[80s90sRealBasketball]

also, the character of this game looks like a dumbed down version of "Bayu Billy" with the hat and his attire (clothing)

[skyrunner14]

It's a fairly decent game, so I wonder why Konami didn't release it in America? The music might have to be dumbed down a little, but the gameplay would stand.

[lmphk]

I don't know, I would've loved this game if it was released back then.

[hawaiidkw]

@skyrunner14 Most likely fear of reprisals from Paramount. Konami was *very* careful about possible copyright infringements at the time (e.g. Dracula being changed to "The Count" in the first Castlevania).

Probably would've been pretty forgettable, especially stacked against Castlevania, Contra, Metal Gear, Gradius, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, et al.