the funny thing about that is it was meant to advertise Konami's other games, but I had no idea WTF Jackal and Contra were, I thought they were just made up products. I guess they kinda blew it, lol!
I also had no idea that the mini-game with the space ship was actually a snippet of Gradius either.
See, I never identified Gradius as a real game until about 5 years after playing Blades of Steel, I thought Jackal was fake, too. But I had played Contra and at that point it was Konami's biggest game (I think? Besides CastleVania anyways)
I remember the day I went over to a friends place for a sleepover he rented a handful of games... I laughed my ass off when I found out Jackal was a real game! That game's pretty awesome too. So no, I think a lot of kids like you and I had no idea lol!
Someone really needs to do a real instrument version of this...
Mackinstyle 1 month ago
Oh man nostalgia bomb.
This was one of those things that kids do: My friends always thought that player 2 controlled the big space ship.
Mackinstyle 6 months ago
BLAM!
Contra
BLAM!
Jackyl
...lol
RedPaladin 2 years ago
lol yeah :D
GBelair 2 years ago
the funny thing about that is it was meant to advertise Konami's other games, but I had no idea WTF Jackal and Contra were, I thought they were just made up products. I guess they kinda blew it, lol!
I also had no idea that the mini-game with the space ship was actually a snippet of Gradius either.
In my defense, I was 5 at the time.
neogeon 2 years ago
See, I never identified Gradius as a real game until about 5 years after playing Blades of Steel, I thought Jackal was fake, too. But I had played Contra and at that point it was Konami's biggest game (I think? Besides CastleVania anyways)
I remember the day I went over to a friends place for a sleepover he rented a handful of games... I laughed my ass off when I found out Jackal was a real game! That game's pretty awesome too. So no, I think a lot of kids like you and I had no idea lol!
RedPaladin 2 years ago
I think that's what we call a shameless advertising fail.
neogeon 2 years ago
I have this game on the Wii Virtual Console.
Every time it get's to this part, I hope to get the space fighter shooting at that big ship.
I use to always fail to destroy it when I was a kid, now I can take it. That or neither ship get's destroyed.
The thing that sucks about the Panda Bear is that you can't do anything with it (except watch it score a goal).
Nicksolo85 2 years ago
So true lol ur always like oh cool :) :) :) then oh... damn panda lol
wasn't that an ad for Gradius or something?
GBelair 2 years ago
not sure.
I remember the space fighter one having an ad for Contra. Now I have to try it.
Nicksolo85 2 years ago
lol yeah let me know :P
GBelair 2 years ago
BEST NES ICE HOCKEY GAME EVER!!! Nuff sed...
1upMatt 2 years ago