Save your Quarters... or Not!: Snow Bros. Nick & Tom (Arcade, Mega Drive) Floor 1

Should you save your quarters on this game and play it at home or should you play it at the Arcade? The choice is yours, but you will probably save your quarters either way since Arcades are dying and nearly all good old Arcade cabinets won't be found at the next intersection. Now, Snow Bros. Nick & Tom is a colorful Arcade game where you play as snowmen that throw snow at enemies to eventually trap them in snowballs. Your goal is to take out all the enemies on a given floor. Before a snowball melts, you have to get near it and kick it so it rolls all the way to the bottom of the current floor, taking out whatever enemy stands in its path (also your character, but he just rolls with it and is not hurt in any way) and also killing the trapped monster. In Bubble Bobble, another more popular Arcade game that was released earlier, you also get to fight all sorts of enemies on different floors, this time by trapping them in bubbles which float all the way to the top of the screen, you have to burst the bubble before it bursts on its own and releases the trapped enemy which then moves faster, like it would happen in Snow Bros. if a snowball melted. The graphics in Bubble Bobble correspond more to the 8-bit era while the graphics in Snow Bros. are more associated with the 16-bit era. It's a really fun game if you enjoy the genre. The port on the Mega Drive, known in America as the Sega Genesis, is a Japanese exclusive. It should have been released internationally because it really feels close to the Arcade experience, with downgraded graphics, but more vivid colors and downgraded sounds, even though the music sounds more lively. To make up for the part that was downgraded, they even put more floors to play and new music on some floors. The added cutscenes were not necessary, but the rest is amazing, making it a really good port.

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[nickantibarney]

You should've also included the home computer versions. prototypes of 2 canceled home computer versions (amiga and st versions), both to be published by ocean, were leaked, but the only emus of the systems I could find are in violation of the ADA.

[DarkEvil87]

@nickantibarney What's the ADA? I live in Canada so maybe it's an American thing or if it's international, I'm just ignorant.

[NuMoonRawk]

No love for the NES version?

(btw, I'm loving this "save your quarters" video series)

[DarkEvil87]

I'm glad you like this series or miniseries, I don't really know what it is anyway. Now that you mention it, I kinda regret not putting the NES version for this "episode", it would have been awesome with that 8-bit cutscene at the beginning, compared to the 16-bit version.

[domingogonzalez]

this is my favorite arcade game and there is a new remake of Snow Bros called zombiemeatballs

[m3xxikan]

Does any body knows where can i download this game from??? to play it on my pc! ThnX

[Diorm]

But the music of the arcade version is better

[barry25364]

Don't forget the mega drive version not only lets you play as Nick and Tom, but also as Princess Teri and Princess Tina. And you also get to battle King Scorch. Which is why I prefer the mega drive version.