CLASSIC GAMES REVISITED - Thexder (Nintendo Famicom) review

This ultra-Japanese title was a huge hit in Japan for the PC. It was ported to the Famicom by Square in 1985 and only available on a limited number of PC operating systems in the U.S. in 1987. I had this game for DOS back in the day. How does it hold up today? Find out here!

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• dommiesan
• 1985

[Jed49er]

When you say you saw it online, was it the Classic Game Room review that you saw?

[dommiesan]

No, I meant that when I saw the Famicom cart for sale online.

[HalfBlindGamer]

Man this game was hard, never knew there was a Famicom version. The music sounds like it's missing a whole channel or something, PC version sounds a lot better and is pretty memorable!

[dommiesan]

Yeah, I noticed that as well.  The graphics were also lacking something: I think the enemy sprites were the wrong scale, and half the enemies are missing.

[vintagevideogamegeek]

This just might have to be my first Famicom game. I think it rules.

I thought you were gonna do a video about that crazy fighting game?

[dommiesan]

Ah, I was going to do a video about MUGEN but I had several problems. The biggest was that I couldn't get audio to record properly for the game engine. The next biggest problem was the lack of quality with the open source game characters. I eventually abandoned the project.

[chudalbeggar]

Hey Dommie love your vids. Just wanted to let you know that Square made a remake of this called Thexder Neo on Playstation Network for the PS3 or PSP. Don't know if its any good...

[Joeyboots80]

I have the windows 95 cd rom version. It's one of my favorite games in my classic pc collection.

[ptwob]

theres a remake on psp now,

its pretty good,

[hundredandfour]

Thats pretty bad ass.

[BackForwardPunch]

Cool new video, Dommie! I remember this game, but didn't know there was a famicom version! This game was crazy hard!

[VargasXX78]

Great to have a new vid Dommie...