My article on the Xbox One Rare Replay collection just went up on Kotaku UK. And there’s one game I’m particularly looking forward to playing again: Solar Jetman.
As I say in the Kotaku article, this NES game wasn’t hugely successful in terms of sales, but it garnered huge critical praise – and it had me hooked. Yet despite this, I never quite managed to finish the game, mostly because it’s rock hard. I still hope to finish it one day though, and hopefully if they include a way to save the game in Rare Replay, this will be a bit easier than it was back in the day. The original game had a password system so you could skip levels, but extra lives were incredibly limited – an option to reload a save game would be most welcome, if a little cheaty.
I actually still have the original Solar Jetman cartridge – it’s the only NES game I’ve kept hold of, although I no longer have a working NES. For ages I’ve been toying with the idea of picking up another NES just to play this game again, but thanks to Rare Replay I no longe have to. Hurrah!
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