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BlackNinjaVinny

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"Bought Athena for the NES" , posted Sun 13 Jun 05:57

Good stuff. I bought it Friday. Funny think I realized was that I must've seemed like a Greek nut because I also bought Battle of Olympus and Kid Icarus at the same time :P
Anyways...
HOW DO I KILL THAT FUCKING TREE BOSS?!?!

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Hungrywolf

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"Re(1):Bought Athena for the NES" , posted Sun 13 Jun 06:58

quote:
Good stuff. I bought it Friday. Funny think I realized was that I must've seemed like a Greek nut because I also bought Battle of Olympus and Kid Icarus at the same time :P
Anyways...
HOW DO I KILL THAT FUCKING TREE BOSS?!?!

Heh, good question. I've done it once. I had the ball and chain weapon and I jumped and hit the tree one time and it died. You may want to check gamefaqs.com.

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"Re(1):Bought Athena for the NES" , posted Sun 13 Jun 07:10

quote:
Good stuff. I bought it Friday. Funny think I realized was that I must've seemed like a Greek nut because I also bought Battle of Olympus and Kid Icarus at the same time :P
Anyways...
HOW DO I KILL THAT FUCKING TREE BOSS?!?!

In my long life as a NES games players (WHY DID IT BREAK IT DOWN??) I have never, ever get to see that famouse three boss; I always died on time out because I took way to many sub-routes....

Kid Icarus is a classic!!

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DKW

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"Re: Athena" , posted Wed 16 Jun 02:05

Never had much trouble myself. The best weapon is either the ball and chain or red sword. For the former, do a high jump over the root and pound away; for the latter, just fire from wherever you are. (The hammer also works, although of course it's riskier.)

Man, if you think that's bad, wait'll you get to the water level. Nothing like enemies who can shred your armor, depower your weapons, rip away mermaid transformations, and then kill you...in seconds, from ANY DIRECTION.

Having foolishly requested this as a birthday present many years ago (she looked so beautiful on the box!), I can say with complete confidence that this is the most horribly designed NES game I've ever played. Hour after hour of losing weapons, losing armor, getting stuck with crap weapons and, oh yeah, dying a lot. I played it a few times with a Game Genie, and not only was it still a frustrating experience, I eventually reached a boss I could not kill at all.

...er, but it was the 8 bit era and anything went, so whaddya expect, anyway? Heh heh, heh...

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Kikkoken

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"Gladiator muscles" , posted Wed 16 Jun 09:21

quote:
Good stuff. I bought it Friday. Funny think I realized was that I must've seemed like a Greek nut because I also bought Battle of Olympus and Kid Icarus at the same time :P

And... hum hum, do you also like gladiator movies ? ;-)

RugalBernstein

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"Re(2):Bought Athena for the NES" , posted Wed 16 Jun 10:10

This thread reminds me, I had promised some vids of me playing through Athena to Toxico... Athena isn't that bad, it's just REALLY HARD... then again, my experience with the NES/Famicom port is minimal, maybe it's sloppy or harder still.

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