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Trying out Flicky for Genesis, in the emulator Mednafen! ROM from the Steam version of Flicky for "SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics," which just installs the ROMs in a folder on your computer named "uncompressed ROMs."
Wikipedia says Sega of Japan was originally going to call Flicky "Busty" until Sega USA explained to them that maybe that wasn't appropriate. Then they were gonna name it "Flippy" but evidently shame about that being too close to the Namco game they were intentionally ripping off, Mappy, led them to change a few more of the letters around.
The tiny sprites don't impress initially but with the slightly glidey movement, score-chaining of the chicks you're rescuing, and constant pursuit of hefty time bonuses, it's got that "one more go" thing.
The main game is simpler than Mappy and I dunno that it's better, but I definitely like Flicky's bonus stages--catching chicks--for some reason launched from teeter-totters by cats--in a butterfly net--better than Mappy's trampoline mazes with their nebulous timed deadlines.
Not too fond of the awkwardly drawn small lizard who comes along after a while; they can run along both the tops and bottoms of the platforms, then drop down right onto you, and it feels like they move just a BIT too fast to react to. Or maybe I just have to get good, I dunno. But dang them lizzies.
(The Steam ROM defaults to the JP version in Mednafen; I added "-md.region overseas_ntsc" to my shortcut's command line to make it run the US version. As far as I saw the difference was the language of the info screen shown immediately after starting a run.) |
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