1942 was and is still one of my favorite shooters to ever having had the pleasure to play. Whether it was in the arcade or on the early consoles, 1942 was just plain fun and addictive. The graphics is dated compared to the shooters nowadays, but its that simplicity that I like since it doesn't distract me from doing what I needed to do and that was shoot enemy planes down and blow things up. The game is simple enough to describe. Very, very loosely based on the Pacific Theater of World War II, 1942 puts the player in an Allied fighter and each stage is pretty much shooting down enemy Japanese squadrons of fighters, bombers and whatever else they throw at you. The enemy squadrons either come at you in a line formation which makes it easy for the player to shoot them down or in a loose, skirmishing formation that's much harder. The power-ups which is requisite for these type of games are limited to a spread cannon or shotgun style. Each type is best for certain bosses and the bosses are some of the best shooter bosses to come out of the early days of shooters. It is thanks to games like 1942 during the mid to late 80's that we have humongous bosses at the end of stage levels in every type of game now; whether, they may be shooters themselves or rpgs. One good thing my pack rat mentality has afforded me is having kept my original 1942 NES cartridge. Whenever I get the urge to get the RF switch and hook up the old NES to one of my older TV's I get to play 1942 all over again. Classic gaming at its best.
1942 on the NES is a cool game. Well, cool for the NES back when it came out. Most people would probably hate it now. I mean, if you paid 50 bucks for this you would be called the stupidest hillbilly in town and you woul... Read Full Review
1942, duhn da duhn! Just seeing the box art makes me all teary eyed. This game built on or either built the overhead shooter genre. Basically you scroll up and blast everything in your path with your old style plane. ... Read Full Review
