This game is good, easy to learn, but ridiculously hard.

User Rating: 6 | Rolling Thunder NES
Rolling Thunder for the NES is pretty good for a Tengen game. All of the other Tengen games I have are not exactly the greatest, but this one is pretty solid. I will say, however, that this game is insanely difficult. Why on earth is it so hard? The worst part is that it seems so easy, but you die so easily. But I digress…
The game starts off with our hero in a warehouse of sorts, and let me tell you; this warehouse is huge! It's an endless walk to the right; all the while you shoot various hooded henchmen. These guys look like wannabe Klansmen in different colored jumpsuits. It's kind of strange to tell you the truth. Every ten feet or so, there is a door that you can go through. The ones that give you ammunition or a machine gun are clearly marked, but the one that gives you extra time is not marked at all. Enemies come out of some doors, and in one spot on the second level I have found that an enemy drops from thin air and tries to punch you in the face.
The only attack that you have is a gun. You start off with a pistol, but later in the level you can get a machine gun. Once you run out of ammunition, you better hope you are right next to an ammo door, or you are (censored) out of luck. The enemies have two attacks each. The first, that every one of them has, is the mere act of touching you. They don't even have to do anything, but if they touch you, you take a hit. The basic ones punch you, the next ones shoot you, the next after that throw bombs at you, and that's all I've encountered. If you take two hits, you die. If you get shot once, you die. It is very easy to die in this game.
The only other thing I can remark on is the strangeness of this game. When you die, it shows a screen of three henchmen standing at the controls of a sixties super computer with a huge screen. On the screen is a picture of two black clad henchmen holding a woman (your partner presumably), and then for some strange reason the three guys in front of computer pumps their fists in the air. Then, the scene cuts, and you get the computer screen with some deformed green goblin looking guy with pointy ears and the thickest neck I've ever seen laughing at you. What the hell is going on here? Maybe I'd do well to invest in the instruction booklet fort this one.
In all, I'd recommend this game to people who don't mind a good challenge. It's a solid shoot-em up, and will provide hours of fun.