Golden Axe Curse of Death Adder 3.0 on the OpenBOR. Published by Unknown. Unknown, MAME: N/A. Game Manual: N/A, Game Music: N/A.
Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder Developer: Publisher: Platform: (Sega System 32) Released in JP: 1992 Released in US: 1992 Released in EU: 1992 This game has uncompiled source code. This game has hidden development-related text. Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder is the 1992 arcade sequel to the original, completely unrelated to the earlier released Genesis sequel. Set several years after the events of the original game, four warriors (including a giant accompanied by an aged Gilius Thunderhead) join forces to save the world once again from the newly resurrected Death Adder.
Because it ran on the advanced System 32 board, a Genesis port was out of the question and the game was unfortunately never ported to any of the later home consoles. Uncompiled Code Found in epr-14468-02.u3. END Assembly Complete, 00000 error(s) found:ix+2 mov byte ptr ds1:iy,dl add ix,4 dec cw bnz INITLP RET INIT ENDP;-; V25 read/write check;- RW22 PROC RW22: mov ch,byte ptr ds1:ix+1 cmp ch,20h; V25 r/w start?
While I may not be able to play Revenge of Death Adder, how about The Curse of Death Adder? Never heard of it? Me neither until about a year ago. While doing some research on Senile Team's Beats of Rage, my eyes were opened to a whole new world of side scrolling beat 'em up and hack 'n slash type games. One of which was this 'new' Golden Axe game.
I purchased this from an Etsy seller for about $15. I'm sure there are people reading this that are already rolling their eyes and thinking how I wasted my money. We aren't here to debate that.
We are here to look at the game itself. The Story mode starts you out with 3 lives and 4 credits/continues. You can control your character with the d-pad or the analog stick. The A button attack while the B button makes your character jump. No longer can you do a more powerful attack by pressing the attack and jump buttons at the same time.
Now you just have to do a quick double tap on the d-pad in the direction you want to attack. In Stern's case, this causes you to do a uppercut swipe of your sword. If you can make contact, this attack deals some good damage. Thankfully the classic Golden Axe yells and screams are present when the enemies are attacked. You even get some red blood spurting when you attack enemies (including roadblocks and treasure chests?). The Y button summons your magic, but even this has been changed from what you may be familar with.
You don't have a magic gauge this time around, so don't expect to level up your magic. I believe you can carry more than one vial at a time, but the earth magic is basically worthless.
It's not a screen clearing attack anymore, in fact the little geysers Stern summons can actually miss the enemies if they aren't in the right place on screen! At times it'll help you get out of a pinch you may find yourself in, but for the most part I forgot I even had magic. This area looks really familar, but I can't tell if it was lifted from Knights of the Round or another game. I do know that the large armored villian on the horse as well as the knight in the bottom picture can be a royal pain in the butt to defeat.
One thing I noticed is that your attack has a rather short range and some of your enemies have larger swords, staffs or axes they attack with. This means that attacking them head on, being on the same plane, wield lots of damage.to you! I found that if I attacked them from a plane just above or below them while pressing in their direction would let me score some hits without having to worried about being carved up. Of course this strategy doesn't always work and there are times there are so many enemies on the screen you'll likely take some hits. I know there are some people that frown on this time of game, but I for one found it to interesting and a lot of fun.
I grew up playing beat 'em ups and hack 'n slash games like this and with today's modern gaming scene it's not often we get games like this anymore. Did I overpay for the game? Probably, considering it's a free download.however I'm not well versed in downloading and burning games like this. I can't say I'd buy many more of these type of games, but being the Golden Axe fan that I am I had to quench my curiosity and give this game a try.
Download it or pick up a physical copy if you like this genre. I too bought this game, and is pretty good for what it is. It does sort of have the 'spirit' of the best game in the series that is Revenge Of Death Adder in it, though isn't quite on the same level of that game by any means, along with not as much to it compared to that. The magic pots you get in the game don't give you any extra or 'improved' magic, but rather gain extra lives from them. I'm also trying to think of which game that ogre character is from, but can't quite put my finger on it, and is driving me crazy with wondering too! (L.O.L.!) I could have sworn I saw him in another game at some point as well.
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I skimmed through some playthroughs of similar medieval hack & slashers on Youtube which he might have been in, but didn't notice him in any of them. It's also very quick and easy to download these games onto disc yourself once you know how to do it, if you want to give that a try b.t.w. That being if there's any other homebrews such as this which you may be interested in trying out.