Journey To Silius on NES - what a surprise!

[Oldskool]

So SegaAges and I were at the local retro game store picking a few things up, and I picked up 3 NES games. Guardian Legend, Crystalis, and Journey to Silius all for about $13. Not too bad of a deal really. Anyways, Journey to Silius interested me because it's a Sunsoft game, and in my experience Sunsoft games are USUALLY good. Also, I am a big fan of Sunsoft NES music so I thought I'd give it a try.

Wow, what a pleasant surprise! This is got to be a sleeper hit. A diamond in the rough. It's an excellent run n' gun style game in the tradition of Batman somewhat. The graphics are very Batman-ish. Also, I noticed they borrowed some of the sound effects from Blaster Master (Similar to how Fester's Quest did).

The music of course is Sunsoft awesome with good bass and a nice rhythm. Controls are not too bad either. Overall a good game, I recommend it. This is in no way a review just letting it out there if anyone is looking for an NES game that's good, quick fun - and have not heard of this one.

Happy Video Game Nerd Review:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkPSzYc7JHU

[Gamingking]

Journey to Silius is simply a awesome game.

[Graham Mitchell]

It's an undiscovered Gem, that's for sure. I love the first/last level music. I do feel that Blaster Master is probably Sunsoft's best NES game, but JtS is a must-play as well.

[Voliko]

I picked this up a few months ago on a limb because it was cheap, had a cool name (with a Sunsoft logo of course!), and sported some nice box art. It was definitely a pleasant surprise.

I was really impressed with the music when I first popped it in as well.

[Press_Start]

Nice haul.

After finishing JtS, definitely try Guardian Legend. It's another "sleeper hit" and by far more interesting. A mesh-up of Zelda, Metroid, and shoot'em-ups. Made by the same guys that developed Gun-Nac, Musha, and Robo Aleste.

If that's not enough. You play as a female Transformer jet with built-in lightsaber action. Instant nerdgasm. ;)

[lkermel]

Journey to Silius is an incredible game. Guardian Legend is another hidden gem !!! As a side note, there is a cheat to only play the shooting levels in Guardian, just enter TGL as a password :)

[Dire 51]

And let's not forget, Silius was originally supposed to be a Terminator game (http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2007/10/column_might_have_been_journey.php).

[Oldskool]

Yeah I popped Guardian Legend and Crystalis in for a few minutes just to test them. They both seemed like excellent games as well. Guardian Legend will be the next NES game after I beat Journey to Silius. I have got to the 4th level so far on Silius. Damn game starts to get a little challenging, but it doesn't seem to be TOO bad.

Crystalis, well - I will get to it when I get to it. I realize it's an RPG so it's gonna take a while with that one. The fastest speed run of that game was 52 minutes I believe. So that means it will probably take me 3 months.

[ccovell]

Silius is an awesome game (mostly thanks to its music and bosses.) It would have been doubly cool had it come out as the Terminator.
http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/secret/1980s/Terminator02.jpg


Damn crappy Acclaim and their crap movie games.

[ShinobiMan]

Yes, a great game that would have been awesome as a Terminator game. Sunsoft really would have been the king of Movie franchise games had it been released like that.

[Zing]

I picked this up a few months ago on a limb because it was cheap

OT: It's "on a whim"

[Drixxel]

OT: It's "on a whim"

Or, alternately, "went out on a limb". Yessir.

Cool game, this one. I remember it was given a fairly lukewarm review in GamePro, I wonder how much more popular and well received this would have been had SunSoft managed to hang onto the Terminator license.

[Wraith Storm]

Journey to Silius is an excellent game. I managed to snag a boxed copy last year and have been enjoying it since.

And the music is just as excellent as the game. But its no big surprise. Has Naoki Kodaka ever composed a bad sound track? It's a shame that he seems to have vanished from the music industry. Maybe after creating one of the greatest sound tracks ever made (Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean) he felt he had accomplished everything he could in the industry, left it behind and never looked back?

[poloplayr]

So SegaAges and I were at the local retro game store picking a few things up, and I picked up 3 NES games. Guardian Legend, Crystalis, and Journey to Silius all for about $13. Not too bad of a deal really.

That's a fantastic trio of games you picked up there!

[tomaitheous]

Yeah I popped Guardian Legend and Crystalis in for a few minutes just to test them. They both seemed like excellent games as well. Guardian Legend will be the next NES game after I beat Journey to Silius. I have got to the 4th level so far on Silius. Damn game starts to get a little challenging, but it doesn't seem to be TOO bad.

Crystalis, well - I will get to it when I get to it. I realize it's an RPG so it's gonna take a while with that one. The fastest speed run of that game was 52 minutes I believe. So that means it will probably take me 3 months.

I can't believe this games are a secret to any retro gamer :) They're all fairly known games nowadays. GL and Crystalis weren't really sleepers per se. I mean, they had lots of advertisement BITD. Also, I see you're in 'Vegas. I'm here for a few days. Any good retro shops here?

[Press_Start]

I can't believe this games are a secret to any retro gamer :) They're all fairly known games nowadays. GL and Crystalis weren't really sleepers per se. I mean, they had lots of advertisement BITD.

Guardian Legend got zilch in the ad category. The only publicity it received was a showing at CES 1988 and even then, Broderbund were heavily promoting their U-Force controllers. Ya know...the Primordial Kinect. All that's left was boxart. Hell, even that was grossly ripped from a 1985 movie called Creature as Dire51's latest thread shows. I can't imagine a more horrible PR job than GL. If doesn't count as a sleeper hit, what is?

[thom_m]

I've been hunting down a copy of JtS for quite a while now...they never come up anywhere here. It's an awesome game, for sure!

[Oldskool]

I can't believe this games are a secret to any retro gamer :) They're all fairly known games nowadays. GL and Crystalis weren't really sleepers per se. I mean, they had lots of advertisement BITD. Also, I see you're in 'Vegas. I'm here for a few days. Any good retro shops here?

Yeah man there are quite a few here. The one I like to go to, and where I got those games is called "Gameworld", it's on Charleston between Jones and Decatur. Sometimes they have decent prices, but sometimes they want way too much for stuff, really just a typical retro gaming store. For instance, they were asking 35 bucks for a loose copy of Contra for the NES. And they want 9.99 for every SMB they have there (which is a lot). But if you know what's a good deal and what's not, it's a decent place.

Oh, and while you are here, you have to check out Sega's Gameworks on the strip. Also make it a point to check out the Pinball Hall Of Fame. They have hundreds of pinball and arcade machines there. They are on Tropicana east of the Strip. You can google them.

[Einzelherz]

We have tons of Journey to Silius copies around here in NW Arkansas. I have two, one loose and one boxed complete. I am terrible at it but it's so fluid and pretty :)

[rbudrick]

Too many incredible games in this thread. :lovin: Can't take it, gotta listen to JTS soundtrack!

-Rob