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Monster Party
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The first boss Mark faces in Monster Party is a giant man-eating plant. Later he walks into a boss room only to find the creature already dead, and it tells him so: “Sorry, I’m dead.” That single moment sums up Human Entertainment's NES oddity, a side-scrolling action game that mixes horror imagery, creature-feature monsters and deadpan absurdist humor in a way nothing else on the console quite matches.
Mark is a kid walking home from a baseball game when Bert, a winged, armored creature from the Dark World, lands in front of him and recruits him, bat and all, to save his planet from monsters. The bat is more useful than it sounds: a well-timed swing knocks projectiles back at bosses, and many fights are won by turning an enemy's own attacks against it. Special pills transform Mark into Bert for a short time, letting him fly and fire beams that grow stronger as the adventure progresses. Each of the eight levels hides its bosses behind doors, and you must defeat a set number of them to earn the key that opens the way forward.
The bestiary is why people still talk about this game. You will meet a mummy, Medusa, a dragon, the Grim Reaper, a pumpkin ghost with a spinning head and a giant cat that hurls kittens, alongside a bouncing piece of fried shrimp, a talking caterpillar and a pair of walking pants. Many bosses have corny one-liners, blood stains the backgrounds of some levels, and the cheerful opening stage takes a decidedly dark turn once you pass a giant tree. How so much of it made it past Nintendo's strict content standards of the era is still a favorite topic among fans.
Its legend has only grown with time. A Japanese version, Parody World: Monster Party, was planned but never released there, and prototype discoveries suggest some bosses began as parodies of famous film monsters before being altered for the American release. For collectors drawn to the NES library's strangest corners, few cartridges are more fun to show a friend who has never seen it.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1989
- Publisher
- Bandai America
- Developer
- Human Entertainment
- Genre
- Platformer
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Walking home from a baseball game one evening, Mark gazed up at the misty sky. Suddenly, a blazing star plummeted to earth with a blinding light. When Mark regained his sight, a mysterious creature was standing before him. The creature told an eerie tale about his home planet, the Dark World, where evil monsters were terrorizing the helpless population. He was searching the galaxy for a warrior capable of freeing them from their terrible plight. The creature explained that Mark's bat was the perfect weapon for defeating the evil monsters. Mark considered the creature's proposal for a minute, then agreed to undertake the dangerous mission. After all, he thought, it sure beats going to school!
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