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Silver Surfer
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Item Description
Turn the volume up before you press Start. Silver Surfer is famous for two things, and the first is a Tim Follin soundtrack that sounds like it should be impossible on NES hardware, all soaring rock leads and tricky rhythms squeezed out of the console's humble sound chip. The second is a difficulty level that has made it a byword for the phrase “Nintendo hard.”
Software Creations built the game as a shooter that alternates between side-scrolling and overhead stages. The Surfer fires silver pellets straight ahead, and collecting silver spheres adds orbiting options that fire with him; a tap of the B button swings them to shoot forward, sideways or backward, which is crucial when enemies pour in from behind. Squares marked F power up your shots up to five times, and B squares stock screen-clearing smart bombs on the Select button. The catch is brutal: lose a life and every upgrade goes with it, and the Surfer's reputation for being knocked out by the slightest brush with the scenery is well earned.
Like Mega Man, you choose the order of the opening worlds, each guarded by a villain from Marvel's cosmic corner: Reptyl, Mephisto, the Possessor, Firelord and Kylor, the self-proclaimed Skrull emperor. Clear them and Galactus himself sends the Surfer into the Magik Domain to recover the pieces of a mysterious Cosmic Device. A password system tracks your progress, and finishing the main quest reveals passwords to two further quests for players who still have nerve left.
Arcadia Systems released the game in November 1990, and reviewers were split between admiring its presentation and cursing its challenge, but the music won nearly everyone over; one Electronic Gaming Monthly critic called it the coolest set of tunes on the NES in some time. Decades later it is a rite of passage for shooter fans and a showcase for Follin's craft. Owning the cartridge means hearing that score exactly as it was written, on the hardware it was written for, while you try to survive just one more sector.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1990
- Publisher
- Arcadia Systems
- Developer
- Software Creations
- Genre
- Shooter
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Silver Surfer is a shooter game, with some levels taking place vertically and some horizontally. The Surfer's only ability is to move around on the screen and to shoot directly in front of him. Power-ups that can be picked up include: the letter "F" (Firepower) which will increase the number and power of his projectiles, Smart bombs which destroy everything on the screen, the letter "S" (Speedup) which increases the surfer's movement and Orbs which will also fire the Surfer's weapon. Orbs are special in that two can be obtained (only 1 is shown on horizontal scrolling levels) and they can be positioned to fire forwards, backwards or sideways.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplaySilver Surfer on NES
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Silver Surfer
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