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Star Tropics
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Mike Jones is a teenage star pitcher from Seattle who heads to the South Seas to visit his uncle, the archaeologist Dr. Jones, only to find that his uncle has been abducted. Armed with nothing more than a yo-yo, Mike sets out across a chain of tropical islands, and what starts as a sunny rescue mission turns into something far stranger once an alien villain named Zoda enters the picture. StarTropics is that rare thing, a Nintendo-made NES adventure that was designed for players outside Japan, and it was never released there at all.
The game splits its time between two very different modes. On the surface, Mike explores islands and villages from a top-down view, talking to locals, piecing together clues and piloting the Sub-C submarine between islands with the help of its onboard robot, NAV-COM. Underground, the dungeons switch to a tight, grid-based style of movement where Mike hops from tile to tile, and the floor itself becomes the puzzle: jumping on the right tile can reveal a hidden switch, while a careless leap can drop him into water or a pit. Combat is fast and precise, and the yo-yo grows into stronger forms as the adventure goes on.
It is a game with real personality. The island villagers are warm and funny, the story is full of small jokes and odd characters, and the later dungeons demand genuine skill and memory, which is why so many players remember StarTropics as both charming and tough. Developed by Nintendo's R&D3 team, it borrows a little from Zelda's sense of discovery but plays like nothing else on the system, mixing light role-playing, action and puzzle-solving into a style that is entirely its own.
StarTropics has grown into a cult favorite in the decades since, partly because Nintendo never turned Mike Jones into a long-running star. There was one sequel, Zoda's Revenge, in 1994, and that was the end of it. That makes the original cartridge the heart of a small, much-loved corner of NES history, and playing it on real hardware is the best way to understand why fans still talk about it so fondly.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1990
- Publisher
- Playtronic
- Developer
- Nintendo R&D3
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Find out just how resourceful you can be in this classic game, with its mixture of adventure and RPG elements. Step into the shoes of Mike Jones, a teenage star pitcher from Seattle who has come to the tropics to visit his famous archeologist uncle, Dr. Jones. After being told that his uncle has been abducted, Mike begins a perilous quest in order to rescue him and figure out the mysterious plot behind his disappearance.
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