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Didn't know about 1943.

There's like four games in the series plus the remake 1942: Joint Strike on Xbox Live.

I remember seeing 1942 EVERYWHERE in arcades back then.  Even our church had a 1942 machine in the Youth area many years later!  I appreciate the simplicity of it, but other than that I don't like it that much.  1943 on the other hand, is one of my all time favorite shootes.  Even the NES version is good!

Let's see if I can post a really cool picture.  Here goes:

Ah hubba hubba. There was a pin-up girl theme for 1942: Joint Strike on Xbox. And yea, you're right, 1943 is the best one. 

I loved those "Quest" games by Sierra back in the day. We had a NES of course, but we always had computers because my mom was a computer teacher.  I remember playing those games in CGA, EGA...  we never had the most advanced machine.  Space Quest was a lot of fun.  This was before the internet, so when we got stuck me and my dad would go down to radioshack and ask people what to do.  So funny in retrospect.  

That's cool. I watched some video of Space Quest. I know it's probably out for iOS now, but they should do a Special Edition like they did with Secret of Monkey Island. I want to play them on console.

the problem is the early ones demanded a keyboard, because you typed in what you wanted to do.  man, was this a terrible interface.  you'd always be typing in stuff trying to see what worked.  

later editions were more point and click.  

Ah yes, that's right. I noticed a lot of pc games like that. Basically text adventures but with graphics. Point and Click is the way to go. I wonder if they could be redesigned that way?

some of them were remade.  

Though I appreciate this game on XBLA I prefer my copy of capcom classics collection on my Original Xbox. I don't know why but it jus tplays better for me. I wish I could actually play that versio on my 360 than the XBLA version but alas no B/C for that game =(. It's why I bought the XBLA version in teh cabinet offering but it's not the same. But the addition of a turbo button is helpful.

That Capcom Collection is very cool because it has all the 194x games. . . or three of them. I forget now.

I remember playing the NES version on emulator and also remember the game being hard as balls.

My friend had the NES version. I turned my nose up at it. Should've tried it though. Might have been easier.

This game is so much fun, yet always kicked my ass. I never thought about playing co-op with this game, it would have made things a little easier. I dug these 194x games, and I think a couple of clone versions made it to Android (all you need is a stylus for tablet gaming)

By buddy Mark and I played it co-op all the time. There's something about the pattern of planes as they come into the screen that seems designed for two players. Playing one player has you moving left to right too much making it harder to avoid all the stuff coming at you.

I recently played through 1943 (the NES version), and felt that while it was a solid SHMUP overall, it wasn't worth the effort required to beat it. The game dragged on for FAR too long: 24 stages! That's insane for a NES SHMUP! It kept repeating itself. You'd fight the same bosses over and over. The difficulty was all over the place. I'd breeze through some stages, but then get stuck on others for hours on end. There was also some horrific slowdown near the end. So much that it almost made the game unplayable. The password system was really nice though, and it was fun... but again, it simply dragged on for way too long IMO. Sorry if this has nothing to do with 1942 lol

No that's interesting. I was wondering how the NES version played.