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Games That Seriously Deserve Sequels
You ever wonder why some game that you can't stand get about a dozen sequels but the game that you really want more of never get made? It is a shame.
Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle
Lucas Games created some of the greatest 2D visual adventures ever made. The original Maniac Mansion game created a whole scripting engine and game concept. PC graphical adventures were a highly influential game series in the early 80s and it presented a huge amount of options to the game player. Manic Mansion was a well made spoof of the graphical adventure and the 8-bit Nintendo port was the only game that you could microwave a hamster until Nintendo found out about it. If you made a port of Maniac Mansion to the Gameboy Advance it would rule.
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
Capcom put together one of the best competitive puzzle game ever made and it is a staple game that I play with my friend every time we get together to kick it Playstation style. Recently there was a very good Gameboy Advance port of the game and I hope that Capcom decides to take another stab at it. A PSP, Nintendo DS or GBA sequel would rule.
Pocket Fighter
Capcom 2d fighting games have become a staple of the 90s and Pocket Fighter was a super deformed cute version of the series with really cute and well done animation. There is a whole bag of fighters that could be added if only they would make a PSP sequel.
Double Dragon
Double Dragon started a whole series of martial art fighting games where you had a super bad ass marital artist that would take out a whole army of chumps with your best pal manning the second controller. There was a recent Gameboy Advance game but this really deserved a new 3d game.
Wall Street Kid
Back in the 80s there was a NES game that combined a fake stock market with a unintentionally sarcastic look at yuppie stock traders. Not only did you buy and sell fake companies but you had a superficial girlfriend that you had to spend lots of time and money on and if you worked too long with out hitting the gym you got sick and croaked.
Bonk's Adventure
Back when NEC was still trying to beat Sega at the 16-bit market Bonk the cave man was video game hero that was on par with Mario and Sonic. There were three really good Bonk games on the NEC Turbo Grafx-16 and a rare Super Nintendo game but I would really like to see a new GBA Bonk game. Update: Hey I just found out there is a new 3d Bonk remake for Gamecube and PS2 that only came out in Japan. I'll have to import the Gamecube version.
Rez
Sega's UGA team created a shooter, music game, interactive music, retro game that has not been rivaled on the PS2. We really need game developers to take a chance on an abstract music action game like Rez. They did make Lumines but I still want more of Rez. Hell they even made an interactive external USB vibrator for this game in Japan.
Vib Ribbon
I have read about and seen video clips of Vib Ribbon for the Japanese PSOne. It is a small interactive music game where you would start off with the game disk and then you would swap out the disk and put in your favorite music CD and the game would be a weird puzzle game where you would dance on the sound wave of the playing CD with a weird black and white rabbit. This would really be cool if you could run the game on the PSP and have it run off MP3 files on the Memory Stick.
Jake at May 27, 2005 
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SAM AND MAX you forgot.
Posted by: Jim at May 27, 2005 3:34 AM
Take heart -- the Rockstar Games guys have invoked Double Dragon as an inspiration in the development of the Warriors video game. Maybe someone will use the Warriors video game as inspiration in the development of a Sam & Max game someday.
I tried to write this as a trackback but there's no TB URL and the link goes to a 500 page. Is that an antispam measure?
Posted by: Britain W. at May 27, 2005 4:38 AM
I didn't list Sam and Max because it was to painfull after the PC/PS2 game was shit canned for no good reason.
Ah crap. I think my ISP disabled the trackback script after the ISP was pounded by Brazillian spammers. I will upgrade my copy of MT this weekend and it should fix it.
Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at May 27, 2005 7:47 AM
Mojib-Ribbon and Vib-Ripple, Two for the price of one my friend... (of course it's released "soon")
Posted by: del at May 27, 2005 8:36 AM
Mojib-Ribbon and Vib-Ripple, Two for the price of one my friend... (of course it's released "soon")
Posted by: del at May 27, 2005 8:37 AM
What about a sequel to Loom? That was a rockin good Side scrolling quest/ RPG for TG-16 and PC
Posted by: james at May 27, 2005 9:03 AM
Bionic Commando! I swinging around with the bionic arm. Very few video games since then have captured the same excitement of madly trying to grasp for ledges while falling to your death.
Posted by: steve minutillo at May 27, 2005 10:10 AM
Bonks Adventure did have sequel, Bonks Revenge ( http://www.workingdesigns.com/museum/turbo/software/graphics/bonks_revenge_front.jpg )
Posted by: sahbaun7 at May 27, 2005 11:05 AM
True, it would rule if Maniac Mansion were ported to the GBA, but wouldnt it make much more sense to port it on the DS? With the stylus, the gameplay would still be similar to the original. It is of course a Point Click adventure... This should also be done with Loom, Sam and Max, Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, etc... and all those other great LucasArts adventure games.
btw, Broken Sword 1 and 2should be ported on the DS as well.
*sigh* So many great games, little recognition.
Posted by: amIevil at May 27, 2005 11:31 AM
Yeah, all those adventure games *need* porting to the DS. Preferably as some kind of pack, like those 'arcade classics' packs Namco puts out every other month for whichever the hot console of the moment is. Hell, why does Pac Man get re-released ad adsurdum ad infinitum, but no Loom? No Indy? Meh.
Posted by: Kirin at May 27, 2005 11:45 AM
Thanks for pointing that out, Sahbaun7! Bonk's Revenge on the the TG-16/Duo. Both games were really cool.
Posted by: Mike at May 27, 2005 7:52 PM
Thanks for pointing that out, Sahbaun7! Bonk's Revenge on the the TG-16/Duo. Both games were really cool.
Posted by: Mike at May 27, 2005 7:53 PM
I know I had Bonk's Revenge. That is why I said " There were three really good Bonk games on the NEC Turbo Grafx-16"
Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at May 27, 2005 11:40 PM
What about Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders From Mars? Man, I loved that game on my c64.
Posted by: Trachalio at May 28, 2005 10:27 AM
Beyond Good and Evil.
Posted by: Bungle at May 28, 2005 3:29 PM
Beyond Good and Evil.
Posted by: Bungle at May 28, 2005 3:30 PM
Sorry about that!
Posted by: Bungle at May 28, 2005 3:31 PM
WE WILL NEVER FORGET KID ICARUS!
Posted by: Niero at May 28, 2005 7:53 PM
hey there is a Kid Icarus part in WarioWare Twisted. you have to dodge eggplants
Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at May 29, 2005 12:25 AM
Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Pure classic.
Posted by: DinoNeil at May 29, 2005 10:58 AM
Kid Icarus actually had, I do believe, a GameBoy sequel. Long forgotten.
Posted by: nowak at May 29, 2005 11:04 AM
YES!!! Bionic Commando was excellent.
That Sam and Max was canned is a shame!
Posted by: Jim at May 30, 2005 1:36 AM
Zak mc Kraken and the alien mindbenders...
Posted by: Bingo at May 30, 2005 2:16 AM
The sequel to Loom, "Forge" was killed before it even began simply because no one wanted to work on it, even Brian Moriarty (creator of Loom) was too busy working on early stages of The Dig to do anything with Forge. Mike Stemmle and Sean Clark were doing eary production work on Forge but left it to do Sam & Max Hit the Road instead.
There were actually supposed to be three Loom games - Loom, Forge, and The Fold. Forge was to have Rusty Nailbender as the main character with Bobbin Threadbare to advise him as a swan. (makes sense if you complete Loom) The Fold was to be about Fleece Firmflanks from the Shepherds territory.
It's a shame but it was his decision, let it go. Loom is still the most beautiful 16 color game ever created and the 256 color talkie version has some excellent voice acting. The EGA version is my favorite SCUMM game.
Back on topic, Square (I'd add Enix but I shudder when I think of how money-wasting Square is poisoning Enix) needs to wake up and remember they're more than an RPG developer. It's damn time for a sequel to Einhänder, a new Rad Racer game or the eternally MIA Parasite Eve 3. A third StarTropics game on the GBA would be nice as too, but I guess I should be glad that there were two to begin with.
Posted by: InsaneDavid at June 2, 2005 3:07 AM
what about power stone 3? everybody wants another power stone game.
Posted by: hunter at December 1, 2005 11:26 AM
how about general chaos that is my all time favorite game for the genesis the only game that i kind of reminds me of it is brothers in arms only because you can control a squad but that game deserves a gba or nintendo ds remake
Posted by: mike at March 16, 2006 6:00 PM
Sam and Max sequel, officially announced at E3 2006 for Gametap.
Posted by: vormaen at May 21, 2006 10:37 PM
