...That is so cool. Like regular Guitar hero but nerdier. I love it. | |
That is at the same time the most horrific and hilarious thing I have ever seen. And I'm pretty damned curious as to how the other three songs sound. | |
The old school nerd's version of Guitar Hero. This is hysterical. | |
Also damn hard. The website's warning about trying to use a keyboard is no joke! (Of course, there is the slight possibility I just suck at this...) | |
@Shark77 | |
Man, I am so making everyone play this later. | |
Wow, that's awesome. It really seems like a long-lost game made for the NES. | |
this game is great but needs more songs!! when is the "Dlc" coming out? :P Edit... Whe should make a D-pad hero contest.... a Rock off... by song and only screenshot counts | |
If only there was a way to put that on an after-market NES cartridge and sell them online. I'd buy one for my NES. Or DS if it ported to there. | |
that looks highly entertaining. | |
Thats so wicked... I wish that was real back then! | |
I agree with everyone else here. Amazing. | |
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D-Pad Hero Rocks the NES
You've played it with plastic instruments and you've played it in text adventure form, but now you can play it with power.
I'd like to think that maybe, if something like D-Pad Hero had existed around the time the NES was the only game in town, perhaps I wouldn't have had to wait until 1998 and the release of Beatmania 2nd Mix to become obsessed with rhythm games. It's not like Breakdance for the Commodore 64 did the trick.
Developed by the homebrew duo of Ken "SnowBro" Hansen and Andreas Pedersen, D-Pad Hero combines the gameplay of Guitar Hero with a handful of legendary pop culture tracks turned chiptune such as Michael Jackson's "The Way You Make Me Feel," and "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by Daft Punk. It may not be the first 8-bit rhythm title around (Konami's Dance Dance Revolution and Beatmania titles for GameBoy were awesome), but it's the only one you're going to play on the NES any time soon. Feel free to snag an emulator, the rom and proceed to rock your pixels off.
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