Solo4114
Master Member
Im the same exact way. Guess we are what you call "diehard" fans. Hell I still go to swap meets and look for cartridges when I know I already have the playable game somewhere.
@Solo4114 Bionic Commando is one of the greatest games I have ever played. Did you play Bionic Commando Rearmed on the Xbox arcade a few years ago? He could jump!
Side note, when I was a kid, I didnt know that you were killing Hitler at the end of the game.
I have Re-armed, but never beat it. I should re-download it. I got stuck trying to complete some jumping thing to grab an item, and then just gave up and moved on to some other game. It's a good game, though.
I loved the original. I have two great memories of playing it.
One was at my friend Andy's house in his basement. We beat the game in a night (well, he did most of the work -- I didn't own a Nintendo so I never was all that good at the games), and listened to late 80s hair metal while we played. So, to me, the "soundtrack" to Bionic Commando should basically be the entirety of Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime and maybe a few songs off of Motley Crue's Dr. Feelgood.
The other memory was when my friend Jesse came over to my place and brought his NES. We spent the morning playing, and were at the last part where you drop down this long shaft and have to fire your super bazooka into the cockpit of a helicopter. You get ONE shot at this, and if you miss it, the helicopter kills you. Just as we were about to do it, Jesse's dad came by to pick him up. We said "Just give us, like, 5 more minutes! This is the end boss!"
We missed the shot. Never beat the game (well, Jesse never did -- I'd beaten it with Andy and seen the "Kill Hitler" end).