Crystalis

[laughs] Like, Nintendo did great.

And of course, I cannot finish this episode without talking about one of my absolute favorite NES games, Crystalis.

This game doesn't come from one of our six pillars we've been discussing.

It was developed by SNK for the Famicom and NES, and its Japanese title is actually God Slayer.

I think they do Fatal Fury, King of Fighters, and some others.

But around this time, they were still kind of experimenting outside of that space and trying to make some stuff for home consoles.

And Crystalis specifically was, in some ways, SNK's answer to The Legend of Zelda.

It's also got a pretty ambitious setting and story for an NES game.

Right.

Uh, uh, Crystalis.

Like, games that tried to push the envelope, but due to technology restraints, they couldn't push it.

Oh.

Right.

Metroid was, uh...

Actually, that was the main game I was thinking of when I pulled, uh, uh, out Crystalis, but, uh, Metroid was the one I was thinking of.

So Metroid tried to do a lot of things, right? Very ambitious game back in the day.