Original Release: Super Pig, 1990, Famicom Disk
Wait, we’re trying to STOP the Sexy Invaders?
Sexy Invaders (NES, Super Pig, 1990)
Where to Buy: eBay
How to Emulate: coming soon!
Review by: Master-B
Probably Super Pig’s best work on the Famicom (or at least the best one I’ve run into yet), Sexy Invaders is exactly what the name would lead you to believe: a Space Invaders knockoff with some sexy picts scattered in.
The thing is, it’s a pretty competent Space Invaders clone. Not the hardest game to knock off, but Sexy Invaders leaves its stamp with surprisingly good sound and adding an assortment of weapons you can shoot off of a UFO that periodically passes overhead. Some of these are insanely overpowered, and carry from level to level so long as you don’t lose a life, but you’ll really need them for the tougher challenges of the later reaches (as the Invaders speed up and shoot back more quickly and unpredictably).
You go through a twisty series of levels as assorted Space Cuties challenge you and then gradually become denuded as you advance. You get three lives, but those only help for taking hits from projectiles; let a Sexy Invader touch the bottom row and it’s instant game over no matter how many lives are left.
There’s only the one set of levels, but they last a good long while. One little point of interest is that the overwhelming majority of Famicom Disk games will blow the “A” side of the disk out on some elaborate animated intro, then stuff the actual game into the “B” side (forcing an immediate disk flip). Super Pig takes the more sensible approach here of putting the actual game on “A” side, and “B” side is reserved for a special hip wriggling animation for the ultimate Space Princess that loops over the closing credits.
As regular games go? It’s an okayish Space Invaders knockoff, maybe one of the first to add Gradius/Contra-like weapon power ups to the mix. By adult game standards? It’s pretty fun and a good challenge.
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