Tonight we bring you the hero of the best NES game that was never formally remade or ported to anything but the Wii Virtual Console. That’s right, I’m talking about Mike Jones, the 15-year-old ace pitcher from Seattle who travels to the southern archipelago to meet with his Uncle, Dr. J to find him abducted by an unknown perpetrator in the spectacular English-only title, StarTropics. Otherwise known as the guy in Captain Jim’s name logo for the team page.
If you’ve never played StarTropics, I strongly recommend it. It’s like The Legend of Zelda with jumping, better music, and cooler weapons and bosses. As I said, you can get it on the Virtual Console. But not if you live in Japan. The sequel, Zoda’s Revenge (which was truly a USA-exclusive release and never even hit Europe) is better in terms of gameplay and has higher-quality graphics, but lacks the music and some of the charm the original had.
Huh.
…it’s alright.
lol first
2nd!!
Rad! I never thought this would work as well as it did. Had Ness not had that hat though… It would have been perfect.
… Never heard of this game.
It’s great, especially considering how little reference there is to how Mike actually looks. If anything, I’d say lighten the shirt a little and maybe do something with his eyes. Still, awesome.
now make Eggboy13’s logo character, Sonic wearing eggmans clothes.
Mike Jones!
For some reason, this reminds me of Monkey Island.
maybe add a jacket…
I’ve seen a Brawl’d-version of him somewhere on the internet…
ok, but nvr heard of game.
love teh hack and the game sounds good..BUT ZELDA IS BETTAA!!!
hmm….not bad and for the guy above, MMMM MMMM MMMM MM-*shot*
I’ve played this, but I wouldn’t go as far as to say “better than Zelda.” As far as classic games go, remember Link to the Past, people.
STOP MENTIONING THESE NES GAMES THAT I DONT EVEN CAR-*machine gun shot by PZT
ReoYoshi: Remember that Lucas’s back is the same as his front. A jacket would be easy to pull off for Ness thanks to his backpack hiding his back, but it’s another story for Lucas.
As for the battle with Zelda, I’ll put it this way: StarTropics is no Ocarina of Time, but it’s better than any of the 2-D games. But, you know, I don’t really like the 2-D Zelda games that much, except The Minish Cap. Which was hideously underrated.
@Panda: Who?
Cool. Startropics is on the virtual console BTW.
AND THANK YOU FOR FINALLY UPDATING THE ROSTER!!!!!!!
@Rotom: This is Mike Jones…
oh man i love startropics
NICE. I just beat Zoda’s Revenge yesterday. Love this series.
23rd! This looks….ok…..not much, sorry. But you can’t win em all…although if I ever played the game I might’ve liked this more.
Yeah, it’s supposed to be simple. Of course, people think everything needs to be a darn Sigma.
shuteupthe3rd: Yeah, that’s one job no one likes to do. Especially after a lot of double or triple updates.
Jim seriously what were you thinking? Simplicity??? Everything is better with neon tribal paint. Shame on you for not defying the real design and making up a bunch of bull crap, Jim. >:[
HOLY SHIT YES.
I’ve been waiting for a Mike Jones hack.
StarTropics is awesome.
Under the southern cross, anything is possible!
Even mind bullets.
..then a maybe a change of eyes?
just something to make you think less of claus…
I love how any Lucas with orange hair is Claus. >:C
Does anybody else ever notice the game reminder under the archives!? I lose every time I visit the site because I automatically look there.
TELL ME WHO PUT THAT THERE!
“Game reminder”? Like, a reminder to go play Brawl?
back then japan didn’t know him, now he’s in brawl and they all love him
rotomRASENGAN: No.
lol i actually remember playing this game on a haxxed VC
YES! This is so win! This is my favorite NES game of all time, I have it for the NES and VC! It’s so epic! I was mad when they didn’t put him in brawl 🙁
The music to this game is soooo good, from when your in Sub-C to in a Dungeon. They have great remixes of these songs on Overclocked Remix too! Great hack!
USE IKE(the best charct to mod)