A Nightmare On Elm Street: The Video Game

[doaflip]

Did anyone play either the NES or PC versions of the Elm Street game?

I completed the NES version yesterday, haha oh man it's pretty funny. You have to visit various houses and locations along Elm Street, collecting Freddy's bones so you can burn them at the end. Along the way, you fight completely random enemies (snakes, bats, flies, zombies - or are they Frankenstein's monsters?). After a while your character falls asleep and you can become a Dream Warrior (the ninja is the best by miles), and the aforemention enemies all turn into skeletons and Freddy variants.

However in the dream world, you risk being attacked by Freddy. What's great is that because of the game's age, it wasn't until near the end of the game that I realised the soft music played before Freddy's attacks is supposed to be the "1, 2, Freddy's coming for you" chant.

I haven't played the PC version but it looked like a top-down RPG style game with the actual characters from ANOES3.

Anyone else played these?

[zombievictim]

I've played the NES version and loved it. I couldn't believe how dumb it was and that just made it better. This is a definite must play for any fan of the movies.

[SpacePuppet]

I've played it, and beat it. Personally, I thought it was a horrible video game. It's like they took any NES game and just slapped Freddy's face on the cover (The guy you play as looks like the character from Renegade). But still it was no where near as bad as the Friday The 13th game. It was so mind-numbingly boring, and repetitive. And it was one of the HARDEST games on Nintendo. All of those NES movies video games were money making schemes.

-Nightmare On Elm Street
-Friday The 13th
-Back To The Future *Shudders*
-Jaws

[doaflip]

But still it was no where near as bad as the Friday The 13th game. It was so mind-numbingly boring, and repetitive. And it was one of the HARDEST games on Nintendo.

The music on the opening credit screen (also when you go in cabins I believe) was about the only good thing about Friday The 13th. Fighting Jason in the cabins was like Punch Out or something.

Both NOES and Friday had stupid endings though. Haha especially NOES. "The evil has been banished... OR HAS IT?"

Yes. It has. I just burnt the bones.

[teenkiller]

I used to play this game all the time in the early to mid 90's. I had it mastered but it was a pretty easy game anyways. I thought it was pretty fun but they made FREDDY out to be one of the biggest pussies in video game history. There is seriously no challenge to him whatsoever. For those who don't know already its worth mentioning that the original idea for the game was for you to play as FREDDY killing teenagers. Parental groups had a fit when hearing this and NINTENDO forced changes to occur so that you would play as teenagers battling FREDDY.
What I would love to play is THE DREAM WARRIORS game that was released. You get to play as Kincaid and others. "WHERE YOU HIDIN' AT YOU BURNT FACE PUSSY!!"
Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.