LGR - Monster Bash - DOS PC Game Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Comments and reviews: 10
Jorendo
Never got to play this one as kid. We did own other Apogee games. Hard to imagine these day's that these games where beautiful to watch at as child. Like with Commander Keen and such. When you look at it now its a pixel mess at time. But back then it seemed so clear.
It probably is also the nostalgia talking, but games back then also felt more special. I just dreamed away when playing those games. Something i miss these days. Maybe also because graphics don't leave much to the imagination anymore today. Thanks for looking back at all those great old games.
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Never got to play this one as kid. We did own other Apogee games. Hard to imagine these day's that these games where beautiful to watch at as child. Like with Commander Keen and such. When you look at it now its a pixel mess at time. But back then it seemed so clear.
It probably is also the nostalgia talking, but games back then also felt more special. I just dreamed away when playing those games. Something i miss these days. Maybe also because graphics don't leave much to the imagination anymore today. Thanks for looking back at all those great old games.
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Cephalopod51
I grew up with the shareware version of MB, and it was only a couple of years ago that I finally got to play the full registered version of MB. The other two episodes are harder, which is why I did the extra lives cheats just to finish it. The difficulty spike is my only complaint, but otherwise this is a classic. The level design, colors, and especially the boss fights are my favorite aspects of the game. I think I may be the only one who likes Dash's awkward wall hitting effect.
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I grew up with the shareware version of MB, and it was only a couple of years ago that I finally got to play the full registered version of MB. The other two episodes are harder, which is why I did the extra lives cheats just to finish it. The difficulty spike is my only complaint, but otherwise this is a classic. The level design, colors, and especially the boss fights are my favorite aspects of the game. I think I may be the only one who likes Dash's awkward wall hitting effect.
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Tavi
I had a shareware disc that had some 25 games on it. Not sure where it came from or where it went, but this was one of the games on it. Alongside greats like Jazz Jackrabbit, Jill of the Jungle, Doom, Duke Nukem 1 & 2 and Keen 4, there were also games like this, Hocus Pocus, Jumpman and Pitfall. There were even a few obscure titles like Hugo 2: Whodunnit, Bio-Menace and Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold.
I loved each and every one of them, even if I never did beat even one of them.
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I had a shareware disc that had some 25 games on it. Not sure where it came from or where it went, but this was one of the games on it. Alongside greats like Jazz Jackrabbit, Jill of the Jungle, Doom, Duke Nukem 1 & 2 and Keen 4, there were also games like this, Hocus Pocus, Jumpman and Pitfall. There were even a few obscure titles like Hugo 2: Whodunnit, Bio-Menace and Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold.
I loved each and every one of them, even if I never did beat even one of them.
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SilencedNo1
I grew up with monster bash. I distinctly remember playing the game with sound only being produced by the PC speaker when my dad came home and told me that at work they just got new computers with so called sound cards. This magical hardware not only added music to all the games I knew and loved, no, it also was supposed to make the skulls in monster bash yodel when you shot them. I knew I had to have one.
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I grew up with monster bash. I distinctly remember playing the game with sound only being produced by the PC speaker when my dad came home and told me that at work they just got new computers with so called sound cards. This magical hardware not only added music to all the games I knew and loved, no, it also was supposed to make the skulls in monster bash yodel when you shot them. I knew I had to have one.
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Kelly-Robert
I remember playing this game on a 386. then my keyboard broke; the left arrow key was busted, but not Numpad 4. Finding the spread keys on the numpad uncomfortable, I had two choices; go to the trouble of learning how to move with three arrow keys and the four sitting a little over thataways, or not play Monster Bash.
Please. I even remember trying to write fanfic for this game. Of -course- I adapted.
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I remember playing this game on a 386. then my keyboard broke; the left arrow key was busted, but not Numpad 4. Finding the spread keys on the numpad uncomfortable, I had two choices; go to the trouble of learning how to move with three arrow keys and the four sitting a little over thataways, or not play Monster Bash.
Please. I even remember trying to write fanfic for this game. Of -course- I adapted.
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Andrew
I remember going to the staples where they had boxes of these games for sales in 95 where I purchased with my Birthday money Monster Bash and a bunch of others such as Jazz the Jack Rabbit. Halloween Harry was another game we had but my brother wouldn't tell me how to launch the game so I never experienced the awesome jet pack game.
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I remember going to the staples where they had boxes of these games for sales in 95 where I purchased with my Birthday money Monster Bash and a bunch of others such as Jazz the Jack Rabbit. Halloween Harry was another game we had but my brother wouldn't tell me how to launch the game so I never experienced the awesome jet pack game.
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Madpotator
Man, I loved the Shareware version of Monster Bash back in the day. I didn't exactly have that many games to play, so that might explain my affection for it, but I still think it holds a certain charm to it. Might buy the full version just to see what the rest of the game is like. Nice review, LGR!
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Man, I loved the Shareware version of Monster Bash back in the day. I didn't exactly have that many games to play, so that might explain my affection for it, but I still think it holds a certain charm to it. Might buy the full version just to see what the rest of the game is like. Nice review, LGR!
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Robert
Haven't played in a while but I liked Crystal caves growing up. And secret agent man. Never got into Halloween Harry. Hated when you ran out of jetpack fuel. Lol
Anywho, when I was a kid I couldn't get past the fourth level of Monster Bash. Didn't realize you needed to crawl past the dragon lol
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Haven't played in a while but I liked Crystal caves growing up. And secret agent man. Never got into Halloween Harry. Hated when you ran out of jetpack fuel. Lol
Anywho, when I was a kid I couldn't get past the fourth level of Monster Bash. Didn't realize you needed to crawl past the dragon lol
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mt-32
Have you LGR heard of a dos game called xquest? It was my favorite game as well as monster bash when I was little and I bought it as a floppy disk from a store. It was the time when you had to buy American and European shareware games from physical stores, at least here in Europe.
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Have you LGR heard of a dos game called xquest? It was my favorite game as well as monster bash when I was little and I bought it as a floppy disk from a store. It was the time when you had to buy American and European shareware games from physical stores, at least here in Europe.
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Blind
Crystal Caves was the best of the best in terms of older Apogee work. It had a slew of levels that were, by and large, pretty different. You should review the Apogee classic platforms like CC, Secret Agent, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, etc.
I'm old.
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Crystal Caves was the best of the best in terms of older Apogee work. It had a slew of levels that were, by and large, pretty different. You should review the Apogee classic platforms like CC, Secret Agent, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, etc.
I'm old.
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