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AL82 Retrogaming Longplays | Conan: The Mysteries of Time Longplay (NES) [QHD] @AL82RetrogamingLongplays | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 14 hours ago
Game Info
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Developer: Mindscape
Publisher: Mindscape
Year of Release: 1991

Game Review & Impressions
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I'd been aware of Conan: The Mysteries of Time for a while, but I'd never played it, until now. My chief reason for playing this is because it's essentially a clone of Myth: History in the Making, released originally on the Commodore 64 back in 1989. The C64 version is one of my favourite games for the machine, partly due to its innovative gameplay, intriguing plot and stonkingly good theme tune composed by Jeroen Tel.

I don't know much about the history of this particular port, but Mindscape must have licensed the Myth from System 3, then attached the Conan IP to the project, probably to make it more attractive to the predominantly US-based NES market. Unfortunately, they did such a horrendous hatchet job on this conversion that I can't believe anyone actually bought this, or at least didn't attempt to return it to store for a refund - it's shockingly bad.

The terrible graphics are just the tip of the iceberg, shoddily copied from the C64 without any apparent attempt to cater for the revised screen resolution or colour palette. The "lego brick" pixels synonymous with C64 medium resolution stick out like a sore thumb here, and the dimensions of all the character and background assets don't look right at all.

Things aren't any better when it comes to the gameplay. The controls and combat mechanics have been completely butchered, resulting in a near-unplayable mess, and certain levels are borderline broken. Quite a few of the levels from the Norse and Egyptian stages have been cut altogether, probably to save on expensive ROM costs, and the final boss fight against Dameron is nowhere to be seen.

This is not just an insult to Conan, it's a slap in the face to one of my favourite C64 games of all time - the NES was capable of so much more than this, so the blame for this utter dogpile lands squarely at the feet of the developers. This is utter crap, pure and simple, and best avoided at all costs.


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