[NES] The Legend

Well, this is a pretty funny little story. About 3 months ago, my friend played through this game called Solomon' Key. He spent about 8 hours on the damn game and FINALLY beat it once and for all. AND to celebrate, he thew the game off my balcony and into a relatively busy street in front of my house. It was late at night, so he thought there shouldn't be to many cars, and the odds of 1 car hitting it in the street aren't very high.

Well, in the time it took him to go down and retrieve it, it had already been run over. The game was completely smashed up, but the game chip its self looked like it was still in good condition. So we opened up Urban Champion, took its chip out, and replaced it with the Solomon's Key chip, and it still worked as if nothing happened. Then that gave us the idea, we would take the parts that remained of the game, and rebuild it! A Frankenstein NES game of sorts.

So, my friend picked up some Super Glue, and I started to reassemble all of the pieces that we could find at the time. There were still allot of pieces missing, so it isn't as strong as it use to be. But, we managed to pull it together! We simply call it "The Legend" now. Here are some pictures of it:


Here is the game fully reassembled. You can see some of the chip in the hole in the bottom of it. Its pretty shaky, but still functions.



Here it is in my top loading NES. It was kind of a pain in the ass to get in there, and get it working. I can only imagine how much harder it would be on a regular NES.

Its alive, ITS ALIVE! The Frankenstein Solomon's Key cartridge functions perfectly... though a little battered and bruised. isn't super glue awesome?

As to why my friend threw the game into the street in the first place? Well, the game is so damn hard and tedious! There are 50 levels total, and each one gets harder and harder until its almost imposable. And on top of that, you if you die and continue, you get sent back a few stages, and have to re-beat them. Total pain in the ass. Now, on top of that, you listen to the same song over and over and over and over again. The song never changes. Don't get me wrong, its a cool song, But listening to it for 8 Hours straight? That would drive any man insane!

And why play the game for 8 hours straight? Because the game doesn't have a damn password system. You would think that a game with 50 levels would have some sort of password system, BUT NO, they expect you to play it all the way through in one sitting. THAT is why he did it. It was like taking a massive dump. So relieved that its finally done with and over. So, he will probably never pick the game up again and play it for as long as he lives, so it looks like i got a free game from the ordeal. And thats awesome!