15 travis strikes again: no more heroes - reading the retro magazine review of electric thunder tiger ii

Dear Readers,

The next article in the magazine archive was the review of Electric Thunder Tiger II. Again, I love the presentation of the fictional game magazine here :)

The pages are faded, the screenshots aren't in colour and look like they've been photographed off the screen, the mascot appears all over the place, the protips guy has a cartoon avatar and there's a weird scoring breakdown. Very much like a games magazine from the 80s.

The score breakdown has different categories labelled Characters, Music/SFX, Originality/Addictiveness, Worth Buying. The marks are decimal numbers set to two places. I'm not sure but it seems to be rated out of 5.00, seeing how the category scores are all 3 point something and 4 point something and the overall tone of the review is quite positive.

The body of the review text talks about the setting and who Electro Triple Star is and what happened since the first game to set the stage for the second game.

There are a couple of cheat codes here as well! I don't know if they're for the directional buttons or the ABXY buttons since it just shows the circles. The pictures are a bit hard to make out but I'll try to describe them.

The Recover HP cheat fills the HP gauge and you have to press LEFT, LEFT, DOWN, UP, LEFT, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT. It's in an area with striped barriers. I think it may be in that sandy area in the beginning before the factory but I'm not sure.

The cheat to make the Pickled Buguro that drops treasure appear you have to press LEFT, LEFT, DOWN, UP, LEFT, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT... Oh it's the same as the other one. From the screenshot again it's tricky to make out but it looks like you have to be standing in that long narrow road with all the neon signs. The one on the left looks like a teardrop and there's a bunch of pixels in the middle of the road. Travis is standing on the left as well.

Another protip utilises the aroma pot to "Trip balls". The ingredients are eucalyptus, paperbark and bergamot oils. Funny weird non-function in the game and I dunno, I'm not really into aromatherapy. I liked stuff like lava lamps as a teenager though. What a strange console! It's like the way the NES pretended to look like a VCR player :)

That Master Taro Gida avatar was probably the coolest mofo back then.