Videogame Review, Klax for the Nintendo Entertainment System (w/ NES Max Controller)

Videogame Review, Klax for the Nintendo Entertainment System (w/ NES Max Controller)

This review will be a very unique experience.  I have a used game, I have a new controller, and I have a refurbished video game console.  That is: Klax, NES Max, and NES Top Loader.  “Klax” rhymes with “Max”.  Does it work?  Well, no.  Not really.  Turbo fire with turbo buttons is buggy.  This isn’t the case with every NES game.  In fact, some “bad” NES games have good controls.  But, with Klax, with the NES Max, with the NES Top Loader- it’s another story.  I can still appreciate the futuristic graphics and visuals with mild disagreement.  I don’t think my unique direction pad works for Klax.  As evidence for this review, I was playing the Klax control test with the “blob” feature.  It’s a control test.  You can see a floating blob and sharp spikes to the right of your TV screen.  Klax works with the original NES controller.  However, Klax, with the NES Max, proves difficult and hazardous to function.  The NES Max has a very, very unique direction pad with buttons for directions and changes of movement.  I doubt that it’s a consistent function.  I just don’t do as well for Klax with the NES Max.  I’m already an experienced gamer for Klax.  So, the problematic NES Max controller is news to me for Klax.  The NES Max controller was a “new idea”.  Keep that in mind or else you will make a mistake for the future of new ideas.  News ideas often don’t stick.  Every new idea on Earth has no history behind it.  If there’s history for a new idea, it’s probably not a new idea.  Now, the NES Max is an “old idea”.  Of course, just because the NES Max is an old idea, does not mean that everybody or all people have even heard of the NES Max or “old idea”.  In fact, not only do people not always hear of an old idea, but an old idea can be an idea that is “old” and “nobody hears of it”.  People have not heard of most old ideas.  Actually, in reality, most people have not heard of new ideas.  Old ideas and new ideas do not always get popular enough for humanity to speak of.  I’m not sure if Klax is exactly the problem or if the NES Max is exactly the problem.  I will say this: as time goes by, less and less people keep records of their personal history with video games.  People can throw away boxes; people can throw away games; people can throw away machines; people can throw away records and receipts; people can throw away lists and letters; people can throw away plugs and wires; etc.  It happens all the time!  But, since I’m an honest gamer, I’m not going to throw away video games as long as the video games are useful in some fashion.  Even “dead” machines can be interesting to observe for historical awareness.  So, the Klax-and-NES-Max project is interesting.  The control test acts like a kind of PONG game.  Your “blob” is the PONG ball and your “rocket” is the PONG racket.  It’s impressive that any NES game can even have a PONG-like mini game included with a major game.  When a nice mini game is just an “option” from the NES game you realize how big the big game is and Klax is most certainly WOW in this sense.  The original NES controller is the good controller for Klax.  The NES Max controller (on the other hand) speaks on a different level where the difference doesn’t make the cut.  Can you imagine “old games” for the PS5 controller or “old games” for the Nintendo Switch controller?  Old games are not just going to work for “new controllers” or “new consoles” as such.  At this point, modern technology is too complicated for some “old games” and the old games can still be “too old” in obsolete fashion and outdated gameplay.

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