HAL Laboratory on NES: Best to Worst

This game is rad as shit.

Gets everything right, the puzzles are fun and not stupid-hard like the other two, this is the definitive Lolo game.

It's really hard to straighten yourself out when driving, so you end up banging off every wall on every turn, but there's really not much of a penalty for doing so. I think this would take a lot of practice to be good at, but it's not frustrating at all, it actually controls really well. I can imagine this being a ton of fun with friends, and it does support multiplayer. Definitely want to try that out.

Holy shit, this game is fun. The whole time I'm playing this I'm thinking about how much fun it would be in co-op, I looked it up and it has co-op. Bonus points, HAL. So many little things about this make it feel a little more satisfying. HAL really excels at this kind of stuff.

YES!!!!! HAL has a pinball game. It's a really good one, kind of hard to explain what makes a pinball game fun. I haven't played a ton of NES pinball games, but this is the best one I've played I guess.

A very good vertical shooter with one glaring flaw. One-hit kills, three continues. Usually HAL is really good about making the player feel challenged, not defeated, but shit, the difficulty curve is 90 degrees. Still, if you're a fan of shmups, play this. I enjoyed our very brief time together.

It's Othello.
It's fun.

A perfectly serviceable gambling game with some really cool random events like a lady trying to steal your coat. This game also has big nostalgia points with me.

A pretty mediocre platformer in all honesty, I don't think the Kirby games were really any fun until you could absorb powers.

Good concept, well made game. It just throws you in so quickly, I was stuck on the second puzzle. This would probably be a good buy at the time considering how much time you'd be spending trying to figure this shit out. But nowadays, you're better off playing Lolo 3.

Controls GREAT, but gets repetitive really quickly. Great sound too.

Controls pretty well, the platforming is very good. The problem is the enemy AI is ridiculous and is bound to hit you 9 times out of 10, but the game actually seems to be designed around that, giving you health every two seconds. That and your attacks are extremely short ranged and poopy. Overall, not bad. I just can't believe this game got localized.

This game is fucking nuts and I don't think the NES controller is the best thing to be using for it. Maybe if I had an NES Advantage.

Does absolutely nothing to add to the first game, pretty much just as hard. But, if you liked Lolo one but thought it was too short, here's your expansion pack.

This is a game where you play as Japanese comedian George Tokoro and you shoot animals with a quickly depleting water gun and bounce on pylons, until you meet the first boss which kills you by making the screen flash. This was obviously meant to be a joke, but I imagine this was a full-priced game at one point. Not cool.

It's odd that I think this game controls well because at the same time, you can't really control your character at all. I don't really get Joust. Play Flicky instead.

I can appreciate the creativity I guess but... damn

Unless my controller is just broken for this one game, this is unplayable.

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I skipped through text for way too long waiting for the gameplay. Turns out it's a visual novel. I thought it was cool, it seemed like you had a lot of choices in the text, despite having to run though every single one before progressing. Pretty cool for 1991 though. I might come back to this if I can find a translation online, but I'll probably just forget about it forever.

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Can't really play this due to it being an RPG in Japanese and all. But yeah, they made this. Cool guys.

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WHHHYYYYYYY!!??? Why were none of the text-based games that HAL made translated? This game sounds cool as fuck.