Back in the day I used to play this obscure card game called "Yu-Gi-Oh", there was this weird fish monster card that was called "Space Mambo". It charmed the shit out of me with it's mysteriousness and the fact it's apparently named after a type of dance.
"What is a Mambo?" I said to myself. Turns out it's another name for a Sunfish (or Mola if you will), which is what the main antagonist/final boss of this game resembles, and can be seen there on the cover artwork and in the background of the Space Mambo card, hence the dumb joke. It's probably my favorite monster in the series, and I know I'm definitely not alone on that, since the twitter account that tweets random cards is using it as their pfp atm.
All that said, yes it was the entire reason I wanted to try out Space Manbow. It's the first MSX game I've tried that was completely unrelated to Metal Gear, it kinda sucks I barely have a frame of reference of other MSX games, but I wanna say this one looks pretty damn nice for a computer game from 1989 despite some of the choppiness which is apparently a common thing for the system. The soundtrack absolutely whips though and is worth checking out by itself.
A damn fine game I wanna say, it's rather difficult as usual for a Konami shmup and it's also hard to get a hold of, so I wouldn't a recommend it for beginners. I had to empty my savings account and sell my kidney to some crazy guy in Tahiti to get a working MSX2 and copy of Space Manbow, definitely don't recommend original hardware for this if you can avoid it. Use modern magic like my real self did.
"What is a Mambo?" I said to myself. Turns out it's another name for a Sunfish (or Mola if you will), which is what the main antagonist/final boss of this game resembles, and can be seen there on the cover artwork and in the background of the Space Mambo card, hence the dumb joke. It's probably my favorite monster in the series, and I know I'm definitely not alone on that, since the twitter account that tweets random cards is using it as their pfp atm.
All that said, yes it was the entire reason I wanted to try out Space Manbow. It's the first MSX game I've tried that was completely unrelated to Metal Gear, it kinda sucks I barely have a frame of reference of other MSX games, but I wanna say this one looks pretty damn nice for a computer game from 1989 despite some of the choppiness which is apparently a common thing for the system. The soundtrack absolutely whips though and is worth checking out by itself.
A damn fine game I wanna say, it's rather difficult as usual for a Konami shmup and it's also hard to get a hold of, so I wouldn't a recommend it for beginners. I had to empty my savings account and sell my kidney to some crazy guy in Tahiti to get a working MSX2 and copy of Space Manbow, definitely don't recommend original hardware for this if you can avoid it. Use modern magic like my real self did.