Atomic Knights Guild

The Official Atomic Knights NESTalgia Guild

Founded February 28, 2011

Shrenwold Server

Current Roster:
Robot, GM
Frank
Brian
Igneus
DooD
Alice
Krup
BitMatt
Lief
Maverick
Ceres


This page can be used to leave message for offline guild members, co-ordinate parties, announce level ups, talk about strategy, ask questions, general social chat, and anything else. As the guild expands, I will expand the page.

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NESTalgia: A Great 8-Bit MMORPG

After playing for a few minutes I was hooked. It's like Dragon Warrior 2/3 on an MMO scale. Silk Games created this free, 8-Bit MMORPG. Angels flew down from heaven and played jazz on their trumpets when I opened the website.

This looks to be the game I've always wanted to play, since I was 5.

The game is relatively new, at least it's only recently gain popularity.

From the website:

"NEStalgia is an original MORPG inspired by the glory days of traditional console RPGs. Essentially "Dragon Warrior 3 meets World of Warcraft", NEStalgia is an amalgam of the best generations of RPG gaming.

"Wage classic turn based battles using a multiplayer party system, and enjoy modern trappings such as a full-featured quest system and hordes of epic loot to find. We even have a WoW-style Auction House for item trading!
Close Community"

Go check out NESTalgia and we can all post our reactions and group-up or whatever we have to do form a party of Atomic Knights and kick the internet's ass at a video game.

Go get it, get it, get it.

You can also follow Silk Games on youtube, check out the trailer below the screenshots!

STAR TRACKS: The Star Quest Soundtrack

Several readers asked about the soudntrack and even more commented on the amazing music. Well, here it is! Star Tracks: The Star Quest Soundtrack. 30 tracks were used in the game, but the download includes 5 bonus tracks that did not make the final cut.

These represent years of searching the internet for the very best midis, as well as blatantly ripping off the most intoxicating pop hits of the 20th Century. Star Quest deals with complicated ideas of paramount importance; the unnecessarily epic music, therefore, is fitting.

I didn't create any of these songs, but a lot of other people did. I wish I knew who made these midis. I can't even identify some of the songs (ao.mid for example), I've just had the files for 10 years. Some of them I downloaded off of webpages in the late 90s, when people often played them on websites (early html was highly functional with embedding and playing midis!).

No infringement is intended, and this download is intended for scholarly use only. The entire enterprise is not-for-profit, including this website, so don't sue me.

DOWNLOAD STAR TRACKS: THE STAR QUEST SOUNDTRACK (under 4 Megs)

The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Epic Mural

The Legend of Zelda turned 25 on Sunday, and I didn't really have anything to post.

Then I found this on the internet. A huge painting of all the Zelda characters done in a Renaissance style. It's simply amazing. I'm not sure who painted it, but I bet they beat the Second Quest.

8-Bit City has a long history of Zelda-related articles. You should probably check out these other posts:

An awesome 1 and 2 Easter Egg that went overlooked for nearly 2 decades!

A detailed examination on the influence of Adventure 2600 on The Legend of Zelda.

And a look inside the first edition of Nintendo Power.

STAR QUEST WALKTHROUGH AND TREE DUNGEON SOLUTION

Click the image to see the map of the first dungeon and an incomplete world map (from an early build of Star Quest, crazy!).

The is the Star Quest Walkthrough!

Many people have emailed with Star Quest's first dungeon. How do I beat the first dungeon? How do I solve the first dungeon in Star Quest? How can people google search for this post? Quite easily, although redundancy threatens to destroy any positive message herein conveyed.

1. Mini Walkthrough

Check the above image. Princess is being held in room with the blue dot. You need to walk around the area marked with white dots to chase away the spiders. Quarters are strewn about. Taking a KillPill after rescuing the Princess is the smart thing to do, or you can chase the spiders away by walking around the room at the bottom.

After you save Princess, go into the other door in the tree and defeat Ax Man.

Now you can explore the entire world.

In order to access Skull Castle you need to:
-Rescue the King from the Gold Castle
-Defeat the Carpenter Bee
-Rescue Lobtron from the Lava Castle
-Defeat the Computer Monster

The entrance to the Carpenter Bee Boss fight is blocked by a red soldier on the island until you rescue the King. Use the friendly robots to block the evil Fish Man from killing you. Make sure to save before entering.

Rinse, repeat with Lobtron and the Computer Monster.

Enter Skull Castle and defeat the Scientist.

Find the Library, where the end of the story is revealed in full.


2. ABOUT THE ARCADES

You need a quarter to play a game! You can find some around the world, and even in a few arcade machines!

You will gain access to more arcade machines after you clear the Tree Dungeon. Every game has a unique item that you can earn by finding a secret room, completing a quest for an NPC, beating a skill-based game, solving a mystery, and other adventures. These items will help you during the Final Battle, and other actions throughout the game will also have an effect.

The arcades also function as gateways... clearly something strange is going on with these things. What is the arcade back alley? How does space function in such a weird way? Are the games real places?

Certain items may unlock doors in the Arcade Back Alley. Completely arcade games and progressing through the dungeons will unlock more arcades in the back alley. Not every machine unlocks an arcade.

Every time you beat a game, however,

Look for secret exits in Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man.

There are many, many arcades and many different machines. Some machines are very rare (like the legendary fantasy hit "Solar Adventure").


3. The Secret That Will Blow Your Mind

There is a secret door in the Spaceship Grotto... your ship contains many ancient secrets and phenomena.

Play The Great Gastby 8-Bit NES Game Online

Classic literature takes the internet gaming scene by storm!

Witness the tragic tale of the horrors of the American Dream, now in 8-Bit.

Supposedly, some guy found a cart entitled "Doki Doki Toshokan: Gatsby no Monogatari." It appears to be an unrleased prototype, and, thankfully, the guy released it to the internet. However, looking over their site it became perfectly clear that the game was merely created in NES-style. There was no Gatsby Cart, but the game has been released under the GNU General Public Liscene.

Visit http://greatgatsbygame.com/ to play through the adventures of Nick Carroway in 8-Bit glory. They also have some cool manual scans and ads for the game, made to look like NES ads circa 1990.

Everything is presented really well with text, NPCs, and bosses from the novel.

Only 4 levels (and the 4th is a joke) so this shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to demolish. I enjoy it, but would have prefered more of the story to be rendered in full.

Mutant Warzone OST - "The World Is Mad and So Am I"

The 4th song I composed for the Mutant Warzone OST.

Written on guitar and keyboard, compiled in Fruity Loops 9.

I wanted the player to be encouraged to explore because of the guitar. The beat won't stop, and the player's going to need that to destroy the added zombies in fast mode.