Here is an NES game that a lot of people probably don’t know about. Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum, released for the NES in 1990 by Data East, is an action-platform game with some puzzle elements to it.
Object of the game: Guide Dash Galaxy through an alien world where the levels are divided into several sub-stages per level. The goal is to reach the top of the asylum. In order to access some of the levels, Dash has to use his puzzle solving skills and move blocks out of the way and destroy force fields that sometimes get in the way. The stages are numbered and if you manage to cover the numbers on the stage with blocks, a special bonus level will open up where you can collect bonus items, including extra lives.
In the sub-stages, the player controls Dash as he searches the levels for switches in order to open the door to complete the stage. This is no cakewalk as there are alien enemies and tricky jumps to prevent you from achieving your goal. You must dodge all of the enemies since Dash doesn’t have weapons to fight them (well, you can collect and use bombs, but if you’re in the vicinity of the blast, it will kill you!!!) And you must complete the stages/levels before your oxygen life bar runs out! Besides switches to collect to complete the stage, you also collect stars which can grant you temporary invincibility if enough are collected as well as oxygen flasks to refill your life bar, hearts, which grants extra lives and question mark icons that allows Dash to skip levels if he finds the hidden door in the stage he collects it.
Interesting but fun game even though it doesn’t have the best graphics, music or gameplay.
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