![]() Things are different indoors, but don‘t think you‘re safe from insane animals. ![]() Sometimes they are placed strategically, so they blend in with the background somewhat. I can remember getting really hung up on finding the last bone in certain places. A bone counter keeps track of how many bones you have left to find in each stage. Once you enter a stage, you cannot leave until all of the bones are found. However, you only have the key to one stage at a time. Bones are scattered throughout each stage on Elm Street. None of Freddy’s remains can be found on the street. We’ll refer to the locations as stages, because that’s essentially what they are. The outside street area is really just an overworld where you can access all the different locations of Elm Street. Damn… They’ve got some problems.Įven bats will get in on the fun by trying to drop little rocks on your head.Įlm Street is lined with locations for you to explore, such as various houses, a junkyard, a cemetery, etc. So on top of a burnt lunatic terrorizing and murdering teens in their sleep, there's an animal control crisis and a meteorite problem in the town of Springwood. Another constant threat is giant rocks raining down on you. Apparently most of Freddy’s cohorts are a bunch of renegade animals from the local pet store. Such as Frankenstein monsters, bats, rats, and snakes. You walk up and down the street, encountering many of the stereotypical things that go bump in the night. Easier said than done, but I’ll get into that later. Of course amidst all of this, you have to try and stay awake to keep Freddy from entering your dreams. You control a teenage boy, who’s objective is to search Elm Street and collect all of Freddy’s remains, so you can burn them in the furnace at the high school and destroy Freddy once and for all. True story.Īnyway, A Nightmare on Elm Street begins on, well, Elm Street. The reason for this tangent is because A Nightmare on Elm Street may have salvaged my early gaming career from permanent demoralization at the hands of Ghosts ‘n Goblins. The scales are so tilted against you, that it’s more an exercise in frustration and masochism than it is a source of entertainment and fulfillment. Cheap is a more apt description of Ghost ’n Goblins. I don’t even like to use the word challenging, since to me, challenging infers that something is at least semi possible. Just about every game is difficult when you’re 4 years old, but I think we can all agree that Ghost ’n Goblins is no parallel to A Nightmare on Elm Street in terms of challenge. To get my survival/horror fix, I no longer needed to bother with Ghost’s ’n Goblins, as a less punishing alternative was now available to me. Upon discovering A Nightmare on Elm Street, it was at this moment that the Ghosts ‘n Goblins cartridge started collecting dust.
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