Happy Friday the 13th! Destroy Jason ... if you can!

i'member playing it on the nes and walking through the forest and outta nowhere jason came up and killed your ass. i do remember playing at night and he come up this music would play and i got scurred!!

I used to enjoy playing this NES game.

I got this game for my, I guess, 8th birthday. I hated it, but I played it a lot anyway. That seems to be true of most of my NES games... Bayou Billy... Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle... Operation Wolf...

It's also the only game my fiancee claims to have ever beaten. I think she's a damned liar.

Yay for Friday the 13th! It is my TWENTYFIRST birthday today :)

I thought Jason only killed you after ignoring obvious sounds that someone else was in the room and had sex with your girlfriend for the first time.

I think it was that "Chi chi chi ka ka ka" sound track that made him so angry in the first place.

wow. Talk about a repressed memory.

I got this game when I was eight. Scared the bajeezus out of me. I had forgotten all about it until just now.

Thanks for the nostalgia. I need my blankey now.

I've actually beat this game before. My sister gave it to me as a gag christmas gift in 1998 and me and a couple of friends stayed up all night to get through it. After how insanely difficult it is, the ending is terribly unsatisfying. If I recall correctly it just uses the "cut scene" from the intro with the knife going into the mask again...I think.

oh man operation wolf. that fucking game drove crazy. but i still played it. crazy it did!!!!!11one!. oh man its all coming back to me. 'member cool spot, on genesis, that was a fun game. oh man to be young again!

oh and happy birthday booxatron, someone getting drunk tonight. hope you get laid:)

peace

Back in my day, we played Friday the 13th on NES and LIKED IT!


(really, we did.)

Yeah, I had this game and enjoyed it....but then again, I also owned Mighty Bomb Jack.

I remember seeing all sorts of cool screenshots for this game around when it came out... Jason's mother's floating head, Jason being fought by a pitchfork wielding teen....

Yeah, I never got to do any of that.

My experience with the game consisted of me running around aimlessly throwing rocks like an idiot. Then I'd enter a house, run into Jason, and get my ass handed to me.

Good times!!

This game sucked...the completely arbitrary weapon gathering, the race to save the kiddies on the lake, the meaningless 8 counselors...

"I used to enjoy playing this NES game."

So did I. It's pretty pathetic to have become a jaded gamer in the freakin' NES era.

Whatever, the Friday the 13th for the Commodore 64 "pwned". It was much better than the NES game, and Jason was just a skinny non-hockey-mask-havin' white-guy in a black suit! But you wielded knives, axes, swords, pitch forks...etc...

Oh, the 16 colors of gore...it was too much to bear!

that game was the bane of the 8th year of my life.

I can't sit back and watch people half assedly bash this classic game! Of course it didn't have the production values of many of its contemporaries, but let's be realistic - this was an LJN game! But in terms of pure design, it was amazing. Really. Multiple weapons, characters, (with unique attributes), day to night transitions, (which actually affected the gameplay), optional side quests, (destroy the floating disembodied head of Jason's mother!), outdoor/indoor exploration, the rowboat to the kid's cabins at the center of camp Crystal Lake, the creeeepy music, and best of all the shocking surprise Jason attacks! This was one of the first true survival horror games, complete with many features which would later define the genre, including weapon and health conservation, complex map navigation, and real scares that made my blood go cold on more than one occasion.
Sure it was tough, but anyone who could get through Ninja Gaiden or Blaster Master could make it through the three days of terror Jason unleashed. A few years ago I went back to it to see if it was all I remembered it to be, and could not stop playing until I'd beaten it again. Ahead of its time.

Oh and SuicideNInja,
I remember the C64 game too! Great in different ways, but I'd still take the NES version any day!

lol ... F13 THE GAME ... lol, great stuff! Don't have a link, but there was a flash parody done by a guy awhile back involving the game, characters watching porno ... then dieing ... duke nukem shows up ...

Damn now that were talking old school, sup with KID ICARUS??? Man I hate to admit I loved that game.

I played this game and beated it, only killed jason's mother once, but it was indeed hard, but couldn't make a perfect game, always lost someone...
and what when you enter a cabin where you know Jason is... and you see the kids and maybe Jason is just behind you? and when you are walking and zombies start dissapearing? Jason's coming! and if you beat him in the lagoon cabin and left the cabin fast, he appears again in the lake and take a lot of your life...

HEY! That flash parody I made! =)

http://www.joeshomepage.com/entertainment/flash/car-friday13th.html