Little Nemo: The Dream Master

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94K plays 1990 #Action#Platform

Little Nemo: The Dream Master is a 1990 platform game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is based on the 1989 animated film Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, which itself is based on the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay. The music was composed by Junko Tamiya, credited in the game as "Gonzou".

The game revolves around a young boy in his own surreal dreams as he journeys to Slumberland. Nemo can ride certain animals such as a frog, a gorilla, or a mole, by feeding them candy. Every animal has its own skills needed to complete each level. The purpose of the game is to travel to Nightmare land to rescue Morpheus, the king of Slumberland, from the clutches of the evil Nightmare King.

From Wikipedia's article Little Nemo: The Dream Master, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Keyboard controls

NESPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
BZN
AXM
SelectShiftB
StartEnterSpace

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

From the manual, page 5

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Keyboard controls

NESPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
BZN
AXM
SelectShiftB
StartEnterSpace

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

From the manual, page 5

Open the manual at page 5

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Pixel Verdict

Little Nemo: The Dream MasterNES

4.0 Great job!

Critics 81 · 11 reviews

What the reviews talk about

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What the critics said

  • Electronic Gaming Monthly's four reviewers described the game as "Rescue Rangers in a dream world" and praised its pastel-style graphics, concepts, gameplay, frenetic action and constant challenge.

    — Electronic Gaming Monthly, 1990

  • AllGame's Christian Huey regarded it as "a wonderfully creative side-scrolling platformer", praising the cartoonish graphics and "ethereal" music, though he noted that its gameplay was basic.

    — AllGame, 1998 (Christian Huey)

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Little Nemo: The Dream Master article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

Scores

  • AllGame 1998 4/5
  • Electronic Gaming Monthly 1990 7/10, 8/10, 7/10, 9/10
  • Famitsu 27/40
  • GamePro 23/25
  • HobbyConsolas 88/100
  • Player One 92%
  • Video Games (DE) 69%
  • Game Zone 87/100
  • Hippon Super! 1991 8/10
  • Mean Machines 79%
  • VideoGame 4/5

From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' archived average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.

Players' rating: 80/100 · 198 votes

Full reviews

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  1. 1.00+
  2. 1.540+
  3. 2.050+
  4. 2.560+
  5. 3.068+
  6. 3.575+
  7. 4.080+
  8. 4.585+
  9. 5.090+

5.0 Outstanding! · 4.0 Great job! · 3.0 Good job · 2.0 Could be better · 1.0 Wake me up when it's over · A thumbs-up adds half a point. Our own drawings, in the spirit of the faces GamePro magazine used in the '90s.

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