A Nightmare on Elm Street (video game)
Encyclopedia
Nightmare On Elm Street is a video game for use on the Nintendo Entertainment System
and loosely based on the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. It was developed by UK-based video game company Rare and published created by LJN
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or NES Four Score
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The game is a side-scrolling platform game in which the player fights his way through different parts of Elm Street (houses, junk yard, etc.). You fight enemies such as snakes and bats outside of houses and ghosts and other creatures inside.
The game consists of a sleep meter that goes down slowly as the player progresses through the level, or if the player stands still. The sleep meter also goes down when the player takes damage . When your sleep meter runs out, you fall asleep and the screen colors change to darker colors and the enemies change and become harder to defeat. Scattered throughout the game there are dream tokens that allow the player to change in dream characters with special abilities . You can boost your sleep meter by getting cups of coffee scattered throughout buildings and wake up by finding a boombox.
Through out the levels, you collect Freddy Krueger
's bones to throw into a furnace at the end, and before beating each level, you must face a boss, which is a different part of Freddie's body, such as his glove or his head. Bosses include a giant Freddy glove with a long chain arm, A chomping Freddy head on a long chain neck, a floating Freddy hand and head, a bat with a vampire head, a ghost with a Freddy head, and Freddy Kruger himself. Defeated bosses leave behind a key. Touch it and your transported back onto Elm Street
Teenager:
Control Pad - (Left/Right) Move character,
Control Pad - (Up) Enter buildings,
Control Pad - (Down) Duck,
A Button - Jump,
B Button - Punch,
Select - N/A,
Start - Pause
Nintendo Entertainment System
The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987...
and loosely based on the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. It was developed by UK-based video game company Rare and published created by LJN
LJN
LJN was an American toy company and video game publisher. It created toy lines and video games based on movies, television shows, and celebrities. It was headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and later in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.-Founding:...
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Gameplay
The game can be played by up to four players, either using the NES SatelliteNES Satellite
The NES Satellite is a Nintendo Entertainment System accessory created by Nintendo, and released in 1989.The Satellite allows up to four players to play the NES anywhere in the room without the necessity of wires running from the NES to the players' controllers. To use, a small infrared receiver...
or NES Four Score
NES Four Score
The NES Four Score is an accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System created by Nintendo. It allows four-player gameplay on games that supported it. The Four Score was released in 1990....
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The game is a side-scrolling platform game in which the player fights his way through different parts of Elm Street (houses, junk yard, etc.). You fight enemies such as snakes and bats outside of houses and ghosts and other creatures inside.
The game consists of a sleep meter that goes down slowly as the player progresses through the level, or if the player stands still. The sleep meter also goes down when the player takes damage . When your sleep meter runs out, you fall asleep and the screen colors change to darker colors and the enemies change and become harder to defeat. Scattered throughout the game there are dream tokens that allow the player to change in dream characters with special abilities . You can boost your sleep meter by getting cups of coffee scattered throughout buildings and wake up by finding a boombox.
Through out the levels, you collect Freddy Krueger
Freddy Krueger
Frederick Charles "Freddy" Krueger is a fictional, horrifying character from the Nightmare on Elm Street series of horror films. He first appears in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street as a disfigured dream stalker who uses a glove armed with razors to kill his victims in their dreams,...
's bones to throw into a furnace at the end, and before beating each level, you must face a boss, which is a different part of Freddie's body, such as his glove or his head. Bosses include a giant Freddy glove with a long chain arm, A chomping Freddy head on a long chain neck, a floating Freddy hand and head, a bat with a vampire head, a ghost with a Freddy head, and Freddy Kruger himself. Defeated bosses leave behind a key. Touch it and your transported back onto Elm Street
Controls
Controls vary between the teenager character and the dream characters in the game. For example, one of the dream character has the ability to shoot projectiles and perform a higher jump .Teenager:
Control Pad - (Left/Right) Move character,
Control Pad - (Up) Enter buildings,
Control Pad - (Down) Duck,
A Button - Jump,
B Button - Punch,
Select - N/A,
Start - Pause