Alright, here's a review for Karnov on the NES, I'm just JUMPING for joy. Well, the box says "KARNOV, the fire-breathing Russian, is seeking the Lost Treasure of Babylon. He runs, swims, jumps, climbs and flies through nine levels of game play". Sounds simple enough, let's start. After hitting start, Karnov is sent flying to the ground on a... lightning bolt? What the...? Okay, I won't question it. Now, the main controls are jumping and shooting projectiles that look like your own skin. OH wait! He's supposed to be a fire-breathing Russian! He certainly looks like the stereotypical tough Russian guy, with the mustache, the big, bulging muscles, and a bald head. And I guess he's breathing fireballs. The main goal of the game, it seems, is to collect items and get through the level. There are objects such as K's that give you points, bombs that... I don't know what they do (I guess they're a special attack?), and ladder icons that allow you to shoot two projectiles. I don't understand... why does a ladder icon make you shoot two fireballs as opposed to one? And why is it that if he collects K's, he gets points? Since my name starts with M, if I was walking down the street, and I saw a letter M and picked it up, I'd gain imaginary "points"? Well, I won't argue with gaming logic. Most of the enemies are weird rock-monster-looking-guys that throw boulders and shiver as if they're cold, imps, and at one point I swear two soldiers wearing green came from underground and attacked me with swords. If you get hit by any of these numbskulls once, you turn blue, and so do your projectiles. Two hits and you're dead, by the way. But you can save yourself, for if you see a little orange orb in the air and you touch it, you'll turn orange again and you can survive until you're hit twice again. The controls aren't that bad, I mean, they're all responsive, the physics are fine, not much to complain about. It's kind of hard, I couldn't get past the first level, but maybe I just suck at these side-scrolling shooters. So, seven on difficulty. The story, what little there is, is pretty generic. Trying to find the mysterious Lost Treasure, ooh boy, how exciting. Four for the story. The game is a nice length, with nine levels, but the game is basically the same thing throughout, go shoot enemies and get objects. The game doesn't have much for you to do, and most NES gamers will be able to finish it pretty quickly. The depth of the game is a six. Addictiveness isn't very high. I probably won't play this game again for awhile, because it's simply not fun enough for me. I think I'll give the addictiveness a rating of five. The sound and graphics are nice. The music's not bad, the sound effects are fine, Karnov looks well-done, with nice detail. (One funny thing about the music, the game over music is not fitting at all. It's a nice, upbeat, happy tune. It's like "Yay, I died! That game was so horrible I wanted to die!") Seven each for graphics and sound. My overall rating of this not-so-great classic is a 6.3. If you want to waste time on a rainy day and there's nothing else to do for a few hours, it's one of the games that could entertain you for a bit before you put it on your shelf and forget about it.