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Actually, they poke fun at a lot of things, such as (like you said) super heroes, movies, and other stuff. There's one part in the game, when you're in the sewers, and you see a pizza delivery guy running around looking for someone who ordered a pizza; it's a reference to TMNT, and if you examine the big rats running around in the sewers, Nightshade puts out another TMNT joke: "Abnormal Irradiated Samurai Rats!" Check out this link for even more puns and references from the game; there's tons of them. 

Probably. It's that strange kind of humor that can be "oh, really?" or just plain hilarious. 

Absolutely, poor Lampshade, er, Nightcart, no that's not it. "Nightshade!" Oh, right. 

No problem. Thank you. It's a lot like Maniac Mansion in the fact that you go around and investigate areas, but then it throws in the combat too. 

That's probably a pretty good comparison. It's definitely a hybrid game that has a lot of different things in it. 

The trombone is definitely the best part, mainly because it almost doesn't fit in with the rest of the instruments, yet it works! The guitar takes off and does its worst, then the whole song calms down, and the trombone comes in carrying the melody. That's awesome! 

I grew up more on the SNES, but I'm trying to get more into NES games (and I do own the system). I'll give it a try, but I imagine I'll do pretty bad. 

No kidding! Sonic games these days are hit and miss. I'm afraid if Ristar did come back in a new game, it might be awful. 

Yeah, the grabbing mechanic is cool and it works well. I hope you get the chance to play it; it's a lot of fun. 

As far as point and click games go, I loved the Phoenix Wright games, which were part point and click, part puzzle, part awesome! The stories were deep and intriguing, and those are really the only point and click mystery type games I ever got into. But good mystery stories, like this one, always intrigue me.