/vr/ - Retro Games

Actually overrated game coming through. Driller got OoT levels of reviews when it came out, solely because it brought open-world 3D gameplay to home computers like the C64 and Spectrum. Reviewers defended this with:

>it doesn't matter if the game's an unfairly difficult pixel hunt, when you can ignore the gameplay and enjoy the mind-blowing 3D scenery

The actual gameplay involves you placing 18 drills on the surface of an alien moon. Except for the first, the game doesn't tell you or hint where to place them. If you place them in the wrong spot more than once, you have to restart because you wasted energy, which is a limited resource. Sometimes you need to walk off the edge of the map to proceed, but on most levels, doing so will kill you. Through all of this, you're traveling at 0.5-5fps (depending on your computer).

Fuck Driller.