/vr/ - Retro Games

Just looked this p.o.s. up, supposedly it was "well loved" in its community. I suppose that's somewhat credible, seeing as it had a random port onto the gameboy many years after its release. But I always hated this crap.

As a 9 year old, I wanted a game that was fun and snappy, so this was consequently the most horrible game in my collection. I'm not prejudiced against the genre either, I even had an unusual patience for adventure games at that age. But this shit was un-intuitive, unfathomable, and so obtuse that it was abjectly miserable. I could never figure out what in the fuck you were supposed to do, and never got more than a few screens in to the game before dying or being stuck.

What makes the memory even more sour is how close I came to getting a really cool different game, but ended up with this. My elementary school had a "toy swap" event day, where you could bring in toys and games that you didn't want, and could trade with other kids in class. There was this poor black girl in my class who was kind of retarded, but somehow she had this really badass gameboy (possibly gbc) game.

You controlled a gundam-esque robot, in a side scroller where you shot and destroyed other robots with missiles and I think even swords. IIRC for the time it was pretty standard gameplay, but for me it was the coolest shit I had ever seen.

The most popular kid in our class managed to trade some worthless pokemon card to the girl for it, which was a terrible trade for her, but she accepted. She was probably was just happy for the association to him.

She had one other gb game, Shadowgate, so I traded for it, so I could at least get ANY game. I really wish I knew what the robot game was. I haven't been able to figure it out in 20+ years.

Anyway. Fuck you, Christian, you didn't even need the robot game, you had so many gameboy games already. And fuck Shadowgate