Saturday, March 5, 2011

Missile Command for the Gameboy

Not able to confirm that that man's face is supposed to look like that.
Missile Command was apparently another popular arcade game and the only reason you should care is because it was in Terminator 2 when John Conner is seen playing it in the mall.  Speaking of which it's about time I let you down easy.  You will never go the the arcade with friends after school eat pizza and drink chug-a-freezes via The Weekenders.

Cairo ... Obviously
The Game Boy game features portability as it's only "new thing" to offer.  I got very bored very fast even though I wanted to respect the origins of this game.  As the levels change the backgrounds change.  I know it seems simple but this was literally my favorite part of this game.  Creating the pixelated backgrounds seems like it must have taken a little bit of effort as opposed to the game play which feels like an action figure whose mouth was painted too big because the assembly line was moving too quickly.

Everytime I pick this up I miss my old transparent purple.  If you had anthing else your parents didn't love you.
New York City was represented by a crooked Statue of Liberty and skyscrapers and London had that weird bridge thing.  and of course Paris had a sweet view of the Eiffel Tower but alas I will never know how Moscow was represented due to my inability to force myself to be decent at this game if you call it that.  Another thing is that this games high score board was broken just like Tetris's.  I wonder if this is due to the age of this generation of game.  If you'd like to see the first half of the game beaten rather well here is a link. I played on my sweet pink GBC.

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