Mark, Kelly and I are over
at JeffK's house playing Dreamcast games. They start with this fishing game
(fishing game? Like that would make an interesting video
game?) and they keep pestering me to play.
I refuse. “I just want a simple shoot-em-up game,” I said.
“Well, I have this one shoot-em-up game,” said JeffK.
“But it's nearly impossible to play.”
“Let's see it.”
JeffK loads the game. No idea what it's called, since it's all in
Japanese, but it's this wierd overhead scrolling shoot-em-up game where a
bazillion objects, enemies, bullets, lasers, power-ups, shields, explosions,
the background, are all moving in six different directions at once and it's
impossible to actually be anywhere on the screen for more than a
second without being killed and we're all wondering This is a game that
can actually be played?
We then moved on to a taxi-cab driving game.
And I thought Burger Time was a bizarre game.
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