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Message: [QUOTE="BitterEnd, post: 291441, member: 230413"] Probably my favorite bad game is... [ATTACH type="full" size="640x467"]99642[/ATTACH] As a kid, it fascinated me since as a rental game, it was pretty good back in the day. Wasn't as gripping as your Final Fantasies or your Mega Man Xs, but the world in the game was fun to explore and poke. The box art there looks worse than it is, the actual box had holographic 'turn it to see things happen' stuff of Pac running to the edge. Which might've been a part of the whole 'interactive cartoon' thing they advertise there too. As an adult, it [I]still[/I] fascinates me. It's a game of a genre you typically only saw on PC once or twice, but deeper. Everything you do in the game is fucking around and finding out, learning through trial and error until you get the answer and move forward. Or move somewhere else, there's a lot of environments and a lot of things to interact with and a lot of unique weird spritework that sometimes only shows up once? The game despite being kind of a shit game at the end of the day [I]reeks[/I] of effort and care, misguided though it sometimes was. It was an[I] experience.[/I] Not necessarily a deep one or anything, but it kind of makes me sad in a 'what does the alternate timeline look like' kind of way where more of these might've been made. Maybe there would've been a good one or two? Incidentally, there's an arcade in the town that you can go to and just play regular Pac-Man, and if you find a few things, you can also find Mrs. Pac-Man carts and go play that as well. Both of those are the first ports Pac-Man had on the SNES, until a couple years later I found out after a bit of research. There even exist romhack patches to just remove the entire rest of the game and just get those instances of Pac-Man and Mrs. Pacman. As a side note, the Genesis version of Pac-Man 2 had Pac-Man Jr. instead of Mrs. The same romhacks exist to surgically remove them. It's a very weird little bit of gaming history. Part of me loves it despite the goofy fuckup it is sometimes. And before I forget, several things I've said here may have been paraphrased from other retrospectives and reviews I've seen on the topic. I wanna talk about it, but I also don't wanna just... repackage the things people more talented than me have said on my first post. [/QUOTE]

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