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The Daily Sun needs delivering. The job demands a brave lad to tackle this treacherous paper round. This street is so dangerous, it makes headline news when you successfully finish a weeks paper round!

I televisori a tubo catodico hanno molti vantaggi rispetto ai display moderni quando si tratta di giochi retro, ma la capacità di giocare con le light-gun è forse la più ovvia. Le light gun funzionano manipolando la frequenza di scansione di un televisore CRT. Wild Gunman ha un bersaglio sullo schermo. Quando si preme il grilletto, lo schermo lampeggia brevemente. Se la mira è corretta, si colpisce il bersaglio. Non esiste una frequenza di scansione per un televisore a schermo piatto, quindi il gioco non è in grado di sapere dove avete puntato lo schermo, ergo lo mancherete sempre.

Anyway Atari decided to turn the popular game into a video-game. Ironically the game turned out about as mysterious to me as the real thing! Marble Madness, has this strange allure to it that is hard to describe. When put into words, the concept of controlling a Marble across 7 different levels, avoid hazards and falling off edges doesn’t seem anything special, but when you play the game, its like there some deeper meaning lurking in there? Maybe its the somewhat m psychedelic level design? perhaps it’s the wonderfully bizarre music? Or perhaps it’s just the fact that I used to be very stoned when I played this one in my teens?

You have lightning fast kicks and punches, everything feels sharp and responsive but you only move on a 2 dimensional line. Enemies attack from ahead and behind. Most can be dispatched with one hit, but some are quipped with throwing knives or can flip around the screen. Simply being out numbered is your biggest concern, otherwise most enemies are easily dispatched!

Guided by a giant talking sunflower, Alfred the chicken must traverse 5 hazardous worlds and defeat an intergalactic hoard of Mecha-Chickens! Yawn it’s one of those games ?!?

I’m not gonna explain the rules, if you’re unsure why not ask Mario? He’s the umpire, looks like he may have eaten a few extra mushrooms as he’s looking a little porky even for him. Maybe he’s still coming down from his last shroom, hence why he keeps calling IN on some of shots that are clearly OUT. Oh well, I’m not gonna tell him he ‘cannot be serious’, he might have a Star in his pocket!

The NES has a wide library of racing games. Some go for the realistic driving sim others aim more at fantasy. Either way the most important thing is whether it’s fun! Thankfully Eliminator Boat Duel is packed full of charm and lots of fun to play.

For a film with only one game worthy transferable scene, it’s amazing they actually composed a NES game for Home Alone 2. The hotel level has more in common with the Overlook hotel from the Shining than it does with Home Alone 2.