I played this well into the night of Christmas Eve, into the early morning of Christmas itself many years ago. I was too anxious to sleep since Santa Claus was on his way, so I opted to venture into the living room in the dead of the night while everyone else was asleep. I had just recently bought and installed Beat Hazard and decided to have a go at it. In what seemed like five or so minutes, I was hooked like I was on drugs, this game is like a combination of LSD, Cannabis, the Magic Mushrooms and all that hippy stuff that makes you see the purple rhinoceros.

Eventually, the computer crashed since it was a piece of junk, and I continued staring at the screen for several minutes. Just staring at the pitch black monitor. I finally came to and looked at the clock hanging on the wall. It was 5 o'clock. I had just experience what was perhaps the most intense, colourful and psychologically damaging ecstasy ride I might ever feel in my lifetime.

When you play this game, you don't blink, you don't breathe, you don't do anything but watch, play and think of nothing. Your soul is absorbed into the monitor as it displays the flashing lights of hypnotism that is Beat Hazard and just when you think it couldn't get any trippier than that, you realise the light intensity goes past 100%.

If I had to make any critical points against this game, it would be that there was no evil mastermind attempting to control the world through the amazingly vivid colours that this game shoves into your brain.

*Caution: This game contains the side effects of fur growth on the eyeballs, misplaced eyebrows and occasional brain-freezes. Please consult a doctor if you do not experience any of these symptoms as you may be playing the wrong game.*

10/10
Better than bacon.