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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2.4 hrs on record (1.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 4 Jun, 2014 @ 5:31am

The game is an old-school four colour CGA graphics platformer. It is also rendered in such a way that it simulates playing on an old CRT monitor. And then there is the crazy futuristic option of playing in the sixteen colour CGA mode!! Whaat?

Sorry, I'm overly excited because this game is epic! I mean, when I dowloaded it, I thought... I can't expect much from a free game, can I?

Boy... I didn't even realize how much I missed these old-school platformers with their monotone computer sounds, and their evil, unforgiving mechanics.

Basically you traverse numerous rooms, all connected, named differently, sometimes with a hint of what you should/shouldn't do, or a bit of sarcasm. You collect power-ups that in time will allow you to go further, higher, or deeper. You keep moving back and forth, through the same rooms, to check how your new found power-ups will help you to move forward.

Which is actually pretty horrible for me, since I have no sence of direction and spacial orientation. I keep getting lost, and forgetting where I'm supposed to go. And believe me. This game is difficult enough without a problem like that.

It is very challenging, you will get lost, you will die continuously (just because sometimes, you have to die to figure out what you should do), and sometimes you will scream out of frustration. There are areas where I died about 50 times before I could move a step forward... and then I would die anyway.

If you are curious what could kill you, there's spikes, and flames, and crabs, and jellyfish, and water, and loads more. Generally, most of the game can kill you, and will kill you at one point or another.

If you miss your old-school 8 bit platformers, with their old-school merciless nature, you should give "You have to win the game" a shot. Especially since it's free to play.

Also there's a cat mode.

And YOLO mode, that's also there.
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