In Which Ian Reminisces, Non-sequiturily.
Saturday, July 26th, 2008
This is amazing. Where did this game come from? What happened to my platformers?
We’ve just dug up an old Genesis game from 1993 that I wish I’d knew existed way back then. Hell, I wish I’d had faith in the Genesis back then. I was an old Nintendo-tard for so long, it’s amazing. Now, I look back and almost feel ashamed I wasn’t more a part of Sega’s console years.
The game we’ve found is called “Rocket Knight Adventures”. It stars a possum – a POSSUM, damnit – that flies around with a jetpack and goggles, has a sword, and hangs from things by his tail. This game is absurd, how detailed it is. I didn’t get very far in the game (my first attempt, I ventured through to stage 2, and died in the mining cart section) and yet I was still laughing and pointing out various things. I’d already hung by my tail in the background of a stage, put goggles on to fly a jetpack at a robotic water dragon, fought a spinning pig tank in a river, and ricocheted off walls inside a burning castle. In two incredibly difficult, but still grippingly fun stages.