atari2600land's Blog - Scrapyard Dog

RSS Bot · September 9, 2008

This game had a good idea in mind, but finished with a very poor execution. Here are my gripes. First off, if you want to play the game, you have to go through about 3 or four screens, angrily pressing the A button to skip the story screens you've seen about 5 zillion times. Next, there's this point in the second level that is very difficult to pass. It involves a crane going up and down over a pit. If you touch either the crane or the pit, you die. And even if i get past that point, there's several more very tough areas in 1-2 of the game. Now, i don't want the game to be too easy, but save these parts for LATER IN THE GAME. People say that this was Atari's answer to Super Mario Bros. But there's one thing wrong with this comparison: I can beat level 1-2 of Super Mario Bros.! :thumbsdown: