TheLunarFox's Blog - That afternoon with Space Jockey

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This is still one of my most favorite games. I haven't heard very much about it, but I saw this review and pretty much figured that was sort of the general feeling about this one.

 

Even when I was a kid, this one gave me a bit of that young gamer's depression once I was old enough to shoot at things other than the hot air balloons and trees. But this was the game I really cut my teeth on. I dodged bullets to shoot at the non-shooting objects. Except for the houses-- that just didn't seem right, what if there were families in there?

 

And then there was that afternoon that I got it. You're flying an alien space ship on earth, tanks, planes, and helicopters are being thrown at you by the army. Even the hot air balloons are dangerous. They're out there trying to spot you, and if you don't take them down the army will see you coming.

 

That one afternoon, I sat down with my Pointmaster joystick (still my controller of choice to this day), and pretended...

 

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