Happy weekend gamers.
I thoroughly enjoyed my delve into the archives last blog where we looked at Indiana Jones on the Amiga/Atari from the early 90's, very early in fact. Since then i have started a full play through to play it once again from start to finish.
This week venture has fast forwarded us in time, not by much but still within the realms of nostalgia gaming and definitely retro. Again using the random game generator website, Nintendo 64 and adventure were punched in and a total of 8 games were up for discussion. We had a few to choose from, some perhaps a bit too easy (Goldeneye, Zelda Majora's mask, Wave race 64, 1080 snowboarding and Starfox) all on their day worthy of discussion that's for sure and to be honest Goldeneye would perhaps be a 2 part offering such is the respect i hold for it, definitely a discussion for another day.
There was one game that stood out for me this time, mainly because most will know it but may have forgotten about it really, that was a first person shooter offering from two of our most famous cartoon creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, you have no doubt guessed it by now....South Park. Released in 1999 in Europe on the Nintendo 64, we found ourselves being able to chose from 1 of 4 protagonists those 4 obviously being Stan, Kyle, Cartman and everyone's favourite mumble king Kenny. It would be easy to start thinking negatively about this offering i mean it received a harsh bunch of scores by gaming writers and critics and first impressions to me back then at 17 years old, was that it felt light, and what i mean by that is the graphics felt lazy, and there were lots of open space, but the more i think about it now it matched the tv show for what it was at that time, i mean if we look at every animated series from mid to late 90's to now, even the beginning of the 90's with the Simpsons there has been a massive upgrade in amination tech and end product, so much so if we take South Parks most up to date offerings in the Stick of Truth and the Fractured But hole we see the difference, granted gaming tech is far greater but still.
So yeah playing as one of 4 of our residents of the sleepy town we battle through levels of those thanksgiving turkeys to cloned townsfolk all with the premise of a incoming comet to earth. The weapon and targeting system was definitely easy to use, the most basic weapon of choice being a snowball (or a yellow one for better damage 😂)
So yes to cut a long story short, clear levels use your array of humorous weaponry and save the day, all done with the quips that we are accustomed to from the tv show.
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| Our favourite foul mouth Eric Cartman |
For honesty I never did own the game, one of those titles i rented from my local blockbuster (a simple time) Who didn't love Blockbuster. That last statement probably leads you to my opinion on the game....and you would be correct, I mean I was a fan of the TV show back then and to a point there is still a place in the modern world for the cartoon as the style of writing we get from Matt & Trey means it will always be topical as lets face it no one and no topic is safe really.
If you decide to play this you will definitely get a few laugh's from it, it may well stir up a few early South Park memories and emotions, will it be a staple in your gaming collection...perhaps not, unless its unsealed for appreciation related stuff.
I have this title on the retrogame box so for old time sake i may well boot it up for an hour and see how it holds up but id guess that would be about it. Not every offering will be a positive one i guess but the game served a purpose to me, i mean it made me reflect on what was going on in 1999 so not all bad.
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Enjoy the remainder of your weekend everyone and thank you for reading.
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