It was impossible not to be completely and utterly charmed by the suicidal, green-haired vermin.Īgain, I first played it on someone else’s computer. The first puzzle game I ever became addicted to. I seemed to have an innate ability to build the best traps in that game and it’s one of the few titles that I have ever become such an expert at that no one wanted to play against me. It was one of the first simultaneous 2 player games I’d ever experienced and is what introduced me to the sheer and utter delight of being a sneaky, conniving bastard. The loser is left to fry in the lava of the soon-to-erupt volcano. The first to collect all 3 parts of a nuclear missile and reach the safety of a submarine just off-shore is the winner. All it was to me was a thrilling premise: two rival spies are parachuted onto an island. I’d never heard of either MAD magazine of the Spy vs Spy cartoon strip on which the game was based. I never actually owned an original until fairly recently, when I picked one up off EBay for the sake of sentimentality. The first copy of SvS2 I played was such a tape. This meant that for every one authentic copy of a game, there were probably a hundred dodgy knock-offs being shared around the playground. Back in the 80s, there was still a fair bit of mystique to the eastern martial arts….and there were Ninja Turtles on the telly….as such, anything with “Ninja” in the title was coveted by the kiddies, myself included.īack in the days when games came on cassette, all you needed to make a pirate copy was a half decent, 2-deck tape-player. I seem to remember seeing it at a friend’s house first, but I never really got the chance to spend time navigating the isometric world of the titular Ninja until my mum picked up a 6 pack of C64 games at a market. I was somewhere between 7 and 9 when I first played this. My top 20 fave games, listed in the order they were played, not of quality (they're ALL must-play as far as I'm concerned). Time to revive this blog with an uber-post :) Our fond memories of 80s franchises are being crapped on one by one, it seems.
"I am the true villain! Oh no I've been caught" is a poor way to end a film. His implied bad-assness gets restored for a brief few seconds at the end with the line "You will call me Commander!", and a shot of the Cobra logo on a submarine, backed by some fittingly menacing music.īut five seconds later, he's been captured by the good guys and clapped in irons, putting him back into the "crap villains" column. That image gets shattered when his origin is releaved. He starts out as a, really rather cool, mad scientist. My biggest gripe, however, is the redesign and generally unintimidating personality of Cobra Commander.
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It's mediocre at best, filled with lots of big explosions and a never-ending series of flashbacks. Both the Transformer films (if we're really honest with ourselves) were duds, so it stood to reason that another flick based on a toy-line would follow suit. Skip forward 20 years and I purchase my ticket to see the movie, knowing fine well that it's probably going to be crap. I think I still have my Cobra Commander figure kicking around somewhere. One of my most memorable Christmas prezzies was a G.I.Joe jeep with a missile battery on its back and a sweet tiger-camo paint-job. They were big f**king ants) across which my little action figures to shoot the sh*t out of each other. The back yard became a huge battle-field, with jungles, deserts and over-sized ants (I grew up in Australia.
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