Forum Overview :: Retrobooster
 
Moonrogue was correct by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/23/2014, 10:00pm PDT
I had ten minutes today. Ten minutes of not getting blamed for what the pets did, of not screaming at the maps app on my latest awful phone, of not finding myself trapped in a conversation with Cindy and Malloc Grunderson about the risque nature of TV these days, of not buying the wrong hex driver for the motorcycle.

I decided to take those 10 minutes, the only ten minutes I had today, and play Retrobooster.

Finding myself in a gorgeous alien world, I was able to try to lift and not squash little Choplifter! dudes while a collection of alien lifeforms got the ass-kicking they so richly deserved. The game's writing is beautifully integrated within the actual game world, thus offering me the first unique gameplay decision I've to make in... god, in years: whether to READ or SHOOT. At the end, everything blew up nicely. Lookit that mess of fire, metal and brimstone down there in the screenshot. Ha!

Ha ha!

Moonrogue is correct. Gravitron 2, our previous deepest love in the PC arcade genre, simply does a different thing. I... I see that now. I understand. We can respect its legacy while acknowledging Retrobooster as the new high score in the field.

While my initial goal at the end of the night was to fling myself in front of the tram with ChainGangGuy's unopened mail so gang activity would get blamed -- thus ending this proxy hell once and for all -- Retrobooster turned good into bad, up into down and admittedly a few walking humans into squished ones. It left me with the thought of actually getting a positive score instead of the negative one depicted in the screenshots. I once again crave something other than a dank, quiet oblivion.

It was a good day





the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!
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This is still the best arcade game on the PC. by Moonrogue 07/21/2014, 9:22am PDT NEW
    Better than Gravitron 2?? NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/21/2014, 10:18pm PDT NEW
        Yes. (But just barely. I forgot how great G2 is.) NT by Moonrogue 07/22/2014, 3:51am PDT NEW
            Let me expound on this opinion. by Moonrogue 07/22/2014, 4:14am PDT NEW
    Re: This is still the best arcade game on the PC. by mogumbo 07/22/2014, 9:40pm PDT NEW
        Re: This is still the best arcade game on the PC. by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/23/2014, 8:42am PDT NEW
            Re: This is still the best arcade game on the PC. by mogumbo 07/23/2014, 10:29am PDT NEW
    Moonrogue was correct by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/23/2014, 10:00pm PDT NEW
        Re: Moonrogue was correct by mogumbo 07/24/2014, 4:42pm PDT NEW
    I bought it, been playing it with me ol ps2 controller. Great game, very slick! NT by Eurotrash 07/27/2014, 2:03am PDT NEW
 
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