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Prfnoff
Since: Jan, 2001
23rd Jan, 2016 08:33:22 AM
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gave the game's title as The Adventures of Mark Basehore.
So yeah, there was a time long ago when once in a while I bought these magazines that came with CD-RO Ms promising "hundreds of games you don't even need to install!", of course most of them were flash games (most either shitty or just minutes worth of meh gameplay) and other not made in flash but still following the same free scheme. Anyway, I'm trying to remember the name of this one, here are some things I can dig up from memory:
- It was not Flash, it was a distinct executable (maybe DOS? It was the time before you needed fucking emulation to even touch anything DOS)
- 2D sidescroller
- The graphics were pixelated-ish
- You play as this generic looking guy wearing a yellow shirt and jeans (maybe the title was his name?)
- First level is a forest
- There was a help screen explaining the player's moves and some flavor text about things
- Health pick-ups are stuff like soda and burritos
- And the final boss of said first stage is Darth Vader (not a Star Wars game, mind you, he just shows up out of nowhere for some reason), you get a lightsaber to fight him.
In hindsight it just sounds like some cheap thing made by someone for fun, but that fits the kinds of games those magazines had. It just came to my mind right now, would be cool to see it again since, while I still have the CD, age has got to it (also I don't even have a disk drive in my PC anymore). Edited by ElectricBoogaloo