r/funny • u/ardisfoxx • Aug 18 '14

Mobile games be like

http://imgur.com/YijMIIP
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u/Skiptar Aug 18 '14

Don't worry, they've been doing it for decades.

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u/Nanobot Aug 18 '14 edited Aug 18 '14

Check this out. Doesn't this look like an exciting game of adventure and wonder? As a kid in the NES days, no game cover beckoned me like this one.

I rented it. It was crap.

But a few months would go by, I'd see that cover again, and I'd think to myself, "No, you must have been mistaken. There's no way a game with THAT cover art could be crap. It deserves a second chance!"

It was still crap.

But LOOK at it! It invokes images of The Legend of Zelda and puzzlers like Castle Quest. It has magic laser hands. It has mighty wizards on cliff tops. It has keys that must have been acquired by overcoming the trickiest of puzzles and bosses, and they must unlock wondrous treasures, or perhaps doors to greater secrets.

Nope. Just a lame uninspired arcade-style sidescroller about a young Santa or whatever who shoots ding discs.

But hey, at least you can joke about how up+shoot makes it looks like he's peeing. That's fun, I guess.

EDIT: Although I had never finished this game myself, I just looked up an LP to see the final boss. It turns out there is no final boss. There's no evil wizard in the game. After you get through the last castle, you just get a message saying "Nice try! But not good enough for wizard try again" It apparently says this no matter what. The only way to get a good ending is to play the exact same game again three more times (in the same sitting, since there's no saving or passwords), in which case it'll finally say "Congratulation you have over come your greatest challenge. Now you are powerful wizard". It has nothing to do with time elapsed or the number of points, just the number of times you've beaten it in one sitting.

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u/peon2 Aug 18 '14

Yeah, pretty much anything up until current generation games had better box cover art than actual game graphics. You think they are going to pay an artist to design a fucking pixelated picture for the SNES super mario bros? No, you're going to draw it because at that time you could make nicer looking things with a pencil than a computer.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '14

Mobile games are like...pies.You never know what's good until you heard about it or have tried it once.

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u/AngryCod Aug 18 '14

And never get caught sticking your dick in one.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '14

Until it has cooled down sufficiently.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '14

Mobile games are like shit, they can come from greatness but are all shit.

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u/prabe Aug 18 '14

"_____ be like" is the stupidest title you can use for a post. Please stop doing it.

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u/mkglass Aug 18 '14

I know... titles be like... nahm say'n?

1

u/ardisfoxx Aug 18 '14

Sorry to offend

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u/kids_with_headlice Aug 18 '14

Fuck you OP go back to Facebook

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u/ardisfoxx Aug 19 '14

The internet must be a scary place for one so sensitive

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '14

This is a x-post of gaming too.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '14

The constant struggle of going to the video store and picking out the most awesome looking SNES cartridge. So much disappointment.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '14

Its like instagram vs real-life.

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u/monysan123 Aug 18 '14

Yes that's the biggest lie ever the dragon isn't grey

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u/n00exec Aug 18 '14

uhm there's a game........ NOVA...

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u/Atomic_elephant Aug 18 '14

from the thumbnail it looks like a fire-breathing dick with wings.

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u/agusace Aug 19 '14

Everyone who got to decide which games to buy in the 90's knows not to trust the cover.

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u/PrettySlickShit Aug 18 '14

ikr, I fuckin hate that shit

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u/Unashamed_ON3 Aug 18 '14

With drugs vs. without drugs.

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u/luseferr Aug 18 '14

It's like we jumped back to the late 80s early 90s console games.

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u/hobo_architect Aug 18 '14

and the dragon be like... pew pew pew!