Friday, October 1, 2010

Machine Gun Joe



I kind of can't stop playing this terrible Sega Master System game called "Machine Gun Joe" or maybe it's called "Comical Machine Gun Joe" or something. It's really awful, but I can't stop playing it. You play a little dude who shoots a gun (oddly, NOT a machine gun) at some bad guys. When you shoot them they turn into a little tiny dude and run at you and try to grab onto you. I thought I was supposed to collect them at first, like they were little helpers or something, but then I figured out they actually make it harder for you to jump. Sometimes a pig runs by and if you shoot it it will give you a bomb that you can use to kill everybody. Also sometimes there's a spider in the middle of the screen that blocks all of your shots. You start out in a harbor, and I guess there's different levels or something, but I wouldn't know because it's so freaking hard I can't make it past the first screen yet. The guys seriously run on screen and shoot directly at you, so you've only got a split second to either shoot them first or jump out of the way. This means I have yet to make it to the "Fairyland" screen shown in the demo. Anyway, this game is amazing.