It's hard to make any mention of the Turbografx-16 side-scrolling brawler China Warrior without its generally-accepted terribleness coming up. Yes, it's not a very good game. It's Kung Fu with big sprites and flying branches. We're sure nobody has downloaded it who wasn't reviewing it. But we forget in our laughter over its current availability that it used to be a retail game. People paid a lot of money for this game. People writing things on Wii Fanboy paid a lot of money for this game.Vintage Computing's Benj Edwards didn't pay a lot of money for China Warrior, but his price was even higher: hype for the game drove him to trade in his beloved copy of Super Mario Bros. 3. The horror! Edwards' story paints China Warrior as a destructive influence on a happy childhood, one that he is incapable of divesting himself of. If you've bought China Warrior, you'll probably be familiar with his pain.
I still like China Warrior.
[Via GameSetWatch]
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3-12-2008 @ 11:07AM
Michael Sliczniak said...
Oh man the hype. I remember coming over to my friend's house the day after he got it. We played it and just decided that International Karate was much better.
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3-12-2008 @ 11:06PM
upirons said...
Man, I had a very small savings account as a kid and what little money I made delivering papers would go in that account only to be wasted on the occasional really bad game. This was definitely one of them! Also Jaws and Friday the 13th come to mind out of sheer disappointment. Not to mention, going back even further, ET and Pac Man on the Atari. Ugh, all the money wasted on shear crap.
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