Okay, it’s time for another round of Fashboo’s Dumb Video Game Things!
Today we’re talking about 1989′s Act-Fancer: Cybernetick Hyper Weapon! It comes to us from Data East, who also gave us Burgertime and Bad Dudes, among other things.
This game is really hard. Like, super hard, for me, anyway. Like hard enough that I wanna call bad game design. But that doesn’t matter much because LOOK AT THIS SHIT. Try to tell me this isn’t amazing.
It’s so dang hard! Like, you start as this weird little thing and you collect powerups to become bigger things with bigger lasers and stuff, but the game makes it way too hard to stay alive long enough to have a chance. But that doesn’t really matter because LOOK AT IT! This game that I am bad at is extremely aesthetically pleasing to me, is what I’m trying to say here.