#karnov

You can play it in your browser here (controls in description).

Last image below from here.

It wasn't often, but I did make it a habit to grab up interesting LCD handhelds when I came across them in the wild. On one incursion to a local thrift store I came upon Tiger Electronics handhelds for both Castlevania II: Simon's Quest and Karnov... but was so destitute that (dirt cheap as they were) I couldn't get them together, forcing a pretty difficult choice. Look, when I say destitute, I mean it... like, I probably didn't have dinner that evening. NOW, you probably think Simon's Quest was the obvious choice, and YES, that's ultimately what I went with, but how fucking cool is a KARNOV conversion to a cheap LCD handheld!? Of course, by the time I could go back for it, it was gone. Sure, current day NEITHER would still be with me, but I do regret leaving Karnov all alone for some unappreciative dork (probably) to snake out from under me.

Autumn-themed arcade game fanart, submitted to Arcadia magazine in 2006.