![]() With an emphasis on stealth, the game explores relatable situations for many gamers, such as sneaking up on women and trying to win their affection with random fast food items. ![]() It’s not the most polished game, and the premise is ludicrous, but it was so worth a few bucks (or less). While PocketBike Racers is a poor man’s Mario Kart, Sneak King is a poor man’s Splinter Cell. Eventually this, along with its two Burger King siblings, could be purchased from Burger King for just $.99! I’ve paid a lot more for much less satisfying games. Happy 10th Anniversary, Channele! Here’s to many more years). This game has provided hours of fun with friends and family alike, including me repeatedly spanking my wife (speaking of which. Though it lacks the depth of a game like Mario Kart, there’s nonetheless plenty of fun to be had. PocketBike Racers is literally a poor man’s Mario Kart. Free of a lot of the fluff of games like Mario Party, it was quick and easy to hop in and have some fun. Some of the notable mini-games for me were Rubble Alliance, Sumo, and Twisted System - I couldn’t get enough of the latter two in particular. While many of the mini-games are skippable (every party game suffers from that), there are some great gems in Fuzion Frenzy, such that it provided plenty of fun for me and my friends on the original Xbox. These Are Fun Games, I Don’t Care What You Say! Added to a unique battle system this made for a delightful RPG adventure, not to mention the first RPG release in the US for the Nintendo 64. The story is lackluster, and many of the RPG elements are very simplified, but Quest 64 had a graphical style and charming world that was very similar to Mario 64. This was far from an epic RPG, and was completely dwarfed and outclassed by some of its contemporaries ( Final Fantasy VII and VIII, among others). Halfway living up to its name, Hybrid Heaven is not quite heavenly, especially by modern standards, but it is a hybrid, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! The writing and story is about on par with a certain other Konami series that I feel lacks in that department, and the level design is about as bland and repetitive as can be, but the game featured an interesting combat system (replete with pro-wrestling inspired attacks, which was great for a wrestling fan like me at the time), and blended, or at least attempted to, the action/adventure and RPG genres in a unique way. While blurring the lines between genres is commonplace nowadays, this was one of the first major attempts to do something like that. Though far from perfect in so many ways, Hybrid Heaven was a trailblazer of sorts. It does so much with so little, capturing an impressive amount of the Star Wars universe and my attention in the process. Yoda Stories is still delightful to me and I occasionally help myself to a serving of it (have I gone too far with the analogy yet?) from time to time. Like my school’s lunch offerings, even if I enjoyed them at the time, I will not be going out of my way to experience them again. At its best, it’s an unspectacular action/adventure game, at its worst, it’s frustrating due to dull puzzles and poor controls (for the platforming in particular). Of all the titles on this list, this is almost certainly the worse. These games are, in one way or another, the public school lunches that I, right, wrong, or in between, enjoy.īlinders likely explain why I enjoyed this game (as well as the movie on which it’s based) as much as I did at the time. Anyhow, here is a list of some of the games I enjoy that I believe qualify as “guilty pleasures,” along with some reasons why I enjoyed them. As I grew up, I began to care much less about how others felt about my quirks and tastes, but I retained the sentiment that it’s nice to know I’m not necessarily alone in them (except for in cases where I want to be the only one and am far from it, I hate that!). Call me crazy, but I loved them, though I never went out of my way to let others know that, at least not after I heard their scorn for them. When they came up in the cycle, many of my friends complained. For me, when I was in elementary school, it was the cafeteria lunches, namely the mashed potatoes and gravy. Sometimes, wanting to fit in, we keep those likes a closely guarded secret. We’ve all had a thing (or things) that we enjoy even though it seems most others harbor a certain degree of contempt for it. Wysocki, posted on 07 June 2016 / 11,985 Views
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