Cartoon Violence
These two give new meaning to the term ‘cloud gaming.’ wakka wakka!
…sorry.
To be fair, it’s pretty hard to play a fighting game with a single joystick. Usually a button or two can help.
BREAKING NEWS!
I’ve recently been made aware that two long-forgotten cereals are making a comeback – for Halloween!
Frute Brute and Yummy Mummy!
These guys have been missing from the Monster Cereals for decades, so it’s great to see them recognized again. As I understand it, the flavors have been changed a bit. They both used to be assorted fruit-flavor, but now Brute is Cherry and Mummy is Orange.
(Images from: http://dinosaurdracula.com/blog/video-frute-brute-yummy-mummy/ )
I’ve actually never had either cereal before. The original Fruit Brute was discontinued in 1984, a year when I wasn’t even eating solid foods yet, and Yummy Mummy kicked the bucket in ’93 – and somehow I just never got a box of it before that. So these are something of a blast from a past I’ve only heard legends about. I’ll be looking for these in stores come October, so perhaps the legends are true…
Brilliant use of that old “big ball of violence” trope! This is just too perfect!
As if regular fighting games weren’t confusing enough to anyone who doesn’t understand all the mechanics underneath…”Uh, what’s a parry? What’s a Force Roman Cancel? Why didn’t he flinch when I tried to hit him out of that move-wait, that’s the super armor you’ve been talking about?”
“To be fair, it’s pretty hard to play a fighting game with a single joystick. Usually a button or two can help.”
I would bring up an Amiga fighting game like Body Blows designed around the expectation that Amiga joysticks have ONE button to work with and nothing more, but then it set in that that’s still one more button than Theo and Zemi have access to on those buttonless joysticks, hence your point.
I suppose they could still play Divekick, but who plays Divekick with a single joystick instead of two big Pop ‘n Music buttons? That would be as absurd as…Divekick itself. Might as well use an ironic controller for an ironic fighting game!
Yeah, Divekick looks amazing! I think it also proves that fighting games can be super simple and still fun, too.
Make sure to get those ACME item drops!
60% of the time, they work none of the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5jNnDMfxA