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Space Camp - MSX Edition! (Fat Kids Need Only Apply.)

(You mock me with your MS paint made rocket!)

Oh, Space Camp... How your cold shuttering gates have always flapped closed in my face just before I was able to apply to any such field trip to your base of operations, thanks to the MSX made in 1983! I finally got my shot at Space Camp!

(It's not going to take you long to figure out why this game stinks so badly..)

So, this is what they considered Space Camp to be like back in the 80's of Japan, It's basically about dodging what looks to be giant red meatballs, In a spaceship that was obviously ripped from RD-D2, that blue thing there? Yeah, that's not an energy boost, some cool weapon, or a shield. It's just some random looking alien glyph that will indeed (can you guess it?) kill you with one little touch, or even just an area within range.

Yeah, this thing? It's not a giant epic boss, or some HQ mother ship where you get to find out the whole plot to this horrid insanity, nope! Cause that'd just be too easy, this is just another giant object that fills 70% of the screen that has a 50/50 shot of killing you within one hit, or just phasing through you as if it was never there in the first place.

That giant ship wasn't even the best part! Oh, no-no-no! See that red flame there? That's what's left of my ship after a black hole has warped it into the black abyss, that's right! I said it, a black hole on what is already the darkest backdrop i've ever seen in a game, trust me! This game is littered with the black holes, you get about three lives and every time you die? Yep, It's one of those games... You start back on level 1, this game is all about dodging what you cannot see.

So all-in-all, this is 110% the biggest pass i've ever given on a game, It's like showing cake to a fat kid and then promptly pulling it away, only to replace that delicious said cake with what can only be described as 'Tofu', whoever took the five minutes out of their day to create this horrible tragedy? You're a sick individual, good day!

(As always, thanks for reading!)