After playing, Waldo can stay lost forever for all I care.
Let's talk about the actual gameplay, without judging a book by its cover. But maybe you can with this game.
There are four difficulties in this game: Practice, Easy, Medium, and Hard. There are amounts of time given for each difficulty Easy: 10min.,
Medium: 7min., and Hard: 5min. (BEAT THE WHOLE GAME IN 5 MIN., WHAT?) The story of the game is extremely simple, you must help Waldo make his way through each level of the game in order for him to get to the moon. There are eight levels of the game: The Train Station, The Forest, The Cave, The Fairgrounds, The City, The Subway, The Castle, and The Launch Pad (yeah, try and beat all of that in 5 minutes, I think NOT). You have a cursor you use to move around and look for Waldo on screen. He moves every time you play the game as well. The cursor and screen vary on which difficulty you play. You depend on the graphics to play this game in order to find Waldo. And the cursor is so sensitive in this game, it goes flying in the opposite direction even if you tap it ever so slightly. And just as you think you've found Waldo, you haven't. There are so many similar objects that anything could look like Waldo in this crappy game. Because most of the time, Waldo isn't even wearing his red and white stripped shirt, he wear a variety of different colored shirts (how the hell is a kid supposed to know that?)
Anyway, after you complete a level, Waldo travels to the next one with the worst route as possible. He walks so slow and you just have to sit there and watch him. The A, B Start, and Select buttons don't do anything. And on top of all of that, as he goes, you time is still running. It makes you wanna go in the game and throw his ass into the next level.
After all of that, the last level, The Launch Pad, acts just like a slot machine. You need to match up all three pictures of Waldo and then, blast him off to the moon. When he arrives, he does his stupid moon jump. Each ending is the same (on all 3 difficulty settings), and it all sucks balls.
Then, whether you finished the game or not, they show you a bar that fills up to see how far into the game you got. More like the bar of how much suck this game has. And then, you think there's the credits at the end of the game and....
WHAT?!?!? You're back at the start screen all over again. And it goes on over and over again until you quit, or lose your freaking mind, whatever comes first.
Where's Waldo isn't the worst waldo game made, there was a sequel on the Genesis and SNES. Called "The Great Waldo Search", but I'll get into that later.
Avoid: "Where's Waldo?" for Nintendo Entertainment System