Nerding Day: How to Win at Growl π
Added 2021-12-17 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
There's an arcade game I love called Growl. It came out in 1990 and it was about Indiana Jones killing poachers. Not a gang of poachers, but every participant in an industrial poaching complex living in a country made entirely of barrels each of which contained a machine gun or rocket launcher. It only had four different enemies, and only two of those weren't women or children. Every night I stare at the fourteen Pac-Man strategy guides I own and whisper, "I wish just one of you useless pieces of trash was about Growl."
Well, somehow the darkness answered. On my bookshelf this morning was 13 Pac-Man books and this...
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Comments
A) this was rad as fuck B) is there any cocaine left for the rest of us?
Patrick Herbst
2021-12-22 08:37:35 +0000 UTCThis game looks pretty awesome, though. Why aren't there more games where we can play as elephants?
Matthew Harris
2021-12-17 19:49:09 +0000 UTCOurs was a weird non-chain gas station that had exactly ONE game, and it was Splatterhouse, and you could not play Splatterhouse because the cashiers took turns and hogged it. Bastards.
Flippant Sausage
2021-12-17 19:00:22 +0000 UTCD'awwww <3
Vooster
2021-12-17 18:49:56 +0000 UTCThey are the least vulnerable part of the human body, provided theyβre made of raging steel and fire, as God intended.
Stephanie Reinheimer
2021-12-17 18:21:02 +0000 UTCIn 1990 the only video game we had in the closest we could get to an arcade was Land Air Sea Squad. The other game was a pinball machine called Pharaoh's Tomb. My sister owned LASS so I got pretty good at pinball.
Bonnybedlam
2021-12-17 18:10:47 +0000 UTCWhen we were first married my husband had a cat named Whiskey, for her tendency to steal drinks. Her middle name was Bacon.
Bonnybedlam
2021-12-17 18:08:07 +0000 UTCThanks to MAME I never have to spend another quarter again. So I can melt them down into a Big Saver trophy, thank you very much.
Flippant Sausage
2021-12-17 17:28:14 +0000 UTCThe best name for a Lion is "Lion-O." "Lion-A" if it's a girl lion.
Vooster
2021-12-17 17:20:09 +0000 UTCI remember that game inspired me to throw my brother down a flight of stairs (dont worry, we were adults and at least one of us consented to throwing him down a flight of stairs.) because he erased my PS2s memory card and I was in the middle of that game. Also I had a good several thousand hours of precious saved games from two consoles on that card, so he had it coming.
Flippant Sausage
2021-12-17 17:16:58 +0000 UTCHe certainly gets a lot of practice.
Joshua Graves
2021-12-17 17:12:31 +0000 UTCNobody does βmaniac slowly getting somehow crazierβ better than Seanbaby.
Pem
2021-12-17 16:36:38 +0000 UTCMy sympathies, something similar happened to me after 200+ hours of 'Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirit.'
LyraV
2021-12-17 15:41:55 +0000 UTCRest in peace, Fat Shredder. I hope whatever demons were haunting you have been silenced. Your demise will be remembered forever as The Day It Snowed Meat
FancyShark
2021-12-17 15:25:01 +0000 UTCSo *that* is what happened to Skip Williams in the wrong universe. That tracks.
Jeff Orasky
2021-12-17 14:53:19 +0000 UTCIt's important to show your sexy chest and ripped abs while you fight evil.
Normallyretro
2021-12-17 14:45:25 +0000 UTCIndiana Jones 5 is looking AWESOME
Chris βAceβ Hendrix
2021-12-17 14:34:33 +0000 UTCWhy hasn't Hamster ported this one yet?
Dave Dalrymple
2021-12-17 14:19:59 +0000 UTCHuh, I never tried assimilating with the arcade machine before. No wonder I never got past the second boss. Thanks for your wise insight, Blip!
Jake
2021-12-17 13:48:38 +0000 UTCHow did I ever miss this game in the arcade? It would have helped me work through my hatred of newsies and period inappropriate pink miniskirts.
Intillectrician
2021-12-17 13:33:59 +0000 UTChawhawhaw what does he insect FOCIAL justice warriors? hawhawhaw
sissyneck
2021-12-17 13:26:19 +0000 UTC
