Posted February 12, 2010
In the decade before last, I found this old DOS or Windows game that I had a fun time playing.
It was a brightly and lushly coloured side scrolling platformer (sorta MegaDrive-esque), where your protagonist was an African-American cop.
You were dealing with an alien invasion in a place that might have been San Fransico (could be way off here). You shot them with a gun as well as used a wide variety of weapons including a you-know-you'll-blow-youself-up-with-one-eventually lant mine, and I think some of the aliens were big green blobs.
I remember a unique thing about the game was that the the remnants of the killed aliens, even if they were in multiple chunks, stayed in the level even if you went a long distance off and came back to where you were.
There was also a bit of text and dialogue which would sometimes come up during the level when you meet survivors. Some of it had a bit of wry humour I recall as one exchange involved a kid who went:
Kid: That's a cool gun, can I hold it?
Protagonist: Nah, you'll probably blow your foot off or something.
That's about all I can remember of the game. I only played it once but couldn't find it when I went looking for it again almost immediately after, naturally I'd like to play it again, as it sorta stands out in my mind. A bit different from other games around the time, but most importantly it was fun.
It was a brightly and lushly coloured side scrolling platformer (sorta MegaDrive-esque), where your protagonist was an African-American cop.
You were dealing with an alien invasion in a place that might have been San Fransico (could be way off here). You shot them with a gun as well as used a wide variety of weapons including a you-know-you'll-blow-youself-up-with-one-eventually lant mine, and I think some of the aliens were big green blobs.
I remember a unique thing about the game was that the the remnants of the killed aliens, even if they were in multiple chunks, stayed in the level even if you went a long distance off and came back to where you were.
There was also a bit of text and dialogue which would sometimes come up during the level when you meet survivors. Some of it had a bit of wry humour I recall as one exchange involved a kid who went:
Kid: That's a cool gun, can I hold it?
Protagonist: Nah, you'll probably blow your foot off or something.
That's about all I can remember of the game. I only played it once but couldn't find it when I went looking for it again almost immediately after, naturally I'd like to play it again, as it sorta stands out in my mind. A bit different from other games around the time, but most importantly it was fun.
