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| Developer: Ocean | Graphics: |
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| Publisher: Ocean | Sound: |
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| Year: 1990 | Difficulty: |
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| Genre: Plain toast | Lastability: |
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| Number of players: 2 simultaneous | Rating: |
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The (successful, if you must know) port of the eponymous arcade game, also known as Flipull (NES, 1989).
I’d struggle to imagine a more generic and infantilising concept. You control a potato with eyes—or maybe a blob (how imaginative!)—that throws brightly coloured blocks around, pairing them up to make them vanish. These blocks boast the groundbreaking ability to bounce at right angles when they hit an obstacle. Combine that with the obligatory saccharine, earworm-like background music, and you’ll be brain-dead in minutes.
Have I mentioned that I loathe this type of game? I feel almost insulted when the character starts dancing at the end of a stage to congratulate me for successfully (accidentally) sorting circles and squares.
Few things, in fact, depress me more than seeing random commuters on the subway glued to this kind of pastime on their phones…
“Stop the world, I want to get off!”
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