Continuing off of yesterday's topic, there are a couple other childhood games of mine that I've replayed this summer.
One of them was Freddi Fish: The Creature of Coral Cove, a point and click mystery game. Something I noticed as I was playing this time that I didn't notice as a kid were all of the objects throughout the game that I knew I needed without knowing why I needed them until later.
I also just now realized something else. The plotline of the game was to find the sea monster and figure out why he's been terrorizing the fish at Coral Cove Park. Why on earth - or under the sea - would Freddi and Luther just swim right up to the sea monster's new home? Did they just expect to ask politely and get an answer (which, turns out, that's how it happened)? But did they have any contingency plan in case the sea monster tried to eat them?
Oh well. It was a pretty fun game, at any rate. Maybe mostly because of the nostalgia, but still.
Another game I replayed was The Game of Life, kind of set up like a board game on your computer that directs you through life from college to marriage to your first kid to retirement with all the bumps along the way.
I remembered getting more fun out of it as a kid than I had when I played it recently. I wonder if part of my problem was that I was playing it myself against two computer characters. Maybe most of the fun comes from the real people you compete with.
Well, there you have it. Yay for kid games! =D
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