I have conquered Daydreamin' Davey. For those of you not in the know, DD was a poorly made game for the NES from the HAL company, the same people who brought you...I have no idea what else (but according to the end credits, DD is "another fine product from the HAL company", which sounds strangely sarcastic).
In the game you take control of Davey, a young ADD victim with the tendency to drift off into dangerous dream worlds while attending school. During the first part of the game there is some setup for each level, like a teacher saying "now we will talk about the middle ages" or "let's watch a video about the old west", which thus sends Davey into the Daydreams of his namesake. But as the game goes on, things stop making sense, and at one point Davey simply runs out of the school and falls into delusion right on the front lawn.
The daydreams are all based in history, which leads one to believe that the character Davey is either a super-nerd or that the game was made as a final project in someone's world history class. Throughout the game Davey visits the middle ages, the old west, ancient Greece, the middle ages, the old west, ancient Greece...and then the middle ages, the old west, and ancient Greece again. And every time each world is laid out the same, which means Davey must have a very uncreative imagination. The worlds start overlapping near the end of the game as a hole in the ground of the old west suddenly leads to Hades, and a bridge in the middle ages leads to "the dark forest" which is just a green Hades where arabian sultans shoot magic at you. Maybe Davey has some creativity after all, or maybe he's just been poppin' too many pills.
Every school has it's "special" students...
The game ends with Davey awaking in class after shooting some cowboys in his dream world. A girl sitting next to Davey asks him if he would like to study with her sometime, because apparently she is very impressed with his ability to sleep through class but still know how the shootout at the O.K. Corral went down (because he was there, of course). But I guess Davey prefers living in his dream world, because he exclaims "I'm outta here!" to the girl and proceeds to run out the front doors of the school. The end.
So what did Daydreamin' Davey teach me? That it's okay to spend $10 on a nintendo game if it keeps you occupied for a few days and leaves you with a sense of accomplishment after you complete it. I'm outta here.
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