Hope you all like the neu song. It ain't much, but it came out perfect, only slightly retarded.
I've been thinking a lot about NES games, how good they were, and how carefree they were in terms of making sense. When I read an article in Wired magazine about how the creative team for the Atari 2600 would sit around doing drugs and writing down ideas, I thought "of course they did! And I'll bet the programmers for some Nintendo games did the same thing." So here I present to you a list: my top 5 most psychedelic NES games.
5. Super Mario Bros.
I had to include this gaming cornerstone, because when you think about it, what the hell was this game about? The princess of a kingdom of mushroom people has been kidnapped by the leader of turtle monsters. It's up to an Italian American plumber to run and jump his way through a landscape that features lightbulb trees. And aside from the underlying drug references (magic mushrooms make you big, a pipe is a gateway to another world), what were the goombas? And why were they called goombas?
4. Thrilla's Surfari
Yes, I know it was the product of a surf t-shirt company, but did anybody else out there play through the whole game?
Did you make it to the purple jungle, with giant skulls and flying dinosaur-birds? Did you fight the huge, winged, push-me pull-you rhinoceros? Did you skateboard through the baby-blue desert, where a pink elephant head tries to knock you off your board? Did you get to the end and battle the big lava head thing? ...Cause you should if you want to know where I'm comin from.
3. Maniac Mansion
I'll be honest, this one just came to me while I was sitting here. While this game did have an actual story that was semi-believable, its normal-ness is deceptive. In the game you meet: a family of psychos, a talking severed tentacle that wants to be a rock star, a mummified body in a bathtub, an evil talking meteor, an intergalactic police officer...In fact, forget what I said. This game isn't believable in the least. But it did have the bestest game secret ever: find the secret control pad in the wallpaper, type a few buttons, and the house explodes!! Game over!! You shouldn't have messed!!
Hell, looks like my family.
2. Totally Rad
Oooh man. I only played this game once, back in middle school, but I remember vividly how messed up it was. I don't even remember the story. All I can remember is that you control a white boy with an afro who can shoot plasma from his hands and do a white boy dance that transforms him into a fishman, a birdman, a tigerman, etc. Then there were the bosses. These guys visualized the term "bad trip". I think the first boss was a gigantic corn rock star. The rest of the game is just totally rad, man. Totally rad, man, YEAH! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha....uuuughh.
That tatoo makes him look like a weirdo.
1. Stinger
Yep, this one beats 'em all. Story? A scientist gets abducted by aliens, so you must fly a cute little spaceship around Earth (maybe) and shoot dangerous enemies like closet hangers, TVs, oranges, strawberry faces, and many more random nouns. When you die, you have the opportunity to catch your ascending angel for bonus points. I have never reached the end of this game. I'm sure the ending reveals something profoundly significant, but I just can't handle all the insanity. Play at your own risk.
The churches won't protect your secret lab from falling radishes.
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