Alright, time to go back to my list of "bad games", this time with a gauntlet of atari games back when circles weren't invented yet.
The first one I played was this... thing.

I try to be objective but it's hard when most of the atari 2600 library consists of archaic, obsolete and very small games that nobody without nostalgia would play. The technology has progressed so much that the standard of what's considered good has left most of these pixelated experiments behind.

Having said all that, this game suuuuuucks.

At first I was frustrated because I thought that it was like a zoomed in first person rubik cube. Then I got it... it's just rubik's cube themed. You control a... dude, this dude takes colors and if you press the only button on the controller you swap the color you have with the one you are standing on. That's it. There's a limitation in that I think you can't step on titles of the color you are carrying, so that's where the puzzle element is.

This "puzzle game" is extremely boring. Even back in the days where the atari 2600 was a cutting edge console this was worse than just playing with an actual rubik's cube.

I'll give it a point for the craaaazy 3d effect when swapping sides. I can imagine people of that era being impressed with that.

Reviewed on Apr 10, 2024


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