Total Recall

released on Dec 31, 1990

Based on the movie of the same name, Total Recall puts you in charge of Douglas Quaid, who must find a way to Mars in order to find the answers to his two questions: why is he being hunted, and who is hunting him. In order to do this, Quaid must go through level after level of beating up bad guys that get in his way. Some of the levels differ in gameplay, and range between action and driving scenes. The action scenes mainly require you to collect some items before leaving the level. You have only one chance to complete the current level, which means that if your energy is lost, the game ends. Energy is lost if you are attacked by an obstacle, or if you are shot at by an enemy. You can gain more energy by either collecting some pills or a heart, depending on the platform.


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Not as bad as people say. The music is an all time clasic, the gameplay is playable and the game is kind of fun. Well made, no but interesting, hell yeah.

Pretty terrible side scroller beat em up for the NES

I only got to the part in the first level where you're in a room and have to fight some girl. Now I can beat the girl, but then a guy comes in and just starts shooting a machine gun. I can't hit him at all, and I cannot avoid his bullets. I have no idea wtf is going on there. Apparently you have to kill the girl before the machine gun guy shows up or else you're just fucked. It's really stupid because the girl takes a million hits to kill and the game just flat out doesn't give you enough time. I'm not gonna waste my time trying to beat this piece of shit.

Upon looking more into it, the rest of the game features pretty terrible level design and doesn't really follow the plot of the movie well.

Rest of the game isn't really fun, just enemies jumping at you with weird hitboxes and all you can do is punch and jump. Pretty lame stuff!

Game sucks! Not worth anyone's time, don't play it!