as a fan of the austin powers character, i can't help but be charmed by this strange little toy. it reminds me a lot of the promotional cd-roms common to this era, but compressed down into a game boy color cartridge. it even has a bunch of real-world production information about the films.
a pretty fun collection of loosely Austin Powers-based minigames and a cute platformer
This game walked so Hypnospace Outlaw could run
better than windows 11
i genuinely adore this game. No other gameboy game lets you exit out of a fake graphical OS into a fake DOS prompt and cd/dir your way around Austin Powers' laptop, seeing all the filenames of his (presumably) pornographic JPEGs. Hearing 50 ultra-compressed samples of Austin Powers saying things in a dialogue window to pick my default sounds and cursor in this fake OS gives me the kind of post-ironic joy evoked by projects that would come in the future such as parts of Homestuck and Hypnospace Outlaw. Genuinely I love that I share a universe with this game.
up there with templeos
no, baby!
0/10, couldn't steal any valuable credentials from his computer...
terrible game, i wish i could understand what they were trying to do here and why
I wanna find the weirdo at Rockstar who thought it would be a good idea to make a whole GBC game that's just a simulated Austin Powers desktop. Mostly so I can give them like a billion dollars and let their imagination run wild.
It's pretty awful, but there's something really funny about it as a whole. Why was it made? Who at Rockstar Games of all places was like "we should make a game where you can be on Austin Powers computer"
I want to say it's so bad it's funny - but honestly it hurt my eyes and ears too much that it got rid of any of the funny.
why does this even exist
Absolutely revolting, baby!