So for Backloggd's game of the week, I have been tasked with something fairly tricky, and that is the Game & Watch title Egg!
Now I know what you're thinking, what is Detchibe's reasoning for having us do a Game & Watch title? They're hard to come by in working order, and emulation for it is an incredibly sketchy endeavor due to the nature of trying to imitate early LCD games. Worry not! Late 90s Nintendo has you covered with Game & Watch Gallery for the Game Boy, and all of it's older brother systems! These were an excellent way to update these games to then-current portables with brand new "modern" versions featuring your favorite Mario characters, as well as having pretty spot-on recreations of the "original" versions of the games complete with their BEEP BEEP BEEPs and lack of music. An uncharacteristic act of preserving their old games that current age Nintendo would scoff at, and then attempt to sell you limited time overpriced replica systems instead.
Just like most other G&W games Egg is rather simple, just collect the eggs in Mr. Foxhound Logo's basket as they roll down the four chutes. He's really hungry, and dropping one means bad news for him! You just lose the game if you gain three misses, but him? No fried eggs for Mr. Foxhound Logo, only some lousy celery that will leave him under-caloried for the rest of the day. For whatever reason there's also a hen that pops out of a window in the top-left, if they spy on Mr. Foxhound as he drops an egg it counts as only a half-miss. It's quite an odd addition, and I'm not entirely sure what the in-universe explanation would be. An accomplice on the inside perhaps?! Most disturbing.
Do you want to know the reason? It's because the hen was formerly Minnie Mouse. That's right! This was originally a Mickey Mouse game! The rat bastard himself was behind this the entire time! Motherfucker! Nintendo and Disney in cahoots, who woulda thunk it? Not I, that's for damn sure. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer around those two shady individuals...
My one complaint about G&W titles in general is that they have this problem of starting pretty slow, even on hard difficulty. Trying to patiently play this on my Game Boy Player as opposed to riding in the car with Mum at the tender age of six or so makes it a ton more troublesome to stay awake prior to when the eggs start moving at a more breakneck speed. It does get shockingly intense later, it just takes a while, and that's a thing I remember plaguing all of the original versions of these games. Definitely check out the Game & Watch Gallery games though, their modern interpretations are definitely most eggcellent!
...excellent...
After taking the time to reach 1000 in every iteration of Egg in Game & Watch Gallery 3, I can safely say that I have "mastered" Egg and can consider myself a true Egg Emperor, Dr. Eggman must be so jealous! I had your number since Mean Bean Machine Eggy Poo!
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What's that? This wasn't the Backloggd game of the week? I played the incorrect Egg?! I did all that for nothing?!
loudest non-offensive swear that could ever be conceived
Now I know what you're thinking, what is Detchibe's reasoning for having us do a Game & Watch title? They're hard to come by in working order, and emulation for it is an incredibly sketchy endeavor due to the nature of trying to imitate early LCD games. Worry not! Late 90s Nintendo has you covered with Game & Watch Gallery for the Game Boy, and all of it's older brother systems! These were an excellent way to update these games to then-current portables with brand new "modern" versions featuring your favorite Mario characters, as well as having pretty spot-on recreations of the "original" versions of the games complete with their BEEP BEEP BEEPs and lack of music. An uncharacteristic act of preserving their old games that current age Nintendo would scoff at, and then attempt to sell you limited time overpriced replica systems instead.
Just like most other G&W games Egg is rather simple, just collect the eggs in Mr. Foxhound Logo's basket as they roll down the four chutes. He's really hungry, and dropping one means bad news for him! You just lose the game if you gain three misses, but him? No fried eggs for Mr. Foxhound Logo, only some lousy celery that will leave him under-caloried for the rest of the day. For whatever reason there's also a hen that pops out of a window in the top-left, if they spy on Mr. Foxhound as he drops an egg it counts as only a half-miss. It's quite an odd addition, and I'm not entirely sure what the in-universe explanation would be. An accomplice on the inside perhaps?! Most disturbing.
Do you want to know the reason? It's because the hen was formerly Minnie Mouse. That's right! This was originally a Mickey Mouse game! The rat bastard himself was behind this the entire time! Motherfucker! Nintendo and Disney in cahoots, who woulda thunk it? Not I, that's for damn sure. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer around those two shady individuals...
My one complaint about G&W titles in general is that they have this problem of starting pretty slow, even on hard difficulty. Trying to patiently play this on my Game Boy Player as opposed to riding in the car with Mum at the tender age of six or so makes it a ton more troublesome to stay awake prior to when the eggs start moving at a more breakneck speed. It does get shockingly intense later, it just takes a while, and that's a thing I remember plaguing all of the original versions of these games. Definitely check out the Game & Watch Gallery games though, their modern interpretations are definitely most eggcellent!
...excellent...
After taking the time to reach 1000 in every iteration of Egg in Game & Watch Gallery 3, I can safely say that I have "mastered" Egg and can consider myself a true Egg Emperor, Dr. Eggman must be so jealous! I had your number since Mean Bean Machine Eggy Poo!
...
What's that? This wasn't the Backloggd game of the week? I played the incorrect Egg?! I did all that for nothing?!
loudest non-offensive swear that could ever be conceived
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No way! I didn’t know there were Game & Watch collections for the Game Boy. That’s so cool!
Yeah! The second is legit a childhood classic I used to play a ton, it had it's own version of Donkey Kong that was based on the G&W version which was based on the arcade game! I played it's version of Chef to the point I could probably draw Peach's sprite in MS Paint pixel-by-pixel.
Jenny
1 year ago