Aside from maybe “game over”, no two words make gamers wince as much as “licensed games”. They have all the potential to be great; recognizable characters, backstory, built in audience, etc. But when a developer acquires a license, they feel as if they can release any old shitpile of a game upon the unsuspecting audience and expect us to gobble it up. Case in point, RoboCop for the NES.
I’ve been trying to stay away from doing “top lists” post here on popho. I used to do them all the time (i.e. hottest animated honeys, favorite comic book characters, birth control products, etc.), but it seems that everyone is doing them these days. Hell, there are sites that do nothing but top 10s or top 5s. They also seem kind of… well… like a cop-out. It doesn’t really take much writing ability or creativity to come up with top 10 lists. Saying all of this, I still wanted to write this post since I have such fond memories of these games. And also because I possess little writing ability and creativity.
