Game Review: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

I have a confession to make--I have never seen the hit movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves starring Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, and Alan Rickman, but I have played the NES game based on it.

I was going to say "I don't remember how I originally found this game," but on a hunch I went to look up whether it was in Nintendo Power and, would you look at that, it got a cover on issue 26. I am not immune to advertising and was much less immune as a Nintendo-loving child. Wikipedia says:

However, this issue was notorious for the fact that the game was not released until 4 months after the issue was released

but I don't remember having to deal with that. I remember getting the game and playing through it probably a dozen times, as you did back in the day when games were limited, both how many you had and how many there were in the world, and you had to stretch your enjoyment of a given game out over months because you didn't have a backlog of hundreds of games waiting that would haunt you until the day you died. And it's not like this game is particularly hard or stretchable. It's no Final Fantasy where the Marsh Cave punched me in the face until I really buckled down and ground in the swamps and won through to the rest of the game. It's about an hour and a half. This playthrough took me about that long, not counting time grinding where I put down the controller with my kindle on a button.

Hey, it's still a video game.

From here we shall build our socialist redistribution scheme.

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