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Game Review: Life Force
2018-Feb-10, Saturday 20:58
Most people my age probably learned the Konami Code from playing Contra, but I learned it from playing Life Force.
Over summers in elementary school, I hung out a lot with two other kids who lived on my street. One of them had an NES with Life Force and the three of us would pile into his room--his room with its own television, what a luxury--and play Life Force over and over again. We weren't good at it all, since we weren't steeped in arcade culture and didn't understand high score charts, one credit clears, or any of the other ways that arcade junkies measured their prowess. But with thirty lives and two players, we could get through the whole game and that was good enough.
Today, I needed something like that.
Ah yes, the famous teeth of space.
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Over summers in elementary school, I hung out a lot with two other kids who lived on my street. One of them had an NES with Life Force and the three of us would pile into his room--his room with its own television, what a luxury--and play Life Force over and over again. We weren't good at it all, since we weren't steeped in arcade culture and didn't understand high score charts, one credit clears, or any of the other ways that arcade junkies measured their prowess. But with thirty lives and two players, we could get through the whole game and that was good enough.
Today, I needed something like that.
Ah yes, the famous teeth of space.
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