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Console:	Nintendo NES
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Year:	1990
RFG ID #:	U-027-S-06890-A
Part #:	NES-L4-USA
UPC:	021481106043
Developer:	Interplay / Realtime Associates
Publisher:	Acclaim
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Genre:	Action/Adventure
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Players:	1
Controller:	Standard Controller
Media Format:	Cartridge 1 Meg

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You are Quaid (aren't you?). You have a good job (your life as you know it no longer exists), and a lovely wife (she's on their side).

You're about to take a dream vacation to Mars (they're trying to kill you). It should be fun (deadly secrets are being unlocked by your mind implant), and relaxing (only you can activate the oxygen reactor and prevent an interplanetary catastrophe).

Nothing is what it seems in this sci-fi action adventure - and no one can be trusted. Danger is everywhere: secret government agents, ninja hitmen and futuristic robot drones attempt to destroy you. But you must keep going ... the human race is at stake.

Have a safe trip. (You'll never make it alive...)

Movie licensed games are almost always bad, even moreso when theyre for the NES. I'm not even upset I played this game though, not one bit. Why? Total Recall is one of those very, very few bad video games that manages to cross over into so-bad-its-good territory. There are countless movies and old campy TV shows like this, but not so much video games. A bad movie can be made enjoyable by a stellar, albeit cheesy performance from the actors, like if I see Christopher Walken in a bad movie Im still going to watch and enjoy it.

A bad video game being enjoyable though? How is that different, and how is it similar? Well bad games are always marred by technical issues, loose controls, bad graphics and music (for its time), and inconsistent and asinine level design among other reasons. But, if a game isn't entirely horrific in those categories, just has some weaknesses across the board then we end up with a good candidate for an enjoyably bad video game. Total Recall is the poster child of awesomely bad games because of this.

As soon as the game starts, the player is already confused and just runs to the right where they're pulled into an alley to fight purple clothed dwarves. But it gets better, what makes Total Recall so enjoyable for me is just how ridiculous everything looks. The graphics are terrible.

There is a cool X-Ray effect in the second level (I think its level 2, none of them are labeled). So this shows that the programmers actually knew how to do a few things, just that the level designers were terrible. It seems like this giant X-Ray machine unlocks after a time limit , then Arnold is allowed to work his way through a very confusing subway system. Around this point the game takes on the typical bad video game syndrome, the absurd fun being sucked away by now.

Arnold can also crouch down and punch to the side hes facing, because of the height of many enemies on the main screen this ends up looking the player is making Arnold punch the enemies in the privates. Real classy Acclaim. It's still hilarious to me that a game that can so easily be sexually construed ended up with a Nintendo Seal of Quality. I guess that is just a way to see how little Nintendo actually cared about game quality, and were more concerned with censorship. Oh well, the past is past for a reason.

SirPsycho's Review

Console	Reg.	Type	Title	Publisher	Year	Genre
Nintendo NES		S	Total Recall	Acclaim	1991	Action/Adventure
Nintendo NES		S	Total Recall	Acclaim	1991	Action/Adventure
Nintendo NES		S	Total Recall	Acclaim	1991	Action/Adventure
Nintendo NES		S	Total Recall	Acclaim	1991	Action/Adventure