Minority Report: Famicom
Oct 01, 2021
3 minutes
FAMICOM
Plenty of Famicom games crossed the Pacific thanks to Nintendo’s dominance of American console gaming in the latter half of the Eighties, but many still never reached the NES. Nick Thorpe inspects some intriguing imports…
BOOBY KIDS
■ DEVELOPER: NICHIBUTSU ■ YEAR: 1987
■ Good, then we’ll begin by clearing up any misconceptions you might have about this rather unfortunate title – this is a game in which kids set booby-traps. There’s nothing untoward going on here at all. But we’re glad to have piqued happens to be a rather neat game that combines elements of other maze games into a unique and fascinating experience of its own.
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