This game is so bad that it doesn't even deserve a review but I was going through a Funcoland list and I seen it. It reminded me of time when I was first introduced to TC Turd Design...
Waaaay back in the 80's when this clay peigon of a game came out a buddy of mine, Lee, had seen an add for TC in a Nintendo Power and he had to have it. He had a few bucks burning a hole in his pocket so he asked me to drive him to Toys R Us so he could get it. So off we went. After a little looking around we found it, fresh out of the packing crate with a $30.00 sticker on it. Without hesitation he snagged a copy and ran to the register. I think we caused a dozen or so accidents on the way home, but we made good time :) Running full steam into the game room and calling "First!" Lee readied himself for hours of action packed NES Fun....
Oh man. As the cheesy openning credits rolled we both had a bad feeling about TC. The feeling got worst as the game progressed. Lee has always been a natural when its come to games (sort of like those goofy a$$ kids who sent in their pictures to Nin. Power and everyone laughed at them). He beat Wizards and Warriors in one night, SMB in a two days or so and he was the first person I knew to kick Tyson's a$$, but he finished TC in litterally fifteen minutes. There was absolutly no reason this game should have been released! The graphics are rancid, the sound is crap and the game play is puke. I swear Corky must have programmed that turd of a game.
By this time the neighborhood kids were over and everyone was pointing and laughing at Lee's misfortune. We are an evil bunch, he he... Promptly we went back to Toys R Us to get Lee's cash back. Toy's R Us's game return policy is as following: "We only accept unopenned games for return Period!" This set Lee off, I've never seen someone weave a better pattern of profanity before. After knocking over a rack or two of Cabbage Patch kids, Lee was escorted from the store.
As we sat in his basement it hit him. His mom worked at a place where they shrink wrap stuff for shipping so he had her take it to work and rewrap it. The next day off we went to Toy's R Us with a newly shrink wrapped TC Turd Designs. The manager tried to put up a fight but Lee was persistant (and he started yelling s%*t store at the top of his lung's) and eventually the guy gave him his dough back, just to get him out of the store.
It was a fun lesson that I learned by watching, and I must say over the next few years mom's shrink wrap machine seen a few other games too.
No Stars
-The NES-Nut...