CREEPINGNET'S WORLD
CRACKPOTS (ACTIVISION)
I swear, in the 80's, almost anything was *game* for a video game that takes it to a hilarious level...knocking down rainbows with balls, shooting robots while getting chased by a happy face in an electrified maze, getting chased by seahorse-dragon-thingies while trying to find the ark of the covenant, saving animals before an entire solar system goes apocalyptic for presumably 40 lightyears on a spaceship until God puts the planets back in orbit, shooting at dum dum pops, getting fat-praised for eating the contents of an entire 7/11 while avoiding the Jelly Bellys! I mean, where does it end - oh I know, how about a game about dropping flower pots on spiders from the roof of your infested apartment complex.

That's what crackpots is, you're this stressed out looking person on the roof of their apartment tossing flower pots on bugs that come up from the sewer and climb the building into your windows. If you don't meet the quota for bugs killed, a big red one comes by and eats an entire half-a-story off your apartment. Seriously, this guy's apartment should be condemned or the Orkin man called! It's unclear whether it's the irresponsible management lackey, an actual landlord (does not look like Alexei Sayle in Dr. Marten's Boots to me), or a poor tenant trapped on the roof. Mamybe it's a squatter, or an Uran Explorer now caught in the FNaF like scenario of not realizing the property they are on has a horrible problem, and now it's their problem for tresspassing, as punishment/karma.


Emulated Arachnaphobia - My Experiences
So a million years ago, in teh early days of the web, I used to love reading the ancestors to AVGN - crazy, rambling, ranting text game reviews all over the internet. One guy in particular did reviews on this, Eggomania, and Adventure, and I used to love his short, run-on-sentence, imaginative reviews. He was probably the originator of calling the Dragons in Adventure Psychotic Ducks and saying the chalice looked like "a moose head in my uncle's garage", and described Eggomania as "A bear with a bedpan on his head catching eggs". I heard of this and though it was so absurd, I wanted it. Absurd 2600 games are sometimes some of my favorites.

So I fired this up in Stella and played it, enjoyed it, and wanted it, and then the chance came to buy just a short awhile ago, so I buy it I did, and here it is in the collection with the other quality gems I picked up to keep me and mine entertained for awhile. This is yet again, another short-spurt game, so it's not one I play excessive amounts like say, oh I dunno, the Dragon Quest games.


VIDEOS