Where's Waldo?

Sometimes I feel like shooting myself in the face after playing a game. Some games just make you so sick of gaming in general, it makes me want to sell my game systems, buy a car, and drive until I run out of cash or something.

This is one of those games. Not only have I established that this game blows, but I need to explain it without making YOU want to sell your systems. In any case.

Where's Waldo is obviously a game centered around finding Waldo, a strange man wearing white and red stripes (Well, in this case, off white and brown, but thats because the NES sucks) who likes to hide. You, playing Big Brother/The CIA/Some other evil orginization must find him, obviously to send him to a concentration camp... or something.


The riveting world map is understandably short. For some reason, the NES tended to have games like this that had virtually no length whatsoever. Its odd, though, being as games like Final Fantasy could be pulled off, but this can only have approximately 8 levels.

This leads me to a point about this crap game. When I say "8 levels", I mean "8 levels". And I mean those levels do not change. Whatsoever. Ever. Waldo is always in the SAME PLACE. I don't think I've ever thought of any other game with less replay value. I mean, a Dating Sim has more replay value than this, and that's saying something for a scripted game like that.



In any case, back to the riveting story. You, as Bob Miller of the Central Intelligence Agency must hunt down "Waldo" and send him to the local Concentration camp. But Waldo is very clever, and will not be tricked. He tends to hide in places with many people who look or dress similarly to him, and will never stop at being a constant source of annoyance as he makes every step possible from hiding from the camps.

But you are clever. With your cursor in the game, you have the ability to "Guess" where Waldo is. If not, you lose approximately 100 seconds (Note: You start off with 1000, and your amount carries to the next map, so losing some is very bad). However, this is a great way of preventing Waldo from being a trickster.

Overall, I give this game 1 star. Waldo is a sly character who obviously deserves to be sent to the camps. And you must stop him. However, the game is shallow. This is okay, being as it proves the obvious superiority of Big Brother as opposed to the shallow weak rebel known as "Waldo".





I think I probably just ruined some people's childhoods.

1 star(s) out of 5

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