You have to dodge and weave back and forth across the screen, thru different types of zones, to get to the top. And yet each level feels like a multi-tiered adventure.

DK Jr., like most of the arcade titles of the time, is a single-screen game. This is gonna sound weird, but this is the game that made me understand why Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the most revered game developers of all time. Pac-Man with a couple twists and new maps, but other than that my thoughts are pretty much the same as vanilla flavor Pac-Man. It's a game to see how far you can get and how high you can score, but for me that's about it. I don't have hard-and-fast rules for this marathon, but if I get the sense that I've seen most of what there is to see within a couple of levels, I won't really have the motivation to keep playing, and that's what this is like. This is basically more-exciting Space Invaders, and kind of like Pac-Man, it's a little hard for me to go back to. And it's neat that you can get to an ending if you put a little time in. This was a lot of fun, the physics are good and you kinda start to figure out strategies for dealing with enemies and obstacles. I finished this! Well, the NES version on Switch, which only has three of the four stages, but still. Later on the list, I've added the G&W Gallery games for the Gameboy series of consoles, and I'll try them out thru that. It was hard for me to find a way to play the original G&W games, so I'm gonna kick this one down the road. I'm gonna do something weird on this one. Well-designed, but I can only play it a little before I get bored. But I dunno, it's a bit hard for me to go back to right now, for some reason. I have a fair bit of affection for it because I played it a lot growing up. Some of these first few could be introduced with 'this needs no introduction.' So, Pac-Man, the ultimate maze game. It's a bit awkward to control, but as shooters go it's okay. It's sort of like Space Invaders, but with four directions to shoot at instead of two. This is a two-joystick shooter where you play a sheriff in the middle of an open field, shooting at targets around you.

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