Play This Now: Rom Check Fail

This is something else I'll try to do every so often, highlight a small, indie game that deserves attention.

Kicking it off will be a simple but unique game called ROM CHECK FAIL, which plays like WarioWare smashed together with your favorite arcade classics. It starts up like a normal game you boot up in MAME, but during the "rom checks" there's a failure, hence the title, which causes the game to mix and match characters, art and sound from different games together in rapid succession. Sometimes you'll start as the ship from Defender shooting Gauntlet ghosts in a Super Mario Bros. level with Bubble Bobble music playing and and five seconds later the screen will scramble and all of a sudden you're the car from Spy Hunter shooting at ships from Space Invaders in a Moon Patrol background to the Double Dragon soundtrack. The levels don't change in design and you'll get the changing mechanics down fairly quickly, so it's not terribly deep or complex, but a fun little nostalgic time-waster.

Download, ROM CHECK FAIL Setup.exe (2MB)

-K.