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For the Mac. Even Giantbomb doesn't have screenshots of this brick of shit. I never really got far in this game, and the barely representational graphics didn't help. It was like a wall of instruments. I usually managed to turn up the throttle and make it to the end of the runway before my plane nosed up. If I ever made it into the air a) there was nothing to see except white space and b) I would crash 30 seconds later.
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I'd go around the track in time trial mode until I hit a wall and limp back to the finish line. Sometimes I'd start a race and go the wrong way around the track intentionally. It didn't help that I had to play it with a keyboard. Eventually...months later, I wised up and read a few things in the manual, and was able to win some races. But I never took on "The Simulation" of the Indy 500--what kind of masochist races around a fake oval for two hours?
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My parents got me a NES. With Jeopardy! as the pack-in. Not, like, Duck Hunt or Mario Bros. I love my parents, but I could not play Jeopardy nor understand how it was an appropriate gift to a child. And I didn't know enough to bug them for a better game. Eventually I pawned off the console onto a neighborhood kid and used the money to buy some Rollerblades. I loved those rollerblades.
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I played the demo at least two dozen times and never really understood that it was a shareware demo. I only made it to the end of the demo a couple times, and I viewed beating the end boss as a heroic act. I thought my sister's boyfriend was some kind of insane badass when I saw him do it with just a pistol.
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I think I actually had the full game of this and got pretty far into it. But damn, I had practically no idea what was going on. In fact I tried to play it the other day and still had no idea--so maybe it wasn't entirely my fault. It is an acid trip, with crazy eyed jumping rats and evil aliens abound.
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For a brief period of time in the mid 80s my family owned a Colecovision, presumably for my sake. I can infer from this that I must have played the pack in, Donkey Kong, but have no memory of this. Nor of the Colecovision itself, which was liberated from my household shortly thereafter by a burglar. I probably sucked at it, having neither motor skills nor a fully formed brain.
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I played (tried to play) this just last year. JESUS CHRIST. On reflection there should be a separate list for games I am too dumb/impatient to understand, but then I'd be here all night. Nevertheless even amongst those, this one stands out.
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