He hasn’t played a lot of games before, but after a few minutes, Masada can conclude that NASU isn’t a very good or very fun game. The graphics are pretty ugly with an unappealing color scheme, the music sounds awful and it’s oh so subtly off beat by merely a fraction of a second or two. He can easily tell. He hasn’t spent so much time and energy on music for nothing. But despite all that, the thing Masada dislikes the most about NASU is how incredibly stiff the controls feel. It’s almost ridiculous. There are two things one does in this game; jump and move in two directions. Nothing more, nothing less. So how is it possible for the controls to feel so incredibly stiff and unresponsive when the general concept is that simple?
Masada might not have played many games before, but he’s pretty sure that none of them had controls as bad as these.
Lost in his thoughts, he misjudges the distance between the player controlled character and the falling eggplant on the screen, just barely misses it and before he knows it, that agonizing game over music plays again.
A sigh accompanied by the subtle flexing of long pianist fingers.
He exhales, focusing on the screen and the Famicom controller in his hands. He forces himself to not get distracted by the sound of Madotsuki shuffling around somewhere, probably in the kitchen.
Okay. Let’s try this again.
The first eggplant falls and he catches it easily. The second one as well. That’s… 20 points. Oh! There’s the third one! Oops, he gets dangerously close to missing it, but manages to catch it at the last second. 30 points! That’s ten more than last time. And the time before that.
This is going really well.
Soon the fourth one will drop… Ah, but the flashing pink thing enters the screen! Gotta catch that one! It’s an instant 300 points! But it’s moving so fast and the player character moves so awkwardly and the game is so unresponsive and-!
Game over. Cue agonizing music.
Masada grits his teeth and his grip on the controller tightens considerably. What a stupid game. A really stupid game. A stupid, stupid game that doesn’t deserve to be played by anyone. Madotsuki deserves a better game than this. Maybe they can go to Akihabara some day and see if they can find some cheap games…
Without really thinking, he presses the START button again and the game begins once more.
The first eggplant comes falling down.
Stupid addictive game.
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