This has been on lists of most infamous NES games for as long as the Internet has existed, yet it was apparently pretty popular and sold well.
A procedurally generated Waldo finding game is actually a somewhat fun time, unlike what the journos say? Who would've thought!
>>12571504Where's Waldo is a game that emulation kind of ruins. It's way too easy to find the fucker on a perfectly sharp LCD display when doing so on a fuzzy early 90s CRT TV over RF was really painful.
>>12571504it's an example of something that doesn't need to be a videogame. the old physical paper in hand form is all it needs to be. don't need an expensive video cartridge and a tv.
Next to the purple booth thing in the bottom of the screen. Pretty trivial to do this on emulation but good luck discerning it on hardware with a CRT TV.
>>12571518That's like Monopoly and a bunch of other board games that got vidya versions just because they could, not because it was a good idea.
>>12571504>This has been on lists of most infamous NES games for as long as the Internet has existedno? link literally one "most infamous nes games" list with this game on it and i will give you 4chan gold
>>12571529herehttps://pastebin.com/k1ztRQxt
>>12571504They actually wasted an MMC3 on this thing.
>>12571532that's just a /b/ tier shitpost though not a real list. dismissed.
>>12571536>d-d-DOESN'T COUNT!!!!!!!111!11!!111!111!!!1!!!11!!!!!!!I am expecting my 4chan Gold in 7 business days.
>>12571504there was also a sequel that came out in 92 so more people played it on the 16-bit consoles than the NES
>>12571535That's because the game had to have cartridge RAM to be able to make the RNG maps.
>>12571504All 90s kids remember Where's Waldo mania. That shit was inescapable back then.
>>12571504>>12571525The Famicom library had lots of board game shovelware too.
>>12571504i agree, it's not a rare cartridge so it must have sold well
>>12571545all the little people and silly vignettes were like crack to me as a little kid, like having a hundred action figures all at once.
>>12571518The video game version could create procedurally generated new puzzles every time so there is value in that>>12571525Video game version lets you play against CPUs so there is value in that
>>12571545The 90s had lots of children's books based around horror vacui concepts where there's so much detail as to overwhelm the reader. It was just kind of a thing back then.
>>12571504You're right, OP. I should forget this shit and just play ZX Spectrum games instead.
>>12571504you think maybe you took Seanbaby a little too seriously when you were 14? (well ok he was right about Wally Bear and the No Gang, not that that's hard)
>>12571504Made by Bethesda and their NES output was pretty bad.
>>12571504I loved Where's Waldo in the 90s and I tried this one out last year. It was fun enough and I did enjoy it but I'd be disappointed if I had a paid a lot of money for it. Same for the SNES game, fun enough to kill a few minutes while emulating
>>12571587>but I'd be disappointed if I had a paid a lot of money for itsince it was an MMC3 cart with RAM it was probably not inexpensive either
>>12571545>>12571587I wanted to eat Life cereal all the time because Waldo was on the box for a while (and I could not convince my parents to pay for Spaghettios). Where's my complete series DVD/Bluray already.
>>12571564>Video game version lets you play against CPUs so there is value in thatNot all. A lot of 1st gen video games were shit like 2 player only Backgammon.
yeah I'm thinking Famibot and the Mexican Runner schizo fan poster are the same entity; because I'm pretty sure TMR is the only place this game is "infamous" due to having the shortest completion time
>>12571504>>12571507Oh hell no. Don't try to rewrite history on this one. This game sucked ass. I rented Where's Waldo as a kid and it was a huge disappointment. The only reason it sold is because Where's Waldo books were popular with kids. That's the same reason I rented it, I liked the books and saw it in the video store.
>>12571545>that one kid who tried to do his book report on where's waldoYeah Where's Waldo was huge with kids for a while. Besides being super short, one reason the NES game was no good was simply that you can't have enough detail. Part of the fun of the books was looking through all the crazy stuff they hid in the pages besides Waldo.
>>12571904Most of the ones I've played from 2nd gen (assuming you are a pong/tank gen denier) do actually have CPU players for boardgame ports, early sports and fighting (generally just boxing) is where I've seen 2P only the most. Hell, even the 1292 (budget 2nd gen family) has a CPU in its port of backgammon.
>>12571929There were so many other Waldo-style books too. Including many /vr/ themed ones.>Emerald Hill Zone from ‘Where’s Sonic?’, a search-and-find book from Ladybird books in 1994. Can you find them all?
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http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/nes/w20-12.htm
>>12571929So that's how Ormuz is blocked
>>12571910time to take your psych meds. as the OP said WW was infamous since way back in the Web 1.0 days.
>>12571910Nah he beat Rescue Rangers faster than Where's Waldo.
>>12571920as he said, it was always on lists of worst NES games since the early days of the Internet
>>12571920> The only reason it sold is because Where's Waldo books were popular with kids. yes of course. THQ had the perfect grift job going. low quality licensed games they knew you would buy because of the license.
>>12572023Yeah, I was reacting more to "it was pretty popular" and the other guy posting it was "actually a somewhat fun time, unlike what the journos say?", as if it was only disliked because of game journalists. It was not a popular or well-liked game.
There's also a lesser known Japan only arcade game for Where's Waldo.
