Video Games That Time Forgot

On paper, SAMURAI WARRIOR: THE BATTLES OF USAGI YOJIMBO sounds awesome -- a video game that translates Stan Sakai's carefully researched and always entertaining funny-animal samurai saga pretty faithfully from comic books to one's personal computer -- but technology has come a very long way since 1988. I think I would buy a current-generation gaming console if a decent USAGI game was released for it -- one that embraced the thoughtful little details and the curiously compassionate-but-distant tone of the comics + blood-soaked katanas doing terrible things to funny animals -- but until then, this recreation of SAMURAI WARRIOR gives you damn kids a taste of what even action-adventure games were like before you were born; it was, to be generous, a button-mashing purgatory of delayed sprite responses and moebius-loop stage architecture. Enjoy.