Rolling Thunder - 1989 - Nintendo Entertainment System

This game plays like much like a piss-poor remake of Elevator Action, only they decided to take out the elevators. Brilliant move, guys! That’s like making a Sonic the Hedgehog ripoff without having the character running. Basically, this is a Bubsy-caliber game.

I hate this game. Not because it is a crappy sidescroller, that’s a pretty uninteresting sin. The game’s  real crime is that it one of those weird unlicensed third party cartridges.  You know, the ones that are usually labeled “Bible Buddies” or some such?  So, not only does this game lack the Nintendo Seal of Approval, but it isn’t cased in the standard grey NES cartridge.  Those grey ones are designed to be gripped for removal from the NES. Rolling Thunder is not.

This all means that once I got sick of this lame wannabe game, I couldn’t pull it out of my NES’s tight cartridge slot. It was stuck in there good, without giving me any grip on the cart.  This is not the ideal game to have stuck in your system. 

In the end, I had to hold my Nintendo in one hand, while I yanked with my other in an awkward, graceless procedure, eventually providing the release I was working so hard towards.  Then I removed the cartridge. 

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