Day Dreamin' Davey

[Veepa]

Is it just me, or is this game extremely dull and very buggy?

Why did HAL publish this game? Why did this game even get made?

This makes the NES Muppet game look good. There just has to be a story behind the creation of this game.. Anyone?

[Icarus Moonsight]

I have no knowledge about the origin of the game but, I do agree that it's complete crap. :) It's RAID for gamers... not Chavez or Bebe's Kids bad but close enough to warrant a Mr. Yukk sticker. :shameful: Bad HAL!

I can't wait for the Angry Video Game Nerd to review it. :D It's coming, oh yes.

[starfox316]

Yeah man, that was a fuck up's game, right there. Daydreamin' Davey was an electronic abortion that escaped the depths of oblivion and jumped onto the shelves, only to be bought up by dozens, literally dozens of unsuspecting consumers/kids at release. Like lambs to the slaughter....

These kids then played the game for well under 5 minutes before ruining the child's will to live, haunting him with nighmares of daydreamin'. Years later, those same kids would talk about how bad that game really was on a website, much like this one...

[Snapple]

SA did an... interesting piece on Day Dreamin' Davey a while back.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/rom-pit/day-dreamin-davey.php

[Kitsune Sniper]

I have two issues of Nintendo Power from the early 90's.

This was one of the games they praised to heaven and back. They said it was awesome.

I have no clue what the hell were they smoking when they wrote that article.

[goemon]

I just played the ROM of this game... and I wish I hadn't. Awful, awful, awful... like they spent all their time on the one-word voices and had three days to make a game to use them in.

[PentiumMMX]

I remember seeing the ad in an old comic book (Can't remember what one...) and thinking that it looked interesting. I played it years later (Downloaded the ROM...), and got stuck shortly after the opening cut-scene.

I scarched Wikipedia, and they have nothing on this crappy game.

[goemon]

I remember seeing the ad in an old comic book (Can't remember what one...) and thinking that it looked interesting. I played it years later (Downloaded the ROM...), and got stuck shortly after the opening cut-scene.

I scarched Wikipedia, and they have nothing on this crappy game.

I was stuck there for, like, ten minutes until I mashed all the buttons and found that you have to press A and B together to jump. The sad thing is that I had more fun being stuck than I did playing the stage.

[Veepa]

Yeah, seriously! I'm glad I wasn't the only one who was stuck there at first.

I played this game like a year ago and didn't know what to do, but a few days ago I went crazy and started smashing buttons out of frustration and learned that you could jump. Jump should be a primary function, you shouldn't have to press 2 buttons together!

[Garry Silljo]

I have two issues of Nintendo Power from the early 90's.

This was one of the games they praised to heaven and back. They said it was awesome.

I have no clue what the hell were they smoking when they wrote that article.

I think it was so heavily praised because the NES was dying and there wasn't much to cover. Nintendo Power isn't going to bash anything so they needed to make the best of it.

Back in the day I pushed through and actually won this thing. It wasn't a terrible concept, it was just implemented poorly. I think with a little more time for development it may not have been half bad.

[cyberfluxor]

Yeah man, that was a fuck up's game, right there. Daydreamin' Davey was an electronic abortion that escaped the depths of oblivion and jumped onto the shelves, only to be bought up by dozens, literally dozens of unsuspecting consumers/kids at release. Like lambs to the slaughter....

I nominate this as a "quote of the year."