Gridrunner++

Posted by oddbob on September 12, 2006 · Lovingly Filed Under Other peoples games, Things I Enjoyed 
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One of my greatest non family based fears, is that one day I’ll wake up, I’ll look at the world and no longer care about games. Having been a gamer since the age of 7, and with barely a day gone by since where I haven’t had a blast at something - its a scary thought that your life long love may one day wane.

Gridrunner++ is, fortunately, a constant reminder that for every substandard clone or desperate money grabbing pile of utter turd that inexplicably floats to the top of the pile, there’s always going to be one of the most beautifully designed games in existance out there… the day technology reaches the point whereby I have GR++ taken away from me, may well just be the day I stop upgrading until we all raid Jeffs house and force him at gunpoint to make it work again under whatever level of technology we may have reached at that point.

Its also very rare for me to care for a game as much as I do for Gridrunner++. Its not by any means for the faint of heart when it comes to shooting kicks - if being arseraped by a giant smiley face isn’t your thing, then I suggest you head on over to World Of Spectrum and download Advanced Lawnmower Simulator or something a little less strenuous. It may not have the brutality of something like Fren-Ze, it may not have the visuals of where Jeffs heading now, but what it has in absolute bucketloads is a love of the genre, a respect for the player and heart poundingly intense but fair gameplay.

Its also one of the only games in existence where the advice “always keep a sheep beneath you” is sound advice.

There’s very little I can say really that probably hasn’t been said a million times before, better than I no doubt - but a world without Gridrunner++ would be a sad world indeed. So whilst the rest of the world waits for Space Giraffe to emerge, and NeonPC to raise its head from distribution hell - I’ll be waiting patiently, with Gridrunner++ as my companion until then.

And, whilst GR++ still exists, I’ll still care.

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2 Responses to “Gridrunner++”

  1. Oaf on September 12th, 2006 10:54 am

    …and don’t forget the mobile phone version! ;)

  2. oddbob on September 12th, 2006 7:21 pm

    Beautifully whored there, Oaf! I tip my hat.

    Yuss, don’t forget the phone version chaps…or the Mac version… get some GR++ in your life if you haven’t already.

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