As Santa Claus, you walk around in circles, travelling up and down ladders looking for broken parts to your sleigh only to have Santa’s pesky elves steal them from you if you get touched by one of them which means you need to go back searching Santa’s workshop to find the missing parts again. The gameplay is ridiculous and frustrating as hell. Using the official word probably fooled quite a few gamers to buy it, making a game “official” did nothing to improve this gaming experience as it’s a shocker of a Christmas themed game on all 8-Bit systems. Alternative Software must have thought Christmas related games was a winning game category and tried to make things more official in that regard by releasing The Official Father Xmas in 1989. I would read them wondering why oh why would software houses even bother, i mean after all I didn’t bother playing them. Each year these reviews would increase and each year the reviews of Christmas related games would receive very poor ratings. Little did I know creeping into video games magazines were an influx of Christmas related game reviews. I had played every game going, so i had thought. NUMBER 10 The Official Father Christmas (Amstrad, Speccy, C64)Īs a teenager i was the astute 8-Bit game player. This top 10 list is predominantly a list of infamy, filled mainly of video game turkeys and a few absolutely outstanding Christmas related video games that really do know how to make a Christmas based game fun, enjoyable and evoke those wonderful Christmas memories of years gone by. The bewilderment I have comes from Christmas based games just not being good games to play and not invoking any fond Christmas or holiday memories. Often they have been very poor adaptations of a holiday season meant to bring about fond memories and goodwill to your fellow human beings. Christmas themed video games have always been a category of computer and console video gaming that has bewildered me.
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