Crimes of fashion

Should you be in the mood for blowing criminal scumbags to smithereens with guns aptly formidable to bring down three T-rexes lined up like a bullet-sponge depth-penetration experiment, yet can't bear to insert that blood-soaked copy of Narc in your fragile floppy drive, you might instead like to ride the Crime Wave courtesy of Access Software. It's a shameless clone of Williams' notoriously violent, drug-busting, dog-mauling, prostitute-maiming, side-scrolling platform-shooter coin-op, except... well... what it contributes over and above Narc is... erm. I'll sleep on it and get back to you.

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The pugs don't work

Why did Williams Electronics' think 'Narc', an abbreviation for anti-narcotics officer (or something like that) needed to be capitalised like an acronym? What would it stand for if that were true, and would it be publishable within earshot of a family audience? Perhaps we'll never know. Perhaps it's explained in my article about the ultra-violent, 2D scrolling, arcade-action platformer in which you can leap out of a gleaming red millionaire's Ferrari, and slaughter dogs and prostitutes before you hit the ground blasting. I really can't remember. I suppose you'll have to check it out and inform me.

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