Fuggedaboutit... US Gold's Godfather game for the Amiga that is

You don't ask for Godfather the computer game; it's surreptitiously slipped onto your fluffy white pillow while you slumber like a baby. Based on the entire franchise, Creative Materials' licensed accompaniment is bulging with guns, violence and unrelenting bloodshed. All executed in the best possible taste of course - it's in the interests of The Family after all.

Published in 1991 by US Gold to coincide with the third movie, we walk in the designer shoes of an anonymous member of the mafia, impelled to ascend the ranks of the vicious, revered organisation. Levels are divided into arcade-platforming affairs and first-person target-shooting galleries, all meticulously illustrated in pixel art commemoration of the must-see movies.

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Yellow is mellow in Days of Blunder

In Days of Thunder Tom Cruise plays an arrogant, pretty-boy rookie NASCAR driver who simply must trounce all competitors in his inaugural Daytona 500 race. He has to win because he's Tom Cruise and nobody puts Tom in the corner. Not unless they're prepared to brace themselves for the mother of all toddler tantrums, dislodge a projectile tiara from their eye socket and so on.

There's no plot, the main thing to remember is that Tom looks sultry and sophisticated in his fire suit, and everyone is overcome with lust upon first sight, even before he mosies into town on his slick Harley roadhog. It's not a total car crash; Cole Trickle's manager, Robert Duvall, delivers a fantastically energised performance, while Nicole Kidman contributes her usual captivating screen presence as she gears up for more challenging future roles.

 

Argonaut Software's multi-system racing game is equally as redundant and soulless as the movie on which it's based. Actually, it's barely playable owing to the abysmal, tortoise-chasing framerate and unsteerability.

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This is the end, my only friend

Francis Ford Coppola's epic Vietnam war movie, Apocalypse Now, starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper and Martin Sheen was loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Fitting then that Miracle Games' helicopter-based arcade shooter Apocalypse for the Amiga was in turn even more loosely based on Apocalypse Now.

Mostly because it's an excuse to reacquaint myself with the soul-stirringly impactful movie in question, I assess the two works side by side and call it an article.

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