Jeremy Parish

Virtual Boy Works #11: Waterworld (Patreon)

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2019-03-03 21:57:27

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2026-06

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Well... my enjoyable run of creating videos about good and notable games has come to an end. Now we're onto a lengthy stretch of absolute doldrums, beginning with this notorious dud. Although it wasn't as completely wretched as I expected? Waterworld for Virtual Boy ain't great, but it's tolerably playable, which is more than I can say for Virtual League Baseball. I know, a Virtual Boy game based on Waterworld should be a perfect storm of garbage. I guess this game was so awful that wasn't even good at being the absolutely worst?

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Waterworld retrospective: The girl with the Dryland tattoo | Virtual Boy Works #11

It's the worst game in the world! Ha! Ha. No, not really. Despite being based on a dud of a film and appearing exclusively on a failed game console, Ocean's Waterworld isn't the most atrocious thing ever committed to silicon. Make no mistake, it's not GOOD—but there are certainly worse things you could cram into a game system. It's an interesting (albeit extremely rough) attempt to bring some classic arcade concepts to Virtual Boy.