Retro Game Challenge

It's been a long while since I last bought a video game, so I picked up Retro Game Challenge for the DS today.

It's a collection of fake 80s games, all eerily similar to actual 80s games, with the contrived storyline that you've been sucked into the past and need to complete various challenges in those games in order to return to your own time.

I've only barely started, but already there's plenty of amusing references to early gaming, both obvious and not.

The first game is a Galaga clone, and when you finish the bonus round, it triumphantly tells you that "YOU SHOOTED 28 ASTEROIDS!"  This game is faithful to the retro games, right down to the poor translations.  Color me tickled.