Dazzler and Logger

[FlightSuit]

I have a sick fascination with the Century Electronics arcade game Dazzler, mainly because when I was a little kid, the A&W restaurant in my town had a Dazzler coin-op machine.

 

If you've never played it, the levels alternate between a maze-type game and a platformer that's highly derivative of Donkey Kong. My fascination extends to another Century title, Logger, which is like a text-book example of how to make a total rip-off of Donkey Kong that is extremely similar to the original, yet completely lacking in playability or fun.

 

Both games are very difficult to control and just maddeningly awful and unplayable.

 

Like I said, it's a sick fascination that I have. I now play them on MacMAME.

 

Anyway, I'm just wondering if anybody has any opinions about these games or can contribute any interesting tidbits regarding their histories.

[FlightSuit]

What?

 

Nobody here has played these games?

 

Or nobody here has anything to say about them?

 

Come on people, Dazzler and Logger have got to be worth discussing! They are so bad that if I hadn't played Dazzler as a kid, I'd almost be convinced they were practical jokes that some coder came up with in order to lampoon the worst of the '80's coin-op industry.

 

Surely somebody here has suffered through them, yes?

[FlightSuit]

We've all heard the term, "epic fail..."

 

 

 

These two games warrant the creation of a new term, just for them....

 

 

 

 

"...Epic Suck!"