?Only 90s kids will remember?? No, this isn?t some nightmare-fueled Buzzfeed top 10 list, intent on stealing a few precious minutes of your life. This is an honest-to-goodness game review, targeted at a very specific gaming demographic: ME! Harkening back to an era that saw the 2D launch of such popular franchises as Commander Keen and Duke Nukem (yes, the same Duke Nukem that would later become a phenomenon in 3D) comes the neo-retro platformer Rad Rodgers. Composed of equal parts nostalgia and obscenity, this Kickstarter darling has finally made the jump from PC to consoles. Can its retro appeal and roguish charm also survive the transition"
Retro-tastic
If there was one thing that the PC platformers were lacking in the MS-DOS era, it was grit. There platformers-a-plenty during this formative period and most titles featured color saturations that could make even Lisa Frank wince. Rad Rodgers takes the design formula that was perfected by gangbuster publishers like Apogee, and then throws its aesthetic directly into the literal and figurative gutter. If you?ve ever wondered what it would be like if the Beans-with-Bacon Megarocket doubled as a meth lab, then I have the game for you. Though the game would have you believe it stars an adorable kid with attitude, he is in fact playing a very distant second fiddle to Rodgers? anthropomorphized video game console, Dusty. When the opening cutscene features Dusty dropping a rather forced dick joke, the tone becomes very appa...