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After Dark Games (1998)

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I've been getting a lot of requests to play the other games in the "After Dark Games" suite, so here's the first one from left to right in the menu at the bottom of the game: Hula Girl. You take control of...well, Hula Girl I guess...with the simple task of going down an endless stream of platforms, while avoiding going off-screen and collecting various items. Some items are good and some are bad: broccoli, spiders and frogs drain your "yuckometer" on the left (yes, that's actually what they call it), which is essentially your energy meter. If it runs out you lose a life indicated by the hula hoops right above it. Another thing you'll want to avoid is Hula Girl's twin sister who takes away an entire life upon contact ! You refill the "yuckometer" by collecting milk shakes, ice creams and cupcakes and you can even restore a lost life by collecting a hula hoop - you can't have more than 3 though. Aside from draining the "yuckometer" and contact with your evil sister, another way of losing a life is, rather obviously, falling off the bottom or the sides of the screen, or getting caught at the top as the screen scrolls down. I forgot to mention the screen scrolls down continuously and the speed increases as the game progresses. Once you've lost all three hula hoops, one more f-up and it's game over ! There's no way to actually "win" in this game - the game never ends and there's no goal other than to get a high score, which is calculated in platforms. Every platform you land on counts as one point. The platforms are the only thing that add up to your score for that matter - none of the other items, good or bad, affect your score in any way ! Speaking of platforms, not all of them are the same, outside their color: icy platforms for instance make it difficult to move left and right, the red and white candy-cane platforms act like a conveyor belt and shift you to either side until you fall off and finally the yellow ones flip open shortly after landing on them, causing you to fall through. The game is tiring to say the least: just keep going down from platform to platform and avoid getting caught at the top of the screen...nothing special - no weapons, no levels, no change in scenery, nothing. One thing I can guarantee after playing this game long enough is that your eyesight will be scrolling upwards against your own will because of the way the screen constantly moves before your eyes - the motion gets burned into your retinas ! The music is another thing that adds up to the fatigue factor: you only get one track that's pretty short and plays over and over, so this game can really cause a headache ! I advise you not to play it for more than 10 minutes ! I guess it's most fun taking turns with a friend (if you have any) to see who gets the most platforms...while the other rests his eyes from all that scrolling ! Bottom line, this one is mediocre. While it is a little time killer that will hold your interest for a while, especially if it's your first time playing After Dark Games, it doesn't take long to get extremely monotonous.

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