Sunday, 10 November 2024

Barnyard Blaster (Atari 7800 review)

Developer: James Zalewski
Publisher: Atari Corporation
Released: 1988

Barnyard Blaster is a target shooting game that's compatible with the Atari XG-1 light gun.

+ Light-gun accuracy is decent, and varying point values are available depending on how quickly you shoot the target.

+ Barn stage includes differing target sizes (e.g. minuscule mice and large owls) to test your firing proficiency.

- Consists of only five bare-bones stages that refuse to evolve past their initial concepts in order to deepen the gameplay.

- Barely any challenge (with zero difficulty options), and bird targets often spawn from the same place throughout a scene.

- Bottle throwing level drags on forever, and should have included hazards, or multiple targets to make things interesting.

- Little in the way of visual stimulation, and the locales look graphically amateurish due to a lack of detail and finesse.

- SFX are dreadful and the ear-piercing rendition of Old MacDonald suffers from off-key tones and extreme repetition.


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