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The Godfather only supports single-button joysticks for its control method. The only way to dodge them is to switch planes and walk into the road - something that's easier said than done. Some bullets can be averted by simply ducking, but those that come as you from a low angle can't be jumped over. To dodge them here, you'll need several seconds just to prepare. I swear any well-programmed character from any other game can outrun them Matrix-style.
Most go down with one bullet but it's incredibly difficult to hit them while simultaneously avoiding their attacks. Heavy traffic in the foreground obscures your surroundings while an endless supply of armed gangsters come at you from the street. There's a lot to take in right from the off. I challenge anyone to get past the first level without cheating. The images on the back of the box taunted me about what was to come, but until now I was never able to get there. In fact, only once did I get to the bit where it stops the game mid-level and asks you to insert disk 2. In my youth, I could never get past the first level. It's what could be called a 'run-n-gun' action game but in truth, it's best described as 'walk-n-shoot'. I was in awe.īut then I began to play the damn thing. It continues, pausing a couple of time for text until it stands to rest at the opening screen of the first level. We are then taken down into the city with impressive parallax scrolling artistically giving the illusion of depth.
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The muted sepia tones fade into full colour before we're given a little context about the mafia. Then the viewpoint pans right to the New York skyline. A newspaper span into view with a headline about a 'Mob Massacre' before the year 1956 is displayed large on the screen. The graphics were like nothing else on the system. I put the first disc in my machine and marvelled at the cinematic opening. But, living in a time before the ELSPA or PEGI rating systems, the game was in my sight. The third in the trilogy was in UK theatres yet I was not old enough to see it.
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I was just beginning my obsession with cinema and even then I had heard rumblings about the reverence the movie had earned. I was barely into double-digits when I got this game for my humble Atari ST. We're here to shoot some gangsters in the 1991 video game adaptation by US Gold. I'll be staying up 'til 6 AM to see if La La Land or Moonlight gets the golden statuette (edit: turns out it was a bit of both!) but 44 years ago arguably the 'Best Film of All Time' won The Godfather.