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Acuvac fulfills my greatest desire: to take part in a supermarket sweep! One of the bonus levels has you trying to get as high a dollar amount as possible in picking up food and other items in the grocery store, and it's fun trying to figure out how to gather up the more expensive things quickly!

The game has lots of other kinds of levels too, and you can take your time sucking up every item you find, or flinging them all out the window, until there's nothing left. It feels super satisfying to have everything completely clean!

Do you like the nostalgic, happy tunes from arcade games like Mappy and Dig Dug? Then you'll love Annalynn. Don't get me wrong, the game is fun too, but the beautiful sound and colorful graphics all work together to make the experience all the more enjoyable! It's like a brand new Namco classic, not made by Namco!!

The most top notch sprite work, boppin' tunes, and cute characters! That's all cool enough, but above all of that, this game is pure arcade-style fun. Playing through the campaign mode feels like playing through a lost arcade game from the mid 90's. If you like bright, colorful arcade games like Puzzle Bobble or Pac-Man Arrangement, you'll love Carrie's Order Up!

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Mega Man, X, Volnutt... they're all here!!

it never breaks!!

My biggest question when it came to Clean Up Clyde was "it looks retro, but is it -retro fun-?"

Well, I'm happy to say the game delivers! From the start, you know it has a lot of love packed into it because its not simply one game, but a collection. Two of the games are different versions of Clean Up Clyde, one the "arcade original" and the other for the "Wantari 2250". I thought they'd be exactly the same but with different graphics, but it turns out they're totally separate games. The arcade original has a lot more level layouts, each with their own background and characters (like a cool strutting dog). The Wantari 2250 version instead has an alien attack scenario! This bizarre change in story is a great homage to classic games where the what you got in the home version wasn't always what you played at the arcade.

The third game included is “Rosie Run” which is actually a stand alone version of the bonus game that appears in the arcade version of Clean Up Clyde. I highly suggest playing it before you play the arcade game, because it lets you get a handle of that bonus round, which is important if you want to complete it.

Clean Up Clyde is difficult from the word go, but I promise seeing all the scenes that pop up as you play are worth it, so don't give up after a game over. It very much falls into that category of retro game that challenges you up front and rewards you for learning the game and getting a bit farther each time.

The game has a couple of funky tunes, with my favorites being the jam on the collection menu and the Konami-esque beat for the Rosie Run minigame. The graphics really shine too, with my personal favorites being the Wantari style. If you've ever played an Atari game and enjoyed some of the creative representations game developers came up with for rendering characters, you'll see someone with that same love made this game.